The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1924, Page 5

(a aeecneenne eens z _— A Tuesday, February 26, 1924 JURY GETS CASE OF UPHOLSTERERS (UN TRIAL HERE. Decide Labor’s Rights During Strikes 6 (Continued from Page 1) jury before it retired to consider a verdict. ‘ Romano began his statement to the jury by telling them that the prose- eution had not tried to prove that any violence occurred during the strike. “But just the same these men are guilty of breaking the law.” He said that “Unfortunate’y there has been brought into this case Fred Jurish.” No case against Jurish had been proven he indicated by this. During the course of his argument he referred to Robert Bronson, secre- tary of the employing upholsterers, as “my associate,” Nelson Flays Bosses’ Plot. “These men on trial here are charged with conspiracy, There ‘s a conspiracy and the conspirators are the state attorney, Robert E. Crowe, and Dudley Taylor, the law- yer for the employers’ association, and not the men on trial Dudley Taylor has placed these men on trial,” said Oscar Nelson, lawyer for the five men on trial, in beginning his,_ statement to the jury. “You have been told by the state's attorney that this case is an im- portant one. With that we 6f the defense fully agree, “This case will decide whether or not a. trade union can carry on its regular activities without being in- terfered with by the employers thru the state’s attorney’s office, Couldn’t Use Injunction. “These men have been charged with the crime of trying to ruin the business of the upholstery employ- ers. The upholstery employers thru the best lawyer they could get, Dud- ley Taylor, went to a court of equity and obtained an injunction to protect them against just such a possibility, _ “The defendants were not taken into court charged with violating this injunction. If they had been called into court they would not be in the position they are now. They would have had to prove themselves innocent. The state would have said that they were guilty and then they would have had to convince the court that they were not guilty. “Dudley Taylor knew that he did not have a good enough case against these men to asi a court to fine them five dollars. So Dudley Taylor went to the state’s attornev, Robert E. Crowe, who was his friend, and asked him to have these men in- dicted and brought here for trial. These men were indicted and there was ry thing this court could do but try the case. ‘ Feared to Use Taylor. “On this indictment Dudley Taylor is named ag the first witness that appeared before the grand jury. He has not been called by the state to testify on the witness stand. The de- fendants want to know why. If the state wanted to use him to get these men brought here to be tried why didn’t they want to bring him here to testify? Is it because they didn’t want him to be opaned to cross-ex- amination by the defense? “Who is this man Dudley Taylor who can go to the office of the state’s attorney and demand that working men be brought to the state’s at- torney’s office and questioned? “T will tell you. He is the legis- lative representative of the employ- ers’ association. He goes to Spring: field to appear before the legislature to ask them to annul laws against child labor, He is opposed to every sort of protection for the workers by the state, Yet he can go to the office of Robert E. Crowe and ask him to bring workers to his office. He can have workers indicted by the grand jury and force them to defend themselves, Planned Death of Union. “After months of striking the Up- holsterers’ union was weak financial- ly. Dudley Taylor wanted to give that union the death blow. By hav- ing the officers of the union indictea he thought that he could discourage these men and the other members of the union and finally break it. “That is why he had an indictment returned and did not have the officers of the union cited for contemmy of court. “If you gentlemen of the jury re- turn a verdict of not guilty without leaving the jury box then Dudley Taylor will still have done something for the money he was paid by the employers’ association, He has ke these men here worrying about ir cases. They could not be as efficient as they otherwise be. He did his job, Crime Against Jurish. “There has not been a single bit of evidence brought into this court to show that the defe: Fred Jurish, ever saw the other defendants let alone that he conspired with them. Yet you are asked by the state's at- torney to send him to prison, “The state's attorney has talked about ‘business agents,’ “He talked about them as if. thev S odiheestineeetinetinentnemtiententientinetinnt ed BUSY TONIGHT? Volunteer workers are needed at the office of THE DAILY WORKER _ Phone: Lincoln 7680 and say you'll bé up tonight to help, THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted St, - Today’ By IURY LIBEDINSKY : Published by THE DAILY WORK- thru special arrangement with B. W. Huebsch, Inc., of New York City. Coyprighted, 19: Huebsch & Co, ett s 8 8 8 (WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE) he Russian Commun branch is governing this