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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-08
A2SstaIaN N ~.

You know he amt one to stand on
ceremony like me. Well, folks, here
we are! We got married last night
at the Second Baptist church all
right and proper, and Jim thought
it was only fair to come around and
tell you so. And don't aim to start
my iew married life by coming be.
tween father and children"
The children" looked at them,
too startled at first to speak. Faith
had the odd feeling that she had
never really seen these middle-aged
people before. They stood in the
archway between the dining and liv.
ing rooms, their veined, brown, work.
marked hands clasped, the new Mrs.
Lane towering over her husband.
but somehow not extinguishing him
as Martha Lane had done. Kate was
wearing q new, homemade blue
taffeta dress under her decent gray
tweed coat, and her broad. ,trucu-
lent, honest face was flushed with
pride and shy love. rather than with
embarrassment. Faiths eyes row.
ed wonderingly to her father: He
was standing very upright, MS
shoulders squared proudly in . new
navy blue serge suit. Gone from
his care- 'orn, lined face was the
hang-dog look which had so often
cut her to the heart since her moth
er had died and Jim had felt useless
and unwanted in the homes Of his
children. And in hia eyes. too, as
they rested on Kate Lundy Lanes
big. homely face. was.a ahy new love
and an understanding sort OF re-
,ect.
Suddenly all her unworthy re;
sentiment fell away from Faith, and
she wa. merely glad. With arms
outstretched she went forward to
welcome the new member OF the
Lane family.
NEXT: The new Mrs, Lane has
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-08

ed SO far back BY the prize fight
after all.
The next time the government
stages an oil conspiracy trial, we
think an alienist should be called
in to examine the jurors for mo-
tor completes.
II you don't b&lisve we've had 4
fine administration the last lew
years you should read the president :
Thanksgiving proclamation anu
grow wise.
A Spokane man, whose wife got
Z divorce, WAS awarded = betnlns
suit from the houaahold cf1ecls'
Just in case he wants to take Az
other plunge.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-08

several kinds Of fruit at On. +;,~
Outside Of the rashes caused s'1l h::
poisonous weeds there il No ~, oy
cause Of . rashy or itchy skin er Ys.es
the irritating poisons which ~ corps
from faulty food combinations "'s
The under.nourished child j, -
sorry. plight due to his parsn..s
ignorance, but the child who is o Sa.s
weight Is also = fit subject for , ar
development Of such chronic diso ,%e
ers AZ diabetes and heart trou I,c'
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aNew Yorker.
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London, Nov. 8.-London is what
Kansas City would call . "ten o'clock
town."
At midnight the London subways
have tucked in and gone to bed.
Since there has been little reason
for good folk to stay out to this
ungodly hour, there is little neces-
sity for operating mediums Of
transport. Outside q few blinking
neighborhood "pubs," in which you
will find only those who can walk
home or who can afford taxis, you
find only stragglers from the Lyons
tea rooms.
And right here you bang bluntly
up against the contrast between
night life as practiced in and about
broadway and in and about Plea
dilly Circus. Lyons tea rooms are
the Fairgrounds Of those many
strollers caught upon Regent street,
the Strand and way points. Per-
haps these strollers haven't enough
money to buy their girls drink
at the bars; perhaps they don't care
to go to bars-and so everybody
and his brother shows up at Lyons.
Lyons mounts floor upon floor over
acres of space, each floor more
crowded than the last and most of
the patrons settled down to spend
the evening listening to the or
chestra. For the price of a dish of
ice cream and = couple Of cookies
one can move right in and defy any,
one to GUST you. uonT lines wait
on stairways and Railways and about
tables. But the turnover turns over
very slowly. The average London
job-holder has little money to spend
and spends it slowly. He cannot
toss about his greenbacks, shillings,
or whatever they are. He must be
as frugal Is q chorus girl lunching
at Childs in Manhattan.
OF course there are the night
clubs. But anyone who can afford
q London night club can afford to
own a car. In Broadway big butter
and egg men have been known to
spend the price Of . car in . single
evening. But London is no place
for a big butter man to be look
ing around for gaiety unless he has
British friends. For night clubs in
London are just what their names
imply: they are clubs. London 10
very literal in such. matters. If,
as on Broadway, they weren't clubs
at all but merely drop-in places
for the faded, London would say 50.
So London night. clubs are clubs
in the strictest sense and only those
who have crashed the gates Of men,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-08

