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The daily worker., 1926-05-23
What Labor Must Fight For.

The program which labor must fight for /
the 1926 election campaign should include:
/. Naturalization of all large scale in
dustry and workers control.
"A q Revision of all taxation and tariff
laws to place the burden of taxation on the
capitalist and not upon the workers and
farmers.
g. Repeal the Watson-Parker bill and all
laws limiting the right of the workers to
strike.
A. Against the use Of iniunctions, police
and soldiers in industrial disputes. Outlaw
ing of all private detective agencies operat-
ing as spies and strikebreakers in industry.
5. Repeal of all laws discriminating
against the Negro. Complete social, poll
tical and economic equality for the Negro.
6. The land for the users. A moratori-
UNI on all debts Of the exploited farmers.
Naturalization of all marketing institutions
including railroads. grain elevators ETC.,
existing as a measure of relief for the farm
ers. government appropriation for the
farmers to aid them in establishing genuine,
co7bperative marketing association.
Immediate reduction Of the army and
navy, now maintained to protect the capt.
talist investments abroad. Withdrawal Of
American soldiers from all foreign terri
tory Immediate freedom and uncondition-
al independence of the Philippines and the
TlgQC OF SelI-QeCermlnat1On Tor all other
American colonies.
8. Struggle against the entry of the
United States into the world court or
League of Nations which are instruments
of imperialist capitalist powers to carry on
their imperialist battles
g. The recognition and defense of the
first workers and farmers government,
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
The Workers (Communist) Party calls upo
all trade unions, labor political parties an
workers fraternal and benefit organizations t
support the placing of labor ticket in the fiel
on such a program for the 1926 election cam
paign. This will also be a great step forwar
the formation of labor party, which will carr
on a struggle in labor's interest, not only il
the election campaigns but in every situation O
interest to labor.
Forward to a Labor Ticket in the 1926 eIec
tions.
Forward to Fight for Labor Program.
Forward to a Labor Party.
Central Executive Committee, Workers (Com
mupist) Party,
(Signed) c. E. Ruthenberg,
General Secretary
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
YIPSELS and COMMUNIST
YOUTH IN UNITED FRONT
Other Centers Should Follow
Suit

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-The develop
ing trend towards proletarian unity
of the working class youth in the
face of the growing militarization and
the fall in the standard of conditions
of the young workers has reached
Milwaukee, the strongest center of
the socialist party. Conservative as
the S. P. is there, the Young Peoples
Socialist League is of somewhat diff
ferent calibre.
At the last May Day meeting, the
Young Workers League participated
with the Young Peoples Socialist
League in united front meeting. The
development of, other united front ac-
tivities are also being planned, par
ticularly against militarism.
The Milwaukee Yipsels have large
membership and are made up predom-
inantly of young workers. The mill
tant spirit of some of the Yipsels is
something from which their socialist
elders might learn. The Milwaukee
experience is the best example of
united effort on a minimum program
between the socialists and Commu-
nists. In New York and Chicago. the
same thing is being duplicated to a
certain extent. More power to such
a development
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
Big Increase in SOUiets'
Sports Activity
Russian Athletes Win LaureIs in
International Sports Meet

