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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
The Party's Shortcomings, Mistakes and Problems

task, because of the fact that these
unorganized- masses are a reservoir
to draw upon and with which to COM
bat the reactionary union leadership.
The slogan of amalgamation Of the
existing craft unions into militant
industrial unions. is now more than
ever-a vital slogan for the campaign
to mobilize the unions against the
reactionary bureaucracy. In our trade
union work we must develop a posi-
tive program, positive slogans to
fight company unionism and class
collaboration. schemes. Merely de-
nouncing them may be good but it
is not sufficient.
In our agricultural work, the paper
which has been established must be
built into a mass paper The United
Farmers Educational League must
be given deeper roots. 1t must en-
gage in more united front movements.
The Party must take concrete steps
to develop its agricultural program.
The American Negro Labor Con-
gress must be given more support
than hitherto. We must make more
efforts to penetrate the basic Negro
mass organizations. We must get out
more literature that will appeal to
Negro masses not as Negro masses
alone, but as one of the more impor-
tant sections of the whole group Of
oppressed and exploited working
masses in this country.
In the women's work there must
be organized a national women's de-
partment. We must concentrate our
energies particularly on women in in
dustry more than in any other field
In the cooperatives our present pol
icy should be continued but we must
build up a strong directing centre.
In reference to the youth, more
political guidance We must help the
youth organizationally and must
avoid under all circumstances that
the youth should ever again be drawn
in as the youth into the internal Par
ty struggle.
The campaign of the foreign born
is vital phase of the next campaign
to build the Party and here the Party
must strengthen it's directing centre
We have made Roadway in this field
We have established contacts with
conservative trade union leaders. We
have reached conservative sections OF
the workingclass, but we have only
barely scratched the surface of this
field.
Next, we, must raise the theological
level Of the Party membership. Ou1
Party apparatus must be strength
/ ened. Errors must be and can be cor
rected. District committees must be
built on a much firmer basis thar
they existed up to date. We must pre-
pare to build an apparatus that viii
. be able to serve us to withstand any
attack on the Party, in case the
attack takes the form of denying u
the right to exist as we do today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

NOTE: This is the tenth install
ment of the report for the Political
Committee made by Jay Lovestone,
at the recent Fifth National Con-
vention of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party held in New York City,
This installment deals with "The
Party's Shortcomings, Mistakes and
Problems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

when in spite the heaped upon by labor official
dom and the capitalist press nonpary worker writes frankly
official expressing his faith our party and asking
it's assistance in the industry in which he works.
goes without saying that the opinion of this worker is
largely upon the deeds of party well its
In the specific matter with which he deals we'll
which increasing number Of workers will call to
deadly effects of official labor corruption make
party speedy and energetic atten
the necessary steps toward building left wing which will
able corruption and organization movements
sufficient vitality withstand and survive the efforts OF crooked
and incompetent union officials to demoraize them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Letter on Organization From Worker to Our Party

The demorazng affect of official corruption and sabotage OF
organization campaigns the unoganzed workers and the
labor has been described in these columns more than
once Concrete affecting important OF workers
find in the annals of the labor movement
1t is not however that document such publish
herewith hand giving detailed account OF the sinister
activities disastrous results of labor officadoms activities
minor industry and by worker who records only
those facts with which he is familiar.
addressed of the editors of The DAILY WORKER the
letter is as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

l understand, they
have taken a lesson
from Ko-Ko and they
a | w ay S give the
Japanese university
students the libretto
to read before they
let them visit any
E n G Ii S h speaking
countries, to get them
used to it by degrees.
T h s lad did his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Y DRAMA IN
Probably Lese Majesty
Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" Excellently
Done at the Royae Theatre

| REMEMBER, in my student days,
4 accompanying a graduate of the
Imperial University of Toxic to see
"The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sulli-
van. He hadn't heard it. Nowadays,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

Doris Niles, at her dance perfor-
nance in Carnegie Hall on October
25th, will introduce a new suite based
on the life of Joan of Arc and ar
ranged to music by Brahms and
Humperdink.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Notes