frontier city and fighting the counter- revolution. Earlier installments tell of the fuel shortage that pre- vents seed grain from being fetched on the railroad. The Party meeting decides to send the Red Army far away for fuel, at the risk of leaving the city open for bandits and counter-revolutionists, It also decides to conscript the local bourgeoisie for wood cutting in a near-by park. Varied types of party members are flashed on the screen: Klimin, the efficient president of the branch, who still ) finds time to have a sweetheart; Robeiko, the consumptive, whose devotion is killing him; Gernyikh, the brilliant youth of 19 on the Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury- loving place hunter, and Martui- nov, whose middle-class anteced- ants allow him to fit with some difficulty into the movement to which his idealism led him. In the last issue the party has organ- ized a Saturdaying expedition into the Public Gardens for firewood. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.) ist Party ee, ee Sak CHAPTER VY. 6 AVE. a smoke!” Stalma- khov’s loud voice rang out. “We have earned a rest. It’s past midday.” One team of three after another stopped working, and the garden was full of laughter and jokes. Martuinoy looked about him . the unbroken, translucent curtain of the Spring garden was no more. The trees that had survived stood orphaned and solitary. The sky had only been visible thru chinks among. their interlacing branches and now great windows had been opened to it, thru which the sun shone joyfully. Martuinov looked at the sun, blinked and heard how the cocks were crowing somewhere in the black mass of yards and houses, and how the waves of their calling faintly splashed and echoed some- where at the other end of the town. And, looking round the garden, printing on his mind the rows of whitening, fresh-cut stumps and the groups of comrades; Martuinov felt again as in the morning that he was taking part in a tremen- dous task and struggle, and found that he too was part of thé rhythym of a great symphony. Stalmakhov, with a seven-foot staff in his hand (a sazhin, the Russian’ measure, is seven feet), which he had made himself from a slim young birch tree, walked from stack to stack and made | notes of the work done on a bit of paper. “Stalmakhov, come over here, I think we have cut a cubic sazhin, but Martuinov says not.” Simkova dragged Stalmakhov by the coat sleeve towards a group of women workers who were piling up narrowish, long stack. Simkova was red from working, and from under her kerchief, which had slipped on one side, curly locks of hair fell on her face. It was hard to recognize in her reserved and strict Simkova, the member of the Party Committee, the director of Culteduc (abbreviation for Cul- ture and Education). “There’s not a cubic sazhin,” said Stalmakhov, measuring. “Two and a half sazhins . . . well done all the same. Nine cubes set up al- ready, taking all together,” said he sitting down on a stump and taking out a little box of Mahorka tobacco and some thin cigarette were terrible persons who ran the union for themselves instead of being elected to their jobs. He did not talk about the business agent of the em- ploying upholsterers, Mr. Bronson. “Here is Mr. Bronson taking his place beside the state’s attorney, helping and assisting him to prepare and present this case. Mr. son on the stand said that he never worked at the upholstering business, that he knew nothing of the trade, Yet he igs elected as the secretary and business representative of the uphol- stery association. Bronson’s Scab Specialty. “Now Mr. Bronson must have had .a specialty. He must have been able to do some job well. He testified that he was formerly employed by the Citizens Committee for the mn- forcement of the Landis Award. His |specialty, which he learned from Dudley Taylor, was union breaking. “Mr, Bronson testified that he went to a job on Mayfield avenue with an employer and talked with the defend- ant, Fred Jurish, He admitted that he pulled back his coat and flashed a star. The star of a by ig sheriff. He admitted that he told Jurish he ‘was an officer. Here we have a busi- ness agent of the employers’ associa- tion carrying a star and a gun and being made a deputy sheriff so that he might brow beat and intimidate bing who refused to work with 8. Cox Throws Hat in Ring. COLUMBUS, 0O., Feb, 25.