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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
TWO PRIESTS HELD
CAPTIVE By CHINESE

HankOw, Feb. 5.--IA')---SOmcwhcrC
in the icy slush covered wilderness
Of northwest Hupch province two
Catholic priests are held captive by
Chinese who stabbed and beat them
after destroying their mission or
January %.
The priests are Fathers +. Mac.
Donald and Patrick O'Conncll, of the
st. Columbian's mission.
Their church, in village $50 miles
up the river from Hankow, was at.
tackled by mob Of 1000 Chinese
said to be members Of the farmers
union. After robbing the church
the mob destroyed it.
The priests were stabbed, beaten
disrobed and marched barefoot into
the wilderness in midwintcr. Tn,
only clothing left them was thci,
trousers and underwear. The TEN.
perature was near freezing. Nc
word has been received Of them sine.
they were carried off.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
FARGO LIVESTOCK

Fargo, N. D., Feb. 5.-LR)-Hogs
16O to 200 pounds 1850; 200 to 225
pounds 11.5O; 225 to 275 pounds 1850;
275 pounds and over 11.5O@11.O0;
packers 1O.O0@1O.75.
Sheep top lambs ll.5O@12.5O;
heavy lambs 9.OO@lO.OO; Gull lambs
8.O0M900; light ewes 6.OO@7.OO;
heavy ewes 4.50@5.5O; Gull ewes. LOO
@3.OO; bucks 3OOM4.OO.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
CHICAGO GRAIN

Chicago, Feb. 5-(P)-Whcat No. 1
hard 1.45M1.45H.
Corn No. S mixed 65@65s; No.
yellow 73l@ M73A.
Oats No. 2 white 47k; No. 3 white
42@47.
Rye. Not quoted.
Barley 65@S1.
Timothy seed 5.OO@5.75.
Glover seed 27.5O@33.OO.
Lard 1895.
Ribs 1926.
Bellies 1929.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
RECEIVERS STOLEN CAR

Sanish.-A Ford touring car stolen
from John Pickar of HOWE township
was recovered last week. The car
was left in local garage several
days ago. When it was not claimed
inquiries were made to the state reg
istration department. The informa-
tion returned gave the name of the
owner as John Pickar. Pickar was
notified and has claimed the car.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

Among eccentric wagcrs was one
that Lord Oxford. Of England, won
recently. He backed flock of geese
to race an equal number of turkeys
from Norwich to London. The geese
won. keeping to the road all the time,
while the turkeys, when darkness
fell, flew to roost in the trees.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

A baby boy, weighing 3 1-2 pounds,
was born recently to Count and
Countess Nichol, two midgets OF
Montreal, Canada. The parents are
vaudeville folk. the father being 40
inches in height, the mother 80
inches.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
CHICAGO PRODUCE

Chicago, Feb. 5.-(R-Butter low
or; receipts $500 tubs; creamery cx-
tras 4912; standards 49A; extra
firsts Asa M48h; firsts 46AM47a;
seconds 44M45k.
Eggs lower; receipts 1887 cases;
firsts 5000; ordinary firsts 31M3x.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
SOUTH SIDE MISSION 4 CHARITY
SOCIETY
J. B. Happcl, Pastor.

J. B. Happcl, Pastor.
Sweet and 10th Street (South).
Services every Sunday at 1880
q. m. Prayer on request.
Help in Charity work will be al
ways appreciated.
Phone SSH.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

house bill, minor amendment in
the duties of sheriffs and clerks
of courts in cases where defend
ants wish to plead guilty immedi-
ately, was killed.
A house bill providing for issu-
ance Of duplicate state bonds in
cases where the originals are lost
or destroyed was recommended for
passage.
A senate bill providing for minor
amendments in proceedings relat-
ing to payment Of delinquent taxes
before recording deeds was killed.
A senate bill providing that
cases be dismissed if not prose-
cuted after two years was amended
to make the period three years be-
fore the measure was recommends
ed for passage. The present Pc
riod is five years.
Appropriations of $4,000 each
for soundings of the Missouri river
at Washburn, Garrison and Elbo-
woods as preliminary steps to con-
struction of bridges at these points
were recommended by the house
committee on bridges and highways.
"A similar appropriation for STAN
ton was eliminated. The original
bill allowed $1,000 for each of the
proposed Soundings.
On request of several members
who wished to further investigate
the matter, action on an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for construction of
bridge at Box Elder creek, on
the South Dakota state line, was
deferred.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05
Additional Markets
CHICAGO POULTRY

