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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24


ing parties are both of Dexter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Everett of
Exeter and Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Everett and daughters. Olive and
Heel of Washburn We're Sunday
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah Ever
EFT on Prospect street.
Governor Ralph o. Brewster and
Col. Charles f. Dustin were over
night guests Monday of the Cover
nor's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
f. Brewster on lions Hill. The
Governors party left this morning
for their whirlwind tour of Piscata-
quis county.
Mr., and Mrs. Harold D. Small and
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren K. Penley were
Sunday guests of Hon, and Mrs. Ar
thur A. Crafts at Squaw Mountain
Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindell Chadboufne
of Bath were week end guests OF
relatives and friends in town.
The members of the Boneka CUR
will Journey to Lakewood tonight
where they . will attend the Lake
wood Theatre.
Mrs. Alvah Everett is in Bangor
this week with Mr.. Everett who is
employed in the Queen City in the
interests of the Trask Industries Inc
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Seavey and
children were in Greenville, Sun
day.
A. l.. Blanchard Of Oakland, CAL
is passing a few days in town, the
guest of his cousin, Peter Amos Abb
bolt on Forest street On Saturday
Mr.. Abbott entertained Edward
Blanchard of Old Town at his home
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Dudley were
Sunday callers in East Sangerville
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram
Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Galen Ramsay and
daughter, are enjoying a motor trip
through the White Mountains and
Massachusetts
Mrs. Inez Blaisdell and children OF
Portland are passing their annual
vacation at their cottage at Wal
deim.
Arthur Covell Is passing a week
with relatives in Dover-FoXcroft.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Mrs, S. L. Gray and daughter
1rH1abeth of Nashua, n. H, are the
uests of Mrs. Gray's sister, Mrs.
katherine Gray, for a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

| n, and Mrs. R. D. Palmer and
,."rhter Frances were Sunday Wis
..-s az Morrison Heights.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

/ The Misses Jessie and Jennie Pur-
He'll Of Massachusetts, are visiting
|feir sister, Marion Purcell in this
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Miss Gertrude E. Frye Of this city
M Monday for a short business trip
n Buehill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Arville Redman CT
Newport, r. l., passed the weekend
N the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
[Raiman. School street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Mr. and Mrs. Grin Farnham and
| M and Mrs. Fred Fuller of this city
we're Sunday visitors a Ptemaquid.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

L urs Victoria LeClair is passing
~ week in Boston on a business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24
LOCAL NOTICE
aug12dtf

good assortment Of new fall
Fseys and new rayotwills, silk and
.,nVOd materials now showing at
,a.tnerine Grays new Dress Shop,
W. Water. aug21-24
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Horace Bent of Monmouth was
Monday business visitor in this city
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

~. katherine Mainini of Milford,
Mass, Is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John
r,rrio. Water street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Alton Hussey of NassaHsoro was 4
business visitor in this city Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

charles Norton Of South China
vas business visitor in this city
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

n vrs Kenneth Brown of Madison is
II listing her friend, Miss Melissa
srratt. Gannett street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

vrs Eben Foster Of Palermo is
-,.iting her daughter, Mrs. Elvin
s"-ner, Gannett street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brewster and
family passed Sunday at Fort Knox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spike" Barrows
were among those at Moosehead
Lake, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Champion
were guests Sunday of relatives in
Corinna.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

" c. HAYES of this city was a
hsness visitor in Fairfield. Satur-
fav
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

u,r,and Turner has returned to
So home in this city after passing a
TN with relatives in Palermo.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

,uss Marion Goldberg has gone to
,.utasket Beach, Mass. for a two
.ssks' stay with relatives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Ernest Hardy is enjoying a vaca-
son from his duties at the Labreck
.,5 Lishness store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

r.-non A. Soule of New York
s is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
.H A. Soule, Melville street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

4 NJ and Mrs. Adelard Cote passed
srndav in Lewiston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Mrs. Florence Braley and Miss
,.Sel Batchelder are passing a short
.r,e in Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