—Form- | had er Governor James M, Cox, Dayton, democratic nominee for President in 1920, filed his candidacy for the 1924 nomination in the Ohio primaries to- day. ¢ Join the “I want to make THE DAILY grow” club, 4 THE DAILY WORKER NN think of the first serial novel it Page Five offers to its readers. We have already published three installments of this gripping story. Another appears today. What setting, its characters, as far as do you think of the story, its we have gone? We want our readers to let us know. Write down your views and send them in to the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. We will publish as many of the for. Don’t delay. paper, “Have a smoke, Simkova,” he offered the tobacco to her, “and tell us what fine things you saw in Moscow.” “Again...” Simkova laughed. “T have already wold afl about it five times today. And on Saturday I shall be making a report to the Party meeting.” “Oh, well, but tell us all the same .. . your impressions.” “Impressions? , 2.” her fingers rolled the cigarett per and care- fully poured the Mahorka into it; she delicately licked the paper and made a cigarette. Her forehead wrinkled. “A bad impression; I like things better here. I have the impression that the Moscow Communists, and especially the average ones, not leaders, nor yet the mass, are not conscious of, do not feel, this whole huge peasant Russia which is now surging about us and helping the ruin. Of course Lenin understands, and un- derstands perhaps better than we do, and, besides him, a small group understand, but the majority of responsible workers have terribly indifferent in attitude. ... Their attitude towards work, even towards party work, is official, de- fined by hours. Freed from worry about food and heating, and that means a lot, they not consciously —no. unconsciously—have the feel- ing that with us, in Russia, things are not so bad. “Take for example the Moscow newspapers and reviews,” she grew animated. “In them everything is so fine and grand.... Proletariat and Communist Revolution. ... And have we got much Commun- ism just now, or proletariat? Fine clubs set up with rich furniture and red flags. Only, these mag- nificent clubs are not heated, searcely any one goes into them only small groups do any work. “No. I like things better here; for we, in the provincial towns, live ag it were on the front. The front of the class struggle lies with us | hete: 3...” And she looked thoughtfully to- wards the distant purple - fields, visible thru the glades of the garden, “Do you mean by that that there is no need for Moscow?” Stalma- khov interrupted with curiosity, “No. I know we need Moscow, It’s necessary as a General Stafiy as a directive center. And a tre- mendous work is being done there. Moscow is the heart, the chief cis- tern of the state mechanism, bad as it may be. . .. All the same . «+ I’m happier here.” They listened to her attentively, Lisa also did not miss a single word, tho there was much that she did not understand. Why, here, in this peaceful, quiet town, was it as if on the front? A front against the peasants? But surely the Bol- sheviks were on the side of the people? Matusenko it appeared, was en- tirely wrapped up in attention, and when Lisa accidently knocked over a log, he angrtly frowned at her. He held his hand to his ear. The star on his coat, the buttons, all were glittering. Matusenko did not know what was the good of se letters as we can find space Write today. Saturdaying, or why these clever educated people, like Simkova and Martuinov,, had to do rough work, or why he, Matusenko, had to do it, but none the less he worked honestly all the time and had ar- rived punctually at nine o'clock, just as, formerty, he had never been late in the days when he used to go to church service, stand where his Chief could see him, and eross himself, elegantly crooking fingers, tho he had not liked kneel- ing, because it was bad for his trousers, “Look, there’s Klimin coming, and Ziman too,” said Stalmakhov. Klimin approached them, looking for some one with his eyes, and saw Stalmakhov and: the others. “Well, district organizer, how are things with you?” he called from some way off, and came nearer and nearer himself. ... Stalmakhov presented arms with his measuring rod: “Nine cubes we've stocked, your honor.” (He was parodying the form of address of a solider to an officer under the Old Regime. “And what about the other ail tricts?” Klimin smiled and, as\ always, when he smiled, his face grew several years younger. “The Red Army men in the Monastery Garden stacked thirty- four cubes today. Good lads! I’m afraid I forgot to praise them but the captive bourgeoisie is working with them too,” he laughed. “Yes, and the Satu:caying will help a lot. If things go on like this, in three days we shall be sending off the first lots... .” As he ended the sentence his voice shook. He wos happy, and ould hardly helieve in the near- ness of victory. Even the cold-blooded Ziman is in high spirits today,” cried Sim- kova, laughing. Ziman stood on a stump, wiped his glasses, and, in his speaky voice, announced to some of the comrades that the economic situa- tion of the district was going to be splendid... . “Not at once; in twenty years, of course,” he added. “For we have a seam of peat. And now when I ask for a few score cubes of wood, and that without knowing whether the wood will burn or not, the wood is so damp.... Yes, Klimin, damp . at that very moment before my eyes glisten the thought that here, under the ground, is dozing such a quantity of calorific energy. ... Only five versts from the town. .. . Survey already made. . . . If we get a good harvest this year, we shall begin the peat cutting Excava- tots we have; I got hold of them at Nizhni-Elansk, We will mend them. . .” He turned with a mysterious, cunning look, in the direction of Lisa Gratcheva, tho his eyes, blind without their glasses, did not see her, but only the white patch of her face and the blue of her dress. Simkova touched sleeve. “Come and see me today,” she said, and added hurriedly, “after work of course, in the evening.” He shook her hand. — | : The Saturdaying finished. Again Klimin's Innocent Negroes Beaten To Palp In Third Degree; Torturers Flee» . When Grand Jury Takes Action KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 25.