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Page Four LAFOLLETTE IS REBUKED AT F-L CONVENTION California for St. Paul Convention SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 12.—) Delegates will go to St. Paul from the California Farmer-Labor Party which held a two-day convention here, Senator LaFollette’s assault on the St. Paul convention and particularly on the Communists participating therein, was vigorously attacked by several speakers. It was pointed out that LaFollette -was not in favor of a class Farmer-Labor party, that he was a representative of the small bourgeois and middle class elements and the $25,000 a year labor fakers. The Communists, it was stated were the most vigorous in pushing the movement for a national Farmer-La- bor party to a successful issue and without the Communists the organiza- tion would be a corpse. The following were elected dele- gates to the St. Paul convention: George Kidwell, of the bakery wagon drivers; David Gorman of the elec, trical workers; Anita Whitney, J. H Ryckman and D. D. Donovan. The state platform calls for public superpower, public markets, state compensation insurance, state matern- ity aid including birth control inform. ation, making yellow dog_anti-union contracts for employes illegal, repeal of criminal syndicalism law, restric. tions on state and federal judges, five year moratorium for farmers and many other advanced measures. The convention formally expressed its “contempt for contempt of court,” denounced fascism anf demanded -rec- ognition of Russia. A temporary state executive com- mittee of 33 was elected. (Special to the Dally Worker.) Pining Preachers Complain Workers Scorn Dry Manna By HARRY SHAFFER. (Special te The Daily Worker? WHEATLAND, Pa, June 12-— Things in this locality look blue and are getting worse every day, Seven blast furnaces have closed within the past two weeks in this valley. Much propaganda is now flooding this lo- cality on the pristine beauties of Americanism. These stories in the local papers tell of the brave sayings f George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. “Brave words, but they but- ter no parsnips.” The pulpiteers here complain of non-support by workmen of this dis- trict. They claim that “the working man is leaving God out of the equa- sion.” The Sky Pilot in Wheatland could not get a Ford until he became a Kleegle in the Cuckoos. He tried to pay God back by getting a few tithers into the church. He held what he called a series of revivals, and a few travelers to Zion gathered. He began on them and the way he raked them fore and aft was a caution, but the effort failed. He blamed the atheists around here for his failure to “bring in the sheaves.” Farrell is as bad as Wheatland, maybe worse, the pulpiteers say. Sometimes they compare it to Baby- Jon. Just where they get any such comparison it would be hard to say. ‘They prepare “intellectual feasts,” but the “wayfaring man,” tho a fool, does not enter. “Hell is preparing a hot place for this district after death.” They are right it is, but the hell is capitalism and it is not going to do any waiting on death, rather will it hasten it. Send In that Subscription Today. Realtors Gambol Gaily in World’s Oil(iest) Capitol By E. J. IRVINE. (Special to The Daily, Worker) WASHINGTON, June 12.—The Real Bstate Dealers of America are holding their convention in Washington. Five thousand attired in monkey decora- tions to make themselves conspicuous and advertise real estate. There is at least one honest man among them, the “delegate from Tulsa, who calls Wash- ington “The oil capitol of the world.” Washington is the proper hangout for landlords. In this city they are ‘well organized, and combine to keep rents high—the only labor that they perform. Send in that Subscription Today. A UNCLE WIGGLY’'S TRICKS THE DAILY WORKER The Fight in Minnesota (Continued from page 1.) This law provided that in case of need this banking system, owned and controlled exclusively by a very few individual money-hoarders, should be entitled to use national credit to’ the extent of two and one-half times the amount it has invested in the securi- ties of the federal government, at the trifling rate of one-half of one per cent, the federal government to be bound to redeem said credit in gold, when demanded. According to this law, the Federal Reserve Board, consisting of seven members, is appointed by the Presi- dent of the United States. Under pres- ent conditions, this means that those members are appointed by Wall Street because big business furnished the campaign funds for both the Repub- lican and Democratic candidates for the presidency. Yet this marvelous law provides that the “regulation” of the credit of the nation shall be vested in the hands of this Federal Reserve Board—which means, that the Federal Reserve Board has the power to dictate the rate of interest which any group In America must pay for credit. Robbed Farmers. The passing of this Federal Reserve Banking law marks the turning point in the economic structure of our na- tion. No matter under what pretext it was passed, it has been used in every respect to enrich the money trust and to wring the very life-blood out of the producing classes. The farmers of the United States have felt