9 Finley of Palermo was call
IN the city Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

,c.s Cora Reynolds passed the
lend in Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

| ,obn Fuller of Ashland. Oregon. Is
,.inc relatives in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-24

Emery-O'DelI
Mrs. Martha E. ODell and Charles
H. Emery were married August II
at the Free Baptist parsonage by
Rev. j. L. Sanders. The contract
ing parties are both of Dexter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13

In the industry The actual legislative business Of the
conference could have transacted had been minded
In 10 minutes in committee But advertised the confer
so widely that the workers Of all the industry had
their. eyes focused upon It, 1t dramazed their hopes
and aspirations In the struggle 1t had splendid organ
lzing effect.
STIRRING MASSES
Likewise, when came to decide the question Of
strike which could also have done IN committed
did 1t dramatically by taking spectacular strike
vote all the country This exercised enormous
effect In acquainng the steel workers with what going
on and in rallying them into the struggle.
Just another example from the 1917 campaign to
organize the packing workers. The campaign in It's early
stages had to halt It threatened to collapse The
workers. discouraged from long years of oppression and
union mseadershp refused to respond to ordinary organ
LING methods They wanted definite sign from us that
we had some power and that we meant business
We sensed this, and In response announced the holding
Of national conference of packing house workers In the
future to formulate demands to BIO presented TO the
packers This blazoned In the capitalist press
presaglng national general strike in the industry The
effect upon the workers Of this dramatic maneuver
electrical They poured into the unions In Of hous-
ands II the turning point the thing that made this
historic campaign a This also good example
of effective offensive tactics
Strike dramatsation, when silfuliy carried out and
not Of character which merely provokes capitalist counter
attacks, ~ highly beneficial In many ways IL enormously
stimulates the morale of the strikers 1t tends taFay
masses Of other workers to support the strike morally
financially and otherwise by making tho class character Of
the sge stand out In graphic ciearness It often checks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13

fighters among the workers The left wing will do we'll
in the organization Of its pickeng beware of employing
professional gangsters The right wing leadership has
thoroy discredited this system The gangsers only
tend to in and capture the unions after the strike is
but they poison it the heart with pres
ence They are constant source of corruption,
The legal committee is also essential but the wing
must always be careful to hold the lawyers in check They
have rather fatal habit they engaged Of trying
to the whole strike well their legal department
II they succeed in this they strip il of all miltancy
and reduce II to a state Of impoent legasm.
The publicity committee is very vital. To give out the
news Of the strike fundamentally important
the information of the workers large whose support is
wanted but also for the strikers Themselves whose sodar
lty must be maintained. Yet in almost every strike
whether conducted by rights efs the publicity arrange
ments are primitive and inadequate in the extreme
Good discipline Is necessary in a strike as in a
battle, II Is the task Of the strike committee TO maintain
this discipline. TO do this it must carry its work in
spirit of rmness decision resolution il must give
careful attention detail work as well as general policies
swiftly punished Incompetent corruptionss and weak
llngs must be pushed from official positions
The whole strike organization must be shot through
with spirit OF determination and seriousness Bosses
strikers scabs and all others with the strike
directly indirectly must be- given understand unequiy.
ocaly that they have 10 deal with real body of fighters
Then the vital necessary discipline will prevail among the
strikers The workers will respect their leaders and follow
their instructions in the battle
ITO DO continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
PROGRESS HAS
NO SHOW IN
CHINA CAPITAL
Threaten Students with
Execution
sx ANNA ROCHESTER.

