The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1926, Page 3

WAGE POLICY OF A, FL EXPOSED BY RUTHENBERG Party to Fight Until Vic-| tory, He Pledges NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 26.—Mak- ing his only public address in the New York district for the election cam- “paign, C. E, Ruthenberg, general sec- ’ retary of the Workers (Communist) Party, spoke at the Amalgamate: |Labor Temple, Brooklyn, Tuesday | night where an enthusiastic meeting was held. ‘ A clear analysis of the American Pederation of Labor's new wage poli- ey was made by Ruthenberg to. the “delight of his hearers, Explains A, F. of L. Policy. “The officials of the A. F. of L, are mot living up to their own policy,” | Ruthenberg declared. “And why not? |Because if they did, if they made the * | slightest attempt to increase the wages of the American workers, to ;etart a real struggle for more money, Hthey would find that arrayed against }them would be the whole machinery “of the capitalist system. fi “Thé A. F. of L. policy,” said Ru- thenberg, “is that the workers should share in the greater wealth as the ‘productivity of labor increases by speed-up systems and by the introduc- tion of improved. machinery, But as goon as the A. F. of L, attempts to seize its share of the iticreased wealth it will find itself faced with the same problem ag enunciated by the Work- ers Party—the mass opposition of the employers backed up by the whole * “government apparatus.” Party Takes Lead. . -Ruthenberg made a*clear analysis ‘of the nature of the class struggle swith special reference to America, He pointed out that the Workers Party ‘was the leader of the American labor movement toward the devolopment of @ more militant struggle against the exploiters, He pledged the party to continue the struggle until the Amer- fan trade unions had been made mili- tant, until the basic industries had heen organized, until the workingclass fhad developed a mass political party ‘ef its own and received experiences mecessary to ensure success in its ‘ight to destroy the capitalist system, ‘to establish a workers’ and farmers’ woyernment and found a new social order, ¥ Bertram D. Wolfe, Workers Party wandidate in the tenth’ congressional -@istrict, made a pointed talk on “Who Owns the Government?” \ “For president what ‘have we?” pasked. Comrade Wplfec; fArstrike- “breaker. We have a crooked banker for vice-president. We have a multi- millionaire for secretary of the treas- ury, This individual pilfers the treas- ury in his own interests and in ‘the interests of his associates, In our senate we have twenty millionaires nd seats are now selling, according 4o latest quotations, for between one and two million dollars apiece.” Wolfe pointed out that the entire machinery of the government, the courts, police and army is used against the workers. When he made an ap- peal to the audience to join in the fight against this governmental attack nine workers joined the Workers Par- ty. x! Benjamin Gitlow, Workers Party candidate for governor, denounced Governor Smith’s claims as a repre- sentative of the people. “He detailed the governor’s record pointing to in- * Junctions against strikers, his arbitra- tion program always satisfactory to the employers and a blow to the work. ers, the brutality of the New York police, traceable to the governor as the highest state’ authority. Gitlow ©" showed that both the republican and democratic parties were controlled by big business and urged the workers to build their own party, s “Pascal Cosgrove, former organizer of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Un- don, also spoke. Sam Nesin, Workers Party candidate in the 14th assembly H as district, was chairman. |“ District of Columbia | a Denies Trial by Jury , F + % Despite Old Decision WABHINGTON,, Oct. 26,—Whether police, courts in the District of Co- jumbia can continue, to deny jury trials to defendants who demand’ _ them is soon to be fought out in the + higher court and. will probably go tothe federal supreme court. The pe present case involves a violation of traffic regulations, but back of the| ‘defense is the sentiment of organized jJabor, which repeatedly has been de- nied jury trials in time of strike, Many years ago Charles A. Dana of the New York Sim was éued for li- bel and an attempt was made to bring him before a police: judge in the dis- trict because a copy ofthe paper ~ containing the alleged libel was de- livered in Washington. The federal ‘court refused to honor the writ is- sued for him, dechiriig that he could not be made to answer for libel in the first instance ‘unlégs given