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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
Hold Red Rally at Cudahy Co.'S Plant

to walk out during their lunch time
and attend the meeting at an empty
lot on Kansas Avenue in front of
the Cudahy plant,
Stool Pigeons and Bosses Tried to
Disrupt the Meeting.
When Hugo Oehler mounted the
chair which he used as his platform
there was no worker in front of
him. The reason for it was that a
few bosses stood right near him
thinking that in this way the work
ers will be scared away from COM
ing to the meeting. But no sooner
had Oehler begun to speak than
workers began to come from all d.
rections. Before two minutes were
over the sidewalk was jammed to
capacity.
The meeting held has greater sig
nificance than an ordinary meeting.
The Communist Party is not only
active in the election campaign but
is also active in carrying on an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
By PETER CLARK
The Moscow Spartakiade.

He MOStOW EopdT tdhidue.
Just as the Amsterdam Olympic
Meet represented the high-water
mark in the capitalists use of sports
to serve their class interests, so the
Moscow Spartakiade was the high
est expression of the proletariat
sports movement, and of it's role
as support Of the workers. revolu-
tionary movement.
The Spartakiade was sponsored
by the Russian Workers Sports Or
ganization, the Society for the Pro-
motion of Physical Culture, and was
supported by the Red Sports Inter
national. 1t lasted from August IL
to %, and was held at the Michael
Tomsky Stadium, which has a seat
ing capacity close to $4,000.
About 5000 athletes in all took
part in the Spartakiade and of this
number 1900 were from foreign
countries. In spite of the ban which
the Luzerne (socialist) Sports In
ternational placed on the participa-
ton Of any of it's members in the
Spartakiade, large delegations Of
social-democratic sportsmen accom-
panied the Red sportsmen to Mos
cow. Three hundred participants
came from Germany, two huydred
from Czecho-S lovskia, 80 FROM Fin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
Police Murder Pregnant Woman; Clubbing
Fails to Break Picket Line

police wall to picket their mill. The
wave of terror. rising higher every
day. A pregnant woman striker
crushed against the iron railing Of
the viaduct by the police, beaten
and thrown aside for the strikers
to take to the hospital after the
police had gone. Johnny Medeiros,
six year old strikers child, ridden
down by trooper herding strikers
into their houses after the daily
break up of the picket line, running
for refuge through a gap in the
fence near the river, found soon
after while swimming
the police say.
A hundred and fifty police massed
on the church steps and the streets
outside barricaded to hold back the
mill workers attempting to march
after the coffin of the boy.
From the breakup of the first
TING mass meeting in Fall River
weeks before the strike, the Fall
River police have carried out the
role of company gangsters as open
~ as the Coal and Iron in any
Rockefeller coal town. Police Chief
Feeney, boasting of his personal
supervision of police operations in
the strike area, openly stated in the
press the third day of the strike
that he believed he was having sue
cess in breaking the back of the
strike" Over a hundred arrests
were made during the first days.
The organizers, Jim Reid, Sam
Weisman, Peter Hagelias and young
Bill Sroka were arrested and rear
rested, sometimes three times in a
day. A week after the strike began
the first case came up for trial.
Picketing, singing strike songs, ad-
dressing mass meetings., or attending
them were all branded as criminal
activities. Not content with impos-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
3 Athletic Meets Moscow, Amsterdam, New York

land and 80 from France. Smaller
delegations came from over a score
of smaller countries.
The Spartakiade was made the oc-
casion for a widespread educational
campaign carried on in the Soviet
Union in favor of physical culture.
August IL was officially pronounced
Physical Culture Day, and through
out the Soviet Union there were
held sports meets. In all the public
squares of Moscow sports exhibit
tions were staged, with 10000
worker-athletes taking part, and
hundreds of thousands of people
watching.
In order to make possible the par
ticipation of foreign athletes the
Soviet government provided free
transportation within the borders
of the Soviet Union. The visitors
were also maintained at the expense
of the government and were quar-
tered at the Third House of the
Central Committee of the U. S. S. r.
There was a marked contrast in
the manner in which the Spartakiade
and the Olympics were run off.
First, the attitude Of the spectators
was fundamentally different. Where
as at the Olympics the crowd was
divided into nationalistic sections, at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

