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inherent CARPENTERS 0 DETROIT NAIL ‘CZAR’ T0 BENCH Yellow Dog Pledge Is ‘Sent to Discard (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 17—Hutche- fon and his Detroit lickspitties re- celved another body blow from the Detroit carpenters Sept. 11 when Loc. 420 voted down a motion to exclude from the meetings all those who had refused to sign Hutcheson’s yellow dog pledge. John Potts, who leads the state wossacks against the rank and file in Detroit, called the puppet officers of Locals 19 and 420 together and told fhem they must drive all those who @herished their manhood from the two locals. As a result, the motion was made on the floor of 420 to drive put the’ dissenters from the pledge. ‘After a long and hot debate, the ques- tion was put and Hutcheson scored exactly 3 gotes, and the yellow bellied crew who supported his move left the hall hurriedly and discredited. {n starting his expulsion drive in Detroit, Hutcheson got hold of the hot end of a poker and it seems he aust burn his soft hands many times ‘betore his dumb brain registers a need for change of policy. The intellectual vacuums who have wet out to rid the unions of the “red” elements to the end of making them their docile private preserves may ‘well keep their weather eye on Detroit to learn what is not good tactics in ved baiting. Local 420 of the carpenters signed the pledge to about 75 per cent, and now the 75 per cent finds that it can only respect the 25 per cent who refused to sign. They are fighting for the fighters almost to a man; in fact, exactly to a man, for defense of this yellow pledge marks the deadline of manhood and those who waver now @re marked for contempt and shame. 420 has spoken, and in its action, 600 more carpenters say in unison, *Hutckeson, you have gone too far.” Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and it remains to be seen if Hutche- on will continue to twiddle his thumbs in vain arrogance while the edifice of unity builded by the car. Penters crumbles beneath a hand more skilled at using a box maker's ham- mer. As has been stated somewhere, “The results of the blunders of tyrants are always beneficent.” Hutcheson's etupidity will leave a heritage of militants who will build the future glory of the Brotherhood. | ‘Worker Correspondents. fseue on September 21. dt will contain news articles, stories ‘nd letters from workers in the mine, mill, factory, shop, store, farm and wherever workers toil for a living under capitalist exploitation, We invite you to send in yours. This is not confined to Workers Party members only, but to all our read- ers. Whether in the form of a letter, ET TTI The economic ruin in Europe after the war and the desire on the part of the various admiralties to take stock of their war experience ‘before undertaking the construction of new _ armaments has, during the first years the war caused a certain in the work of naval ship- . Only America and Japan (which hardly suffered at all from the ; war), commenced to carry out their colossal ship building program, vying with each other for the first place in the Pacific Ocean naval forces. In 1921, the Washington congress took a decision to bring the American fleet up to a strength equal to that of the strongest fleet in the world, i. e, the British fleet. Great Britain in Published its new program included the construction of four new super-dreadnaughts. The Japanese government drew up the famous program known as the “8-8” according to which the fleet should include 8 firet line battleships and 8 > yeaa not more than 8 i cy tremendous program was to have given Japan almost the second place among the flests of the world, The Japanese cruiser “Takao” ap- a5 on unprecedented giant of tons with a of 84 knots with Vivash guns. COMMUNIST PRESS DAY ISSUE WILL _ BELONG TO WORKER CORRESPOND. . ENTS; SEND IN CONTRIBUTIONS NOW! A Communist paper is entirely different from any other kind of. news- paper in that it does not publish stories about the struggle under capitalism by the observer, but from the one who lives it. A worker correspondent writes about the, things he lives thru, about the conditions in his shop, about the struggle for bet- ter living conditions engaged in by himself and his fellow workers. makes. a Communist paper a real live, fighting workers’ paper. we aim to develop in the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY: WORKER will publish a special Communist Press Day This issue will be different from all other special fssues published for the reason that¢— -| COWDERY RE. REACHES "HES PITTSBURGH ON COAST TO COAST TOUR AND SELLS COMMUNIST LITERATURE WHOLESALE By P, B. COWDERY. Our comrades and the movement generally are overlooking something in the matter of getting our literature to the masses. We comrades who traveled from Frisco to Chicago, and now on to New York, have had some valuable experience. At Pittsburgh we found a quantity of May and June Workers’ Monthly and “Blood and Steel” pamphlet, also DAILY WORKERS of fairly recent date. By permission of the party, our crew got busy in the “Hiss district” of the North Side and sold quantities of this