trial ~ before a jury. ne ‘s ‘os Afterward the federal’ supreme court decided in a *conaptracy case Ys that persons charged with that crime are entitled to jury in the district. On still another occasion the local ‘Musicians’ Un! ight put ‘the issue charged —- FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BACKING | THE OPEN SHOP DRIVE TO CRUSH 2 ie eres THE OHIO MINE WORKERS’ UNION By HARVEY. O'CONNOR CLEVELAND, Oct. 26,—Credit capital, ultimate authority in America's industrial life, has decreed that the Miners’ Union must go. Speaking thru George de Camp, chairman of the board of the Cleveland federal reserve bank, the Wall Street interests in control of the federal reserve have ordered the miners to sacrifice the gains of long years of struggle by going back to work underground for approximately the same wage that the unskilled city bay ea I street laborer gets—$5 a day. U. S, Bank Head for Scab Wage. Chairman de Camp’s ultimatum is published in, the Clevelander, official organ of the Cleveland chamber of commerce, one of the most bitter anti- union organizations in the country. Under the title, “Ohio—Dig Coal,” de Camp recalls with enthusiasm the $2.98 scale the miners got before the war and urges the adoption in Ohio of the wages now being’ paid in south- ern West Virginia. De Camp and the federal reserve board are now ranged side by side with the interstate commerce com- mission, the U. S, chamber of com- merce and various agencies, both financial and governmental, which are clamoring for the destruction of the United Mine Workers as the last ob- stacle in the Way of a completely non- union America, A Serious Menace, De Camp's statement is no empty pronunciamento, for his institution controls the credit facilities of every national bank in Ohio and can easily compel them ‘to deny advances to union operators, The key position of West Virginia in the national’ miners’ union crisis and the imperative necessity of in- stituting ‘a more vigorous policy in fighting non-unionism in: taat state is evidenced by the bureau of mines’ final report for Ohio coal operations in 1925, Ohio Union Assassinated. Due to the low labor costs of West Virginia, unionized Ohio experienced the worst coal year since 1909, when production fell to 28,000,000 tons last year. In comparison with 1923, when West Virginia was partially organ- ized, Ohio coal production has fallen by one-third. The comparison with 1920 is even more startling, for in that year Buckeye fthiners tossed nearly twice as much coal into their squat little mine cars as last year. While Ohio has been experiencing a 50 per cent decrease in tonnage out- put, non-union Kentucky, to the: south, has increased from 35,000,000 to 53, 000,000 while non-union West Virginia has shot up from 90,000,000 to 125,- 000,000. As a result 15,000 Ohio min- ors have been cut completely off the payroll in two short years and another 15,000 given less than five days’ work 4 month, Average employment has been.151 days, altho in Hocking Val- ley the average was but 109 days, Governor Donahey, closely in touch ith the coal situation, predicts that production for 1926 will be cut to 21,- 000,000 tons, the lowest in the present century, y Probe Union Strength. Ohio operators, checkmated in their decision to open this fall on the 1917 scale of $5 a day by the iron wall de- termination of the miners to save their union, are seeking weak spots in the union armor, Already suc- cessful in the Pomeroy district of southern Ohio and in the West Vir- ginia panhandle—under Ohio jurisdic- tlon—they are probing union strength in Hocking and Belmont fields, J. A. Paisley, tri-state operator, who defield the union in the panhandle, tried recently to open his Ohio mine across the Ohio river from his scab properties, Sub-district officers or- dered the union day men not to clean up the mines until they had conferred with Paisley at his Cleveland offices. Hard hit by the failure of his non- union panhandle mines to average more than one-third of union produc- tion, due to the employment of un- skilled coal diggers, Paisley offered to pay the Jacksonville scale in Ohio. Union officials made it plain that he could not try the old game, worked successfully in other districts, of op- erating half his mines union and the other ‘half scab. The conference broke up. COTTON CRISIS FORCING UNITED STATES TOWARD RECOGNITION OF SOVIET UNION TO GET A MARKET WASHINGTON — (FP) — Falling prices of cotton in the south may help break. the deadlock between-Washing- ton and Moscow oyer American recog- nition of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. After