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New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
|SOUMINEN STILL LEADS MARATHON
Runners Must Gross Transcond. nental Divide in 7oday's Trek

Gallup. ". M. March 2i Up)- Arne Souminen. the Detroit Finn. still was in the van as athletes in the Los Angeles to New York Pyle derby started out from here for Thoreau. 32.3 miles distant. The runners must cross the trans- continental divide, 1.34S feet in ele- vation before reaching tonight's rest ing station. Another state was left behind as runner trotted in here from Lupton. Ariz. yesterday. Ninety-six runners now are in the contest, lead by Suominen and trail ed by Mike Kelly. 19-year-old youth from Goshen. Ind. who has been trailing the field because of injuries Sestor Erickson. Port Chester. N r., Finn. Topped across the finish line here yesterday to take lap hon. ors for the 22.S mile grind from Lupton. Peter Gavuzzi. Southampton. Eng land, took second prize, while Suo- minen trottfd in third, Ollie Wattinen. New York Finn
 came in fourth. with Ed Gardner Seattle negro. next, John Salo. Pas saic. \. J.. seventh. and Andre"
 Payne, Claremore. Okla. eighth.
 The elapsed time leaders for the ,oS.S miles from Los Angeles to Gal. , lup are: Arne Suominen Detroit. 12l:5o:o5 Andrew Payne, Clarence. Okla. l?5:09:57.
 Peter Gavuzzi. Southampton. Eng
 land. leS:1s:sl.
 John Cronick. Saskatoon. sask
 l26:53:l5.
 Voight Hofstatcr. Manistce. Mich.
 l3S:43:lO. ! Ed Gardner, Seattle. l34: 56:S6. I Nestor Erickson. Port Chester, x
 Y.. 136:ll:47. Philip Granville. Hamilton Ont.
 13s:l1:30. John Salo, Passaic. Y. J., lSe:lS:' 45. William Kerr. Minnea polls, Minn.
 142:l2:3l.
 Henry Swabey. York. Ont. l4S:. BIAS. Louis Perclla, Albany, N. Y., li4S:l9:e5. Joseph Wilson. Oakland, Calif., |i4e:oo:2l. A. Constantinof1, Toronto. Ont, 15l:3s:l5. tr-.-. Rea Long Reach. Calf,
 l5::5e:3S.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
OPEN SOCCER SEASON

The Swedish American Soccer football club will open the season against the Skandia A. C. Of Hart- ford at Willow Brook park. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Skandia has fast club but the local team has been greatly strengthened. The lineup for the game follows: Goal. II. Anderson: fulibacks. Moritz. Am ,lerson and Mark: halfhacks. Person. NJ. Anderson and R. Hjerpe: for. wards. Tlmquist tcaptain). I Carl son. N. Carlson. Lindberg and Oh- man.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
FAY0RI1E IN MEET
Yale Appears Assurcd Of Lions Share Of Individual Titlee in Swtm- ming Championships.

Philadelphia, March ci R1Yalc today appeared assured Of the lions share of the individual titles in the eastern Intercollegiate swimming championships.
 In the preiiminaries at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania last night the Ellis qualified 13 men for tho finals. placing in all seven events and getting three men in the l5t- yard backstroke and three in the 440-yard free style events.
 Dartmouth. Rutgers and Columbia qualified three each. Army and Navy. 2 and Pennsylvania, Williams. New York University. Syracuse and Princeton. one each.
 The finals will be held tonight.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
FRINGE RIDES AGAIN

Bootbby Gtai4oe. Lincolnshire, Eug!and, March 24 Pt-The Prince of Wales gay" his mare D"Somm" II, which threw him Wednesday, an- other tryout at the Blankn"y Hunt point to point meeting today. H. finished third on Clark Coulter in th" same event last year.
 Today's meeting is the third ths prince has attended this week.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
1 hlc Displays Great
 Form During Contest

N0N Oll,aUs, L1., MArCn IT WI- Tie clrs aland Indians today found solacc in tH'lf second successive set tack at the hands Of minor league aEgrrg4'iyus in inc form displayed ry G"orgr | hl", the quality of whose pj'chins ls expected 10 be an import ant factor In determining the Trib" { station thls season.
 IAlc W oriled six innings agains. 'h" Columbus American association team yesterday and Leli th" S"na- tors 10 i've hits and two runs with out much cfrort. However. his team mates again were without batting eyes and took q to l beating.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
NEW BRITAIN AND ATLAS
 CLASH ON COURT TONIGHT
Teams to Settle Second Half Championship at Stanley Arena-New Haven Crew Anxious to Win-Hard- ware City Quintet Gets Final Chance to Play for State Championship Victory for Locals Will Mean Another Game - Fafnrs and Stanley Works in Preliminary

