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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-03
Has American Labor
Revolutionary Traditions?

E1oR decades any sign of militancy
L on the part of the American work
ers has been met with the cry of
Those damned foreigners" Capital
ism and its agents among the labor
bureaucracy has been at great pains to
instill into the minds of the workers
the belief that class consciousness,
class struggle and revolution are essen
TALLY foreign" and un-American, and
that labor's role in this country has
always been what they are trying to
make it today passive appendage
Of the master class and its submissive
slave.
Nothing can be farther from the
reality. AS it robs it Of everything
else, capitalism has robbed labor of a
past that it might be dangerous for 1t
to remember. For despite the fact that
the American labor movement may
have had even more than it's fair
share of yellow leaders" and self
seeking politicians, the American pro-
letariat has history of stubborn and
hSAOAC OIL uSSiC- oOnGllluSS llOT6 COu-
scious, sometimes less conscious-but
always along definite class lines and
for definite class issues-that reaches
far back into the early years of the
republic.
In the course of the last century
thousands of workers in this country
fell fighting as workers and in the
workers cause. Hidden away in yell
lowing newspaper files, in the pages
of musty and forgotten old histories
and in the memories of veteran fight
ers in the class war, are scores of
tales of mass action, of brilliant and
audacious triumphs wrested thru sheer
force of reckless daring and high
hearted courage in the face of over.
whelming odds, of resistance to the
death in the face of defeat, as well as
countless repetitions of the familiar
epic OF solidarity and logged endur.
ance thru months of slow starvation
during lockouts and strikes. And
scores of grim instances, too, that II
Is well for American workers to know
and remember, OF the clubbing and
bloody massacre Of defenseless men
and women and children by federal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-03
1.-THE RAT.v


COME years ago when we were at
~ the tender age of transition from
short pants to long ones, detective sto-
ries kept us up many nights. We
read them in bed and up to the wee
hours of the morning, despite the
watchfulness of our parents to pre-
vent it. We were obliged to burn the
lamp very low (there was no gas or
electric light in the room to avoid
waking the folks, and the dim lights
and creepy shadows in all corners pro-
vided weird background that helped
to raise goose-fiesh all over us.
"The Bat" is just such a movie
story. Tho it did not give up the
thrill of our youth, it was really good
fun. Three distinct plots inter-cross
each other to keep you guessing until
the last minute as to who is "the bat"
the mysterious killer" and thief,
who is finally captured by the clever
detective. There is robbery, murder,
secret doors and secret passages from
which dead bodies drop outI Shad-
ows are played up by clever photog-
raphy; lights go out mysteriously-
you will find all the elements of the
good old hokum that will prove good
fun Cor are you too jaded for such
'nonsense"?) and about which you
will laugh thruout.
Louise Fazenda, coincidence of
pie-throwing comedies of the past,
plays in her old makeup for comedy
relief" of which there is plenty, both
with her characterization of a stupid
maid and that of thick" detective.
Both are ancient burlesque laugh pro-
vokers, but you will find them still
working in good order
We found after seeing this picture
that we still like mystery" stories.
We don't read them any more for lack
of time, but in the movies they still
give US the impression they are not
give you some as well or you can write
US and tell the pop-eyed world what
little we know about movies-which
very likely You may think is plenty.
About ninety per cent of the pic
lures We see, before having seen them
give us the impression they are not
worth seeing. And after we have seen
them the percentage is usually higher.
Mystery stories and comedy, outside
of q few truly worth while films we
ree01 still give US what little pleasure
we can get from the movies.
"The Bat" as a play was a success.
1t looks like one in the movies. And
now you can read it as book as well,
which makes it profitable brain child
for the author. You will likely waste
your time reading the book, but you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-03
"PARIS.n
very dull.