The younger generation In the
Soviet Union Is taking to sports Of all
kinds to an extent undreamed of In
the empire Of the ezar, when all pop.
uIar public gatherings were viewed
with suspicion by tho authorities.
Soviet newspapers give Increasing at
tentlon to athletic events.
During the past winter inter-city
matches in hockey, football and skat.
ing, and the various skiing champion.
ships evoked intense public interest
A record-breaking crowd is reported
to have attended the Anal hockey
match between the teams represent
ing Moscow and Leningrad, won by
the later by the close score Of 4 to 8.
When the Moscow football team re-
turned from France after blanking
the French chamion team so and 40
in Paris, the Soviet papers expressed
great enthusiasm and ran interviewes
with the athletic heroes. A little later
they were proclaiming another inter
national victory. Soviet skirunners
who had entered the International con-
tests in FINLAND finished first in the
distances Of 500, 1900, 5000 and 10000
meters, and every Soviet citizen was
proud Of this unexpected victory
against the best ski experts of Fin
land and Scandinavia.
Athletic organizations by the thous-
ands have been springing up in the
schools and colleges and among the
organizations Of workers. The Soviet
authorities have encouraged their de-
velopment. Several conferences on
athletics and physical culture were
held in Moscow and other cities dur
ing the winter, attended by represen-
tative physicians, teachers and ex-
perts on physical culture. A supreme
council of physical culture has been
formed under government auspices
which is engaged in standardizing
championship contests and making de-
cisions on new national records in all
sports.
Girls and young women as well as
boys and young men are entering the
athletic contests by the thousands.
This spring it is planned to enter
Soviet teams in athletic contests in
Czechoslovakia, Latvia and other
countries.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23

Man is subjected in all his creative
processes-even to the most perfected
and most intimate-to lthe ordinary,
clear Di~ Nsical laws ,, This is the
teaching of reflexology. Z What Darwin
began Pavlov has continued.
Now that the proletar1an revolution
is killing off mysticisni 1t would. of
course, be a crime If so mighty a cul-
tural-ideological factor as the reflex
doctrine were not exploited on a mass
scale. Luckily the motion picture
comes to our aid. Visible, clear, as
could not be presented by any book
comprehensive to the broadcast
masses, this Meshrabpom-Russ film.
Mechanics of the Brain" DESTROYS
step by step the absurd legends of
the human soul. BY means of a Sc.
ries of interesting and simple expert
ments upon all sorts Of living objects
monkeys, dogs, infants, adolescents.
adults; ordinary as well as great
creative forces;" rational and IRA.
tional people) the onlooker Is drawn
Willy-nilly into the current OF the only
possible conclusion: that there is no
soul, that the human soul life, human
creative power and inspiration-all
these are but simple refexes in a
higher stage. God has nothing to do
with these rehexes.
The film must be supplemented with
strong, incisive titles-otherwis its
cultural significance will be weakened.
The film is very valuable cultural
phenomenon not only on a Soviet
scale but also in international scope.
Aside from It's theological significance,
It presents tremendous interest In
the popularization OF science. One
looks at tho film with a lively, con.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23

A NEW scientific film, entitled ''The
a Mechanics of the Brain" has Just
been finished by Mezhrabpom-Rus
Moscow, and has been acclaimed en-.
Enthusiastically when it was first shown,
without titles, to an audience of
scientists, motion picture men, educa.
tors and journalists. Not since the
film version Of the Steinach rejuvena.
tion operation, which proved a first.
run attraction for months at the big.
gest theaters in Moscow in 1923, has
there been such a favorable furore
created in critical circles. The "Prav.
da' of April 14th, prints the following
comment on the pre-view:
mechanics Of the Brain"
The doctrine of refexes opens an
entire new chapter in organic science,
II introduced practically transfer.
nation of many of our conceptions of
psychological processes, as well as of
the manner and means Of their reac.
tions. But the value of this doctrine
is not yet exhausted in this. Reflex
ology proves itself simultaneously a
tremendous culturaltraining factor; II
strikes the bourgeois ideology to its
very Observation-Disclosures calls
forth the most blasting and irremedia.
BILE destructivity on this field. Prog.
ress on the field Of the reflex doctrine
sounds the death-knell Of the centu-
ries-old superstition with regard to
the Soul" Everything that appeared
so mysterious in the "unknowable"
human psychic life is ruthlessly ex.
posed from the viewpoint Of the re-
fiex doctrine, Is so unmasked that one
no longer knows what TO do with the
mystic SOUL" one has no further use
'or it. there is no more room for It.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
Labor and the Government.

