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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Must Build Labor Party to Fight Strike Breaking Government

United Mine Workers of America, in
speech at the A. F. of L. Confer
ence in Pittsburgh, had the following
to say about the State Police and the
coal strike:
Estate policemen are manning
every e-breaking m inc in
Western Pennsylvania, and the
same is true of Central Pennsyl-
vania. Many of them live in Com
pany houses and ride around in the
automobiles of the superintendent.
They ride their horses among
women and children, they arrest
people and hale them before local
magistrates, testify against them
and do everything that is done by
strike breakers to hamper the mine
workers organization"
Considering that Murray is one Of
the most reactionary labor leaders in
this country, his remarks need nc
further comment by US. 1t is worth
while adding that the hordes of the
state police, better known as the
Pennsylvania Cossacks, invaded not
only the organized fields of Western
and Central Pennsylvania, but they
also marched into the unorganized
fields of Fayette County to sound a
warning to the coke miners that no
sympathetic strike will be tolerated.
The yellow Dogs"
Even a more striking illustration of
the role of the government as a
ion-breaking agency in the present
coal struggle is the institution of the
Coal and Iron Police, better known as
the "yellow dogs" They receive their
authority from the governor of the
state, but are being paid by and are
directly responsible to the coal opera
tors. They are the private army Of
the employers, authorized by the gov
eminent and used in a most brutal
manner against the workers.
The Courts-Tools of the
Coal Operators.
The role, of the judicial branch of
our government in this great indus
trial dispute is best illustrated by the
sweeping iniunctions issued against
the union men, both in Western and
Central Pennsylvania.
The injunction of Federal Judge
SHOEMAKER is a model Of class JUS
tice in America. This injunction prac-
tically outlaws the United Mine
Workers of America. 1t goes step
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

talists to the very right Of trade
unions, even of craft unions, to exist,
will be among the main problems
dealt with by the Central Committee
in it's deliberations.
The quesy lion of labor party will re-
ceive most thorough consideration.
For some months, the party has been
laying the basis for an energetic CAM
paign for Labor Party or at least
United Labor Ticket in 1928. Re-
ports of the field organizers will be
Forthcoming and discussion will be
held on a very concrete basis. Every
District in the country will be repre-
scented at this Plenum. The Party's
participation in the 1928 elections
will be carefully prepared.
The problem of the increasing war
danger, the murderous assault of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

that the Socialist Party, at the same
time, has been losing the few mem
oers it once pretended to have. The
gain of new membership is growing
every month. The dues payments for.
this month are now much higher than
at any mon.h since reorganization, de.
spite the fact that the unemployment
situation is weighing down heavily
upon our Party ranks. The Party.
already has practically as many MEM
bers as it did on the eve of the re-
organization. In the Workers Clubs,
in which the Party's influence is de-
cisive, we now have from two to three
times as many members as we previ-
ously had in the Party as a whole.
Members of the Party in good
standing will be admitted to the sess
sions of the Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

/ are being daily dragged into court.
The injunction issued recently by
Judge ]. M. Langham of Indiana
County, Pennsylvania, to the Clear
field Coal Corporation even prohibits
the display of signs warning the
strike breakers that a strike is on
1t prohibits the miners to sing or to
gather outside the church.
The courts are assisting the opera
tors in evicting the miners and serve
as shield to protect the crimes OF
the deputy sheriffs, the yellow dogs
and state police.
Labor Party Must Be the Answer
Governor Fisher himself is direc-
tor of the Clarified Bituminous Coal
Corporation.
The Pittsburgh Coal Company, the
leader in the present war against the
United Mine Workers, is controlled
by the Mellon interests, who also con-
troll the government Of this country.
One is not surprised, therefore, that
the present bituminous coal strike has
again demonstrated that the govern
ment, both executive and judicial, To-
cal, state and federal, is on the side
of the employers and is against the
workers.
The only answer the workers can
give to this question is to build a
party of their own and completely and
decisively repudiate the old parties,
The policy of the A. F. of l.. in ''re-
warding the friends and furnishing the
enemies of labor" only plays into the
hands of the Open Shoppers and must
be repudiated. Sheriff Abbot of
Washington County, who was elected
on the Republican ticket as one of
the numerous friends of labor" was
the first one to issue the order
against the miners. Governor Pinchot,
another "friend of labor" did nothing
to abolish the yellow Dog" institu-
ton. According to Pinchot himself,
during his regime "the state kept in
the middle of the road" doing nothing
to protect the interests of the work
ers, while the operators were still al
lowed to keep their army of private
gunner and thugs.
Workers Learning.
In several mining communities the
workers have learned lesson. They
finally realized that their good Re-
publican heads were being dubbed
during the coal struggle by good Re-
publican state policemen and they
were being jailed and ordered evicted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Instructions for
Lenin MEETINGS

