The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1924, Page 3

— Monday, August 18, 19 18, 1924 UNEMPLOYMENT RAVAGES THE MINERS’ RANKS Organization Shackled by Jacksonville Pact The dark predictions of Frank Farrington, president of the Wlinois district of the United Mine Workers of America, have been more than fulfilled. The fear of unemployment, with its accompanying terrors of hunger and evictions, has been set up in the hearts of the Illinois miners, Thousands of miners have been laid off since May 1. Sales- men covering the southern Illi- nois territory have transferred to other states. Credit, ex- tended by the southern Mlinois stores for several months past, has been denied the starving miners. The mining towns of southern Illinois are shunned because of the contagious pesti- lence of unemployment. Miner Not Migratory. A miner is always a miner. It is a well-known fact that the miner, raised from childhood to follow the underground trade of his father, {s not fitted for any other work. This inability to go into other industries makes the unemployment among the Illinois miners more serious. In spite of the propaganda in the capitalist press that the miners are highly overpaid, the facts are that the miners, even when working, re- ceive wages as low as those of other workers. The United States Depart- ment of Labor reports that the aver- age daily wage of the bituminous coal miner is $6.93. The aver- age number of days worked, includ- ing half days, is 195.7, according to the government’s extensive survey. The possible earning of the bituminous miner, the department of labor finds, is only $1,171. When the miners work, which is a little over 50 per cent of the time under normal condi- tions, they earn an average of only 86 cents an hour, These figures were prepared in 1921, before the unemployment crisis appeared. Instead of fighting to make the mine workers’ union a force to keep up the standar& of living; in- stead of fighting to make the. oper- ators pay unemployment benefits, the officials of the Illinois Miners’ union try to cheapen production for the coal operators. The officials of the United Mine Workers of America have continual- ly admitted their failure to stem the tide of unemployment and to rebuild the strength of the mine union. Call for Unemployment Councils. Now the Workers Party and the Progressive Miners committee calls for the immediate establishment by the mine union locals of unemploy- ment councils. The Workers Party calls for the passing of resolutions by the miners’ union locals demanding that candidates for election as officers of district 12 in December, pledge themselves to fight for payment of unemployment benefits by the coal operators. LaFollette has ignored the unem- ployment problem completely. In writing the labor plank in his plat- form, LaFollette dispensed with la- bor with exactly 61 words, and failed to mention the unemploym=nt crisis. Support Communist Candidates. The Workers Party calls upon all Illinois coal miners to join with the rest of militant labor in support of Foster and Gitlow and’ the other Work- ers Party candidates who support the immediate formation of unemployment eounc! The Workers Party demands that the coal operators be made to pay wages to the unemployed coal miners, who by their arduous and dangerous labor have accumulated the profits of the coal operators, Hurl Indictment at Huge Negro Congress in N. Y. (Continued from Page 1.) In response, several thousand packed the big hall to listen to a symposium of speeches intended to reveal the rea- son for the government's attack on the Negro leader. An imposing ceremony opened the proceedings, amidst music of excep- tionally fine quality. Garvey, attired in the green and red robes which form the subject of so much biting satire from rival Negro leaders, marched into the hall, escorted by a guard of honor of fifty uniformed members of the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation with drawn sabres, carrying the red, black and green flag regarded as the emblem of Negro nationalism. These were followed by several women in the same uniform, also with drawn sabres, leading a large corps of Black Cross nurses, a women’s aux- iliary of the organization. Applaud Speeches. The speeches were some of the most fervent that I have ever heard, and were ‘greeted with applause that must have sounded many blocks away. The speeches were all in defense of Garvey and in explanation of the reason for the government's effort to stop his public activities. U. N, I. A. Organized Negroes Dr. Jay J. Peters discussed the Ne- gro’s problem as one of survival in a world given to the law of the survival of the fittest. As animal life is born in profusion, with many dying and few surviving, so he said it had been with Negro organizations. All efforts to organize the Negro masses had been failures, and the Universal Ne- gro Improvement Association had sur- vived as the fittest. Dr. Peters warned his hearers that efforts were soon to be made to corral the Negro vote for a certain reactionary political ma- chine by giving a nomination or two to Negroes who were venal politicians ready to lead their people astray. Such reactionary Negro politicians “can be used to destroy us,” said Dr. Peters, who asked all to remember that the Negro often has to fight his foes within his own