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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17

Singing as an exercise is great
benefit to anyone suffering from
chest or throat weakness.
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CURLED EDGES
If your rugs curl at the edges
or if they have become ruffled by
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-17

California produces annually
evaporated whole milk worth $751;
OOO. 900.
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for it seems they would not do q
thing for me. They would not even
send me the N. Y. address-nor
subscribe me for the Daily Worker
for love nor for money. The only
excuse in passing the buck on to
me for the last two years is: chat
they have no attorney in Iowa" to
investigate or to give any legal aid
and advice to me.
Seven years ago while on my way
East, and temporary employed in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, | fell victim
to the ultra ceactionary anti-foreign
prosecuting attorney, the Judge and
iury-on account If my foreign or
igin, industrial affiliation and my
views and op lions.
| was illegally arreF,ed. tried and
convicted on "put-up charge of
passing one S2S forged check" and
sentenced to fifteen years imprisor.
ment, under entirely wrong" sta
tute, that did not cover this minor
unindictable offense l was charged
with.
However, due to this travesty of
"Iowa Justice" and my complete
is lation, had served seven years
already, six months more than the
Iowa law calls for fifteen year
sentence and still held
Last year thru one semi liberal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02

on election day in support of the
Workers (Communist) Party of
America, with the party that is not
on the side of the bosses and Wall
Street, but on the side of the toiling
masses. / found striking similar
ity of the struggle that the National
Miners Union has had in it's fight
to form a militant fighting union
and in the fight the Workers PARTY
has had to lay it's platform, to form
its Party and to hold its meetings.
Like the National Miners Union. the
Workers Party has had its meet
lngs broken up, has had it's leaders
arrested and jailed, has been refused
halls to meet in, has been refused
the use of newspapers and radio
IN fact every source of capitalist
oppression was used against the
Workers Party just as it was used
against the National Miners Union.
We have been accused of being a
Communist" bunch, the same as
the Workers Party. Well, if fight
ing for the down-trodden workers
against the capitalist oppression,
with its injunctions, evictions, ar
rests, jailings and starvation is
Communism, then l guess the
Workers (Communist) Party is not
lined up with Wall Street and cor
ruption and destruction. We know
that the Workers Party stands for
the abolition of government by in
junction. We know that it stands
for the organization of the millions
OF unOrganized workers, for higher
wages and better working condi-
tons, for the prohibition of the use
of the state cossacks and state
militia and coal and iron police in
labor struggles. for full social and
political equality without discrimin-
alton for the Negroes, foreign-born
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
LETTER FROM A CLASS-WAR PRISON

able of any kind. THEY WILL NOT
BE ADMITTED.
The Following Articles May Be
Sent to Prisoners: Family photo.
graphs, tooth brush, hair brush
comb, nail clippers, needle, thread
safety razors, handkerchiefs, under
clothing and socks.
To the Inmate: Confine letters to
personal business; do not write
about other prisoners, crimes, etc.
Do not write abusive or threatening
letter. Comment good or bad, of
the institution or state officers will
not be mailed. Correspondence with
ex-prisoners or persons confined in
other prisons not permitted.
Fort Madison, Iowa,
October 1, 1923.
Dear Comrade:
Today is seven years since was
caught in the net of revenge-buried
alive and forgotten.
Being most despised foreigner
in the eyes of the law, l had hard
time to make connections or to hear
from any friends of human frceaom.
The American C. L. Union of N.
Y. must have "sold-out" and has no
further use for "foreign-born
worker" and q class-war prisoner;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
By P. FRANKFELD.

