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The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Dahlgren Citizens
Complain of Smoke

The Dahlgren Terrace Citizens
Association has adopted resolutions
complaining against an alleged
smoke nuisance created by the Bal
The District Health Department
will be called on.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Fugitive Is Traced
By Letter to Mother

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.--Traced
halfway around the world because
OF letter he wrote to comfort his
grief-stricken mother, Lester SiInp-
son, rs, alleged member Of the no.
torious Berger gang, who for months
terrorized "Bl oody Williamson"
county. Illinois. was arrested as he
returned here today as an oiler on
the Shipping Board steamer Stanley.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20

One of the most vicious as well
as ancient inhabitants is Chacmn
baboon from South Africa. He has
been in the collection since 1911.
tortoise with 80 years in captivity
to its credit. 4,
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Anglo French Note Plan
Entirely Up to Coolidge

President Coolidge must decide
whether note will be sent either to
France or Great Britain on the
Franco-British naval accord Secre.
tary OF State Kellogg declared to-
day.
A decision may be reached when
the President returns here Saturday.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
TUNVEY TO WE'D
IN ITALY
Internatlonal now serrles

NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.- Polly
Lauder will sail tomorrow night to
meet Gene Tunney In Italy. where
they will be married ut Sorrento
during the first week Of October,
according to reports today.
panied BY her mother, Mrs. George
Lauder; her sister, Mrs. Edward
Storrs Dewing and others, and will
take d wedding trougseau valued at
$40, 900, including i $4,000 mink
coat and cap Of pearls.
The Washington times., 1928-09-20

When anything happens to
my throat and | cannot sing,
it seems to me as though the
world stops!
so you can imagine that /
choose my cigarettes quite
carefully and that / welcomed
the opportunity to make this
scientific test.
1T was most interesting, for
one of the four cigarettes was
SO smooth and gentle /. and
yet of such fine flavor J.
that / chose it at once. 1t was
an OLD GOLD"
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Woman Who Killed Baby
Gets Sanity Examination

louisville. Sept. 2O.-Mr
vera Berger. Of schuylkill Haven.
VINO admitted a month ago she
sstrangled her baby so she would be
se to attend dances and movies. :"
nas weakened in her mind since
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
LAnY ASInR COMING

LONDON, Sept. 20.--Lady Nancy
Astor, the first woman to be elected
to the English Parliament. will sail
for New York at the end OF the
week to visit relatives
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
Age Fails to Dim Zoo
Cockat00's Beauty

Enough coin of the realm to make old John D. himself
blush shame awaits the man. if any who solve the
secret Of ''Coczy.''
apparent perpetual youth Of the Zoos oldest feahered
trust ntrgnes imagination Of visitors her cage
The Washington times., 1928-09-20
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The Washington times., 1928-09-20

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
Threaten Murder

Our esteemed contemporary the foul weekly sheet lscaled
The Illinois Miner organ the bureaucratic agents of the1coa
operators the Miners Union of the Illinois district has exceed
itself in its of May Open stebreang propaganda
appears undgused in the words of Harry Fshwc who boast
fully declares the strike of the Illinois miners to have been broken
Ia damnable e The issue quotes Wyoming soOlpgeon
collaborating with srkebrang propaganda in that state who
tries ncite the mine workers against Jewish Miners
ing the progressive organizers The language appeal to
the gunner murerers of the operators and the Lewis
chine:
"One thing could tell them is this: They he'd bet
be careful hoO they proceed my state Wyoming'
because oil the there haze guns and most of them
IRE excellent shots and like to shoot skmHks and
from the Leuis Machine they claim you haze any
for pChom you mach a0ho is IN a0ith this group
him confidently that If he cares for has a0fe and
family does not like to stop lead he had much better
stag at home aohen they begin to advance Wyomng
Those higher up who responsible for the recent
of Tom Ls Pete Reilly and Alex Campbell in the anthra
ute fields thus publicly take responsibility for their threat
Of codbooded murder in Wyoming They know that they
away with because the police federal and local. the
side of these strikebreakers Their rkebreakng
away with and has the privilege of publishing Indictment
and threats of murder with mpun just the Lewis machine
the privilege of committing murder with the mpunit
But the Illinois minersthe coal diggerS-undersand the
meaning of these facts They will be douby determined to make
tremendous of the emergency district convention
Saturday May 49, which must put end to the rule of Fshwk
in that state.
the sheet Fishwck the operators
among other things refers the striking miners he stupid
which makes up the bulk of the picket lines The
workers will Fishwc that they stupid fail
to recognize strikebreakng of this sort.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
By SCOTT NEARING.

