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THE DAILY WORI EW YORK, THUR: FEBRUARY 3, 1927 ‘HOME OWNER MAY HAVE HIS TROUBLES BUT ALL’S . ‘ 7 Worl er 3’ Co nunis t Pa Yr ty Beg State Not to Kill Father of Four The Sources of Antagonisms Within the Part 0 Eman 8, eee rn The exorbitant prignes exacted from wage earners ie attempt to buy homes are again revealed h the publication of the 1926 profits of H. constant part; this is the ntass of the | position, and this is absolutely cor- O, Stone & Co., real ebtate operators in Chicago and vicinity. For the last Editor’s note—The accompanying | “thorough é » atolee who have rect. If the “ultra-left” stands for rs the tolls squeezed by these sharks from prospective home owners article is an extract fromthe report | long ago cut off all contacts with the revolution because it expects the im » netted them an average return, not of 10 per cent or 25 per cent, ‘ of Secretar: n, of the Russian ‘capitalist cl This stratum of the mediate victory of the revolution,’ but of more than 300 per cent on the par value of their common stoc Commu the Enlarged | proletariat is the most reliable sup-'then naturally it must fall into de The 1926 profit amounted to $1,-{|——-— = _—— PUES Win Settee Comm trea of Beat AP tawelen spair, it must become disappointed in 002,948, or to $25.66 per $10 share | Phenix in 1926 tbtalea 1,899,994, the { the Communist International. The second stratum; this stratum revolution if a hitch takes place and/ on the common after paying preferred annual rate being 28 per cent. In the is composed of those proletarians who the revolution is not immediately vic- dividends und taxes, The 1925 profit last 3 years the owners have received have recently eme 1 from non- torious. 829 meant a return $3,798 in-cash oy 76 per, cent on HERE do these antagonisms |), oletarian cla from: the peas- Naturally, at every turn in the de- for the commor the par value of their stock. In 1926 i originate from are thei antry, petty bourgeoisie and intelli- | velopment of the class struggle, on their return we the company also declared a 100 per ; sources? gentsia. ‘This stratum, having just every occasion that the struggle be- Here is a total return of | cent stock dividend, i I think that the antagonisms within emerged from non-proletarian classes comes more acute and di ilt, the are for the 3 yea This; Labor governments in Australia proletarian parties originate from’ has brought into the proletarian class differences of views, the d' nees | means ¢ year profit of more than/have proved that insurance can be two circumstances. What are these? its old habits and customs, its wav-|in the habits and moods of the vari- 900 per cent. handled profitably by the state at a These are, {' C ssure of the ering and va This stratun: ous strata of the proletariat must tell, The sSone concern is just one, great saving to the beneficiaries and bourgeoisie and of be ois ideology | represents the favorable soil’ in the form of diffe s in the par- among hundreds of real estate oper- policy holders. upon the prole its rty in for all sorts o narchist, semi-| ty, and the pressure of the bourgeoisie ors throughout the country. Most Utility For Stockholders. the course of the class struggle, the | anarchist and “ultra-left” groupings, and its ideology upon the patty must / of them are firms whosé profits are; “Another drain on the modern home pressure to which the more irresolute| Finally there is a third stratum. inevitably cause these differences t} uot made public, But hte rake-off of | owner swells the income of privately sections of the and that Thi the aristocracy of labor, the become more acute and to find an pany like H. O. Stone affords owned utility companies. This shows means the v sections in the. gnper stratum of the working class, outlet in the form of a Struggle within apse of the millions of dollars|up in the $14,554,178 profits of the party, not infreque succumb. We) ihe most secure in its conditior m- the proletarian party. the country is paying-as a penalty! Wlectric Bz: & Share Co., the great must not think that the proletariat is pared with fie other sections of the These are the sources of the in-,for turning over the development of | Morgan utility trust associated with complete! om society, or proletariat: rives to compromise | herent antagonisms and differences its homes to private exploitation. General Electric. After paying pre- that it rt from. society.