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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
RedS|lirt Battalion
Anti-FaSCiSti viii
Be at Press Picnic

CHICAGO, July 26.-The Red
Shirt Battalion of the Chicago Anti
Fascist Alliance which was already
become quite popular amongst the
workers is planning to invade the 7th
Annual Party Press Picnic to be held
at the Riverview Park Grove. The
labor press, the English speaking as
well as the press of the various Ian
guage groups, representing the mill
tant section of the labor movement
are Jointly arranging this affair
which is being held on Sunday, July
31st.
The Red Shirt Battalion reports
that on that day other workers may
join their ranks, for whom they have
uniforms available. Those who de-
side to join for the day may meet
with the leaders of the Battalion at
10 S. Lincoln on Friday, July Goth
at 800 p. m.
Daily In Special Cars.
A great contest is being planned
for the most popular paper. Since it
is already a fact that The DAILY
WORKER is the most popular labor
paper, it has been eliminated from
this contest. The So. Slavic paper,
Radnik, the Lithuanian paper, Wins,
the Jewish paper, Freiheit, and many
more will compete.
Entertainment is provided for.
There will be such national known
speakers as VIM. Foster, and Jay
Lovestone. Singing will be furnished
from Lithuanian and Freiheit Sing
ing Society. Efforts are being made
to stage a real sports event. A SOC
GER game has been arranged with the
Red Star Team as one of the conten-
ders. This together with all the
other many attractions should make
the Party Press Picnic at the River
view Park on Sunday, July 31st really
worth while visiting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27

Rather beady the kept of the United States has dis
the fact that worldwide between the Amer
lean Standard the British RoyaDuch Shell This
fact has been reiterated and elaborated in the columns of the
Communist press times during the past decade that to
readers it old story The important fact today
the oil itself but the fact that is openly recognized
by the official Of the ruling of the United
Britain indicates the sharpening of the
conflict between these clearly revealed at
the naval conference at Geneva.
No one should think however Teagle head of
the Standard Oil company of New Jersey playing the Of
British headed by Sir Henri Deerdng because
Tae has long opposed the proposition of New York Standard
Oil to fight for trade relations with and even political recognition
by this of the Soviet Union Sir Henri head of the
Royal Dutch Shell has long held the idea of becoming master
of the great oil lands in the Caucasus and has continually
aed the fall the Sovets in order to have free hand in
that part OF the world lie has on many occasions made himself
ridiculous by predicting that certain date the Bohevist
Russia would collapse He has been of the prime
ingators of anoviet political fury and is influential in the
present British conspiracy against the Soviet Union The chief
competitor of Deedng the Caucasus has been the Teage
the New Jersey Standard Oil company Teag also gamed
the fall of the workers and peasants Russia
such extent that he bought equal partnership with the
Nob in Russian oil fields that had been naonazed by the
Soviet Thus they gambd the fall of the Soviets
order to make legal by force their spurious claim lands they
had bought from the Nobes who could not sell them for the
simple that they did them. This the
motives behind the attacks the Soviet Union by
BILE sycophans of capitalism as the late secretary of state Charles
Evans Hughes oil trust lawyer and the present occupant
that office Secretary of State Kellogg The British oil
completes with rather cooperate with the Standard Oil of
New Jersey in France, Italy Germany the Scandinavian
other countries Deterdng of Britain has frequently
threat of competition against Teage Jersey
order TO Torce Ieage TO follow besides
Russian interests Teag also hesates at the contemplation
the cuthroat oil fields where the two big oil
operate Mr. Teag however is after all part Standard
Oil group and has England order Deer
ing and inform him that he will have abandon his Cooperation
Deerdng remains stubborn and refuses from
his position of trying to block agreement whereby Standard
Soviet oil the threat waror face
fight.
Spurred by the threat exhausted oil and
OF it's world struggle with the Royal Dutch the Rockefeller oil
trust is perfectly willing to abandon it's oympian objec-
tons to dealing with the Sovets and striving
best that the Russian has to offer in the of
cessons and Tage Of New Jersey will have follow policy
even at the cost of Sacrificing his investments with Noble Co.
The attitude of the Standard it's spokesman
Ivy L. Lee is tribute to the of the workers peasants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
Essay on Propaganda

