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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
(Continued.)
By JAY LOVESTONE.

OUR Party was born as result of
" the breakup of the old socialist
party in 1919. Through this split
it inherited a wholesome opposition
to parliamentary cretinism, to the
miserable opportunism of the old
socialist party parliamentary politi-
clans.
But in this wholesome reaction,
there was also carried over danger
Gus syndicalist opposition to partici-
patton in parliamentary activities
per Sc.
Thus in the 1920 presidential cleo
tions, our party's national slogan
was boycott the elections" In 1924
we had great difficulty in mobiliz-
ing our party for active participa-
tion in the election campaign. We
have not yet completely shaken
these syndicalist prejudices. An es-
sential part of the present election
campaign of our party has been to
elevate the theological level of the
membership so as to give them an
increasing understanding of Lenin-
list, revolutionary, Communist parti-
cipation in the election campaigns.
Districts On Industrial Lines.
Our party districts are organized
along the line of industrial sections.
We have one district, for instance,
covering the Pittsburgh coal and
steel territory known as the Western
Pennsylvania distries. We have an
other district consisting of the
metropolitan area of New York City
and neighboring New Jersey indus
trial cities in which are found such
industries as textile, oil refining and
metal products. We have other dis
tricts like the Kansas districts which
include a number Of states equiva-
lent to an area of five or six of the
European countries. States like New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania are
included in several districts while
districts like the agricultural, the
Seattle, the Kansas, the Minneapolis
and the south, consist of several
states.
But for the election campaign, the
individual state is the unit. 1t is
therefore necessary for our party to
adjust it's organization and set up
special election machinery.
Difficulties of Democracy"
BESIDES, there are innumerable
y difficulties set up by the much
Wanted American bourgeois demo-
cracy to make it almost impossible
for a revolutionary proletarian party
like our own to participate eff
fectively in parliamentary elections.
Each of the forty-eight states has
it's own set of election laws limiting
the ways and means of parties get
ting on the ballot.
The slightest technical error can
be used to deny the Communist
Party the right to be on the ballot.
In 1924 the. Communist Party was
on the ballot in only fifteen states.
The aim of these election laws is
to prevent the organization of new
parties and perpetuate the so-called
two-party system--republican and
democratic. Comrade Lenin has
thus characterized the two-party
system:
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Adventures of an African Trader

voyage he packed 118 boys and
girls under Is in the hold of 40
ton boat, in space % inches high,
each passenger lying on his right
side and fitting into the lap of the
one behind. On this trip three died,
but the rest netted. big profits. A
bigger cargo on a cotton boat later
Melted $4,000. Crowding brought
disease that wiped out profits some
times. Once he lost 300 out of 800
by smallpox. Cleanliness was i'm
possible. A British officer, quoted
in the introduction, says he could
smell a SLAYER "five miles down the
wind"
Navy cruisers then correspondent
to the rum chasers of today. Like
the rum runners, the slavers fought
back, fled or destroyed the evidence
by dumping the cargo when a cruis-
er approached. Canot does not con-
fess to such atrocities, but the in
PRODUCTION gives grewsome story
about Captain Homas of the SLAYER
Brillante. Seeing four cruisers sur
rounding him, the captain brought
600 slaves to the deck, shackled
them to a chain connecting with
the anchor and dropped the anchor
over the side with the victims trail
ing after, their groans going up
into the night as their bodies went
down.
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tongue and we add fire to it. This
old peasant speaks of Bourgeois
times" and the "proletarians," and
of the revolution and of the counter
revolution. The revolution has seep-
ed thru to the very soil of the Sow
let Union and old Dedutschka has
had his fill. Thru the hazy mind
of this peasant, memories and words
filter-words created by the revolu-
ton of the masses.
He tells us of the time when
Budiken was in the country and how
his landowner had .promised him,
now that he thought that he could
regain his power, that he would
hang every peasant on the estate.
But, Dedutschka added with a sense
of mystery and premonition, the
landowner himself was killed.
Dedutschka's tongue goes on find
ing its own words. In his village
there lives an officer of the old car
ist police. He has two dessiatyns
of land and he is left alone to work
it the best he can. One day this
officer came to the village Soviet
and said:
"Wait until my time comes.
will hang you all"
The blood of Dedutschka still
boils at the memory of those words.
He himself was present when the
officer spoke.
"Why should he be allowed to say
such a thing? The president of the
Soviet allowed him to say that he
would hang me. Do you call this
taking care of the peasantry? Is
this the "link"? l would kill him
on the spot!"
Dedutschka is full of complaints
against the Soviet. He thinks that
we come from the city and he wants
US to inform the people there of
what is going on in his village. For
example, his son is living in a house
that is falling all about his ears.
When it rains there are puddIes on
the floor. The windows are broken
and the door cannot be locked. The
Soviet promised that it would re-
pair the house but all it does is say,
"Wait until we get the money!"
"Well, Dedutschka, do you want
the landowners to come back and
fix it for you?" we ask.
"No, no, no, no, Let the Soviet
do it. Let it find the money"
AS night begins to fall and the
steppes breathe a soft greyness
Dedutschka tells US of the myths of
his countryside. In the olden
times, so long ago that no one can
remember, a group of bandits har-
assed his village. The peasants say
that their treasures, innumerable
golden roubles and silk curtains and
shirts and boots, were buried some
where near the Black Sea under
three oak trees. After the revolu-
ton some peasants from his vii
lage went on a pilgrimage to the
Black Sea and hunted for the trea-
sure. Under three large oak trees
they dug up some old axes. They
were sent to the museum in the city.
There they said that they were
thousands of years old.
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Our Party's Election Campaign

