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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Six Commune Meetings
in Minnesota District
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)


MINNEAPOLIS, March II. The
international labor defense meetings
TO celebrate the Paris Commune in
District No. will be held on the
following dates in these cities:
Sunday, March Il. p. M. Chisholm.
Mimi.
Sunday, March Fl, p. M, Hibbing,
MINI.
Monday, March %, 8 p. M, Duluth,
Mimi.
Tuesday, March 20, p. M. Superior,
Wise.
The speaker at all of these meetings
will be T. r. Sullivan of Minneapolis.
Similar meetings will be held at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the 21st at p. m.
at Commonwealth Hall, 435 Rice
street.
The meeting for Minneapolis will
be held on Thursday, March rs, at
D. m. at the Labor Lyceum, 1425 Sixth
avenue North.
At all of these meetings there will
be musical number and other inter
esting features suitable to the observ-
ance of the anniversary Of the Paris
Commune.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Soviet Union Plans
to Raise Sunken Ships
Especial to The Daily workerl

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r. (Tass), March
17.--During the great war and the
civil war in Russia numerous wnr and
merchant vessels we're sunk off the
coast of the Black Sea. The sub
merged vessels and their cargoes, IL
they have remained unchanged, rep
resent quite a respectable amount OF
wealth, certainly large enough TO make
1t worth while to endeayor to raise
them.
AT the end OF 1923 the Soviet Gov
eminent provided the means for the
equipment OF what is known as "the
special submarine works expedition"
for the purpose OF undertaking the
raising OF the sunken vessels.
Since 1t commenced operations two
years ago the expedition has raised
the submarine Pelican, the 10000
ton steamer "Elborus," the torpedo
boat California" and a number OF
smaller vessels. The expedition is
also engaged In locating and saving
the vessels that we're sunk during the
crimean War OF 1856. some OF which
are said to have carried money for
he payment OF the troops Among
he ships located and upon which op.
rations have commenced ia the IA
nous BLACK Prince"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Ask Investigation
by u. S. Into Death
of Ex-Exalted Elk
Especial to The Daily Worker

ASPcCldt 10 fUS Adii1 VoTNcTy
LOS ANGELES, March 17.-Wash-
ington officials will be asked to in
vestigate the death of Carl Reynolds
of Huntington Park, a Los Angeles
suburb, Chief of Police Williams of
Huntington Park, declared today.
Reynolds was al former exalted ruler
of the Elks lodge of Syracuse, N. Y.
Williams declares that Reynolds
came to his death Monday as a result
of mistreatment following his arrest
by Mexican police officials at Tia
Juana, Mexico.o
According tot the police chief, Rey.
nolds was arrested while returning to
the Mexican border with his wife and
party of friends from the Tia Juana
racetrack after the Reynolds car had
collided with another machine. VIII
liams disbelieves the statements of
the Mexican police officials that Rey-
nolds died of alcoholism.
Hold Chauffeur.
The Mexican authorities, the chief
said, stated that Reynolds died in a
Tia Juana hotel. No mention was
made of the fact that he had been ar
rested with man named Joe Brown,
acting as his chauffeur. Brown, it
was said, was still held in the Tia
Juana jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Missionaries Insist
on Right of Teaching
Religion in Schools
Especial to The Daily Worker

NSPecidi 10 ne Daiiy Workerl
SHANGHAI, March 1.-THE China
Christian Educational Association is
trying to register the Christian
schools in the country with the gov
eminent bureau of education, as pro-
vided in the Chinese national regula-
tions. AS this law requires that re-
ligious instruction shall be non-com-
pulsory serious conflict has arisen.
The missionaries state their will
ingness to register their schools but
insist on their right to enforce obliga-
tory attendance at the classes on
Christian religion, pointing out that
their financial support from the Unit
ed States is based upon precisely
such teaching. The government, on
the other hand, states that by decree
it will make graduates Of schools en-
forcing religious instruction ineligible
for government positions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Al Smith Works Up
All-American Canal
AS Campaign Slogan
Especial to The Daily wOrksr)