Chicago, Feb. 5.-dP)-Poultry alive
steady; no cars received; prices un-
changed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

North Dakota, gave brief speech
emphasizing the Importance Of mill
tary training and its need to develop
rightly American manhood.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

EVEN SO
"Has your present wife q more even
temper than your first One?"
"Morc even? No. even more"
Tit-Bits London.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-02-05

Dance at Odd Fellows hall,
Saturday night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

trusts in the coal and steel centres and in the oil
districts the workers exposed to the oppression
and terror of brutal system of industrial slavery
In no country in the world are workers so rapidly
used up as in the United States.
EVEN if the wages of American workers higher
- than in European capital countries, the Party
must realize that the reduction of wages in Amer
lea to the level of other capitalist countries is not
the premise for the development of mass movement
In view of the peculiar historical development of
America relatively small reduction in the stand
ard of living of the American working class can be
the signal for big class struggles.
This is we-known to the employers and their
allies-the trade union bureaucrats They there
fore try to bride larger sections of the working
class thru the application of special methods, thru
the development of special American system for
deceiving the workers, and thereby tie them up
with the capitalist system and make them inter-
ested in it's continuance. They try to destroy the
solidarity of the workers thru promoting deep d.
visions in the camp of the working class and thus
deprivng the latter of its fighting capacity. Under
the deceptive slogan "higher strategy of labor" the
trade union leaders and the leading bourgeois
nomists have developed out of their political,
nomic and financial collaboration of a general
reformist system.
They are the advocates of increased production
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

and the agents of the capitalist naturalization
process in the factories. They try to make the
working class believe that by investing their
ing in labor banks and thru purchasing stocks the
workers gain influence-control over,
ownership of capitalist industry.
This special form of American reformism openly
denies the class struggle and continually subordi-
mates the interests of the working class to those of
the employers and their allies-the trade union
bureaucrats. Thru spreading dangerous illusions
among the workers the class theology and organiza
ton of the latter are weakened. Hitherto the cap
italists and the trade union bureaucrats have
ceeded in keeping away the of the American
proletariat from independent political action There
by the trade union leaders have been able to in
crease their power large sections of the
ganized workers and to bind them with stronger
ties to the capitalist system.
The Workers (Communist) Party must ruthlessly
expose this so-called "higher strategy of labor as
a deception of the working class and carry on an
energetic struggle against this bourgeoisfication.
For this reason the Party should pay the maxi
attention to all the manifestations of the
theological corruption of the working class and par
ticularly to those which made their appearance
Gently; it must study them in order to be able to
launch the most effective struggle against them.
This is all the more important because number of
other capitalist countries adopting along with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

terial and for the domination of strategical posi-
lions is becoming more sharp, thereby the an
tagonisms among them increase continually.
Along with whole series of other important fac
tors these are the main reasons why American i'm
periasm cannot succeed in corrupting the labor
aristocracy for decades possible in Great
Britain. American capitalism is still on the up
ward grade of development Notwithstanding its
growing power American Imperialism of the
most important component parts of world capital
ism is drawn and more into the antagonisms
and crisis of the latter because of it's close
ton with the capitalist world economy.
Altho American capitalism is still playing to a
certain extent a stabilizing role within world cap
italism, it is nevertheless making mperialist an
tagonisms acute. The time is approaching
when the crises of world capitalism will also extend
to the United States of America will lower the
standard of living of the privileged sections of the
working class as a whole, and will thus lay the
foundation for revolutionary mass movement.
We already in spite of the corruption of
numerically limited section of the working class
thru a petty-bourgeos standard of living simulta-
neousy the application of a system of intensive
plotation of the of unsklled and semi-skilled
of the foreign born and Negro workers. In Amer
lea, too, there are millions of workers living in
sums, tenements and miserable novels
In these districts under the direct control of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Continued from Page Ome)