1928 were exceedingly slight. Great
emphasis was placed on the need for
mobilizing the party resources to get
on the ballot. Various political let
tiers were sent to the units to coun-
teract the indifference and hostility
still pervading the attitude of GER
tain sections of our party towards
Communist participation in election
campaigns, as well as to warn
against opportunist errors.
AS early as February 90, the
Political Committee instructed all
districts to prepare for putting petit
lions into the field for Foster and
Gitlow. Immediately, special
machinery was set up to help the
districts overcome the technical OBJ
stacles for the Party's getting on
the ballot. On March 10, all districts
were instructed to put full Workers
Party tickets into the field. A Ma
tional Election Campaign Committee
was elected and similar committees
were elected on district scale.
On March %, the political commit
tee appointed additional field organ
izers for the election campaign and
announced its decision to propose
Comrades Foster and Gitlow who
were our standard bearers in 1924.
Special organizers were sent into
the South and Southwest.
Our mobilization for the election
campaign began with the prepare
lions of the party itself, then the
mobilization of sympathetic masses
and their organizations.
These preparations were ideologi-
cal and organizational. The party
units were given material preparing
them for the issues and various
phases of the election campaign.
Go Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Prisoners Transferred
to Avoid Questions

SOFIA, July 27.-The seven polit-
ical prisoners in the central prison
of Sofia who have been on hunger
strike because their sentence was in
creased by ten days, have been pun
ished by additional sentence of one
month. Besides they have been
transferred to the military prison of
Widin.
Other political prisoners were
transferred from Schumen and Var
ma to Sliwen. The reason for the
transfer is to separate them from
their friends and relatives, so that
they can be mistreated without any
one knowing of it. After that they
can be announced as shot "while at
tempting to escape"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

MO passengers were ever packed SO
~ tightly as the black immigrants
to/the west. In Canot's first slave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Told You So