The Young Workers Communist
League in New York has partici-
pated in this election campaign most
actively, and it can truly be said,
for the first time as a distinct polit-
ical entity and factor.
In the past, election campaigns,
the Young Workers League sort of
loaned" its speakers to the Party.
Here and there in instances, League
members went out to gather sigma
lures, but this too was done merely
as Party members. No real ideolog-
lcal campaign was carried on to ac-
quaint the League membership with
the necessity of participating in the
elections nor giving the membership
an understanding of the issues in
volved in the campaign. League
open-air meetings were held, but
they were not organically connected
up with the election agitation of the
Party or League. In word, the
League to very large extent re-
Elected the political apathy of the
American young workers at that
time.
In the present campaign, hun
dreds of League members were in
volved in it one way or another. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
Young Workers League Active in Red Election Drive

the signature drive, the Young
Workers League units succeeded in
collecting 5000 signatures. That is
remarkable record for the League.
True, the quota of 5000 which the
League had set for itself was not
reached, but that was more than
made up for by the energy and re-
sponsibility shown by the League as
whole to this task The League
units arranged Red Sundays, at
which whole units were modified to
go out for signatures. AS re-
suit of strict checkup that was
maintained by the units, it has been
established that over $50 League
members had gone out for sigma
lures.
The first weeks of the election
campaign the League conducted on
the average of Is open-air meetings
week. These open-air meetings
were closely connected with the cam
paign, and League agitators dealt
in the main with the problem of
the youth, with the Party's youth
program, and kept up week after
week with the developments in the
campaign. The League succeeded in
developing large corps of open
air speakers, and most of the units
had very little occasion to call on the
district office for help in this re-
spect.
AS to the theological aspect of
the election campaign. The League
in New York during the summer
months held 2 membership meetings.
One of these was devoted entirely to
the election campaign. Comrades
Benjamin and Grecht spoke for the
Party, and League speaker dealt
with the Leagues participation in
the campaign. There were 2 dis
cussions in the units of the League
on the election campaign. There
were several meetings of the League
functionaries at which the election
campaign was discussed in detail.
The League did not have to do much
convincing about the necessity of
participating in the election cam
paign, because the League member
ship in the main is a new and young
membership, and at no time was in
flicted with the ertii 81 -. a.inarta rio \
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The following is a letter received
in the office of the Daily Worker
from a worker who has been in
prison for seven years on framed
up charge and is now serving the
rest of a fifteen-year sentence. The
letter is sent on a form sheet pro-
scribed by the authorities and we
also reprint prison instructions that
appear at the top of every letter.
Here it is:
VISITING NOT ALLOWED SUN
DAYS OR HOLIDAYS.
Parties corresponding with pris-
oners MUST observe the following
directions: Confine your correspond
ence to family and business matters
In directing your letters put Prison
er's Name and Register No. plainly
on the envelope. Do not send post
age stamps, Money must be sent by
draft or money order. All periodi-
Gals and newspapers must come di-
rect from publishers; old papers not
admitted Inmates are not allowed
visitors until they have been here
one month, and thereafter not often
er than once each month. Mothers,
fathers, wives, sisters, brothers and
grandparents only permitted % visit
prisoners. Do not send or ring
'auids. medicine, fruit. candy or eat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
Three Capitalist Parties Have Anti-Labor
Records; What Communists Offer

interests of the workers, yet they
openly support the republican labor
leaders, who in the interests of the
bosses are destroying the unions
md adopting the bosses slogans;
Too many industries and too many
workers; small unions of the work
srs and huge CONSULTATIONS Of cap
ital; separate and dividing strikes
of workers; electing your enemies
and defeating your friends; against
labor parties and open endorsement
Of Wall Street parties. This is the
gang that the socialists, headed by
Norman Thomas, have supported
against the militant rank and file
workers.
They talk of NATURALIZATION" of
the mines and basic industries, but
they do not tell the workers that
under their plan the mines and other
industries would be paid for out of
the earnings of the industry, or, in
other words, out of the wages of
| NIlS MOIhGiS, WllcllIC Oil Cdl mugs Z
derived. We have paid enough al
ready in blood, energy and sacri-
fees; we refuse to be yoked to a
scheme that will keep us in servi-
tude and slavery for many more
decades under the administration of
class collaborationists of the pres
ont socialist tvpe.
Does the Present Political Campaign
Offer Hope to the Toiling
Masses of America?
I finish with the question asked
at the beginning of this article:
Does the present political campaign
offer any hope to the toiling
masses? Ny answer is: Yes, there
il hope, but not by supporting the
above mentioned political parties.
There is hope only if the workers
of America will line up at the polls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02