ing vicious prison sentences on or
ganizers and the leading rank and
file strikers, and demanding heavy
bail to keep them jailed, the mill
owners Judge Hannify, created a
new legal strikebreaking precedent
by placing these men under forfeit
able $1,000 bonds to keep the peace"
interpreted as refraining from all
strike activities.
Of course the strike is meat for
the American Legion, which has
passed resolution pledging its
members to back Chief Feeney to
the limit in his operations to put
down "the labor agitation" The
last few days number of prosper
ous-looking men with the solemnly
stupid look of the true legionnaire
have been seen sleuthing around
Liberty Lot" during the TING
mass meetings.
Strike Spreads.
Anu StIli Gilc SCIlhS anu pT6pdTd-
tons for spreading the strike to all
the mills of Fall River go on
Thursday the leaders got out on
bail. Friday they addressed mass
meetings and resumed their other
strike activities.
The heavy police barrage may
force new tactics on the part Of the
leaders, but no retreat. The workers,
previously unorganized and striking
for the first time in their lives, in
ten days have learned more about
the nature of the capitalist state
and it's role in bludgeoning the
workers pack into slavery at the
employers command than in all the
previous years of their life. They
have had their baptism of fire in
the class war, and come out of it
not intimidated but hardened to the
struggle. Committees are stiffened
up. Organizational work is carried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

the Spartakiade the spectators were
completely international and ap-
plauded athletes only on their skill.
If anything, the foreign athletes
were accorded the most enthusiasm.
Among the athletes themselves
there was no semblance of that Bit
ter rivalry, of that hard individual
ism which distinguished the conduct
of the Olympic stars. The bugaboo
Of professionalism, which was such
a big controversial issue at the
Olympics, did not even remotely en-
ter into the Spartakiade.
Nearly every athlete taking part
was a worker, and those who had
come from foreign countries had
done so at great personal sacrifices
and after overcoming many diff
culties.
At the Olympics it had been
necessary to lay in a stock Of flags
of all competing nations-and ter
rible uproar had been made because
Canadian flag had been over
looked. But at the magnificent
Tomsky Stadium, only one kind of
flag was on display--and that was
the Red flag of the international
proletariat.
Whereas the real political pur-
poses behind Olympics had been
hypocritically covered up by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
By AMY SCHECHTER.

At the first signs of revolt among
their slaves in the grey stone mill
prisons of Fall River, the millowners
stripped the millworkers of all the
defences won by labor in generations
of struggle, and Systematically set
about throttling them into sub
mission.
Police, press, courts, reactionary
craft union bureaucracy were i'm
mediately modified against the
strikers. Police violence was used to
smash picket lines, the courts to out
law the strike and forge legal
shackle to the activities of the strike
leaders; the press to pour slime over
the Textile Mill Committees and dis
courage the strikers by fake back-to-
work stories; the labor bureaucrats
to order the men under their control
to scab in the strike.
The Fall River cotton manufac-
turers learned to fear the strength
and staying power of militantly led
millworkers in the course of the New
Bedford textile strike still going
strong in New Bedford after four
months under T. M. C. leadership.
Long before the Fall River strike
vote was taken all their forces were
lined up in readiness to block the
first strike move.
Monday, August the sixth, at
dawn, when the Fall River strike
opened with the walkout of 5000
workers from the American Printing
Company, the city was practically
declared under martial law for tex
tile workers. No breathing space.
No quarter. Police swarp1ing over
the streets "below the hill" where
the millworkers of the American
Printing Company live. Solid police
cordons thrown across the viaducts
leading to great fortress of the
American Printing Company. Patrol
wagons and vans drawn up at the
curb ready for mass arrests or use
as barricades.
Men and women dubbed and
strangled as line after line, five
times shattered and five times re-
forming tried to break through the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
Ten Days of Textile Struggle