same process) but also the distinc
ton between agitation and propagan
da. This distinction rests upon the
fact that the masses are not Of uni
form composition, but are divided int
the masses in general on the on
hand, and the comparatively small
minority of actual or potential lead
ership on the other; the response O
these two general divisions to the eff
fort to spread the ideas of Commun
ISM is different, and on the othel
hand, the specific methods and ma
terial properly to be used in reaching
them are different.
The masses come to accept the re-
evolutionary ideas only gradually, in
response to the development of capt.
talism into stage of stagnation and
decline, with the economic and po-
itical crisis connected Herewith; thru
the lessons of long experience in the
class struggle.
The Objective of Propaganda Work.
But a certain minority of the work
ers are at all times, whether the gen.
eral situation is of a revolutionary
character or not, capable Of grasping
more or less thoroly the theology of
Communism, even long before the
masses come to that point, otherwise
there would be no Communist move
ment at the present time in the United
States. But we should not assume
that the present membership of the
Communist movement includes ALL
these capable of understanding Com
munism and inclined to accept it; for
it is easy to see that large numbers
have never been made sufficiently ac-
quainted with the ideas of the Com
munist movement.
1t should therefore be distinctly
understood that the objective of PRO
PAGANDA work at present is not to
secure a response from the broad
masses, but rather from the small
minority of more advanced and cap
able elements scattered thruout the
masses constituting the actual or po-
tential leadership Of the masses in
their struggles. But simply because
the NUMBER of those responding to
propaganda work is known in adj
vance to be comparatively small, we
are not therefore to minimize the i'm
portance Of the work; in the con-
trary it is just these comparatively
small numbers who must be won or
the Party itself is unable to grow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
Cooperative League Fights Against War.

Delegates to the Northern States Cooperative League
venon held at Minneapolis representing cooperatives
nesoa Wisconsin, Michigan and South Dakota besides laying
plans for the further strengthening Of the
thru intensive organization and widespread campaign
education regarding the necessity for building cooperaves
showed that it keeny alive to the threat of affects the
populations of agricultural states by adopting against
the new saughters planned by imperalst Wall Street
Also noteworthy the fact that recognizes necessity
raising it's voice in behalf Of the labor generally
evidenced by it's demand Governor Fuller the
Sacco and Vanzetti
Coperatves such being undertaken the northern
states cam with proper leadership become powerful
the hands Of the farmers and also the and it is to the
credit OF the convention of the coprato that they clearly
ceved this fact and have laid their plans accordingly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
Let's Fight On! Join
The Workers Party!

In the loss of Comrade Rntban.
berg the Workers Communist Par
ty has lost its foremost leader and
the American working class its
staunckest fighter. This loss can only
be overcome by many militant work
ers joining tho Party that he built
Fill out the application below and
mail i Become a member of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
carry forward the work Of Comrade
Ruthenberg.
/ want to become member of tina
Workers (Communist) Party.
Name ..................
Address ...........,,....
occupation .,.,..............
Union Affiliation.
Mail this application to the Work.
ers Party, 108 East 18th Street, New
York City; or if in other city to
Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington
BLY,, Chicago, III.
Distribute the Ruthenberg pam.
phlet, "The Workers (Communist)
Party, What it Stands For and Why
Workers Should Join" This Ruthen-
bfrg pamphlet will be the basic PAM
pallet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive.
Every Party Nucleus must collect
so cents from every member and will
receive 20 pamphlets for every men,
Der to sell or distribute.
Nuclei in the New York District
will get their pamphlets from the Dis
trict office-108 East 18th St.
Nuclei outside of the New York
District write to The DAILY WORK.
Err publishing Co., SO East First
Street, New York City, or to the
National Office, Workers Party, 1113
w. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
W DRAMA IN
Superb Acting in TOlStOv,s "Pnuer of Darkness"