CONTINUED from Page One)
IN this sense the demonstrations organized by the
Party in connection with events in China in front
of the British Embassy and Consulates were right
and proper
But the writer of some of the editorials in The
DAILY WORKER MAY and 81 deviated from
this line of action by minimizing the predatory role
of American imperialism in China and by repre-
senting it one-sidedly only a tool of British i'm
periAsm
THE Workers (Communist) Party must put the
question of the recognition of the Soviet Union
theoretically in the trade unions and in this
way also fight against the pro-mperialist policies
Of the labor bureaucracy.
IN its struggle against American imperialism, the
Workers (Communist) Party must not overlook
the question of the war and postwar debts of the
capitalist states of Europe to the United States.
Without getting into the leading strings of the
petty-bourgeos politicians and without allotting
these questions first place. the Party must actively
support the international revolutionary struggles
against the whole system of imperiast "peace"
treaties, the Dawes Plan, and the financial policies
of the imperalists from all of which the question
of our debts is inseparable.
The attitude of the Workers (Communist) Party
only be for the cancellation of war debts; ma
turally not for the cancellation of the inter-aed
debts but of all debts of the last imperalist world
war However, it is not the task of the Workers
(Communist) Party to carry special, separate
struggle under this slogan, but it combine this
question with its general struggle against American
Imperialism.
All these questions must be utilized by the Party
to rally the broad masses in defense of the Soviet
Union and the Chinese revolution and to sever the
masses from the mperialst theology of the bour-
geoise and the labor bureaucracy. At the same
time the Party must understand that in view of it's
numerical weakness it act centre of at
traction for the broad masses only when it has
complete unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

THE Political Committee declares its COM
i plete acceptance of the resolution of the
E. c. c. |. on the present situation in our
Party. We propose to execute this decision
without reservation. We feel confident that
the entire Party membership will have the
same attitude towards the decision of the
Communist international.
T HE Political Committee does not consider
l. this decision from the point of view of
any group. We view this decision solely
from the viewpoint of the Party. The Poll
tical Committee does not hold the decision
of the Communist International to be vic
tory of any group over any other group or
combination of groups. The Political Com
mittee welcomes this decision precisely be-
cause it considers the decision as hundred
per cent victory for the Party and as against
the idea of the hegemony of any special
group or collection of groups.
WE ask the membership to consider the c. l. de-
W cision only in this light We call upon the mem
bership not to approach the Interpretation APP
pcation of this decision in any way at all in the
spirit of victor over vanquished.
THE resolution of the E. C. c. l. goes long way
towards clarifying the Party's position and elm
the struggle against American imperialism and the
war danger our fundamental trade union problems,
the united front tactics, bourgeoisfcation, well
as the attitude of the Communist International to-
wards the various groupings in our Party.
THE Political Committee asks every member of the
Party to study carefully the resolution of the
Executive Committee of the Comintern.
THE Political Committee greets the organization
,J,+;o J,+a
especially the provisions for the holding of the con-
vention, because we are of the opinion that these
measures help to stabilize the Party and make it
possible for the Convention to take effective steps
to abolish factionalism, to unity the Party and to
establish broad collective leadership representative
of all sections of the country and inclusive of
number of additional proetarian elements
THE Political Committee accepts and agrees with
the criticism of it's past inner line made by the
Communist International when it said:
"The majority of the Party Executive did not
sufficiently understand how to create such
condition of affairs as to bring about an ANAL
gamation with the forces which today in
opposition. 1t is clear that the Majority of
the Political Committee followed too narrow
within the Party and themselves essen
tally contributed to the continued existence of
fraction walls"
THE Political Committee feels that IN accepting
this and in correcting itself in this respect it
further strengthens itself for achieving the task of
leading the Party to complete unity and work.
the time the Political Committee is certain
"A that the comrades of the Opposition will whole
heartedly accept and agree with the criticism made
of them by the Communist International when it
said
"The Opposition Groups must their fac
tional methods
WE are sure that the comrades of the opposition
will, the Comntern says:
"Endeavor by their attitude to facilitate unity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