One of the blue banner basket ball attractions of the present season will be seen at the Stanley Arena tonight when the New Britain and Atlas basketball teams clash in the game which will decide the second half championship of the Connecti- cut State Basketball League. The teams after New Haven's victory last Friday night. were tied for the lead and tonight's game will settle the difference.
 The New Haven team has won Britain so far this season. II also has captured the championship of the first half of the league but despite that, the New Britain team goes into tonight's game the favor ite to win. Last week. the Hardware City combination outplayed New Haven in every department of the game but shooting. Terrible shoot- ing from the foul line lost the game but besides this. the New Britain players tossed the contest away by missing numerous chances for field goals.
 One of the largest crowds Of the present season is due to attend the game tonight. Over 100 reserved tickets have been sold in New Hav- cn already while all Of New Brit aims hackers will be out in full force for the game.
 New Havcn's lineup win be bol- stsred it is thought. by the return to the game of Lyman. center who suffered 2 sprained ankle in his last appearance here. Pite. Dotwin- ik and Rothenfeld will cover the forwards with Lyman or Trupin at center. Cohen and Chadys will cover the guard positions.
 New Britain will cast It's lot with Rnbens,ein and Sloman at forwards. Zakzewski at center and Sheehan and Leary at guards.
 Red" Ball will referee.
 Preliminary Attraction l The Fafnir and Stanley Works 1 teams of the Industrial League will
 meet in the preliminary to decide second place in the circuit. Tho 1 teams are tied for the position and 1 the winner in tonight's racket will 1 be only few points behind the ] league leading Corbin Screw quintet for the top position. The preliminary will start promptly at $ o'clock and , the main game will be staged about o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
NOT HITIr,SS WONDrRS

Dallas. T"z.. March A LF' - Tho Chicago White SoX gained dietinr- ton many years ago as the "Hileis Wonders" Yesterday. in their game with Dallas of the Texas league. they were comparatively httiess but not wonders. losing , 10 i decision. Manager Schalk continues fo iuttcr with his lineup. seeking attaching st r-c T Ct h
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
PITCHER RELEASED

San Francisco. March 24 tT-- Manager Donie Bush Of the Pitts. burgh Pirates has presented walk ing papers 10 James Lindsey. pitch CT. who was drafted from the Sar Antonio club of the Texas league last year.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24

catcher, but whether he has fully recovered from the shoulder trouble and bad finger Of last year is not known.
 Summing up, 1t seems the Car dinals are q team that would be a good bet to cop the flag in the Ma tional league if every one of the veterans can throw off the ailments of the past.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
CIV Britain
Opponents

The team has scored 1006 points 70 s25 for it's opponents. The list Of games is as follows:
 N,,,- Ipri4ott, .e
New Britain herald., 1928-03-24
KELLY TAKES PIPP's JCR

Don't be surprised if long George Kelly displaces Wally Pipp at first base for the Reds this year. lis work in spring training has been far better than Pipp's.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
Fosters Acceptance Speech

these demands during the campaign.
1t is not enough that we simply put
forward cur revolutionary slogans.
We must also organize and lead the
workers in their everyday struggles
against the most acute evils under
capitalism. Our platform demands
point the way to do this.
Put on the other hand, we must
not put forth our immediate demands
in the sense that they of themselves
N axe for the emancipation of the
working class. In all our agitation
around these demands we must en-
phasize the absolute necessity for the
proletarian revolution. Our strategy
is to utilize these immediate de-
nands to educate and organize the
masses in preparation for the final
revolutionary struggle, which will
abolish capitalism altogether. Reli-
ance upon immediate demands would
lead us merely to reformism. Our
Party is revolutionary Party. 1t
aims not simply to ease conditions
a bit under capitalism for the work
ers but to abolish capitalism alto
gether. (Applause.)
Permanent improvement in the con-
ditions of the workers under capital
ism is impossible. The inevitabls
crises born of The contradictions in
the capitalist system of producolon
and distribution, deepening and
sharpening as world capitalism goes
into its period CT decline, and marked
by chronic unemployment and organ
lied attacks on the workers living
standards by the employers and the
state, sweep away like chaff such re-
forms as may have been secured by
the workers during the periods of
capitalism's upward swing. The only
way the workers can permanently
better their conditions is by wiping
out capitalism altogether and by lay
ing the basis of socialist system in
which the capitalist principle of the
exploitation of the great masses OF
producers for the benefit of rela-
lively few owners of the industries
shall be unknown and where the
workers will receive the full social
value of what they produce. All
this, and the why's and wherefores
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
Dyers Threaten Strike