ALBANY, N. Y, March II = Gov
ernor AL Smiths yelled attack on
President Coolidge over the all-Amer-
lean ship canal from the Great Lakes
to the Atlantic is regarded by repub-
licans at the state capitol as a major
move in the game being played by the
governor to win the democratic presi-
Dental nomination in 1928.
The President has been represented
as having an open mind" on the all
American canal.
IAN open Mind"
In letter which the governor sent
today to New York states represent
atives in congress, he declared that
"In my consideration of this subject,
that phrase so convenient to the vacil-
lating, an open mind has no place"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
INTRODUCE BILL
TO LIMIT SCOPE
OF INJUNCTION
To Allow Workers to
Picket Shops

NEWARK, N. J., March IA bill
has been introduced in the New Jersey
senate which would make it impos-
sible for any judge to issue an in
junction against strikers picketing a
shop. The following bill also pro-
vides that any acts that are on the
statute books that are inconsistent
with the provisions Of the proposed
bill are to be considered repealed:
mo restraining order or writ of in
junction shall be granted or issued
out of any court Of this state in any
case involving or growing out Of a
dispute concerning terms or condi-
lions of employment, enioining any
person or persons, either singly or in
concert, from terminating any relation
of employment, or from ceasing to
perform any work or labor, or from
peaceabiy, and without threats or in
timidation recommending, advising or
persuading others to do so; or from
peaceably and without threats or in
timidation being upon any public
street or highway or thorofare for the
purpose of obtaining or communicate
ing information, or to peaceably and
without threats or intimidation per-
suade any person or persons to work
or abstain from working, or to employ
or cease to employ any party to a la
Dor dispute, or to peaceably and with
Out threats or intimidation recon-
mend, advise or persuade others so
to do.
"All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
FINE MOVIES
OBTAINED FOR
COMMUNE NIGHT
Drama, Pictures, Songs
of Labor Struggle

Pictures seldom seen in a capitalist
movie" show, scenes from the picket
line, clashes between soldiers and the
workers, events of European workers
persecution, stories from recent Am
erican labor history, such pictures
will be shown for the first time in
Chicago Friday night, March 10, at
Ashland Blvd. Auditorium as part of
the splendid program prepared for the
Paris Commune memorial meeting,
A special feature will be photoplays
which reproduce stirring events of
French revolutionary times,
1.-THE Last Day of the Commune" a
one-act drama translated from the
Russian, will be realistically staged,
with barricaded Paris street as the
setting. No effort has been spared by
the actors and their director, Ivan
Sokoloff, to make this act represent
alive Of the period Of the Commune in
the days of 1871.
Other episodes of workers life as
set to music will be the prison songs.
to be given by group Of Russian
singers. The Lettish orchestra will
play several numbers.
Speakers OF the evening are to be
Bishop VIM. Montgomery Brown,
Ralph Chaplin, Robert Minor, ]. w.
tombstone, M. ]. Loeb, Ida Rothstein
and Corienne Robinson.
Tickets are now on sale at the
/. L. d. Office, local Chicago, for rs
cents; also at The DAILY WORKER,
the Radical Book Store, Walden's etc.
Admission at the door will be 30
cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
To Celebrate Paris
Commune in New York

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE les
sons Of the Paris Commune and their
meaning to the American working
class will be taken up at Central OPP
era House on Friday night, March
10, by Comrades Olgin, Gitlow and
lack with William w. Weinstone as
chairman. Harry Fox will tell the
meaning of the lessons of the Paris
Commune to the young workers.
An exceptional musical program in
cludes songs by Anna Royek, dram
attic soprano; selections on a French
horn by A. Jagutlxin, soloist of the
New York Symphony Orchestra; Rus
sian folk songs by Blanche Blum and
Minnie Bleckschmidt with Lydia
Mason as accompanist. An unusual
feature of the program will be chill
dren's symphony orchestra of SO with
H. Kassel as director.
The meeting is held under the aus
pieces of the International Labor De
tense, which, in the spirit of the Com
mune, protects the workers. regard.
less of race, creed or afflliation, that
are victims of the class state and by
protecting the workers vanguard pro
tects their revolutionary efforts as
we'll.
Admission is 80 cents at the door
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Literature and Revolution

