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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
The American Sovereign

We are not referring queen of Roumania to John D.
Henry We have in mind the American voter
Today king will punch the clock usual and experience
papaon the boss catches him grinnng over
while stealing smoke in the factory rest room
course distinction between the American voter VINO
preference from BiarriH, France or from ms
hunting lodge the Pyrpes and the corrugated or who r
bers when his bill only $I25 whereas now is $"0 we
talking about the working class voter
Communists their political in the revolutionary
movement have been pounding head Of Mr.
Wage Slave for election day take out the
norm as well With the latter knock spots out
Of the capitalists political Punch and Judy men, While
the workers the polls and marx
their ballots working candidates The workers hard
hearing capitalists have heads made of solid rubber SO
far we have not made much impression either But
pessmstc bunch Of college students going to party
Tme and man. says the prOverb but we can
turn the efficiency The tide OF evou
ton always flowing the direction of revolution and time has
nntv of patience goned pockets more
save the capitalist system than King Canute's broom
Today is king He will the polls and
vote either for the republican gwayman for the democratic
fdence man Comparatively will for the Communist cand
dates the only candidates the the worker
industrial slavery and economic misery 1t IS an axiom
that revolutions place until the pains of rebellion
obedience This does not mean to imply
itself of revolution contrary the fact that revou
tion the inevitable collapse of capitalism the
why should the workers for the taking over
power This where in favor of preparedness pre-
paredness for and by the working class.
Today the workers United States will the overwhem
ing their for the candidates of their masters But
tomorrows follow the struggle for existence under capital
the workers of the soundness of the Communist
advice that falls Of deaf ears. ae
The fate capitalist system will not be settled at the ballot
box if for no the certainty that the capitalists Will
take good that it will not @.~-s
workers. Communist candidates today, but to-
M and tomorrow preach gospel struggle against the
system help organize your fellow workers into trade unions
agate for labor party join the Workers COmmunist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03

But the problem is still exceedingly difficult one 1t
must be boldly met and solved. Educational propaganda
and loyal defense of the interests the various
language groups the foundations of successful policy
While adopting every technical device for meeting the spe
cal needs and difficulties of the respective natiOnates
among the strikers such language speakers public
ity natonasc demogogy must be ruthlessy eliminated
and the whole strike shot through with true spirit of
internaonalism capable Of SCATTERING all national antpa
thes and preudces and of uniting the strikers into an
theological whole far the strike aims concerned
The splendid international spirit of the Lawrence Pat
erson Passa and many other strikes conducted by the left
wing show that the language and nationality difficulties can
be overcome p
The strike strategist must especially understand the
role of the young workers great struggles in presenday
American industry As stated above they are the bridges
between the American and foregnborn workers They are
destined to play continually important role in mass
strikes In the strikes of the Passaic textile workers and
the New York furrers they the deciding factor
successful strike strategy must include the systematic de
velopment of the youth strike leaders. e.
WHITES AND BLACKS
The unhcation of the Negroes and white workers into
struggles against their employers an urgent
task of strike strategy The Negro workers grow
ing factor in the industries In the packing industry they
decisive element and they fast becoming so in
many other industries.
The policy of the employers to develop the Negroes
great army of strkebreaers They refuse to
give the Negroes employment in many industries and
trades unless they in strkebreakers They force
them to accept the lowest wages and the terrible
ing conditions They leave stone unturned exploit
the deep antagonsm between whites and blacks in
order e. force the Negro 10 scab And in many great
strikes such for example the 1919 steel strike where al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
MORE OPERATORS
PAY union RATE
IN Central PA.
BY ART SHIELDS, Federated Press.