MANCHESTER, England (FP).
BY Mail-In cotton, wool, silk and
jute, workers and bosses are at
swordspoints, with lockouts, strikes
and protests flying thick through
Lancashire and Yorkshire. At Nelson
10000 weavers have been locked out
in every MIL because workers at one
mill struck against the discharge of
a women. In Yorkshire, wool dyers
are on the verge of strike to gain col
lective piece work or higher time
rates. They have been operating
without an agreement for six months.
In Macclesfield, an important silk
center, women workers complain that
they are forced to go to work at $50
a. m. and must work so to 55 hours a
week, in place of the agreed 48.
tuberculosis is making heavy inroads
among their children. Public medical
officers blame it on the need Of moth
ers taking their babies from warm
beds in early morning hours to place
in nurseries while they work. Women
in the silk mills, through their union,
are trying to get 80 shilling ($7.50)
minimum wage.
In Glasgow jute mills, operatives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

italism and the necessity of the Com
munist program. But we also have
other, bigger detectives in the ma
tional election campaign. Our aim
must be to arouse the class consci-
BUSINESS of the masses in a political
sense and to mobilize them for strug-
gle on all fronts. Vote-getting is
only one aspect of this general mob
ilization of the workers.
Our Party, different from the So
cialist party, creates no illusions
amongst the workers that they can
vote their way to emancipation, that
they can capture the readylnade ma
chirery of the state and utilize it
for the emancipation of the working
class. On the contrary, we must uti-
lie this campaign to carry on a wide
spread and energetic propaganda to
teach the workers that the capitalist
class would never allow the working
class peacefully to take control of
the state. That is their strong right
arm and they will fight violently to
the end to retain it. The working
class must shatter the capitalist state.
1t must build new state, new gov
eminent, workers ana farmers gov
eminent, the Soviet. Government of
the United States. (Applause.)
e. No Communist, no matter how
many votes he should secure in a ma
tional election, could even if he would
become president of the present gov
'ernment. When a Communist heads
a government in the United States
and that day will come just as surely
as the sun rises (Applause) - that
government will not be a capitalist
government but Soviet government,
and behind this government will stand
Red Army to enforce the dictator
ship of the proletariat. applause
As to Immediate Demands.
Our convention has just adopted
an election platform. This platform
outlines whole series of immediate
measures, advocated by us to relieve
unemployment, low wages, long hours,
discrimination against the foreign
born, women, youth, Negroes, etc. 7
she'll not, in the brief time at nv
disposal, review these demands. What
l wish to say about them now is
that we must lay great stress on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

ooh Mampo, aOho is the man IN tn
white ponts?"
That's Frederick Wilhelm, dar-
ling"
NDoes he vork at Childs'?"
"No, AdoIph. He's the former
croaOn prince of Germpany."
NWeU, aohy is he posing like thGt9"
"He's playing tennis
as that all they can use hin, for?"
"No. He can still droa0 fen dol
lars from American a0omeaa aUhen
he's exhibited at soiree."
'He a0ould9a't be q yery good shoa0.
I'd rather go to Forty-secomd Street
and see the flea circus"
The Griest Bill, reducing mail rates
for newspapers has been passed. A
senator must cooperate with a news
paperman if he wants to get his name
in the paper.
Desire of the republican party 20
win purity at any cost is apparent in
the fact that it has hired four preach
ers to pray for it at its convention.
In order that there will be no doubt
about making connections with God,
four different denominations have
been employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

complain through the jute and flax
workers union that employers are
nibbling at the 48-hour week by ad-
ding 15-minute periods both in the
morning and at noon to work peri
DDS.
A Lancashire vide lockout of 500,-
GOO cotton spinners to force a 1914
per cent wage cut and to increase the
working hours above 48 was only
avoided when the Federation of Mas
ter Cotton Spinners split badly on
the issue. The mill barons in the
American yarn section spinning
coarser counts, voted &C per cent for
the lockout.
In big mill at Oldham. cardroom
workers quit because woman was
fired, and other workers served strike
notice, as they refuse to handle non
union carded yarn. Oldham masters
are threatening a district-wide lock-
out, similar to Nelson's.
Eighty thousand dyers in the Brad
ford district are on the verge of a
strike for a new agreement increas-
ing wages. Friction between several
Of the unions involved has delayed
strike action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

