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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16

campaign during the first half of the
economic year give US reason to be-
heve that the general plan drawn up
by the state for the purchase Of 725
million pools will be fully realized
as by January LIST, 1927, 450 million
pools, i. e. 62@o of the entire plan,
had already been purchased.
The further activities of the con-
sumers' cooperative system must be
carried on along the lines Of the re-
duction of the overhead expenses and
prices. The method Of the general
agreements, which has already justi-
fled itself, is considered as the best
method of contact between the Cen
trosoyuz and it's periphery.
simultaneously with the establish
ment Of the right of the consumers
cooperatives, and the recognition Of
these rights by the state institutions,
to partly participate in the purchas-
ing of grain, the question arises Of
securing mills and grain elevators.
The consumers cooperators are of
the opinion that they must extend
their own system Of mills and produc-
ton of flour. The Centrosoyuz ground,
in 1924-25, $40 of its grain in its
own mills; in 1925-26 it ground 1870,
in 1926-27, 63ga; the respective fig
ures on the grinding in other mills
were 1871, 279e, $50, i. e., the more
it purchases the less can it have
ground in it's own mills. From here
the necessity arises of extending its
own flour production, as only by
doing so would it be possible to re-
duce the cost and improve the quail
ity of the flour and to consolidate
thereby the position of the consum-
ers' cooperatives on the home mar
ket.
The question of elevators and store
houses is also not less important. The
question of elevators is becoming
specially important in connection
with the development of exports. The
consumers cooperative system has
certain obligations to the state in the
sphere of exports. The conference
therefore considered it necessary to
settle also the question Of extending
the utilization of the existing ele-
vators and the construction of new
ones.
In the report of financing the
grain purchases it was observed that
the extent of financing this year is
not sufficient.
On October 1st, 1925 the bank CAPT
tai amounted to If. q kopecks per
pood in the purchases of grain; on
October 1926, it amounted to 1r. C
kopecks per pood. On December LIST,
1925, it amounted to II. 10 kopecks,
and on December 1st, 1926, 90 ko-
pecls. On January LIST, 1926, 1r. IL
kopecks, and January 1st, 1897, 80
kopecks. The financing of the grain
purchases has thus been reduced 16-
II kopecks per pood. And only be-
cause the consumers cooperative fl
nances have become strengthened and
stabilized could they invest their own
capital in grain and carry on the cam
paign successfully. However, in the
second half of this year, the financ-
ing of the consumers cooperatives
must be improved and the question
of loans and cheaper credit settled
to facilitate the grain purchasing ac-
tivities. Ito Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
Cotton Man Strings Himself.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May 15.-
Edw. Knowles, . broker of cotton
mill stuffs, committed suicide by
hanging himself to a pipe in his home
yesterday. His wife found him and
called in a doctor to ascertain the
cause Of his death
Knowles was formerly a treasurer
in a Bristol mill. Lately he has been
rather nervous.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16

Now the real fun begins. On Friday, the
18th of May, we were hailed to the Court of
Special Sessions to plead against the in
famous frame-up which is being cooked up
against us. We were remanded for trial on
May 9th. Needless to say, neither Darte of
the Military Order of the World War nor
Seitz of the Keymen of America were called
upon to plead.
But Darte and Setz and the capitalist
system for which they stand will never be
brought to justice in a capitalist court. But
the workers can and will try them before
court of proletarian justice in which thou
sands of workers throughout the country,
will act as the Judges
EvaTv dollar VOI
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of-work detectives. who served their
apprenticeship in the art Of linking
under the tutelage of William j.
Flynn, William Burns and A. Nit
chell Palmer, is provided by the in
terest excited by the Sacco-Vanzetti
case. Tales of dynamite being sent
thru the mails to governor Fuller Of
Massachusetts are now daily features
of the capitalist press. Those of us
who remember the hectic days from
1919 until the Michigan Communist
raid in 1922 will not even have to
give a thot to the possibility that
some insane friends of the con-
demned men might be guilty of such
crazy deeds.
ALL the explosions, planting of in
II eendiary literature, threats, etc.
were the work of agents provoca-
teurs, or stoolpigeons, who make a
living committing crimes which they
fasten on others. According to testi-
mony given from the witness stand
by detectives who turned on their
erstwhile employers, men like Burns
actually plotted the assassination Of
individuals in high station in order
to put the moneyed classes Of this
country in the proper frame of mind
for financial appeal 1t was re-
ported that William J. Burns thru
one of his agents offered $4,000 to
a man for the assassination of Lenin
and Trotsky. We already warned our
readers that between now and the
date set for the execution Of Sacco
and Vanzetti there will be plenty of
pilots" against the lives of governor
Fuller and judge Thayer reported in
the capitalist press. But those plots
will be of the same character as the
plot that brought about the con-
viction Of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
White House Worried Over Oil.