To all Lenin Memorial Arrange
ments Committees,
To all district organizers, city or
ganizers, etc.:
All comrades responsible for the
arrangements and conduct of the
Lenin memorial meetings turnout
the country will please note the
following decisions of the National
Organization Department:
/. At all Lenin memorial
meetings the principle speaker
must make the appeal for MEM
bership. The Lenin memorial
meeting is starting point for
the Lenin Memorial and Rrthen-
berg Memorial Membership and
DAILY WORKER Drive that
will last from Lenin Memorial
to Ruthenber2 Memorial, March
End.
The appeal must be made on the
basis of the activity of our Party
in various campaigns. Every eff
fort must be made to see to it that
the appeal is well organized in
advance, the application cards are
distributed, and that they are col
lected before the end of the meet
ing.
Special emphasis must be given
to the fact that all those who are
unemployed or on strike will be
admitted without any initiation
fee.
2. DAILY WORKER DRIVE.
There must be at least one of
the speakers or an additional
comrade who is not on the regu-
lar list of speakers who shall
make an appeal for The DAILY
WORKER as part of the general
drive for The DAILY WORKER
and take up an appeal for sub
scriptions.
The Central Executive Commit
tee expects all comrades to COOP
crate in carrying out the above
tasks.
ORGANIZATION DEPT.
I,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Labor Houses and Big
Contractors Profits
Cause Storm Wreckage

CINCINNATI, Jan. 2O.-Ohio was
checking its losses today resulting
from the tornado-like storm that
swept through the southern part Of
the state late yesterday.
One person, A. R. Kruger, a sales
man, is known to have been killed.
Property damage is estimated at close
to million dollars.
The freak storm cut across the Ken
lucky line and carried destruction into
the interior of that state. A score of
persons were reported injured in the
Louisville district. No fatalities oc-
CURED, but property damage was high.
Poor construction Of workers homes
and public buildings built by contrac
tors suffered most.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
By JAY LOvESTONE.

One of the most important events
in the life of the Workers (Commu-
nsst) Party and an occasion of basic
Importance for the entire American
labor movement, is the coming full
meeting of the Central Executive
Committee of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party. This Plenum is of in
finitely more Importance than most
Of the full meetings of the Central
Executive Committee meetings held
to date.
The country is face to face with a
severe economic recession. THE sta
tistics of the employers agencies and
the government do not give the real
picture of the dreadful condi ions to
which millions of workers are now
subject. In America there are no un-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

Struggle of the Trotskyist Opposition
to the policies of the Communist H.
ternational and the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, policies which
have been endorsed unanimously by
the Central Executive Committee of
the Workers Parry.
Special Conference.
At the conclusion of the Plenum,
there will be held special conference
on organization and agitprop work
Here the practical activities of the
Party will be discussed in detail and
plans laid for intensification of Party
work.
Since the convention, the Party has
gained over 1000 new members. This
is especially welcome in the face of
tremendous difficulties confronting
the Party. 1t is interesting to note
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

imperialism, and such basic problems
confronting the workers as the pres
ent economic recession, the tasks of
building a Labor Party, the best
methods of fighting the war danger
and liquidating the illusions of paci-
fism, the question of the united front
in relation to such organizations as
the Socialist Party, the l. w. W., and
labor organizations in general, as well
as the development of the Party's ac-
tivities among the Negro masses and
the women workers.
-
The Youth problem will be reported
on at length by the representa- i've of
the Young Workers (Communist)
League.
A special feature of the delibera-
tons of the Central Committee meet
ing will be detailed report on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Diamonds and Whisky

