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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Montana Farmer-Labor
Party VIII Contest
Elections in State


BRENTWOOD, Mont, Feb. 21.-
The farmer-labor party of the state of
Montana, is going to file a complete
ticket in the field this year. The cleo
ton this year only includes national
offices. The state ticket is elected
every four years.
The following offices will be up for
election: two supreme court judges;
one railroad commissioner; two con-
gressmen for the first district and
the second district. There are only
two congressional districts in this
state.
1t is very likely that the radical law
yer of Butte, Harold Pease, will be
one of the nominees fbr the supreme
court OF the state. 4Ie is a strong
farmer-laborite and not of the mush.
room variety, so typical of lawyers in
our country. The other candidate, in
all probability, for the bench, will be
Pat Wallace of Plentywood. AS the
world knows, he is the editor of the
best farm paper published in Ameri-
For congress in the first district,
which embraces the western half of
this state, it is said that Tim Nolan
of Butte, will get the nomination. For
the eastern district which is the sec
ond of this state, the rank and file
of the farmer-labor party, desires to
have Charles E. Taylor make the run,
who is now state senator from Sheri-
dan county. He is the man respon-
sible for the existence of the farmer
labor party Of this state. He is an
Incorporating social revolutionist.
He has led the progressive forces to
the left continuously. However, should
he be unable to make the run, then
it is almost certain that ]. w. Ander-
son of Sidney, a farmer and rebel of
long standing, will get the nomina-
ton.
1t is thot that o. F. Clarke of Mis-
soula, a railroad engineer, will receive
the nomination for railroad commits
sioner. He is a militant of proven
worth.
Preparations are on foot to conduct
a very vigorous campaign, stressing
the class nature of the government
and exposing the fraud of capitalism.
By the time that the fall election rolls
around, state wide organization of
the progressive farmers Of Montana
shall have been completed. Plans are
also under way to snap the working
class of Butte out of its lethargy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Clifton Police Jail Strikers

ers in the courtroom wondered why
he was not guilty Of both if guilty of
one
J. o. Bentall who had been sum
moned to court had a charge OF con-
tempt trumped up against him. He
was charged with having related what
happened in the court and had. told
an audience that striker had been
before the Judge who said, you are
guilty but l discharge you" The
trouble seemed to be with the manner
in which Bentall had quoted the
judge.
5entaI Shows. Up Courts
Bentall was on the stand an hour
or more and testified that no one
court was different from the other
capitalist courts. "They all lean in
favor of the ruling class. It is my
opinion that no matter how much a
judge tries to be fair he is in such
an atmosphere and is associated with
such people that it is impossible for
him to be entirely impartial. This
judge and many other judges are en-
tirely fair when it comes to matters
of property and other ordinary things,
but the minute the case concerns the
working class he always leans toward
the owning class"
Asked if he meant that the Judge
was inundated by the union, Bentall
replied that he did not think the union
was strong enough yet, but sometime
the workers will be in power and rule.
They are the only ones that have a
right to rule"
The judge held Bentall guilty, but
after a recess of five minutes he said
he would discharge the defendant if
he would state that he had no special
contempt for this particular court
Having stated that all courts looked
alike to him he was told he was dis
charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Worse Than Empire In czeeho-
SIovakla.

PRAGUE, Czecho,Slovakia--At the
present congress of the Czech trade
unions, the police appeared with the
instruction to control officially the
proceedings of the congress. This
caused the greatest indignation among
the delegates. The West Bohemian
miner Bittner protested in speech
against the presence of a police agent.
He demanded amid stormy applause
of the congress, the immediate recall
ling Of the spy. A government which
does nothing for the workers, he said,
has no right to control us. The dele
gate Halls added to this that in old
imperial Austria it never happened
that a government representative at
tended workers congresses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
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had not even heard of the police or
the courts.
The case of Lena Chernenko, as
sistant to Organizer Weisbord, came
before the court this morning. 1t fol-
lowed upon the trial of Jack Ruben
stein who was given 80 days in Jail.
When Jack was taken away by the
officer, Lena waved her hand and
whispered, Lets sing Solidarity
Forever"
Singing Anglers Judge.
This so angered the judge that he
said to her, Leave this court. Get
out"
When she tried to explain that she
did not say anything improper, the
Judge roared, Get out of here. You
cannot stay in this court room"
After Rubenstein had been taken
away Lena was called and heard. The
officer that brought the charge could
not remember why she was arrested
but said she was with other strikers
and did not want to go down to the
cemetery to picket the dead when
told to do so. The case was so fiimsy
that the judge discharged her, but
had her stand up to be given bit Of
advice. "You are here leading inno-
cent people into trouble. l will let
you go this time, but l warn you not
to come before this court again, for
will then hold you to the limit of the
law"
Judge Calls Down Lawyer.
Joseph Fede, defense attorney, was
given call-down after he had told
Wen get you out, don't
worry"
The second charge against Ruben
stein which was exactly the same as
the one that he was given 80 days for,
was dismissed, and some of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
SUPERIOR HOLDS
A TAG DAY FOR
MINERS RELIEF
Send $547.35 to Help
Coaldiggers