The evidence that the capitalists hold the
governmental power thru the republican and the
democratic parties and use it against the work.
ers is complete. Yet the workers of this coun-
try have as rule supported these political par
ties of their class enemies.
In practically every other country OF the world
the workers have learned to organize political
party of their own and carry on a struggle for
control of the government, but the American
workers still support the republican and demo-
cratic parties, which, when in power, use the
governmental power against the workers.
From 1918 to 1924 labor was moving away
from this policy. It's experiences with the gov
ernment in the great postwar strikes developed
the demand for labor party which would fight
for labor's interests.
This movement was betrayed and side-track-
ed by the LaFollette's third party movement
LaFollette and the political leaders representing
the small capitalists of this country who were
associated with him did not even have the cour-
age to organize third capitalist party and they
betrayed completely the workers who saw in
this movement movement for a labor party.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
For a Labor Ticket in the 1926 Elections!

Wherever labor or farmer-labor parties exist
the trade unions, labor political parties and Other
workers organizations should affiliate with
them and make them the medium for nomina-
ton of labor ticket on a labor program in
the election campaign.
Where no such parties exist the trade union,
labor political parties and other workers or
ganizations should call a conference Of delegates
from these organizations to nominate united
front labor ticket to carry on fight for labor
program.
A labor ticket in every congressional and state
election fighting for labor program must be
the slogan for the 1925 election campaign
This is the big step forward toward indepen-
dent political action which the labor movement
should take this year. Such a campaign in sup
port of a labor ticket and labor program will
be big move toward the creation of labor
party
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
The 1926 Election Campaign.

The 1926 state and congressional elections
present the opportunity to labor to regain the
ground lost thru the side-tracking of the labor
party movement by LaFollette.
LABOR MUST ENTER THE 1925 FL ECTTON
CAMPAIGN AS A CLASS. CARRYING ON A
STRUGGLE IN ITS OWN INTERESTS FOR A
LABOR PROGRAM. AT THE SAME TIME La
BOR MUST MAKE AN ALLIANCE WITH THE
EXPLOITED FARMERS FOR A COMMON
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE CAPITALIST EX-
PLOITERS.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
Coal Digger Grabs
OFF Mickey Walkers
Welter Weight Crown
Especial to The Daily Worker,

SCRANTON, Pa, May 21. - The
talk in the anthracite today revoIves
around Pete Latzo, former coal-digger,
who last night knocked the crown off
world welter-weight champion Micky
Walkers head and put it on his own.
Latzo is a Checho-Slovak lad who
was born in the coal fields in 1902 and
entered the mines to work at an early
age. The prowess he developed by
swinging a pick proved too much for
the tough welter champion, when the
two met last night in a slugging match
in which Latzo received the edge from
the judges.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
CHICAGO LEAGUE HOLDS
MEMBER MEETING.

On Friday, May 2Sth, the Young
Workers (Communist) League of Chi
cago will hold a general membership
meeting. Anti-Militarism and Negro
work will be the two main features
for discussion. The hall will be an
nounced later.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
WHO SAW OR HEARD OF
GUN-BOAT SMITH?

Information is wanted leading to
the whereabouts. of an ex-soldier who
served in the Hawaiian Division
known to the enlisted personnel as
Gun-Boat Smith. Send the informa-
tion to w. M. Trumbull, care the Ma
tional Office of the Y. w. L., 1113 w.
Washington Blvd, Chicago.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
Nicaraguan Rebels
Defeated at Rama

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 21. -
The rebel forces which held Rama,
have been routed and the town re-
captured by government troops after
seven hours of battle. The rebels fled
leaving dead, wounded and arms.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23

stantly mounting interest. 1t merits
presentation to the broadest possible
masses.
II would be well to integrate many
more films Of this type into our Gin
ema treasury. Thus far there are
practically none.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
Subsection No. 9 Of Section No. 6
Meets.