till the middle of the nineteenth cen
fury.
In the middle Of the century the
publication of Darwin's Origin of
Species" precipitated crisis in
human thought. But all the fuss was
not actually about biology. It was
really about capitalism. Darwin's
theory that biological progress was
due to the determination Of the unfit
lin a struggle for existence thru long
ages, was taken as a justification of
merciless competition in the economic
world. The laws of capitalist MAN
chesterian) economics had apparently
been discovered to be the laws of the
universe. But men did not want to
believe this. But, tho they did not
dare believe in revolution, they took
some comfort in believing in god
whose laws were higher than those of
capitalist economics, and who could
change things If he wanted to! The
inability to accept this social analogue
of Darwinism, on the one hand, or to
disprove its validity on the other.
made the literature of the next four
decades an endless and exhausting
debate. Men were afraid to believe
in the only solution of that debate
revolution. The result was kind of
universal spiritual exhaustion.
The literary men began to turn
away from the actual world. The
period of the Ivory Tower-of art for
arts sake had begun.
At the same time the preliminary
tremors of impending revolution
awoke part of the intelligentsia, and
revolutionary writer's began to ap-
pear in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century.
At this point occurs the world war
and the Russian revolution. The
world war produces in the intelli-
gentsia a state of profound discour-
agement and cynieism. The Ivory
Tower is rebuilt again for weary souls.
Literature has as its argument that
the world is chaos, and that there is
nothing to be done about It. This,
the period we are now in, may be
characterized as suffering from intel
lectual shell shock. Under these cir
cumstances the Russian revolution
means very little to them. They are
afraid totbelieve in it-afraid of being
disillusioned and hurt once more.
A period Of proletarian and revolu-
tionary criticism is needed to destroy
the prestige of the characteristic lit
erature of this period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Chicago Teachers
Oppose lingo Moves

Education for peace rather than for
war is the unqualified demand for the
teacher unions Of Chicago in reply to
the lingo resolutions OF the board of
education. The two unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor thru the American Federation of
Teachers want their kind OF training
carried on by means Of education and
sports rather than military training
and by teaching the truth about tn
causes of war and its consequences.
They also want the prevention 0
legislative measures that tend e
restrict truthful teaching In the socia
and natural sciences"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATIONS
Cleveland to Hold Bazaar.

CLEVELAND March 1.-THE Cleve-
land International Labor Defense will
hold its annual bazaar and dance on
Sunday, March 81, at Moose Hall, 1000
Walnut St., in celebration of the an
niversary Of the Paris Commune.
This will be unique occasion and
it is believed that a thousand people
anticipating the splendid program that
has been arranged, will pack the hall.
There will be several fine musical
numbers by well-known singing So
cieties and a speech by Walter Trum-
bull.
The Cleveland Workers Drama
League will present by special request
the one-aet pantomime entitled "The
International" under the direction of
Sadie Amter, well known in New
York and Cleveland for her talents in
the theatrical field.
The settings for this piece were
made by Tillen and Feldman, league
stage carpenters and represent stark
factories against glowing red sky.
Supper will be served in the COM
Portable hall downstairs and the eve
ming will be devoted to dancing.
No one who enjoys good time, fine
music, supper and dancing can afford
to miss an hour of this big entertain
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Judge S cts Date for
Determining How Much
Len Small Owes State
Especial to The Daily workerl


SPRINGFIELD, H., March 16-
What amount Governor Len Small
owes the state of Illinois will be de
cided at a hearing to be started on
May IL before Master in Chancery
Charles Briggle.
The cases against the governor, in
volving interest on state funds han
died while Small was state treasurer
in 1915 and 1917 were reinstated in
Sangamon county circuit court today
by Judge Frank Burton and were sent
to the master in chancery for hear
ing. Attorneys for both sides ap
peared in court this morning and
Assistant Attorney General Charles
Hadley, Wheaton, asked for the rein
statement presenting an order to that
effect, which Judge Burton signed.
No argument ensued over the i'm
mediate redocketing Of the case.
Set Date for Hearing.
With signing of the order, and fl.
ing Of the Today notice of application
for that action furnished by the attor-
ney general to the defense and a Ger.
titled copy of the supreme courts af-
firmation of the case, Governor Len
Small, who was present with his son.
in-law Col. A. E. Inglish, went into
conference with his attorneys. May
10 was agreed upon as the time for
the opening of hearings before Brig.
gle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Stewart-Warner Firm
Fires Two Workers for
Resisting Wage Cuts