A well-chosen cast from the Mos
cow Art theatre not merely acts
Tolstoy's drama, 1.-THE Power of
Darkness" at the Fifty-fifth Street
Cinema, but lives the thing. Chosen
for their ability to portray certain
peasant types, they achieve dram
attic intensity that is certainly not
seen in the performances of the
Hollywood luminaries.
Tolstoy's story is sordid one, run
ming the gamut of murder and in
fanticide, that deals with the exploits
OF a wife who married a rich pea
SAINT for his money, fell in love with
the village lout, a romantic young
bum who played upon an accordion.
The mother of the lout wanted her
son to be happy so she bought poison
to give to the wife of the old man in
order that she might quickly dispatch
him and marry the son. All of which
was achieved to the accompaniment
of sustained dramatic acting. But no
sooner had the lout married the old
mans widow than he grew weary of
her and seduced a young lady of the
house who was supposed to be the
daughter of the old man by an earlier
wife. A baby was born and buried
beneath the house.
During the entire action the louis
father, stupid, drunken old mouiik,
passed through the scenes as
secondary figure, devoutly religious.
In due time marriage was arranged
for the mother of the murdered in
FAINT and at the wedding the lout
wandered out of the house and de-
cided to hang himself from a barn
rafter. The other end Of the rope
was attached to the drunken body of
the girls grandfather and so the only
laudable impulse the lout ever had
was frustrated. Wandering back into
the house he broke down and con-
fessed his numerous crimes which, to
say the least, was rotten stunt, in
asmuch as he did not confer with the
other parties to his bloody perfor-
mances.
When the police came in the re-
ligious father gazed at them with the
wild-eyed expression of religious
fanaticism and diminished them not
to interfere with one who was con-
Tossing his sins. The final scene
showed the lout and his wife, recon
ciled and in chains, tramping toward
Siberia with band of convicts. Their
expressions convey the idea that they
are happy in having discovered
Christianity and the captions on the
screen do the rest.
1t is powerful portrayal of Tolls
toys slave religion, which exalted
misery and exhorted the slaves under
the car to accept anything that came
their way. In this particular case
the moral was that wealth made this
detachable pair sordid and unhappy
and that poverty and chains softened
with Christianity made them sub
timely happy. Fortunately the re-
ligious clap-trap occurs at the very
end of the picture.
The Fifty-fifth Street Cinema is a
small place, but has within the few
weeks of its existence, gained no
table reputation for the films it has
shown.
Most amusing was an added fea-
ture showing the old epitaphs In
American cemeteries.
The entertainment is worth two
hours of anybodv's time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27
Broad,oay Briefs

Secret Service Smith," a detec-
tive play, dramatized by Lincoln Os-
borne from Major R. T. M. Scott's
book "The Black Magician" will be
produced here this coming season by
Ramsey Wallace.
Dwight Frey, last seen in "The
Devil and the Cheese" and Billy
Quinn, will have leading roles in
dumb Luck" which is being pro-
duced by the authors, John Bohn and
Earle Simmonde.
Robert Emmett Sherwood's success
full comedy, "The Road to Rome" in
which Jane Cowl is starred, has just
passed the 200 performance at the
Playhouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27

in Russia which has convinced the
Standard Oil that they get Russian oil
they will have to deal with the Soviet Union and
the terms laid down that will protection
terests of the revolution.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
IRISH CHANNEL IS
 NEXT SAYS SWIMMER
Sullivan Anxious to Negotiate This 65 Miles Swim and Thinks
 He Can Do It.

Long Beach, Cal, Feb. ? tR- The Irish channel. a 65 mile swim from the English coast is the next objective of Henry Sullivan. veteran swimmer who Monday became the second man and the first American, to negotiate the Santa Catalina channel.
 T want to make a 40-hour swim and I think the Irish channel will do nicely" Sullivan said in explain ing that, as he had conquered the English and Catalina channels, he was ready for more difficult task.
 Sullivan yesterday received a flood of congratulations on swimming the channel between Santa Catalina Is- land and the mainland. While the swimmer took 22 hours and 45 min utes to negotiate the course, for which George Young, r, year old Toronto. Ont, youth won the S25,- 900 William Wrigley, Jr., prize he blamed his longer time on adverse tides.
 The tide battled by Sullivan Mon day night was the highest of the year. At one time it carried him ten miles off his course in an eleven hour fight. At the close of the swim, however, it turned and, with it's aid. Sullivan did the last six miles in three hours. He estimates that he covered 30 miles in crossing the channel of twenty Cdd miles.
 Sullivan plans to return to his home and family at Lowell, Mass, at once.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
Spring Hardware Lines
 Increased Activity

