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The Washington times., 1928-08-22
TUNNEY PLANS.
To SEE SHAW
By International News Service

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PLYMOUTH, Eng, Aug. 22.--"I
want 10 sink into obscurity," said
Gene Tunney, retired heavyweight
champion, upon his arrival here to.
dav. upon the Cunard liner Maure-
tania.
Tunney, who came to Europe for
n pedestrian tour and possibly mar
rage to Polly Lauder, was nattily
dressed In a brown suit when he
went ashore from the liner early In
the morning.
The ex-champion was very quiet
when reporters swarmed aboard the
ship. In fact, he was actually shy.
II have nothing to say" declared
the former pugilist In answer to the
bombardment of questions Whlch
rained upon him.
Silent on Wedding
Tunney resolutely refused to dis
ctlss any phase OF prize fighting.
His baggage was without gloves or
any other pugiiistic equipment.
1T has been a good game, but ]
am through with 1t now" said the
former champion when asked why
he gave up pugilism. II am now
private citizen. am here on .
private visit"
Questioned concerning his mar
riage plans, the ex-champion. again
closed up like clam.
THAT is my own personal affair,
he said. IF I intend to marry or
IL I intend to go into business thar
is my own affair. l will not talk
about those things on this visit. /"
Destroyed Gloves
Tunney said he would spend to.
night In London, going to ireland
tomorrow. He expects to award the
prizes at the Tailteann games. His
entire European trip will take seven
weeks.
The former champion said that he
had destroyed all his boxing gloves
He is through with the manly ar:
for all time. Enlarging upon this
subject the one-time champion said
III shall never again don q glove
I will not even fight for charity
I am through. I feel like a boy
out OF school. 1t is fine to have
this feeling OF freedom. feel free
after nine years of heavy re
sponsibility. / do not intend Il
exhibit myself publicly any more.
Popular Passenger
Tunney was a popular passenger
He was cheered when he left the
liner. He was willing to talk oil
literature, but preferred to remain
silent on pngilistic subjects. He
The Washington times., 1928-08-22
7 SEEK LEGION
HONOR HERE

Ra1,ot,nS on the names OF e.
r-,.ad palseY and Harlan Wooo LoA
e1action as commander of the LIS
trict of Columbia Department "a
tha American Legion occupied 9
.arge portion Of the morhlt 4to, n
sions of the annual conVentlE't
Northeast Masonic HAL to.ls
The convention got uhoer 49,
last night. A paraoe o - %
than 1000 Legionnaires from
posts of the District was the Vu
standing feature of the events
Many bands were in line anu nv :
chants. of the neighborhooo hau
floats and decorated automopiies'
Visiting Posts
POSTS from Hyattsville, Nd, Ar
lington county and Alexahorla'
Va. also were In the parade.
The principal business at the
opening session last night was the
nomination Of Baker and Wood.
Baker is member of Sergeant
Jasper Post and Wood belongs TO
Victory Post. Both have large 1ol'
The meeting was in charge OF
District Commander ]. Miller
Kenyon, who called on Col.
Thomas j. Dickson for the invoca'
ton. A short address was made
by District Commissioner Proctor
L. Dougherty, followed by the in
PRODUCTION OF representatives OF
the G.. A. r., Veterans Of Foreign
Wars, Spanish war Veterans and
the Disabled Veterans.
Message From Coolidge
A message from President Cool
idge in which he expressed his
regret at not being able to address
The Legionnaires personally was
read.
Reports OF retiring officers were
read and rules to govern the
convention were debated.
The Washington times., 1928-08-22
Police Find Man Dead,
Gangster War Blamed