Georges Baslawsky, Conductor Of
the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra,
announces the following soloists who
will appear this season at Carnegie
Hall: Luella Melius will appear at the
opening concert Oct. II; Joseph
Szigeti, Ignaz Friedman, Joseph Ach-
ron, Jacques Thibaud and Nikolai Or
loft are the others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Chicago, I'll.
Sept. II, 1927.
Mr.. Editor,
Daily Worker,
New York City.
Editor,

New York City.
Dear Mr.. :
Have been reading for time with great deal of
interest your expose of the udases of Labor While have
not always sympahised with the Communists socialists
have reached the conclusion that the Communists
are sincere in their fight for labor.
am a picture frame maker and have been for ten
We have tried twice to organize union Of our craft
far have aeddue to the treachery of officials
Only few months ago another attempt made and
charter granted by the Carpenters and JOiners mme
daeIy AFTER the seappoined officials of the Picture
Frame Workers Union opened luxurous furnished office
at Suite COS, 179 West Washington Boulevard.
Members in by the dozens, each paying intia
fee of three dollars month and dues of two dollars
per month. A few meetings held and then all of
sudden the union apparently died. No meetings have been
held for two months
RumOrs flying thick and fast. Some have that the
leaders paid by the employers quit AT rate the
officials of the union have been at the various
tracks in Cook County several different occasions.
The in the industry clamoring for organization
The shop conditions becoming almost unbearabe and the
inside spies constantly at work trying to ferret
those who dare talk These shops can be organized but
the A. f. of L. is apparently receiving graft to lay off,
Cannot the Workers Party help us?a least by investi
eating what made the union suddenly become inactive?
afford lose job by telling at which plant work
because children support but will help when
abe Communists get active.
Yours very truly,
General Delivery.
Chicago, Ill.
of breeze blowing thru the ranks Of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

The program of Dance Moods by
Tamiris at the Little Theatre on Oc-
tober 9th, will include two modern
American compositions, 1927" by
George Gershwin and "Circus
Sketches" by John Powell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

Augusta Lenska, contralto of the
Chicago Civic Opera Company, will
make her local debut at Town Hall
on October 18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

The Russian Symphonic Choir will
begin their tour this season at
Plymouth Mass, on October oath.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
General Delivery.
Chicago, I'll.

is of Importance for party, well ndica
breeze blowing thru the ranks of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
The Desert Song
The L A d D E r

POPULAR PRICES. Best seats
$220. CORT THEATRE, 4Sth st.
e. of B'way. Ewes. $40. Matt
nees Wed. and Sat. at 2:30.
Evening star., 1927-12-08
LIONS CLUB TO GIVE
BOOKS FOR BLIND
Votes to Contribute 1924 to Have
HELEN Keller Stories Writ
ten in Braille.

The Lions Club voted to contribute
1924 to have four stories by Helen
Keller written in Braille, Is copies to
be made of each, to be placed at the
disposal of the blind in various libra
ries, at it's luncheon in the Mayf1oWer
Hotel yesterday.
A request for the money was made
before the club at it luncheon No
vember 80 by Mrs. Ida Hirst Clifford,
organizing director of the American
Foundation for the Blind, Inc. The
board of directors acted upon the re-
quest at it's first meeting and placed
the matter before the club, which
voted for the gift.
The great need of books printed in
Braille for the blind was stressed by
Mrs. Clifford when she appeared be-
fore the club.
Decision was reached for every
member of the club to locate some
needy family within the next several
weeks and supply basket of food or
whatever seems the most appropriate
gift for Christmas. Vergne G. Pot
ter is chairman of the clubs Christ
mas charities committee.
An address was delivered at the
luncheon by DR.. Frederick Treudley,
retired professor of Ohio University,
who stressed the Importance of paus.
ing long enough in going through
life to enjoy nature and the teachings
of the great scholars. Recitations
were given by Miss Hester Beall
DIR. Robert Scott Lamb, first vice
president of the club, presided.
Evening star., 1927-12-08
RURAL FOLK EARLY
CHRISTMAS BUYERS
0ut-of- Town Shoppers Ahead
of City Residents in
Holiday Purchases.