Montmartre is also the scene of
Paris" picture with a fairly foolish
plot, but with good acting and re-
markably beautiful and distinguished
photography. There is a typical
Charles Ray hero, an amiable and Law
ish American millionaire who goes
around exuding dollars and chivalry,
and heaps gifts upon the Apache he
roine in his efforts to win her. He is
rather more foolish even than the law
in these cases allows. But the Apache
girl and her lover, singularly hand
some pair-Crawford is her name,
think-act with fire and intensity
that really carries conviction. The
swift grace of their movements COM
bine with the fine photography to pro-
duce some scenes that are far above
the usual movie level. 1t may be
noted with satisfaction that the lady
turns down the amiable millionaire for
the impecunious and wholly unvirtu-
Gus Apache desperado. A. S.
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A PEEK EACH WEEK
AT MOTION PICTURES

will get lot of good fun out of seeing
the movie. Spooky and weird non
sense, that's true, but worthwhile
diversion if in need of an hours re-
lief after hard days grind of rolling
up profits for your master. w. C.
"KIkI."
Kiki Is a horrible example Of what
happens to French play when it is
sterilized to meet the demands Of
American morality. The heroine is
meant to be an audacious little hoy
den brought up on the streets of Mont
martre; in the original she may have
been a piquant and intriguing char
acter. But since counter to all con-
sistency of both plot and character,
Kiki's technical virtue must be pre-
served intact at all costs until the
marriage ring is safely in sight, the
result is fatuous and vulgar mess.
The manager of the theater from
which Kiki has been fired after being
a chorus girl for night takes her to
his home, after wild drunk in cafe.
He says; "Kiki, have you ever been
kissed?" She replies, looking heaven
ward in starry-eyed innocence: 81
never knew my mother" And SO it
goes.
Despite Kiki's ostentatious and pain
full purity, the part, which has some
good lines, might be tolerably carried
off by one of the many vivacious flap
pers tapping around the movies at the
moment. But, evidently, the star is
the thing, and Norma Talmadge, with
her mature face and figure and heavy
kittenishness, makes it ridiculous and
very dull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-03
I'm Memory
BY JIM WATERS.

remember, a shrek,
A crash of falling walls,
And groans of death.
We dug him out of a snarl
OF broken scaffolding, bleeding and numb,
And laid him on an old door.
He swung his head like top
And talked about Jesus,
His kids and his old woman.
When the doctor came, he was dead.
l remember, six ragged kids
And red-eyed old woman who couldn't CRY
Staring vacantly at the corner as he read
Mike Surrento's death is the will of God"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04

Of the social-democratic party decided
to send Milan Glumac-Jurishich.
Milan Glumac-Jurishich had been
convinced of his success since he
came to America. In 1907 he was in
Pittsburgh. The same year the W.
e. c. was organized in Chicago and
definite preparations had been made
for other cities. In 1908 the c. E. F.
(Croatian Educational Federation
was organized and its official organ
was Observation-Disclosures Straza (The
Workingclass Guard). The editor Of
the paper was Comrade Milan Glumac-
Jurishich. At once he became a leader
Of the Jugo-Slav workers in this coun-
try.
In its first year Radnicka Straza was
issued twice a month in half news
paper size. The next year-1909-
the South Slavic Socialist Federation
was definitely organized and affiliated
to the socialist party of America. In
the meantime. Radnicka Straza be-.
came large weekly paper Qike the
Radnik or The DAILY WORKER now,
in four pages). The socialist move
ment among the workers became a
fact.
Radnicka Straza was born in hard
time. In 1907-10 there was great I'M
employment in this country. Workers
we're hungry and desperate; the ig-
norance of the workers was still
strong; religion, patriotism and gen.
eral backwardness ruled supreme
among the workers. But the activity
of the comrades under the leadership
of Comrade Glumac never ceased.
They were very active. Glumac him
self was editor and printer OF the
paper. He worked for four or I'VE dol
lars a week, with which he had to sup.
port his family and pay expenses for
medicine and doctor (he had tubercu-
losis). Many times he gave money to
hungry comrades. Radnicka Straza,
under his editorship. was a strong
whip in the hands OF the socialists
against the Jugo-Slav priests, business
men. spectators and bourgeois in gen
eral The paper gained daily in in.
fiuence among the masses. Short,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
A Daily Paper of South Slav Workers
THE STORY OF RADNIK

was no capable man who could edit
such paper.
That fact was one more argument
for the necessity OF a workers paper
which would defend their interests.
The Croatian Workers Education
Club Of Pittsburgh finally decided,
first, to secure one good editor from
Europe and, second, to organize a
workers federation on q national
scale. Communication had been es-
tabhshed between c. w. E. C. at Pitts
burgh and the central executive com
mittee of the social-democratic party
in Croatia (part OF which was Aus
tria-Hungary and is now part Of Jugo-
Slavia).
Socialdemocratic leaders such as
they were did not believe in the sue
cess Of the c. W. e. C. In Pittsburgh,
but they did not refuse to send one OF
their capable comrades. To get rid Of
him the central executive committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04