CHICAGO--Aug. 22.-The body
of a. man shot through the back
of the head and apparently taken
for a ride" was found by police
here today slumped over the wheel
of an automobile:
There was no sign of any wea-
pons in the machine, precluding the
possibility the man could have
killed himself. A squad of police
was sent to the address of the
man to whom the license plates
of the machine had been issued,
Leigh B. Leonardo. Police at.
tributed the killing to an alchol
war
The Washington times., 1928-08-22
Board Of Trade to Aid
In Labor Day Parade

z. J. Murphy has been named
chairman OF a committee of the
washington Board of Trade to
work out plans and cooperate with
those in charge for the Boards
participation in the annual fire.
mems Labor Day parade. Robert
Cottrell, executive secretary, an.
nounced today.
The board will enter b float in
the parade. Mr.. Cottrell announced.
The Washington times., 1928-08-22

said he would like to meet George
Bernard Shaw, adding:
81 presume 1t is presumptious for
me to say that or think of meeting
him. But 1t would be tremendously
interesting for me. I admire him
sreatly."
Tunney said that he would motor
to London. After his Irish visit he
and Thornton Wilder, the American
novelist, will begin their walking
tour through Europe.
The Washington times., 1928-08-22

EW
[JTOMOBILE
j Your present car has only one funda.
mental basis Of value; i.e., what the dealer
who accepts it in trade can get for il in
the used car market.
. Your present car has seemingly different
values because competitive dealers are
bidding to sell you new car.
. The largest allowance offered Is not
necessarily the best deal for you. Some
times it is; sometimes it is not
4 An excessive allowance may mean that
you are paying an excessive price for the
new car in comparison with its realyalue.
y First Judge the merits of the new car in
comparison with its price, including all
delivery and finance charges. Then
weigh any difference in allowance offered
on your present car. Remember that
you are making purchase, not sale.
ENERATI MOTORS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Mussolini's Successor

Since the fascist coup that placed the brag-
CERT despot, Mussolin and his black shirt
hordes in control of the government of Italy,
the real power has been the general council
of the fascist party, the direct agents of the
big industrialists and bankers of Italy. Evil
IDENTIFY weary of acting as the invisible pow
err a decree is now published to the effect
that the general council is part of the gov
eminent; that it will sit in the meetings of
the cabinet and "give advice"
It is announced that this move is made so
that the council can decide who shall be the
successor to Mussoini if and when he is no
longer able to function. That presupposes,
of course the continuity of the fascist re-
CINE Like all despotic governments the
fascist regime likes to delude itself with the
idea that it will last forever.
But even the fascists ought to realize that
systems do not last simply because they
cloak their tyrannies in terms of legality.
All governments rest primarily upon force.
Fascism, like any other form of capitalist
despotism will exist only so long as it has
sufficient power to impose its viii by ter
ror upon the majority of the population.
Through crises the masses eventually gener-
ate that accumulation of energy and concen-
tration of force that will enable them under
the leadership of the revolutionary proetar-
ian party, to overthrow the dictatorship of
Mussolini and his bandit hordes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Tammany APs Martyrdom

Unable to discuss fundamental political
differences with the republican party for the
simple reason that the two parties are prac-
tically identical as agencies of Wall Street
the democratic presidential candidate, Al
Smith, has trotted out the religious issue IN
the hope of gaining sympathy as one who
is prosecuted because of his religion. Thus
we are treated to the, edifying spectacle OF
an avowed disciple of Romanism assalllng
religious intolerance. This is an old jesuit
trick-accuse your enemies of the crimes of
which you are guilty.
Unfortunately for Smith there is "a very
slong and very black record of the period that
his church and the governing power were
synonymous: a period during which the
church was supreme. 1t is not accidental
that the thousand years during which the
popes ruled the world of old Europe will be
forever known as the dark ages. In those
DAYS ignorance was a virtue and intelligence
a crime For pompous bigots, the most ex-
travagant luxury for those who dared to
think, the dungeon, the rack and the stake.
But no longer does the church weld the
power that it once held. Instead of being
the chief instrument of oppression and ter
ror in the hands of feudal barons, it is now
but one of the many instruments IN the
hands of the imperialist master class of the
United States.
No one with any degree of intelligence
thinks for a moment that the pope will rule
America if Smith is elected, because the
church itself is the servant of Imperialism
Wall Street would rule Smith, just as it rules
the present idge-Mellon-Hoover admins
tration. 1t is not church rule but class rule
that enslaves the workers today, as of yore
Only a class party of labor can lead the
working class on the road toward its eman-
cipation. That party in the United States
is the Workers (Communist) Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Training for the Class Struggle