election day*the be; ginning of negotiations for settlement of differences between the two govern- ments may appear, and senators from the south m&y turn up at the white house with arguments favorable to a prompt agreement. The cotton grow- ers of the south want.to market their excess crop, and Russia wants-to buy 2,000,000 more: bales. sis mie <6 Experts for the department of agri- culture have reported that this year's cotton crop will be 16,647,000 bales, while 5,000,000 ‘bales of last year’s crop were held over, prices a year ago averaged about 22c, while today they are 13c. Cost of production this year is estimated at-about.20¢ a pound, Rep. Pou of North Carolina has asked Pres, Coolidge to call*congress in spe- cigl session to deal with the situation, declaring that the farmers will lose from $20 to $26 por bale on their crop, Coolidge declines, \ ee @ The soviet government has been buying $45,000,000 of American cotton yearly, and wants to buy more, But ‘credit must be arranged if the Rus- sians are to absorb a large part of the American surplus, Credit waits on a settlement of the American debts by Moscow, White house and state department seem anxioug that no official approach be made by Moscow until after Nov. 2 election day, On the day after the ballots have been cast the administra- tion will be in position-to begin nego- tiations, King Cotton will prevent the southern-demooratic senators from or- Presence of American Troops and Gunboats In China Denounced SEATTLE, Oct. 26—At a meeting in celebration of the 15th anniversary of tha founding of the Republic of South China under the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen held by the Labor College here, a resolution was adopted denouncing the presence of American troops and gun- boats in China and calling for their withdrawal, Y. Y. Tsan, graduate student of the University of Washington, in making the principal address, declared that. the Cantonese forces would have over- come all opposition and established a united and democratic republic in Chi- na before this had it mot been for the support, furnished by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and other imperialist governments to the various partisan Chinese generals. Ne predicted that victory would come to. the revolutionary forces cauge they had the support of arora o ganizing a counter-offensive in which they’ would revive the old anti-bolshe- vik bogey. Yot even if Russia does bpy millions of bales of American cotton in addi- tion to the amount she can now finance, the cotton growers of the south are faced by a bad situation. The market will apparently remain lower than their production cost this year. Acute suffering will be felt from the Carolinas to Oklahoma and Texas. This will make easier the job of soviet settlement and recognition, - 2 Secretary of state Kellogg has in- structed the American consul in Can- ton to protest the laying of an addi- tional tax on imports and exports— above the customs rates permitted by the foreign powers—in those parts of China controlled by the Canton na- tional government, Other powers have made similar protest, but the new taxes are being collected by the radical government in its ports. Canton takes the posi- tion that it is a sovereign Chinese goy- ernment with which the powers will have to negotiate. Washington is be- ginning to think it may. “8 Concealing its identity behind the name of a professional publicity agent, 4 group of chemical warfare enthu- siasts whose namés are not disclosed has begun an attack on the Geneva protocol, now awaiting ratification by the senate, abolishing the use of poi- son gas in war. Inquiry by The Fed- erated Press brought from the public- ity office the statement that the Ameri- can Association for Chemical Defense is paying for this propaganda, and that among its members are some former officers of the Chemical War- fare Service, but the name of no officer of the association was forthcoming. Officers of Ships in Neptune Association Kick at Low Sea Wage NEW YORK, Oct.+ 26.—Sea wages are too low to hold the skilled men, Both Captain John F. Milliken; secre- tary-treasurer of the Neptune Asso- ciation of Masters, Mates and Pilots, and Bert L. Todd, secretary-treasurer of the Ocean Association of Marine Engineers, report that their members are leaving the sea for shore jovs in considerable numbers, There is some strike talk and within a fines the two unions are expected either to call a strike or to advise thelr members to leave the sea un- Jess the companies consent to open negotiations, * Shipping is relative good. The re- ports of the U. 8. shipping board cite an increase of 8,300,000 tons more of waterborse United States commerce _|for the second quarter of 1926. tha in the’ first, or a total of 24,280,0 tons,'as compared with 20,980,000 tons An'diérease of 750,000 tons ts reporter ‘ a ' THE DAILY WORKER i |WORKERS SENATE CANDIDATE HITS WALSH'S RECORD Green ‘“Informed’’ as to Real Facts BOSTON, Mass,, Oct, 26.