back to Chicago and finally died in
January, 1924.
His successor as editor of Radnicka
Straza was Theodore Cvetkov, at pres
ent a renegade to the Communist
movement. Cvetkov was a pacifst by
soul and an opportunist by political
conceptions. After the death of Gu
mac the fighting spirit of the move
ment declined to great degree.
In 1856 came the discussion and
split in the South Slavic Socialist Fed
Grafton. Two wings were created-a
right-socialpatriotic wing, with Kris
tan and B. Savich at the head, and a
pacifist-opportunist centrist wing with
CVetkov at the head.
In 1917 Radnicka Straza was sup
pressed by the authorities and Nova
Misao New Thought) was issued
After the nrst number Nova Misao
was also suppressed and znanje
(Knowledge) was issued. Znanje was
as large as Radnicka Straza in 1917.
From that time up to 1922 Znan1e
was issued. The editors of 1t were
t. Cvetkov and Geo. Kutuzovich, who
became a renegade to the movement
in 1928. Parallel to the left wing in
the socialist party the left wing move
ment among the South Slavic work
ers developed. The Cvetkovites were
very weak as compared to the infunce
of the left. The Jugo-Slav workers
became class conscious to the degree
that they knew that bolshevism is the
solution for them. During the world
war they passed thru hard expe-
riences; they were attacking the pacfl-
ism Of Cvetkov, the membership were
with Cvetkov because Of his anti-mili-
tarist attitude. But the membership
felt that pacifsm cannot save the
working class from the heel Of i'm
perialism.
The workers passed thru great ex-
periences. The American capitalist
class prosecuted them. Those who
were for the allies V re forced into
the army and forced to contribute
special war donations; those who were
for the central powers (Austria-Hun-
gary and Germany we're threatened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04

sharp, clear and enthusiastic articles
in the paper were swallowed by the
workers Like hot cakes. Organizations
were built In all larger cities Of this
country.
One thing was characteristic OF
Radnicka Straza during the editorship
of Milan Glumac-the writings of the
paper were not fully in the spirit of
the socialist party. Glumac said many
timesS "The socialist party is too soft
for the capitalist class and its agents."
He was a left socialist in spirit and
conceptions of struggle against the
capitalists.
Until 1919 the South Slav Socialist
Federation grew numerically and the
subscriptions increased to 1900.
Nevertheless the sickness of Com
rade Glumac forced him first to a
farm, then to California, where he
could not remain because he was iso-
lated from the movement. He came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-04
Real Estate
BY HERsHELL BEK.

Men who go by the name of brokers'
on the corners of Main Street,
in offices with "ReaI Estate"
written in gold on the plate glass windows
Bargain and barter in slices of earth,
And the slices pass from hand to hand,
And each soft hand takes an easy rake-off
of so many dollars of easy gain.
And grimy miner,
And steel worker
After hard days work,
Go home along Main Street,
To their flats in tenement house,
And they ask themselves questions,
"Why is the rent so high?"
"And where is the rent to come from?"
And the wind whistles answers in the
night, M III
Answers they cannot understand,
And men who go by the of brokers'
Keep on buying and selling slices Of earth,
And each soft hand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04
DIR. Willard A. Paul

