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The BOOtIeggers, of Course!

The question that the ansaloon league
New York that sent the head of that organization William
derson to the penentary for plain and fancy financial juggling
is up in a similar in Kansas:
Who finances the antisaoon league?
One Mr. Fred T. Crabb superintendent
saloon league collected funds for claw
supposed turn league kept for himself This
ropens the question of who finances the league the reptile
seems puzzled regarding the income of that outfit.
In determining the organization
discern what group the organization Certainly
the league and its Voad act does enforce prohibition
than the league Of nations enforces world peace
Those who benefit by the Volstead the
booegrs and the dispensers of poison hooch long
idoc provisions of the Vostead remain will
be booeggers paradise The antiaoon league the organized
force that makes it possible for bootgging thrive
Hence is plain to with the slightest understanding
OF the methods employed American politics
the greed for pe of preachers and other upers prn
cpal support of this vile from those whom
the bootleggers lseet ssa..
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international Press Correspondence
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 23.-(By
Mail. lin proceeding to the discus
sion of the peasant problem at the
Fourteenth Congress of the Russian
Communist Party, Secretary Stain
pointed out by numerous quotations
from the speeches of Gregory Zinc
view, who presented the Leningrad
viewpoint, that zinoviev, quite short
time ago had still the standpoint of
the naturalization Of the middle peas
antry and only after the internal party
struggle, that is a short time before
the party congress, when the under
estimation of the middle peasantry
was sharply condemned in the whole
party, took up the standpoint of the
necessity of firm alliance with the
middle peasantry.
At the beginning of the year, Tin
oyiev wrote in the Pravda that all
the parties of the Comintern had the
general task Of winning the agricul-
tural proletariat, the half-proletariat
and the small peasantry as allies for
the proletariat and of neutralizing the
middle peasantry. interruption from
the Leningrad delegation: Russia is
not meant.) (Stalin: Is our party,
then not section of the Comintern ?
Applause)
Already at the eighth party con-
gress of the Russian Communist
Party Lenin fought energitically
against the underestimation of the
middle peasantry and pointed out that
its winning was necessary and not
its naturalization. Stain quoted nu-
merous similar declarations of Zinc
view in which the middle peasantry
was either completely inored or rep
resented as an object for neutraliza-
ton.
MYTH regard to the declarations of
w zinoviev in his Philosophy of the
Epoch" upon the dominance of the
idea of equality in the masses of the
people. Stain pointed out that one
could not possibly preach the idea of
equality without exactly stating
whether it was question of equality
between the workers and peasants,
between the qualified and unqualified
workers or of the final abolition of
class society.
One may not play with the slogan
of equality in a responsible article in
the ce2tral organ of the party, just
as one may not play with the word
"Leninism" without recognizing the
actual tasks of Leninism in the pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
ARTICLE !.
Armour and Company.

Armour and company of Illinois was
Incorporated in illinois in 1900 with a
charter for 80 years as consolidation
CT the various large interests Of the
firm of Armour and company which
was formed by Philip Armour in 1860.
This combine owns Armour and COM
pany OF New Jersey; Armour Packing
company; Armour Car Lines. a con.
solidation of the Armour Refrigerator
Lines; Armour's Stock Express;
Armour Tank Line; Fruit Growers
Express and Tropical Refrigerator
Express; Armour Fertilizer company;
Armour Grain company: Kentucky
Cold Storage company; Eastern
Leather company; Armour Leather
company and a. large interest in the
Jeffries Lumber company of Jefries,
Louisiana. II owns the Armour pack
ing houses, fertilizer works, soap fac
tories, glue factories and hair fac.
'ories in Chicage=and packing houses
IN st. Louis, EaSt ST. Louis, South
Omaha, Sioux city, st. Joseph, Dem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
Who are the Big Four Meat Packers?