SUPERIOR, Wis, Feb. 81. The
Workers Educational Society arrang-
ed Tag Day for the anthracite min
ers of Pennsylvania. The Office Work
ers' Union and the Trades and Labor
Assembly contributed their moral sup
port by endorsing the drive.
Bright and early on the morning of
the tag day, an army Of over sixty
anxious olicitors-mostly Workers
Party members-defying the severe
weather-went out onto the streets
laden with tags and cigar boxes.
Every worker was approached with
'Will you buy a tag?" Every bust
ness establishment was visited
Several of the solicitors remarked
that the only ones who bought tags
were those who were apparently Ia
borers-the specimens wearing white
shirts and collars couldn't see their
way clear to do so. When asked to
buy a tag they would Shout in anger,
why don't they 90 Ito work?" or
"The strike is over" It was a con-
descension on their part to even an
swer.
Well worthy of mention is the fact
that the Young Workers League step
ped into the limelight thru it's mem
Der, Esther Hintikka, who made the
best collection. The gross proceeds
for the day amounted to S5661O, from
which $1S.75 was paid for advertising
and printing of tags, etc, making the
net amount S547.35. This amount was
sent to d. A. Edmunds, secretary of
the Miners Relief Committee, King
sion. Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Jugo-slavIs Union Congress Ralded

BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Feb. 81
The Moscow" bugaboo has become a
favorite sport of all the reactionary
governments, 1t appears. The con
gress OF the Independent Trade
Unions which was openly announced
In the press, was raided by the police
in Belgrade as a secret congress, one
hundred and fifty searches took place,
and all the members of the executive
committee Of the Independent Trade
Unions and over $50 Communists
were arrested.
The terrible torture which followed,
reminiscent of the days OF the inquisi.
ton, have been 80 revolving that even
the capitalist press is writing about
them. The prisons Of the Belgrade
police are overcrowded, horrible tor.
lures are the order OF the day, and
the authorities are preparing a great
trial OF high treason with the assist.
ance OF forged documents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Elect Turner to Be
Secretary Treasurer
of the Wobblies

CHICAGO-FP)-John R. Turner,
for 13 years active in the Industrial
Workers of the World, was elected by
referendum of the membership as
general secretary-treasurer for year,
beginning March 1. Most of his ac-
tivity has been among the lumber
workers whom he helped to organize
in the Pacific northwest in 1916, serv-
ing on the strike committee in 1917.
In 1918 during the war he was tried in
Chicago with 1O2 other 1. w. W., in
Guiding Bill Haywood and Ralph
Chaplin, and sent to Leavenworth
where he was confined years. He is
American-born, a good speaker and
organizer, and recently has been a
railroad worker, belonging to Railroad
Workers Industrial Union No. $40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Mill Strike Increases
Forces a t Beginning
of Fifth Weeks Struggle
(Continued from PAGE u