Word was received in Skowhegan,
Friday forenoon, by relatives, of the
death of DIR. Willard A. Paul, who
died that morning at his home In
Weston, Mass. DIR. Paul was born
in Scion and was the son of Daniel
and Mary Hobart Paul and would
have been 60 years of age next July.
He was one of five sons, four of
whom were medical men, inheriting
their ability and liking for the medi-
cal profession from their mothers
father, DR.. Daniel Hobart, who in his
day was country practitioner, In
Scion and that section of Somerset
county. DR.. Paul is the last men,
Der of his family. His wife, who
was Jennie Stevens of Wiscassett,
died about six years ago. DIR. Paul's
preparatory education was received
at kent's Hill. where the romance
which led to his marriage took place.
DR.. Paul received his medical train
ing In Chicago. Ill. He was not only
successful in his chosen profession
but was also an author of some note
end was a member of the Boston
Authors Club. the Twentieth Cen
fury Club of Boston, the Boston City
Club, the Pudding Stone Club of
Boston University. He was widely
known In the vicinity of Boston and
greatly beloved by a large circle of
acquaintances and friends, DR.. Paul
was a cousin OF Willis c. Hobart,
Skowhegan's clerk and tax collector,
d. Is. Hobart and George w. Hobart,
all CT Skowhegan, and leaves other
relatives in this county. The funeral
service will be held Sunday after
noon at 2:30 at the Forrest Hill Gre
matory and the remains will eventu-
ally be inferred beside those of his
wife IN Wiscasset. ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04
CHURCH NOTICES

CENTENARY METHODIST, Rev.
Herbert l.. Nichols, pastor: 1870,
sermon by pastor, excellent music by
choir; II. Bible school: 6 p. NJ, de-
votional service of Epworth League;
evening service at z; Mrs. Nichols
will read. Mid-week service at 100
Thursday evening.
FEDERATED 1890, Ernest Mar
riner, librarian at Colby college, will
speak: kindergarten, directed by
Mrs. Edward +. Merrill: u, church
school: 6 p. NJ, meeting of Christian
Endeavor Society. There will be no
Sunday evening or mid-week service.
NOTRE DAME DE LOURDES,
Rev. Father J.SLouis A. Ranaud,
pastor: Low mass at 8 o'clock with
sermon by pastor, music by children.
High mass at 10 o'clock. sermon by
pastor and music by st. Mary's
choir.
SALVATION ARMY, Dora Pickup.
captain: Sunday school at 10 a. M;
afternoon service at o'clock: eve
ming service at s: Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday evenings at o'clock.
BETHANY BAPTIST, Rev. Geo.
Merriam, d. D., pastor: 1890. SER
mon by pastor; special music; Phil
atheas attend in body: II, Bible
school: + p. NJ, meeting of Christian
Endeavor Society: p. NJ, evening
service with sermon by pastor: mid
week service at 1880 Thursday eve
ming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04
Modern Pictures
Shown In Chicago
POOrhOuse

Chicago. Dec. 9-(P)-"Over the
Hlils to the Poorhouse" is not so pa
tnetc a Journey nowadays as when
WIN Carleton wrote his poem on
the degradation of the INDECENT.
An example Of the modern styIe
of eleemosynary institution is Oak
Forest, which cares for the destitute
OF Chicago. This home for old people
Is situated in a beautiful park with
a 5O0-acre farm around 1t. For the
care of nearly 5000 inmates annually
there are GO brick and concrete
buildings. a school house for tuber-
cular children and many farm build
ingS.
Proper disqualification is provided
in separate buildings, fresh foods are
furnished by the farms and whole
some bread is baked in an electric
oven.
There are seven miles of corridors
flooded with sunshine and fresh air,
While the park is provided with foli-
aged lanes, trellissed bowers and
enforested lounges.
To avoid the irk of idleness. work
is provided in industrial shops for
those not strong enough to labor on
the farms. These shops and the
farms produced $4,000 worth of
products in 1925.
All varieties of entertainment are
provided. But the l,indest pro-
vision is the row of cottages where
impoverished married pairs may
keep house and preserve domestic
ties in spite of adversely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04

The annual inspection of the work
of Somerset Fortress No. was held
at l. o. o. F. hall Thursday evening,
when the degree work was put on
for the inspection Of Mrs. Gwendolyn
S. Jordan, Department President of
Portland, who highly complimented
the officers for their excellent work.
The following officers were elected
by the Fortress Thursday night to
serve for 1927: president. Mrs. Angie
B. Steward; vice president, Mrs. In
ga Dyer; secretary, Mrs. Emma B.
Inns, who has served in a most ac-
ceptable manner as the treasurer is
unable to continue the work, Mrs.
Elva w. Green was elected treasurer.
Interesting remarks for the good of
the order were made by the guest of
honor, Mrs. Jordan. No supper was
served by the Fortress as is the GUS
tom at each monthly meeting be-
cause on Friday evening they served
Che supper for the Odd Fellows who
were to dedicate their new hall. At
ter the Fortress meeting Canton
Somerset No. 26 held its meeting at
which time the following officers
were elected: captain, Ivan Dyer;
lieutenant, Chester Hodgdon; clerk,
Ernest Rowell; accountant, Perley G.
Withee; ensign to be elected later.
1t is now planned to hold a joint
installation Of the Cantons and Fort
ress officers at the next meeting
which Is to occur on Thursday eve
ming, Jan. 8, when supper will be
served by the Fortress ladies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-04
japanese Have
New Factory Laws