traditions of the Party. Rather, the
task of the League was to work out
concrete methods of work and ac-
tivity for the Young Workers
League, and to educate the member
ship to the issues of the campaign.
The various discussions, the mem
bership and functionaries meetings
accomplished that fact.
In the first period of the cam
paign, the League sold at its open
air meetings 1900 Party programs
and about 500 Foster-G itlow buttons.
besides its own literature such as the
Young Worker, etc.
The League carried on campaign
amongst youth organizations for en-
dorsement of the Party candidates
and platform. Speakers were sent
to youth clubs, and there the issues
of the campaign and the programs
of the various parties were dealt
with. The problems of the young
workers under capitalism, the war
danger, the question of unioniza-
ton, the demands of the Party for
the youth are discussed by the
League speakers at these youth
clubs. Following the speaker, reso-
lutions endorsing the Party plat
form and candidates are presented
to be voted upon.
The League has not failed to link
up its economic-trade union work
with the election campaign. Nearly
every shop bulletin that has been is
sued in the past 3 months has con-
tanned articles on the election cam
paign. The struggles of the young
workers in the factories for better
conditions, for unionization, were
organically connected with the polit-
ical struggle and the election cam
paign. The young workers prob
lens were never considered by the
League to be something separate
and apart from the class struggle
as a whole; and all of the leaflets
and bulletins issued reflected that
fact. The youth demands of the
Party were popularized. The slo-
gans of "Old enough to work, old
enough to vote---A vote for every
person 10 years of age and over"
the $3.50 minimum wsge for every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
Does the Campaign Offer Hope to Toilers

workers and for women and young
workers. 1t stands for a Labor
Party, for the Workers and Farmers
government in the United States,
Instead of labor-hating Wall Street
government. 1t stands for the dis
tribution of all wealth among the
workers, who create all wealth, and
against the concentration of wealth
into the hands of the exploiting
classes. 1t is against imperialist
wars.
These are the issues that the
workers of America are interested
in, these are the things the work
crs of America must gain. These
things can only be gained by. a
party which is pledged to secure
them for the working class, a party
Of the working class, by the work
ing class and for the working class.
Fellow-workers, hope is offered to
you in this program alone, no other
program is for you. The election
Of a candidate of any other party
means more degradation for you,
for they stand for profit to the own
crs and misery for you. They stand
for profits for big business, speed
up systems, efficiency, which means
low wages, long hours of toll and
unemployment for you. Eventually
you must vote for those and elect
those who stand for your class in
terests. Why not start now, regis
ter your protest, line up with the
party which is lined up with you?
Before another election rolls around
we will be plunged into another
gigantic war, and the Workers
Party is the only party in America
that confronts the workers with
this issue that means so much to
them. Your vote for any other
party is lost vote, so far as your
interests are concerned, and it
means continued starvation and OPP
preston. A vote for the Workers
(COmmunisO Party offers you hope
for Workers and Farmers govern
ment III America.
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young worker" "The 6 hour day. !
day week" Fight against capitalist
militarism," ETC., were explained in
simple lucid fashion to the young
workers. In the last few weeks, the
League has been issuing series of
special leaflets addressed to young
workers in specific factories dealing
with their immediate problems and
linking them up with the Party
program.
The League has been supplying
speakers and been participating in
the noon-hour meetings arranged
jointly with the Party.
Indoor meetings have been ar
ranged in Williamsburg and Bronx,
where youth candidates are run
ming for office. Leaflets are gotten
out to the young workers in the
vicinity advertising same.
The League has arranged it's own
Red rallies. In the Downtown Sec
ton, 7 open air meetings were held
last Wednesday night. On 10th st.
and End Ave, where the meetings
wound up, there were about 1900
workers. After the meeting was
over, parade was started to the
Party headquarters, and the police
tried to dispense it several times.
When meetings of the Party were
threatened by hoodlums, the League
was on the job, to protect the meet
ings. This was the case in Long
Island, where the Y. w. L. mobil-
lied rs comrades on one occasion.
In the schools and colleges, the
League has started to work. A
Foster-for-President Club has been
organized in New York University.
In other places, like City College, it
was prohibited. But Communist
speakers have already spoken in
several colleges, and several leaflets
to students have already been dis
tributed in high schools and col
leges.
All in all, good beginning has
been made this year. There is one
week left and the League will not
fall down on the job in this remain
ing period.
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Iowa attorney, that had evidently
heard of me) had succeeded in fl.
ing writ of habcas corpus for my
release, only to get before wrong
judge and had to appeal to Iowa Is
supreme court. The appeals briefs
had. been duly filed and the argu.
ments heard, only that the attorney
had suddenly disappeared" and
could not hear thing about my
case anymore. Evidently The case
had not been lost as yet.
l had requested that SIS check
be sent to you (from here) for the
Daily Worker subscription, if you
would kindly put me on the sub
scription list for that amount, as !
am almost starved intellectually.
Thanking you very kindly, I am.
Fraternally yours,
JOE DRAZTCH.
No. 12061, Box BIG, Fort Madison, Ia.
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For President
VIM. z. Foster
Rev. Thomas Discovers Mooney