| with the k eoisie; its predominat- Within the party. Insured Profits. ferred dividends this profit gives the The prol ing mood is to adapt itself to the Can we turn our backs on these 3, profits of the! owners of common stock a return of connected w mighty of the earth and to be “re-|antagorfisms and difference No, ‘idelity-Phenix Fire Insurance Co. in $52.21 a share. fied strata spectable.” This stratum represents we cannot. To turn our on ggest that home owners are The profits of Electric Bond & The party is p: the ‘avorable soi! for avowed re- them would mean to deceive ourselves. a further excessive toll for; Share have been steadily mounting. . . . and for that + formists and opportunists. Engels was fight when he ng their homes after running |In 1922 they were $3,741,469; 1923, _ Mrs, Alberta Harrod with her children, Margaret Shirley, 1, escape the conta uence of In spite of their apparent differ- it is impossible to conceal differences | the gauntlet of the real estate oper- | 368; 1924, $8,455,791; and.in| . 1-armebs-Masle knes, 4, nented, Geraldine, 6)-and Williem, | Insert the diversified of bourgeois ence on the surface, the last two ‘within the party for long, they can This profit gives the owners $12,302,366. Altogether in the is a photo of William Turner Harrod, a gassed and shell shocked society. The he bour- ta of the working class represent! be settled only by fighting them out. of the insurance company a return of |last 5 years this Morgan trust has war veteran under sentence of death for shooting his sister-in-law. geoisie and i upon the a more or less common milieu which | This does not mean that the Party $18.08 per share, This is more | taken profits totaling $46,523,160, a His plea of temporary insanity was disregarded. Harrod’s mother proletariat an ars opportunism; frank and avow-|be converted into a debating society. ; than 72 per cent. 5-year veturn of more than 160 per and wife pleaded with jury and judge, and now with the governor, in bourgeois id opportunism when the mood of the'On the cont y, the Party of the The profite made by this fire in- the cent on common stock. After for his life. moods, not in tocracy of labor prevails, and the proletariat is, and must remain, a, Surance company during the la’ paying generous dividends the com- z eC Reese MON Cth pia at into the proletar meealed opportunism of “left” fighting organization of the proletari- | years total $11,891,517, or near! pany has accumulated surplus profits through the m« ‘ when the mood of that,at. I merely wish to say that we on each $25 share of stock, a 4 r of $36,598,181, nearly 11-2 times the FROM THE CRISIS OF THE FRANC TO A WORSE of the pr at stratum of the working class prevails ‘must not eyes to differences Gg al of about 238 per cent. common stock, out of which it can CRISIS 0 ST B way or anothe which has not completely cut itself within the Party if these differences Cash dividends paid by Fidelity- | eventually declare stock dividends. ciety. off from petty bourgec contacts, are over questions of principle. I want, ———___--___- Saal ts Re ae ARPS Laie WRASSE DAPD AES A ABTS F A ILIZATION OF THE FRANC 0 Secondly, it he There is nothing surprising in the to say that only by fighting for prin- f Y acter of the working avowed ee rina very |ciple can the proletarian Party with- L FRENCH WORKERS DRIVEN ALONG BY POINCARE it is made up ¢ a coincides h “ultra-left” stand the pressure and influence of ION OF } = think that’ th e fade asid tani tan the bourgeoisie, Only by overcoming By LOUIS De FILIPPIS || The Communist party of France ay be divided mi » ultra-left” opposition internal Party antagonisms can we (By Mail) ee long before the recent advent of The first se side of wing, antee the soundness and strength NICE, Jan. 27.—The New Year inj Poincare told the workers that all at- , avowedly opportunist op- of the Party. % France has opened its gates, on which | tempts to stubilfze the frane would “WOMAN AND THE UNIONS’—WORKERS SCHOOL LECTURE BY THERESA WOLFSON—FRIDAY Following the fliers } A meric GIGANTIC TRUSTS Secretary Says Relief Not Desirable EXCITES LEGION Chicago Pest Wants to Arrest Professor ;are posted in big letters, “unemplo: ment,” “misery,” “war.” These .are | the pass words handed over by the old year. In my last letter dealing with the situation in this country, I | pointed out how French financial verons, juggling with the franc, had | reduced the workers, peasants and! mean increased misery to them, that it would inevitably sharpen the ris: jing cost of living prices, and bring | about _ a serious economic depression | with its consequent wave of unem- | ployment and black reaction, This is all being félt with the pess- {ing of the old year. In Paris, in the troit had enzine tr it, February 4, on the s . “Woman and the Unions.” Miss Wolf- |, GoLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 2. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Demands that] fuer bloc” novernmont from ' rs are being thrown out of the forced d n her trip. , Th s the author of a recently published book with the title, “The Woman Jardine, ecretayoor Apr , yes.| Prof: Carleton J. H. Hayes of Cal-]; alin y ahha lganweil dt Sh mines, mills and factories. by the ‘Aabinio left it Tumaco ‘and the Tiade Unions.”