on with new understanding.
Conditions in Fall River were
known as the worst in northern mill
towns before the 10 per cent cut
last January. SIS was given as the
official average wage for Fall River
mills at the State Arbitration Board
hearing in New Bedford last week.
Pay envelopes for July taken at
random from a collection of those
handed to men working in the Print
Works of the American Printing
Company show s1o.s9, S13.41, s12.11,
s15.85, ss.1s, $12.86, s13.16, $12.O5.
Most of them married men. In this
division men work II, II, IS, some
times up to is hours, at the heavi-
est jobs in the mills, in steaming,
fume-laden rooms at high tempera-
lures.
Speed-Up.
Steadily increasing speed-up in
mill after mill is pairing down the
little left to the mill workers after
the 10 per cent slash, and driving
them beyond endurance. If their
stand fails, the workers know that
another cut will come in the early
Fall.
The fight will be increasingly Bit
ter, but it must go on. Abandon
ment of the fight for the right to
organize, the right to hold meetings,
the right to strike, the right to
picket, means condemning the mill
workers to blacker slavery.
Challenge to Labor.
The denial of these rights by the
mill owners and their courts, their
violent suppression of every attempt
of the mill workers to reach out
and take these rights is a challenge
to labor and all who believe in
guarding the elementary rights.
Outside aid is urgently needed for
the Fall River strikers, relief, de-
Tense, help in establishing the few
legal rights that capitalist legality
allows, in order to break through
the wall of violence, the cotton
manufacturers have built around the
mill workers, and give them a fight
ing chance for their lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

organization campaign among the
packing house workers. 1t is because
of the desire on the part of the
packing house workers to do away
with the terrible exploitation in the
houses that they turned out to the
meeting.
The drive to organize the packing
house workers is not limited to
Kansas City alone but to all South
Western and Western packing CEN
tiers.
The packing huose paper which
is issued by the Communist Party
is being spread in every packing
house.
The committee in charge of pub
fishing the Packing House Work
err" states that funds are needed in
order to print many copies in order
to reach every worker in the pack
ind industry. All contributions
should be sent to 207 E. 14th ST.,
Room 1, Kansas City, Mo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

bourgeoisie, the organizers of the
Spartakiade openly proclaimed that
its primary slogan would be: De-
Tense of the Soviet Union. In line
with this slogan, of course was en-
phasized the solidarity of the
proletarian sportsmen the world
over against the Olympics, and the
capitalist sports movement as a
whole. The Spartakiade was dem
onstration of the need for prole-
tartan sports, a demonstration of
the growing strength of the prole-
tartar sports movement, a demon
stration against the bourgeois
Olympics.
But, most of all, it was demon
stration of the fact that the class
conscious athletes the world
over are prepared to defend their
Socialist Fatherland, the Soviet
Union, against imperialist aggres-
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

Whereas the real political pur-
poses behind Olympics had been
hypocritically covered up by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

(Bv q Worker Correspondent
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (By MaiD.
For the fist time since the 1921
trike the Packing House workers
came out en- masse to attend a
meeting and a Communist meeting
IL that. Over 200 workers of the
Cudahy Packing House took every
snare minute of their lunch time,
which lasts 80 minutes, to listen to
Hugo Oehler, district organizer of
District 10 Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
This is the third meeting being
held by the Party in front Of the
Cudahy plant but this meeting UNI
like the previous two meetings was
ttended by such pumber Of work
RS in response to a leaflet issued
the Communist Party. Following
he distribution of the Packing
louise Workers special leaflet
addressed to the Cudahy workers
sAs distributed calling upon them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
>&,1O,Mka@
Argentinian Objects
to Invasion Provided
in Monroe Doctrine

BUENOS AYRES, Argentina,
Aug. 26.-The Monroe Doctrine
does not imply invasion into Latin
American countries said DR.. Jose
Leon Saurez, Argentine member Of
the League of Nations Qualification
of international Law Commission
here.
Speaking on the refusal Of Ar
gentina to enter the League Of Ma
tions, Saurez declared that it would
eventually return, providing the in
depreciation If the Monroe Doctrine
was not left entirely to the United
States and that invasion on the
rights of the, South American re-
publics be not considered the Mon
roe Doctrine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
PRINTERS WIN RAISE

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 26.-Typo-
graphical Union No. s, ofsSt. Louis,
recently accepted proposal where
by an increase to time workers ag-
gregating $4,000 year was agreed
to, the contract to run for five years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15
FORMER MORTON GIRL
BURNED TO DEATH

