davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01

for a million-dollar gate for the
Tunney-Heeney fight. He didn't
get it. The big money is in capital
list politics now. Tex should be per-
nitted to stage the Hoover-Smith
fight. A en-million-dollar gate
would give even the seasoned Rick
ard thrill.
The Workers (Communist) Party
stands for the organization of the
unorganized.
Amt the Constitution grand!
Two federal judges in Texas have
upheld the right of the democratic
party to limit the franchise to whites
only The ground on which the
federal court refused to interfere
with the democratic party's latest
assault on the rights of the Negroes
is that political party is purely
voluntary association, whose com
position is not a matter of govern
ment concern. Can you imagine
what the federal courts would say
to the Workers (Communist) Party,
should a violation on it's part of the
federal constitution be brought to
its attention?
Another big capitalist has come
out for Al Smith. He is William H.
Woodin, president of the American
Car and Foundry Company and the
American Locomotive Company, and
is a director in more corporations
nan you could shake a stick at.
Al Nainst this, the Republicans set the
del Nction of former Senator Owen
of Oklahoma to Hoover. The bars
are down in both parties, there be-
ing no fundamental difference be-
tween their policies. The Smith
wing Of the democratic party and
the dominating elements in the re-
publican party could kiss and make
up but for the friendly competition
for the spoils of office. Just like
the gangsters Of the underworld,
whose hearts beat with a single
thought but who shoot each other
nevertheless, because it's a dog-eat-
dog society," and the rule is every
man for himself and the devil take
the hindmost.
Mayor Thompson Of Chicago may
re- On in the near future. big Bilp
got into office on an America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
USSR Places Order of
S2,500,G00 in England

LONDON, (By Mail.-On July s
the chairman of Plat Brothers an
nounced that orders for $2,500, 900
worth of machinery have been re-
ceived from the. Soviet Union. Many
of the business and government cir
cles here think that if Russian trade
were fully developed it would abolish
unemployment thruout the engineer
ing trade
The Manchester Guardian COM
menting on it said: "Credit had to
be given, but no one denies
that the Soviet Government fulfills
the obligations which it has entered
into itself, and dealing with it can
therefore be regarded as safe
safer, in fact, than some of those
which are made With private firms
in other countr'E."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01

WITH a mass meeting in Wilkes
F." Barre, Pa, on July %, the cleo
ton campaign in the anthracite got
going. H. Benjamin, district organ
izer of District 8, with headquarters
in Philadelphia, was the principal
speaker Other mass meetings with
Benjamin as the speaker are being
held throughout the hard coal region
On September l big campaign
rally and picnic will be held in one
of the largest amusement parks in
the anthracite. Benjamin Gitlow,
rvice-presidential candidate, will
speak. Comrade Emil CARLOS, sub
district organizer, sent in an order
for 1000 Vote Communist buttons,
81 blocks of Vote Communist
stamps, 100 National Platforms and
5000 Communist Campaign leaflets.
Max Hanllin, district organizer
for Buffalo District ~, sent in an
order for 500 National Platforms
and 10000 Communist Campaign
leaflets.
July "a is a holiday in Utah. Why,
we don't know, but perhaps Brig
ham Young was born on that date.
Be that as it may, our comrades in
the Mormon state we're inconven-
fenced by the holiday, since the
legal machinery stopped running
long enough to give the Mormons "a
chance to commune with naturS
Nevertheless the campaign work is
being pushed energetically. Street
meetings are being held, Communist
electors secured and an order sent
to the National Election Campaign
Committee for 200 National Plat
forms, 200 buttons, 1000 Communist
Campaign leaflets and ten Vote
Communist stamp books.
Senator Smoot, one of the snoot-
lest reactionaries in the Senate, halls
from Utah.
Tex Richard, the boxing impress
sario, is slipping mentally. The
willy promoter should know enough
not to stage a chin-tapping circus
in competition with the sham battle
waged by the republican and demo-
cratic parties for the presidency.
Gullixe though the American peo-
pie are, one fake at time is about
al they can stomach. Tex hoped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01