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 90
Fifty million dollars worth of
diamonds is annually struggled into
New York port by an international
smuggling ring, as well as liquor and
other commodities, Assistant Secre-
tary Seymour Lowman of the treas
pry reports.
Lowman had denied Rep. Fiorello
LaGuardia's charges regarding the
wholesale import of liquor under the
protection of cancelled Gus ON s
stamps. Because LaGuardia persisted
IN giving considerable publicity to his
evidence, Lowman was forced to in
vestigate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
NoAmnesty forWorkers

The amnesty for military prisoners
which has been announced with great
pomp in Bucharest does not effect
the status of any imprisoned work
ers or peasants, reports from the Ru-
manlan capital state Many of the
Rumanian political prisoners are peas
ants who have been jailed for at
tempting to take over portions of un-
titled land. Others are workers and
peasants who have resisted the gov
ernment's terror in the provinces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
Evidence Before Grand
Jury of Blacklist by
POughkeepsie Bosses

PoUGKHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Jan. 20.
The investigation of the Labor
blacklist" said sto be maintained by
the Manufacturers Association has
been started by the Grand Jury.
A workman, Frank Gonzales. the
mayor and his sister Mrs. Harry S.
Book were among the first to appear
before the jury. The offices of the
association were occupied by District
Attorney Allen S. Reynolds who has
taken possession of the records, or
what is left of them. The mayor in
his campaign speeches promised in
vestigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

American imperialism against the
Nicaraguan masses struggling for
freedom from the 'clutches of Wall
Street, the sinister plans being laid
by the imperialist gang to destroy
the revolutionary movement in China
and to fasten upon the Chinese peo-
pie regime of militarists and imper-
ialists serving as agents of big bust
ness will be dealt with in a most
thorogoing manner by the reporters
at the Plenum.
Unions Main Question.
Naturally, the trade union question
will be the central question examined
by the comrades from the field and
the Political Committee. The report
of the Political Committee will deal
at length with the role of American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

by good Republican judges.
In these communities the labor
Party received high vote, in many
instances higher than the vote re-
ceived by either one vi the old par
ties, despite the sabotage of the labor
officials.
These instances, while still isolated,
must be made general.
A Labor Party must be built as a
first step towards modifying the
workers against strike-breaking bos-
ses' government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
False Arrest Charged

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 20. Rather
than pay poll tax of S1.65 several.
months ago De Witt Sellic of Avon
went to Jail. After hours Of prison
life Sellick decided to pay and was
released. Now he is suing the tax re-
ceiver and deputy tax collection for.
$4,000 each, charging false arrest
and abusive treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21
THEY STILL SMUGGLE.

Four hundred thousand dollars
worth of liquor was seized aboard thu
trawler Standard Coaster in the Ar.
thur Kill yesterday by a coast guarc
patrol boat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

CAMDEN, Jan. 20. - Five dwell
ings in the foreign workers section
OF this city were destroyed by fire of
undetermined origin yesterday. Work
ers' families were forced to flee half
dressed and two small Italian child
rem were overcome by smoke.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

further. 1t even restraints the Ma
tional Surety Company from supply
ing bonds to the various miners who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