with the Majority of the Political Committee
before and at the Party Convention"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
When Dreams Come True

To all of us it is given to dream dreams To a
few is given the joy of complete fulfment
One of these fortunates is Anatol Josepho,
youthful Russian inventor and Socialist who has
just made million dollars through his success in
putting commercial photography on cafeteria basis
Josephos plans interesting
Half of his million dollars he is setting aside as
" CusC luhd for charity, along economically sound
lines" The other half he will administer in the
interests of struggling inventors who re>unable to
bring their GRANDCHILDREN before the world because of
poverty.
Thus, of his huge fortune, not a cent will go
toward what might be called purely selfish mr.
poses.
And it is that fact and not the mere overnight
transformation from penury to affluence, that has
put Josepho on the front pages of al the news
papers in the country
Money is power. The man with million dol.
lars is altogether different from the man with
nothing The latter is weak, helpless; the million
ARE has the world for his servant. He has an in
strument with which he can work nightly for
good or for evil
NOW the dreaming of dreams is small matter
and an easy All of us fondly imagine the things
we would do if-mark that, 'if'--we had the power.
We excuse our present inacton on the grounds that
we are weak
But When we get power, too often, we forget our
dreams. We are untrue to visions; we ignore
tne voice that tells us, it told the old Hebrew
prophet build after the pattern shown thee on the
mountain"
Ihat is why we all feel that honor is due young
Anaol Josepho.
instruments of great power have been placed
INTO MS hands. And, in the moment of triumph he
mas remembered his principles; he has borne in
mind the great motives unselfshness and helpful
ness.
The dreams that guided him while he was Door
are still with him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
The Coal Strike

When people get caught between forces which
they are powerless to control and which lead them
to destruction call it human tragedy.
BY that token, the bitumnous coal strike SEIZED.
uled to start tomorrow in Pennsylvania Ohio In
diana and Illinois, will be human tragedy
It's the result Of a combination of forces which
neither the miners nor the operators control and
yet which lead them into destructive industrial war
fare.
The members of the United Mine Workers who
strike will be fighting for the maintenance of their
present wage level, about $3.50 day for eight hours
of dangerous and dirty work
And visit to the scene of such disaster as
that in Pennsylvania yesterday will drive the con-
clusion home with CHASTITY vividness
The operators, however are choosing to enter
fight to the finish, with all of the attendant loss
from plant idleness from shifting of customers
etc. rather than meet that demand.
Is it because the operators are an avaricious and
selfish crew? 1t is not.
A Although there are few philanthropists in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
shall be
right speak, wte

coal mining business and there quite a few
hard-boiled union smashers most Of them would
unquestionaby prefer to meet the union demands
and keep going
Then why don't they?
It's because they don't control the situation.
In varying degrees, they are at the mercy of the
operators in the non-union fields to the south and
east.
In these fields wages about two-thirds as
high in the union fields. And when it is consd-
cred that wages make up about 70 per cent of the
cost of producing COAL it's pinot difficult to understand
the competitive pressure under which operations in
the union fields is placed.
The results of this pressure are best indicated
coal being mined in the country at present is mined
by workers who have no wage contract with their
employers
That doesn't necessarily mean that twothrds
of the bituminous miners nonunion men, but it
does mean that twothirds of the btuminous coal is
being mined under nonunion conditions
In Illinois and Indiana the mines are protected
from the full force of competition from the non.
union fields by freight rates.
In eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania how
ever, the union operators catch the full force of it,
strike.
And there the struggle will be the result of
competitive forces which neither the miners nor the
operators are powerful enough to control.
They are victims of larger industrial warfare
which the strike holds no promise of bringing to
an end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
I"1u.''f
! RAJ
What viii Be Al Smiths
Stand on Dry Amend
ment2
BY NJ. f. Tracy