Word has been received in Morton
of the terrible tragedy which caused
the death of Evelyn Butcher, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Butcher, for
mer resident of Morton.
Mrs. Butcher was employed as
housekeeper on the Mrs. Herman
Schrader farm at Easton, near Wells,
Mimi, where the tragedy occurred
Dorothy Kubu Of Wells was employed
at this farm also.
The accident occurred at ten o'clock
in the morning of Monday, July 23rd.
The Kubu girl had started a fire in
the range, and in an attempt to hurry
the fire, she poured gasoline from a
can onto the embers, thinking it was
kerosene. The can .began to burn,
and with presence of mind, the Kubu
girl started for the door. Evelyn
Butcher, nine years old, with young
ster's curiosity, followed after the Ku-
bu girl and in her haste, stumbled and
fell to the floor just as the can of
gasoline exploded. Instantly, the
PROSTATE child was covered with flam-
ing liquid. Enterprise.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15
CAR MISSES CROSSING:
BREAKS LOOKOUT SIGN

Although it bore the warning to
"Look out for the Cars" the warning
post at the L. E. Potter farm failed
to dodge Albert Neumann's Chevro-
let Monday night and as result the
Northwestern will have to erect new
sign, preferably one that can dodge
autos. In attempting to make the
sharp turn, Albert failed to slow
down sufficiently to enable him to
negotiate the crossing and the Chew
rolet jumped the rails and the ditch
on the other side, crashing into the
warning sign-post, breaking it off be-
low and above. Miss Clarice Define,
who was in the front seat with AL
bert, had her forehead cut. Walter
Erickson and Miss Esther Define
were uninjured in the rear seat. A
bent bumper and flat tire were the
extent of the cars damage. The boys
went to the Potter home and sum-
moned doctor, but Miss Defines in
jury was slight and the party was
more scared than hurt. The acct
dent happened at II o'clock.-Spring-
field Advance-Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15
WOMAN HURT IN CAR
: CRASH ON NO. SEVEN

What might have been a disastrous
accident but fortunately resulted in
only minor injuries to four women
occupants of the two cars involved
in rear end collision took place liz
miles west of Springfield late We'd
nesday afternoon. Mrs. Wilbur Evans
of Shutdown and Miss Laura Tietz
were in the rear seat of the Evans
car, driven by an Evans boy, as it
emerged from the side road onto
highway No. z. Coming at high
rate of speed from the west was a
large Hudson car owned by Walter
Cheever of Bookings, S. D., and
driven by his son. The driver of the
Hudson could not bring the car to a
stop as the Evans car appeared in
front of it, and struck the Evans car,
one wheel caving in the gas tank
right in the middle. The force of the
impact shot the Evans car into the
ditch where it turned over on its side.
Miss Tietz was thrown through the
door and suffered injuries about her
chest. Mrs. Evans was badly shock
ed and one leg bruised. Young Evans
was unhurt. Both Cheever and his
son were unhurt but Mrs. Cheever and
her mother, Mrs. j. A. Curry, suffer-
ed bruises. Their car was damaged
somewhat and the Evans car was
slightly damaged.-Springfield Ad-
vance-Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15

to spin into rainbows. The $780,
100000 is what is in sight, but out of
reach at present.
To attain that $20O,000,000 from
resources now in sight requires new
policies. New policie sfor handling
state forest and new policies for
handling state ore properties.
In each case, the development of
the states policy for its own lands
ties in with the state tax policy and
the state development policy for all
land. The development of the state
property affects, or even controls,
the development of private property.
In fact, when the state of Mime
sofa decides what is best for the de-
velopment of the $2O0,000,000 trust
funds, it is actually deciding what is
to be the future of one-third of the
state. For the whole development
proposition hangs together.
The problems of forest taxation are
being studied by the interim COM
mission. The state has about half a
million acres in public forest reserves
WHICH Is likely W Ue iHSiSoSSu W @
million Public forests, state and ma
tional, will probably be the main reli-
ance for saw timber hereafter. Pri-
vate holdings are more likely to sup
ply the bulk of the pulpwood which
is coming to be the more important
item. But the public forest is the
key to private development.
In the same way, when the state OF
Minnesota decides what is the most
profitable policy in regard to its min
eral properties, by what methods the
largest sum will be realized for the
trust funds, it will have gone long
ways toward deciding what is the best
permanent policy for all mineral prop
critics in the state.
If not a new policy, there is new
point of view implied in handling the
states mineral wealth. That S42,
100000 from the richer deposits Of
iron ore now under lease by the state
will come of itself. But the creation
of values in the immense deposits o.
low grade ore, which are now wortl
nothing, is another matter. 1t ha
been argued, and it may be so, tina
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15
HIGHWAY OFFICE is
MOVED TO WINDOW