beat workingman, Neubauer's Hall is
closed" and in another, Strikers
beat up Botany worker; woman
woman throws pepper into girls face;
chief closes Neubauer's Hail."
l Immediately went to Neubauer's
Hall, out in the mill district. 1t was
not closed. It had been. But while
the kept sheets were pouring their
propaganda over the city the strike
organizer, Albert Weisbord, had de-
manded and secured the reopening of
the hall from the local municipal Of
ficials.
Strikers Returned.
With Felix Panarisi hall chair.
man, in charge, one of the biggest
meetings of the strike was held dur
ing the afternoon, at which plans
were made for renewing and develop
ing the struggle.
l watched a little, wan-faced, IA
year old girl mill worker join in sing
ing the favorite strike songs, "Soli-
darity" and 1.-THE Union Forever"
When such young voices joined with
those of the most aged mill workers,
and with the voice of all, ages in be-
tween, swelling the song to thunder
proportions, then it was easy to feel
the spirit that had brot these workers
out in titanic struggle against some
of the richest corporations in the ma
ton.
They sent us over to Europe to
fight for democracy" said Chairman
Panarisi. Il was one of them. Well,
this is the kind of democracy we get.
They come and try to close our hall
so that we can't hold our meetings"
That's right" beloved the audi
ence. In addition to joining with the
other speakers at Neubauer's Hall, l
also spoke with Organizer Weisbord
at Belmont Hall, in Garfield, where
the throng of strikers was just as en-
thusiastic.
Where the anthracite miners
fought with an organization back of
them and with the whole American
Federation Of Labor giving them
relief, the mill workers are
fighting almost alone. They should
get the support of the whole Ameri-
can working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
INTRIGUE over
COUNCIL SEATS
SHAKES EUROPE
Capitalist Spiders Get
Caught in Own Web
Especial to Tho Daily Worker,

LONDON, Feb. 21.-The intrigues
centering about the coming admission
of Germany to the league of nations
are reaching ever larger proportions.
The action of Sweden in notifying the
British government that it is opposed
to giving any other country than Ger
many a permanent seat in the coun-
Gil will effectively block the admis-
sion of Poland, Spain, and Brazil, de-
sired by France and the vatican. It
requires a unanimous vote Of the
council to reach decision
Chamberlain Is Clever.
The British government has issued
a statement denying any promise to
vote for the admission of Poland and
Spain, tho Chamberlain has never de-
MED having assured BRAND of his
support for their entrance. Diploma
tically, the English foreign Office does
not commit itself to opposing the
French demand. It is not necessary
as the position which Sweden has
taken is sufficient. Sweden is depen-
dent on Great Britain economically
and financially
It is significant that neither France
nor Poland have yet ratified the Lo-
carno pact. Statesmen of both nations
now speak of essential reservation"
before that agreement can be ap-
proved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Australian Railroad
Workers Get 5-Day
Week by Reduction

SYDNEY-(FP)-Thirty thousand
Australian railwaymen in New South
Wales benefit by the reduction Of
working hours from AZ to A a week,
worked in days instead of as
heretofore.
The 44-hour week now applies to all
workers in New South Wales and
where possible is worked in days,
with 2 full rest days at the end of the
week. Queensland has had the A
hour week in operation for almost a
year.
The state Labor government has
also decided to take over the private
notorious services of Sydney and
enyirons and run them as part of the
general transit system. It is expected
that better service and cheaper fares
will result. No private services will
be allowed.
In Perth the Western Australia
Labor government has granted mem
bers of the Railway Officers and the
Tramway Employees union an increase
of soc per week. All railwaymen and
tramwaymen in the state enjoy the
44-hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Mexico Sends New
Note to Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The lat.
est Mexican note, answering this gov.
ernment's protests against the alleged
confiscatory features of Mexico's new
land and petroleum statutes, was de-
livered at the state department today.
While its contents were not divulg-
ed, IT is known that the Mexican gov
eminent stands strictly on the ground
Of its previous communications and
reiterates that American interests are
not unduly jeopardized by the new
statutes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Buy Imperial Gold Coins.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 21.-
(Tass.)-The peoples commissariat
for finance has begun the purchase of
former imperial and foreign gold
coins. For gold coins with the por-
trait Of Nicholas II, of the face value
of five roubles, the peoples commits
sariat of finance is paying 4.S2 ribs;
for semi-imperial (7.5O roubles) 1928
TO $50 roubles; for old ten rouble
coins 9.75 and for imperial us RIBS. }
1852. The coins not of full weight,
as well as foreign coins, are being
paid for at $50 roubles per zolotnik of
pure gold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Akron Workers Form
Council to Resist
Finger-Print Laws
Especial to The Daily Worker,