Two workers were fred at the
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corpora
ton Fullerton Ave. plant when they
went to the Office at the head of a
delegation of workers to protest
against the wage cuts that had been
posted on the shop bulletin board to
take effect in the grinding room.
This company is a notorious open
shop combine and is now attempting
a wage-slashing campaign.
When the company posted notice
of reduction in the grinding room,
the workers tho unorganized, sent
several of their number to the office to
demand the former scale of prices and
that the company stop its wage slash
ing.
The company officials then fired two
workers who were considered the
leaders. The DAILY WORKER called
up the Fullerton Ave. plant and asked
why the two had been fired. The boss
that answered the telephone declared
that the two had been fired because
they had started a fight in the
shop"
"ln the revolution he who has the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Lecture at /. |. 0. Meet.

"The U. S. Army from George Wash
ington to Crouch and Trumbull" Is
the interesting subject that will be
covered by Manuel Gomez, secretary
of the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League at the next meeting Of the
Irving Park branch |. l.. d. The meet.
ing takes place Thursday, March 49,
at 1921 Drake avenue at s p. m,
All members of the branch should
attend this meeting. All sympathiz.
ers are welcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Farmer-Laborite of
Minnesota Loses In
Senatorial Contest
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, March 17-An un.
animous report, recommending dis
missal of the contest brot against
Senator Thomas d. Schall, republican,
of Minnesota, by former Senator Mag
nus Johnson, farmer-laborite will be
adopted by the senate elections sub
committee which investigated the
charges, Senator Deneen, republican,
Of Illinois, chairman, announced this
afternoon.
The subcommittee met this after.
noon to agree upon the final draft OF
the report. 1t will be ready for pre-
sentation to the full committee by
Thursday. "The subcommittee is
agreed that the charges against
Senator Schall should be dismissed,
said Deneen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

against reduction of wages or extern
sion of hours. The entire union move
ment has backed them.
Class Collaboration Scheme.
The commission recommends that
the subsidy which maintained the
status quo since August 1925 be dis
continued. 1t favors naturalization
of coal deposits but opposes national
ization of operation. It approves the
demand for reorganization of the in
dustry to secure greater efficiency, in
GLIDING application of science to the
mining Of coal, amalgamation in both
the producing and distributing
branches, closer combination of min
ing with allied industries, and fuller
partnership between employers and
employees. First impressions suggest
that the commission is attempting a
way out thru something like the Amer.
lean B and o cooperation plan.
Threaten National Lockout.
The British metal trades crisis is
almost as serious. Altho precipitated
by dispute involving 900 workers in
the Hoe and company printing press
plant it really comes as the result of
the breakdown of national negotia-
tions extending over years. The
metal trades employer federation an
nounces that any action looking to-
ward higher wages, whether national
local or sectional, will be met by a
national lockout.
The long negotiations broke down
Jan. 28 over demands for general
increase of $4.S6 a week. The negotie
ions have been marked by delay, dead
locks, government Intervention, and
counter demands by the employers for
longer hours.
The Hoe and company dispute which
may prove the spark resulted from an
attempt to secure locally the advance
which the employer association refus
ed nationally A similar attempt is be
ing made in Lancashire. While the
negotiations were in progress the com
pany employed seven nonunion work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Los Angeles Demonstrates.

LOS ANGELES, March 17.--Los
Angeles local of the International La
Dor Defense will hold its Paris Com
mune celebration at the Music-Arts
Hall, 1913 South Broadway, Sunday
afternoon, March 2S. There will be
speakers, an excellent musical pro.
gram and a spectacular drama Of the
last days OF the Paris Commune. A
diamond ring will be given away at
the meeting to the one holding a
lucky number.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

