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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Every prospect pleases and only
man is vile. The glorious climate OF
California does not prevent startling
demonstrations of human perversity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
A California Comment.

From the San Diego Union
1t is announced that Kansas City
will entertain the G. o. p. national
convention. But we shouldn't be sur
prised IL it turned out to ben the other
way around. dN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

When President Coolidge said he did
not choose, he threw the situation
wide open to number of aspirants
who would choose If they dared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Luster of Fame Undimmed,

From the Topeka Capital.
In spite of the Rupert Hugheses
the world will stick to thinking vel
of George Washington. 1t realizes
that If it didn't it couldn't very well
think well of anybody whatever, and
that is too great deprivation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

The statesman may again be expect
ed to hold the stage who asserts he
has something to think about when
he has only something to talk about
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

"A Merry Christmas" and "a Happy
New Year" have value as diplomatic
messages when expressed by a favorite
aviator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

His decision to attend bullfights in
Mexico permits Lindbergh to assert
himself merely as guest and not as
a critic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Deep Thoughts, Probably,

From the Oklahoma Daily Oklahoman
Earthworms think. scientist says.
And what do yov reckon they think
about?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

The Dangerous Flask.
Every man in Crimson Gulch used
to have a gun in his hip pocket"
IT'S different now" answered Cac-
tus Joe. what you now fear from a
hip pocket is splintered glass"
"a good servant" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, may more easily
find a new master than master may
find a good servant. Communism Is,
after all, a problem in what they call
efficiency"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Pessimist Is Defined.

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
A pessimist is a man who has to
prepare biographical data on the can.
didate of either party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

silk stockings have become so cheap
that even the musical comedies can
afford them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Tax reduction is an incontrovertible
evidence of Nations prosperity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Holiday shopping again comes into
attention as evidence of Nations
extraordinary prosperity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Misleading i'm These Times.

From the New York Herald Tribune.
There is little in name any more.
Very few people associate the word
Scotch" with Scotland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Willing to Give Him the Knife.

From the New YORK sun.
President Coolidge reiterates his in
tention of retiring to Vermont for a
spell of whiting and it is reported
that lot of politicians are willing to
give him the knife.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Atrocious crime may yet demand
turies composed of psychoanalysts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Not Soliciting.
why don't you ask your constitu.
ents to vote for your"
mo use" answered Senator Scr.
ghum. There are so many reasons
for not voting for the other fellow
that l can afford to stand pat"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Errant Kriss Kringle.

Old myths survive with gentle cheer.
But where's the Saint who once drew
near
To sound the glee on Christmas day?
He's dancing in a cabaret.
Il reads my Bible said Uncle
Eben, IAN l tries to keep away from
de arguments an stick to Peace on
Earth"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

The Evening Star with the Sunday morn
tng edition e delivered by carriers within
the city at go cents per month: daily only
46 cents per month: Sundays only. 20 cents
rer month. Orders may he sent by mail or
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
The Dangerous Flask.

Jud Tunkins says false friend be
trays no one so much as himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business ONCE;

:. nth st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Once: 10 East And St.
Chicago Office. Tower Building.
European once: IA Regent St.. London.
England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Q. What city is known as the
Paris of the North"?-T. F. T.
A. This is the nickname of War
saw, the capital of Poland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Holiday Cheer.

Holiday Cheer.
The gorgeous lights have won
Such great applause,
You'd think Tom Edison
Was Santa Claus!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21


one who comprehends their problems
and who wants to help in solving them
properly. The laboring men have found
him sympathetic and helpful in all his
efforts to adjust and ameliorate their
conditions. The real farmers have seen
him as an intelligent student or their
affairs and seeking for a real remedy
for such genuine ills as they have. The
women of the country have always
been with Hoover"
And. more than all else. he cannot
only be elected. but reelected. l do
not fear for 1928. The scars which the
Democratic donkey put upon himself
in 1924 are still fresh and there are
many of his grooms who take delight
in showing them. But in 1882 Is an
other matter. Hoover will give us such
an administration that we shall hold
and augment all those elements which
have combined in two successive cam
paigns to give the Republicans their
unprecedented majorities. The CHIEF
tains of my party may be content to
play for the stake of single term
more or Republican control of the
Nation. am not. I want to foresee
and to assure Republican control until
the 4th of March, 1887. That is
why am for Hoover"
Frank X. Kent OF the Baltimore sun,
writing in the January issue OF Plain
Talk, insists that the Republicans
must turn to Hoover. and, unlike some
of the New York politicians. takes the
view that the fear of Smiths nomina-
| tioA by the Democrats must force the
nomination OF the Secretary OF Com
merce. Mr. Kent said:
There is no real love for Hoover
among the Republican bosses OF the
Eastern group. They will not nomi-
nate him except under pressure. But
the Smith candidacy provides the
| pressure. With that in the offing, the
danger of pushing the logical man
| aside is altogether too great. With
that in sight, this would be no race
| for a dark horse. Hence. If we get a
frst-class President in 1928. it may
: not be Smith. but Smith will be the
reason just the same"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