The Volkszeitung, a German language
paper, edited by the discredted renegade,
Ludwig Lore, who was expelled from the
Workers (Communist) Party some years ago,
carries an article by the Rev. Norman
Thomas, socialist party candidate for presi-
dent, wherein that worthy discovers Tom
Mooney in San Quentin prison. Like the
palavering liberal that he is the socialist
party standard bearer places the fight for
the liberation of Mooney and Warren K.
Billings upon the decision of one individual,
Governor Young of California. Thomas says
that perhaps Young has a pardon under
preparation"
This identical policy of basing fight for
liberation of working class victims Of the
frame-up system upon the alleged sense of
Justice" of POLITICAL agent of the capitalist
class characterized the yellow socialist and
liberal tribe during the struggle to save Sacco
and Vanzetti, and had much to do with the
outcome.
In the Mooney case Mr.. Norman Thomas
states that the whole issue is a question of
whether those in favor of freedom for Mooney
or those capitalist interests who want to keep
him in jail will influence Governor Young.
Thus we see the socialist candidate in the
familiar role of trying to create the illusion
among workers that the capitalist state and
its officials are something separate and apart
from, and standing above, class struggles.
The liberation of Mooney and Billings will
be achieved only when the working class is
aroused to such degree that the capitalist
class is forced to open the jail doors. For
months the movement to free Mooney and
Billings has been rapidly gaining in intensity.
Again the class character of capitalist courts
and the fraud of capitalist democracy are ex-
posed before great masses of workers. When
Mooney is freed, as he must be, it will not
be because Governor Young is different from
Hiram Johnson or any of the other jailors of
Mooney, but because the capitalist state fears
the rising tide of contempt for its institu-
tons.
One of the most damning indictments
against the yellow leadership of the socialist
party is its attitude toward the Mooney case
from the very beginning. Before the Mooney
trial Adolph Germer, then national secretary
of the socialist party, visited California and
reported that Mooney was dangerous fellow
and the socialists should be careful not to get
mixed up" in the affair. The California
socialist party officialdom always despised
Mooney and that militant fighter for the
working class was forced to join Hungarian
branch of the socialist party to keep from
being expelled from an English language
branch controlled by the yellow leadership.
1t is noteworthy that the only prominent
California members of the socialist party who
supported the Mooney defense were OPP
ponents of the official policy of that party
and were later among the first to join the
Communist Party. Also noteworthy is the
fact that Eugene V. Debs, alone among the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02