THERE are over quarter of
million jobless in Great Britain
at the moment, though reports say
that the number of employed is
greater than at any time in the his
tory of the country The reason
for this is that owing to the ruin of
large section of the middle classes
by the heavy burdens of debt and
the loss of trade that followed the
war they were forced into the labor
market to compete with the already
existing industrial population. This
standing army of unemployed has
its advantages to British capitalism
as well as its disadvantages. 1t is
constant menace to the standard
of living of the workers, which is
steadily going down.
THERE is nothing unusual in the
following story: A detective who
was hired to protect a guest of the
Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City
was arrested on a charge of having
stolen diamond ring valued at
$4,000, diamond pin valued at
500 and $50 in cash from his
charge. If the guest had robbed the
detective that would be news.
CENATOR GEORGE H. MOSES of
y New Hampshire is of the opinion
that the G. o. P. is up against the
hardest struggle of its career. An
Al if not an Allah has come to judg-
ment. Whether Al or Herbert wins
it does not make whit of differ
ence to the working class, but the
senator from New Hampshire fears
nightly that it will take more than
one Moses to keep the Tammany
Tiger out of the Promised Land.
THINGS are getting so hot in Grim
4 inal circles in New York City
that the entire membership of the
Rotary Club of the metropolis has
offered itself for jury service.
Should they be accepted the job of
a court reporter armed with a copy
of the American Mercury might not
be something to sneeze at.
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he deserves a place in the labor
records of this continent.
Big fortunes were reaped in this
bootlegging traffic, though it was
more risky than the bootlegging of
today. Perdo Blanco, Portuguese,
retired with one million dollars, some
say one million pounds, a sum that
a Remus would not disdain. The
famous Brazilian mulatto, Cha Cha,
accumulated hundreds of wives in
his Dahomey harems from his
profits in the trade. Negroes cost
ing $50 to $50 on the Guinea coast
fetched $3.50 in Cuba and SLIGO
laid down in New Orleans, an as
tonishing differential between
prices f. o. b. and delivered. Canot
shared in the big winnings but the
risks ate up his profits. Lavishly
successful at times, with barra-
coons bursting with slaves, and cof-
fers filled with gold at his African
headquarters, his luck would change
as cruisers captured his cargo or
himself, as graft ate up his cash
reselve or pestilence killed his
slaves, till in 1853 he was down and
out, "iiadging for drinks" on the
wharvcs of Baltimore.
MO passengers were ever packed so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Reviewed By ART SHIELDS
Federated Press.

pOOTLEGGING tales are topical
- in a political season when the
smuggler of illicit wares is sub
inct for campaign chatter. This
lid narrative Of violence, bribery
ID humor lives up to the best
botlegging tale traditions, though
4 he business was not in rum but in
,slaves.
Adventures of An African SLAYER
is the life story Of Captain Theo-
dore Canot, bootlegger extraor-
binary, as told by himself in 1854,
with the aid Of Baltimore journal
ist. and now reissued. Canot flour
ished in the second quarter of the
nineteenth century, running Negro
captives from the Guinea coast to
the western hemisphere at a time
when the traffic was outlawed by
America, Britain, Spain and all
other northern countries but Por-
tugal. Captured slavers risked the
fate of pirates if they could not es-
cape or bride their way out.
The bandit-business man Of this
historical tale was the child Of an
italian mother and French father
ana yet as one Of the chief import
ers IN black workers to America,
Evening star., 1928-10-30
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and Puds Simkins was wawking
TO skool wishing we wasent, and I sed,
@, I wonder wat time 1t is, wonder
If we awt to start running? don't
wunt to start to run and waist all tnat
breth If don't haf to, sed.
Me neither, Puds sed. Lets ask some
body, he sed.
Nobody coming along to ask. so we
went in the baby carridge store TO ask
the baby carriage man, ony ne was
waiting on some lady, saying, as
sure you madam If you take this coacn
you'll never regret 1t, it Will outlast =
babies and wenever tire comes on III
repair it with plezzure and without
charge. ,
We'll I don't know, need a little
time to think it over as told you, and
meanwhile don't want to take up your
valuable time, II go now so you can
wait on these customers, she said.
Meening me and PudA. and she quick
wawked out like soneb0dy glad Of
excuse. and the baby carriage man
looked at me and Puds, saying, Well,
wat is it, wat is it?
Will you tell us the time please? I
sed, and he Sed, Its time you got out
of here before you get swift kick out,
coming in here making me lose custom
ers, go on beet it.
Wich we did, the next person we
asked being a man driving big wag-
gon full of barrels of something, ony
the Wagon creeked so loud he couldent
hear wat we was yelling at him so he
stopped the horses, being of them to
stop on account of such heavy lead,
the man saying, Now, wat was that,
watts matter.
Do you know wat time it is? Puds
sed.
Me not being allowed to repeet his
anSer, the next person we asked being
q man carrying a suitcase in each hand
Evening star., 1928-10-30
Copyright, is3s.)