This concerns street nuclei Nos. 90
80 and 81 and shop nucleus No. 2s.
A membership meeting of cur sub.
section will be held Monday, May "a,
at p. m, at 1888 HirScG boulevard,
Folkets Hus. Willlam|F f. Dunno. who
has just returned from Europe will
speak on lne british General Strike
IN he,ation 70 the World Labor Move
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
(Continred from nnre d

to organize and strike. If they can reduce the
foreign-born workers to the status Of coolies"
they can force down the standard of life of ma
tive and foreign-born workers.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23

Acquaintance with "Bos' republican senatorial candi
date from Pennsylvania testify the that the amena
ignorant That argument against his becoming
the He will be in compatible company among
rubber stamps
The daily worker., 1926-05-23

"Gangers Control Town. the headline Chicago paper
1t referred to suburb known Lake Forest and not Chicago
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
France FOIlOws the Franc

The French franc drops below S5 to the dollar.
Dispatches report the popuace dazed" by
collapse of the currency
Other dispatches tell of atrocities in Damascus bomb
ing of the city and the than civians-men
and children by the French forces
In northern Africa the French has army 170
900 men trying to conquer $4,000 Riffans.
Poland, French proectorae has collapsed
millions of francs have been poured the army by
miarsts pursuance of their mad build empire
in Europe
The French government choose the com
pete cessation Of its military enterprises which
ing of its grip its colonies financial debac which
the of real peasants
1t be that French Imperialism has waited long
the progressive decline Of France world power gone
to be checked to appreciable extent.
Certainly the tremendous increase Of influence
Party months iingosm and
revanche have ceased begue numbers
peasants.
The daily worker., 1926-05-23
FILM DISPROvES SOUL MYTH
SOVIET PRODUCTION SHOWS THE MECHANICS OF
THE BRAIN"

Moscow Correspondence by WILLIAM F. KRuss.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-01
Equip and Prepare Washington
Policemen to Successfully
Combat Criminal Bad Men

asvgoinr Iadvlxe methods Of handling the increasing
criminal element of Washington out Of date TINS CITY
DEMANDS that the municipal and police authorities OF the
District proceed to modern methods against modern criminals
and that Washington policemen at least be given fair
chance for their ves that they shall beso well equipped and
so efficient marksen that there is to be shedding OF
blood it viii not be that Of officers of the law.
There today installing public sentiment in this matter
The laws Of this city prevail and will prevail or in the
police prosecuting department Of courts men VIII
be put in who will see THAT THIS is DONE.
When East Side New York gangsters and criminals from
other begin operate here they doing shoot
down poceme hold up and rob citizens the strong arm
of the manifest itself in every conceivable way They
cannot be handled with soft gloves.
In police department these things MUST BE DONE as
quickly possible:
l. The pistols Of all policemen must be kept loaded with
fresh cartridges cartridges two and three years old
q Every policeman should be given continuous pistol
practice until he is proficient in craftsmanship
g. Every policeman should be equipped with belt and
holster and carry his pistol outside where it is quickly &C
cessible.
the police department and among them should be at least
two armored machines carrying deathdeang weapons OF
the latest and most effective kind.
There be motorcycles in the department and
the motorcycles in should be kept in repair at all
times. Many motorcycles are almost useless
Let the authorities urgently insist that Congress supply
al the money necessary for modern equipment ana OON
GRESS WILL DO so.
4 Give policemen Of Washington to understand that they
not supposed to wait until after they are shot down be-
Promptly remove the idea which has preached into
Washington policemen that their guns less
ornamental and that bootlegger and criminals do
shoot them first they must not pull their weapons at all
Above everything else has been consistently urged by
this newspaper make FRST-CLASs MARKSMEN of all
policemen Equip them we'll and make them efficient
with their weapons that they will have confidence in them
selves They will not shoot until they compelled to- and
at The innocent bystander" will then not so
worry about
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-01