O. Which is the "er site" side of
an altar?-O. w.
A. The epistle side of the altar is
the right side, looking toward it. 1t
is so called because the epistle of the
day is read at that side. It is second.
airy to the gospel, or left, side, and on
fete days it is occupied by the lesser
dignitaries of the church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
Mine Fire Boss Given
Fine and Sentence for
Blast That Killed Nine

WILKES-BARRE, Jan. 13.-Charles
Treneary, mine fire boss employed
at No. z colliery of Susquehanna Col
lieries Co., received sentence of $500
fine and three months in the county
Jail for violating mine safety laws the
day nine workers were killed in gas
explosion in the mine.
The fire boss had pleaded guilty,
admitting that he had not made a
thoro inspection and that he had not
warned the workers of the small per-
centage of gas he had detected.
Counsel for the fire boss asked
mercy, saying there had been no will
full intent or malice III his actions.
that the miners had safety lamps and
knew conditions, but that the sud
den starting of the inside fan SEEM
ed to have caused the explosion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
BY REBEccA eREcHT.

GENERAL months ago there appear
~ ed an article in the Detroit Sat
urday Night, one of the most bitter
anti-labor, open shop organs in the
United States, calling attention to a
new menace" that had made its ap-
pearance in Detroit, threatening the
peace and tranquility of the power
full automobile barons of that city.
This menace" was none other than
the factory newspapers issued by the
Workers (Communist) Party groups
in the various automobile plants in
Notwithstanding the Ford Motor
Co., Dodge Bros, the Fisher Body
Plant, etc. While the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was contenting itself
merely with passing resolutions on
the organization of the automobile in
dustry, the above article stated; the
Communists, thru their shop papers,
were actually spreading the doctrine
of organization among thousands Of
workers. In similar vein the New
York journal of Commerce, like
wise an open shop paper devoted to
the american Plan, recently issued
warning against the Communist
house organs" thru which the Com
munist Party is gaining foothold in
American industries.
Thus the significance of Communist
factory newspapers is already being
recognized by the capitalist enemies
Of labor, ever quick to discern what
ever in any way threatens their con.
troll.
Functions of Factory Newspapers.
FACTORY newspapers issued under
i Communist direction are not pecu-
liar to the American Communist Par
ty. They are being published today
in England, Germany, France, Czecho-
Slovakia, and other countries where
Communist parties function. They are
a form of activity developed especial
ly thru the reorganization OF the Com
munist parties into units based on the
place of work OF the membership in
stead of the territory in which they
live. AS the aim of reorganization is
to build the parties in such a way
that their influence may penetrate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
Continued from page II

CONTINUED IRON page ~
needle trades, by William z. Foster,
secretary of the national committee
of the general T. U. E. L.
Gable From International.
The following cablegram was re-
ceived from the Garment Workers In
ternational Propaganda Committee Of
the Red International OF Labor
Unions:
Garment Workers /. P. G.. greets
Fourth Conference as expressing mdl-
itance of workers in the needle In
dustry and commends your struggle
for unity and amalgamation in face
of the splitting policy Of the strike
breaking bureaucracy. We welcome
your decision to carry on an en-
ergetic struggle for the elimination
of this treacherous bureaucracy and
to build up an effective educational
propaganda organization to enlighten
the workers, particularly the up
building of your own press organ"
Resolutions on all questions affect
ing the needle industry and the gen
eral labor movement we're adopted,
among which was the following:
RESOLUTION AGAINST SPLITTING
TACTICS OF THE RIGHT WING.
The reactionary leadership of the
needle trades unions are splitting and
running the needle unions. In their
mad determination to force the work
ers who refuse to follow their leader
ship to accept the speed-up systems
and other conditions demanded by the
employers, they are attempting to
break down the opposition by a reck
less policy of suppression and arbi
trary action that is destroying the
unions which have been built thru Sc
many years of hard work.
The right wing reactionaries have
combined to carry on this descriptive
attack against the forces of progress
in the unions. They have combined
not only the most reactionary and cor
.rupt elements in the needle industry
but they stand allied with the ultra
reactionary leaders of the A. F. of L
and the employers to kill the fighting
spirit in the unions.
Runous Policy.
In the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union the policy OF the Sig
man administration is absolutely
ruinous Not content with directly CO
operating with the employers to break
the cloakmakers' strike, Sigman has
finished by arbitrarily suspending the
New York Joint Board and all its
affiliated local unions, without q
shadow of justification by the interna
tional constitution or the facts of the
situation.
In the Amalgamated Clothing Work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
RAISE FUND FOR n. Y.
union AS SIGMANITES
FAIL IN DISRUPTION

