The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1924, Page 4

ey \ i Page Four “MIXED DRINKS” START TROUBLE IN BOSTON, T00 Socialists and Liberals Nearly Come to Blows (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 17.—Only twice during the entire session of the Massachusetts Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action, assembled in state convention for the purpose of in- dorsing LaFollette and Wheeler for president and vice president, respec- tively, was some life manifested. The first semblance of life among the fossilized “progressives” manifest- ed itself in a little word quarrel re- sulting in the unseating of Conrad W. Orooker and his group of delegates from the Liberal party of Massachu- setts, successor to the Liberal Repub- lican League, on the ground that they represent a “paper” organization. The fight was really between two “paper” organizations, since the socialist par- ty dummies, who fotight Orooker, also represent a memberless “party” i this state. Walk Out on Socialists. Mr. Crooker, who since LaFollette announced his candidacy, tried to play & prominent part in organizing the LaFollette forces in Massachusetts, ‘was denied a hearing, and walked out of the convention with his followers. He issued the following statement lat- er: “It is evident that the extreme socialist group, which apparently was in control, does not want co-operation from any other groups. I am sure that course would not be approved by LaFollette or Wheeler. Our organiza- tion will go ahead and support LaFol- lette, just the same.” ‘ Crooker also said that only recently he talked the matter over with Con- gressman Nelson, LaFollette’s man- ager, who solicited his co-operation. Later, he said, Gilbert Roe, the re- gional director in New York, and George BE. Roewer, Jr.. socialist party national committeeman and Massachu- setts campaign manager, invited his organization to participate in the state convention, but at the conven- Against War! Against the Bourgeoisie! Against the Social Traitors! For the World Revolution! For the Dictatorship of the Prole- tasiat! For Communism! 'EN YEARS have passed’ since the world bourgeoisie unchained the hellish power of militarism. On August 1, 1914, began the greatest slaughter of human beings that the world has ever known. The ruling classes and their military strategists believed that the war would end in a few months. But the events which they themselves had brought about soon got beyond theif control. Their armies, growing to unheard of pro- portions, entrenched themselves against one another. The entire labor power of Europe— and the labor power of countries far | beyond, the borders of Europe—was conscripted to supply the necessities of the war. They created to destroy and they destroyed in order to be able to create new instruments of destruction. For four years, three months and twenty-six days -this destructive and idiotic venture con- tinued,—the venture in which capi- talist society found its consummate expression. Proletarians buiit the engines destruction. ers used these engines of destruction. Proletarians and farmers of the vari- ous countries annihilated each other. Looking back, every one of us asks of Proletarians and farm- himself; “How was such madness even conceivable? But still more im- portant, still. more pressing, is that other question: Is a future repetition of this mad affair threatening us? Seas ¢ L The catastrophe of the war was a long time brewing. The ¢lass-con- scious workers saw it coming in ad- tion the socialists double cressed him. Don’t Want a “Third Party.” The second disturbance - which threatened the peace of the solemn gathering, arose over a resolution to provide for the permanent -organiza- tion of a “labor party,” on November. The resolution was presented by Dan- jel R. Donovan, president of the Worcester Central Labor Union, and was made the center of attack by a battery of more than a dozen speak- ers, fmong whom were socialists. H. P. Redden, a delegate from Spring: field, declared: “We came here to in- dorse LaFolvatte and Wheeler, but if it is the purpose to go beyond that, and form a third party, we had bet- ter quit.” Peace was finally obtained when George Clark of Taunton ob- tained the passage of an amendment by eliminating the phrase “labor par- ty” and merely calling for a meeting to consider the advisability of effect- ing a “permanent political organiza- tion.” Party Activities Of Local Chicago PEN air meetings in Chicago are| drawing very large crowds. As high as 500 people have often been present at various meetings to listen| to Workers Party, Young Workers League and Trade Union Educational League speakers. With the election campaign on, open air meetings will no doubt be more numerous and even more successful, since