literature which otherwise was not moving, and in fact, was rapidly becoming valueless. We operated in the vicinity of four stands selling the DAILY WORKER. Our sign “Frisco to Chicago—Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER” helped. This district teems with a Negro and Jewish pouulation industrially em- ployed. problems. The Negroes, especially, were eager to learn. An ordinance in® Pittsburgh prevents the giving away of literature. We soon found it was possible to sell our literature regard- less of date. It is all good to one who has not read it. Of course, we re- duced the price. How to Sell Literature. Really, anyone who reads working class reading matter should pay some- thing. No one begins to understand until they begin to pay. They must know there is a struggle and they must contribute to a solution of this struggle or they take no creditable part in it, and for that very reason cannot possibly begin to understand it. Our best salesman was a young man not yet a party member. He is an itinerant. chimney sweep and steeple jack, and natural propagand- ist. We picked him up near Colum- bus, Ohio, and soon he became con- vinced that we represented an organ- ization worth tying to. He at once applied himself to selling our reading matter and by the time we reached Pittsburgh he had a definite formula worked out which, with him, usually got results. Here is the wording he used as nearly as I could get it: “Good morning. I am Mr. John F. Lefiney (we called him Lenin for short) representing the Communist International with headquarters in Moscow, with which the Communist Party of the United States is affiliat- ed, and am making my way from San Francisco to New York, advertis- ing the DAILY WORKER and sell- ing Communist literature. This issue of the Workers’ Monthly I have now for sale will make you acquainted with the conditions of the workers all over the world, and the labor struggles in the United States where the Communist International is try- ing to bring all the workers into the united front to make conditions bet- ter for the masses of labor thruout the United States and the world to- day. If you buy this issue of the Workers’ Monthly, you will’thank mé’ many times for enlightening you on the labor question. This issue is 25 A good book on Communism will make you a better Com- munist. That is what is meant by That That is what story or news article, send it in at once, Don’t think you must use high fallutin words or write long academic philosophical treaties. That is just what you should not do. Write as you would to a friend, tell it as it ap- pears to you. Be brief and to the point, Write plainly and on one side of the paper only and send it in now! Such is an example of the naval con- struction activities that began to take Place almost directly after the peace- ful declarations of Versailles. The Washington Conference, In 1921, America considering the correlation of forces of the different powers at that time to be very ad- vantageous for her, convened the Washington conference in order to “fix naval armam at definite and stable dimension: Great Britain, the U, S. A., France, Japan and Italy sent their representatives to this conference. At the opening of the conference President Harding deliver- ed a remarkable speech in which he declared, that “Our conference bears witness to the awakened conscience of the civilization of the twentieth century. The wearieds world is thirst- ing for new relations, and humanity demands a stable peace,” The Sleepy Conscience. The results of the work of this “awakened conscience” at the W: ington conference were that it wi decided that Great Britain and the United States might possess 525,000 tons in large battleships, Japan 315,- 000 tons, and France and Italy 175,- 000 tons. With regard to cruisers, torpedo boats and submarines, here the “awakened conscience” already Malta, Suez, Perim, Aden, Singapore, Hongkong. For this, further construc- tion of large battleships was neces- sary. at its disposition 2: battle cruisers placed no limit. to the total sum per- In warm weather old and young swarm the streets visiting their friends and discussing the workers’ +— IMPERIALISTS PLOT COUNTER REVOLUTION IN SOUTHERN CHINA SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 17.— Persistent rumors say that a reac- tlonary Chinese general, Chen Cru- ing Ming, who once supported the Canton government, has left here for Hongkong with a view to obtain- ing material and money from the British and to form an army to at- tack the Canton national revolution- ary government. It is known that the policy of the imperialist powers is to extend a bait of concessions—or the appear- ance of concessions—to the Pekin government, in order to get. its military power to smash the Can- ton center of nationalist revolution and opposition to imperialist dom- ination. ee ee cents. Thank you! I will see you when the revolution is over.” Scarville Good Propangandist. This merely illustrates what can and should be done. When our litera- ture begins to accumulate on our headquarters’ shelves, and is becom- ing out of date due to a failure to move, we should get busy and move