While Biz Bin Thompeon was bat
tling the British il Cllieago, Eng
land WAS observing rat-week. Oh.
rats!
They're packing 'em In for the
football games at SOLDIER Field II
Chicago whore Dempsey and Tunney
fought. Education hasn't been push
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A Thought

Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Prov. 14:34.
Right Is more beautiful than
private affection, and is compatible
with universal wisdom.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-08

DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet, addressed to him, care Of
the Tribune.
Enclose q stamped addressed
envelope for reply.
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NEXT: The new Mrs, Lane has
her say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
LANDOWNERS IN CHINA

to 80 per cent? and the agrarian question is DOM
mated by the landlord-peasant relationship.
3. Peasant economics have been dragged under the
influence of world markets, specialized civilizations, etc.
but social and legal relationships still dominated
by feudal and semi-feuda customs, and institutions.
A. The unprogressve technique of agriculture prae-
tcay unchanged for thousands of years. produces
exceedingly minute division of units of cultivation The
tremendous of population accenuates this fac
tor and simultaneously heghtens the intensity of cul
tivaton.
s. Out of these factors has grown exploitation of
the of peasantry, of degree unknown in any
other land amounting to 70 so per cent of their
produce in the of the main bulk of tenants or
sem-tenants.
Here are the main outlines of the most fundamental
question of the Chinese Revolution 1t is not yet real
lied in the West that it is the peasanry who furnish
the main driving force of this revolution; is quite
usual the contrary, to read remarks in the Ameri-
can and English press especially to the effect that
the conservative peasantry of China will put an
end to the Boshevik" tendencies of the revolution 1t
will be the purpose of these articles to make clear why
it is that while the "Boshevk working class in the
cities is leading the revolution, yet at the time
it is the conservative" peasantry which relentlessly
drives the revolution and which makes it impos
sible to find compromise which will stabilize China
short of horoughgoing transformation of its entire
economic and social system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
By EARL BROWDER.
ARTICLE l.

There is general ignorance in Western countries
about the conditions of and-ownership in China Two
opposing misconceptions prevail, which make it diff
ficult to understand the peasant movement in China
These must first be disposed of.
The oldest of these misconceptions is, that there is
private ownership of land, that such private
ownership recent arising only since the overthrow of
the Manchus 1911) Such well-known writers China
MacGowan, Williams, Symon, Simcox, Douglas deal
with the land exclusively the property of the head
of the government who is "the only landlord" Going
to another extreme, current conception is that China
is "a land where the peasants already most of
the soil" (see Newsletter No g. of American Commit
tee for Justice to China, July g. 1921 Both of these
ideas aye far from the truth.
What, then, is the actual situation in its broad out
lines? will characterize the status of land-ownership
and occupancy in series of points, and then elaborate
each of them with actual figures of Investigations
l. Private and absolute ownership of land is the
basis of the Chinese landholdng system. So-caled
public lands largely based upon private ownership
(by family, clan, etc.
2 very large proportion of the privately-owned
land is in the hands of relatively small class of land
basis of the Chinese land-hlodng system So-caled
public land is also cultivated by landless peasants Thus
the preponderant element in agricultural production is
the tenant varying in different provinces from 40
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
Patriotism and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

grist to the mill of humble book
salesman. Sacco and Vanzetti are
workers. What other fate have work
ers anywhere?
What l keep wondering is about
that electrocutioner, Robert Elliot of
Richmond Hill, L. I.
He has had to stay up in Boston
ever since August 10th waiting to kill
Sacco and Vanzetti, I wonder whether
he is annoyed l wonder whether he
gets paid for waiting, or whether he
just gets paid by the job and all this
extra delay is costing him money.
Of course his business must be
pretty good for he kills for three
states-New York, New Jersey and
Massachusetts. But if he only gets so
much a murder, he doesn't want to
spend any more time at it then nee
essary. That's one thing about mod
ern methods of killing, they take less
time than the old-fashioned ones; al
tho they must give much less thrill
to the executioner. For instance, just
pulling a switch is not very exciting
even tho you know it burns man to
death. A hanging took more practice
ard skill.
One of Mr.. Elliot's neighbors out in
Richmond Hill told friend Of mine
that Sacco and Vanzetti ought to be
hanged. There ought to be public
hanging out in front of the City Hall
with everybody invited. That's the
way to treat those criminals" says
the neighbor.
That's the kind of people who live
in Richmond Hill. It's quiet, middle
class suburb, full of meek white-collar
slaves, and very, very respectable.
MI. Elliot's neighbor is quite typical
of the community. No wonder Mr..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22