national socialist party leaders, defended
Mooney and Billings, not by insipid twaddle
about appealing to the better natures of such
enemies of the working class as Hiram John
son and Governor Young, but by trying. in
spite of his party, to incite the working class
against the conspiracy.
But for sheer depravity for utter vileness,
the Rev. Norman Thomas now plumbs the
depths. Here is a quotation from Thomas
article as it appeared on page IA of the Eng
ish section of Ludwig Lore's paper for Sun
day, October %:
In the SaccO and Vanzetti case there was
at least pretense of belief by the authorities
that they were fairly tried and were guilty"
At the very moment when the CAPITALIST
press is forced to admit that the Bridgewater
conviction against Vanzetti was a frame-up.
the little socialist" tries to instil into the
masses the idea that there is or was some
question of the degree of credibiIity or a cues
OF degree of doubtfulness about the case of
Sacco and Vanzetti. In other words, that the
murder of Sacco and Vanzetti was a "mis
carriage of justice and not piece of de-
hberately planned class vengeance against
two Innocent working men. The socialist
party candidate for president and the rene
gade Lore try to create the impression that
the Massachusetts butchers are less vicious
than the California variety of state officials.
Says the Reverend, by way of drawing
theological distinctions:
"In the Centraa the victims did shoot
though in self-defense"
The Yenomous anti-working class character
OF Thomas is equally revealed in this brief
reference to the victims of the CentraIa as
sault. Like the snivelling pacifist that he is,
Norman Thomas would have extended bene-
dlctlons to the Centralia victims of the
American Legion assault on Armistice dav.
1919, if they had folded their arms and per
mitted themselves to be murdered The fact
that they defended themselves with arms in
hand evokes only snivelling sermonizng from
the pulpit-pounder who heads the socialist
ticket
The Volkszeitung article of Thomas should
be sufficient to inpel every class conscious
worker who at one time supported the So
cialist party now to repudiate that aggrega-
ton of enemies of the working class by rally
ing to the standard of the Workers Com
munist) Party, which is in fact the bearer
of the best traditions of Debs, who, though
confused and hampered by his associates,
nevertheless had the instinct to fight in be-
half of the victims of capitalist class Justice.
To support the socialist party today is to be-
foul the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, to
mock the Centralia victims now rotting in
Walla Walla penitentiary, to devitalize the
working class movement for freedom of
Mooney, Billings and all other working class
prisoners, and to place the stamp of approval
upon those engaged in disseminating the
most poisonous anti-working class propa-
ganda in the United States today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02
By JOHN w. WATT
President of the National Miners
Union.


Continued
Gin yesterdays issue Watt ana
lyzed the role of the republican and
democratic parties, the part the old
politicians and the 6oss-controlled
governments of states and cities
have played in the big mine strug-
gle and in the present fight to or
ganize a new union. Today's install
ment analyses the role of the So
cialist party and the task of the
mine and other workers in the pres
cnt election campaign.)
The Socialist Party-DOes 1t Offer
Hope?
The socialist party, headed by
Preacher" Thomas, is also asking
for labor's vote. But in return it
offers nothing-except some time
work phrases that have no mean
ing. We judge the socialist party
by its past performances, and its
war record is enough to condemn it
before the workers. We found that
party, supposedly a party working
in behalf of the workers, lining ur
solidly with Mammon and the forces
of Wall Street during the last war
proving it to be not class party
We found it recently lined up with
the traitorous labor takers, printing
villification and lies against the
rank and file miners who had met
at Pittsburgh to form new union
for their own protection, after the
miners union had been sold and de
stroyed.
Yes, they lend their support to
John L. Lewis and his gang who
have gone on record for Cal Cool
idge and Havoc" Hoover and
against the struggling workers who
have been prosecuted and starved
BY the alignment of Lewis and the
republican and democratic admins
trations. They still tell the work
ers that their party represents the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-02

These figures, more than the
notes exchanged between Mexico
City and Washington, indicate how
cordial are the relations between
the two countries. The Mexican
government lost the fight on the
oil issue because Venezuelan oil
made possible greater pressure on
the mart of the U. S. state depart
ment.