BY ART SHIELDS, Federated Press.
CLEARFIELD, Pa, Oct. 31.-Defeat
of Peabody Coal Co. and the Erie Rail-
road by the central Pennsylvania min
ers has put open-shop operators on the
defensive. The Shawmut Mining Co.,
neighboring concern with 600 work
ers, has posted notices that the union
scale will hereafter be paid-a raise
of 33 1-3 per cent over the 1917 scale.
This company, unlike the Peabody,
withholds union recognition in favor
of company union, but United Mine
Workers organizers are pressing on it
hard and expect to have it in the fold
soon. One of its four mines has been
on strike since it broke its contract
months ago.
More Operators Hard Pressed.
Another company embarrassed by
the union drive that President Brophy
has initiated is the Allegheny River
Mining Co., with a thousand employees,
1t devoted much of the last issue of
its bi-weekly employees. paper to an
attack on the union. But it cannot
explain to the men why the Jackson
vile scale--that it has attacked since
it broke it's contracts so easily paid
by the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern, which reopened its mines with 700
employees near by on the river a week
ago.
And so many of it's men have quit
recently that it is taking men off inn
migrant ships. Forty-two such immi-
grants were brought in from Ellis
Island in the last few days.
Union Stronger.
Practically all revival of mining op-
erations in the district now are under
the union scale. Five to six thousand
men are back at work in reopened
mines. This revival has strengthened
the union for its drive into non-union
territories in the district. AS men go
off the relief lists and begin paying
dues the result is obvious.
Regrets Lack Of Control.
President Brophy realizes that the
revival is temporary, and follows the
withdrawing of West Virginia compe-
tition into the export channels created
by the British strike. He regrets that
affairs over which his district has no
control bring work to the American
miner at the expense of his British
brother. The fact within his control
Is that union wages be paid for all
work done in central Pennsylvania
and he is having unexpected success
at that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
STRIKE STRATEGY
BY WILLIAM z, FOSTER
ARTICLE w.

AMERICAN FOREIGN Born,
TO unite the many natOnalities employed in American
industry, with their of different languages reg,
IONS national preiudices etc, into solid rebelious probe
tartan constitutes major problem in strike strategy,
The difficult phase of it to unite the Amercanborn
workers with those who foreign born For practical
purposes will state the problem thus although to be
it is unite the Americans and the foreign
of the earlier immgrations with those work
ers of the later immigrations)
The Americans mostly skilled workers. They
monty hold the best jobs and favored in many ways by
the employers They hard to organize, They strike
badly and they scab easily Their role in the struggles in
the basic unorganzed industries has been to shamelessy
betray the militant foreign born workers. This is the his
tory of many great strikes in the textile rubber Steel pack
ing and other industries. ANNNt et
The Americans rationaze their class treason by a ma
onaisc contempt for the foreignborn by charges that
the latter maneuyerng to get the Americans jobs ETC.
The employers do all possible intensity this nationastic
seabbery and the uirapatrotc trade union
feed tiis chauyinistc nav.
This grave problem is a diminishing quantity The bar
rers between the oregnborn and native workers break
ing down Immigration is practically shut and few
oregborn workers coming into the industries Those
there learning the language and winning their way
TO the skilled jobs In many Americans entering
the industries masse unskiled workers. Still more
important the children Of the immigrants are growing up
and going into the industries Thoroy Amercanzed they
real bridge between the American and foregnborn
workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
. Fifth Cooperation Congress Meets

three years. Mr. Regli is the younger
accountant who has worked from the
national office in New York for the
past year, chiefly as auditor for CO.
operatives in the East.
MILO RENO, president and A. e.
A'A Cotterill, secretary Of the Farm
ers' Union of Iowa, are going to be
very much on the job on Friday the
5th, when Cooperative Insurance is
discussed Tin the aSternoon) and Co.
operative Marketing is presented lin
the EVENING". The fact that Iowa has
most successful farmers life insurance
mutual gives Mr.. Reno the right to
speak authoritatively on that subject.
.poY R, BERGENGREN, who speaks
~ during the session on Cooperative
Banking, is the national secretary of
the Credit Union Extension Bureau,
offices in Boston Mr.. Bergengren,
more than any other one man in the
field, is responsible for the new credit
union laws now on the st&tdte books
of rs of the states in the Union. Hif
office also maintains a clearing hoGsi
for information in all phases Of thu
credit union work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
Feed Royql Navies U. S. ScoB Coal