yer, Kansas City. TT. Worth, Indiana.
polls, Spokane, Fargo, ND, Heron.
5. d., and other cities. II created the
Armour and company Of Delaware for
the purpose, Of acquiring Norris and
company and all it's subsidiariesfA The
Morris meat packing plants and bust.
ness were bought by the Armour.
created North American Provision
company, which was then bought
cut by the Delaware company.
The Armour Leather company
which was organized to buy" out the
leather interests Of Armour and COM
pany was incorporated in Delaware in
1920 and acquired" all OF the leather
and tanning plants OF the Badger
state Tanning company of Wisconsin,
Cappon and Bertsch Leather com.
pany of Michigan, Empire Tanning
companylof New York, ]. X. Mosser
company of Pennsylvania. J.K. Mosser
OF West Virginia, Silvia Tanning com.
pany OF Delaware. In addition. Fthis
firm ownsE70e5 of the Eastern Leather
company, (which owns the capital
stock Of the Winslow Brothers. and
smith company and Winslow com.
pany, Inc, Of MassachpS tits. It has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
FOR THE UNITY OFsTHE CITY AND LAND


the Communist Party has its nuclei.
How to Reach Them.
With five years program of send
ing out scouts, visiting farmers To-
Gals (they are weH--pleased to have
good speakers) we can build very
substantial minority in the farm un-
ions, cooperatives, literary societies
and womens organizations.
We must go right to the farmer and
get all his leanings, -handicaps and
prejudices. He must learn of us by
touching elbows with us. Altho he
SHES at "Bolshevikp as a name he
readily accepts the idea that those
who work should rule.
So the farmer is learning fast that
he never was well off. That he is
burdened by great crowd of useless
middlemen who feed we'll off his pro-
ducts. That he is giving great deal
more than he receives.
/ The farmer has yet to learn his
relationship in the world market to
the rest of labor. He needs a broader
international viewpoint This he re-
cognizes when you speak to him about
1t but tries once more to beat the
game locally as soon as you move on.
1t is a habit for him to go in a
rut. Most everything he has ever
changed in his life was forced upon
him from the city jewellers who in
turn were forced out to compel the
farmer to move up a peg. '@
Our Communist Party can find a
field of opportunity out in the farm
regions If the whole problem is studied
and the farmer is approached as
fellow victim of capitalism and taught
Tour mutual needs and possibilities.
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ment exactly the opposite demand,
not the politicalizing of the secretar-
lat, but it's Standardization, not the
abolition, but the absolution of the po-
lit bureau is proposed. Perhaps such
a reform would suit Kamenev hut
certainly not the party. (Applause)
A technical secretariat would hard
ly be able to prepare all the ques-
lions for the polit bureau and the
organizational bureau in the manner
in which this has been previously
done. interruption, correctly The
demand for the absolutism of the po-
litical bureau is simply absurd, for
the secretariat Is subordinate to the
polit bureau and the latter to the
plenary session of the central COM
mittee The opposition habitually
talks of the difficulties of the pres
ent moment, but it forgets the most
dangerous difficulty of all; the dam
ger of disorganizing the party. CAP
plause.) 4a @ u
The majority of the central COM
mittee had this danger IN mind when
it proposed compromises for pos
sible agreement to the opposition two
days before the party congress. In
this letter which was signed by Kali
min, Stain, Bucharin, Rykov, Rutsu-
TAX, Tomsky, Molotov and Djerjinsky
complete agreement was expressed
with the resolution Of the. Moscow
district conference against all the
deviations in contradiction with the
policy of the party but at the same
time 1t was stressed that in the in
terests Of the maintenance of party
unity and to prevent the alienation Of
the Leningrad organization, one of
the best in the party from the CEN
trail committee, the undersigned were
prepared to make various concessions
in determining a clear political line
thru the party congress, amongst
them: To make the resolution Of the
Moscow party conference the basis
of the resolution of the party con-
gress, but to weaken certain formu-
lations, to avoid mutual polemic be-
tween members of the polit bureau at
the party congress, to condemn the
standpoint of Sarkis upon the compo-
sition of the party and also the stand
point of Safarov upon state capital
ism, in the speeches at the party
congress; to carry out the central
committees decision upon the inclu-
sion Of comrade from Leningrad in
the secretariat of the central COM
mittee Immediately after the party
congress, to introduce similarly Len
ingrad comrade into the editorial staff
of the central organ. and in conse-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
Stain Makes Closing Speech to Party Congress