Comrades: 1t is a very great honor
offered me, when the Workers Com
munist) Party asks me to be one of
it's standard-bearers in the national
presidential elections. In accepting
the nomination for president, I do it
with full appreciation of this honor.
BY the fact that it is deemed | can
be of service to the Party in such
a role, I feel that l am thousand
times repaid for such efforts as
may have put forth in the course of
my experience in the struggles of the
workers. All can say is that it will
be my best ambition in the coming
campaign, and in the years of work
before me in the class struggle, to
be worthy of this great honor con-
ferred upon me by our Party.
A Wonderful Convention.
Comrades, as we live through this
wonderful convention, we must re-
elize the great progress or Party
has made. What wonderful enthusi-
assn. what splendid fighting spirit.
Here we have fine delegation of
rnlitants in the class struggle, from
almost all the states, from all the i'm
portant industries. This shows the
grip our Party is getting amongst
the very best elements in the Amer
lean proletariat. This convention
marks a new stage in the growth of
our Party.
In the recent elections in Germany,
in France, and in Poland, the Com
mun;st Parties showed greatly i'll
creased strength, and l am certain
that our Party in the coming cleo
tions will also register an important
increase in strength over the show
ing we made in the national elections
of 1924. (Applause.)
Party Plays Leading Role.
Since 1924 our Party has had much
mass experience. We have played
leading role in all the important
struggles of the American working
class, in the mining, shoe, needle, tex
1 tile, and other industries. Every eff
fort OF the workers in the direction
of labor party has found us il the
! forefront. We have led the fight
against imperialism. During these
struggles, we have created around our
Farty large body of sympathizcrs,
and in the coming election period one
of our principal tasks must be to
mobilize these workers politically in
favor Of our platform, and behind
our candidates. It is not enough
that these workers follow us in strikes
and general wage movements. We
must also teach them to actively ac-
cept the leadership of the Workers
! (Communist) Party in its broad pol.
| itical struggles. We must draw
these workers into this general pol
| itical campaign, and induce them to
vote for our candidates. We must
draw them into membership in the
Workers (Communist) Party. These
Fare arong the basic tasks confront
| ing US in the present election cam
paign.
Our Revolutionary Purpose.
We are not going into the national
election campaign solely for the pur-
pose Of getting votes. 1t is of course
important that we register the ex-
tent of our Party's support in the
working class by mobilizing the max
imum rumber to vote for our candi-
dates. 1t is also important, should
the possibility present itself in any
of the state or local elections, to elect
Communist candidates, so that they
can utilize the legislative bodies as
forum wherefrom to acquaint the
workers with the ;niquities of cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
HANdOuTS

Rear Admiral William A. Moffett,
desk chief of the navy's air forces,
is apparently satisfied with the luc-
rative graft offered by militarism.
He is determined that his son will
not go without the advantages of
swashbuckling corruption. His off.
spring, George H. Moffett, graduated
last week from the U. S. Naval Aca-
deny.
Understanding of the complications
of modernism by the magazine Times
is indicated by the statement that the
Boulder Canyon Dam bill has not
been passed due to "the difference In
the culture of Arizona and California
rancher V. realtor." 1t might be added
that million dollars spent by high
ly organized power trust in corrupt
ing senator's, bribing newspapers and
spreading propaganda has some small
bearing on the matter.
Inability of the republican poll
ticians to completely submerge the
relationship between oil and govern
ment is seen in the fact that one Of
the delegates to the G. o. p. conven-
ton is William Samuel Fitz Patrick,
Kansas. Fitz Patrick is chairman of
the Prairie Oil and Gas Company,
whose previous chairman James E.
O'Neil was caught in the oil scandals
and departed without leaving an adj
dress. This indication of the wedding
of oil and government that is wished
compares to the invisible part as a
periscOpe compares to the rest of a
submarine.
A rotting carcass will draw a lot
of strange birds. Among the dele
gates at the republican convention are
Joseph Schenck, the movie producer
and William H. Vanderbilt, Newport
society devil.
The renowned worm fisherman and
hobby-horse cowboy Cal Coolidge
will have fourteen house servants at
his summer home in Brule, Wisconsin,
In order that he won't wander off
the grounds and get lost or fall down
and bend his nose he will be guarded
by ten detectives and sixty infantry
men from Fort Smelling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