WASHINGTON, (FP).-President
Coolidge is worried because the new
Seminole oil field in Oklahoma has
added IA per cent to the supply Of
oil on the American market, thereby
forcing a sharp cut in prices. Of
course he is OPPOSED to federal inter
ference with prices, but he is very
much concerned over conservation, the
White House says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
DAILY WORKER
33 First Street,
New York. n. Y.

ID EAISb DINCtf
New York. n. Y.
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Ruthenberg Sustaining Fund
for a stronger and better
DAILY WORKER and for the
defense of our paper. ! will pay
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
IN THE CENTRosoYUz

Results OF. the CentrOsoyuz conference
on the grain purchasing campaign.
The figures on the progress of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16

Every QOIidT you
send for the defense of
The DAILY WORKER
against the attacks of
the reactiOnaries, is at
the same time a prOleta-
rian Indictment of these
enemies of the labor
movement. Don't fail to
plank down your con-
tribution. Put it down
with emphasis, to show
just where you stand.
Rush it along.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
Let's Fight On! Join
The Workers Party!

In the loss of Comrade Ruthen-
berg the Workers (Communist) Par
ty has lost its foremost leader and
the American working class its
staunchest fighter. This loss can only
be overcome by many militant work.
ers joining the Party that he built.
Fill out the application below and
mail it. Become member Of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
carry forward the work Of Comrade
Ruthenberg.
| want to become a member of the
Workers (CommUnist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16

Mail this application to the Work
ers Party, 10S East 14th Street, New
York City; or if in other city TO
Workers Party, 1113 w. Washington
BLY,, Chicago, ILL.,
Distribute the Ruthenherg PAM
phlet, "The Workers Communist
Party, What it Stands For and Why
Workers Should Join" This Ruthen-
berg pamphlet will be the basic PAM
phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive.
Every Party Nucleus must collect
so cents from every member and will
receive 20 pamphlets for every mem
Der to sell or distribute.
Nuclei in the New York District
will get their pamphlets from the Dis
trict office-1OS East 14th st.
Nuclei outside Of the New York
District write to The DAILY WORK
Err publishing Co., SS. East First
Street, New York City, or to the
National Office, Workers Party, 1113
W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
By STANLEY BOWEN

That there is a growing appreciation of the class
basis of legislation in general and the present law
and order campaign in particular is shown by
letters being written to editors of capitalist daes
for publication OF most of the letters that
are given publication are law-and-order letters.
Most of the letters by class conscious workers
basketed But now and then a letter calling atten-
ton to the economic basis of crime and law is
printed The following letter appeared in the
Public Letter Box" column of the Detroit News:
"To the Editor: l am in favor of capital punish
ment providing the authorities manage to reduce
the number of thousands Of unemployed.
Eve have dole for unfortunate unem-
ployed One not imagine what willing
worker, now unemployed through 40 fault of his
own, viii do in desperation after being unable to
procure work.
"Work is no pleasure but thousands, seeking it,
willing to line up in the cold before a. m. and
the result is usually Nothing doing No help
wanted.
"Crime has reached its highest peak since the
army of unemployed has increased to tens of thou
sands"
Henry Ford is an employer who is expressing
opposition to capital punishment. full-page
editorial against it recently published in his
magazine, the Dearborn Independent. But in an
experiment which really amounts to an alternative
to criminal code he gave jobs a few weeks ago to
5000 boys Is years old or thereabouts This, he
said was a humanitarian, neutrality-suspicious. effort
on his part to save the boys from criminal careers.
And very short time thereafter he began laying
off older, higher-wage employees. Many of these
had worked several years at their machines Many
were the fathers of families. But Ford had become
crimnologist not to say a captalstic strategist,
who was feeling the competition of the General
Motors Corporation, The older men were turned out
without notice into the streets. Many of them now
around the threats of their children the tight
ening Of the moose of hunger
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
The Murder Mood of Michigan