Elliot lives there. He is doubtless
much admired.
can picture him grasping the
morning papers and eagerly scanning
the pages for murders" Business,
you know my dear; business" Even
if it's only bonus on each killing and
flat retainer the rest of the time,
Mr.. Elliot must relish seeing the num-
bers mount up. Cop Stays picket"
oh no; that wouldn't mean business.
MAN chokes wife,; "Wife Stays low
err; Bandits kill pursuers," etc., etc.
The times are right for Mr.. Elliot,
that's certain. In his little suburban
cottage he can sit secure; sure that
for him there will be no business de-
preston; lazily dreaming OF switches
and levers and straps and wires.
He's been waiting for this Boston
job for a long time. They've kept
postponing it year after year Just
nonsence. Sheer spinelessness on the
part of the government. The idea of
allowing appeals and stays and petit
lions and all this legal flub-dub! The
idea of bringing him up there two
weeks ago for the murder and then
issuing reprieve. Why not get the
thing over with, He had the chair
all ready, everything set; and then
they postpone it again.
Well every business has its annoy
ances. Even killing is not free from
cares. Now Mr.. Elliot will have to
go over the whole electric chair bit
by bit again. Try every part of it.
Make sure there is no slip-up, no err
ror Three men to be killed, and it
must be done neatly and quickly.
Robert Elliot is sitting in Boston
waiting. Workers of the world, will
he be allowed to carry out his MUIR
derous job?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
w Q NJ z n
WOMEN DRIVEN TO WORK AS AVERAGE AMERICANA
WORKERS WAGES FALL FAR SHORT OF mel

least Sal for a full weeks VOL
cover inevitable loss of ear
through sickness, layoffs and
time. The building trades worker
can count on only about rs per
of full time work throughout the
must make at least $50 week
working. Nor will these earn
make any provision for the pure
of new necessaries and comforts
ed to the normal family standa1
the progress of industry since
Wages Short of Needs.
If the wages paid in Illinois
typical, male workers in this COT
fall at least 80 per cent short Of
ing able to provide a family with
minimum standard of health and
fort. The average male worke
Illinois factories, according to
state department of labor, m
about S31.50 a week. In the bull
industry the average is $44.27.
leading manufacturing industries
averages are iron and steel So
cars and locomotives $31.61, agr
tural implements $28.76, boots
shoes $25.0S, oil $32.36, job prir
$42.85, mems clothing $34.10 and l
packing $27.32.
A 40 per cent increase all along
line would hardly bring these earn
up to the departments standard.
they are the wages of men with e
right to support family in acc
ance with the standards amply
sible with American industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
By LELAND OLDS,
Federated Press).

How far American wages fall short
of enabling the workers to support
their families in decency and comfort
can be computed with considerable ac-
curacy from the U. S. department of
labor's publication of cost of living
figures for June, 1927. Using these
figures to bring the original depart
nent of labor minimum budget up-to-
date, we find the joker in all the en-
ployer blah about Improvement in the
living standards of American workers.
There has been a gain, but the start
was made at so low standard that
the average worker family still falls
far short of the decent living which
the country's productive capacity could
provide.
High Cost of Living.
In August 1919, according to the
department, a worker family includ-
ing children required at least ST.
262.47 a year to maintain itself in
health and reasonable comfort. The
recent report shows that since that
date the cost of the budget items has
changed to such an extent that 81, 1873
is required to maintain the same stan
dard today.
The average expenditures necessary
to meet the major items of this health
and comfort budget for family with
8 children on the basis of costs in
June 1927 were:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
By HELEN BLACK.