the workers are in an attitude to receive working class messages. The language branches and the Eng- lish branches of the W. P., Y. W. L. and T. U. E. L. are scheduling speak- ers regularly, as can be seen from the above list of meetings. The city or- ganization is furnishing speakers for these meetings. More branches should get into the street meeting activity. Branches should try to furnish additional speak- ers if only to act as chairmen of these meetings. It is very important that the street meetings committee of the branch should always be certain to have plenty of literature on hand at the meetings, especially the DAILY WORKER. There have been a few unnecessary failures in this respect. Literature sells plentifully at these meetings both in English and other languages. There is also plenty of free litera- “ture at the local office for the street meetings, and the branches shall see to it that comrades call for that. Branches which want to schedule open air meetings should give plenty of notice to the city organization and should also arrange in plenty of time for the corner to be used. During the election campaign pe- riod the congressional district cam- paign committees will be expected to schedule open air and indoor meetings U4 steadily thruout the elections cam paign period. For speakers and additional bic * mation write or telephone Martin “Abern, State 7985, Room 303, 166 West peahington St. Send In that Supeeripeen Today. Mie. vance and warned the toiling masses against it. Only revolutionary battle could have prevented the impending war and made all war totally impos- sible; only the révolt of the workers against imperialism. Such a revolt, even had it taken the most gruesome forms, would not have necessitated one one-hundredth, no not one one thousandth, of the human sacrifice and the destruction of property that the war demanded. Socialists Helped Bourgeolsie. But the revolt did not con. Most continue the murderfest to the end, These are the facts, This is the un- adorned truth. Social-democrat Failure. The Social-democrats held out a promise that as a result of the war there would be a just, democratic and honorable peace between all peoples. They lied. They consciously and de- liberately deluded you. They certain- ly knew that the peace would be dic- tated by the victorious imperialists. The dishonorable war, conducted by the bourgeoisie with the dishonorable co-operation of the Social-democrats, could end only with a dishonorable peace. This peace was drawn up at Versailles, where the victorious rob- bers placed their iron heels upon the necks of the robbers they had van- quished. Germany and her allies were ground underfoot and dismembered. In order to justify.such an enslave- ment—an enslavement that is not less ruinous than the war itself, the Social- ists of the victorious countries, the Hendersons, the Renaudels, the Van- derveldes and the others, repeat the parrot cry of the bourgeoisie: Ger- many is being punished for having de- sired and having brot about the war. What imposture! What idiocy! Even were it true the the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs were solely re- sponsible for the war—is a people to be punished for the misdeeds of the government which oppressed it? Is the German proletariat to be mas- sacred for the treachery of the Ger- man bourgeoisie? International Greed. The Socialists of the Entente coun- tries believe that it is just to snatch bread from the mouths of the Ger- man workers, of their women and. their children, as punishment for the fact that the German bourgeoisie annihilated these workers’ brothers, husbands and fathers, or made cripples of them. But can any honest man in his right mind imagine for one moment longer that responsibili- ty for the war rests exclusively with Germany and Austria-Hungary? Do we not know of the insatiable greed of the English bourgeoisie, the op- pressors of colonial people? Do we not khow of the loathsome greed of the French Bourse? Did not Czarist Russia, in alliance with France and England, strive to steal Constan- tinople and the Dardanelles? The imperialist war was the result of the clash of the unleashed greed of both groups. All of them mobil- ized for the war. All of them hoped that a new apportionment of the earth’s surface would result. All strove for plunder. All of them thirsted for booty. The ruling classes in both camps are responsible for the of the socialist parties not only did not call the workers to revolutionary battle, against the war, but actually allied themselves with their govern- ments, declared the war of their par- ticular government to be just and righteous, and called upon the toiling masses to support it. Thanks only to this support on the part of the socialists, the bourgeoisie found