AKRON, Feb. 21-A conference for
the formation of a Council for the
Protection Of Foreign-Born Workers
will be held at Liberty Hall, 621 So
Main street, on Feb. 2S at 2 p. m.
A number OF organizations have
already elected delegates to the con-
ference, and the matter is being taken
up by other fraternal organizations,
trade unions, etc. A good meeting is
expected, since the question is an
acute one, affecting large section Of
the workers in the rubber plants of
this city.
All working class organizations are
requested to send delegates to the
conference, which will be addressed
by prominent speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Coolidge Rewards a Henehman.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.--Presiden
Coolidge has rejected the advice OF
Senators Stanfield and McNary of
Oregon that he withdraw the nomina.
ton OF Judge McCamant of that state
as federal circuit Judge. McCamant
violated the primary election instruc-
tons given him TO vote for Johnson
as republican presidential nominee.
Coolidge rewarded him for making
the nomination. of Coolidge for the
vice-presidency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Daily Worker Builders
Grow in Numbers in the
Nations Largest City
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

least $40 in donations, sell at least
$40 of rescue tickets, collect from
newsstands every week, or work
at least 20 hours in the office, which
includes the usual folding and stuff
ing and inserting, with addressing,
while numerous comrades are gradu-
ally developed for more intricate
tasks, like the keeping of mailing
lists and card indexes.
Then there is the reward! In
addition to Communist work we'll
done, tremendous satisfaction of
untold worth, there is the joy Of
being numbered among the elect at
the semi-annual affairs for builders
only. Last summer there was an
excursion UP the Hudson River to
Stoney Point. River excursions for
New Workers in summer are vel
come escapes from the prison of
torrid heat, frying pavements and
towering walls of stone, brick or
concrete and steel everywhere, with
only insignificant patches of green
in the scattered public squares and
you can not sit on the grass in aristo-
cratic Central Park Katterfeld
knew what he was doing when he
offered an excursion as an induce
ment to work to New York's DAILY
WORKER builders.
This Sunday there was ban
quet for 500 builders, the midwinter
affair" More about this will ap-
pear in the news columns. This is
being written as the list of the 500
lucky ones is being completed here
in The DAILY WORKER office.
Some have worked hard, qualifying
for hundreds of dollars. 1t said that
one builder does his $40 bit on an
average every week. A large num-
Der hover around $40. The records
show that the aspiration isn't to
just make good on the $40 but to
keep on working to the limit at all
times. Non-party members are well
come as builders. But they do not
long remain on the outside of the
party. The contact once established
soon brings them into the party,
becoming a party builder as well
as a DAILY WORKER builder.
THIS coming summer there is
= going to be something out Of
the ordinary for these DAILY
WORKER builders. The quota is to
be raised to $50. But the prize is to
be three days outing. 1t is expect
ed that 1000 builders will qualify.
You can take a pencil and piece
OF paper yourself and figure Just
how long It is going to take to
establish New York DAILY
WORKER. If you get the pulse
correctly of these builders you can
feel that that is what they are
working for. DAILY WORKER in
New York, for which they have al
ready established thousands of con-
facts in the shops, the factories and
every other place where men and
women and children of the working
class go down to their Jobs to strug-
gle for an existence under capital
ism.
N another year it should be possible
\ to call the roll of hundreds of
DAILY WORKER builders clubs all
over the nation.
New York City promises the ma
ton it will have roll call number
ed in four figures steadily growing
of DAILY WORKER builders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Bosses Demand Their
Slaves Pay Up Promptly

GALESBURG, ILL., OPP Union
secretaries who meet difficulties in
collecting membership dues might try
the company unions method at the
Burlington shops in Galesburg. A re-
cent notice on the company unions
bulletin board reads:
Men who do not Immediately pay
their dues will get only straight time
(instead of time and half for over
time"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23