PEKIN, China-(F P) Ten OF the
3S students arrested In Pekin at a
meeting Of the Progressive Society Of
Students from Shensi Province are
threatened with execution. The son
of Chang Tso-lin, now in command at
Pekin, has promised the government
schools a chance to talk with him
about the case before the students are
beheaded.
The controlling policies In Pekin
are wholly reactionary. Nationalist
leaders are in hiding. Labor leaders
have left temporarily. Thirty North
China editors who sympathized with
the Kuomintang or National Peoples
party have been executed. The only
Nationalist paper that survives in
Pekin 10 published in English from the
home of American sympathizers.
The northern generals are doing
their utmost to retain foreign sympa-
thy by calling their campaign against
the Cantonese forces that have pene-
bIdbeu W tuo hAA-lbo fdAiSg q ChAl-
paign against bolshevism. When mar
shall Sun OF Shanghai took Kin Kiang
he had 80 students executed for pos
session of red" propaganda material.
Nationalist in Pekin we're unani-
nous in declaring to The Federated
Press that the most important service
their friends In America can render is
to combat this deliberate confusion Of
the Chinese nationalist movement
with bolshevism. They have turned
to the Soviet Union, the one power
which voluntarily abrogated its un-
equal treaties with China, as the
only foreign power they can trust.
The Communist party in China is or
ganized quite separately from the Kuo-
mintang, they maintain. The work of
the latter is focused on building up
a united China and the breaking down
Of the fmperia1ist control Of China by
the western powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
Australian Government
Spends $500 of Money
on Military Program

MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. H.
The federal governments budgeted
expenditure for the current years will
be $3O2,59S,Osb, equal to more than
$50 per head of population. OF this
amount no less than s17O,Oss,5 $50 (56
per cent? is to be spent on war SER
vices and defense.
This huge amount-more than halt
the total revenue-will be an ever
recurring charge against revenue for
many years to come, and the net re-
suit to the people is practically nil
No satisfactory explanation is made as
to why this enormous amount should
be budgeted for war services.
The people OF Australia, like those
of all other countries under capitalist
rule, are certainly paying a mighty
staggering price to provide Roman
holiday for war bond holders, srma-
ment makers and militarists,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13

the attacks of the employers Who preerrng always to work
in silence and darkness in crushing revols of their
workers usually shrink back from the blaze Of publicity
unless they Of the most powerful capitalist combna
lions. Strike dramatzaon is necessary feature of our
strike strategy.
Strike STRATEGY
It not within the province of this booklet outline
complete system Of the special organization machinery
necessary for the carrying Of strikes successfully Never
theess it Is timely to state few of the general principles
of organization and indicate of the more urgent
necessities.
The strike committee whether the regular executive
board special body Is the general staff of the strike
and 1t must be properly organized to carry work
must be divided into subsectons correspond with Its
various tasks IL the strike Il national In scope the strike
committee must contain various departments Finance
Relief Legal Publicity The local strike committees
must have subcommittee Policy PicketIng Publicity,
Defense, Halls, Speakers, Finance, etc.
In the Of unorganEed workers every effort must
be made to establish real basis OF trade union organEa
ton. Too often the only organization the
be- brought into the active strike meetings This mistake
II gives them of responsibility feeling that
the strike is really their thus them In the
r. o. b. L. formations Of various may also DO used
strike.
CHARACTER COMMITTEES
The picket committee In most industries Is the very
heart OF the strike 1t IL the cutting edge of the workers
organization II is the first line Of defense and attack
1t be developed to the highest degree Of miitaney
and efficiency, 1t should be made mp Of the very best
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
At Company Mercy.

Several quotations from the affida-
Wits made before an Ironwood notary
public follow. The names of the sign
ers cannot be used. Until the case is
presented in court and becomes a mat
ter Of court record, the miners making
the affidavits are at the mercy Of the
companies. AS 1t is, the men are TAX
ing a risk. The entire destiny Of the
mining camps of Michigan and Mime
sofa is ruled by the companies. The
fact that these victims of company
greed are taking united action against
the company is one more indication
that the irons miners are desperate
and are realizing that in organization
against the company is their only way
out. io1
One miner swears to the following
The county mining Inspector
claimed after the disaster that he
had Inspected the shaft six weeks
before the cavern occurred and that
the shaft was in A No. I condition.
= do not know on what grounds MIR.
Michael Collins, the inspector, made
this statement. ! never saw him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
Soviets at Pre-War
Production Level