it. Our movement needs the money; the masses need the reading. We should practice salesmanship. We all acknowledge the workers must free themselves. And we know they must do more than talk. They must use the art of printing. They must buy the printed word. We who lead must sell the printed word. To buy, to sell, to read, to act. By this constant ac- tivity over and over and over again we eventually reach the masses. At Pittsburgh, Comrade Scarville, a Negro comrade, is the outstanding propagandist. Comrade “Roberts,” sone of our original party from Frisco, is hiking back to the Pactfio coast and should arrive within three weeks. Comrade Polk, expelled from the bar- bers’ union in Chicago, for militant ac- tivity in the interest of the rank and file, is accompanying us as far as New York. Ben Deitsch, an auto mechanic, comrade of Pittsburgh, has greatly assisted us when in trouble with our auto. Numerous other com- rades and sympathizers respond splendidly in times ‘of necessity, real- izing as they must, that our methods contribute to a solution of our prob- lems in reaching the masses. It is hoped to spend some time among farmers. This may form the basis of another sketch. Sacred Relics Go Up in Smoke. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 17.— Seven persons were rescued early to- day and a dozen families, residents of a nearby apartment house were routed from their beds when fire of undeter- mined origin totally destroyed the rectory of St. Francis Assisi church, Germantown. Many thousands of dol- lars worth of sacred relics and famed paintings were destroyed. The church, directly across the street, was un- touched by the flames. Five firemen were overcome by smoke before the THE DAILY WORKER AKERS AND oP STILL WORK TOCETHER Martial Law Still Rules Carpenters (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Sept, 17.—Evi- dently a jurisdictional dispute has arisen between the police forces em- ployed by Hutcheson’s agents in De- troit, for Sunday night the state cos- sacks, whom executive board mem- ber Potts had commanded for some time, were replaced by Detroit harness cops and plain clothes men in com- mand of Jack Walsh, a renegade who was put into office as business agent by the left wing and now acts as un- derstudy to Potts, Evidently Detroit’s coppers and car- penters are of a mind as to outside interference is concerned, but while the coppers have gotten rid of the usurpers from Flat Rock and Lansing, the interference from Indiana in the affairs of the carpenters of Detroit continues and thefr forces remain divided by the general office fat boys. Apprentice a Fine Mechanio, When some of the members whom the police are employed to exclude tried to gain admission, Jack Walsh tried the heroic stunt and tried to put them out. Before his squeals attracted his uniformed reserves, poor Jack had received a fine beating at the hands of one of the apprentices in the or- ganization. The flying squadron was called and five left wingers were arrested and taken over to the hoosegow by orders of the reactionaries. Hardly a Promise. They were held a half hour gand then discharged. In discharging them the inspector in charge said: “If you promise not to go back there I'll let you go.” The quintet assured him that they'd be back “there in ten minutes.” b On returning {o the hall it was found that plain tlothes men were in- side the union! almost continuously, tho members were excluded. When asked by the police why they insisted on sticking ‘around, the excluded members explained that they wanted to talk to the rank and file, to which the uniformed dumbell replied. “This rank and file, HE won't be around here all night.” Landlord Speaks Up. The landlord who owns the hall and entertains the same private prop- erty regard toward it as do those. Ja- bor fakers toward the union, has been threatening to ae the local unless they dispense “the polite, ‘Potts and Walsh will have to propose that both their interests depend upon a brutal subjugation of ‘the workers, and an acceptance by the workers of the proposition that private property in unions as well as ‘buildings must be at all times respected. The murmurs of discontent in Local 19 of the’ carpenters is growing and before long these lackeys of the bosses will reap ‘the whirlwind their deeds are now sowing. . DETROIT, Mother Bloor in Perth Amboy. FORDS, N. J., Sept. 17.—Comrade Mother Bloorwill be the principal speaker at our open air meeting on Saturday night in’ Perth Amboy, at the corner of Smith and Elm streets. Every party member and sympathizer is urged to be on hand to assure the success of the meeting. McNamara Indicted by Scab INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 16—John J. McNamara, a leading figure in the trial fourteen years ago in Logs An- geles, when he was accused of bomb- ing the’ Los Angeles Times building, faced trial again here. He is under blaze was subdued after a two hour] indictment charged with threatening battle. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs. representatives of Great Britain tried to come to an agreement for the complete curtailment of submarine construction which for the British themselves are a dangerous weapon against trade. There have been two more confer- ences on the question of limiting nav- al armaments since the Washington conference; in 1923, the conference of South American republics in Los An- geles, and in 1924, the conference of the minor naval powers at Rome. Neither of these conferences arrived at any result. More Battleships. Meanwhile, Great Britain, no long- er threatened by Germany, and no longer faced with the new rivals with whom agreement had been arrived at in Washington, set about carrying out colossal naval construction. The imperialist interests of British capital in the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean compel British strategy to concentrate all its attention just on the Mediterran- | basin the key to all the most important traMfc routes Gibraltar- Great bal having already battleships (1. e. der col new program). figures and cern the most powerful and up-to- date warships for, between November, sold for scrap 35 ers, 375 torpedo boats, 101 submarin and 240 other 80000 to a total dis- a strikebreaker engaged in the con- struction of the Elks’ Home in 1924. McNamara is business agent of the local Iron Workers’ Union. commencement of 1928, laid down the keels of 2 new super-dreadnoughts in the shipyards of Armstrong-Whit- worth and Cammél Laird—the “Rod- ney” and “Nelson” with a tonnage of 35,000 with 16-inch artillery (9 guns each); in addition Great Britain has begun the construction of 11 cruisers and a number of jtorpedo bo: air- craft carriers and submarine: + ready at the coi cement of 1925 she has the follow! warships ready: Batth jps—22 (fot including two under construction): Cruisers—52 ‘(in addition to those being constructed, the new program, July, 1926—provides for 18 additional cru: Alroratt carriers—elght. Torpedo boats and destroyers—207. Submarines—66 (beside those un- truction and included in a ped the Junk, ry to remark that all im) these tables con- It is nec 1918, up to 1923, the’ British have hagtleships, 82 cru placement of tons. In this absolutely free o! manner the prese; dreadnoughts) Abineh and 19.fnch guna, ag the jebips, All those MILWAUKEE HAD SPIRITED I. L. D. CONFERENCE AND MASS MEETING; LAID PLANS FOR FUTURE WORK MILWAUKEB, Wis., Sept, 17-—Much enthusiasm was expressed by the delegates representing a number of labor organizations who attended and organized the International Labor Defense Council in Milwaukee. A delegate from the Juneau Society G. U. G. was very much impressed with the work and he promiséd to give himself to that activity in his or- ganization, which consists mostly of ex-brewery workers and union men. A number of fraternal organizations #—— pledged monthly contributions to the council, The passed: Resolved, This International Labor Defense Council of Milwaukee com- posed of class organizations recognizes the necessity for unity of effort in de- fense of class war prisoners, men and wonien persecuted by the capitalist class for their activities in the labor and revolutionary movement and sub- scribes to the program of the Inter- national Labor Defense Council. This conference constitutes itself a unit of the International Labor De- following resolution was fense Council and pledges itself to| carry out loyally all the tasks that fall to it in connection with the de- fense of all workers persecuted be- cause of their loyalty and activity for the working class and in connection with the maintenance of their fam- ilies. The Milwaukee council will méet once a month and the executive com- mittee will also hold one meeting every month. The International Labor Defense mass meeting was held in the even-| ing of the same day with William F. Dunne as the principle speaker. A collection of $31.20 was taken up. The delegates attending the confer- delegates from working | | ‘ Dorothy TWENTY THOUSAND MILL WORKERS ON STRIKE IN INDIA AGAINST PAY GUT BOMBAY, Brit. India, Sept. 17.— Twenty thousand workers employ- ed in twelve mills, went on strike here in protest against wage reduo- tions. Armed police are patrolling the mil crowds of pickets hold demonstrations. PICKETER FINED ILLEGALLY BY CAPITAL JUDGE Federal Laws Brushed Aside in Store Case (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHXNGTON, Sept. 17.—(FP)— rguson was found guilty ence and mass meeting were from| and fined $2) for peaceful picketing the following organizations: List of Delegates. Croation Fraternal Sick and Bene- volent Organization, 1; National Cro- ation Society'Branch No, 291, 3; Lith- uanian R. L. W. L. G. Branch No. 6, 1; Cigarmakers No. 25 of Milwaukee, of the Young, Men's Shop, on F. St., Washington, by\Police Magistrate Gus Schuldt, on Sepf\ 14. She was arrest- ed April 9 last on\a warrant charging her with violation a police regula- tion in the District Columbia dated 1906, which forbids @il persons from 2; So. Slovak Branch No. 61, W. P.,| remaining in front of, or entering, any 2; So. Slovak Branch No. 63, W. P.,| retail store “for the purpose of enti- 1; Croation Benefit Society, Sokol No.