Borah predicts that Smith will be
nominated by the Democrats in
1928, that he will come out for the
Eighteenth amendment and make
his followers like it.
This is something else for the New
York Governor to clear up. No
matter what position he intends to
take, it won't do to have a promi-
nent Republican leader put such
words in his mouth.
Governor Smith has been rather
silent on the liquor question Of late,
and not few people are wondering
what it means, if anything. At all
events, they would like to hear from
him.
incidentally they would like to
hear from him with regard to some
other matters, such as the religious
issue, the foreign policy and the
farm relief.
Governor Smith has been busy
with State affairs, of course, and is
to be respected for not letting poll
tics interfere with his duty.
AS a general proposition, candi-
dates talk too early and too much,
but it often occurs that one is mis-
understood and loses ground by re-
naming silent too long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
China and Reds

Bolshevism is a paper doctrine
with the Chinese, but anti.foreign
sentiment is real. 1t crops out not
only as an age-old tradition but as
an argument that China can't be
free so long as foreigners remain.
England has more at stake than
any other nation, for she has gone
further in demanding special
privileges and concessions. She
stands to lose not only all she has
gained from China, but perhaps, her
grip on India and other Asiatic
territory as well.
For the immediate future this
Government faces no greater
problem than to protect $4,000
American owned property, without
becoming hopelessly involved in
what promises to be an international
row.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31

is Arthur Jarrett and company in
his revue, "Cupid's Closeup"
THE vaudeville Doctor" starring
Johnny Yule in his famous cane
dance and his company of four girls
comes second on the bill. The Daye
sisters are harmony singers, two
other girls do acrobatic. steps and
hula dances.
George N. Brown is billing a chi
larious walking comedy" in which
he demonstrates the manner of walk
ing that made him champion hiker
of the world. Mr.. Browns record
is six minutes, A seconds in the
mile, almost a minute below the for
mer record. In his act he has
treadmill on which he gives the
proper way of walking.
Walsh and Ellis are a man and
woman who engage in song and pat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-31
Socialism-Or What?

The socialistic doctrine Of yesterday is the main.
stay of tomorrows conservatives; the man who was
a radical in the gay 'nineties finds himself cassed
as a tory in the year 1927
1t wasn't so long ago that man could have the
department of justice casting eyes upon him simply
by suggesting, publicly, that coal mines ought
to be owned by the Government
But today? Well, the current issue of the Maya
zine of Wall Street has lengthy article discussing
that very question-and the article is highly SYM
pathetic toward the proposals.
In this article it is stated that not only the coal
miners, but the mine operators as we'll, would well
come Government ownership of the coal Mines
And this is publication by of and for Wall
Street,
The article goes into the coal mining situation
thoroughly. 1t shows that during the twenty years
between 1905 and 1925, there was only one year
in which there less than 5000 coal miners on
strike at one time another 1t asserts that these
longdrawnout disputes have resulted in victory for
neither side and that neither side nowadays really
expects victory
In fact, the whole tone of this Wall Street article
is favorable to the Government ownership propo-
sition.
1t would take altogether too much space to dis
cuss Government ownership intelligently here. The
point we are trying to make is this Our social and
economic creeds are changing faster than we realized
Twenty years ago-even ten years ago-Wall
Street would have thrown up it's hands in horror
at Government ownership proposition for the soft
coal industry. Now find Wall Street publica.
tion representing Wall Streets inner circle discuss
ing the question without tremor.
Verify, times do changel