and 2 bundles and a umbrella under
his arms, and he just made face at US
on account of proberly not wunting to
put all those things down just to look
at his watch for strange boys, so we
decided we better start to run just for
good mcclure.
Being a lucky thing we did because
we just got in wen the last bell rang.
The Washington times., 1928-10-16
Poker Players Blamed
For $4,000 Fire Loss

IEWISTOWN, Pa, Oct. To-
Flames believed to have originated
from men and boys 1teaIing into the
huildingsl to play poker and smoke
"a sed the loss of 10000. The first
fire occurred at the Hover Lumber
Companys sheds in the Hollywood
section when the buildings and six
cars of yellow pine lumber were de-
stroyed with a loss of $4,000.
The second blaze was at the barn
at Juniata Terrace, owned by the
Viscose Company and leased by
Cloyd Shade. The loss on the build
ing was $1,000 and 700 bushels of
wheat. 500 of oats and so tons of hay
were burned. the loss being estimat-
ed at $4,000.
The Washington times., 1928-10-16
South Dakota to Kill
100000 Prairie Dogs

BELLE FOURCHE, S. OAK, oct.
i6.-Killing of millions of prairie
dogs is the task facing A. B. Plum
mer. who has contracted TO erad1-
cate A prairie dog town" of vast
proportions in parts OF two South
Dakota counties.
Two years. at least, will be re-.
nuired for the determination of the
rodents which are estimated to
number 5000, 900. BY Kidding the
land of the pests, Plummer will re-
store thousa nds of acres 70 full
usefulness. The grazing value or
the land has been reduced approx
matelv one half by the borrowings
of the rodents.
The Washington times., 1928-10-16
Woman Robbed of Purse
After NeighbOr Warns

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 16.-Less
ahan two minutes after oeins
warned against robbers who prowl
me streets at night" Mrs. Brenda
Ai'ott lost her parse to a robber
near her home.
sne was walking a few doors
rom her home when a neighbo.
eopped her and expressed he
siarm at seeing Mrs. Allott out
mrs. Allott smiled and continued
IN ner way. She had walked less
ss.a % feet when young, we'll
sssed man grabbed her purse and
!. an. Mrs. Aliott, screaming for aid.
IN an automobile
The Washington times., 1928-10-16
Former Virginia Woman
Is Dead in Brooklyn

WARRENT0N, Va, Oct. 15.--
Word of the death in Brooklyn of
Mrs. Thomas Pinckney. of Charles
ton. s. c.. was received here yesser-
day, Mrs. Pinckney. widow OF Capt.
Thomas Pinckney, was formerly
Miss Camilla Scott. OF Fauquier
county. She is survived by a daugh-
ter, Miss Josephine Pinckney;
stepson, c. Cotesworthy Pinckuey'
two sisters, Mrs. Armistead Well
ford and Mrs. Henningham Spill
man. and a brother Robert r. Scott,
of Virginia.
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given to all tax payers that the assessment roll of the Town of Wrangell for the year 1928 is now in possession of the Tax Collector at the Office of the Munich pality in the City Hall where taxes may be paid daily between the hours of to 12 A. M. and 1 to P. M. Sundays excepted.
 All taxes are due and payable by August 1st without discount. one- half of the amount may be paid by August 1st, without penalty, and the balance paid by October 31st, but if no payment is made by August 1st taxes become delinquent and a penalty of fifteen (15) per cent will be added to the amount thereof, and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (S) per cent per annum from date of de- linquency until paid.
 L. B. CHISHOLM,
 Town Clerk.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
Off For Camping Trip

The Beilby left Tuesday morning for Haryey's Camp on Duncan Canal with a camping party of fifteen of the older boys and girls of St. Phil ip's Sunday School, headed by Miss Katherine Harvey. The party are fixed up comfortably in the cabins at the camp. They took along popcorn and peppers and If 1t rains they have plenty of other amusements provided to while away the time. Miss liar vey has a schedule worked out where by three boys and three girls are de- tailed for the work of each day. The party arrived at camp Tuesday even ing. The next morning the boys went up to the lake and saw a black bear fishing and observed three deer on the trail, so they felt the trip had started out auspiciously.
 trisp down town.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
ORDINANCE NO. 67