sent on several, occasions in the name
of the Political COMMITTEE to the
party units giving the correct Com
munist line of approach in securing
such signatures. Subsequently, the
Political Committee severely con-
demned the author and contents of
these non-Communist suggestions
and branded them as entirely against
the party policy in election cam
paigns, as foreign to Communism,
and decided once more to send addi-
tional instructions to all party units
and prepare articles for the party
press to make impossible the recur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
Placing the Party on the Ballot; the Bolshevik
Use of Election

est non-Communist suggestions aim
ing to get, signatures to place the
party on the ballot through tricks"
instead of through Communist prop
uganda, was never the policy of our
PARTY or any section of it and was
prepared by an office clerk without
permission and in violation of in
structions and decisions of the Polit-
ical Committee of the party. 1t was
drawn up before the Election Cam
paign Committee had been organ
lied.
Condemned by Central Committee.
Detailed official instructions were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
Our Party's Election Campaign

renee of such an incident in the
to get on the ballot.
THE declaration sent out by the
Political Committee to the party
dealing with the preparations for
the National Nominating Conven-
ton, characterizes the procedure and
objective of our participation in the
election campaign as follows:
"The party's election campaign
will be based upon all the other
campaigns that the party is con-
Quoting at the present moment
and organically tied up with the
struggles of the working class
:. the mining campaign, unem-
ployment, organizing the morgan
lied, struggle against imperialist
war-Nicaragua, China, Defense
of the Soviet Union, textile and
needle trades struggle. The
keynote to be struck by our party
throughout the campaign must be
the class struggle . in connec-
tion with the dropping of this slo-
gan by the Socialist Party at its
last convention.
"The election campaign must
present our party as the champion
of all sections of the working
class. strikers, unorganized work
ers, Negroes, youth, women, chill
dren, colonial masses. Our party
must appear in the election cam
paign as the single revolutionary
working class force, as the sole
fighting force against the reac-
tionary trade union bureaucracy,
as the organizer of the morgan
lied, as the deadly enemy of the
socialist party.
'The campaign should not re-
strict itself TO our immediate ede-
mands, but We should stress all
our final aimssbefore the working
class. We should raise issues of
a workers and farmers govern
ment, the overthrow of capital
ism, the problems of Communist
society. We have to throw all
forces of the party into the cam
paign and at the same time have
to guard ourselves against all
kinds of parliamentary illusions.
To gain seats in the various legis-
lative bodies is very important for
our party because we can utilize
them as mass tribunals to reach
out for the workers, but we should
not forget that our basic aim in
this campaign is the mobilization
of the broadcast possible masses"
At the National Nominating Con-
vention a resolution was adopted on
building the party during the cleo
ton campaign, reading in part as
follows:
"The presidential mp gn
gives the Workers (Communist)
Party an excellent opportunity to
reach the broad sections of the
American working class with the
slogans and program of Commu-
nism. No campaign meeting
should be allowed to go by with
out making a strong appeal to the
workers present to join the Party.
Every copy of our campaign
literature, every Party publica-
ton, must contain as part of its
general contents sipsifar appeal
to noQ,barty worksfs.
1T must be Systematically en-
phasized that the election cam
paign is but one phase of the
class struggle which must be
prosecuted all the year round and
that for this purpose the building
end strengthening of the Workers
(CommunisD Party is the main
guarantee for revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01

Mayor Thompson Of Chicago may
re- .sn in the near future. big Bill"
got into office on an America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
(Continued)
BY JAY LOVESTONE
Placing the Party on the Ballot