Charles w. Stewart told a meet
ing of New York engineers that
America will surely play the fore
most part in the rehabilitation Of
Russia" He added that Herbert Hoo
vers relief work in Russia had
proved "a fundational factor in the
tremendous goodwill and kindly feel
ing which American engineers have
found existent wherever their foot
steps have led them in Russia during
the past two years" and that Hoover's
experience in Russian mines had
given him an excellent background
"for his future responsibilities in the
American governments relations with
Russia"
The United States and Soviet Rus
STA are very close together in terms
of social evolution. The United
States is at the top of the capitalist
ladder The Soviet Union is at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

should be on hand early to escort
the people to the front seats as they
arrive. Then late Corners will take
the rear seats without disturbing the
meeting. Without ushers the early
arrivals will invariably take the rear
seats, leaving the front ones vacant
Then it will happen just as in
variably that others will struggle in
all through the meeting and come
gawking all over the front of tha
hall looking for a seat just at the
time the speaker is working hardest
to get the attention of the audience
for what he considers particularly
impressive point. An efficient set OF
ushers are indispensable to we'll
organized meeting.
8. In cool weather make certain
beforehand that the hall is properly
heated. This is necessary for the sue
cess of the meeting, the comfort Of
the audience and the health of the
speaker. Such detail would seem
obvious, but I have never yet made
tour in winter time without having
at least one or two meetings in cold
halls due to the negligence and
thoughtlessness of the local commit
tee, and l never yet saw meeting
held under such circumstances that
could be called success.
Sale of Literature.
10. The selling of literature, TAX
ipor co1Iootio, opd ,1occ;po onoI;oo+;o,,
cards for new members are details
which work themselves out best in
actual practice without a, uniform
plan. The best results in selling lit
erature from the platform are gained
if one piece is concentrated on, leav-
ing the rest for sale at the literature
table near the door.
If the speaker is worth his salt, a
meeting conducted along these lines
will be success and will strengthen
the local organization morally, or
ganizationally and financially, pro-
vided one final detail is not over
looked. That is: Quit on time and on
the right note. Pace the meeting
along and get it through quickly after
the speech is over. Don't let it drag
along and fizzle out until the audi
ence gets tired and begins to leave
of its own accord.
Attention to these practical details
until they become matter of routine
in the organization of public meet
ings, will bring rich returns to the
party in the field of propaganda
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
Hoover, Representative of American Imperialism

bottom Of the ladder that leads to
cooperative society.
What can Soviet Russia get from
the United States? Technical knowl-
edge and engineering skill? Methods
of industrial organization Certainly.
Capital? Perhaps. There the story
ends.
In the field of property relations
the Soviet Union will get nothing
from the United States because it
has already passed beyond the stage
of property relations existing in the
United States. The United States
has one of the Oldest property codes
in the world. The Soviet Union has
abandoned this old code and is for
mulating a new one. There is the
basic limitation under which Hoover
or Ford or any other representative
of American big business must oper-
ate in his dealings with the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
By JAMES P. CANNON.

Communist tactics and methods of
work, the placing of emphasis on this
or that form of activity, are natur-
ally regulated to very large extent
by the given situation and the stage
of development. Communist propa-
ganda and agitation through the
medium of mass meetings are always
in order, even after the seizure of
political power, as we see in Russia
where great attention and skill is de-
voted to this work. If the Russian
Party, which rules the, country, has
not found it advisable to dispense
with such activities, it is fairly OBJ
vious that they have possibilities yet
for us.
Propaganda Meetings Important.
We in America are in that stage of
development where the ideas of Com
munism have as yet penetrated only
a very narrow fringe of the working
class. The overwhelming masses have
absolutely no conception of our aims
beyond that false and distorted one
furnished them by our enemies. The
natural operation of the laws Of CAPT
talism will push the millions of Amer
lean workers, now mental and spirit
ual captives Of the ruling class, onto
the path of class struggle and in the
direction of their historic goal, re-
CARELESS of their present understand
ing and will. 1t is our task as Com
munists, taking part in all the strug-
giles of the workers, to accelerate
this process by all means in our
power and to impart to it the great
est possible degree of consciousness
as it develops. For this an enormous
amount of agitation and propaganda
will be necessary. This work, of
course, will take many and varied
forms, but the spoken word, the pub
lie mass meeting, will play great
part. The day of the Importance of
propaganda meetings is by no means
over; indeed, for our party the pc
Rod just ahead of US must and will
see a much greater emphasis placed
upon them. And in connection with
this our party comrades will begin,
for the first time, to devote serious
attention to the technique of organ
izing propaganda meetings.
If we except the larger cities where
we have staffs of professional party
workers (and not all of them!) we
must acknowledge that our party on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

