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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
JOHN REED
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it On his photograph, John Reed wrote, "To my
publisher Horace Liveright, who nearly ruined him
self publishing this book"
This book only one product of his literary
activities in connection with his propaganda of the
truth about Russia The bourgeoisie naturally
wanted none of this truth. Hating and fearing the
Russian Revolution they tried to drown it in flood
OF lies. An endless stream of dirt and Islander poured
from the political platforms, the moving picture
screen, out of the columns of newspapers and maya
Zlnes Magazines that begging for his
articles, refused to print single line he wrote
But they couldn't close his mouth He spoke before
numberless mass meetings
lie created his own magazine. He became editor
of the left wing socialist journal "The Revolutionary
Age" and afterwards "The Communist" Article
after article he wrote for "The Liberator" He
travelled up and down America participating in
conferences, filling and firing everyone around him
with facts, enthusiasm and revolutionary spirit and
finally organizing in the centre of American CAPT.
talism the Communist Workers Party-exactly as
ten years earlier he organized the Socialist Club in
the heart Of Harvard University
The "wise men" as usual had made a mistake
John Reeds radicalism turned out to be anything
but passing fancy" Contrary to prophecies his
contact with the world had not cured him of it. It
had only confirmed and buttressed it. How strong
and deep that radicalism now was they might find
for themselves in reading "The Voice of Labor"
the new Communist organ of which he was editor.
The American bourgeoise now understood that in
their country there was a real revolutionist This
very word "revoutionist' now makes them trembe
True IN the distant past there were revolutionsts
IN America and even now there are societies eniov-
ing high honor and respect like "The Daughters of
the American Revolution" and fSons of the Amer
lcan Revolution" Thus the reactonary bourgeoisie
paid tribute to the memory of the revolutionists of
1776. But these revolutionsts long ago had passed
into the world beyond. John Reed was live revolu
ZIONIST, an extraordinarily live one-a challenge to
them and a scourge.
One thing only was left for them to do with him
lock him up. So they arrested hm-not once or
twice, but twenty times. In Philadelphia the police
closed the hall refusing to let him speak in it. But
ne mounted soap-box and from this rostrum ad-
dressed the great crowd that packed the street So
successful meeting and SO many sympathizers that
when he was arrested for violation of orderD it
was impossible to get a verdict of guilty from the
jury. There hardly an American city that felt
altogether right if it hadn't arrested John Reed at
least once. But he always manages to be liberated
on ball. or to have his trial postponed and straight
way again took up the battle on some new arena.
The western bourgeoisie acquired the habit of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
By WILLIAM PAUL
editor, SUNDAY WORKER, London).

ing throughout the wool textile industry the
employers have come to the conclusion that the
time has come when notice must be given to
terminate the existing wage agreements"
The letter went to state that the EMPLOYERS in
tended to enforce their decision on November 26th
While the textile leaders had been gaily prattling
about Industrial peace, the employers had been busy
at work preparing an attack on 100000 workers
ANOTHER of the dreamers at Edinburgh was Rob-
"A ert Smile, who waited into the debate to at
tack Cook, and to show the advantages of peaceful
methods. Unless his slumber is too deep even he
must have awakened to realize what is happening in
the coal fields
So desperate arc. the conditions there-through in
creased hours, reduced wages, unemployment, and
victimizaton-that a band of miners has signified
their intention to march to London and make pro-
test when parliament reassembles.
in order to understand why the official leaders of
the Trades Union Congress are enthusiastically
advocating industrial peace it is necessary to re-
member two things
Firstly, the employers in such plight-as
result OF the increasing chaos of capitalism-that
the only way they can of increasing their profits
and expanding trade is to attack the already low
standard of living of the workers
SecoE.dly, the workers have retreated so far since
1921 at the behest of the present Trade Union lead
ers, that they are now determined to make no fur
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
By ALBERT RHYS WILLIAMS