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 13.-Supporters
Of the Sigman machine in the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, brot a number of aangsters
with them to the big mass meeting
held here by the St. Louis confer
ence for the relief of the New York
cloakmakers and tried to disrupt
the meeting.
The speaker was Brother Cooper
Of the joint board of the New York
cIoakmakers. The right wingers In
terrupted the chairman repeatedly
and were adopting threatening at
tltude when they perceived that the
whole meeting was against them.
After they left the hall, the meeting
was successfully concluded by the
raising of $4,000 towards loan to
the New York union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
Factory Newspapers Communist Shop Organs

ible extent, and the slogan raised OF
"a shop paper in every factory en-
ploying several hundred or more
workers where there is Communist
group"
Shop Problems and Economic De-
mands.
MANY problems are involved in the
1NI preparation and publication of
factory papers, most important Of
which is that of contents. The effec-
tiveness Of the factory newspaper de-
ponds largely upon what it contains.
Upon this question, chiefly, rests the
success of the paper and the achieve
ment of its aims. 1t must be given
earnest consideration.
The factory newspaper, by its very
purposes, must deal primarily with
the problems faced by the employees
in the shop, approaching the workers
thru their economic interests. This is
the first principle governing contents.
The questions of wages, hours, I'M
employment, organization, ETC., consti-
tute the fulcrum around which the agi-
tation OF the Communist factory
group turns. Every wrong the work
ers in the shop are subjected to,
every oppressive condition imposed
upon them, great or small, must find
a place in the factory newspaper.
The workers must be made to under
stand the general system of capitalist
exploitation under which they live By
explanation and analysis of the speci-
fic conditions of enslavement under
which they themselves toll. In every
possible way the factory newspaper
must demonstrate to the workers that
the Communists are not interested
merely in theories and in abstractly
propagating the final social revolu-
ton, but are vitality concerned with
the immediate welfare of the work.
ers, alive to their every need.
Ito be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
HISTORY OF CT.
TRACED IN TALK
BY RUTHENBERC
Members of Proletarian
Party Answered

The present attack of the labor bu-
reaucracy on the left wing in the la
Dor movement has aroused interest
in how the Communist Party rose 20
its present position from a small pro-
paganda group. Comrade G. e. Ruth
enberg, executive secretary of the
Workers (Communist) Party, in the
second lecture of series of three
showed how the Communist Party
grew from a propaganda society to a
movement with roots imbedded in the
mass movement of the workers Of
America.
From Beginning.
He traced the formation of the
Communist Party and the Communist
Labor Party, and the movement to-
ward unity, based on realization
that work in America must aim to-
ward participation in the mass move
ments of the workers thru an open
party. The fight of the United Toll
ers for the maintenance of the under
ground, illegal party as the dominat-
ng factor was explained. The diff
ference between sect and party Of
the masses was we'll brot out, using
the proletarian party as an example.
p. p. Members Talk.
The lecture was received as an au-
thoritative presentation by one who
occupied a central position in the de-
yelopment of the movement. One hour
was taken for the lecture, half an
hour in answering questions, and then
an hour was allowed for discussion,
speeches being limited to five min
utes, after which Comrade Ruthen-
berg closed the discussion. Three
members of the proletarian party en-
livened the discussion by making cri-
ticism of the Workers Party. These
were well answered by Ruthenberg in
summing up.
The proletarian party members
were invited to participate in the
mass movements of the workers in a
united front with the Workers Party
and other working class organiza-
tons, instead of combining their &C.
tivity entirely to study classes.
Next Lecture Saturday Night.
The third lecture by Comrade Ruth
enberg, under the auspices of the
Workers School, will be held this
coming Saturday, Jan. Is, at p. m,
instead of Sunday night, since the
Liebknecht memorial will take place
on Sunday. Northwest Hall, North
and Western AYES. Admission Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
PICKET REFUSES
,SRIBE OF BOSS;
BEATING RESULTS
Fresh Violence Occurs
In Box Strike