ent policy. Only inst before the par
ty congress did uZdnovlev declare in
Leningrad after discussion that he
was in favor of the slogan for firm
alliance with the middle peasantry.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee
that Zinoviev will not soon abandon
this slogan, for, as the facts prove,
Zinoyiev never particularly shone by
the. necessary firmness in the peasant
question. (Applause)
WHEN one says that one must fight
w equally strongly against both de-
viations, that is to say, against the
underestimation and the overestima-
ton of the Kulak danger, one forgets
that up to the moment the first tend
ency has only been expressed by an
irresponsible member Of the party in
the theoretical organ "Bolshevik''
whilst the second tendency is en-
bodied by zinoviev and Kamenev
who have at their disposal their own
press organ in Leningrad and an or
ganizational center, Bogushevsky,
however, is definitely finished.
Stain called to mind the growth of
the differences of opinion which first
of all showed themselves towards the
end of 1924 when the Leningrad group
demanded the expulsion of Trotsky
from the party. The majority of the
central committee declared that it
was not in agreement with this and it
limited itself to the removal of Trot-
sky from his post as the commissar
for war, for it was of the opinion that
this proposal and also the proposal Of
zinoviev and Kamenev to expel Trot-
sky from the polH bureau held great
dangers for the party, for disposals
are catching and they might go too
far. (Applause).
Differences of opinion also cropped
up when the Leningrad organization
of the Young Communist League took
upon itself the functions of a second
central committee of the Young Com
munist League and wished to trans
form the Leningrad district con-
ference of the. Young Communist
League into a sort of All-Russian Com
munist League conference and the
central committee was compelled to
proceed against this attempt to insti-
tute system of double centralism.
Further the central committee was
compelled to reject the prosal of Tin
oviev to issue a, second theoretical or
gan to appear in oLeningrad and the
editorial staff Of which was to be
composed exclusively of members of
the opposition. The central commit
tee believed itself to be right when
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| it placed the interests of the party
higher than considerations of form
al party democracy and forbade the
appearance of a fractional organ, just
as it would have to prohibit this in
the future also. (Applause.)
Let the members of the opposition
who still make play with the slogan
Enrich Yourselves" referring to the
peasantry which has been rejected
thousand times by Bucharin himself
and by the central committee, pro-
duce even one article from the central
organ or even one declaration Of the
central committee in which this slo-
gan has received some new express
sion. On the contrary, the central
committee paid the greatest possible
attention to the theological purity of
all articles and speeches in this con-
nection so that the development of
the productive forces of the village
might not be interpreted as a slogan
of the party for private capitalist ac-
cumnlation. The mistake of Buchar-
in which he withdrew in time and
! which he regrets, is in comparison
with the mistakes Of certain comrades
who in October, 1917, twice broke the
decisions made under Lenin's leader
ship, upon the October action, absurd
ly insignificant.
OTALIN pointed out that not only
~ has the opposition no united plat
form, but 1t upholds the most contra
dictory and mutually exclusive stand
points and is only united upon one
point, namely reform of the sec
retariat Of the central committee. De-
spite all the absurdity of such a pro-
gram, this is an undeniable fact. At
ter the twelfth party congress in 1923
group of comrades elaborated plat
form to abolish the polit bureau and
to transform the secretariat into a po-
litical and organizational leading or
gan consisting of Zinoviev, Trotsky
and Stain. This platform meant that
the party should be led without Ry-
kov, Kalinin, Tomsky, Molotov and
Bucharin.
Nothing came of this program at
the time not only because of its lack
of principle but also on account of the
impossibility of leading the party
without these comrades. Stain de-
clared that he had answered the ques-
ton at the time with a decisive no
and had further declared that if the
comrades wanted, he was prepared to
give up his place without noise, with
out either open or concealed discus
sion, without setting up any demands
or asking for guarantees or rights for
the minority. Laughter) AT the mo-
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also bought out the entire business
OF Alexander Brothersrof Philadelphia,
one Of the biggest. belt manufacturers
in America. f1f W rsss.. stf a-
The entire issue of tho Armour
Leather company'sfa founders stock
is held by the Armour and company
OF Illinois and has, ten votes per share
to every vote of common and prefer
red stock, +. W.. Croll and f.. Edison
White are on the board Of directors
OF the leather concern representing
the packing house interests.
Ft' Form Subsidiary.
tnsf- t.Ft anrxNrBsgHe
Armour and company of Delaware.
a subsidiary Of the. Illiois company,
was incorporated in, Delaware in De
cember 1922 to act as the holding com.
pany for certain Of. the Armour pack
ing houses. cold storage plants, the
Armour Fertilizer Works and all OF
the South American and Cuban sub.
salaries. and all OF the plants the
Armour interests have that devoted
70 the manufacture and distribution Of
by.products, including the Armour
Soap Works, and approximately $685.
100000 OF investments In other fields.
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quence Of the unfittness Of the presA
ent editor of the Leningrad Pravda
to appoint a more highly qualified
comrade for this post after agreement
with the central committee. M
THE opposition did not agree with
4 these proposals, it preferred an
open obstinate struggle in the party
congress. This is its "loye Of peace
The majority of the central commit
tee remains in all essentials upon the
standpoint of this letter. AS Is known,
certain Foundations were weakened
in the draft of the political resolu-
ton, in the interests of party peace
We are against the policy Of re-
movals, it is Objectionable to US. This,
however, does not mean that leaders
will be permitted to vacillate from
side to side with inpunity( The party
wants unity, and will obtain unity to-
gether with Kamenev and SZinoyiey
if they want 1t and without Kamenev
and Zinoviev if they do not. (Inter-
ruption: Correct! Applause). Party
unity presumes subordination of the
minority to the majority. One must
not take a discussion too far and
forget that we are a ruling party.
With regard to the structure of the
leading organs, the party will hardly
agree to their mutilations. (Interrup-
ton: Correct! Applause)
FKNLIT Nf~nnAxr
l. complete power and is subordi-
nate to the plenary session OF the
central committee, fact which com
rades who have lost their balance, ap-
pear to forget. The party unity can
and will be preserved If the party rel
fuses to allow itself to be intimidated
The party can only be led co-opsfa-
lively. After Lenin's death it would
be nonsense to dream Of any other
form of party leadership. (Stormy
applause.) Should one of US get out
of the traces, he will be called to Or
der With regard to the Leningrad
workers, they will certainly now as
before, stand in the front ranks of the
party. We built up the party together
with them, we unrolled the banner
of the revolution in October, 1917, and
defeated the bourgeoisie together with
them, and together with them we
shall fight against our difficulties. anu
l am firmly convinced that the Len
ingrad workers and Communists will
not remain behind their party broth
ers in the other industrial centers in
the struggle for an iron feminist par
ty unity. (Stormy and protracted ap-
plause. Singing of the internationally
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
BY J. E. SNYDER.