this time for lfe-appontments for judges in county
and municipal courts.
The economic or class basis of such developments
as this is often difficult to Identify The basis
here is clear, however. In the first place. Michigan
has its Criminal Syndicalism Law. Many members
of the Workers (Communst Party defendants
in pending cases under this law 1t is the law
under which Comrade c. +. Ruthenberg was con-
yicted. The proposed criminal code would effect
prosecutions under the Criminal Syndicalism Law
equally with prosecutions under any other law,
far general legal processes are concerned.
And while the lobbyists of the employers
telling the employers political favorites to enact
a capital punishment law and workable"
criminal code in the State House at Lansing, Con-
gresham John B. Sosnowski of Detroit, is busy at
Washington. First he reads paper charging that
the Communists threatening revolution in his
home state Then he introduces a resolution in the
national house of representatives calling for the
appointment Of congressional committee to inves-
tigate not only the plans of the Communists proper
but the alliance between the Workers (Communst)
Party and any number of miscellaneous organiza-
tions Certainly neither speech nor resolution was
original with Congressman Sosnowski. This would
be true personal grounds alone. But for other
more material reasons his speech in the hall of
congress is like the fok-song. 1t belongs to a
group. 1t is the expression of group in a certain
situation. And the group here is the Detroit group
of industrial capitalists. Under their windows they
hear the hurrying feet of the unemployed, undis-
cplined but not beyond discipline; unorganzed but
not alien to the organization. Congressman Sosnow-
ski is summoned He.is given his instructions. The
propaganda figures and phrases of the predatory
group put paper for Congressman Sosnowski
to take to Washington. Even if most of the other
congressman doze at their desks Congressman Sos
nowsh does as he is told. The Communists, accord
ing to the Congressional record, are threatening
revolution in Michigan.
In Lansing another bill is introduced requiring
that the national constitution be studied along GER
tain patriotic lines in certain grades of all public
schools in Michigan. The National Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment is supposedly
a generally liberal organization. But this legisa-
tive first cousin to the antevolution law of Klanish
Tennessee is introduced by this associations Michi-
gan representative Still another bill would re-
quire daily religious services in the public schools
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19

II was reported out favoraby by the educational
committee of the House.
Prior to the opening of the present session Of the
legislature the Detroit Board of Commerce sent
urgent communications to all Detroit churches. The
organized employers wanted an alliance with that
element in support of their legislative program.
The Detroit cergymen protested at the tone Of the
communications. They charged the tone was pre-
sumptuous. This was reminiscent of a situation in
Detroit last fall. At that time the Board of Com
merce with considerable success undertook to
coerce Detroit pastors into refusing their pulpts
to speakers from the convention Of the American
Federation of Labor Labor Sunday, so-called
But when the capital punishment bill and the pro-
posed new criminal code were introduced at Lansing
this winter the clergy in line, with the Board
of Commerce spokesman. Reporters assigned to
cover their wrote columns citing and am
plifying Biblical sanctions for the proposed new
criminal code. And the clergy filled the mail bags
with letters placing Gods blessing on the most
popular Of all improvements on the old-fashioned
cross. Protestant and Catholic clergy alike.
An unusual bill awaiting disposition at Lansing
provides for excessive prison sentence specifi-
cally for possessing stencil bomb, which it's spon-
sors say is common weapon in Industrial disputes
in Detroit. The penalty for the actual use Of a
stencil bomb is from five to Is years, for the mere
possession Of such bombs the material for them,
two to five years. Conviction for damaging property
with explosive bombs would mean 10 to 25 years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
CURIOSITIES OF NATURE