the atmosphere in which it is held
have an equal Importance. A
mediocre speech will often serve the
purpose with the proper organization
and atmosphere of the meeting, while
a good speech will often be a heart
breaking failure without them. AS a
rule the measure of success is de-
termined by the attention and skill
devoted to the preparation and or
ganizat;on Of the meeting along the
following lines:
l. Put a committee in charge of
the arrangements of the meeting with
responsibility for different phases of
the work definitely assigned to in
dividual members.
2. Advertise the meeting widely
People won't come unless they know
about it. A pinch-penny policy on
advertising is absolutely fatal to sue
cess.
Mailing Lists.
3. Build up and use mailing list
This is one of the most important
instruments of every local organiza-
ton. 1t should contain the name of
every member, synpathizer and pros
pective sympathizer, properly CLASH
fled. Every name on it should receive
notice Of the meeting, and as many
hand-bills or pluggers advertising the
meeting as two-cent stamp viii
carry. A local organizer who doesn't
keep an up-to-date mailing list and
use it constantly is working with one
arm in sling.
A. AS a rule admission should be
charged for the meetings and tickets
should be sold in advance. The most
extensive experience shows that more
people attend meetings for which
tickets are sold in advance and the
financial returns from the meeting
are much greater. There are excep-
tional circumstances where it is adj
visable to hold a free mass meeting,
but the comrades who never want to
charge admission on the ground that
the workers are too poor to pay are
victims of false theory and harm
full prejudice. All experience speaks
against them. Sell tickets in advance
and send a number on credit to every
name on your mailing list, using dis
erection as to the amount in each
case, Don't be afraid someone will
sell few tickets and abscond with
the money. This doesn't happen very
often, and even then the organization
is TIE gamer for everyone who comes
to the meeting on an unpaid ticket
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

5. Always try for publicity for
the meeting in the local capitalist
papers as well as in the party and
labor press. The best way to do this
is to establish personal acquaintance
with a reporter or staff member on
each paper who handles labor news
There are few cities where small no.
tees cannot be secured if real sys-
tematic efforts are made. Of course
good-sized write-ups are secured only
in rare cases and with the most prom.
inent speakers, but it should be re-
membered that a small notice in a
local capitalist paper reaches thou.
sands of workers who do not read oul
own press.
6. Hire hall with seating ca
pacity approximately the same as the
size of the crowd you expect. This
detail is Of the utmost Importance,
Atmosphere is great part of the
meeting. A crowd of two hundred lost
in hall with seating capacity of
one thousand throws a chill over the
meeting, takes the heart out of the
speaker and leaves the crowd at the
end with a feeling of failure and de-
feat. The same crowd of two hun
bred with the same speaker, COM
fortably filling or packing smaller
hall, will produce meeting with en-
tirely opposite effects. Remember
this rule: get hall to fit the size
of crowd you expect.
Z. Select a chairman able to at
tend strictly to the business of super
vising the meeting, making the nee
essary announcements and introduc-
ing the speaker. That's all! Many a
promising meeting has been spoiled
by loquacious chairman who under
took to make the speakers address
for him in advance. This happens all
too frequently and local organizations
which take Their propaganda meetings
seriously should put stop to this
harmful nonsense. It is better to
offend the chairman by telling him
bluntly that he talks too much than to
offend a whole audience by forcing
them to hear long speech they didn't
come to hear.
And what about the speaker him
self? Has he no rights at all? An
old campaigner once expressed the
sentiments of all speakers when he
said that if he could get only one
wish granted he would ask for a
tongue-tied chairman.
8. Ushers should be selected in
advance by the committee and they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

as freezing to death, on cold night
On some days, there are thousands
in this employment line and the Ford
employment office line is only one
of many in Detroit.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, esti-
mates the unemployment in Detroit
as 80 per cent in January, 1923 and
30 per cent in February. Local esti-
mates for April, 1928 place Detroit
unemployment at 1874 per cent.
Henry Ford knows his apples as
an industrial organizer. AS a slave
driver and profiteer he is in a class
by himself. But when it comes to
history and economics he would dis
grace an ungraded country school.
Stick to tin-can building, Henry.
Your reputation will be safer and it
will certainly prove more profitable
than distributing misinformation on
in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