| cing away or in any manner interfer- 25, 1; German Society, G. U. Ger- mania, 2; Young Workers’ League, 1; Jewish Branch W. P., 1; ing with any person or pérsons who may be in front or who may have English |‘entered therein for the puapose of Branch W, P., 1; Czecho-Slovak W. P., | buying.” 1; Finnish Branch W. P., 1; Ukrain- ‘The defense was based on her right, ian Branch W. P., 1; Russian Branch} under the Clayton act, to picket the W..P., 1; Bulgarian Branch W. P., 1; Slovanian Branch W. P., 1. Lehigh Valley I. L L. D. Conference Plans premises. Mrs. Ferguson told people passing by: “This is a non-union store and is unfair to organized labor.” Judge Schuldt, in his opinion, said, “The regulation was not passed for the purpose of preventing picketing Future Activities} ut to save the merchants and pros- By A. HOFFMAN. (Special to The Daily Worker) SO.,BETHLEHEM, Pa., Sept. 17.— The Lehigh Valley Section I. L, D. conference with representatives from pective buyers from annoyance and to preserve the peace of the com- munity.” The Clayton act was pass- ed by congress in October, 1914. However, Judge Schuldt held that “If picketing in the guise of intimi- various organizations was organized | gation, interference and enticement of with expression of determination from | prospective purchasers is pursued the the delegates present to throw them- selves wholeheartedly into the work ahead. H. M. Wicks from ° Philadelphia, made a spirited speech after which the resolutions on the following mat- ters were introduced and unanimous ly adopted. 1. Crouch and Trumbull | ease. 2. The Zeigler miners’ case, 3. Lanzutsky and the Polish white ter- ror. 4, Recent Bessarabian slaugh- ter and imprisonment of 500 work- ers. 5. Endorsement of Convention of I. L. D. held June 28, in | Chicago. A section committee was then elected for future activities with a sub-committee divided into three city territorial groups, Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton. Due to a fierce rain storm, the mass | meeting attendance was somewhat | impaired but what it lacked in num- bers it certainly made up in en- ttmusiasm. Preachers Seek Pension BEARDSTOWN, IIL, Sept. 17.— Freely predicting its defeat, delegates to the 102nd Illinois conference, me- thodist episcopal church, prepared to vote, on a proposed new preachers pension plan, National | | | | as to whether federal law! court cannot perceive why the offend- er should not come within the pur- view of the\ (police) regulation, be- cause to hold fhat it only applied to merchants attempting to incite and interfere with the dustomers of others | would place it in the category of class | legislation.” 2 Appeal will be taken on the issue that sanc- | tion picketing have any forge what- ever. Menace in Fingerprint System \ NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—(FP)—John holas Beffel, co-author of a book | showing that fingerprints can be for- ged, condemns the proposal of the national crime commission to have all immigrants fingerprinted in an open letter to Mark O. Prentiss, organizer of the commission. The plan, points j Beffel might lead to the framing up of immigrants because fingerprint identifications are not infallible. Of the two men executed in this country solely on fingerprints evidence, says Beffel, there is reason to believe that one (George Brandon, electrocuted in New Jersey in 1921) was guiltless. lated during the years of the war and |from the west to the preceding the war, have now been dis- carded. France, threatening and threatened |their roads by Great Britain in the Mediterran- | cross, especially when the only police- it. crossing, in the Mediterranean Sea, the French road from North to South. And where cross, their interests ean, which connects her up with the} man standing at the cross roads is French colonies, also by Italy and Spain who in 1923, concluded a “naval agreement direct- ed against France aiming at protect- ing the freedom of the Mediterran- ean.” not lagging behind the continued na- val armaments of their rival: is here threatened |the doll called the League of Na- tions.” Wall Street's Bulldogs, The U. S. A. no longer construct- ing its pre-Washington giants has The French imperialists are |now at its disposition 18 battleships (of which 3 were launched in 1920-21, In this |armed with 16-inch guns) 31 cruisers, connection we have the absolutely | 267 torpedo boats destroyers and 56 categorical statement of Dumergue | submarines (of which 10 cruisers, 249 himself (in his Cherbourg speech in | torpedo boats and 56 submarines have 1925) where he said: “The desire | been launched since the war). Not for peace has induced France to con- | content with this, the government has serve its naval strength in a condi- tion corresponding to the world po: tion of the republic and the ne: sity for safeguarding the tremend- ous coast line and the colonial de- | battleships In addition to 6 battle- |launched in pendencies” presented a draft bill to congress for | the construction of eight more 10,000) tons cruise: Japan has at its disposition 10/ without this. {of which two 1919-20, with were 16-inch ships, 6 cruisers, 58 torpedo boats and | guns) 8 cruisers, 21 light cruisers, 84 45 submarine: France has fixed a | torpedo boats and the same number of ship building program for 6 cruisers | submarines, She is continuing to in- at 10,000 tons each, 3 cruisers at 7,- 880 tons, 21 destroyers. at 2,226 tons | er; crease the fleet, by adding new cruis- nd torpedo boats. By 1928, the and 36 torpedo boats at 1,430 tons and | Japanese fleet should include 25 large also 52 submarines, Such are the tre- new cruisers as against. 