OF it we must tell the workers in our
election campaign.
Reformism Futile.
The working class of the world
has had a vast experience with re-
fornism and it all goes to show the
utter futility of such refcrmism. All
the conquests, all the little improve
nents in wages, hours, and working
conditions that were secured by the
reformist policies and organizations
in Germany, England, France, etc.,
during the upward period of develop
ment of capitalism in these countries,
in the pre-war days, were swept away
with one great sweep in the break
down and decline of European cap
italism in the postwar period. About
all that is left now of that period
is rpactionary leadership, which
after betraying the workers in the
world war and defeating their revo-
lutionary efforts just following the
war, remains fastened upon the or
CARNATIONS of the workers and which
now stands as one of the principal
obstacles in the way of the emancipa-
ton of the working class. Although
we advocate actively our immediate
demands, we must always do it in
this sense: that the workers should
fight and struggle for these demands
in tie present period but that they
must educate and organize themselves
to put into effect eventually the full
Communist programme abolish
ment of the capitalist system itself
and the establishment of Workers.
and farmers Government
On the other hand-if limiting our
selves simply to program of i'm
mediate demands would lose us in
the swamp of reformism, failure to
put forward such demands would
condemn US to sectarianism. 1t would
cut US off FROM the masses. 1t would
make it impossible for us to partic-
jpate in the actual everyday strug-
giles of the workers and thus to edu-
cate, organize and lead them. The
Workers (Communist) Party is "A
feminist, Marxist Party. 1t knows
how to participate in the daily strug-
giles of the workers, even for the
smallest demands, and it knows how
to utilize all these struggles to deve-
lop class consciousness, organiza-
ton and revolutionary leadership
among the masses and thus to be-
gin their mobilization for the eventu-
al overthrow of capitalism.
Our Many Tasks.
The Workers (Communist) Party
does not go into this campaign simply
for the purpose of getting votes or
merely to propagate our general
Communist program. We enter the
election campaign. to further all our
Party tasks, modelling the workers
for struggle on every front. And in
this period of militant American i'm
Eper:alisn, of crisis in the labor. move.
Ement, of widespread depression in in
dustry, we have many and great
tasks. History does not ask us
whether we are a big Party or little
Party wher it thrusts these tasks
upon lis. Small. though our Party
may be at the present time it must
go forward bravely and energetically
to the accomplishment OF these tasks,
however great they may be. l shall
touch briefly upon some of the more
important of these problems.
(Ccmradc Fosters speech of
acceptance aciU be continued in to-
morvoeo's DAILY WORKER. In
the neGt instaIment he describes the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
LABOR ENEMY IS HOOvER's LEADER

WASHINGTON, June 10 lFP).-
Harry Wardman, leading non-union
.lding contractor in the national
capital. is treasurer of the Hoover
Curtis club of the District of Column
bia, which was organized by machine
republicans as soon as the 1928 ticket
was announced
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20

The Building Trades Defense
League recently circularized the en-
tire country with protests against the
letting of the contract for the $780,
900 new British embassy in Washing
ton to Wardman. The scab builder
is English-born, and is frequently
shown honor by the ambassador, Sir
Esme Howard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
MORE WORKERS ARE KILLED ON JOB

The number of workers killed at
their occupations during May has in
creased greatly over the figures for
April, according to the New York
State Department of Labor. In April
545 such workers were killed.
In May 191 we're killed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-20
Borah Seeking a Fat
Reward for Treachery

WASHINGTON (FP).-Sen. Bor-
all, who last December announced
himself spokesman of the progress
sives, and that Norris was their press
idential candidate, and who turned W
in Kansas City as Hoover manager
is expected to be offered the secre-
taryship of state if Hoover should
win. He is expected also to drop the
idea of Russian recognition.