—The fol- lowing letter was sent by John J. Ballam, Workers’ Party candidate for the United States senate, to William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, on Ottober 15, 1926: Walsh Is Enemy. Dear Sit: | In your letter of Septem- ber 29, 1926, you call upon the wage workers Ey irachusetis to support for the U.) 8; senate David I. Walsh. I have reat! your communication with considerable surprise. I cannot un derstand how any labor man acquaint- ed with the record of Walsh could endorse his candidacy. Facts have shown that Walsh cannot be consid- ered as a friend of labor. Mr. Walsh is- opposed to strikes among railroad workers as indicated by the following, statement made by him in the U. S. senate on December 18, 1918: “Strikes among certain classes of employes are indeed never justifiable, and among these classes are undeniably our transportation em- ployes.”| The reason for his opposi- tion to strikes*among railroad work- ers is undoubtedly linked up with Walsh’s close connections with the railroad interests of the state, con- nections which became so evident and scandalous that Mr. Martin Lomasney, democratic leader, was forced to re- mark in the Massachusetts house of representatives on June 4, 1915: “He (Walsh) was.a railroad man in 1900 and 1901, when he was in the house, and he has not changed.” In fact. Mr. Walsh himself declared im his in- augural address on January 7, 1915: “We would deny the railroads noth- ing which they really need.” Always Money Licker. Mr. Walsh. has been closely asso- ciated with powerful money interests’ during: his political career. He sup- ported for: president of the United States John .W. Davis, lawyer for J. P. Morgan & Co., in return for the support given him by that individual in 1913 in Massachusetts, during Walsh’s gubernatorial campaign. Mr. Walsh’s running mate for governor is William A. Gaston, millionairre banker and gttorney! for the Boston Elevated Co. Dayid,J. Walsh is a disciplined member of the democratic party, loyal to its polféiés and platform. Can la- bor be true-to itself and at the same time endotse a candidate who sup- ports the qpolicies. of Davis and Gas- ton? Injunction Governor. Labor has.declared time and again its opposition to the use of injunc- tions in labor disputes. During Mr. Walsh’s term as governor of this state 18 different injunctions were issued against labor unions without a word of protest on his part or any effort to hinder this vicious anti-labor prac- tice, 0 At national. conventions and state conventiong.labor has demanded free- dom for Sacco and Vanzetti, the two innocent Italian workingmen now in the shadow,of the electric chair. Re- cently the most sensational evidence was revealed, giving additional proof of their innocence, Yet Mr. Walsh, a so-called labor man and a progressive, has’ never lifted one finger to save them. \No Alternative, ‘ In view ofthe very salient anti-labor character of both Mr. Butler, the mil- lionaire mill Owner, and Mr. Walsh, a staunch defender of the interests of business, it seems to me that there is no other lesson to draw than that Jabor must organize its own political party to protect its interests. The sooner labor awakes to the necessity of such a.step the sooner will it cease to be the football of the capitalist in- terests, which control the two major parties... Fraternally yours, John J. Ballam, candidate for U, S, senator, Workers’ Party of America, Mr. Ballam is beginning a tour of Massachusetts. He will be in Law- rence October 23, Boston Commons October 24, Lowell October 25, Salem October 26, New Bedford October 27, Fall River October 28 and Worcester October 30, ' Plan Militaristic Celebration Here On Navy Day, Oct. 27 Chicago will celebrate the birthday of Theodoré Roosevelt; which is now called “Navy Day” on October 27, with appropriate militaristic cere- monies. The lake front, from Van Buren to Randolph, will be lined with guns which will fire a salute of twenty-one shells at sunrise, The militarists are also planning parades and @ night celebration in the loop district, Stenographers Help British Miners. SHATTLY — (FP) — The Stenog- caphers, Typists & Assistants union las went $17.60 to the locked out Brit- ish miners through the Anierican Fed- oration of v, This is the second ‘onation of union and represents acre than por momber for the veal { . 