Ao~AtS eAtC dItJ OIt lltC DdilOb
We have seen the numerous diff
culties placed in the way of our
party's getting on the ballot in the
presidential elections. This year
there is likelihood that we will be
en- the ballot in at least thirty states
or double the number of states we
were on in 1924. Already our candi-
dates are on the ballot in such states
as Michigan, Delaware, Oklahoma,
Georgia, Virginia and West Vir-
GINA. In none of these states did
we have candidates onathe ticket in
the 1924 elections
Bolshevik Use of Election.
Our party is utilizing the cam
paign to get on the ballot as an OPP
portunity to spread Communist
propaganda, to bring the Communist
program before greater masses and
to introduce our party to thousands
of workers hitherto unreached.
House to house canvass, factory
and factory gate agitation, open-air
meetings, canvassing workers fra
ternal and educational organizations,
drives in the trade unions, are among
the ways employed by our party or
ganizers for securing the sufficient
legal requirements prerequisite to
our being on the ballot.
The entire mem borship is being
drawn into this campaign. This
drive also serves to, bring life to
some Of our lagkpag nuclei.
The campaign to get the party on
the ballot is an integral part of the
campaign we are now waging to
increase the party's membership and
vitalize its units.
Then, in our efforts to put the
party on the ballot in the south,
we are establishing new contacts,
developing our work particularly
amongst the Negro masses. This
is very significant for the entire
working class because there is prac-
tically no labor movement in the
south and even the few weak con-
sentative trade unions that exist
there lead precarious semi-legal
existence in many instances.
Some Serious Errors.
Of course the campaign for Sc
curing signatures to get on the bal
lot is fraught with certain serious
dangers faced in the effort to over
come the difficulties set up by the
American bourgeoisie. Some COM
rades may drift into dangerous op-
portunistic errors.
For instance, an example of such
gross errors is to be found in a
circular prepared by a technical
worker in our election campaign CIV
ing suggestionsffor securing sigma
lures. These suggestions COM
pletely disregarded and were in ut
ter violation of the basic policy of
the party that the signature cam
paign must be used for developing
Communist propaganda and agita-
ton and for winning new adherents
to the party. This document re-
Elected a Grass reformist concept of
parliamentary activity. The author
of this document had no authority
to draw it up. Before distribution
of these suggestions got well under
way it was Immediately prohibited
from circulation by the secretary Of
the party.
This circular, containing the sill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01
ARE TURNED
INTO WORKERS. HOMES

zines. In 1928 there were 286 plays,
lectures or concerts, while in 1927,
6,S06 plays, lectures or concerts
were given. These figures give
some idea of one phase of the cul-
tural revolution going on in the
U. S. S. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-01

other prominent speakers. Tons of
literature must be printed and dis
tributed, and this costs money. Send
in your contribution at once to the
Nationcl Election Campaign Com
mittee, Workers (Coomunist) Party,
AZ EaS 125th ST., New York City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
WOMAN HELD IN
SHOOTING

, Mrs. Helen l.. Siegel, 80, who fired
two shots last night at man who
had STRUCK her husband over his
head with a hammer, according to
police, will be arraigned in court
today on a charge of assault with
q dangerous weapon. She was re-
leased on $500 bond last night.
Mrs. Siegel fired in defense OF her
husband, Joseph C. Siegel, SS. 900
block Fourth st. N. W..
Wilbur Prather, 40. colored. 800
block Fourth st. N. W., alleged to
have been Siegel's assailant, also
was released on bond to appear in
court today on the same charges.
Police \said Mrs. Siegel. seeing her
husband in the grip OF the other
man. ran in the house and came
out with a pistol. She fired twice
at Prather, but missed him. Prather
broke away and fled. but was ar
rested by policemen who were hur-
rving to the scene. They also ar
rested Mrs. Siegel.
Siegei became involved in hight
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Hot Air Machines Are
Replacing Paper
Towels

Government employees may soon
have to dry their faces ana
hands with hot air instead OF
towels.
The U. s. Bureau of Efficiency
is testing out an electric machine
which blows hot air over the
hands and face to dry them. doing
away with the necessity of using
thousands of paper towels daily.
Manufacturers of the machine
claim it is less expensive than
using paper towels and is even
more sanitary.
The machine now is being used
by employees of the Efficiency Blu
reau. 1t will be given a months
test. Meanwhile paper towels
have been removed from the
bureaus wash room, making use
of the machine compulsory.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
DELAYED B Y R D.
SHIP SAFE