An Ordinance Levying a General Tax for School and Municipal Pur- poses Upon All Real and Personal Property Within the Town of Wrangell, Alaska, for the Year 1928, and Providing for the Col lection of the same.
 The Common Council of the Town of Wrange1l, Alaska, Does Hereby Ordain:
 Section I.
 That a general tax of 2 per cent of the valuation thereof, as capitalized by the Board of Equalization of the Town of Wrangell for the year 1928, be and the same is hereby levied and assessed upon all real and personal property within the Town of Wran- gell for school and municipal pur- poses.
 Section II.
 That said tax shall be, and the same is hereby made a specific lien upon all real and personal property within the Town of Wrangell, which lien shall be collected by foreclosure, levy, distress and sale in the manner provided by law and by the Ordi- nances of the Town of Wrangell; this Ordinance being made in compliance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 50 of the Town of Wrangell, and all matters pertaining to taxation shall be in compliance with the provisions of said Ordinance, the purpose of this Ordinance being to establish the rate of taxation for the year 1928.
 Section III.
 This Ordinance shall be published in The Wrangell Sentinel, a newspa- per published in the Town of Wran- gell, Alaska, for two successive pub lications thereof, and shall take ef- feet and be in force from and after it's passage and approval.
 Passed and approved this 2Sth day of June, 1928.
 G. E. DIEMART, Mayor.
 L. D. CHISHOLM, City Clerk.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
AMENDMENT
TO ORDNANCE NO. 90

AMENDMENT to Ordinance No. 50, Dated April End. 1923. changing the Date of Payment of Taxes as Provided in Section 9 of Said Ordinance.
 Be 1t ordained by the Common Council of the Town of Wrangen that that portion of Section 9 of Or dinance No. 50 fixing the date of payment of taxes be changed to read as follows:
 That after the annual levy of taxes by the Council taxes beome due at once and are payable on or before August 1st next thereafter at o'clock D. m. without discount, and unless payment is made prior thereto, fifteen C15) per cent will be added to the amount as penalty. and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (8) per cent per annum from August 1st until paid.
 PROVIDING. however, that if one half of the tax so assessed be paid by August 1st, no penalty will be at taehed. and the remaining one-half shall be due and payable October 31st next following, but if no part of the taxes be paid by August 1st, it shall be delinquent, and penalty of fifteen (15) per cent will be added to the amount thereof, and interest on said tax and penalty shall be charged at the rate of eight (Sl per cent per annum from the date of de- linquency until paid.
 c. E. DIEMART,
 Mayor. (Attest) L. B. CHISHOLM,
 City Clerk
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
Calvin Family Leave

Mir. and Mrs. J. G. Calvin and sons, Eugene and George, left on the Princess Louise Tuesday night for Seattle where they will make their home for a time, at least. The Gal wins have been valued residents of Wrangell for a number of years. They could always be counted on to do their full share of the community s activities, were prominent in church and social life, and it was with genu- inc regret that their friends learned of their decision to leave Wrangell.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-07-12
AMENDMENT
no ORDINANCE NO. 83

AMENDMENT to Ordinance No. 63, Relating to Traffic Regulations, Dated July 1st, 1926, to Provide a Penalty for the Violation of said Ordinance.
 Be it ordained by the Common Council of the Town of Wrangell:
 Section 1.
 Any person who shall fail to com ply with any of the provisions of Orr dinanee No. 63 of the Town of Wran- gell, or who shall counsel, aid or abet any such violation or failure to comply shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine in any sum not exceeding $25.00 or less than $10.00 or by imprisonment in the City jail for a term not exceeding 15 days, or for both such fine and imprisonment.
 Section 3.
 This amendment shall be published in the Wrangell Sentinel, weekly newspaper in the Town of Wrangell, by two successive publications, and shall take effect and be in force from and after it's passage and approval Passed and approved this 5th day of July, 1928.
 c. E. DIEMART,
 Mayor. (Attest) L. B. CHISHOLM,
 City Clerk.