* She has for some time heen a teacher vernal ee aaldive' umbia University make a_ public |iny depreciation of the tea by means | thousands. | Bosses. who. still have due to engine of the Workers’ University. farmers assembled at the Fifteenth| apology for his failure to follow thel fceoiatinn es | work fire the old men and take on of winter th and taxes. six additional w just as certain as de A new course in “Social Interpretation of Modern Literature,” with Eli |B Jacobson as instructor, will begin on Friday, February 18. The course is | given every Friday evening between 8 and 8:15 at 108 East 14 St., the head- quarters of the Workers’ School. The contemporary literature of France, England and the United States will be taken up as well as a few selected authors from post war revolu- Nine in Suicide Class. CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—With the death of Bernice Richardson, 20-year-old not legislated into thig*position. The same condition confronts the farmer.” Jardine did not talk much about the aid the corporations got from railroad rebates, tax dodging, and protective tariff, nor of the direct grants of issed ress. They kissed it—yes they ki the brass side of this relic. “Then we come to the flag, the stars and strives. We have a cult for worship of the flag, with very cur- icus, liturgical forms, such as bar- ing the head whenever it passes, and of exportation. starving nation during his ministerial career—this great republican, “who has saved the-nation each time it faced a catastrophe’—-who better than he could be chosen at the criti- cal moment when the franc was pre- 2 59 SPA This is one of a series of le in the course on | Annual Farmers’ Week at Ohio State|fiag cult, were made today by the ~ mainline q | tew at reduced wages. a “Soviet Cities Grow Rapidly. American Labor Problems’ given re nights at 8 P. M srWithatieettectly straight| Navel Post of the Amerieay-Lapion | eaten © Fen dain ation | 8N4 | establishments only Mote hae tine WASHINGTON (FP.). — Leni the Workers’ School, 108 East 14 Street face, as. though he were in dead seri-| In case he does not apologize, the | ; Ser oe es a sh ipa i ie oe at a day, or three days a week. Man grad, with rev val of inddstry, has Miss Wolfson also giving a course on Monday nights at 9:15 P. |, ousn he advised them that no form | post will ask the New York Depart- oi tf sa oar tye satel aif are the homes that are menaced with webained 50 per cent population in|} Mf. dealing with the Woman in Industry as part of a short |*of legislation would do them any good,| ment of the Legion to bring crim- “ aylioy oe! Aegon cota ee hs starvation. The number of worker- ‘the past three years, while Mescow | courses on Problems of Working Class Women. Her Monday night lec- | but that what dkey-should rely. upon | inal libel charges against the profes- ate bac actin victory ine gained | suicides is on, the!inereaee as the gen: has gained 3 per cent, So-} tures are to be followed by: short courses by Leona Smith and Mar- || is forming themselves into big busi-|sor. charging him with being a dis- eh bpsen si ne fio gte : ; © mar’ eral situation becomes worse. = viet Union Information Bureau in| garet Undjud, dealing with other phases of the same subject. turber of the peace. a seditious agi- vee A fs em ay Pe = 3 past, | “Un : sus returns. Average gain for| “The farmer today finds himself in] Hayes was quoted as saying: car ae y Bomeceat ) amefully exe 152% cities and towns was 21 ver, WORKERS SCHOOL WILL GIVE NEW COURSE ON Kbout the eame * eaeaeion: had the ithe religion: of natoraliam ta rps the deat, and now Poincare plein and eae by the double whip cent. |thousands of American manufactur-| its own churches, images, icons and|° i sero ging he” of deportation and unemployment in- le seicas SOCIAL INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE; ers found themselves in fifty years| relics, Take the liberty bell for in- é ‘The Man Who Lang Ss’ | to signing long contracts that amount Six Weeks as ago,” said Jardine. “The manufactur-| stance, with a crack in its side. When pap aah bee vial sey at pe pews conditions. WEATHER WORKS ers obtained relief through organiza-| jt was taken across the continent, ree : Lani, fe tee demanded of them .in return eiaatawney, Pas ALL IMPORTANT RECENT WRITERS ANALYSED | tion ‘and co-operation, finally evolving | groups of, old ladies flocked to the | V2° occupied the Rehr to make Ger. /for a. limited tight to: remain “in ground-hog has seen his shadow and into the great corporations found in| railroad tracks to interrupt its prog-|'""0* P@¥> who. ‘made six thousand France has, been raised from. 68 to wd s the United States today. They were speeches, on which he nourished the} 875 francs a year. Their wives and children must pay a like amount. Even the hotel workers, who are mostly all foreigners, have been thrown out of work by the thousands, since the rise of the franc’s value has. frightened off, foreign visitors. Monte Carlo, Milliken College co-ed, enrollment in| tionary Russian literature. Among the authors