—Newman, a city detective, |. wanted by the grand jury for torturing prisoners, sent in his resignation today, by mail. ‘ A Week” sInstallment of “ | What Do You Think of “A Week” The DAILY WORKER wants to know what its readers, they formed in ranks, again march- ed thru the streets and sang. Lisa Gratcheva’s boots were wet thru, but all the same she marched in the’ ranks and sang with them, “Boldly, Comrades, keeping time.” . . . Simkova was walking beside her. Lisa had known Simkovg be- fore, as the director of the Culte- dec, as the “Chief”; on two occa- sions she had gone to her in the office, on business, timorously, and, under the big portrait of Trotsky, at the wide writing table Simkova had seemed to her very unap- Proachable and severe, And now Lisa saw beside her ‘a young girl with flaxen curly hair escaping from under her kerchief, and fresh, rosy cheeks. Stmkova liked Lisa too, and knew her for one who worked whole-heartedly. Besides Lisa was the only one of the non-party employes of the Politdep who had come to the Sat- urdaying. They took each other’s hands, Lisa talked of the school, her pu- pils and her troubles... , Then Lisa went thru the square to the Senator’s, house; from a long way off one could see the big two- storied building, with the soviet sign board amid the grey mass of little how From far away she saw some one come out of the gate in a Red Army helmet with a big Red Army star, and instant- ly recognized Repin, She had become acquainted with him on the first day of his appear- ance at Senator’s house. Senator was abusing the Soviet government in Lisa’s presence, and Lisa was standing red and troubled, ready to weep and not knowing what to reply—when suddenly the door opened and Repin appeared to- gether with the red-haired man, Senator became solicitous: “Your room, Comrade Repin, is réady,” he said, obligingly; “would you care to go to it at once?” But Repin decided to join in the conversation, the last words of which he had heard, “The Seviet government wishes well to all the people,” shouted Senator. “Put am I, if you please, not one of the reople? “Is he not one of the people?” And Senator pointed with his finger at the red- haired man, who roared in ap- proval. “And gocd have they done to us? Fleeced us, that’s all... .” And Repin, in reply, had talked for a long time of how among the Communists were many shirkers, of how the Commun often made mistakes, but that er all they were working for an iaeal. .. .” And he looked at Lisa, as if to Say with his eyes, “You see, you and I am are of the same opinion!” ao he was so handsome and kindly, and now he warmly shook Lisa by the hand, and his thick! strong voice was touched with jcaressing intonations. “Good day, Comrade Gratcheva. ... I was going to ask you, how do I,get to the Town Garden? . ..” “The Town Garden? I have just come from it. There was a Satur- daying there ... for getting wood. We; cut down almost the whole eepen.” “No. But non-party people can go to the Saturdayings. And I think one ought to help the Com- mfinists. Isn’t it so?” /Of course. Of course. I would ave gone too, if I had known of e Saturdaying before. Well, and hid you do much?” “Yes. A lot. I forget how many cubes, but we cut down nearly all the garden, ... Even the most re- sponsible workers were working ‘there, and I worked together with Comrade Martuinov. And Klimin was there, the President of the Cheka.” She told Repin exactly how to get to the Town Garden. (To be Continued Wednesday) Y. W. L. Soccer Team pens Spring Season with 3-0 Victory, On a field covered with snow and ice, the Chicago Young Workers League soccer team scored a victory in its first game of the spring series The torturing resulted from the frantic efforts of police to| Sunday, after a layoff of over two make innocent men confess to the crime of January 19 when | months. the cashier of the Irving Pitt) Manufacturing company was high-jacked, the police guard disarmed and $18,000 taken by three men supposed to have been Negroes. three convenient Negroes, Ramsay, Jones, and Johnson, and began to “sweat” them. After ten hours they claimed they had obtained detailed (tho contradictory) confes- sions from all three. Beaten to a Pulp. John L. Kirkpatrick, their attor- ney, that evening, swore out habeas corpus writs and after some delay the three were surrendered, They were in terrible shape. All three béen pul} a kicked, their 's torn, The bodies: marked from shoulders to knees by the rubber hose. They were examined by the doctor, who at once ordered Ram- say to the hospital. Ramsay's scalp had been cut to shreds, his hands been burned, and