New York, Feb. 2-"Hardware business during the latter part of January gradually gained impetus for the spring trade. which is being eagerly looked forward to by all branches of the trade, according to reports from the various market centers," Hardware Age, in its weekly market summary, will say tomorrow. Salesmen are reporting sizable increases in orders for spring lines and also a better volume of |fill-in orders from retailers.
 Few important price changes have been made during the past week, notably wrought steel goods of all kinds, on which the leading manufacturers have announced ap- proximately 10 per cent advance. A new price list on dry cell bat teries also took effect Feb. l, show ing higher prices on some items.
 Tn general. collections and cred it's seem to be improving in most districts. In commenting on the outlook for spring trade, factors in most territories are very optimistic and anticipate a satisfying volume"
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
FORD MOTOR CD. EXPECTING BOOM
Next Five Years Will Be Best, Is Prediction

Washington, Feb. (UP)-The Ford motor company will have it's most profitable business during the next five years according to Norval A. Hawkins, Detroit. in testimony to the United States board of tax appeals in it's hearing on the legal ity of s36,000,oO0 assessment against individuals who sold Henry Ford minority stock in his company In 1919. ..-.-
 Hawkins, former sales manager for Ford. said the company had made s35,SSS,OOO profit from 1903 to 1913 and more than s299,00O, 900 from 1918 1919.
 Ford has his company so arrang- ed with "key men" that, he or any official could drop out of the bus. hess at any time without causing the firm embarrassment" Hawkins Informed the opening session of the hearing late yesterday.
 "The company sold 76,o0O auto mobiles in 1912 and 1S2,o00 in 1913. At no time in the history of the company had production equaled sales orders." he added, pointing out that Ford Is turned out every minute now.
 The main controversy in the tax controversy is over the value of the Ford stock in 1913. The governm ent in 1919, when the minority stock was transferred to Ford. placed a value of s9,500 a share on it. Later in 1925 Jeopardy" tax assessment was made placing the valuation at $3.5o0.
 Disposers of the stock had paid Uncle Sam 22,000,000 In profit tax es but the internal revenue bureau decided that under the revaluation an additional s36. 6.000.00O was due.
 Hawkins said he believed the stock was worth s10,000 share, pointing out that while the company was capitalized at only s2.ooO,ooo the stock had risen to a selling point Of at least s2O0,0O0,000.
 Juodges Strenhagen. Van Fossen and Marquette of the tax board ques- Honed Hawkins method of valuation and severely criticised it. Stren- hagen told tn witness he was a promoter, not financier.
 Hawkins said tn, Ford has no competition in the automotive field. He said that when Pierre DuPont met Henry Ford some time ago he advised the flivver king he would run him a close second in small car com- rstition but that The would never trample on Ford toes"
 Ford has often said he can make
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
JANUARY WEATHER
 WAS ABOUT NORMAL
29th Was WarmSt and 27th
 the Coolest

New Haven, Feb. 2 R)-The tenn perature of January was practically normal, according to the monthly meteorological summary issued by the U. s. weather bureau here. The maximum for the month was 35.7 against & normal maximum of 39.5. The minimum was 21.1, the normal minimum being 20.5. The mean temperature for January was 2s.4, while the normal means was 2S3.
 The highest temperature for the month was 50 degrees on the o9th and the lowest one degree below zero on the 27th. The greatest daily range was 33 degrees on the 18th.
 The snow fall for the month total led 9.9 inches. the normal snow fall being 1O.2 inches. The greatest snowfall in 24 hours was 4.S inches on the 18th and 18th.
 There were 12 clear days, eight partly cloudy and II cloudy. The total hours of sunshine were 1851, the number of hours of possible sun shine being 29S.2.
 The winter of 1925-26 was very mild, with temperature considerably above normal. There was only one severe snow storm, which occurred on Feb, 3 and 4, when more than foot of snow fell. The spring was cool windy and dry. The summer temperature was about normal eX- cept for a hot wave in July which sent the mercury up to 101 degrees, which is the highest ever recorded at this station. The fall was very pleasant. December was a cold month with considerably more snow than usual.
 The amount of snow that fell dur ing the year was 43.5 inches, which is just a little more than usual. The total amount of precipitation was 43, S2 inches, which is slightly below the normal. There were five days when the temperature was above 9O degrees and none when it was below zero. There was fl clear days, 113 partly and Ii cloudy.
 The longest spell without rain was IS days in September and the great est number of days with rain was in August. Thunderstorms occur Ted on 34 days.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02