THIS is being written in The
DAILY WORKER office in
New York City rather late at night.
1t doesn't seem late because dozen
comrades are still left of the many
who have been toiling here all even
ing-as volunteers-to perform the
numerous and seemingly endless
tasks inseparable from the struggle
to build our Communist daily in the
nations metropolis.
That is what they are called
The DAILY WORKER Builders
one of the proudest regiments in
the New York section of Americas
Communist Army.
r MIGHT write about the Workers
L School and the get-together held
for its benefit the pight before l ar
rived, when $4,000 were raised to
promote it's activities to educate
workers to become intelligent red
fighters.
| might discuss the wave of salts
faction sweeping the party as the
result of the very successful Defense
Bazaar that brought in $4,000 net to
wage the fight in protection of the
class war prisoners.
might dwell upon the trade
union activities of the party that
sting the great employers into in
creasing agonies as labor's militant
power grows.
might tell of the energy with
which the party in New York car
ries thru it's campaigns, the ire
mendous success with which it drew
masses to its Lenin memorial meet
ings, and all other demonstrations
of the workers that occur in rapid
succession.
might write something about
the Young Workers League that
has its headquarters next door, in
smaller Offices that were formerly
occupied by this enlarged DAILY
WORhER headquarters.
But each one of these glorious eff
forts is sufficient in itself in extent
and interest to provide a separate
chapter in labor's struggle for
power.
LII that is possible here is to
4 extend word or two of much
deserved praise and encouragement
to the hundreds of New York
DAILY WORKER Builders who be-
lieve in the strengthening of the
Communist press with the proletar-
ian intensity that spells death to
capitalism.
The example they have set should
rouse workers in every city in the
land to organize and develop DAILY
WORKER clubs.
I E. KATTERFELD. manager of
IL The DAILY WORKER New
York agency, is the genius who mi
tiated and developed the N. Y. DAI-
LY WORKER builders club idea. In
this case, as in so many others,
genius is synonymous with hard
work. This is said in order to con-
vince DAILY WORKER Builders
everywhere that it is not difficult
to duplicate the Katterfeld idea.
Volunteer work is the basis of adj
mission and good standing in the
club. In order to win membership
The Builder" must sell at least $40
worth of subscriptions, secure at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Reserve March 10.
PARIS COMMUNE cELEBRArloN

PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION
All working class organizations
are asked not to arrange any con-
fIletlns meeting on March 10 az
the international Labor Defense,
Chicago local, has arranged Paris
Commune pageant and drama. Nov
Inc pictures Of labor defense In the
United States and In Europe will
be shown. Bishop William Mont
somery Brown Is to be one Of the
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Build New sanItarIum.

MOSCOW, U. s. s. R.-(Tass)-
Feb. 21-The chief management OF
the health resorts Of the Ukraine de.
cided to build special sanitarium
Tor peasants during this fiscal year in
Odessa. The sanitarium is to accom-.
modate $50 patients and will function
the whole year around.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
ALEX REID SPEAKS ON
CASE OF zEIGLER MINERS
TUESDAY AT |. |. D. MEET

Alex Reid, secretary Of the Pro-
uressiVe Minens of Illinois, will
speak on the case of the zeigler
miners, at the branch meeting Of
the northwest international Labor
Defense, on Tuesday at p. M,
at the Workers Lyeeum, 2733
Hirseh Boulevard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Open college In AdIarIstan.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-(Tass)-
Feb. 21-An industrial institute is
opened in Batum. This is the first
college institution in Adjaristan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23

When that argument begins at
lunch time in your shop tomOr-
row-show them what the DAILY
WORKER says about it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23

Watch the Saturday MGgasine
Section for ne,o features eUery
peek. This is good issue to give
10 your felIoto toorker, ."
Evening star., 1926-01-21
BUILDING UP 19 PER CENT.

NEW YORK. January y up.
Building and engineering contra acts in
New York City during 1925 reached
record total of 81 .047 400 .oOo. il is cal
culsted by +. w. Dodge Corporation.
an increase Of ~ per cent over 1904.
the previous hic year.
Evening star., 1926-01-21
Marked Decline
In Bar Silver
In Last ? Davs
Ry IN. Associated fress.

BY the Associated fress.
NEW YORK. Jsnu4rr "l.-The
decline in the price of bar silNer
TO O. cents an ounce today. drop
Of about $, of cent in the las
two iays Is attributed 10 INC
steady aellinc Of the metal NY
china courleG with similar
movement in India where lack
Of huvins also is report ed. Chinese
operators were said TO he short
Of la paneee ven and long of sill
YER