NORFOLK, Va. Sept. 19.-Fear
for the Eleanor Boiling, one of the
supply ships of the Byrd Antarctic
Expedition, which had been de-
layed in reaching Norfolk from
New York, was allayed last night
when the ship anchored in the
lower part of Chesapeake Bay,
Blinker signals made the presence
of the ship known TO naval Ius.
Efforts of Commander Byrd to
raise the ship last night by. radio
proved fruitless. 1t is not known
what caused the ship to anchor in
the bay off Thimble Shoal. but it is
thought that thick weather or
machinery trouble was the cause.
The ship lies in an unprotected
anchorage. but it should have no
trouble riding out the storm, which
was growing throughout the night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
paul v. Collins Now
Heads Legion Post

George Washington Post, No. 4.
American Legion, has . new com.
mander--Paul v. Collins. He was
elected last night to take the place Of
c.. J. Painter:
Passage of the Fitzgerald Tyson
bill granting retirement to emer-
gency officers was pointed to az one
Of the most recent worthwhile
achievements of the organization. by
John Thomas Taylor, the principal
sneaker.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Friendship House To
Stage Annual Carnival

Friendship House. s2s Virginia
Ave, S. e., today will stage its
third ANNUAL street carnival. A
parade, Juvenile circus and con-
cert will be features of the affair.
Proceeds from the carnival will
be usedkto wipe out the $4,000 in
debtness incurred by the settlement
house last simmer. The afternoon
program will be opened at 4;3O o'clock
by the F'rier dship House Toy Sym
phony Orchestra. A group of folk
dances also will he staged by the
children in the afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Charges False Arrest
And Assault In Sui

Total damages Of $4,000 for al
legged false arrest and assault are
asked in a suit filed by Nathan I'm.
Der. 500 block G st. S. E., against
Louis Gritz. 500 block Eighth ST.
S. E., in Circuit Court today.
Imber alleges. through Attorneys
Lavine and Lavine, that Gritz had
him arrested on q complaint OF as
sault on August 4, last, and the
case was nolle pressed by the Dis
trict Attorney. Gritz assaulted and
painfully injured him instead, Inaber
SAYS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Revised Envelope Bids
Save 81, Ia, 900 for II. s

The Federal Government has
saved s2,124,OOO By readyaf4islng for
bids for furnishing the Post Office
Department stamped envelopes.
The international Paper Company
has been awarded the contract.
which calls for 1896, 100000 envsl.
opes to be furnished in the four.
year period beginning next January
At the first bidding al offers
were thrown out on technically,
They were much higher than the
revised proposals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
Petworth Citizens
Make Nominations

The Petworth Citizens Associa-
ton has nominated officers to be
balloted upon at its annual cleo
ton, which will be held October 16.
Nominations for the presidency of
the organization are Christopher
Lemkuhl and Horace ]. Phelps.
The association also will outline it's
legislative program at it's annual
meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19

with Prather, it is alleged, after
he had warned a small colored child
to stop playing around his parked
automobile. The child went home
and told Prather, his grandfather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19

eorfespoadenee poiAt. Mediun feasibility. For
home and geAefal use.
RIGID tempered to armos. plate hardness. Win
not shade even under heavy pressure. Unsaualsd
ior snaniEoldins. The salssmaA's fEieAd.
STIFF -FNiE-Wrises without pressure. Makesa
din, clear line and snail figures with uMerEiAg
accuracy. Popular With accountant.
F1EXlBIE-FTNIE-AS resilient 90 a watch-sprlns.
Eine, tapered poiAts grouAd fine to shade at aAY
angle. Loved By stenOgSaphsTs.
BLUNT -Aa lmpsevsd stub peint. Thls pelnt
maksS broad line. May Be held IN aAy pcsitieA.
Liked ~ rapid writers.
ROUNDED "A diAsrsAs pan poine. The tip d
hall shape. Makes heavy, characteristic line with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19

An Investment in Washington real
estate can always he located through
the Classified real estate for sale ads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-19
INSURANCE SESSION