cultural college. all of whom are seniors in the course leading to de gree in the teaching of home econ- omics, start next week a 1onth's apprentice teaching in high schools throughout the state. it was an- nounced here today by Miss lie Knappenberger, associate professor of home economies education.
 This practice teaching is required under the provision of the Smith Hughes law, in order that the young women may be eligible for degrees next June.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02

all the money he wants by getting a profit of $10 each car he sells" the witness continued. If the car is sold at actual cost Ford would still make a profit from money in banks earning dividends, sale of junk from left over parts, and various other means of savings in the bus mess"
 Hawkins said the average life of a Ford car is three to five years. He advised the court not to worry about Ford's future" Ford has never been in tight hole. he stated.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
WRITE ON TONsORIAL ART

Santiago De Chile, Feb. 2.-(UP) The profession has acquired certain aesthetic proportions in Santiago through the efforts of the barbers union, which recently distributed a varied assortment of awards for worthy literary expositions pertinent to various phases of the tonsorial art.
 Rogelio Vallejos received an elaborately worked medallion of gold for his treatise, appropriately enti- tied "The Queen of the Curly Hair" Other prizes ranging from silver medals to hair clippers and tweezers were distributed among competing barbers.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
CRUISER BILL ID
 CONFERENCE TODAY
Coolidge However, Still Has One
 Last Chance to Kill It

Washington, Feb. 2 (UP)-The fate of three new battle cruisers, voted by the senate. hangs upon ten men who will gather about a table to smooth out differences be- tween house and senate over the naval appropriations bill-and final ly upon President Coolidge who opposes their construction.
 The bill went today to confer ence, after being passed yesterday by the senate, while the house did not approve the cruiser appropri- ation, house conferees were expect ed to give way in favor of it.
 But President Coolidge has power to withhold the s1,200,000 for be- ginning work July 1. and the deci- sion will rest with him finally if the conferees approve their con- struction. Senate spokesmen pre- dicted he would refuse the funds. However, the president was expect ed to consider his course carefully in view of the nearly two-to-one NOlc dSdlilSL Hlul III lIlt StlldlS, i to 2S.
 There was much fuss in both houses over the cruisers. The storm might be likened to a tempest in a teapot, as the cruisers will not be completed for five or six years If construction is begun this year. and three light cruisers are not many.
 The fight was chiefly symbolic. President Coolidge, on the one hand urged delay because of his negotia- tions for another arms conference, holding out construction of the cruisers as a symbol of i'll will. Navy champions in both houses rallied about the cruisers as the symbol of naval expansion and preparedness. They argued that they were neces- sary to bring the fleet up to those of Great Britain and Japan, but if their figures are taken at face value, it would require more than three.
 The result of the senate fight can- not be interpreted as of far-reach- ing consequence. for many who vot cd for funds for the cruisers. which were authorized In 1924. would not vote for any substantial increase in the navy during peace times, most of them are In favor of another arms limitation conference.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
WOMEN DESIRE VOTE

Santiago De Chile, Feb. 2.-(UP) Continuing their struggle for po- titcal equality, Chilean women are concentrating their efforts toward winning the right to vote in munich pal elections. A measure granting this right with reservations has al ready been approved by the national senate and Chilean executives of the International Feminist Congress hope to secure it's early passage in the chamber Of deputies.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02
HANGAR CRUSHED BY SNOW

London, Feb. 3 (UP)-Four large temporary hangars at Croydon col lapsed today under the weight of snow, destroying large experi- mental air lines belonging to the aid ministry.
 Several Hadley Page and Napier planes, owned by the Imperial Air ways Company in cross-channel transportation. were slightly damag- ed.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02

Records taken over 36 years indi- cate that the greatest number Of fatal influenza cases occur about the ninth or tenth week of the year, and week.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-02

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