10 new cruis- mendous increases of the French fleet |ers (launched since the war) of the in that very Mediterranean which J. . Horrabin correctly described as: ee Italy, ‘which economically considers the British roadway leading | itself almost as an island state, com-| the threats of the vage Three PLUTE PRESS FINDS “REDS” IN ANTHRACITE Remarks on Warde Against Lewis By PAT TOOHEY. | WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Sept 17.~ Running true to form, the yellow brass check press of the anthracite field hastens to assure the mine op- ¢rators and the Lewis machine that it, also, Is the enemy of the terrible Communists, The Communist membership and militant miners distributed many thousand copies of the Central Ex- | ecutive Committee of the Workers Party manifesto calling on the work- ers to stand behind the anthracite miners; to join the fight against the employers, The manifesto itself set forth con- crete demands for which the miners should fight, pointed out the solution of their many problems, and attacked the Lewis bureaucracy. This got un- der the hide of the local “mediums of public opinion” who immediately at tacked the manifesto, wes The following ig taken from thé Wiukes-Barre Sunday Telegram® of September 13, relative to the mani- festo. Headlined “Communists Ac- tive,” we discover the following gemyr Communists Discovered! : “The Workers Party of America thru its Central Executive Committee is taking a band in the miners’ fight. This is the Commmnist group in this country and while the heading of the circular being sent out carries the ad- monition to “Stand By the Anthracite Miners,” there is much material in {the body of the manifesto as it is labeled, designed to hamper the Unit- | ed Mine Workers of America, € | “The Communists with their boring from within methods have been fought |at all turns of the road by John L, {Lewis and his staff, This apparent |help from their enemies however car ried demands for a labor party, for na- tionalization of the coal mines, work- ers’ control of the mines, and a six- hour day and a five-day week. There is also a demand for joint agreements covering the hard and soft coal flelds. } There is a fling in this connection at the Lewis machine and the miners are warned to guard against its treach- ery. - “I€ is a document such as has often been circulated in the field during the last seven years. The red group has been seeking to gain control and while the preamble from the edict of the Russian controlled group carries an appeal for support of the hard coal miners’ cause, there is considerable poison contained in this latest dose that has been brewed by the Foster publicity bureau.” ; More to Come, Truly, this is inspiring! The poof, press. The worst ig yet to come, More will be heard of the Commyn- ists, the Communists will continue to carry their message to the strik- ing miners, to expose the corruption of the Lewis bureaucracy, will con- tinue to point to the miners the only solution to their problems, continue to stand side by side with the strik- ing miners so that their fight against the operators will be more effective so txat their ranks will be more solidi- A® to the manifesto itself, agree- ment Ys found among the miners, they want wiity with the soft coal fields, they wamt a minimum wage, they want a laber party, they want every- thing the nifesto demands. The Communists will continue to educate the miners for the realization of these demands, SB 4 The best way to support the DAILY WORKER is to subscribe —and get others to subscribe, Naval Armaments After the World War pletely dependent upon sea communi- cation® declares quite openly as to the necessity for occupying “a corre- sponding position on the Mediterran- | ean paths essential to her.” Possess- ing already 6 battleships, 8 cruisers, 61 torpedo boat destroyers, and 41 submarines, she is putting thru a new construction program for 1923-28 dur-° ing which period the government should construct 6 cruisers of 10,000 tons each, 20 large destroyers and 20 large submarines. Spain which has friendly naval relations with Italy and which already possesses 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 10 torpedo boats and 10 submarines is building 2 more cruisers, 3 destroyers and 6 submarines. We will not trouble to consider the naval armaments of the minor states since the picture becomes quite clear Naval armament after Versailles is being carried out at just the same rate as it was during the preparation for the 1914 war, * NOTE:—The tasks prescribed for the recent maneuvers of the Italian fleet are characteristic: a group of transports from the U. 8. 8. R. carry- ing Russian wheat and oil proceeding from the Black Sea to Italy has to be met by the fighting squadron which endeavors to escort them safely under | pa EI