The county chambers of the city
hall have taken on a new aspect since
last week. A big truck load of Of
flee furniture was brought over from
Worthington Wednesday, and the
council room is now the temporary
district office of the Maintenance de-
partment of the highway department.
The business of the district office will
be transacted from there until the
new building on Sixth street is COM
pleted. At present the office is oc-
cupied by ]. F. O'Meara, who is in
charge of maintenance headquarters,
p. j. Gallea and Ruben Gloesemann.
Later on the man in charge of the
sign work will be here as well as the
shop foreman and mechanics.-Cot-
tonwood County Citizen.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15
BOYS WHO ROBBED
STORE ARE CAUGHT

The thieves who entered the gen.
eral merchandise store of Goldstein
and Emerson at Dawson last week
were captured in ST. Paul Wednesday
when they attempted to sell the goods
they had stolen at pawn shop and
are at present lodged in the county
jail at Madison, according to the Daw-
son Sentinel. The two young boys,
who gave their names as w. M. Hamm
and Harry Hesler, did not attempt
to sell all the goods they had stolen
at one time but entered the pawnship
with one suitcase filled with suits.
1t happened that pawn shop inspec-
tor was in the place at the time and
questioned the boys as to where the
suits had been procured. They told
the inspector they had purchased the
goods from a man in Iowa for ten
dollars. Upon investigation the in
spector found the tag of Goldstein
and Emerson on the coats which
brought an end to the clothing
business" of the young men.
Finding that there was no way to
escape they confessed that they had
left three suit cases of goods forty
miles west of St. Paul which was
found. The boys had taken four suit
cases, Is suits, pairs of shoes, a
dozen work shirts, a dozen suits of
underwear, ties, jewelry and other
small articles. No action has been
taken as yet. The boys are from Ne
braska or they had a Nebraska car
license. Jake Danielson accompanied
Sheriff Smaagard to st. Paul We'd
nesday and returned with the boys.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15

Dimly perceived twenty-five years
ago, the effect of the states role as
absentee landlord on the Develop
ment of northern Minnesota has been
brought into sharp relief in recent
years.
Twenty-Five years ago, Iverson,
speaking of the swamp lands, pointed
of nature almost without value, in
fact, retard the development of these
districts. These lands contribute
nothing whatever to the local cost Of
government"
Since then the principle has been
recognized both by the state and fed
eral government. Where lands are
permanently removed from the tax
roll, especially when it is revenue
producing property like public forest,
some contribution is due in lieu of
taxes, at least for roads and schools.
The state has made small allow
ance for school districts smothered in
state lands ever since 1912, and the
federal government turns over to the
local counties one-fourth of the re-
ceipts from national forests. The in
term commission is now considering
how that principle should be applied
in the balance development policy
for the cutover country. 1t affects,
and in some instances perhaps con-
trolls, the future of one-third of the
states area. 1t is that important.
The state has thus far accumulated
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-15

Miss Anna Aftermath was pleasant
ly surprised at the Emil Aftermath
home at Sanborn recently when par
ty of women gathered there to help
her celebrate her 83rd birthday. A
delicious luncheon was served and
many beautiful gifts were presented
to Mrs. Aftermath with good wishes
for many more happy birthdays.
Those present were Mrs. Louis Olson,
Mrs. H. CORES, Mrs. VIM. Eichten,
Mrs. j. E. Eichten, Mrs. Joe Starken,
Mrs. M. Eichten, Mrs Borte, Mrs.
Schlumpberger and Mrs. Math Cor
res.-Sanborn Sentinel.