Out -oftown shoppers. farmers and
residents of the smaller towns and
villages within radius Of 35 miles of
Washington have taken a greater ad-
vantage of the opportunity for early
Christmas shopping this year than
have residents of the city, according
to the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
A survey of the downtown stores,
Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the
merchants association, reports, shows
this year in the number of early holi-
day purchases made by out-of-town
shoppers.
"As a matter of fact, farmers al
ways have been the earlier shoppers
in each Christmas season." Mr.. Shaw
commented. Farmers and their wives
are keen students of merchandise of.
ferings. You will find them in our
stores studying their Christmas gift
lists long before the average city
shopper realizes that Christmas is in
the offing.
This year farmers and out-of-toWn
shoppers We're the first to act when
our merchants agreed to place their
complete Christmas gift lines on sale
earlier than usual. Farmers, or at
least their wives, realize that early
December offers the best possible buy
ing opportunities. They like to make
their selections from complete stocks
and when the regular employees of the
stores have plenty of time to consider
their needs"
Evening star., 1927-12-08
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

National-Earl Carroll "Vanities," !"
at S:20 pm.
Poli's-Washington National Opera
Co. in Carmen" at $40 pm.
BelascO-"Celebrity," drama. at $40
pm.
Keith's-Ned Wayburn Promenad-
ers, vaudeville. at 2:15 and SIS pm
Earle-Libby Dancers, vaudeville,
continuous 1870 to II pm.
Gayety-"Here we Are" burlesque,
at 2:15 and 8:15.
Strand-"Girls From he Follies,
burlesque, at 2:15 and SI5 pm.
Fox-"Pajamas,' continuous ~ m.
to IL pm.
Columbia-"Sorr and Son." at II
am, 1855. 3, 5, 7:25 and 9:25 pm.
Rialto-"She's a Sheik." at 11:40
am, 1870, $40, 5:25, 1880 and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Thirteenth Hour" at
IL am. 1890, 2:3O, APO, s. 8 and 10
pm.
Metrop0litan-"The Girl in the
Pullman" at II am, 12:40, 2:20. AIS,
555. 7:45 and $40 pm.
Little Theater-"Moon Of Israel
(second week., at 1870, $50, $50, 1880
and $50 pm.
TivOli-"Annie Laurie" at 2:20,
4:05, $50, TAO and $50 pm.
Ambassad0r-"Seve Heaven" at
5:15, 7:15 and $50 pm.
CentraI-''The Chinese Parrot" at
1880, 2, $3.50. s, $50, and 9:40 pm.
Evening star., 1927-12-08
DONALDSON IS NAMED
AS MAJOR GENERAL
Brig. Gen. w. D. Connor Appoint
ed Commandant of Army
War College.

Brig. Gen. Thomas @. Donaldson,
now in command Of troops in the Dis.
trict of Columbia, yesterday was ap-
pointed a major general of the line,
to take effect December 10, on the
statutory retirement of Maj. Gen. Ed
ward M. Lewis. Brig. Gen. Henry M.
Todd, jr., also was promoted to the
grade of major general, effective De-
cember "a, on the statutory retirement
of Maj Gen. James H. McRae.
Another military appointment Of in,
terest to the District was that Of
Brig. Gen. William D. Connor as COM
mandant of the Army War College at
Washington Barracks, a post recently
vacated by Maj. Gen. H. E. Ely. Gen.
Connor was assistant chief of staff
and head of the coordination section
of the General Staff with the Ameri-
can Expeditionary Forces and won
the distinguished service medal.
He is from Wisconsin and was grad.
uated from the Military Academy in
1897. Since the World War he has
served as chief of the supply division
of the War Department General Staff,
as commanding general of the United
States Army forces in China and as
commanding general of the I'd Divi-
sion at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, where
he now Is stationed.
Evening star., 1927-12-08