it possible to keep the masses in check, and conduct the war. Only as a result of the betrayal of the socialist party was the bourgeoi- sie able to continue the war for four years. Only thru the co-operation of the social-patriotic leaders with the militaristic murderers of the op- pressed did humanity lose ten million People and become burdened with many millions of cripples. Only thru the flunkeyism of Scheidemann and Ebert, of Renaudel and Longuet, of |Henderson and Vandervelde, was it possible for the bourgeoisie un- hindered to ruin and impoverish Eu- rope, and to destroy everything that had been built up by hundreds of years of wil. BLACK AUGUST 1914. The first of August, 1914, the first day of the imperialist war, the day on which the Social-democratic leaders openly capitulated to the bourgeoisie, will remain for all time the darkest, most evil, most dishonorable day in the history of mankind. . Working men and women! Farm- ers! Remember what your rulers told you, what they promised you; from the fipst days of the war. You were told that this war would bring the com- mon people an ensured means of live- lihood. You were promised that after the war there would be no more mili- tarist burden. You were assured that this war would be the last. Thus did the kings, the presidents, the bour- geois ministers, the journalists, speak to you. And the social democrats and the patriotic leaders of the trade unions repeated these things after their own fashion. Now, on the tenth anniversary of those daya’you can draw the balance. You can see how dishonorably your faith has been abused, Even the vic- torious countries have become incom- parably poorer than they were before tho war. But if the bourgeoisie has cheated you, that is only in the nature of things: the bourgeoise is our most irreconcilable, our most merciless en- emy. But you were also cheated by those whom you had looked upon as your leaders. The Social-democrats, who through their speeches against the bourgeoisie had won the trust of the workers, flung themselves on Au- gust 1, 1914, into the camp of the bour- gooisie and used all their power, all war, for its continuation over a period of four years, for its sacrifices and its destruction, for its idiotic out- come at Versailles. And more than a trifling degree of responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the Social-Democratic politicians, _the patriotic union leaders, bosom com- panions of the bourgepisie, the haggling agents of imperialism, the Socialist attornies of the Versailles peace, and brands them with the mark of dishonor. October Saved Russia. One country alone took no part in the disgraceful proceedings at Ver- sailles, either as victor or vanquished. The working masses of revolutionary Russia, under the leadership of the Communist Party, had overthrown the bourgeoisie, had taken govern- mental power into their own hands, and had led the country out of the Hell of the war. The Bolshevik gov- ernment broke down the iron doors behind which the Czarist diplomats worked, made public their secret documents which unmasked the treacherous activities of the entente governments as well as of the gov- ernments of the Hohenzollerns and | the Hapsburgs. There remains’ not! one particle of doubt, that had Rus- sia allied herself with the Entente and continued the war, as the social- revolutionaries and the Mensheviki wanted her to do—the already ex, hausted country would have become a British-French colony, a northern India, Only thru the October (No- vember, 1917) revolution did Russia find its salvation! THE GERMAN REVOLT The toilers of Germany and Austria-Hungary, as a result of the war, became rebellious. The old dynasties were overthrown. If the German junkers and capitalists kept their property and their power after November, 1918, they can be thank- ful only to Scheidemann, Ebert, Kautsky and all the other leaders of the socialdemocracy of Germany. These same people, these same poli- ticians, these same traitors, who for four years, aided the Hohenzollern clan to wipe out the German people, were the ones who, during the late months of 1918 prevented the work- ers from settling with their exploit- ers. The fact that the power of capital- ism stood firm after the war, in a Europe that was shattered to its very foundations, is to be credited exclusively to the Second Inter- national, the watch-dogs at the doors of the bourgeoisie, * © IL. There is not a single unscathed spot in Europe. Germany's economic} to pillage. THE DAILY WORKER various parts of the Austro-Hungari- an kingdom have been separated from each other thru a process of in- finite division. In the Balkan states, the situation is still worse. France is bending under her war debts and under the burden of her militarism as never