Gratifying indeed is the response this sea-
son to the opening of the Workers School,.
Within few short years the Communist
school of New York has outgrown every
other school that even made pretense of
teaching labor topics. The registration this
year exceeds all previous years.
Those workers of New York who consider
the labor movement as the hope of the work
ing class and who want to perfect them
selves to be able to fight effectively for their
class have come to realize that the Workers
School is unique in America; that it offers
advantages that cannot be obtained in any
other place on the Western Hemisphere In
the best sense of the word they receive
training for the class struggle.
Registration for many of the courses is
still going on. Let every worker take advan-
tage of this school this winter and thereby
be better fitted to challenge the despotsm
of the employers and their government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Agricultural Workers Must Ally With Workers
In City to Overthrow Capitalism

ducts in the country was $780,
100000. In 1926, the value rose to
$13,000,000,000. But when one con-
siders that in 1926 the value of the
farmers dollar was only 81 cents,
then one recognizes that the farmer
has a real kick coming. In 1926,
the real farm income was only 2
per cent higher than before the war
At Mercy of Trusts.
The farmer has to buy manufac-
tured products produced by trusts at
monopoly prices, prices determined
in part by high protective tariffs,
prices on which the trusts make
their hundreds of millions of dol
lars of profits. The farmer has to
sell his crops at time when he has
no capital to handle them with, with
manipulators of the exchange man
euvering so that prices decline when
the farmer is in greatest need of
money.
What solution have the republi-
can and democratic parties for this
situation? What do they offer as
a remedy and what help do they
promise" the farmer? They prom
Use him a "study of the probleml"
These studies" have been going on
for s years. The democrats who
have been in the U. S. congress have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

had ample time to "study" the ques-
ton. The democrats knew that it
would be a national issue, for the
farmers have been complaining and
in 1924 this was greatly responsible
for the La Toilette movement.
Though this movement disintegrat-
ed, the situation of the farmer has
not improved, and continual COM
plants, the introduction of the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill in congress and
it's veto by Coolidge indicated clear
ly that this would be big issue.
Neither of the capitalist parties
can tackle the problem, for if they
dared to do so the farmers would
perceive that they have no solution
whatever. Economists today de-
clare that Observation-Disclosures
ton of high power machinery and
speed-up methods-will eliminate
large numbers of farm laborers, put
agriculture on an industrial basis
and lead to the cultivation of large
areas-which means, as in industry
and trade, the driving out of the
small farmer, the farmers of small
means.
This may be progress-and I'M
doubtedly it is-but it creates a sit
uation, as in industry, which the
capitalists and their parties cannot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
The Lie Factories Still Busy.

London is a strong competitor with Riga
as the center of lying propaganda against
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The
latest invention from the camp of the i'm
perialists and their servants the white guard
and menshevik exiles and the anarchists of
the Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman
calibre, comes from London, where the Daily
Mail reports that attempts have been made
on the life of Leon Trotsky since his "exile."
The story is absurdly fantastic and
relates that Trotsky's cottage was besieged
by sharpshooters who attacked from behind
trees, while Trotsky and his son stood them
off
Everyone who has the slightest informa-
ton regarding Soviet policy will instantly
perceive the absurdity of such fantastic
tale The agents of the imperiaists interpret
Soviet policy in the light of their own policies
which include cowardly, furtive assassination
of political opponents. Trotsky has been de-
cisively defeated politically; he no longer has
any following in the Soviet Union; in no
sense is he a menace to the workers and
peasants government.
The London lie factory was particularly
unfortunate in connecting this latest piece of
fiction, in view of the fact that Trotsky is
living in a city (Alma Ata) with a popula-
ton of $4,000 instead of wilderness where
sharpshooters can conceal themselves in
trees.
1t is not at all astonishing that the same
vilifiers of the revolution who now shed
tears over the imaginary hardships of Trot-
sky were among his most vicious traducers
when Trotsky was following the leadership
of the Bolshevik party. Such friends"
should cause Trotsky to ponder over his
course and impel him to repudiate his errors
as some of his former associates have done
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

The general council may be able to choose
the successor of Mussolini provided he dies
soon enough, but it is the oppressed and
bleeding working class of Italy that soon or
late will choose the successor of fascism The
class that must inevitably rise on the ruins
of fascism will be able to perpetuate its rule,
not by tyrannical measures but through
democratic centralism as exercised by the
dictatorship of the proletariat, in which the
masses of workers and farmers directly par
ticipate in the conduct of their own govern
ment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Nv n. c. WILLIAMS.