Ford, upon his arrival in England,
stated that the talk about bread-lines
in the United States was all nonsense
and that every worker who wanted
job could get it. Anyone who is
acquainted with the facts knows that
this statement is false.
Here is recent copy of the New
York Nation in which a correspon-
dent, giving his name and address,
writes that he has waited outside of
a Ford plant for AZ consecutive days,
trying to get work--any kind of work
and without success.
Yesterday l was in Mr.. Ford's own
town of Detroit, talking with his
workers. The line of job-seekers at
he River Rouge (Ford) plant forms
as early as 8 a. m. At times men
have stood all night trying to be
first in line when the employment
office opened in the morning. Ford
men reported one Of these job-seekers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14

Such an economic limitation made
Hoover in Hungary a friend of
Horthy and an enemy of Bella Kun.
The same economic limitation makes
him in Russia friend of capitalists
and landlords and an enemy of the
Soviets.
MEMORABLE historic forces place
Hoover on the side of the Roman
motifs and against the Russian Comis-
sars. AS an engineer he could be
immensely useful in the extensive
work Of technical reconstruction that
is now going on in the Soviet Union.
AS a representative of United States
financial imperialism he is an enemy
within the gates of the Russian Rev
olution.
Perhaps the correspondents report
ed Henry Ford incorrectly. If they
got him right he is either an igno-
ramus or liar.
According to the New York Times,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
of Propaganda Meetings

the whole has not properly estimated
the Importance of this elementary
revolutionary work and consequently
has not derived the maximum bene-
fits which skillful organization would
bring. For the most part, our COM
rades who have become experts in a
number of activities, remain hopeless
amateurs in this field; although there
is nothing involved except the as
similation and application of a few
organizational rules and principles
derived from the experience Of the
past.
The socialist party of pre-war days
was far ahead of us on this score and
knew how to organize propaganda
meetings in such way as to make
them mighty instruments of agitation
and inspiration The speakers did not
do all of this by any means. Organi-
rational technique played the princi-
pal role in this work of the old So
cialist party. Would it be treason
to Communism if we should borrow
and learn from this experience? l
think not. On the contrary, I would
not be above lifting" a few tricks
of the art of propaganda anywhere
they can be found and made service
able for our revolutionary work
Aside from that, we are the rightful
heirs of all that was sound and pro-
letarian in the old socialist party and
its accomplishments belong to us. We
ought to study the old movement
more attentively.
Rules for Organizing Meetings.
I have had some experience as a
speaker and even more as local or
ganizer of meetings for other speak
ers. Like all who have had this ex-
perience, | have learned number of
rules and principles for the success
full organization of meetings which |
am going to enumerate here. These
organizational rules and principles
are bound up with a certain concep-
ton Of the function and purpose of
agitation and propaganda meetings
which | think is a correct one.
They must be recruiting ground
for the organization. They must pro
vide inspiration together with in
struction. They must strengthen the
morale of the comrades and leave
them with feeling of success and
accomplishment, and they must pro
vide revenue for the organization and
not deficits. These things cannot be
accomplished by the speaker alone
The organization Of the meeting and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
Palestine Police
Attack Workers

BEIROUT, Palestine, by Mail).-
The terror practised against Jewish
workers in Palestine has reached UNI
usual proportions, according to re-
ports reaching here from the interior.
Ben Gurien, the secretary of the
Jewish Labor Party, has issued the
following report on the conditions in
Palestine:
"Workers arrested for small Of
lenses are led thru the streets in
chains to their trial and then back
again to the jeil
"The attacks which the police carry
on against strike pickets are nothing
less than savage onslaught by the
armed police against the unarned
pickets.
prisoners are beaten with clubs
and whips. They are struck in the
face and slugged in every conceivable
way.
at is we'll known that men with
dangerous diseases are placed in the
jails side by side with healthy pris-
oners. The sick and the well are
forced to drink out of the same
utensils. The bedding which is put
in one pile during the day is divided
without care again at night.
''This regime which is maintained
with clubs and fists is dealt out i'm
partially to pickpockets and political
prisoners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-14
Injunction Asked

BOSTON, May 13.-The hand of the
law is being once more stretched out
to strangle labor unions with the
filing of bill in equity in the
Supreme Court of Suffolk County by
the White Construction Co., seeking
to enjoin the Building Trades Council
and the unions affiliated with it from
continuing a strike now in progress.
The White Construction Co. has con-
tract to build one of the sections of
the new Dorchester tunnel and the
strike was called against the com-
pany's open-shop tactics.
Evening star., 1928-11-06

Mrs. Fred Martin has returned to her
home at Sag Harbor, Long Island, after
being the guest for some time of her
cousins, Mai. and Mrs. Raymond w.