more than two-fifths of the skin beaten off his body. He contracted pneumonia next dey and is still in a critical condi- | tion. The obscene levity of the local Pepasinte press is disgusting. the with hot, January 28 the police grabbed january f aeons ect ttatidlpninins However, the judge called the sit- uation to the attention of the grand ne police commissioner resigned, bs re fled a3 Porto ong Seo wi the ind jury sought New- man, the ity torturer, the detective ould not “find” him. Today signed—by mail. Real Criminal Confesses. The cruel clowns of police were speedily shown up. The East Chi- cago, Ind., police wired to Kansas City that they had arrested two Negroes in a shooting scrape who So hg revolver with fig, © Police Dept.” on it, c These men, Grant and Bass, had volunteered the story of the Irvin; Pitt hold-up, of which their captors had no knowledge. On being brought | to Kansas City they told their whole | story and denied that Jones, John-| son or Ramsay (the tortured trio) | had had any share in the crime. The gun was taken on Jan. 19. The guard who two weeks before | had positively identified Jones and Ramsay now coolly said: “I wai mistaken. I am now just as tive it was Grant and Bass.” Our asinine police chief, Wooley, said in interview: “An innocent if he were any sort of a sport, to suffer. that pun- guilty might be ren- Playing against the Victoria Sec- onds and starting with only seven men, things looked bad when the whistle blew for play. However, substitutes were rushed into the fray and the Red sweaters were soon in evidence. Pressing continuously it ‘was apparent that the Young Work- ers would seize the lead and this op- portunity was afforded when the Vic- toria’s were penalized for an infring- | from ment of the rules. From the re- sultant penalty kick Horchick scored the first goal for the Young Worker's League. Fast end to end lay fol- lowed with half time arriving without ing ends the Young any further scoring. After cha Workers had things pretty much their own way and two more goals wero scored by Horchick and Henry. Tt would be hard to single out any individual stars because all were out doing their best to put the first game, after the winter layoff, into the win column, and as one player aptly put it. “We are pla; on ice, so we will | put the game on ice.’” ony 4 look for a successful season for the Young Workers League and any worker interested in soccer as a 8) tor or er will do well to get in touch with the Young Work- 4 unavoidable and when no prospect NOVA SCOTIA'S 2-SHIFT SYSTEM HIT BY PROBERS Steel Lords’ Policy Is Attacked By RICHARD A. SCHAEFTER (Spectral to The Daily Worker) OTTAWA, Canada, Feb. 25.—Even the “good citizens” in Canada were shocked when during last year’s min- ers’ and steel workers’ strike the facts came out about working con- ditions still in vogue in the pits and plants of the British Empire ‘Steel Corporation. A royal commission was formed under the presidency of Dr. J, W. Robertson, to investigate the “industrial unrest’ in Cape Breton and to propose such changes as would be sufficient “to establish a mutual understanding between om- ployes and employers.” The report of the commission is just published and is a condemnation of the Brit- | ish Empire Steel’s treatment of the workers. Condemns 2-Shift System. | Last year’s strike action of the steel workers was mainly directed against the slow death system which under the heading of “13 light, 11 night,” became famous all over the world since Bethlehem Steel invented the modern kind of medieval dungeon. The commission in its report de- mands: 1. Elimination of the 24-hour change-over period and the abolition of the seven-day week. 2. Adoption ‘of the three-shift plan (eight hours per shift) in the departments of continuous process and a maximum of a ten-hour day for other workmen. The usual custom of Besco as well | as of other corporations big and small to keep the wages as low as pos- sible, even in fat years, and to attempt new cuts in periods of trade depres- sion, thus trying to keep up the profits for the shareholders by piling the burden of lean times on the weaker shoulders of the workers, was criticized in the report. It recom- mended that a surplus fund should be established to tide the workers over when changes in wage rates are of further employment exists. For the enforcement of this point a cer- tain civil authority should be nomi- nated and empowered to investigate the business conditions. Too Much Militia. There was no disturbance of “law and order” in the Cape Breton strike last year until provincial police and troops were shipped to the strike region. And the only cases of “the tule of the mob” were created by the provocations of those govern- mental thugs. Evidently the com- mission held the opinion that in the shipping of militia the provincial government overdrew its account of civil power. A change of the Cana- dian militia act is suggested to such an extent that henceforth only a judge and the attorney-general of a province jointly should be allowed to call out the militia and that one week thereafter an inquiry may be made into ‘the circumstances which caused the use of troops. Altogether the report, tho far from suggesting a real solution of the problenis in question, which, of course, cannot be settled by way of | reports and negotiations and talk, it is at least an attempt to approach the Cape Breton labor situation from another point of view than that of Besco and its paid hef®hmen. \ Breaks from Czar’s Prisons Featured Career of Rykov MOSCOW, Feb. 25.