probably picked up in the Caucasus, his constitution
exhausted by oVerwork could make resistance to
the disease and on Sunday October 18th, he died
Like John Reed there other warriors who
fought against the counter-revolutionary front in
America and Europe as goriously as the Red Army
fought against the counterrevoutonary front in the
U. s. s.. R. Some fell victims of pogroms others
were silenced in prisons. One persisted in storm
of the White Sea returning to France. Another in
an aeropane distributing proclamations Of protest
against intervention hurled to his death in San
Francisco. Ferocious the onslaught of i'm
perlalsm upon the revolution it might have been
still more so were it not for these fighters They
did something to hold back the counter-revoutonary
assault. Not only Russians Ukrainians, Tartars
and Caucasians helped to make the Russian Revolu-
ton, but to small extent at any rate, French
German, English and Americans
Amongst these mon Russian" figures John Reed
stands out prominently because he was a man of
exceptional abilities, cut down in the very flower
of his manhood.
When from Hesingfors and Reval came the first
runors about his DEATH we thought that these were
simply the regular lies fabricated in the course of
the daily work OF the counter-revolutionary ie-fac-
torres. But the announcement repeated, and
when Louise Bryant confirmed it we were compelled
IN spite of all our hopes to believe it.
Although John Reed died an exile from his own
land, and with the sentence of five years inprson-
ment hanging over his head even the bourgeois
press paid their respect to him as an artist and
man. Bourgeois hearts felt great relef-no longer
was there John Reed to expose their faisehood and
Hypocrisy to chastise them merciessy with his pen
The radical world of America suffered an ire
parable loss 1t is very difficult for comrades living
OUTSIDE America to understand the feeling of be-
reavement caused by his death Russians consider
1t altogether natural, and self-understood that
man should die for his convictions On this score
not bit of sentmentasm Here in the Soviet
Union thousands and tens of thousands have persisted
Tor socialism. But in America such sacrifices have
been comparatively few. If you will, John Reed
was the first martyr of the Communist Revolution
forerunner OF the coming thousands The sudden
ending of his meteoric in far away blockaded
Russia was for American Communists terrible
blow
One consolation for his old friends and comrades
is the fact that John Reed lies in the one place in
all the world where he would like to leon the
Red Square, under the Kremlin Wall Here. as a
memorial in harmony with his character is an un
heYn granite boulder, on which are chiseled the
words: #*$E
l|: JOHN REED
delegate to the III International
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ascrbing all its evils and misfortunes to the Russian
Revolution. One of the most henious Of it's crimes
that it had transformed this talented Young
American into flaming fanatical revolutionist. So
thought the bourgeosie But in reality not quite So
1t was not Russia that made John Reed into a
revoutonist From the day of his birth revolution
airy American blood flowed in his veins Yes though
America is always pictured as fat self-satisfied
capitalist and reaconary, still in its arteries runs
rebellion and revolt Recall the great rebels of the
past, Thomas Paine, Walt Whitman, John Brown and
Parsons. And John Reeds comrades and fellow
fighters of today, Bill Haywood Robert Minor Ruth
enberg and Foster. Remember the industrial wars
at Homestead Pullman, Lawrence and the fighting
l. W. W. industrial Workers of the Word). All
these-Ieaders and masses-are of pure American
origin And though at present it is not very evident
still in the blood of Americans runs strong strain
Of rebellion.
Consequently, it cannot be said that Russia made
a revolutionist out of John Reed. But it did make
out OF him scientific thinking and consequential
revolutionst. That is it's great service it compeled
him to load his desk with the books of Marx EnpeIs
and Lenin. It gave him an understanding of his
torlc processes and the march of events It COM
PEELED him to substitute for his somewhat hazy hui
manltaran views, the hard rough facts of economics
And 1t mpelled him to become teacher Of the
American labor movement and to try to place be-
meath it the same scientific foundations that he
had put under his own convictions
But politics not your forte Jack!" his friends
used to say to him. "You are an artist not pro-
pagandist, You should devote your talents to Gre
ative literary work" He often felt the force of
such words. For in his head always were gerrinat
ing new poems, novels and dramas all the time seek
ing to express themselves to find form So when
his friends would insist that he should throw aside
revolutionary propaganda and sit down to write. he
would answer with smile, "All right TIL do so
directly"
But not for moment did he stop his revolution
airy activities. He couldn't. The Russian Revolution
had wrought its spell upon him and possessed him
utterly. 1t had made him it's conscrpt and com
pelled him to subjugate his wavering anarchistic
disposition to the stern discipline of Communism: it
sent HIM like prophet with flaming torch through
out the cities of Americas it drew him back to Mos
COW in 1919 to work in the Comintern on the fusion
OF the two Communist parties HI
Recharged with new facts and revolutionary theory
he set out again on the underground route to New
York. Betrayed by sailor and taken from Shin
board, ne was thrown into solitary confinement in
Finnish IS, prison Then back again tp Russias writ.
ing N the Communist International; collecting MAJ
ter1als for new book delegate to The CONGRESS- Of
the Peoples of the East in Baku Stricken by typhus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
The British Trade Union CONGRESS-