cargo of coal, where she will receive
orders to proceed to another port to
unload the coal for the British navy"
But the British government neither
sought nor favored such publicity.
So the word went out for no more
mention of the British navy's humilia-
ton because of the refusal Of men to
go down in the mines and dig coal.
Holds Bursting with Coal.
Since that time, however, boat after
boat, British or italian, has steamed
from Norfolk, Newport News or Bal.
timore, with its holds bursting with
"scab" coal to help support. British
capitalist control Of the destinies of
one-sixth Of "the worlds people.
Italy, too, has been vitality affected
by the British miners strike. She de-
ponds on other nations for her fuel
supply. British miners supplied most
Of that coal before the strike.
Coal to Italy and Britain.
So scores of italian ships are com
ing to Baltimore and to Hampton
| Roads to carry coal to Italy and to
Britain. Even transports are being
pressed into use. Only a few days
ago the Italian transport Fianono car
ried 10000 tons of "scab" coal from
Baltimore to Italy. For a year she
had remained inactive at the Italian
naval station at Special The gov
eminent, however. messed her into
service and assigned her to the Co
operative Garialdi, of Genoa, which is
supposed to represent the Federation
Of italian Seamen"
This Federation of Italian Sea-
men," of course, is a federation run
by the government and not by the
seamen of Italy.
The seamen who brought the Fla
mono here were refused shore leave
for the sailors of Italy are now slaves
of Mussolini and not free men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03

least 10000 Negroes were brought into the mills during the
strlke they are only too successful,
The Negro inteectuals work hand in hand with the
employers in carrying out this policy So do the reaction
airy trade union leaders, Their policy of excluding Negroes
from the unions of barring their better jobs in
industry, and of generally feeding the preudces of
the Whites doveas exactly with the aim the employers
to drive the Negro worker into scabbery,
This program of the employers the strike straegst
must reentessy combat At all costs the Negro workers
must be united with the whites to make common cause
against the expoiters But this only accomplished
by complete suppression of antagonism by loyal
defense of the Negro workers. interests This is easier said
than done,
The whites are stubborn in their preiudces and it is
not surprising that after innumerabe berayas by reac
ony trade union leaders and in view of the oppression
they suffer from the whites all Sides the Negro workers
are suspicious of the most sincere white union lead
ers and slow to hearken their But this is no
nsuperabe Obstacle More and the Negroe workers
are realizing the necessity for trade union organization
The formation recently of the Brotherhood of Railway Port
ers is only sign Of many Negroes splendid strikers
as has been demonstrated time and again in the Miners
and other unions where the whites have given them half
chance to function unioniss
The problem Of uniting them firmly with the white
workers will be accomplished until they are admitted
freely oal the unions until the organized white workers
remove every bar against their securing the better grades
Of work, until they whoeheartedy received by the
struggle for working class emancipation The strike sr-
egst must lose sight Of the problem of the Negro
worker in American industry.
UNEMPLOYED EstPToyEp.
The question Of the unity of the unemployed with the en-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
Observe the Ninth
Birthday of Union
of Soviet Republics
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Continued from page II
bly, in Brooklyn win be the place of a
celebration on November at which
Jay Lovestone, Alexander Trachten-
berg and others will speak. On Sun
day, November 7, two halls. the Cen
trail Opera House and Hunts Point
Palace, will listen to Jay Lovestone,
NJ. Olgin, Ben Gold. William Vein
stone. J. S. Points. S. Zimmerman and
others. At all three meetings musical
numbers will also be featured.
Cleveland Celebration.
In addition to three choruses and
4 mandolin orchestra, soloists will be
part of the program of the Cleveland
celebration on the 7th, at which Ber-
tram D. Wolfe and l. Amster will
speak.
At Pittsburgh the meeting will be
held the evening of November at
Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller street. The
Workers Party. Workmen's Circle arV
the Progressive Club will Jointly spon-
sor the Cincinnati celebration at Odd
Fellows Temple, with Carl Hacker as
speaker. On the same date Stanm-
ford, Conn, will observe the anniver-
sary at Workmen's Circle Hall.
EngdahI Tours.
J. Louis Engdahl will Speak at St.
Louis on November 5, Kansas City on
November 6. at Musicians Hall, and
Omaha, Neb., on November z. The
halls in st, Louis and Omaha are yet
to be announced.
Ben Gitlow and Juliet Stuart Poyntz
will speak in Paterson, N, j., at Car
penter's Helvetia Hall, on Saturday,
November s., Perth Amboy will hold
a celebration on November z,
A partial list of other meetings and
speakers from which word has been
received follows;
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oyed especially during periods of deep industrial depres
son is matter of the most vital consequence in the work
ing out of successful strike strategy The policy the
employers in this respect is simple and brutal They try
to drive wedge between the unemployed the employed
to make the unemployed hungerdrven ready to
take the jobs of the employed when they to strike
in defense of their standards of living.
As usual the reactionary trade union leaders, with
their traditional policy Of abandoning the unemployed to
their Devices assist the employers in using them as
weapon against the employed workers Many strike has
been lost from this cause.
task Of the strike srategist is to unite the unemployed
and the employed in common fight against the employers
But as in the case of many problems of strike strategy
work the solution of this task be long before
the outbreak of particular strike, and before the
development of the industrial crisis with it's vast army
unemployed 1t must be settled policy in the unions
identify the interests of the employed with of the
unemployed There must be whole series of measures
fought for such the shorter worday and workweek
equal division of work. etc. which tends to eliminate the
number Of unemployed
The unions must drop the fight for state relief
for the unemployed And when the industrial
and mass unemployment develops the unemployed must
be organized to fight for relief Their organization must
be saturated with noscab theology, The trade unions
must stay in the closest cooperation with these organiza
tons of the unemployed joining in their demonstrations
and fighting for their demands.
In Great Britain il has been demonstrated how by the
use of this policy, the fight Of the unemployed linked
mp with that Of the employed the army unemployed made
'blackeg proof and the employers thus robbed Of this
great weapon in the class struggle American strike stra
teglsts must not neglect to learn this valuable lesson
1ai2ett ITO be continucd/
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
Big Bankers and Big
Business Celebrate
Prosperity Claims