—The new President of-the Council of People’s Commissars, Rykov, was born in 1881 at Saratov, of a peasant family. He entered the University of Kazan in 1898. In 1899 he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party, Kazan section. In 1901 he was ai d, and was kept in prison for nine months, then deported to Saratov, and there he was expelled from the university for his revolu- tionary activity in Saratov. With the split of the Social Demo- cratic Party of Russia in 1905, Rykov joined the Bolshevist faction and was elected to the Central Executive Committee of the Bolshevik Party at its third convention. He was re- elected in 1906 at the Congress of the Party held in Stockholm. In 1907 he was arrested again and deported to Samara for two years; in 1919 he was arrested and deported to Archangel for three years. He succeeded in escaping and fleeing Russia, but he soon returned to Russia, and took part in the Con- ference of the Party, and was again ‘arrested and exiled to the Narim region (Siberia) for four ye e February Revolution freed him, Altogether he was in prison for seven years and a half. In 1917, elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee he became president of the Moscow Soviet. After the November revolu- tion he was elected Commissary of the People for the Interior, then member of Food Collegium. From 1918 on save for a few in- terruptions he was sident of the Council of National Economy. Start- ing with 1920, hé was continually member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, and of the presidium of executives of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and of the Russian Socialist Fed- erated Soviet Republic, vice-president With Nikolai Lenin Photo also Soviet Russia and Workers of the World flags. . Show your loyalty and respect for the greatest leader of the workers, and adorn your fellow worker by writing a letter to your friend. Dozen sheets 20c silver. sheets with envelopes, $1.25. Agents Wanted. NATIONAL PRESS 8 Vine St. Montello, Mass. 100 If You Are Particular and Want a Fresh JUST LIKE HOME MEAL EAT AT LERNER’S PRIVATE RESTAURANT 2709 W. 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The trouble stated when Silby Barrett, Lewis’s appointee, came back from Montreal, where he had been negotiating with the execu- tives of the British Empire Steel Cor- poration, with a new wage agree- ment in his pocket. But the slight wage increase provided for in the new contract is actually re-paid by the miners in the higher price on coal for their own use. Besides that, the whole district feels tricked by Barrett. He gave out no information while the negotiations went on and the new wage scale is far below the 1921 rates. It took Barrett consid- erable time to persuade the ranks to go back to work, but the locals of Stellarton, Springhill and Thorburn still remained out altho Barrett coax- ed and threatened them until he was blue in the face. It is, however, an interesting fact that just these locals were formerly considered to be the very stronghold of Lewis’ support on the Nova Scotian mainland, All three locals, when left out ‘in the cold by the district executive, applied for assistance to Premier MacDonald, the Miners’ Federation and other labor organizations in Great Britain. The Stellarton local, however, resumed work a few days ago. hd It may be doubtful how long the miners can keep up their heroic fight against the reactionary appa- ratus which runs the destiny of the United Mine Workers. But their ex- ample shows very plainly the Nova Scotia rank and file cannot be tricked out of their stand for a real fight- ing miners’ organization. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Arbeiter Ring Gives Large Opportunity to Workers Party The members of the Workers Party who are active in the Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) which has a membership of about 81,000, find in that organization an immense field of activity. The Workmen’s Circle, it is true, is not an organization thru which the economic or political strug- gle can be fought out, it is simply a mutual aid organization, but on the other hand it offers immense pos- sibilities for conducting extensive propaganda and work of enlighten- ment on both economic and politigal fields. pat aiNe It is not true, as many ‘comrades think, that the Workmen’s Circle is composed mainly of lower middle class elements. Only the leaderd¥ép is lower middle class, and that is so ers League 4 much the more reason why Workers read the DAILY WORKER? Get top upon a membership consisting one of them to subscribe today, Get unity thra the Labor Party! = mainly of real w