A toy balloon that travelled 11S miles
from Birkenhead to PAUL, England.
won the balloon race at the Birken.
head School Elizabethan Fair this
wear
Evening star., 1927-12-08
OKLAHOMA INQUIRY
WILL COMMENCE TODAY
Self-Convened Legislature Will
Start Hearing witnesses
Against Governor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, December s.
With the Senate declaring itself a
legally constituted court of impeach-
ment, the lower house of Oklahoma's s
self-convened Legislature today was
busy outlining specific charges against
the administration of Gov. Henry S.
Johnston.
Representative H. Tom Kight, chair
man of the committee of So members
assigned. to investigate various State
departments, said witnesses had been
summoned to testify today before va
rious subcommittee. He indicated the
inquiry would center on appointments
made during the Johnston admins
tration. Expenditures under the di-
rection Of the State Highway Depart
ment also were specified for investi-
CATION.
Meanwhile the Senate marked time
pending the action by the House in
its announced plan to conduct the
inquiry with a view to starting i'm
parchment proceedings.
Gov. Johnston continued to refuse
to recognize the legislators. while the
State Supreme Court, which held there
was no authority for seif-convened
session, faced investigation along with
other departments.
Evening star., 1927-12-08
AANS STUDENT CENTER.
northwestern Will Erect $3.50, 900
Union Building.

CHICAGO, December s R.-North-
western University, which yesterday
announced plans for extensive i'm
provement of it's downtown campus
is preparing to add to it's Evanston
ILL.,, campus a S750,0O0 union building
James A. Armstrong, dean of men
in announcing preliminary steps fol
the union, said it would serve as q
center for man student activities and
would carry provisions for a field
house.
Evening star., 1927-12-08

With the establishment of four new
broadcasting stations within the next
year. it Is estimated that Japan will
have 100000 owners of receiving sets.
Evening star., 1927-12-08
WAR CLAIM BILL FAVORED
House Committee Approves Ger
man-American Measure.

A bill practically identical with the
one passed last session by the House
for the settlement of German.Ameri.
can war claims has been approved by
the House ways and means commit
tee.
1t is the plan Of the committee to
work out an amendment designed to
settle claims between American and
Austro-Hungarian citizens, which will
be offered when the measure is taken
up by the House, probably before
Christmas.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
MiScHIEVoUS BEAR
RUINS COIL OF WIRE

In laying out telephone lines in our
National Forests, aside from the diff
culties involved in transporting ma.
terials by pack mules into the noun
tains, some amusing incidents often
occur.
For example, when the telephone
lines were placed in the Shenandoah
National Forest, the largest forest in
the southern Appalachian Mountains,
lying in the states Of Virginia and
West Virginia, the workmen, on leav.
ing the job one night, left coil of
wire tied loosely on the ground while
they went to camp nearby. During
the night bear evidently in playful
mood, got mixed up In the coil of wire
and, when the men returned to the
job next morning. they found the wire
scattered all over the mountain and
so badly kinked and damaged that II
was unfit for use.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927
GAS TAX BILL PASSES

The bill providing for a " cent
gasoline tax for construction of
lateral. roads will become effective
throughout the State April l.
Governor Richie, in a written
statement, said he would sign the
measure The bill passed the House
March Is by vote of rs to 40 and
the Senate by vote of 19 to 10.
A clause in the measure provides
that the tax shall become effective
April if passed and signed before
that date.
When the bill was passed by the
Senate Governor Richie notified
William S. Gordy, State Comptroller,
and E. Austin Baughman, Commits
sioner of Motor Vehicles, and re
quested them to have everything
in readiness so that the tax could
be placed in operation on the day
designated. Each Immediately be
gan the necessary work and said it
would be completed by the end OF
this month.
The Commissioner of Motor We
hicles will issue the authorized re-
bate tags and blanks and make
every effort to have the law thor
oughly enforced. 1t will be his de
partmet's special duty to arrest any
motorist who attempts to go beyond
the confines of city or town in q
motor vehicle bearing the special
tags.
The police departures and other
authorities of the State will have the
authority to arrest any motorist who
attempts to go beyond the confines
of city or town in motor vehicle
bearing the special tags.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
DANGER FROM CORN BORER
IN DUMPED FACTORY
REFUSE