Dwight w. Morrow of ]. P. Morgan
and company's bank, speaking at the
University of Chicago, declared that
before the end Of next year he ex-
pected the restoration of gold stan
dards in both France and Italy,
At banquet in the Palmer House,
George M. Reynolds of the Continental
and Commercial National bank, said
he used to oppose loans to Europe
when ne thought they would not be
used for constructive purposes" He
thought there had been a change and
now supported loans,
Edward S. Jordan, president of the
Jordan Motor company, at the Uni
versity of Chicago meeting, declaredi
81 think that the most impressive
fact in the last years experience in
business is the fact that the industry
shipped over 100000 automobiles to
foreign countries"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03

Philadelphia, Nov. 5, Ben Gitlow.
Detroit, Nov. Z, Gitlow, at Armory.
Rochester, N. Y, Nov. 5, Bert
Wolfe, at Labor Lyceum.
Akron, o., Nov. 5, Wolfe.
Buffalo, N. Y, John BALKAN, Work
ers' Forum Hall, Nov. 5.
Erie, Pa, Chas. Krumbein, For
ward Hall, Nov. 6.
Toledo, o., Chas. Krumbein.
Canton, o., Nov. 8, Lovett, Fort
Whiteman. 3
South Bend, Ind, Nov. Z, VIM. J..
White, Workers House.
st. Paul, MINI, Max Bedacht,
Nov 6.
Minneapolis, MINI, Max Dedacht,
Finnish Hall, Nov. Z, p. m.
Duluth, Nov. Z, .. m, Bedacht.
Superior, Wis, Nov. 8, 8 D. m.
Bedacht.
Kenosha, Wis, Noe. z. p. M, Ger
man American Home, A. Bittelman.
South Chicago, Nov. Z, s p. m.
1916 Commercial Ave
Milwaukee, Wis. NOV. Z, p. m.
Bittelman. % e
Springfield, al, J. W. tombstone.
Waukegan, Ill, Nov. 6, Harrison
George.
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Continued from page l.
must be prepared to rush to any place
in that tight little isle" where en-
Urgency demands,
Mussolini, of course, wants to keep
the italian navy ready to crush any
revolt against his dictatorship. Every
day he has watched developments i'll
the British struggle for he knows full
well that miners victory would
bring his own defeat by Italy's OUT
ragged workers nearer.
Using italian Ships.
The British and italian navies
placed direct contracts with several
of the largest coal companies in the
United States Mussolini also arranged
for use Of Italian ships to carry coal
from these ports to Britain to help
deliver a smashing blow to the strik-
ing miners.
In July the British admiralty placed
contract for 100000 tons of high
volatile coal for the British navy and
that order has been repeated at last
once since that time.
Early in August the British steamer
Minnie de Larringea came to Norfolk
for coal for the British admiralty. It
was the first time that coal was car
ried from foreign country to supply
the needs of the British Empires
navy.
Coal for British Navy.
Norfolk's newspapers featured this
striking Situation in both their news
and editorial columns, the Ledger
Dispatch" an afternoon newspaper,
running this news item:
THE great British navy is coming
to America for its coal, a thing un'
precedented in its glamorous and
glorious past. The British steamer
Minnie de Larringea, cleared yester-
day for Barry Roads, loaded with a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
DRY SENATOR IN
| ILLINOIS HIT AS
CRAFT CATHEREP