WASHINGTON, Nov. IL. - Its pre-
war level Of production OF wealth has
been reached by the Soviet Union,
says the Russian information bureau
IN Washington in an economic sum-
mary issued on the ninth anniversary
Of the founding OF the Soviet republic.
Monthly figures Of industrial produc-
ton, It says, show a steady gain. For
the fiscal year which ended September
30 the value of industrial production
was Al per cent greater than In the
previous fiscal year. State industry
yielded net profit for the past year
OF 1921, 750, 900.
Reports Of the harvest thus far indi-
cate that the grain crop will be about
R25, 900 900 bushels more than last
year, and is about the average for pre-
war years in the same territory. Cot
ton and sugar beets were not so gocN
as last year, but potatoes, fax, oil
seeds, etc., were better than the pre-
war average.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
IrOnWOOd Miners Battle for Compensation

ascending the ladders Of the shaft.
The only times | have seen him In
the shaft he was riding the cage
like all the other men, fast, and with
the lights out.
When the oave-In took place,
was on the eighteenth level. There
was a sudden strong air pressure,
dust and small rocks flew and I'm.
medIateIy after a roar Of falling
rocks could be heard. was at the
shaft and | ran quickly Into the
drift. tried to telephone to all
levels. The only reply was from the
eighth level. The shift boss Of that
level informed me that the shaft
was csVlng in from above that level.
That afternoon, the men from the
eighth level came down to the
eighteenth and later on we climbed
down to the twentieth. Here we
found the shaft caVed In and we
could get no farther. We were trap
ped.
The same afternoon J. s.
and tried to penetrate along the
tunnel to c Shaft. This lie an old
drift partly caVed in. The trip was
risky, we had to crawl on our hands
and knees. We came to the old c
shaft. Here we found the shaft full
Of rocks. Thru the negligence Of the
company, the only way out Of our
imprisonment was blocked.
Another worker testifies, after re
lating his knowledge Of the bad repair
in which he knew the mine timbering
to be:
The shaft was blocked below We
had to ascend back to the eighteenth
level and the shift boss commenced
TO boiler about the blocking Of the
shaft at the eighth level, tho we by
this time saved the company six
hundred feet Of the shaft from des-
truetlon that would have meant a
loss Of $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
ZEALAND SCABS
ADMIT THAT IT
DOES NOT PAY
They Are Sorry They
Scabbed Now
lspseIaI % rhe paIIx workerl

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov.
11.-An echo Of last years strike Of
British seamen in New Zealand was
heard in the New Zealand parliament
during the first week of September.
when John Coutts and "a other non
unionists petitioned the government
for grant Of money as compensation.
against pecuniary loss incurred by
them when they volunteered as strike
breakers to do work on the steamer
'Arawa" during the strike.
Admit Strike Justice.
It seems that despite the plausible
assurances OF the ship owners that
the work was easy" and the wages
high" their sufferings were "excru.
eiating," The work they had to do
was most disagreeable" and oyer.
strenuous with the result that some
of them were broken in health at the
end of four months The men were
manly enough to say that they were
now convinced that the British sea.
men were justified in striking against
such awful conditions.
Coutts and his fellow-workers said
they acted as strikebreakers for liz
days and the aggregate amount Of
wages received by them for that time
was S2,75O To take on this work to
stand by the British empire during
the strike they had sacrificed Jobs for
which their wages would have aggre-
gated at least $3.50 per week, or an
aggregate of $3.50 for the 112 days.
Their strikebreaking venture thus left
them $4,000 out Of pocket besides ruin
ing their health.
Treated Like Dogs.
They said that when they ap-
preached the ship owners and pointed
out the injustice that had been dealt
out to them they were well-nigh kicked
out of the shipping boss office. The
ship owners told them they had been
paid the current rate Of wages for the
work, and if they now complained they
were simply a lot of "Bolsheviks."
The New Zealand government, being
sympathetic with the ship owners,
turned deaf ear to the petition. and
left the men to slowly realize that It
doesn't pay to engage in strikebreak-
ing these days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
9TH MONTH OF
STRIKE FINDS
MINERS STRONG
Hodges, Reactionary, Is
Asked to Quit
By BILL Ross, Federated Press