The following article on the proceedings of
the recent conference of the British Trade IInion
Congress- by COmrade William Paul editor of
The Sunday Worker and prominent British left
wing leader, is of unusual interest to American
workers at this time when the most reactionarv
convention ever held by the A. F. of L. has lust
concluded its business in Los Angeles Tho the
British labor takers are not crude or as bru-
tally frank as their American prototypes there
is no fundamental difference in their attitude
Both favor CHESAPEAKE instead of the class strug-
gle and war on the militants in the labor move
ment rather than against the capitalists
Editor.
ONE outstanding feature of the Trades Union Con-
gress was the plea for industrial peace"
Needless to say the capitalist press enthusiastically
supported the president of the T. u. c. in his plea
for closer collaboration between workers and en-
ployers The heads of large industrial syndicates
such as L. Hichens--of Camnlell Laird and Co.
welcomed the Suggestions thrown out by Mr.
Hicks"
AS the congress began on Industrial peace SC
it ended in the key. This was seen in the OBJ
position to the resolution, moved by the Furnishing
Trades Association, against industrial peace"
The most distinguished defenders of industrial
peace" were Robert Smillie and Ben Turner.
In his dream of industrial harmony, Ben Turner
declared that he yearned for the ending of strikes
and lockouts.
The dreamer of Edinburgh, however had
rude awakening when he reached Yorkshire and
found that the secretary of the employers had
notified his union follows:
IT instructed to inform YOU that after
careful consideration of the conditions prevail
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
MONDAY
SEpPALA HAD TWO TEAMS
 IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RACE

Wolfeboro. Feb. 13. @-Ohcial time made in the New Hampshire race as reported in Saturdays Mug get is given as follows: Stppala' 8 time for the one hundred and thirty three miles was eleven hours fifty seven minutes and forty-five sec onds. St. Goddard was second with twelve hours ten miutes forty seconds. Dupuis came in third in seven minutes ten seconds behind St. Goddard.
 Because of the difference in start ing times. three of the leaders ar rived within five minutes of each other. with Dupuis ahead; his dogs swerved as they neared the barn where they had been moored, the harness became tangled and he led dogs across the finishing line. Theodore Kingeak, an Alaskan Eskimo. drove Seppala's second team with togo leading into fifth place. in fourteen hours thirty eight minutes forty-five seconds.
 DupuIs finished with only four of his Montreal team.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
FORMER NOME GIRL
 TO ENTER NORMAL SCHOOL.

The Nugget Is indebted to a friend for the following poem writ ten by Miss Caroline Larson. for mer pupil of the Nome Public school. Car1ine is this year sen- for in the II hline High School of Seattle. R. 7S Next year Miss Lar son expects tdAenter Normal School where she will specialize in Home Economics and receive Life Di- ploma
 TO A ROSE. Oh. rose. the queen of all the flow- CTS sweet, How bright doth seem the spot which thou dost hold. Thou chaseth all the dreariness and cold, And bloOmeth there some lonely soul to meet, Someone with heavy heart and load 10 greet. Oh, velvet rose, your story oft is
 
 told. How thou dost in the sun myself unfold And urge once more the tired heart to>feat. And may my life like thee, Oh rose; bestow .Af oh f..1. T.. that bleed: Then shall know the greatness of thy deed And like thee Set other hearts aglow. Inspire lives who never beauty see, Oh. rose, sweet rose. my inspiration he
 Caroline Larson
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says Leonard Seppala Super Man
 And Hypnotism Used on Dogs

Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Feb. 13-14. tP) Sy Mason of Tanmorth. New Hampshire. who finished four th in the dog derby. attributes the astonishing victory of SepIala to hypnotism Sy said "that man is super-man, he passed me at least once every day during the race. I was not loafing any either. l couldn't see that he drove his dogs he just clucked to them every now and then and they would lay into their collars harder than l can or ever seen dogs do before. Some thing came ont of him and went into those dogs with that clucking: you' 'ye heard of some men who by some freak or other hold un- natural power over Others=hypno- ism. I guess you call it-I suppose Is just as likely to work on dogs. Seppala certainly has 1t if anyone has
 Many dog enthusiasts deciared that Seppala's victory demonstrates
 he superiority won by the blood dog oyer cross breeds.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
RESULTS OF FAIRBANKS
 DOG RACES

Fairbanks. Feb. II. tR)-The 5S mile dog race held here Saturday over q course leading from Fair banks 10 Fox. Seraffor. olncs. Cha tanika. Summit. Fox and return to Fairbanks. in which there were nine entries. was won by the Mmtchler team from Tacotna.. The names of the first fonr and their time is as follows:
 First place, Mutchler. time 5hrs. j9 min. 30 seconds; prize S750. %.
 Second. Stickman of Nulato. time 6 hrs mins. 5S sec; prize s35O.0O.
 Third, Noljer. of Galena, time 6 hrs. 37 min. 12 sec; prize $25O.0
 Fourth place was won by Judge Clegg's team. time 6 hrs. A min. 3i seconds.
 A ladies Loop race of sixteen , miles held Sunday was won by Hor- 1 lense Parker. time l 1:46:42 Mrs Brink second, time 1:49:47 Mrs Miller third, time 1:5O:0O. There was seven starters.
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Chicago, Feb. 13, R)-Return- ing district attorney, Edwin Olson,
 Il d statement sblaming the failure of officials to enforce the law, for :he notorious crime wave in Chi cago. said: The liquor industry has provided tremendous added revenues for crooked officials who are already protecting other vice and crime" Quoting from a ma 'gazine article to the effect that there is almost hundred and twen- ty dollars graft on every barrel of beer sold by outlaw brewers. Ol- |'son said: "If this is true, then the revenue from this one source alone to crooked officials, police and poli- ticians, amount to six hundred thousand dollars daily.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
 APPROVED NOMINATIONS
 OF HILL AND HARDING

Washington. u. C., Feb. 14.(R- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nominations Of E.Coke Hill of San Francisco and a former Alaska as Judge of the Third Divi- sion to the position now held by Judge Eitchie. Also Justin Harding of Ohio, to be District Attorney of the First Division in the place now
 occupied by District Attorney Shoup
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

In wires received by Mrs. Leon
 ard Seppala and J b. Harlan. from Leonard Seppala after winning the New England derby. he states tho first prize was for s100O and cup. that he was elected an honorar! Club and was also elected to repre- sent he New England Club in the
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

Calexico. Feb. 14. H1-Earth- quakes again shook Imperial Valley yesterday morning causing nominal damage. The quake. shook down cornishes of buildings which were damaged by disturbances on Jan uary first. Two light shocks fol- lowed the first which was severe one which took place shortly after midnight,
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

Sydney. New South Wales, Feb. IA, Hurricane and floods caus- ed damage estimated at five million dollars to the city of Cairns, Queensland. several buildings in the down town district collapsed and one fifth of the towns structures are damaged. Loss of life is also reported.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
METHODIST CHURCH
 sERvJCEs

II A. M.-Sunday School and morning worship. Bible classes for all ages. Come out and spent one hour with us. The choir will sing.
 ! P. Evening worship. 15 minutes song service. Choir will sing. Sermon
 The club of the Methodist Church will hold banquet in the Club house on Tuesday Washing tons birthday.
 Rev. W. P. Baldwin.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

Paris, Feb. 13, (R-It was un- derstood after cabinet meeting held Saturday that Frances reply to the Coolidge disarmament pro- posal constituted an acceptance, with series of reservations" Foreign minister Briand will draft the reply and probably present 1t for approval Monday.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

San Diego. Feb. IA. (P)-Sea- plane Phone, which was attempt ing to break the thirty hour world 8 endurance record, landed after if teen hours battling with rain and squalls.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19
WHOSE ADVERTISING
 BILLS DO YOU PAyp