before. Italy is weakened, and subject to continual convulsions. England cannot even dream of the economic power that was hers before the war. The chronic state of un- employment is eating away the body of Europe like a perpetual sore. The numerical strength of the European armies and navies is not less than it was before August 1, 1914. And the expenditures for armies, because of technical improvements, have become greater. Farmers Hit. The war laid a heavy hand upon the farmers of Europe, of America, of the whole world. The bourgeoisie of every country held up to its own peasantry, as a result of the war, the prospect of a boom in agriculture. It assured the farmer that after this “last war” the heavy burden of mili- tarism would be lifted from his shoulders, The farmer was doubly deceived. If at the beginning of the war the propertied farmers sold their pro- ducts at a high price and were able to pay off their old debts with cheap money, and if they appeared, in this way, to have become rich, neverthe- less, thru. the subsequent fall in values, the farmers’ profits were re- duced to nothing. The economic de- cline of Europe diminished the de- mand for agricultural products and hit not only the peasantry of Europe, but also the American farmers, great numbers of whom became poverty- stricken. At the same time militar- ism becomes more exacting and more lavish. The burden of» war assessments is threatening to+break the farmer down completely. | RUHR WAR | The subsequent occupation of the Ruhr by French troops last January indicated a direct) continuation of the imperialist war: the victor gave the vanquished one last kick. The occu- pation of the Ruhr was a new blow for the economic life of Europe, and became, above all, the means of fur- ther terrific ruin of Germany and of the pauperization of her people. But this very occupation fling France in- to the abyss and proved that her economic power is not strong enough to maintain a military dictatorship over the heavy industry of Europe. But how could the French bour- geoisie, after all the crimes with which it glorified itself during the war, again swing its troops into ac- tion for the crime of the Ruhr? How is it possible that the working masses of France and of all Europe dit not rise up to prevent this new robbers’ attack? Workers, think this question over, and it will become clear to you that only the support which the sdcialists in France, as well as in Germany, gave to the bourgeoisie, made possible the militarist enter- prises in the Ruhr district and, sub- sequently, the further ruin of Europe. Again we repeat: had the working masses of France and Gormany de- cided to give to a revolutionary uprising the sacrifices that the occu- pation of the Ruhr, alone, demanded, the bourgeoisie would have been overthrown, the power of militarism shattered, and peace and labor could celebrate their triumph in Europe. But just at such critical moments, when it is a question of the life or death of the bourgeoisie and the des- tiny of the workers, the social demo- crats maliciously destroy the «united front of the proletariat, create a spirit of uncertainty among the workers, fos- ter a feeling of despondency, isolate the various Communist Parties, and Set the pace for capitalist reaction. “Trusted Mensheviki.” As if in recognition of the great services which the social-democrats rendered capitalism in the years that have just passed, the European bour- geoisie, as the bloody jubilee draws near, place their tried trusted and experienced Mensheviki at the helm, now with partial authority, soon with complete power. In England, at the present time, a government of the so-called Labor Party stands at the helm; in France there is a cabinet of the left bloc, which can survive only with the sup- port of the social-democrats, In Ger- many the Social-Democrat® Party is making itself the mainstay of a bour- geois regime. In Denmark Staun- ing’s social-democratic cabinet is in complete control. In Belgium it is not impossible that the party of Van- dervelde, who is zealously hewing out a path for himself, may come to power, Even in Italy the bourgeoisie begins to tire of Mussolini's gang and prepare for reformist relief, Fascism, in the meantime, has made its exit; it has done its full measure of evil. In the most critical times, when the proletariat was ham- mering at the very foundations of the capitalist order, when the scepter of power was falling from the hands of the leaderless bourgeoisie, the Fascist bands saved the situation, in that they created a substitute for the dis- credited state power, sent all parlia- mentary and legal conventions to the devil, and took up service under the bourgeoisie to murder, to shoot and Fascism is the chief tool their authority, to help the bourgeoiste! life