Waste and refuse from broom
factories and canning factories are
among the possible sources of new
corn-borer infestation unless prop
erly disposed of at the plant, says
the United State Department of
Agriculture. Broom corn, when re-
ceived at the factory in the raw
state, usually consists of from Is to
SO inches of the upper part of the
broom corn plant, including the
'hurls" or that portion used in
brooms, and the upper part of the
staff or butt
The European corn borer has been
found commonly in that part of the
plant comprising the butt" in
broom corn grown in Massachusetts
and also in material received from
italy. During the process of manu-
nches long are usually removed
rom the base of these butts and
discarded as refuse. This refuse
become a source of danger, espec,
tally when dumped along the banks
of water cources. The original in
festion along the Mohawk River in
eastern New York is supposed to
De directly traceable to infested re
fuse from a broom factory at
Amsterdam.
Similarly, danger exists from ref
use from canning factories, which
use sweet corn from infested areas,
since it comonly contains large num-
bers of living borers. This refuse
usually consists of the cobs, husks,
silk ,shanks and ears on which the
kernels are not properly developed
or affected by insects or plant di-
seases. Most of the infested mater
ial is hauled away by farmers, often
to points outside the infested area,
and fed to livestock or used as fer
tiltzer. Under these conditions some
of the borers may escape en- route
and others may escape after reach
ing the farm, thus .startig new
infections.
All waste products of this descrip-
ton should be burned in areas sub
ject to corn-borer attack.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25

CONSTANT WAR ON
THE CLOTHES MOTH
Insect Pest Always Enemy
of Mankind.

The necessaries of life for civilized
man are food, shelter and clothing.
The insignificant clothes moth has for
thousands of years affected the Gus
toms of human beings by attacking
one of the necessaries of life, WOOL
the principal material that man uses
to conserve the heat of his body
writes Prof. Harold S. Cotton in the
Scientific Monthly. That the moth
was pest to the ancient Hebrews the
Bible testifies in many places, but in
no place does it give hint as to how
the people reacted toward the moth,
except in horror.
Aristotle, at the time Of Alexander
the Great, in his History of Animals"
book 5, chapter 26, however, does give
us hint "There are other small
animals" says he, :" some Of
which occur in wool and wooden goods,
as the ses CLOTHES moth), and these
animals come in the greatest numbers
when the wool is dusty" We infer
by this that the housekeeper in the
Greece of Alexander. the Great
brushed clothes to keep out the moths.
From the writings Of that good old
Roman country squire, Marcus Porcius
Cato, known in history as the elder
Cato, we learn that clothes stored in
box in which amarca has been
rubbed will be safe from moths ]
wondered for a while what amarca
could be, until in the works of the
Roman agriculturist, Varro. found
that 1t Is substance prepared from
the watery dregs of olives after the
OIL has been extracted. This liquid
after being reduced by boiling to one
third it's bulk, Is recommended as =
disinfectant, sheep dip, cattle
food and fertilizer-surely a handy
thing to have around the house.,
With Pliny GO A. d. the methods
Of conservation became more and
more fanciful. "a suit of clothes
placed upon coffin will be forever
proof against the teeth Of moths"
Recipes of this sort were common in
the Middle ages. A few dead Spanish
flies Ga kind of beetle) suspended in a
house will drive away moths. while
clothes wrapped in the skin of lion
have nothing to fear" We have no
way of judging how many housewives
followed these methods. In France,
about 1877, we know from Reaumur
that it was the custom of housewives
to beat and brush their hangings at
least once a year and store their
clothes in boxes with pine cones.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-03-25
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AMERICA ENGLAND
SERVICE EXTENDED

Commercial telephone. service to
Great Britain is now available from all
points in Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, and the District of Columbia
from stations served by the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany and connecting companies.
The rates from the District Of
Columbia and Maryland points are SIS
for three minutes and S25 for each
additional minute. From Virginia and
West Virginia points the rates are SIS
for the first three minutes and $26 for
each additional minute.
Conversations may be. carried on
over regular telephone equipment and
lines to the New York transatlantic
office where they are routed through
special equipment over wire and air
lines to England.
This service is available from $3.50
A. M. to l P. NJ, eastern standard
time, which is 1870 P. M. to P. M
Great Britain time.
The District of Columbia-M Maryland
service was inaugurated February 5
and the Virginia-West Virginia serv
ice February 16. This service has
now been extended to the entire
United States.