The most important of the new
Japanese legislative measures which
have been in effect since July 1. is
the cancellation of article II, says
the Washington Star. The change
will have the effect of virtually
legalizing collective movements and
agitation of peaceful character by
the laboring class. The factory law,
enacted years ago but held in abey-
ance because of opposition by the
employer class, went into effect with
the new mining, the labor age and
the health insurance laws, all of
which are intended to benefit. the
working people and the labor dis
pute arbitation law designed to
avoid, as far as possible, waste of
energy, money, and time, both for
capital and labor. Important also
are the changes in laws governing
municipal and prefectural elections
and the abolition of the "gun," or
county offices which is calculated to
simplify the working of local self
governing bodies.
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Attempt Made To
Forecast Rust Attacks

Washington, Dec. 2-(P)-Agri-
culture scientists here are waiting
with interest the outcome of expert
ments conducted by their agents,
Oklahoma state authorities and
Army Air corps fliers, with a view
to finding some effective means of
resisting rust spore attacks upon
crops.
While the field experiments were
under way army aircraft were sent
out daily from Fort Sill, Okla, to
search the air for rust spores. They
fished elevations from 1000 to 5000
feet, using glass plates covered with
sticky substances with which to
hook the spores. Milk bottles were
used for game bags and as the
plates picked up the germs or
organisms they were placed in the
bottle containers and tightly sealed.
Oklahoma state and federal agri-
cultural experts have been supplied
with spores caught by the air pilots
and are trying to solve the rust
problem for the farmers. Mem
oranda were attached to each bottle
of spores turned over by the aviators
to the scientists which gave in
formation regarding the altitude,
time, wind direction and rainfall
data, prevailing at the time the
spores were caught.
The studies now in progress are
expected to give the scientists
formulate by which they can predict
the coming of rust attacks, par
ticularly upon wheat and oat fields,
even if they fail to work out of the
data they have system of defend
ing agriculture from that destructive
pest.
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Annual Meeting. of
Red Cross CHAPTER

The annual meeting of the Show
hogan Chapter of the American Red
Cross was held at the office of the
Red Cross School nurse, Miss Alice
r. Parker. Thursday afternoon at 4
o'clock with the retiring chairman,
Walter H. Hight. presiding and at
which time the following officers and
committees were elected to serve for
1927: Chairman, Elmer +. Harris;
vice chairman, Mrs. Florence Waugh
Danforth: secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Vivian G. Woodbury.: nursing
committee, Mrs. Danforth, Mrs. Mol
lie Greenway, Mrs. Celeste Roullard,
Miss Hannah r. Page, Miss Gertrude
S. Weston and W. b. Woodbury., su-
perintendent of the Skowhegan-
Madison schools: Executive which
includes the members of the nursing
committee, Walter H. Hight, Mrs.
Eva r. Greenwood. Mrs. Vivian G..
Woodbury.. Rev. FIR. ]. Louis A. Re-
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proceeding Christmas which wiz be
arranged and carried out by Mrs.
Lord and assistants A Christmas
tree with exercises will be held for
the entire Sunday school on Friday
evening, Christmas eve. At the
meeting Thursday evening it was
voted to have progra mat the tree
celebration and to ask the young
ladies Of the class of Miss Fo-'lene
Decker with Miss Decker acting as
chairman, to have charge of the pro-
gram and to request Mrs. Nora r..
Lancaster, president of the Ella F.
Mitchell Philathea c'"~~ to select
ladies' from the class to decorate the
tree, to get tree committee. Charles
Cleveland and Henry Hoyt. A further
observance of Christmas at the Be-
thany church will be Christmas pa
geant given on SUNDAY evening for
lowing Christmas, under the direction
of Mrs. Pauline B. Green and Mrs.
Kate w. Turner.