4 ‘iene — . py RS Rea Ee ES ERS eee en arn Sareea | Ben Gitlow Hurls Defy at Albany (Continued from, page 1; items, but may not increase or add new ones, This is autocracy in all starkness. But add to this a four-year term for the governor and meeting of the legislature only once in two years and you have’a program that would prevent lator having any influence whatsoever with the actual adminis- tration of the state government, Smith Is Labor Foe, “But Smith’s preténsions of labor friendship, on being examined, prove him to be really a foe,” the Workers’ Party candidate went on. “Smith has always stood for arbitration in dis- putes between the workers and the employers, He has always favored the exertion of pressure to prevent strikes. And what does this mean from the workers’ standpoint. , It means really the loss of all the de- mands of the workers, Look at what happened when Governor Smith named the commission on the garment indus- try. R, V. Ingersoll was appointed impartial chairman, But he himself is a manufacturer, What happened to the union demands? All important ones, such as the 40-hour week, Mmi- tation of the number of sub-manufac- turers to each jobber, were rejected. “Remember the Ricca bill to in- crease the teachers’ salaries. Smith wasn’t satisfied to veto this bill once, He killed it twice. First he gave as his excuse that the city should pas» on it first. It fell. Then it came back from the city and he vetoed it again on the grounds that the legislature had passed no appropriation bill for it. But.the governor did not veto the bill to create for Ettinger the position of superintendent emeritus at a salary of $15,000 a year.” Smith's Smoke Screen, Gitlow was sure that when it came to being an adept in the use of the famous smoke screen Smith was the equal of Mills, whom he attacked. Gitlow continued to detail incidents of what he claimed was antagonism to labor, “We must increase the appropria- tions of the labor board,’ ”Gitlow quot- ed Smith as saying, “and yet during 1924 less money was spent in the labor department than in 1915, “Smith favors the 48-hr.-week bill,” Gitlow said. “But this week reduc- tion is for women and children only. No others need apply. Even that bill was defeated by the last legislature. “Labor centainly cannot back up Smith on his military record. He pro- poses that the head of the state con- stabulary have a term of five years instead of four, removes responsibility to the governor and creates an irre- sponsible distinct body above the pop- ulation. He has increased the na- tional guard, state police and militia and -has sponsored ‘the: citizens’ mili- tary training camps. Aids Private Monopolies. “Even his water power program is a scheme to milk the public, includ- ing labor, under the sweet words of ‘public ownership and title.’ The state expends the money to develép and construct the projects to provide pri- vate companies with easy profits, The state develops the power and the pri- vate firms make the profit. “Smith claims credit for the emer- gency rent legislation of 1924 and the extension thru 1926. This is ridicu- lous. It wag the tremendous agitation by tenants and labor which forced Smith to call a special session of the legislature to enact the laws. “Smith and his legislature put thru @ bill taxing banks no longer accord- ing to capital, but according to in- come, This meant a big saving to the banks, as it made all stock divi- dends exempt. “During the last legislature the Knight resolution was passed, This was done to defeat every measure in- tended to benefit labor sponsored by the St Federation of Labor. A commission was created and an ap- propriation passed to investigate all labor bills introduced. It is generally admitted that this was done solely so the legislature could dodge consid- eration of needed amendments to the state labor law and workers’ compen- sation law. In this way the charge of violating state party platform pledges was sidestepped. The resolution, be- sides being an attempt to wipe out what small benefits have already been gained, also serves to throw a monkey wrench into the coming legislature and stall off action on pending bills. The obvious intention of the Knight resolution is to give labor a setback. Defeated Labor Bills. “But look at the labor bi that were defeated in the last legislature. The creation of an exclusive state in- surance fund to provide all workmen’s compensation insurance at cost was prevented. The bill to include all dis- abling