THE American farmer is as we'll of
4 as heAev was. He was never
we'll Off"
There is "a good deal in the above
statement. The American farmer used
to think that he was rich" because
he owned land and tools regardless
of income from products from the
land produced by his or hired labor
power.
There is no capitalist investment in
The world that is so bankrupt, all the
time, as the farm investment. If in
vested capital brings no real returns,
not even enough to pay for the labor
power expended, it is declared fail
ure and enters into bankruptcy pro
ceilings. The farmer however hangs
on, goes behind each year and finally
is dispossessed by death or the money
loaner.
These things were true long years
ago. 1t is just in recent years that the
farmers began to know that he should
figure in investment, that is what his
land, machinery, live stock, seed, fer
ilizer, transportation to the local and
outside market, labor power etc. cost
him before counting up his income"
On which to pay taxes.
It was when the rural delivery came
md brought him daily crop and price
aports that he began to observe the
ifferences in the local market and
he terminal market price. The writ
rs in his farm papers discussed thu
Eyestment and the income on tn
Investment from a capitalist stand
point. The politicians, in order to get
| as the representative of the peo-
ole" studied up on the farmers situa-
ton and his sons and daughters went
off to the cities and the colleges and
came home with embarrassing con
trasts on the lives of farmers VS.. those
who worked less hours in the cities.
ssr
6unked. for Years.
IN many ways the farmer was bunked
4 as to his Importance. He was
and is yet fed up on songs such as
"The Farmer Feeds Us All" The
Lumber Jack, the quarry man, might
each IN turn claim that they build all
the houses. Even today the farmer
places the wage worker as a parasite
along with bankers, lawyers and poll.
ticians. They all eat off the farmer
and he feeds them ALL" The making
OF plows, threshers; the running of
trains, mining. etc, in thousand DIFF.
ferent industries is not seen as part
Of the feeding, housing, clothing and
educating Of all by all who work and
promote.
The farmers are in rebellion. Ne.
gatively they are protesting. They
have as whole very alittle positive
program.
The youth Of the farms is the hope
Of the positive program. The capital
LIST are counting this youth. It is. IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06