Thu plea of Lowell B. Mason, dry,
STATE senator from Oak Park, that the
government reveal its evidence
against him on a charge of conspiracy
to violate the prohibition law before
his fight for reelection is decided
Tuesday, was granted in federal court.
Mason and Major Percy owen, one
time prohibition administrator Of the
Chicago district, are on trial together.
Taxed $500 Each.
Stone testified that his first connec-
ton with the alleged conspiracy was
made in 1924 when Frank Loveland,
wine dealer whose name has been
brought into the trial repeatedly, com
planned to him that dealers were being
taxed 5000 for each permit on the pre-
tense that the money was to be used
for political purposes. Loveland,
Stone said, was willing to do that, but
had been disturbed by a demand for
$4,000 in lump sum.
II advised him to quit paying out
his money and told him l thought
could get permits for him in legal
way at cost of not more than cents
"a gallon" Stone continued.
The erafters Agree.
''Not long after that Senator Mason
came to my office, asked me what con
nection l had with the prohibition Of
fee and what my practice was. TIC
upshot of our conversation was an
agreement that should look after
the legal end of things while Mason
used his political influence to gain
entree to the prohibition Office"
Stone said that he then interviewed
wine dealers he knew and arranged
with them to get permits at $500 each,
the dealers to get the first shipment
before they paid anything,
Dividing Up.
THE first time went to Masen's
office to divide up | carried $1,000"
the former administrator went on.
Mason had told me that l should not
pay anything cut myself, but that we
would divide it ourselves. Pay day
was to be every Wednesday, and
was to get $50 as my share of each
$500 paid,
The latter two are former prohibit
ton agents who also are under indict-
ment in the alleged conspiracy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
Need Revolution in School System

tional problem is that OF getting a
new mind operative in the adult COM
munity: a mind that will not be so
hostile to the implications of science;
mind that will welcome rational
changes in the basis of facts and honest
Interpretation OF facts. A mind that
will permit intelligence to play thru
industry, and politics, and morality,
thru the processes by which education
either devslopes real mind in child
.instructs."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-03
New Orleans Strike
of Boilermakers Still
Going; Bosses Weaken

NEW ORLEANS, Nov, 1.-FP)-
The boilermskers' strike is still I'M
settled and at the present time it
looks as If the employing interests
are weakening. p. s. Dubus, repre-
senting dozen or more iron found
ries involved officially attended a
meeting of the union and renewed the
offer of so cents an hour for boiler
makers and As cents an hour for
helpers. The union turned down tho
proposition by vote OF 81 to 46,
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dare to face the thought of training
teachers who will have their eyes
turned to the living world-to the
changing, evolving community that is
found about children. We have not
been as intelligent or as realistic in
our dealing with our children as pro-
duction foreman is in dealing with his
raw materials.
Hence, our real American educa-