of incandescence on the moon
would not be prevented by the
absence Of q lunar atmosphere.
Without surrounding oxygen to
draw upon q continued glow
might not be maintained, but an
instantaneous flash would arise
from the internal reaction of the
substance concerned, and the
light ray thus produced by atomic
agitation would be, affected by
the absence Of air.
Hitting The Moon
Suppose huge explosive shell
fired from the earth hit the moon.
If its explosion depended upon
burning fuse it would fail. for
the fuse would go out, from lack
! OF oxygen, long before the pro-
jectile reached the. moon; but II
it was fired by percussion, the
operation would not be interfered
with by the airless state Of the
moon, and light flash would
follow.
The mere impact OF an enor-
nous solid mass striking the
moon with a velocity Of many
miles per second would produce
an outburst of light through the
Transformation of motion into
heat, and the oxygen and other
elements needed to feed and
maintain the conflagration would
be supplied from the vaporized
matter at the point of collision.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-01
BEETHOVEN'S
MOTHER

NTHILE the great musical
w genius, Ludwig Won Bee
thoven, was blessed with a hde-
voted mother, it was his mis-
fortune that his father was an
incorporate man. with q harsh,
exacting temper.
Maria Won Beethoven, or Hell
eha, as she was sometimes called,
was the widow of q valet, Mich
oIas Layrn, when she met and
married Johann van Beethoven.
Their first child died within a
week OF his birth, and tthe second
was christened with the same
name-Ludwig.
OF the precocity displayed by
young Ludwig nothing need here
be said. Every one knows Of the
famous concerts at which the
child's talent displayed itself.
And, strange to say, It was his
cruel and unyielding father who
goaded the boy, musician on. He
insisted on long hours OF prac-
tice and concentration, and in
later years BeethOen attributed
his technical skill to the rigorous
discipline demanded by his father.
But it !. was his mother who
lavished on him the affection and
: kindness which fostered this gem
ius. While she was not sensi-
tive enough to understand her
great son. or sufficietly cultured
to help him, she encouraged him
to perserve. She soothed and
Gained his grief under the severe
treatment he received from his
father.
And when Maria Won Beethoven,
died her famous son paid her a
higher tribute than printed .elo-
quence can express. He said:
"She was to me such a good and
loving mother, the best of friends.
Oh, who would be so happy as I.
could still speak the sweet name
Mother and have her hear it?'F
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-01
DIR. FRANK CRANE S.
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DR.. FRANK CRANE
The Twentieth Cable

OUT Of Bay Roberts. New Foundland, ship steamed
recently trailing copper thread from its stern into
- the blue Atlantic.
It was laying the twentieth cable between America and
Europe
The first message will flash It on October !, il
present plans are carried out
Since 1867 when Cyrus Field completed his great labor
of layng the first teegraphic communication between
America and old world strand has been added on
the average of approximately every three years
This web of communication has woven Us close to the
news Of Europe.
It gives up greater to the news Of the world than
cities had Of the news within their precincts two
hundred years ago.
the news Of the beginning the Great Plague which started
IN remote suburb Of the IN 1864 and resulted IN the
death Of 100000 Of its citizens.
On july A. 1776 thirteen colonies in America declared
themselves free England and published the momentous
political document, the Declaration of Independence
It was August IL 1776 before the first London paper was
able to give readers the text of that document 50 slow
was communication hundred and fifty years ago.
One of the greatest military battles of history was fought
at Waterloo Belgium when Wellington met Napoleon.
The battlefield was within two hundred miles OF London,
vet it was hrtysx before the anxious citizens were
able TO get the news of the outcome.
That was but little century ago
Authentic details Of famine the Bosporus or plague
on the Gauges reach u.s. In small country towns IN
shorter time it took for of event to penetrate
from one side to another of large city in the Middle Ages
sRumor fes'but not fast as facts carried on the
wings of electricity