The Workers (Communist) Party,
realizing it's historical role in the
class struggle against predatory
Imperialism, cannot overlook an i'm
nortant section of our population,
the Negro race, and particularly
the proletarian elements which con-
stitute over SO per cent of that
race.
The position of our Party, as the
Vanguard of the proletariat is to
engage in battle against the twin
parties of capitalism, the republl-
IAN and democratic. The Negro
workers, as the most oppressed and
Exploited section of the American
working class must be made to
eealize that the Workers (Commu-
aia) Party is the only party repre-
-ntative of Ills interests, the only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Respond to Red Drive.

force that can liberate him from de-
graduation.
With the open betrayal of the
Negro by the republican and demo-
cratic parties at their last nomina
ton conventions, has come great
eruptions and revolts among the
Negro masses. Negro workers ap
preached for signatures for the
Workers Party candidates have
been only too glad to give them in
most cases. Many of them have
expressed their intention of voting
for the working class candidates. of
Foster ard Gitlow, Moore, Fort
Whiteman, Minor and other nomin-
ees of the Workers Party. In par
ticular, those Negro workers who
have attended our street meetings
and read the Party platform and
program are enthusiastic support
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

William z. Foster received one
red vote in Toxic, Japan, beating
Norman Thomas by a neck and a
halo. 1t is custom among Ameri-
can residents in the Nipponese CAPT
tai to take straw vote every four
years, so that the exiled sons and
daughters of America may expert
ence the thrill of voting for or
against a presidential candidate.
Judging by the returns, the vote was
taken in embassies, consulates,
speakeasies and the public library.
Hoover got the ambassadorial and
the consulate vote, the boys who
shine the mahogany undoubtedly
whooped il up for AL and the Ameri-
cano who was caught in the book
place is the guy who voted Commu-
mist.
Well, strange tho it may read to
the old fashioned voter, Commu-
mist vote in Japan is just as well
come as a Communist vote in Mil
waukee. Ours is an international
Party and the task of the Workers
(Communist) Party is chiefly de-
voted to mobilizing the American
masses for the struggle against
capitalism here, it is part of the in
ternational army of labor, that is
fighting in all lands to transform
this world into a federation of
Workers Republics.
The campaign to put the Workers
(Communist) Party on the ticket is
travelling so fast and so successfully
that even the hard-boiled National
Election Campaign Committee is
chuckling. Of course this is not an
invitation to the members on the
firing line to retire to their dugouts
and take it easy. From now on
the real fun is going to be had. With
twenty-one states on the ballot and
half as many more ready to go
over the top, it looks as if the Cam
paign Committee estimate Of thirty
states will have to be raised.
Street Nucleus No. of Pitts
.burgh is taking the election cam
paign seriously. The unit also
knows that the Campaign means
money. SO at it's last meeting it
passed a motion to raise five hun
bred dollars for the Election Cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

ers of the Party and promise to sup
port it at the polls.
| came into contact with many
Negro workers who always voted
republican or democratic in the past
who told me that they were in
hearty sympathy with our move
ment. And to show that they meant
it they gave me their signatures to
help us put our candidates on the
ballot. They were particularly in
terested in the fact that there are
many Negro workers on the Party
ticket in New York State and were
anxious to know if this was the
case in other states and when told
that it was so, exclaimed, well,
that's the party for me and | will
sure vote for you all on election
day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