"The merchant who does not advertise pays the advertising bill 4,r the one who does.
 "Fvsry merchant in business pays aiyer- Using, whether he IL a competitors advertising takes any business away him, tile profit he would have made on the lost sale Is what his con,petitor's advertising him.
 "Nou have, perhaps, wopiered afford spend such aivrr- tLHing. That is easy fathom:,.. Their compet tors, who don't advertise, and whose business they take. pay for their advertising.
 ''say the Jones family Is 2 customer of yours The, have sixty dollars they intend spend with yon. They read the advertising oN your competitor aud ase induced to spend their sixty dnilars with him instead of spending It with you. The store makes twenty per cent, welys dollars, the sale They deduct, we will say. the one dollar ai- veftisi"g cost and have eleven dollars profit left. The advertising has them nothing They got back Its cost and had eleven tol's1u profit they would not have had oply for their advertising.
 "who pssa this advertising
 Did the advertiser pay? No. He got the cost back and peoHt besides
 Did the purchaser gay No He paid only the regplar prlce
 "Then who did p4y9
 'The meerhant that dd not advtrtise paid for his competitor's advestisinn He not only paid for the other fellows advertising hut he paid his cash drawer the proat his competitor made on the sale. The merphant that doesn't advertise pays the shvessisIs bin Or the that does He pays ip loas of sales aud loss of proata
 "TAe merchant that loses business through advertising has ssch high overhead and init sale eost that he ea.set reisbly ell soods cheapy the stose thst iacvesses It. sale aad reduces it's with adv6rtishg," ssa .s fta ss#e
 Ths Holmes County Hab Of MilIessbusg 0hin the above ayce tell is advevfisers spsaethiag abont a1westsins thst tAaa seldosn stop to thi.k ahoss. Another thias-aA yos eve, sss { !. merchant oGer he soods st lower pssee thas his competi.or who advestises. Ink t oves.
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destroy the entire business section was finally controlled after four hours fighting. The loss is esti- mated at one million dollars.
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

Bangor, Maine. Feb. IA. B-A fire last night which threatened to
The Nome nugget., 1927-02-19

San Franctsco, Feb. 14th, B- Stewart Menzies, secretary and treasurer of the Alaska Commercial Company, died yesterday. He was a pioneer and one of the early men to develop the Northland.
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Reno. Feb. 14. B-Winifred Westover Hart, wife of William Hart. the movie actor, was granted a divorce on the ground Of dsser- ton.
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TELEGRAPH BREvirtEs

London. Feb. 14, @-The Ex- change dispatch from Shanghai says that the Cantonese are meeting with severe reverses before the re- newed drive of the NOrtherners. Marshal Suns troops are reported to have advanced to within twenty miles of Hangchow.
Evening star., 1927-08-09

'The smartest comment OF the alter
noon, and my boy made it.
All the womenfolks said, "Oh, the
baby! The little Darling" and they
hauled him out and began passing
him around, and all the men said,
"Well, Joan, you're looking prettier
than ever" and she got out of the
car and they crowded around her,
and so I blew the horn couple OF
times and Bill said. whats that for?''
and l said. I'm just letting you and
me in on the welcome, that's all"
My mother said, Were all going
to have dinner here tonight, and make
two.family reunion out Of it," and
so we did.
After dinner Bill beat it to the
dance he was so anxious to get here
for, and the rest of us sat around
talking. and everybody asked every
body else how were they and how had
they been, and after an hour Of that
the conversation got little thin, and
Joans father said. well, We ought
to have little celebration. Are you
and Bob too tired after your trip to
do anything. Joan" and I said, Il
think I'm too tired to sleep, but I'm
willing to try it. Five hundred miles
in two days is" and Joan said,
why. no. We're not tired: What
would everybody like to do?"
My father said, IT'S too late to so
anywhere special. but we can find
something to do If you're sure you're
not too tired" and I said. ut isn't
too late to go to bed. Five hundred
miles in two days is" and Joan
said. "Oh, now. really, we're not tired
and my sister said. II know what let's
do. Joan and Bob haven't been home
for so long. let's take them on a long
wi