ranks.» Assails Critics. William A. Wallace of Chicago paid Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue his sarcastic respects to those critics who take a lofty attitude toward the masses of Negroes, blaming the masses “for not knowing all they should,” while at the same time the Negro children’s education is getting one-fourth of the support that it should receive. People who criticize this movement of the plain Negro peo- ple “which is actually putting over the program that os are trying to put over,” said Mr, Wallace, are con- stantly misrepresenting it and when their misrepresentations were pointed out, they merely replied “Oh, we didn’t know it was that way; we didn’t understand it.” “And yet,” said Mr. Walace, “they are the ones who call themselves teachers! Take into consideration that the daily pa- pers in the United States, or whether it be papers in Europe, Asia or where not—are talking about Marcus Garvey and what this movement is doing, and then these so-called leaders tell you they don’t know what the Universal Negro Improvement Association is, and yet they pretend to tell the plain Negroes how to solve their problems. Tell those leaders that they don’t know what they are talking about. “There are usands of Negroes in Chicago, in New York, in the islands of the ocean and elsewhere all over the world who do know and do under- stand what this movement is.” Sherrill Speaks. William Sherrill, assistant president general of the Universal Negro Im- pPovement Association, undertook in a very clear and well constructed speech to show the historic back- ground of the movement, He said: “The Universal Negro Improvement Association that for the past six years has been startling the world and awakening the Negroes, is not an or- ganization that ‘just happened.’ This Pi uE. something. Not something that came to existence just because somebody decided that they wanted to put them- selves forward and agrandize them- selves, but an organization that was born out of the suffering and the travail and the mediation of a great people that is held in bondage.” Organized to Better Race. Claiming that the U. N. I, A. “has a program that takes into consideration every obstacle, every river that we may be called on to cross,” Mr. Sher- rill said it is not a group that wants one thing today and another thing to- morrow. He maintained this organi- zation was the one which has been able to sense the deep underlying as- pirations of the Negro Race and to voice them. It was formed, not for the purpose of fighting the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, not for the purpose of fighting other leaders than their own, nor for fighting Negro churches or preachers, but for the purpose of bettering the condition of the Race and to give it “a chance to express its race ideals, and to solve the damnable racial problem in the West Indies and in America and the world, and an op- portunity to clear up the confusion and to stand on firm rock.” “The founders of this movement,” said Mr. Sherrill, “were those who had studied the problem of the Negro not only in America, but also in the West Indies and in Africa and Europe. And in studying this problem we have found out one fundamental fact—that the Negro suffers under oppression. He suffers not only in America, but wherever he has been domiciled. Wherever he has been in contact with anybody, he has suffered in that con- tact.” ‘ Negro Race Still Weak. The speaker expressed the view that we are living in a material age, and that in the midst of this materialistic society we find the Negro weak and unorganized. “The majority group,” he said, “wherever the Negro lives, is deter- mined that the Negro shall not be- come a part of that majority group.” As long as this continues, he be- lieves, just so long will the Negro find himself in oppression. He sees no solution except to give the Negro an opportunity to build for himself. He believes in putting forward such propaganda as that of the U. N. I. A. “and working toward the point of establishing an autonomy of your own.” The establishing of an inde- pendent Negro government over Af- rica is conceived to be the realisation of such autonomy. Negro Zionism? A reporter for.a Hebrew Zionist newspaper at this point whispered across the press table: “This is Ne- gro Zionism.” Is this “Negro Zionism”? If it is, then that is a very important discov- ery. To him who takes his analogies in words, the analogy sems to be per- fect. But I say that anybody who tosses off that near-beer comparison and then tries to build any historic conclusion on it, will go wildly astray. Let me explain why any attempt to classify the two movements to- gether, becomes, despite all the super- ficial resemblance, the wildest folly: The Difference. 1, The Great Powers and the League of Nations can cheerfully give a few thousand Jews a chance to settle in Palestine. 