occupational diseases as com- pensable under the law was defeated, The attempt to increase the maximum of possible weekly compensation pay- ments from $20 to $25 was lost. Other billg that were defeated provided for: compensation for loss of parts of leg and arm not now provided for; exten- sion from 30 to 90 days of the time within which a worker may file notice of injury; prohibition of court injunc- tions in industrial disputes; payment of the union wage scale on all public works, “No action at all was taken on the bill in regard to the child labor amend- ment, altho both the republican and democratic state platforms contained planks pledging ratification.” Cites Contradiction. Gitlow was very much amused by the report that J: B. O'Hanlon of the New York State Federation of Labor had introduced a resolution before the American Federation convention at Detroit favoring the nomination of Smith as candidate for president. Git- low pointed out that O'Hanlon, as chairman of the legislative committee, had signed a report to the State Fed- eration of Labor in which it was point- ed out that bills advocated by the ted@ration had been vetoed by Gov- ernor Smith ead which lists the fail- ure of the last legislature to pass fa- vorable labor laws. The report tells of Governor Smith's vetoing the Ricca teachers’ salary increase bill. The re; port also calls attention to the fact that of all the labor bills suggested by the state federation to,the gov- ernot only one was enacted. AL SMITH—STRIKEBREAKING GOVERNOR LFRED E. SMITH is the candidate of Tammany Hall for governor of New York state. He seeks to remain in office by parading as the friend of labor. He wants the support of the ‘workers of the state because he pro- claims himself a “labor man.” Cloakmakers’ Injunction, The injunction against the cloak- makers, issued by the administration henchman, Judge Guy, gives the lie to the governor's pretensions. That vicious order agginst the 40,000 strik- ing cloakmakers of New York City is the blow aimed by Governor Smith in revenge for their refusal to submit to his shameful scheme to impose com- pulsory arbitration upon them, HE Tammany Hall governor now stands revealed as the open enemy of labor, sanctioning the obnoxious injunction weapon in an effort to aid the employers’ fight against the thou- sands of strikers who are fighting against the chaotic and enslaving con- ditions of the women’s garment in- dustry, * Governor's Hand Seen. The injunction is a part of the whole infamous scheme to reduce the living standards ef the cloakmakers and bring back the hideousness of ‘sweatshop labor, In this scheme the governor's commission played the role of aids to the employers. This commission gave moral support to the bosses in their attempt to break the union by rejecting the fundamental demands of the workers and trying to befog the real issues, OVERNOR SMITH is the boss of ‘Tammany Hall. He was responsible for the selection of the present mayor and police commissioner of the city of New York, who, in the present strike, have caused wholesale arrests on the merest technical pretexts in order to bleed the treasury of the union, to intimidate the workers and break the strike thru terror, Governor Smith, the boss of the democratic party, ig responsible for the establishment of the present city administration, which aided the trac- tion interests of New York against the traction workers who rebelled against the vicious company union, His po- lice commissioner and his mayor were oMotent tools in breaking the strike Eyes on Washington. Governor Smith seeks to get into the White House. He is showing the bankers and industrial lords of the country that he is a man after their own hearts, who can be depended upon to break strikes, suppress union organization, impose faké arbitration conditions, extend company unions and keep workers in subjection to in- dustrial tyranny. Governor Smith knows that Coolidge rode into the White House on the record of his strike-breaking activities in Boston and he seeks to establish his claim to be considered a rival for the presi- dency by equalling the strikebreaking record of Coolidge. ~ ‘ HE democratic party, like the re- publican party, is a friend of capi- tal and an enemy of labor. Both par- ties are responsible for injunctions, suppression of free speech, denial of the right, to picket, state constabulary terror and all other devices used against labor, Workers Must Fight. New York labor must clean the strikebreakers out of office. Workers on strike must not fear to use their mass power and to take up the fight with these strikebreaking