cope with. 1t means the proletar
ianization of the farmers, the crea-
ton of surplus wage class (these
farmers will have to leave the land,
as in the past 6 or 7 years, and go
to the city in search of work.
This is the capitalist solution to
the kicks of the farmers. The farm
er will again trust one or the other
of the capitalist parties, as will be
evidenced in the votes cast in the
coming elections-but the farming
problem will remain and with Amer
ica's rapid naturalization of all in
dustry, including the farming in
dustry, the conflicts will become
more acute-until a war intervenes
and food production will be required
on larger scale than before.
Whether under such circumstances
the small farm will be revived is
questionable, for with government
aid large areas will be put under
cultivation under pressure of high
power machinery, which will release
larger numbers of men for war pur-
poses.
These are some of the contradic-
tions which capitalism cannot solve
Contradictions which will demand
solution ever more sharply as the
years go on.
Meanwhile, the farmer has kick
coming. He will have to learn how
to kick properly-and line up with
the militant workers in the city and
fight. The task of aligning him
with the city worker devolves upon
the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
C. A M P A | c. N COR N r

paign. Sixty-one dollars was raised
Immediately and a committee of six
was elected to put the decision into
effect. The committee consists of
Jenkins, Solnitzky, Gordon, Zub-
koff, Patrinos and Careathers. The
committee reports that it has raised
nearly one hundred and fifty dol
lars and hopes to complete its quota
within a short time. Comrade
Solnitzky is the treasurer of this
committee. The Nucleus also or
dered two thousand leaflets for dis
tribution, and has elected COM
mittee to assist in the arrangements
for the open-air meetings.
This is good work. The 100000
Communist Campaign Fund is swell
ling, but it will take lot more gas
before it can lift the election cam
paign out of financial difficulties.
The National Office is preparing a
dozen pamphlets on various issues
of the campaign. Hundreds of thou
sands of those leaflets will be issued
for mass distribution. All this will
cost money. The example set by
Nucleus No. in Pittsburgh, should
be followed by every other nucleus
thruout the country.
The latest word from Utah is en-
couraging. When the National
Election Campaign Committee in
structed the comrades in the Nor
mon State to get the Party on the
ballot or forever after hold their
peace, it sounded like dumb SEN
tence for them. But they went to
work in the true Communist fashion
and now--Well as we say in the
movies, Nov, comes the dawn"
You will hear the last of the story
in a few days.
From now on until polling day in
November, registration will be
carried on in the various states.
Every state has its own registration
laws. Some have registration open
from the first of the year. Others
charge a poll tax. Still others like
New York set a definite week for
registration. Our comrades should
acquaint themselves with the regis
tration law in their particular state
and to take the necessary steps to
qualify for voting on election day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

is a Catholic butt
n OF a popist, |
that while he
admires and re-
veres the "holy
father" from a
d i S t al C e he
would no more
let him run the
white h O s e
than he would
p e r m l Z I n e
wizard of t h e
Ku Klux Khan
to do it. Hoover
is denying that
L. oo-4so-aI4L1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

bringing of the religious issue into
the election campaign in order to
start the bile rising in the anti
Catholic voter. A pox on both of
them. They manage to get the
masses excited and take a sort of
gambling interest in the election
campaign. This, however, has one
advantage for the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24

THREE Nebraska state banks have
been seized by government Off
Gals. 1t is alleged that bank Off
Gals took unto themselves thou
sands of dollars deposited by citi-
zens who believed that the bank is
safer than the sock. Those Nebras-
kans must be clumsy fellows. Per-
haps they were too busy urging the
American Legion to have the Com
munist ticket thrown off the ballot
as a menace to law and order, to
cover their tracks properly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
Told You So

AL SMITH is busily engaged try
a ing to convince the voters that
he is wet but not soaked, that he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-24
WILLIAM z. FOSTER and Ben

WILLIAM z. FOSTER and Ben
" Gitlow, the national standard
bearers of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, are having splendid
meetings because of the interest
aroused in the election campaign by
the hokum put out in the press,
from the platform and over the
radio by the capitalist parties. The
workers want to hear all sides of
the question. This is our gravy.
Thousands of Communist platforms
and millions Of leaflets will he read
by the workers and those who are
having the gudgeon grease removed
from their thinking machinery will
have no difficulty in making the
right choice. They will vote Com
munist and join the Workers (Com-
munist) Party to help carry on the
struggle against capitalism.