2. The great imperialist govern- ments of the world can smile happily over Jewish nationalist propaganda which takes Jewish workers’ minds away from proletarian revolution. But: 1. The Great Powers, Britain, France, Belgium—and now the United States—cannot smile over any sugges- tion of surrendering Rhodesia and the ‘Rand, the Kamerun, the Congo and the Nile and Morrocco and Tunis and Algeria—to any movement for in- dependent Negro nationalism, no mat- organization is by no means an acci-|ter how fantastic Garvey’s red and dent.” The speaker continued: Born Out of Suffering. “It is not a thing that sprang into being just because somebody had an idea that they wanted to organize MAKE Monday, Sept. 1, a real “Labor Day” for the American Communist movement, bundle of the First 1924 Campaign Issue of the D, WORKER, DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill.” For the enclosed §...... First Special ticket—Foster and Gitlow. FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN Communist Campaign edition ae the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the special rate of 3/2 cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred. 1 want to help raise the standards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party - RINMAIR ssspha sda cnellisotcehiniatinlyslshiiahicildedtachicciaclis sistas. ATOR IED: oliscasivichstissundicshe ill lsoalsclaclBeskewt shia’ CUT secareosseransoreatsnsBadasoennsesservnssesssrsessecsnssesrneeney STAT EB ssssccsssresseneensone by a te Dae » coples of the green robes may be, nor how unsea- worthy his ships. 2. The Great Powers cannot toler- ate for one instant the propaganda for Negro independent nationalism in any quarter of Africa,—not even in the Negro states of Abyssinia and Liberia, especially not in the “fanati- cal” form in which alone this move- ment is found. 3. No, the Negro nationalist move- ment is more readily to be compared to the Turkish nationalism of recent years, than to Jewish Zionism. imperialists Fear Negro. But to go back to Mr. Sherrill’s speech: “In this fight for freedom the U. N. I. A, has met with opposition. Its Program has been for redeeming Af- rica, for turning Africa back into the hands of the black men. I see noth- ing wrong with that program, but those countries that control the Afri- can colonies are working assiduously to see to it that the U. N. I. A. and its propaganda are kept off of African soil.” The speaker declared that Europe bankrupt and depends now for its very life upon drawing upon the vital- ity of Africa, “It is upon Africa that | t! England is depending; France must draw upon the strength of Africa; Italy depends upon its vast resources; In pa Re Spain and Belgium.” Mr, thot that the depletion of the natural wealth of ey WORKER tility, Was an explanation of the de- pendence upon Africa, “with her teem- ing millions of black people, Africa, rich in woods and minerals,” Paper Is Excluded. “England,” he said, “has for that reasoh opposed us, and is willing to put up a stiff fight against us. In some teritories our organ, ‘Negro World,’ is excluded from circulation, being regarded as dangerous propa- ganda. We have a propaganda that tells the black man to aspire to come into his own. France equally objects to our work. Those who are in con- trol of Europe have been watching us and are willing to spend much money to see to it that we are crippled in our operations. “We have to expect that sort of thing from England. She is only try- ing to protect that which is hers, her civilization, the institutions that she loves, the heritage that she wishes to pass on to her children that they may continue to enjoy England’s place in the world. We can see why England is opposing us. We can see also why France is opposing us.” He referred to the “lands that France has stolen from” the black man, which “bring millions of dollars in raw ma- terials into the coffers of France.” Does Not Fight Negroes, Saying that such opposition was to be expected, Sherrill then passed to the subject of the opposition found among intellectual leaders of Negroes in the United States. “It is not our purpose to fight against other Negro organizations, whether they be church organizations or other organizations or what not,” but that whatever ob- stacle is found in the road of the U. N. I A. will be destroyed. “We know what it is to suffer, to be ar- rested and intimidated,” he said. “They have been trying to destroy the Association by misrepresenting the™Meader of the movement. The newspapers tried to destroy Garvey’s influence by defaming and ridiculing him. They laughed and laughed and poked fun at him. And the more they laughed the closer the Negroes stuck to the movement and the more sacri- fices you. made to put forward the program. Not a “Back to Africa” Movement. “And then they tried to discourage the -->sses of Negroes from joining the anization.by calling it a ‘back to Africa’ movement. They accused us of having for our purpose destroy- ing the churches. They tried , to awaken antagonism of American Ne- groes by pointing out that Garvey is a West Indian Negro.” Here the speaker diverged to take up the question of the leadership of Garvey, the opposition to. whom he said was founded upon “the jealousy of short-sighted Negroes who had been trying for 25 or 30 years to lead the Race and have never had brains enough to strike upon a real pro- gram.” These old leaders, he said, upon witnessing the remarkable following so quickly recruited by the new move- ment, threw up their hands and ex- claimed, “How dare Marcus Garvey, a West Indian Negro, come here from Jamaica trying to tell us American AS WE (Continued from Page 1.) ers in the central competitive field but they are following a policy, which, if persisted in can have no other re- sult except