has been set back ten years, The of the capitalist system in the hour of i 4 Class War Against Imperialist War! || Manifesto of the Communist International on Tenth Anniversary of the World War. most intense conflict in the class war. The tool of capitalism next in im- portance to Fascism is social-demo- cracy. In crtical moments, social- democrats mobilize all their strength in order to prevent the attack of the proletariat -against the bourgeois state. They condemn Fascism in long and meaningless speeches, re- proach the bourgeoisie with cruelty, but at the same time they swear to the workers to keep out of the horror of a war against the bourgeosie; they play the fool; they flatter and cajole; they poison class consciousness; they maim the willpower of the workers, and they disarm the proletariat men- tally and finally surrender it to the Fascisti. This happened in Hungary. It happened in Italy. It happened in Germany. As soon as the bourgeoisie feels assured that the revolutionary out- break has again been warded off thru the united activities of the Fascisti and the Social-Democrats, it knows that the time has come to restore a regime that is a little less bloody, a little less provoking, a little more normal—that is to say, more obscured in the tatters of legality. At such times there is a change of scene. But yesterday the Fascisti occupied the center of the stage,—with revol- vers, daggers and burning torches,— while the Social-Democrats directed their co-operative efforts from secret corridors; today, when the immediate danger seems to be over, the bour- geoisie hurries to lead the Fascisti off-stage, and brings forth from the secret corridors the “radicals,” the reformists, the Mensheviki, the apos- tles of legality, democracy and peace and places them in the foreground. i KEEP OFF REVOLUTION | The bourgeois says to the Men- shevik: Your Fascist relatives have not kept their. proper place; it is necessary to smooth out and modify the results of their work; it is neces- sary to wipe off the dripping blood stains; it is necessary to soothe gap- ing wounds with consoling balm; it is necessary to create new hopes or revive old iHusions in tired minds; otherwise, despondency will turn to doubt and doubt will be transformed into the spirit of revolution. It is for this reason, for, this purpose, that all the MacDonalds, Blums, Staunings, |” Vanderveldes, Scheidemanns. and Wells’s have succeeded in taking over power, or are approaching power. Between times, militarism is auto- matically going ahead with its work. Under. MacDonald’s government new warships are being built, the making of tanks is being pushed, the air fleet is growing, the chemical implements of war are multiplying. What is all this for? For the battle of the prole- tartat against capital? Militarism Must Go. Oh, no! It is for the purpose of ‘supporting the power of English capi- tal over India, over Egypt, over Ire- land and over the English proletariat. While making no concessions to the workers, the bourgeoisie perfect their war aeroplanes with the hands of the Mensheviki; the French minister Her- riot, who is supported by the social- ists, is continuing the war policy and the foreign policy of Millerand and Poincare. As we Communists have claimed, responsibility for the Ruhr occupation rests not only with the bourgeoisie, but also with the social-| democrats, and is to be scored also against the Mensheviki. But now the whole world perceives that the Ruhr occupation is being carried thru only as the result of an agreement between Herriot on the one hand, and Mac- Donald, Blum, Vandervelde, Ebert and Wells on the other. The Second International has become, before our very eyes, the International of the Ruhr Occupation. 4 Conservatives, Fascisti, “radicals,” and Mensheviks come and go but mili- tarism stays. It stocks up its reserve powers and increases them, it perfects it weapons, it prepares new plans, it keeps itself in check until the most burning memories of the last war have been wiped out of the minds of the people, until the social-democrats have been successful in propitiat- ing the working masses with the idea of the inevitability and permanency of the bourgeois state. Then it will find. it possible openly to start out on the path of new world theft. Then the hour for a new imperialist war will have struck. Poles Got Freedom But Workers Get It in Wage Cuts (Special to the Daily Worker.) WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 17,—Em- ployers in the heavy industries in Po- lish Upper Silesia are serving notice of a 30 per cent wage cut. . They also tried to lengthen the working hours, but the government has forbidden this. The bosses de- clare that they have no objection to ITHUANIANS UNITE MEMBERS BEHIND W, P. ELECTION