The storfs theex way" Pancho said
We moseyed along toward the big butte
/ try 10 head OH south into TaTahumaro
Country. where know him be safe But
ciable que h0mbre! He go where he
like and / follow
BY the second night. him good and
tired He cross riveT-his clothes get
soaking wet All right when the sun
it hot, but by shadow time, which come
pretty much s0on--tllat canyon so mar
row, 80 depths teeth chatter In his
head
by morning little bald-hesd he
have cheels much bad. but he keep
along, ! see bunch Of straw roofs,
want 10 make Thaddeus go In brush
and me look around. But he no like
want To go straight In.
80 / let him go by himself, sneak
my cayIae In among some willow shoots
what grow thick along through chapar-
raj Thaddeus, he reach village all
right, ali right, but there he fall down
like drunk.
Il sneak up close by Two bucks in
l0in cloths come up TO him, the biggest
Yaks I ever see They make baid-head
look like little fat kid, what you call m
doll
They talk pretty tame so I risk GO
ing in The old men all jabber TO once
They want know something about
White Toad They mean Thaddeus
and / teli'm how he saved Pace that
he white priest This get them how
sou say~much excitement
4 learn White Toad real honofed
name ! guess they call him that cause
he look Just like toad when he splash
through water ana ttIqible ont dead
gone on the bank By village, Just like
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
Primo de Rivera, Spain Undisputed
Master at Politics and War, May
Have Met Defeat In Field of Love.
Romance Takes New Turn.

we'll have said. he might as we'll try
force
The story goes that he planned his
coup d'etat with Napoleonic directnesS
and skill He prepared a manifesto set
ting forth that the politicians at Ma
drid were running spain. that graft,
corruption and favoritism were under
mining the national morale. and that II
Spain was to be saved the rascals must
be turned out, With his personal card
attached. he sent copies OF this docu-
ment to all the leading generals of
Spain. He proposed. he let 1t be known.
a military government.
Next day he proclaimed himself die
tator. having been assured that the
army was with him He teiephoned
the King and said he was coming to
Madrid Co take over the government,
But the Duke OF AlhucemaS. then
prime minister. opened the message.
He rushed to the King and asked that
he be authorized to take immediate
steps TO down this upStart soldier
Alfonso counSeled delay and. when
Primo arrived, met him at the front
door of the ktngly abode They sat
down in conference. 4 little later Al
fonso sent for AlhucemaS. and said. in
effect.
"Alhucemas. ! went need you any
more This Prime Is too strong for tbs.
Wen let him play out his string"
There are those who say that Alfonso
secretly arranged to have Primo start
the revolution To save his own face.
They point out that without flagrantly
haunting his oath to maintain conStitu-
tional government, the King couldn't
be dictator himself But. on the other
hand, he could. If 10 appeared he was
forced into IL, keep little dictator
around the palace
In any event Primo proved good
dictator He formed directorate of
nine generals and one admiral caused
the Spanish Parliament to be adjourned
apparently for good and All. and pro-
claimed martial law. Then he set about
with calm precision, ousting politicians
and doing as he pleased with the laws
and the treasury They say that there
were hundreds Of political parasites who
had titles. Offices and salaries in the
various bureaus and never did any
work Primo ousted them all.
In two years the military dictator
ship ended and he became premier in
the re-estabhshed civil government,
lie handled all his other affairs
principal BolsheviSts and Socialists
personally went to Morocco headed the
military forces and, after several fall
ures. managed ia down Abd-el~Krim
with the aid OF the French. thus solv-
ing SPANS North African troubles He
inangnrated no~work, ne~pay regime
Direct, decisive action that has char"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19