the destruction of the min- ers’ union. There are already 43,000 Illinois miners unemployed while the remaining 62,000 only average two days a week. Under such conditions what avails the boasted Jacksonville agreement? . “ee ‘HAT the labor leaders care uittle | or nothing for the interests of union members has been amply dem- onstrated in the recent past, but the inaction of the officials of the U. M. wo W. of A. in the face of this serious) crisis is the most glaring example of official criminal negligence. The la- bor leadership of the United States is nothing else but a criminal conspir- acy against the interests of the rank and file. With a few exceptions it can be said, that they are the labor lieu- tenants of capitalism, as the late Mark Hanna described Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell, former president of the U. M. Wi of A. be yi ND the situation in America in this respect is only different in degree to the situation in Europe. Over there, however, the labor fakers have more and better organized op- Position, but everywhere they are playing the same treacherous role, of co-operation with the exploiters and treachery to the workers. The militants in the unions must organize to meet the labor fakers and free the organized workers from their clutches. Until then the problem of organizing the millions now unorganized cannot be tackled as it is evident that the present union offictaldom does not in- to make any serious effort to perform that duty. 4 Ge ‘AMON DE VALERA, leader of the Irish Republican Party, who was recently released from prison, made a countries, | speech in the west of Ireland in which European coun: |from us today, I am afraid that we! Negroes how to lead our people! We, the real Americans, we will redeem the race!” they said. “I am an American Negro,” con- tinued Mr. Sherrill, “born and raised under the Southern psychology. I know what that psychology is—its pe- culiar oppressive effect, And I tell you that whether Marcus Garvey had come or not I had always thot—since I was large enuf to think at all— I had always thot that the Negro who was raised in that psychology was bound to have something killed in him. That if the Negro was ever to have a real, energetic, courageous Negro leader, able to tell his people to be men and to look the world straight in the face—that if our people were ever to have such a leader, that he would have to come from somewhere else than in the United States of America. And if Marcus Garvey were to go would have to look for a new leader from somewhere around the west coast of Africa. Hard to Get Leaders. “The Negro of America raised un- der such conditions finds it difficult to develop the qualities of leadership. The fine material that is fit to lead the race is killed in the American en- vironment. Here the Negro from childhood is jim-crowed, lynched, kicked about, cursed and made to con- duct himself as an inferior until he has not grit enuf left to be a leader. “The West Indian Negro, on the other hand, from the cradle up de- velops a certain independence and a self-reliance that the American Ne- gro never has the courage to exercise. The British government is bound to allow the development of some intitia- tive among individual Negroes, for her position in Jamaica is such that she has to use certain types of Negroes to exercise authority over the others. Of course those who are used that way are betraying their own people—they are traitors and renegades and we despise them—but even at that, in Jamaica there is a different psy- chology that permits some men of in- dependent spirit and self-reliance to develop.” Mr. Sherrill continued: “It makes no difference where our leader comes from, you may sneer at him for not being an American. Our program is not merely to save the Ne- groes of America, but to save the Ne- groes of the world. What matters it if the leader be a West Indian, if he has the capacity and the courage to lead the Race? The American Ne- groes are only fifteen million—only a drop in the bucket compared to the number of Negroes in the world.” Explains “Star Line.” Referring to Garvey’s “Black Star Line” steamship corporation venture, which has been the cause of a tumult of criticism from other Negro leaders as well as one indictmet and convic- tion of Garvey, the speaker said, “They thot that they could convince you that Marcus Garvey was a thief - |congress for a congressional investi- and a crook, but they found you were so well organized that you didn’t en for that sort of propaganda.” He declared that Christ was exe- By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. cuted, not for preaching a new kind SEE IT Irish question an issue in the coming elections in the United States. This is nothing new. The Irish question has been an issue in the United States since the civil war but so far, the only ones to gain from the agitation were the capitalist politicians who posed as friends of Ireland before election. When DeValera was in America he Played with the Democratic Party and gave the oil king, Doheny, the priv- ode e of moving a resolution in favor f"freland at the 1920 convention which nominated Cox. In return for the honor Dohney gave $50,000 to the Trish cause. DeValera has played tricks with the Irish question like ‘all his bourgeois associates. If he were a@ real rebel instead