Insurance Adjusters OF the Dis
trict will meet at the Hamilton
Hotel this afternoon at 1890 o'clock
in their regular weekly luncheon
meeting.
The Washington times., 1928-02-24
157 TAKE EXAM,
0IVL \ 50 PASS

Gloom settled over portion Of
the washington police department
today when it became known that
less than half Of the policemen
made passing marks In examina-
lions for promotion held last month
by the Civil Service Commission.
OF the Isl policemen who took
the examination only So are eligible
for promotion In their respective
cIassifi
Major Edwin b. Hesse held out
the hope to those who failed to
pass that they could make another
try OF it next year. The list of
those who made passing marks In.
cluded four lieutenants who seek
promotion to the rank of captain:
eleven sergeants, and fifty.four
priyates.
The major said that the failure
OF so many men In last months
examination might be attributed to
the fact that this was the first
formal examination for promotions
to be conducted by the Civil Service
Commission. under the new regula-
tons promulgated by the District
Commissioners.
The list sent down today Is good
for one year, and all promotions
made up to the rank of captain will
be made from this list.
The Washington times., 1928-02-24
5 new BRIDGES
IS BOARD PLAV

Construction Of five new bridges
in washington, to replace old via
ducts and. aaueducts now In use.
will be advocated by the Washing
ton Board of Trade, In future con-
ferences with the Commissioners
and with Congress.
The board last night, at its
monthly meeting In the Willard
Hotel, committed itself to this
project by adopting the report Of
it's committee on bridges. Submit.
ted through Frank r. Averill, chair
man Of the committee, the report
advocated a. five-year bridge con-
struction program, providing for
building one major bridge each
year.
The bridges to be replaced are the
Klingle Valley Bridge. the Calvert
Street Bridge. the Park Road
Bridge, the Bennfng Road Bridge
and the Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge.
Acquisition of lands north Of
Rock Creek Park, and OF part Of
the Patterson and Dean tracts. was
suggested by the parks and reserya.
lions committee:
Representative Richard Yates
spoke on George Washington w.
w. Everett presided in the absence
Of e. C. Graham, president OF the
trade board.
The Washington times., 1928-02-24
ARMY I R A &c s
NURSE SUICIDE
AT 4 YEARS

Through the fingerprint files Of
the War Department, the woman
who committed suicide in an Alex
andria hotel last Monday has been
definitely identified as Elizabeth
Ka1al. 81. of Omaha, Neb., and Los
Angeles. Cal.
The Identification was made posi-
bic through information furnished
by Sergt. Walter Adams, of Fort
Howard, Md. who said that the
suicide was his sister. He told the
police that she served as an Army
nurse during the World War.
Miss Kalal was born near Omaha,
Neb.. In 1884, Of Austrian parentage.
After the death of her parents the
family scattered and she eventualIv
went to Los angeles. where her
brothers and sisters lost track Of
her until three years ago, when she
visited Sergeant Adams at the
camp.
War Department records show
that Miss KalaI Was called to active
duty as an Army nurse on July i,
1918, and sailed for France on Au-
gust rs OF the same year. While
there she served in three base hos
pitfalls and returned to this country
on June 10. 1919. She was relieved
from active duty on July ~, 1919.
The Washington times., 1928-02-24
Radio Commission Sets
New Records On
Economy

All records for economy in
Federal Government have been
captured by the Federal Radio
Commission.
Three members, @. III. Cald-
well, III. Al. LaFount and Sam
Pickard, are donating their serv-
ices to the Government-unWill-
ingly, however, these officials re-
ceiving no salary because of fail
ure Of the Senate to confirm
their nominations. Only e. @.
Sykes, acting chairman, Is on a
salary basis
Since the Sixty.ninth Congress
adjourned without providing funds
for its operation. the radio com.
mission borrowed personnel.
such as stenographers. clerks and
experts, from other departments
Some funds were secured from
the radio division of the Com
merce Department.. while con
siderable volume Of old equip
ment, discharged by other gov
ernmental units. was pressed into
service.