LONDON-CFP)- from break
ing down, the resistance Of the Brit
5sh miners in the 18th month OF the
lockout assumes new strength
The miners executive has const-
tinted itself into a council Of war,
abandoning the national Office in Lon
don for movable headquarters in the
weaker coalhelds for the duration OF
the struggle. Members Of the execu-
dive pleading with men to abandon
the pits succeed In getting out thou
sands every day
The 40 miner M. P.'s have been con-
scripted by their union and sent into
me coalfields to get the men out
again. According to capitalist sources
100000 miners out of 100000 have
xeturned to work but the vigorous
campaign of the union has checked
.3ahe breakaway- 1t is becoming evident
20 the government and employers,
hard pressed by the economic repres-
sion, that the miners are still a long
way from defeat
When the miners council of war
was announced the government sent
special police on its heels At the
same time the Tory papers attacked
6ecy. A. ]. Cook of the miners urging
bis arrest They seized on his state
xnent that the miners must win claw
or no law" as an excuse
That Cooks safety is in danger was
Awident the first day he started on
the new campaign. When he arrived
az the hotel. 40 young British fas-
cists were in hiding to attack him
The hotel-keeper got the police in
time to prevent trouble.
The opposition TO the policy Of the
Miners Federation has been crushed
by the rank and file. Frank Hodges,
Cooks reactionary predecessor, was
asked by his lodge in Warwickshire to
tesign his union membership. He re
Aused. G. A. Spencer, M. p, has been
Kicked out by his lodge and wiH not
be permitted to run for parliament on
3 labor ticket again. He is suing the
snnion in the courts. Frank Varley,
Ia. p, IS again supporting Cooks
policy.
1--WE could get settlement tomor-
fow II we agreed to longer hours,
Cook said, but neither my colleagues
nor myself will ever voluntarily be
parties, whatever the consequences,
TO an agreement embodying longer
day for the MINER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-13
STRIKE STRATEGY
BY WILLIAM z. FOSTER
ARTICLE XIII
DRAMArHzINa THE STRuooLH

essential of good strike strategy under present day
conditions in the United States is to lend dramatic char
acte strike and organization campaigns especially those
among unorganized workers These in dramatic strike
living strike and they not far wrong This drama
zaton may be accomplished in many ways such as mass
pickeng in the face Of police terror violations OF
njunctons free speech Aghts marches such those OF
the Kansas and West Virginia miners spectacular expos
Of the workers poverty and tho employers Riches mill
ant resistance to Violence transfer of strikers children
from the strike district nationwide relief campaigns
onaI and local protest meetings state Investigations pa
rades, pageants tagdays, ETC., ETC.
Good strike dramatzaon Is closely related to militant
fighting the offensive. Classical examples Of dramatic
strikes those of the steel workers in Homestead In
1892 OF the Colorado coal miners and Lawrence Textile
workers In 1872 and the present struggle in Passaic
Dramatization Is equally effective In organising
campaigns in strikes, Often IL DO strikngy
compished by the simple expedlent of ansacting with
fanfare of trumpe and participation union business
and maneuvers which, dramatic effects desired
could be handled easily and shortly In committee such
the formation OF demands election OF negotiation commit
tees, taking of strike votes, ETC.
For example, IN the steel campaign Of 101Sl0 of
best organising strokes the holding Of national
ference Of steel workers In Pittsburgh for the express pu
81 considering and acting upon the critical situation