very heavily the results of this law, because under its provisions they have been robbed during recent years of the astonishing amount of eighteen billions of dollars. No wonder the farmers are bank- rupt and deserting the land which they have tilled for their life-time, at the rate of over 100,000 each month. How It Is Done. To make this issue clear, it is nec- essary to point out in brief how rob- bing of farmers has taken place. Dur- ing the war period the Federal Re- serve Board set out to encourage the farmers of the United States to en- large their capacity of production to the utmost limit. Propaganda for this purpose was used in the press, and the rural districts were flooded with pam- phlets to this effect. Every little bank was turned into a propaganda center to this end, and “The winning of the war” was said to be dependent upon incréased agricultural production, and there was no limit to the credit ex- tended to the farmers for purchasing land they did not need and to pur- chase all possible farming implements with which the market was promptly flooded. In general, the farming class swal- lowed this well-sugared bait. Const- dering it their patriotic duty, they ran into an indebtedness out of all pro- portion to their ability to pay. But no sooner was the war over than the Federal Reserve Board turned the page. Farmers Foot Bill. The Allies and the European mer- chants were unable to meet their ob- ligations contracted with the export- ers of the United States. The Ameri- can exporters en masse faced eco- nomic ruin and instead of letting them pay for their gambling in foreign markets, the Federal Reserve Board set out to make the workers and farm- ers of United States foot the bill of this speculation. The notorious “open shop” on- slaught was organized to reduce the standard of living of the industrial workers, and the deflation policy was inaugurated against the farmers. The credits extended to the farmers were mercilessly called in and the prices of the ‘agricultu?al products were slashed far below the cost of production. Over one billion dollars was withdrawn from circulation with- in ten months, and a complete panic was instituted to effectively, rob the farmers. Federal Reserve Took Pill. Then once more Congress was put to work. In the name of “agricultur- al relief” a law was passed, whereby the Federal Reserve Banking System could relieve itself of the huge pile of worthless mortgages taken on the desert lands which had been sold at high prices to the farmers during the war boom. Under this law the farfmers were compelled, in renewing their notes to give additional mortgiges, this time on their cultivated lands, cattle, and implements. . A tremendous amount of worthless MINNESOTA! VOTE FOR THESE MEN JUNE 16! FORGET OLD PARTIES! MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, June 12.— Here are the men the Workers Party members of District nine are urged to support in the primary elections, June 16, In accordance with the instructions of the accom- panying proclamation: For U. S. Senator—Hjalmar Dan- tos, Orr. For Lieutenant Governor—Emil E. Holmes, Hopkins. For Secretary of State—Susle W. Stageberg, Red Wing. For State Treasurer—Carl Berg, Erskine. For Attorney General—Thos. V. Sullivan, St. Paul. For Rallroad and Warehouse Commissioner—A. E. Smith, St. Paul. Representatives for Congress. 1st District—Otto Baudier. 2nd District—O. F. Swanjord. 3rd District—J. B. Lokkesmos. 4th District—J. F. Emme, St. Paul. ‘ 5th District—J. O. Johnson, Min- neapolis. 6th District—Halver S. Halverson. 7th District—O. J. K 8th District—J. O. Bentall, Duluth. 9th District—Knute Wefald. 10th District—irving G. Scott. Representatives in State Legisla- ture. 29th District—Oscar Coover. 35th District—Emil S. Youngdahl. papers were shifted to the federal government and the vaults of the Fed- eral Reserve Banking System were filled with papers transferring the ownership of the tilled lands to the banking trust of the United States. Distress Increasing. This process has been going on ever since. With very rare exceptions, all cultivated land in the central, north- western, southwestern, southern and western states is now mortgaged to that financial clique which holds the reigns of power in its hands. Large areas of farm lands are de- serted and the distress of the farmers is becoming more and more acute. But the Federal Reserve branch house in Minneapolis is making clear profit on this distress at the rate of $10,000 average in every day of the year, and the other branches of that system in the same proportion. The slashing of the price of the agricultural products has continued ceaselessly. To illustrate the skinning of the farmers, it deserves mention that while the consumer of the United States paid for the 1922 crop, $22,500,- 000,000, the farmers who produced this crop, received only $7,500,000,000. Two-thirds went to the speculators financed by the high financiers, ‘while only one-third was left to the tiller of the soil. The proportion was the same in 1923, and will be the same, if not worse in 1924, because the unor- ganized farmers are unable as indi- viduals to resist this trend. A Hopeless Task. Their taxes are growing ever larg- er. During the last eight years they have increased on