of a petty bour- geois prophet he would look to Mos- cow for aid and not to the capitalist exploiters at Washington. se 8 CORRESPONDENT who declares ‘\ she is much more radical than LaFollette regrets The DAILY WORKER'S attitude toward the Wis- consin senator. The DAILY WORKER did not begin its criticism of “Battlin’ Bob” only when the latter delivered his infamous attack on the Commun- ists and their belief in the “dictator- ship.” The DAILY WORKER and all the. Workers Party press have ex- posed the so-called progressives in Congress as fake progr es who did not believe in doing away with the cause of the ills of present so- of religion, but because the Romans feared that he would establish a king- dom' on earth. Thus Garvey, who “had the instinct for di ning what was needed by the Race,” is persecuted. He said Garvey had handled millions of dollars of the Negroes’ money since he had been in this movement, and to- day he has no home of/his own, no au- tomobile, no riches, but lives in an humble flat and rides on street cars; and that if he had any wealth his ene- mies would have found it out. Denies New Charge. “Yet just at the time when Negroes are coming from all parts of the world to this convention, certain men land another indictment against Marcus} Garvey. They say)they indict him this time for making out a false in- come-tax return. Garvey did not, But just granting for the sake of ‘argu- ment that he did do it—tell me, is Marcus Garvey, then, the first man in America to make out a false income tax report? “I don’t believe that there has ever been anyone else indicted on an in- come-tax report. Yet when Garvey was arested I went to see some of the officials responsible for the arrest and one of them told me that if everybody | that made out a false income-tax re- port were to be indicted, then all of the federal officials would be working overtime for the balance of a life- time, Try to Hurt Convention. “But why make Garvey the first man? Because the plans were care- fully laid to embarrass this interna- tional convention, with the hope of embarrassing the Race. , These men and women who are fighting for the cause of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association, who are risking jail and everything else—they have no time to bother with these annoyances. The authorities are trying to drag them into court in order to keep them from doing their work for their peo- ple. It is up to you Negroes to see that those who are persecuted this way receive every protection that the Negro can give them.” A large collection for the legal de- fense of Garvey was raised among the audiénce, who clambered forward to the platform with mariy five-dollar bills. A resolution was passed petitioning gation into the action of certain fed- eral agents believed to be involved in the plan to fight ‘the Negro organiza- tion with framed-up indictments. Page Threa ENTERTAINMENTS GIVENBY FINNS FOR W, P, DRIVES Chicago Branch Gives $100 to Campaign The Finnish Federation of the Workers Party points with pride ta the plays they are giving thruout thq country to collect funds for the Fou ter-Gitlow election campaign, Th@ Finnish Federation announces it is the only section of the party whiclt has used this artistic and at the same time educational method of promo ing the Communist election propa ganda. ¢ At the same time the membershiff drive, the rasing of funds thru the Fannish branches and the regulag. street and mass meetings are not bes; ing neglected, The Finnish branch of Chicago dpnated $100 to the Foster Gitlow presidential campaign and oth, er branches thruout the country havg | responded liberally. of government officials.” For the lat ter innnovation the capitalists woul be grateful to LaFollette, as clea government is more immune to critis cism than the kind in vogue in Was! ington during the Wilson and Har ing administrations and all precedingf administrations if the truth were tol The capitalists are interested in “clean government” and honest oj cials, because the capitalists are th losers, Whether the, officials in | trol of the capitalist government are} honest or crooked, the exploitation of! the workers goes on just the on As for restoring our constitutiona’ rights, necessity knows no law el the capitalist class will only grant the workers such rights as they mustel The only guarantee the workers can) have that their constitutional rights} will be respected is their organized? might, industrially and politicallye And only when the workers are in sit preme. control and the capitalist sys{ tem is on its way to the limbo of his«! tory will they have a real guaranted that their constitutional rights will ba’ safe, because they will then have writs ten their own constitution. 