combined with aristocrats Of the rest
of the world and killed tens of thou
sands Of the working men and women
and children. Workers blood was
spilled like water and with this mas
sacre the dream OF the French prole-
tariat was over.
Instead Of system where the work
ers would get the full benefit of their
labor, thousands of the murdered
workers were dumped into mass
graves. And from 1871 until 1917 the
aristocrats of the world reveled in
the glory of the downfall of the Paris
Commune. But the fire that was
started and was smothered in 1871
left many embers and in 1917 they
blazed up in the domain of the czar
of Russia and czarism Of Russia was
completely abolished. All power was
taken over by the workers.
Once more the plutocrats Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

ers. The employees struck on the job
T. force the employment Of trade union
members instead. The company an
swered with a lockout, in effect since
Jan. 10. The metal trades employer
federation serves notice on the unions
that unless they get the Hoe employees
back to work Immediately there will
BE- a national lockout.
Skilled metal trades mechanics earn
between $12 and SIS a week. More
than 100000 are unemployed.
Move Toward Collaboration.
British railroad employees and ship
yard workers have temporarily avoid
ed similar crises. Altho the railroad
workers by a small majority voted
against accepting the award of the
national wages board the delegate con-
ference of the National Union of Rail-
waymen voted II to SO against a
strike. The award continues existing
wage rates for all now on the payrolls
but permits lower rate to those sub
sequently hired.
The shipyard workers by a four to
one vote agree to new machinery for
avoiding disputes. The scheme, which
covers all questions except wages, sets
up joint conferences which in case OF
failure to agree may eliminate in
either arbitration or Cancellation.
SAY It with your pen In the worker
correspondent page Of The DAILY
WORKER"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Kansas City Celebrates.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March H. =
Kansas City local of the international
Labor Defense is holding a meeting
to celebrate the Paris Commune on
Sunday evening, March 21, at 1880
o'clock at the Musicians Hall, 1017
Washington street.
One speaker will lecture on the
Paris Commune and another will talk
on "Labor's Fight For Justice"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Bundesen Turns Down paIrvmen,

Health Commissioner Bundesen re-
fused to postpone enforcement OF the
pure-milk ordinance on April / after
the board of supervisors OF Lake
county officially petitioned him to
give the dairymen OF their section
more time in which to get rid OF dis
eased cattle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
BRITISH COAL COMMISSION OFFERS
MINERS CLASS COLLABORATION PLAN
BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

The British industrial
million
determine of
ds basis for recognizing the industry without
Probably the biggest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
- MGN6W G6y2gNg0N9gNGg -
9z@R woREER eoRRESDoNDENE5 ) OF -
This Weeks Prizes!

First PrizeAn original DAILY WORKER by the
noted American Communist Minor Lydia
Gibson.
Second Prize"soclaI History" by NJ.
slmons New edition just issued International Publishers
book gives the best economic Interpretation the origin
the nation.
Third PreLncoIn Labor and Slavery by Herman sehuete
the only book Lincoln from revolutionary standpoint
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Chicago Workers Demonstrate.

Chicago will hold a Paris Commune
celebration at the Ashland Auditorium
Ashland Ave. and Van Buren, on Fri
day evening, March 10 at 5 o'clock
with Bishop William Montgomery
Brown, Robert Minor, editor of the
New DAILY WORKER Magazine, j.
w. tombstone and others speaking.
There will also be special moving pic
lures of the class-war prisoners aid
in Europe and America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
THE PARIS COMMUNE OF 1871
AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
By N. PERRIN, Worker Correspondent.

Fiydve 49, working
Of Paris rebellion established
tried to abolish the French tocracy lived
and blood the working population
representatives tried
the life like aristocracy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

"Trade unions are the reservoir O.,
the maIorItytpf the socially decisive
part of tho pssoIetarlat."--o. I. Thesis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

world united and tried to crush the
workers as they had done in the Paris
Commune. But this time they did not
succeed in spite of their blockade, and
their armies under the capitalist gen.
erals, Wrangel, Udenitch, Petlura,
Simonoff, Koltchak and others. The
Workers Soviet Republic had come to
stay and no capitalist power in the
world could crush 1t.
The Soviet Republic is star that
lights the way for every worker in
the world and it will always light the
way to their emancipation, the cause
for which our forefathers of the Paris
Commune gave their lives.
Why a worker correspondent Why
not? Is there nothing of interest hap
pening around you? Write It up and
send 1t in!