officehold- ers. The power of labor is mighty! ‘When united, labor can defeat in- junction judges, strikebreaking gov- ernors and their malicious schemes to destroy organized labor thru breaking strikes, 'N the present elections there should be a united labor ticket in New York to challenge the united capitalist power, This the socialist party turned down, Unity of labor on the political ffeld can defeat the strikebreakers and wipe out injunctions against strikers and in general put a stop to the strikebreaking activities of the gov- ernment. Support and vote for the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party, who stand against injunctions, against the &trikebreaking officeholders, for the unity of labor and a labor, party. Support the solidarity and unity of labor. Defeat the open-shopper Mills. Defeat tho strikebreaker Smith. Why not a amall bundie of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regu! y to take to your trade union meeting rage DEMOGRAGY IN PA. SEEMS T0 BE SHOP WORN Election Campaign Liter- ature Leads to Jail J, O, BENTALL. (Specfal to The Daily Worter) PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, ‘Oct. 26.—- Bernard Morgenstern, member of the Young Workers League, was arrested on a charge of “Distribution of Red Literature,” and held in $1,000 bail by the police magistrate, who went into a rage using language that would do credit to a gang of hoodlums in the underworld. So this is Demoera- cy? The “Red Literature” consists of a very innocent announcement of the big election campaign, meeting sched- uled for tonight, at which the epank- are C, E, Ruthenberg, general see- y of the Workers Party; A. J. Workers Party candidate for S. senate, and J. O. Bentall, or- ganizer District 3. The reddest part of the announce- ment is still a riddle unless it is the headline, which reads: “What Price re?” subheaded, “$3,000,000 al Pot to Boil the Workers of Pennsylvania.” The police magistrate in question is a Vare fan, and he is sore at any reflection made against the chief elec- tion thief of this commonwealth. The language of the magistrate im committing Morgenstern to ball is an- printable, 20 the readers must draw upon their imagination and whatever memory they may have of any pro- fane conversation among crapshoot- ers and horsetraders, whose vocabu- lary of the obscene, however, is nat- urally more limited than that of the dignified individual designated as po- lice judge, “Free Country”—? Only an hour after this episode i® the police court the government dis- covered that Benjamin Siegel was selling Daily Worker certificates. He was promptly arrested, but up to the time of sending this message no charge has been preferred against this DAILY WORKER hustler, so he simply decorates the jail fill the cops and the Vare crew invent one of their unholy pretexts on which a man in a “free” country may be deprived of his Mberty without any given reasom whatsoever, WET-DRY ISSUE FACES QUARTER OF U. S. VOTERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Discard- ing their reported indifference te ward liquor referendums the drys have opened a smashing offensive to win in five states on November 2, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League of Amer- ica, disclosed today. The drys have named California, Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Mi» souri as their battleground, Wheeler said. He declared prohfbition forces are making no fight in New York, Mllinois and Wisconsin, Nearly one-fourth of the voters ef the country will face the wet and dry question when they enter the voting booth in the referendum states. The drys favor holding of a refgs- endum in Missouri, Wheeler said, Ble hinted at the possibility of coust action to force the question on (ie ballot, The wet and dry fight ts particnlar- ly bitter in California and Colorado. Repeal of state enforcement laws is proposed in California, Colorade and Montana end this question fs included with others in Missourt, A Splendid New Book— ‘ THE PEASANT WAR IN GERMANY— By Friedrich Engels Translation by MOISSAYE OLGIN ERE is a splendid work that is now available to Amerftan readers, A study of the peasant revolts and their relation to the reformation, The contrasting fig- ures of Thomas Muenzer, rebel leader and Martin Luther, Here is history written by a great writer and thinker presented in most interesting form for every worker, Just Off The Press Cloth $1.50 Read Also These New Publications _ LEFT WING UNIONISM—_| By D, J. Saposs Cloth $1,60 SELECTED ESSAYS— By Karl Marx Cloth $1.76 MARXIAN ECONOMIC HANDBOOK— By W.H. Mmmett Cloth $8.26