One thing about the capitalist sys-
TEN, it never lets a money-making
chance slip by. Its commercial eye is
always peeled for opportunities to
cash in on every mood, or whim, or
event of the moment.
Take the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti for instance. Up near Boston
it is an opening for betting. On Au-
gust 10th, in Roxbury, the odds were
heavily against the two doomed men
in the morning; but as the day wore
on they steadily changed until at 7
p. m. they were 4 to in favor of
reprieve. This did not mean, of
course, that these bettors hoped for
a reprieve. What difference did that
make to them? 1t was just that they
were gambling on stay of execu-
tion-and they won. Probably the
odds are not so good today since the
verdict of the state supreme court
came in.
Here in New York, ex-soldiers are
making the most of the great world
workers tragedy in a novel office to
office canvas. Armed with creden-
tials from the American Legion they
call upon bankers; brokers, rnanufac-
turers, and other pillars of our So
cial order,
Il wanted to tell va about fund
we're raisin' fer the education O. for
eigners in this country" says the stall
wart legionnaire.
"Ya see Their er 100000 ignorant
foreigners right in our midst an we
gotta make good Americans out of
'em. This here Sacco-Vanzetti case
shows va what they are. Tryin' t
interfere with our courts an law and
prevent a couple of wop murderers
from gettin' what's comm to EN-
"Now we're gonna establish a
fund to educate these BIS, or
out they go. What we want you to
do is endorse this complete history of
the world war-written from both the
Allied and the German point of view,
everythin' about the war-an' then
we'll inscribe in it the name of your
son Qhe already knows the man has
one) or some other relative who
served in the world war. All the
profits of the history go to edjacatin
these 10 million foreigners-every
cent of profit to the fund: and all its
costs you is S127 includin' your name
among the endorsers. The most com
plete account of all the events of the
great world war, etc, ETC."
Before he leaves, the salesman
shows some of the pictures they have
decided to leave out of the book be-
cause they are too horrible -some Of
the atrocities of the great conflict for
democracy. Since the history is said
to present both sides of the war, we
can presume the unpublished pictures
are also the atrocities committed by
both armies.
But after all, if Representative
Johnson uses Sacco and Vanzetti TO.
personal publicity for himself, aE>
Secretary Of Labor Davis uses them
as mn excuse for some more Of his
I a,fe;-alien measures, why are they not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
F a z NJ E K s
TO ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS OF TOILING
FARMERS AND PEASANTS OF ALL COUNTRY

Dear Friends: We are addressing
this letter to you to join us in the
struggle against the preparation for
new world war
Recent events have shown that the
menace of a world war is closer and
more direct than it might have SEEM
ed some time ago. We have witnessed
number of open acts provocating
armed conflicts.
No one who is sincerely interested
in preserving peace can now close his
eyes to these facts. 1t is not sufficient
to call oneself an opponent to war
without at the same time doing some
thing definite against the real men,
ace of war. 1t is not enough to de-
clare oneself in favor Of peace and to
give vent TO general slogans about
the brotherhood of nations, and mean
while to support the imperialists who
are carrying on war against the revo-
lutionary liberation movement of the
peasants and workers and all toiling
masses of China, and feverishly pre-
pairing military invasion of the U.
S. S. R. The struggle for peace must
not be a struggle of words, but of
action. All real friends of peace, all
those who are really opposed to war,
must at the present time unite on the
basis of comomn platform of strug-
gle against the war dangers.
United Front.
Against the united front of the enc
mics of the toiling masses-the or
ganizers of war, let us establish a
united anti-war front of the toiling
| farmers and peasants of the world.
| Let US join the ranks of the working
class and those of it's organizations
which are really fighting against the
/ threatening war. Let us strengthen in
| the struggle the fraternal alliance of
| the workers and farmers and peasants
throughout the world. No matter how
different the path along which the
various farmers and peasants organi-
cations and their leaders want to
serve the cause and the interests of
the farmers and peasants, no matter
! how different their fighting methods
may be, in the face of the menace of
war and in the struggle against it
the extension and consolidation of the
international unity of the toiling far
mers and peasants of the world must
| become the most essential task Of all
the laboring farmer and peasant orr
CARNATIONS and all real defenders of
the farmers and peasants interests.
Reach understanding.
The Farmers and Peasants Inter
national Council proposes to the or
CARNATIONS and leaders of the toiling
farmers and peasants Of all countries
to come to an understanding among
each other concerning joint measures
and common program of action
against the menacing world war. 1T
is necessary to prepare joint cam
paigns among the broad masses of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
IS THIS I. OR sACCO AND VANZETTI?
BY LEO YURMANN.
(Translation by Joseph N. Katz.)