READY-MADE STEAM: Everyone is more or
less familiar with the way fountains of oil and gas
occur in different parts of the world offering great
quantities of fuel without the trouble of mining.
But in a few places nature has gone still further
and saved even the expenses of furnaces and boilers
offering readymade steam power. In some regions
which distinctly volcanic in nature, Jets of
steam found issuing from cefts in the rocks
under nsiderable pressure Both in Southern Italy
and In Sonoma County, CAL, attempts have recently
been made to utilize this steam for driving station
airy engines, etc. and both places report complete
success.
AGRICULTURE AND THE AIRPLANE: Few
people realize yet what effective aid to agricuI-
ture the airplane can be. In Soviet Russia in 1928
"a when the Society of the "Friends of the Air
Fleet" was carrying a membership campaign,
great stress laid the use of the airplane
for spraying fields with inseetcide. Recently the
U. S. army (which occasionally does something use
full when time hangs heavy its hands and every
thing is brmful of law and order) reported on some
experiments it had made in sowing seed by air.
plane. large in Hawaii had been devastated
by forest fire and to be re-forested Two
planes covering Of four square miles, sprayed
the land with "a bags of forest seed 1t was estm-
ated that it would have taken two men working by
hand ten years to perform the amount Of
work as the planes accomplished in hour and
half.
A CRAB THAT CLIMBS TREES AND EATS
COCOANUTS: Although this sounds pretty much
like pink elephant with wings, the fact is that
such a crab does exist. 1t inhabits the South Sea
Islands, and those who have the film "Moana"
will remember it the ugly-ool1ing creature that
the little boy smokes out Of its hole. Cocoanuts
its preferred diet and it win climb palm trees 100
feet high to get them, bringing them down and
cracking them against rock dropping them
from the treetop, carrying them up, and dropping
them again. until the nuts split OPEN The
white planters protect their cocoanuts by putting
tin sheetng around the base Of the trees, but the
natives can't afford such Injuries and have TO rely
more upon their imagination for settling accounts
with the crab. About forty feet from the ground
they plaster little bank Of earth and leaves around
the trunk Of the tree. Going up, the crab easily
climbs the little distractions and gets his
coanut. But it seems that he has neither good
memory good Judgment of distance. As soon
as he reaches the little bank Of earth on his way
down and feels it under his feet he concludes that
he has reached the ground and lets go of the tree
trunk with the result that he crashes to earth
and is killed.
Nogales international., 1927-04-10

THE FACT that you live in Nogaes-makes you stock
holder in Nogaes. This is true whether you prop
erty pay rentwhethe you're in business for yourself
lend your efforts and energies anohers business whether
you active passive.
let his coupons go uncippedha vitality enough inter
ested to be stockhode and not vitality enough interested
to further the in every possible wayshecoud9
Yet--hat just the situation unless you do your best for
Nogaes paradoxicay you collect interest by lending In
Nogales international., 1927-04-10
You're A Stakeholder
- =@ !
help yourself to interest

terest--and you cannot avoid being stockholder 's
Therefore its obvious how much you benefit by giving No
gales your best how directly your interests are Nogaes S.
and vice ta '9e 90 @@ ~
That most citizens are serving evidenced by the definite
progress Nogaes is making That Nogaes will progress that
much more rapidly every citizen will lend his bes--so that
he nav in turn collect greater return--is evident
So this is our plea FOR your co. operation at
boost for Nogaes- the other fellow that he may bet
ter he p you.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30