Indians stripped off my clothes, and
placed me at the head Of the runway
"rhel they called down the wrath Of
| the gods ON me and made me run over
| those cactus spines, hitting at me with
! heir cactus clubs, all along that double
row. Then they chased me across the
| river and down the valley, / ran. with
all those brown devils whooping after
me. How [ got here / don't rightly I'M
deFstand The ways of God are mani
| fold 1t Is a lesson In the true faith"
/ But Thaddeus decided he was cured
Of converting Yaquis, he felt called TO
aid the negroes Of the South he told
us We put him aboard north~bound
train and saw him disappear with a
| last wave of his pudgy hand.
| Meanwhile Ralph and | had finished
work on the jacal What TO do next
W" had no idea. After Thaddens' ex-
perieneces We were not so keen about
setting out immediately for the Rio
| Yaqu 10 look for our cache OF gold
Later. perhaps, when the Yaquis were
off their rampage.
Then Joe, Schneider's clerk. made us
proposition. He had saved $500, and
| his idea was 10 rent some 80 acres OF
| irrigated land south OF Cajeme. on
which 10 plant melons. which grow pro-
| ILLEGALLY In this climate, yet command
good prices He wanted my brother
. and ME and a Swiss named Wolman
! 10 go In with him Joe would buy the
| tools With his money We would each
work for a peso a day Half the crop
would go 10 the owner for rent, the
other half would be sold by us. Joe
would then take halfa quarter Of the
! Hh0le~~and the other quarter would he
divided equally among the four Of ns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
Joke by Jack Frost.
frost tracings on

DELICATE frost tracings on tbs
window paneS seem to be the WORK
of fanciful and harmless spcrtiyenesS.
but the hand that forms them is cspS
BILE OF greater deeds. and OF other kind.
A Government scientist tells Of an eX-
perience that must have been wonder
fully impressive to the spectator. lie
had been spending some weeks in eX
plorng the Yosemite Valley and the
great rocks" like 81 Captain. tha:
wall 1t In.
Standing one day in late Autumn
about the middle of the valley, he Wa
startled by a report like cannon Shc',
which filled the whole valley with
echoes that ro>red and doomed. replied
and multiplied. in a long continued,
glorious tumult>
As the deafsning sound died away.
In sullen rautterings under the viZCg
of 81 Captain. the scientist was adj,
to distinguish the point of attack br
the long. gathering descent Of a vaSt
quantity of rock.
The night had been q cold one in yh7
valley, and on the 1000 70 5000 loot
levels Of the upper rim the temperature
must have dropped almost TO zero.
Jack Frost, working quietly with his
-kAtNtAAAuCOSan bCNSAs kl10 I4ot SNNCSNNttR
in shifting from the shoulder Of the
sentinel trifie OF so tons or SO of
granite. For rear thousand feet the
boulder fell sheer. swift and silent;
then. striking the cEI. it burst like u
bomb, shattered into myriad of flying
shards and splinters. and diSlodged n
smother of fragments that trickled
down TO the valley in = stream that
lasted for minutes
Then from the SPOT where the bout
der had struck. dust began 10 rise into
the sunny air, slowly building UP and
faShioning Ike Summer cloud and
every whit rs snowy, 1t was the flour
of granite, powdered instantly by the
terrific Shocl.
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toad. The people Of that tribe they
| think they all sons of big toad that
once sit ON top of mountains and cough
I'D sun all mornings. Anybody who kill
toad get dead hisssIf, so not bring
SICKNESS
They say Thaddeus most elegant
toad they ever see. Vhey make him
real padre, medicine man And dyou
know they've church hid way under
cliff? Built m long go back in Cor
tez's time. They put Thaddeus in there
to do ShindigS.
We'll / think him in much solid. 50
go wy. More late go back hear
they killed him Too bad. I much
sorry Now. Why he come here no
I no can tell you. why that be.
THE next day we got the rest of the
story of the missionary expedition
from Thaddeus himself.
The YaQuiS are queer folks. he be-
gan dazedly. They have their sfa-
mans, medicine men, you know, and
these fellows were pretty fncenSsd that
an outsider should come m and under
mine their influence AS near as
could make out, they managed 10 con-
vince the tribe, through some taboo I
broke. and seine che who fell sick. that
I was a sorcerer No one came to
church any more. So / skipped But
they were On the watch ana caught me.
They wanted to punish M. but
couldn't kill me because of their taboos
was still the White Toad But they
spE mixed cactus spines over a 50-yard
path; then the whole tribs. In thu order
Of age. children women, men. lined w
IN two rows facing each other. holding
clubs spiked with cactus Two wrinkled