WOulu ulSdppedI.
For the five years ending with 1924,
he said, the farmers return was $40
of one per cent The farmers CAPT
tai also is decreasing.
In review of the agricultural sit
uation in the northwest by the Mime
apolis federal reserve bank, the
banks figures show nearly times as
many farmer bankruptcies in the four
years 1925 as in the entire IL years
preceding. The figures for bankrupt
cies among farmers in Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Mon
tana are;. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
MAREHGO FARMERS WANT /
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE |
TO RESIST FASCIST RAIDS |


MARENco, Wis, Feb. q - The
Marenso Farmers Cooperative Mef-
cartile Association adopted reso-
luton protesting against the Italian
fascist seizure of the Lega Nazio-
male offices and the suppression Of
the Workers and Farmers Cooper
atiVes. The Marenso cooperative
members in their annual meeting
endorse the proposal of the Red In
ternationa of labor unions that the
International Cooperative Alliance
call a conference of the Amsterdam
International Of Trade Unions, the
Red International Of Trade Unions
and the International Cooperative
Alliance to formulate measures Of
fighting fascism, which threatens
the eo-operatives in many lands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
HiILquit-Agent of Imperialism

Mr. Norris Hquit millionaire lawyer
M leader the most ustrious
national in the United States The Second International
me leadership of exnisters and those who hope
rs to their maeses the kings and and bourgeose
Europe The Second International whose leaders
Of the borgeoe in Europe great league
nations and the world --'~"---
Hence Mr. Hllqut faithful socialist also supports the
mperast policy of the bougeo and becomes
coolidge and the House of Morgan In debate in New York with
Clarence Darrow the Chicago lawyer Hqu league
OF nations and the world court vehicles for realizing
tional peace" s sse ~
just as the pacfsts in the service imperialism
Bryan to Upton Sinclair aided Woodrow was dry
ing toward the last world slaughter Hlqut socialist
crew are paving the bloody road over which other workers will
compelled to march TIC slaughter they their
might and crush the bourgeoisie and all their agents
Get member for the Workers Party subscription
for The DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
cobbIe Up Morris interests.

The Morris and company meat pack
ing combine that was gobbled up by
Armour and company had packing
plants in Chicago, East st. Louis. H.,
st. Joseph, Kansas City, Oklahoma
city and Omaha with distribution
centers in most of the largest cities
Of the United States and also in Lon
don, Antwerp, Paris, Liverpool, Rot
terdam, Hamburg, Berne. Christiania
and Havana, aN ~s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06

outstanding fact that in every con-
vention the young men make the re-
ports as managers, experts. etc. of the
industrial, insurance. bank, produce,
and other departments of the farm
unions. IL
The old men are given the offices of
the large body OF the union. but the
younger men do the actual job of
cooperation" They plant them well
in the convention to influence the
delegates. Thus the cooperative move
aant has its nuclei just the same as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
Navy League Out Again.

WASHINGTON, Feb - (FP) -
"Niggardly neglect" of the naval
strength of the United States "a
charged by VIM. Howard Gardiner in
the y. $. naval institute proceedings.
circulated by the navy league. The
league spokesman says "parsimony
may force upon us such another orgy
OF war and waste as pacihsm did but
a few years ago II demands a huge
naval expansion program, starting AZ
once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
FARMERS PLEASED WITH
DAILY WORKERS. STAND
ON AGRICULTU RAL ILLS.

John G. soItis, writing FROM
Plentywood, Montana, says: ~ want
to congratulate The DAILY WORK.
Err for its very splendid material
being published on the farmers
problems. am using It to great
advantage and the farmer cub
serbers are all we'll pleased and
hope for a continuation Of that
policy"
We shall strive to merit their con.
tinued support by interpreting their
problems and exposing the political
quscks who propose fraudulent
ranaeeas for the agricultural crisis.