in beating him off. She was badly
injured in her fight with him, how
ever, and today was confined to a
hospital.
Seen Later at Bena
The book agent, authorities of
ltasca county were informed, was
seen several hours later at Bena, a
small town approximately 40 miles
from Grand Rapids. He was accom-
panied by a woman and child with
whom he had been travelling.
Miss Larson, a teacher at the
Thoroughfarc school, located north
Of Cohassctt, near here, told the
authorities she was encountered by
the man shortly before 5 p. m. last
night. He had been selling books
to rural school teachers, the authori-
ties were informed, and she felt no
alarm at his presence. After few
moments of conversation, the agent
drew a gun and ordered the teacher
to get into his motor car, light Sc
dan. He then drove to a wooded
spot.
At the time Of the assault the
woman and child, supposed to be the
agents wife and daughter, were at
Cohassett.
Girl Left Alone in Woods
Following the attempt to assault
the girl, the man fled in his car,
leaving Miss Larson alone in the
woods, several miles from the near
est residence.
The assailant was described as of
small build and dark complexion, be-
tween 80 and 50 years of age. He
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30

hospital where it was found that
none of the bullets had inflicted a
mortal wound. His condition, how
ever, was reported serious.
Mrs. Simmons was plaintiff in a
suit against the Utah Copper conf
pany for $4,000 damages for the
death Of her husband, John Allen
Simmons, in mine accident at
Bingham, Utah, on April 3. 1910.
The suit was tried May 10, and dis
missed on the grounds Of no cause
for action.
Mrs. Simmons then appealed to
the United States circuit court of
appeals, and a decision by that court
upheld the decision of the lower
court.
At the county Jail, where Mrs.
Simmons was taken, she said she
had first intended ito get United
States Senator William II. King"
She did not explain further.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30
Democrats Meeting
Not Official, Says
Committee Chairman

Fargo, N. D., Sept. 3O.-(AP)-
E. j. Hughes of Dickinson, chairman
Of the Democratic state central COM
mittee, declared here today that the
executive committee of that body did
not meet in Fargo this week to con-
slider plans for the 1928 election.
A few Democrats may have gath
cred, he suggested in letters adj
dressed to members of the state GEN.
trail committee, but their action cam
not be construed as binding upon the
party as whole.
The meeting referred to was an
nounced as having been held here
Wednesday, when preliminary plans
for the establishment of a working
az cement between the Republican
and Democratic committees in state
matters were worked out.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30
SALT LAKE CITY
JUDGE Is SHOT
Woman Fires Five Shots From
Revolver at Him in Fed.
cral Court Room

Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 90
(AP)-United States District Judge
Tiltman Johnson was shot and Sc
riously wounded by Mrs. Eliza Sim.
mons as he mounted the rostrum OF
his court room in the federal build
ing here this morning. Mrs. SIM
mons fired five shots at the Judge,
four of which took effect in his body
below the waist.
The woman was seated in the
front part Of the court room and, as
the Judge mounted the steps, she
arose and opened fire. The first
bullet went wild.
Judge johnson turned from the
woman and stumbled and fell as he
descended the steps. Mrs. Simmons
ran across the rostrum and stand
ing over the Judge, fired four shots
at him at close range before she
was overpowered by court attend
ants.
Condition Is Serious
Judge johnson was taken to q
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-30
Babe Schumacher to
Start Sentence Soon

Fargo, N. D., Sept. 30.-R-
Babe Schumacher, Moorhead, con-
victed in Cass county district court
nearly a year ago for engaging in
the liquor traffic and sentenced by
Judge George M. McKenna of Ma
poleon to from one to two years in
the state penitentiary, is scheduled
to be taken to Bismarck Monday. to
begin serving her sentence, it was
announced at the Cass county sher-
ifs office today.
Miss Schumacher is to begin serv-
ing her sentence only after a long
legal battle, during which time she
was tried twice in Cass county dis
trict court.
A final attempt is being made to-
day by Miss Schumacher and her
attorney, Allen w. Wood, to obtain
stay of sentence from Judge Nc
kenna at Napoleon.
According to the sheriff's de-
partment. Judge Mckenna has re-
fused to give her an extension of
time before beginning to serve her
sentence unless it is agreeable with
officials here. which it is not,