CAMPAIGN A general membership . meeting will soon be called by the Lithuani- an Federation to promote the Foster-Gitlow presidential campaign, according to Roy Mizara, secretary. The “Vilnis,” Chicago’s mesi-weekly Communist newspaper, and “Lais- ve,” the Lithuanian Communist daily paper, published in Brooklyn, are being used as the shock forces in the campaign among the Lithuani- ans to carry the Communist mes- sage during the election campaign. A general membership meeting was held recently in Brooklyn at which the principle subject was promotion of the new party program and ‘the Foster-Gitlow election campaign. ’ Party Athletes’ First Games in N. Y. Big Success The first athletic games 6f the Workers’ Sport Alliance of America were held in conjunction with the pic- nic of the Workers Party, District No. 2, in Peasant Bay Park, Bronx, N. Y, on Sunday, August 10.° The games of the newly organized workers sport organization were bigger than had been expected. A hundred athletes took part in the games and an enthusiastic crowd of approximately 2,000 comrades wit- nessed the stunts of the working-class athletes. The following nationalities were represented among the contestants: Americans, Finnish, Swedish, Czecho- Slovak, Jugo-Slav, Greek, Italian, Ger- man, Armenian and Jewish. The games were as follows: . Running a Meters, 400 Meters id 800 Meters. First PrisesJ. Pasanen, Finnish Workers A. C., 227.2 pot Second Prize—J. Abrahams. mi ‘the same club, 221.2 points. Third Prize—L. Wax, Athletic Club Vesa of Harlem Finnish Br. W. P., 220.2 points. Runner up was William Lindfors of Athletic Club Toverit, Jamaica, L. L, 207 points. Throwipg nog th ret BM Shot; Discus and Jav. First, Prize — M. Holpainen, Brook- lyn Finnish Workers’ A. C., 212.35 e—E. Lahti, Brooklyn C., 198.' ot ponte. BP. W. A. C., Third Prize—K. Kilpi, 194.44 points. wronrth Take oo Wt B. F. A. C., 191.05 poi Munsee up. Athletic iu Vesa, 182.11 hi a ‘i ‘arjanne, joints. mping Series— na Bagh Lage nse Hop, Pt and Jump and “e r Bisa) Prize—) Holpai meat 27.53 points. Fecond Prize—J, Pasanen, 220.96 poin thir Le mtn Kilpi, 219.52 points. Runner up—O. Suominen, Athletic Club. Vesa, 213.9 =. Medley Rela: 200, 400 and + A. C. team. First, ong v4 zz Time, 3 min., 58.’ Second Prize Athiotte Club Vesa. Time, 4 min., Third Brlze—Atnletic Club Toverit. Time, 4 min., Fourth Prize Athietfo ch Kamra- terno. Time, 4 min., 35.| Fitth Prisc-¥" W. Le of New York. Time, 4 —. ise 8 sec. hree-Mile Run. First, Prize ie —— B. F. W. A.C. sec. reatieag Hack, Vesa. Time, ‘Third Prize—Wm. Relander, Vesa. Time, 18 min., 12.6 sec. Fourth, Prize—J. Inkapol, Vesa. Time, 18 min, 24 fth’ Prize—W. Hill, B. F. W. A. C. 70-Meter Dash. Hilja Saxlin, Vesa. Second Prize—Lena Soderman, Kan- sakoura A. C. S. I. N. Y. Time, 9.8 sec. Third Prize—Aino Wax, Vesa and Minnie Boulovich, _Czecho - Slovak ‘orkers’ Federated Gymnastic Assn. — 10.4 sec. date. ui unner up—Comrade Miss nov= ‘ wwk Caecho-Eigyex Ww. eters. Y¥. Ju- L., 32.7 seconds. Second Prize—Harlem Juniors of » ma .» 37.4 seconds. 6 Mark ners’ Harbor Juniors won all pelase in the children’s sack race. UL we pexingel class athletes who would uke to > join t e Workers’ Goce Alliance America ge write to Emil Toik- ie Secreta Wd East 138th Street, New York | live ‘The Red Sport Interna- Socialist Speaker Beats Hasty Retreat ~ at Communist Query After having spoken for about an hour on the soap box of the socialist party for the candidacy of LaFollette for president, Lena Morrow Lewis very carefully folded her tents and skipped away, one eye on the clouds and the other uneasily surveying a member of the crowd who wanted to ask a question, More specifically, J. Durko Siegel, a member of the Workers Party Doug- las Park English Branch, raised a hand when “Comrade” Lewis had done with her talk, and said that he wanted to ask a question of the speaker, Lewis, who has had the embarrassing experi- ence before, looked to the sky and said: The Strategic Retreat. “I think it’s going to rain pretty soon and I won’t be able to answer any questions.” Saying which, she beat it, leaving the field to the 17 workers who com- posed her crowd, The Scene of Battle. The retreat occurred on the corner of Homan and 12th Sts. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 17.—Fol- lowing almost four years of inactivity the workers quitting after eight hours, |{n Indiana, the prohibition party came but wages will be paid accordingly. |to the front here today with a full While Germany is starving for coal, |list of presidential electors and a state Poland has more than she can take| ticket, minus an attorney-general. care of, but is putting such huge Petitions will be passed for the sig- prices on it that the Germans can buy |natures of 500 voters, necessary to put more cheaply from England and get|the ticket on the ballots. Not only better coal, strict enforcement of prohibition laws but also on tobacco will be asked in Monday, August 18, 1924 CAPELLINI GETS SQUELCHED FOR LEWIS MANEUVER Miners’ Local Repels Fake Progressive By BLACK DIAMOND. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, August 17.—. Rinaldo Capellini of District 1, U. M. W. of A., who was adopted by John L. Lewis into the official family of the miners’ union, has just suffered an ignominious defeat at the hands of approximately 1,000 of his constitu. ents. The Charter Stunt. It all happened when Capellini at. tempted to Lewisize the members of Local Union No. 699, of Edwardsville, by revoking the charter. Later he and the District Executive Board de- cided to return the charter, with the provision that the president and the two secretaries be barred from office for a period of one year. Of course, the officials thought that to do this would put them in a position to seize control of the local, but if they ever had such illusions, disappointment must be their lot after today’s meet- ing. Capéllini did not come to the meet- ing himself, and if the sentiment of the men at the meeting today can be taken as a criterion, it would not be safe for the one-tme “supposed” rad- ical to.go to Edwardsville in the near future. He was represented at the meeting by the International Board member, an International Organizer and a District Board member, the latter act ing as chairman. Can’t Kid Miners. In opening the meeting, the chair: man announced that the meeting was called under the instructions of the District Executive Board, to nominate candidates to succeed the men now deposed and that the election would be held at a later date or as soon as ballots could be printed, but the miners present were in no mood to be kidded. They gave the officials to understand that there would be an election at this very meeting and that instructions to the contrary would have no standing at this meeting. Officials Re-elected. The officials then got their heads together and decided to allow the election to proceed without the formal- ity of a printed ballot, and the slate picked by the friends of the deposed officers, all of whom were placed in nomination by Stanley Edmunds, the deposed president, were elected by an almost unanimous vote. It was im- possible to count the vote for the Edmunds slate, while the three votes registered against the slate were greeted with boos and jeers. There was never any doubt about the result from the time that Ed- munds entered the hall, for as soon as his friends saw his face coming thru the door they rent the air with three rousing cheers for EDMUNDS. As he presented the names of each of the candidates for consideration similar outbursts were heard. Capellini, therefore, in his first at- tempt to stop anyone else from doing the things that made him famous, fell flat and the defeat will undoubtedly make him hesitate before attempting to repeat his Lewis stunts. Altho Edmunds was deposed and therefore, under the ruling, could not be a can- didate, his victory was complete and with the men now elected to office he can retain virtual control of the local union. Myerscough Refused Floor. Thomas Myerscough, wnoe was ex- pelled from the union at the instance of Lewis and his henchmen and who is now working in the mines in this district, was present at the meeting. Myerscough attempted to get the floor to ask a question, evidently believing that he was unknown in this region, but the chairman declared that Myers- cough was not a member of that local union and could not have the floor. This aroused the ire of the men in the hall who kept insisting that Myerscough be allowed to speak, but not having any desire to disturb the meeting, and give the officials a chance. to charge “outside influence,” Myerscough asked that they desist, Soviet Government Published 18,000,000 Text Books in 1923 (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 17.—Ten billion pages of printed matter have been is- sued by the Russian government print- ing house the past five years. Start ing in 1919 as a small office issuing war propaganda, it now specializes in textbooks, which formed half of ita 1928 output, and of which it issued during that year 18,000,000 copies, Its slogan for next year is “Litera ture for the Village,” and its program is to supply the thousands of village reading rooms which have been ebtab: lished during the past two years with material relating to peasant needs, - and also simple literary introductions to Russian Classics and world history, It claims now to be the largest pub lishing house in the world, in the number and size of its books, collinememcnsennemestioeens.:'! Send in that Supsorintion Today, °