4 a At last Garvey himself took the floor to ask to be excused from making the speech for which he was scheduled, promising to make a full address on the subject later during the conven- tion. Won't Be Frightened. “My enemies don’t seem to realize that I can’t be frightened,” he said. “All these occurrences are but natural. They must occur from time to time, and little things like this indictment must be attached to the leaders of such a movement. They can send me to jail. But I can go to prison with- out fear. Only crooks and thieves and cowards fear to go to prison. Men with principles don’t care about jails.” | and because of his former pro-peace mouthings he was able to drago6n the | peoplé of this country into the bloody mess much more effectively than Hughes could have done it had he been elected. Lloyd George was mobbed several times because of his| opposition to the Boer war, but where was the jingo who outdid him while the storm of death was raging in Eu- rope. The present prime minister. of England is a man of peace, much) more conspicuously associated with | movements that have always carried peace as one of the main planks in| their plathforms, yet we find him to-| day sending troops to crush the| Egyptians, and airplanes to drop bombs over Indian villages, and we find him mobilizing the royal navy at Spithead to impress the French mili- tarists just as Prime Minister Asquith | and the peaceful Lord Grey did in 1914 to impress the Kaiser. * oe (OSE men did not become blood- thirsty savages on assuming of- fice. They were simply carrying put the instructions of the men -who owned the various countries and dom- inated their politics. we 'HERE is no reason to believe that LaFollette, if elected, would re- fuse to take dictation from the rulers of the United States any more than the gentlemen above mentioned did in their respective countries, LaFol- lette may have good intentions, but the old saying that “the way to hell is paved with good intentions” has more truth than poetry in it. Peace does not depend on the “intentions’® of any one individual or even on a group of individuals, Every reason- clety, by abolishing the capitalist sys- tem, but merely prescribed futile nos- trums. A AA, UR correspondent says LaFol- lette’s election would mean peace, the restoring of our constitutional rights, the end of corruption and steal- ings of government officials, What makes our corespondent think that LaFollette’s election would bring peace? His past record? Woodrow ‘Wilson was elected on tho slogan, “He has kept us out of war,” but no sooner able person, except the culprits who wanted war and their lackeys, will ad- mit that the late war was the result of a struggle between opposing capi- talistic groups, and all indications point to another war more dreadful than the last within a comparatively short time unless the workingclass do |'Toda, a ee ‘HE Republican Party chief feat! that long speeches over the radio will interfere with the bedtime stor) ies. We do not know of anything ex’ cept perhaps a heavy blow on thd, back of the head, more conducive ta slumber than a speech by Calvin Coolidge. If His Silence should be given the pineapple next November, he could profitably turn his dullness into money by becoming the grea anti-insomnia Coue of America, A lit. tle talkover the radio every evening would either drive the insomniacs in- sane or send them flying for re’ into the arms of Morpheus. € ‘sa 7 those who have dollars préa, pare to shed them now. Tha Sage of Wisconsin may have suffered, from ossification of his pineal glands but his emotions are working over- time. In testimony thereof we place on the witness stand Mr. Lawrence Washington correspondent of the Federated Press. We cannot say whether Mr. Todd's lachrymal con- |duits suffered from the strain of carry- ing away the flood which the good re- porter must have shed in harmony | with the waterspout of Senator LaFol- lette but when you hear the tale, you may shed them, too, so get your gut- \ters ready. eee ‘VERY story starts somewhere, and lest this introduction like a pro- logue to a Shavian play should become so interesting that the tale should suffer in consequence, we will intro- duce the yarn. The words are by Lawrence Todd. LaFollette is at the megaphone. Name of the photog- rapher is unknown. The actresses are jmembers of the women’s national campaign committee. The scene is in LaFollette’s Washington office. The leading lady, Mrs. Glenn Plumb, sup- ported by an all-star cast.. LaFollette before getting his players into action told the women that the Republican Party was born in Wisconsin in the year 1854 in a schoolhouse, sponsored by a group no larger than was stand- ing in front of him. Then Mrs, Glenn Plumb brought on the onion, and the eyelids began to quiver. ee POORLY-DRESSED WOMAN of sixty years came into the office of the Chicago LaFollette campaign . committee one day recently, said Mrs. ~ Plumb, offering a campaign contribu- tion of one dollar, She was in such evident need that an attempt was made to induce her to keep the money, but she stood like a rock of Gibraltar against all attempts to force the dol- lar on her, Hen family had been. burned out in Nebraska and she came to Chicago where she is employed scrubbing toilets at $14.00 a week, She would work for another ten years ng away with the capitalist system in the meantime. Only the organization and then the country would take care of her. She was sorry that LaFollette of society on a Communist basis will|/had not come along in tational poll- prevent war. eee same logic applies to the “res-| fering. was he elected than he proceeded to toration of our constitutional] be won,” act the maoblaery in motion for war, |rights” end “corruption aA sinelns ' 8 oe mb cui, “ Mel) tides ties before this so that herself and” many others would be saved from suf. “On that spirit the fight can said the candidate, a @ pice little bedtime ategg, »