They lead me Monday midnight
To the understanding the
modern.
Ny night becomes restless
And red and fully insane;
With feverish visions,
With fearful phantasies, with death
delirium,
Like raven, ever restless
l break out of my sleep
And cry and SILVER.
The day became heavy
And out of all windows betrayal
SCOTS at me;
My night, bloody crying became
And | sit with bloody eyes upon my
bed
And cry and shiver;
Is this !, or Sacco and Vanzetti?
No, this is, the night answers:
This is, you and they,
And they and you
And the whole world.
The whole world,
The whole world!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
Sacco and Vanzett
S hall Not Die

, farmers and peasants. it is cess
to disclose the instigators of the i
world war by means Of joint mani
toes and leaflets, by means of issu
common pamphlets, and adopting al
war resolutions at the farmers
peasants meetings,>by means of ma
festations and demonstrations,
means of converting various dist
and national anti-war farmers !;
peasants conferences, by appear
before all representative institute
parliament, municipal, institute
etc.), focusing the attention of
masses to the horrors which will
suit from such war.
Unite to Struggle.
We call upon you to begin and ca
on most energetic campaign un}
the slogans: "Down with the instij
tors of war-the landlords and ca
talists!' Hands off China and /
U. S. S. r., Farmers and workers
all countries, unite in the Sstrugl
against war;"
In order to lend the campaign Cd
crete character, and to rally the bro
masses of farmers and peasants,
is necessary to link up these slog
with the everyday needs of the far
ers and peasants. In every individl
district it is necessary to combine II
campaign with local conditions.
The anti-war struggle must be, c;
ried on not only by the farmers a
peasants organizations and leade
but must also draw in the farmers a
peasants masses. For this reason
propose to set up anti-war farmer a
peasant committees and to unity thu
activities.
Help Offered.
The Farmers and Peasants Int
national Council will help in eve
way any of your undertakings +
the preservation of peace. We a
ready to discuss all questions and pr
posals concerning the intensificati
OF the antl-war struggle with all {
CARNATIONS and leaders of the far,
ers' and peasants organizations ma
by them.
All farmers and peasants organ
cations and their leaders must at t
same time carefully consider the qus
ton how to unite the national an
war struggle of workers and peasar
with this movement in other countri,
Dear friends, the Farmers a
Peasants International Council ca
upon you to join hands with the wor
ingclass in the struggle against t
preparation for new war which "
injure the toiling farmers and pei
ants more than anyone else. '
therefore ask all the defenders of t
farmers and peasants interests to {
press their opinion on the issues !
touched upon here.
Awaiting your reply.
Yours fraternally,
For the Presidium Of the Farme
and Peasants International Couns
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22
Women Forced to Work.

Women Forced to Work.
This means that the average father
employed in industry should have at
least $42 a week throughout the year.
If he can't earn it himself the mother
of his children must become a wage
Garner to supplement his inadequate
earnings or his family will experience
the rigors of poverty.
To assure this income the average
male factory worker must average at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22

O, how heavy weighs the day upo
my back!
would become blind,
| would become deaf
And not hear
Insanity colored voices
Of fear and blood,
Always, out of my sleep i shiverl
And my eyes search,
And they dig;
Am l being crucified,
Will / be led bound
Monday midnight
To the last walk, of mine?
Or are these
Sacco and Vanzetti?
Brothers, my brothers!
do not know!
1t seems to me;
l, with death-scorched face,
/, With countless, uncounted,
Tort ared deaths,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-22

grist to the mill of humble book
salesman. Sacco and Vanzetti are
workers. What other fate have work.
ers anywhere?