the average of 160 per cent with no relief in sight. To pay for seed, for the necessary occa- sional help, for taxes, for interest on mortgages, the farming class has pawned and given lien notes on the crops, cattle, implements, yes, even on the unborn colts, calves and suck- lings. When every attempt to stay on the land cleared by their life-long work is exhausted, the farmer leaves the farm with his wife and children and heads for congested industrial centers to look for work, unorganized and unskilled. ‘This process is now going forward on an unheard of scale and it is be- ing rapidly accelerated by the ever increasing failures of National and. State banks, which, under the pro- tection of Banking Departments of the different states are recklessly specu- lating with the funds of the deposi- tors. Wall Street Kills Rellef. The distress of the farmer is well known. Every politician talks about this problem, the Department of Agri- culture reveals startling facts in re- gard to this situation, but as soon as the mildest reforms are proposed in Ovngress and legislative bodies, the whole apparatus of Wall Street with its mighty tool, the government, and the Federal Reserve Banking System, A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN with the Secretary of the Treasury at its head, arises to kill every move made toward the relief of the farmer. Realizing that the.ruin of the farm- ers of the United States and the crea- tion of an American peasantry, toiling under the mercy of a mighty agricul- tural trust, will be the only logical outcome of the present state of agri- culture, and further realizing that the sufferings of the workers will be in- creased thru that process without lim- it, the Workers Party as an integral part of the Farmer-Labor Party, in- structs its candidates, when elected, to fight for a moratorium on all in- debtedness of the working and tenant farmers, and for placing the working farmers after that period in a position where they will have, at least the same privileges in the use of national credits as the non-producing and spec- ulating bankers, i. e., paying the rate of interest of two per cent and one- half of one per cent as the National Bankers and Bankers of the Federal Reserve Banking System are now pay- ing respectively. Land To The Users. ‘We demand, that Jand be given to those who till the land and that the hold of the bankers and speculators of the land be broken by proclaiming the mortgaging of land a punishable offence. We demand, that the Federal Re- serve Banking System and the Nation- al Banking System, which are directly responsible for the present distress in the agricultural section of United States, be taken over by the govern- ment, and that the members of the governing bodies of these banking systems-be elected by people from the ranks of producers and that they be made responsible to the delegated bodies of the people. We demand, that the taxes be lifted from the back of the tillers of soil and placed on. the money-hoarders, bankers, trusts and corporations, spec- ulating on the very life of the work- ers, and we further demand, that the privilege of evading taxation by in- vesting in governmental bonds be stopped. Bankers Should Be Punished. We also demand, that the govern- ment, which now pretends to keep Banking Departments for the safe- guard of depositors, be made respon- sible for each bank failure, and that officers be severely punished for their neglect in allowing, as now, the specu- lation with the funds of depositors to exceed all bounds’ and limits. We further demand, that the pur- chasing of agricultural products be taken from the gambling grain ex- changes and packing trusts and turned over to government control, and that actual producers be placed in control of institutions so established, respon- sible to the delegated bodies of the producers. id ‘We demand, that the railroads be taken over by the nation without com- pensation, where as the railroads have been built with funds taken and robbed from the people, and the rail- way management be put in the hands of the workers and farmers responst- ble to the delegated bodies of the pro- ducers. Further, realizing that these de- mands cannot be put into operation as long as the capitalist class is in unrestricted control of the state and national governments, we urge the workers and farmers to sweep aside the parasites in our society and to establish a government of the produc- ing masses of our nation, by the pro- ducers and for the producers on land and in industries. Signed: District Executive Committee, Workers’ Party, by Norman H. Tal- lentire, District Organizer. We call upon the voters of Minne- sota to vote the Communist Can- didates in the Farmer-Labor Primaries on June 16. . For U. 8. Senator: Hjalmar Dantes. For Congress: Fourth District—J. F. Emme. Fifth District—J. O. Johneon. Eighth District—J. E. Bentall. For State Legislature: Twenty-ninth District — Oscar Coover. Thirty-fifth District — Emil Ss. Youngdahl. Every new subscriber increases the influence of the DAILY WORKER. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK Renderin o brid Service Pe es DENTIST Why the American Government i Literature agents, book stores, please 1113 Washington Bivd. GIRLS! TOO BAD YOU AREN'T IN FRISCO! SHEIK’'S CONVENTION (Special to The Dally Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 12. —In order to prevent the nation plunging into grief over the nomi- nation of Calvin Coolidge for presi- dent, the supporters of that fight- ing organ of the California workers, “Labor Unity,” are giving a ball on the day the Coolidge announcement is made—Jufhe 14th. The supporters feel that all may not be well in Cleveland but San Francisco is going to witness one riot of color. Costumes of every age and clime will be worn at the grand prize folk costume ball to be held here in the California Hall, Turk and Polk Streets, June 14th. ‘There will be fun galore, in fact, it is said on good authority that Do- heny may come dressed up as an oil-can. The Poor Fish says that he will come if Hoover does not hand him over to the Alaska profiteers before that time. Workers Party branches are mak- ing .a special ‘effort to make this ball the success of the season. Committees are actively. function- ing and all.in all June 14th will be one real night in June. The Italians, Russians, Finns, Filipinos, Hawaii- ans, Mexicans and the Irish will be there. Some night! Some Crowd! Little Girl Burned to Death Parading for Shriner Sheiks (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 12.—The shrieking Shriners’ shefks departed as gaily as they came to this peaceful city, but they left a sorry wake be- hind them. Little Pollyanna Dunkle’s charred body will be buried by her sorrowing friends and many workers will attempt to clean up where the Mystic Nobles trampled so heedlessly. The nineyear-old girlie rode very proudly and innocently in the float “Tenderfoot Trail” of the Shriners’ parade. Something, perhaps a defec- tive wire, started the flimsy float afire and little Pollyanna was fatally burned. Hundreds of her child companions who participated in the parade, shi- vered in their scanty costumes and went home chilled and with severe colds. Send in that Subscription Today, Do You Know? will spend $330,000,000 for the Army and $110,000,000 for the Navy next year. You don’t, eh? Read this pamphlet. Ask the fellow next to you to do the same. take notice and send your orders— A PLEASING SUMMER’ FROCK , 4066. Attractive long lines and comfortable short.sleeves mark this design as up-to-date and desirable. Figured |foulard and organdy are com- Dined in this instance. Oné could have this in linen. with trimming in a con- trasting color or in gingham with taffeta bands. The width of the skirt at the foot is 2% ‘yards. The Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38,40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bist measure. A 38 inch size requires 5% yards of 32 inch méterial. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silyer or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE ‘SPRING: & SUMMER 1924°BOOK OF FASHIONS, Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, HI. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The peeeros, being ‘sold. thru the DAILY ORKER pattern department are fur- nished by,a.New York firm of pattern Pgsre st Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. Th DAILY WORKER ‘abee not Keep stocit code hts wanna sth $6 dave e at least 10 eg’ the yr bet mee ig the order. ‘De patie! 3 not receivéd by return ia ag vata is PIC JEWISH BRANCH, Sunday, of Research Dept., Workers at once. 10 copies to any one address for $1.00. Single copies 15¢. Literature Department Workers Party of America Chicago, Ill. YES! Oh yes! They " found it guilty! In the judgment of 8&—count eight— well and Ithy looking, swell drgssed, and rich Protestant Eple- copal ps, the little booklet by Bishop William Montgomery Brown: Communism AND . Christianism is guilty of telling the truth about the false teachings aud beliefs and superstitious doctrines, preached and fostered by cere at bishops— an tor calling on the toiling masses to: “Banish the gods from the ski and the capitalists from the earth. You should help appeal this sen- tence, by spreading the truth con- tained in the pamphlet; to be read by millions of workers and farm- ers. IT COSTS JUST 25 CENTS. $1.00 and we will send you i: eA Stee Literature Department, Workers Party of America, | 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. | Send 10 of address Good Union Orchestra United Workers Sunday Schools of Chicago Every Sunday Morning from 10-12. | Gabor’s Hall, 634 Willow St. \Feinen Hall, 3838 W. Grand Ave. 1. 0. G. T. 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A 10 year size réquires 2% yards of 40 inch material. If made as illustrated it will require 25 yards of 32 inch material for the dress and % yard for the trimming. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in siver or stamps. Send 12¢ in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF. FASHIONS. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. DR. A. H. TAMARIN Dentist Wishes to announce the removal ef his Division St. office to 4805 N. CENTRAL PARK AVE. IPhone Juniper 10210 Chicago, TM. NIC WORKERS PARTY June 15 Party of America, Author of Admission 35 Cents MEETING PLACE FOR THR NEEDLE WORKERS Strictly Home Cooki y LB Baking oe WE DO ’ ting, and P. bine: Deanne sad bien ta Call Nevada 8601, | ; abit o i