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. - Violence
against workers who can't be bribed
20 60 back or get off the picket line
IS the order of the day for paper box
employers. The latest violence oc-
CURED when three gunner attacked
/ picket on his way home and so in
lured him that he had to be taken to
he hospital,
Worker spurns Offer.
Max Birnham, S34 Myrtle avenue,
Brooklyn, was asked by his employer
10 stay off the picket line and prom,
Used that he would receive his check
tor wages at home. He was further
offered all back pay since the strike
Slogan fourteen weeks ago, if he would
yet the rest of the workers to break
from the ranks of the strikers. He
refused to sell out the union, and yes
terday's brutal attack by hired guer-
eillas was the bosses answer.
Would Lower Wages.
Not content with trying to get work
ers back without a union, and later
lowering their wages, when they are
unprotected because unorganized, the
employers are already trying to re-
duce the low wages existing before
the strike. One employer, Irving
Weissman, sent letter to his strip
per, asking her to come back for
three dollars per week less than she
got before the strike. Needless to say
his post card reading, "If you can
come back to work for $3.50, then
it is o. X. If not, phone me-" was
ignored by the workers whose wages
were $295O and was given to Fred
Caiola, manager of the union, who
read it to a mass meeting.
Eight arrests on the picket line
show that the police are again being
relied upon by the bosses. Two girls,
Esther Parrish and Lena Fuch of the
Unique Paper Box company, 100
Spring ST., were dismissed in the city
Magistrates court. They were ar
: seted while peacefully picketing. This
is the same company that used gang,
sters to beat up the picket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15

deeply into the working class masses,
so factory newspapers serve as one
of the chief mediums thru which the
nuclei, in the various factories can
be exercised.
1t is necessary for us in the Ame-
rican party to understand clearly the
Importance of these shop papers, and
study ways and means of making
them effective. AS the name implies,
the factory newspaper is intended pri-
marily for the workers of particu-
lar plant. 1t is the organ of the Com
munist factory group, to carry on agi-
tation among the factory employees.
1t is a vehicle for conveying to the
workers, in a manner they can read
lily understand, the principles of Com
munism and the program of the Com
munist Party in industry and politics.
Basing its contents and methods of
approach upon the needs and expert
ences of the factory workers, 1t aims
to break down their apathy, to stir
them against capitalist exploitation,
to rouse their class consciousness and
develop their political judgment, thus
drawing them nearer to the Commu-
mist movement.
Agitation Instrument.
TN these respects the factory news
paper, properly organized and ed
tied, can often be a more effective agi-
rational instrument than the general
party press. Written for the workers
of one enterprise, the factory organ
can be adapted to their particular
mentality and special interests. 1t is
more concrete and specific than the
party daily paper, as the latter, de-
signed for wide masses OF workers,
necessarily deals with broader va
riety of subjects, in more compre-
hensive and complex manner. This
does not mean that the factory news
papers can replace the Communist
press, which, as q collective propa-
gandist, agitator, and organizer, Is in
dispensable TO our party. The shop pa
pers, in fact, bring the workers clos
err to the party organs and increase
their circulation. Because of its d.
rect appeal, however, the factory
newspaper has special value. This
must be utilized to the widest pos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
Needle Trades Left Wing Has Historic Rally

I ers the Hillman administration has
set up a reign of terror. In many
cities-New York, Chicago, Rochester,
etc.--it has almost completely abol-
ished democratic procedure. The ad-
ministration rules the unwilling rank
and file by force. Opponents OF the adj
ministration's policy of more and more
concessions TO the employers are ruth
lessly terrorized and often expelled
from the union and the industry. This
reign of terror reaches its highest
pitch in New York under the dictator
ship Of the fascist Beckerman.
Furriers' Union.
In the Furrfers Union the Schacht-
man administration, too weak and
isolated from the masses to make even
a semblance of an effective fight itself
against the left wing, is being assist
ed by all the reactionaries in the
needle trades and the A. F. of L. exc
cutive council. Steps are now being
taken by these reactionaries to dis
rupt the Furriers' New York Joint
Board.
In the Capmakers' Union, the inter-
national oficialdom are beginning to
follow the same tactics by removals
and suspensions, and giving full sup
port to the Sigman, Beckerman and
the other right wing reactionaries. The
reactionaries have formed the so-call-
ed committee for the preservation of
the trade unions, to throw dissension
and decentralization into the ranks of
the workers.
! Cessation of Terror.
Against this splitting policy of the
reactionaries the left wing, voicing the
sentiments and determination of the
overwhelming majority of the workers
in all sections of the needle industry,
makes emphatic protest. 1t demands
the immediate restoration of demo
cracy in the unions and the cessation
of the present right wing terroristic
tactics. 1t categorically insists upon
the withdrawal of Sigman's out
rageous suspension order and the i'm
mediate reinstatement of the New
York Joint Board, its affiliated locals,
and all their duly elected officials. 1t
insists that the expulsion policy be
stopped at once, that the destructive
attacks against the Furriers' Joint
Board cease, and that the various
militants expelled because of their
political beliefs and active defense of
fighting policy against the employ
ers be at once reinstated.
The left wing calls upon the masses
of workers to actively support its
fight against the splitting tactics of
the right wing and for the complete
unification and rejuvenation of the
needle trades unions.