selected for study are Zola, : ¢ nttati ; cae " 73 tae the “Suicide Class of °27" today stood Flaubert, Hugo, Anatole France, Romain Rolland, Barbusse—for France; Public lands to some forms of Cort taping the bodies of dead soldiers lata Fey Sy aioe wi be hh © st ales en ke alba at nine. Shaw, Galsworthy, Wilde, Wells—for England; O'Neill, Dreiser, Sinclair | POrate (ands. Me wamed tie farmers! with it when they are about to he ' cll not find place for the not to follow too closely in the tracks have dislodged the victors from their | foreigner- -parasites last winter, ae ear Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Walt Whit: — . buri i e rey, ver are wail te the Suse For The DANLY| ior the United States, In addition, there will be » final Toctare on Labodin: of, the trust, but approved of the) Dries, 201M ONse Te sum ans kSmonenold jalmost, deserted this year. WORKER. sky, Mayakovsky, Lunacharsky and other contemporary Russian writers, _, CorPoration idea of bargaining. set. . find we oblige school children Frane Responds. Snared In Red Tape. The term end with a survey of current tendencies in literature and their social sign ance, and a discussion of the disputed problem of prole- tarian culture, its scope and possibilities SECTION MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS TO DISCUSS THE RUSSIAN PARTY OPPOSITION READ Imperialism—The Last Stage of Capitalism Divide And Conquer. The secretary made an appeal to the sectional interests of the farmers of Ohio, saying that any bills which would assist farmers who raised wool or cotton and bought wheat and corn would injure the Ohio farmers. He ‘gave no adequate explanation of the way in which cheap loans, money for to get out and stand in regular rows and lift their hands-to pledge allegi- ance to this flag.” Victims of the Duce ROME, Feb. 2.—The | inaugural session of the military court today was signalized by conviction. and sen- On the very day that the left bloe ministry toppled over and on which echoes were rumored about that | Poincare «would form: a cabinet of national unity, then, like magic, the , frane ,began to rise a few points.) Since the great:man’s return to pow- er, the frane -has ‘speedily risen to | double of its former value. AT! the | A number of municipalities: have ‘opened labor exchange offices where ‘endless lines of unemployed move slowly to receive what is not sufficient to buy more than a few ounces of bread. God pity, those with ‘a, large !family! And so strong. is the red }tape system in France; that they are lucky if aid is not refused them al-~ \ moving and marketing crops, and na-| tence to a year in jail and a fine of| dupes of the nation rejoiced over this | together! "ghde By N. Lenin pare 3.—Thars. Feb. 3, at 6 Ee tee Ww. 28th t.—Speaker,. Wolfe. tionalized grain elevators come to be} 599 Jire of two men charged with us-| happy resuscitation of a man ‘con’! ‘ 1 Sec. 4.—Fri., Feb. 4,,at 8 Pp. M.—81 E. 110th St.—Speaker, Weinstone. omitted from the proposed farm laws, ‘ng. seditious Janguage against the! demned® to «political death by uni [ret in the Subs’ For. The: paltry | Price, 60¢ in paper, $1.00 Cloth-bound. Admission by membership card only. or would injure any group of farmers. ie. | versal suffrage. WORKER. standing yf the jnost recent ryeuts \" come to these meetings, There will he someone who will see that they are Fort-Whiteman in Ohio, )— —_ —— —— Latin-America, China, and the colonial 3 See countries now io the throes of revolt| properly assigned to a Party nucleus. CHICAGO.—-Lovett Fort - White | Se te tere tue following Seana man, national organizer for the: \ Bere concentration NEW JERSEY LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS, _ American Negro Labor Congress, | an ono} ‘An indispensable book for the under- Comrades, who for some reason are disconnected from the Party should Feb, 4.—8 P. M.—Paterson—8 P. M.—Carpenters’ Hall. Speakers, H. M. WICKS and BERT WOLFE, Also * New Role; | Friday, etal Oligarchy; The Division of t Division > will speak at “hwo gnass meetings ar- ranged for him by the committee in charge. Whiteman “is well known to World Among the treat Powers; Im:| YonKers—Sunday, Feb. 6th—8 P. M.—20 Warbartun Avenue. the workers in Mahoning. valley and) | Bere ee = bpociah, Bis se at ber —— his coming will attract great interest; 5 ! i Capitalism; The Critique ut imperial | * among the steel workers. * Workers! Wo N FO R MILLS t ja Whe. Place of }yerialism in Mis- FOR YOUR H TH Foreign. Investments and their friends are cordially invited : a { ished by the Co: 4 EAL 3 3 - to attend these meetings. bi : * | ieee seers raplshed by th pater —_ — Of U. 8. Increase by » Warren, O., Feb. 6, 416% South . ‘ | ge Strictly Pure Big Loan to Bolivia Pine st.’ , HELP USB TTHE REST! \ For Your Lenin Library: | FLORIDA Youngstown, 0., Feb, 7, 369 East ‘ 5 LEN! AS A " ; A loan of $14,000,000 to Bolivia has Federal St., 8 P. M. i t NIN 2 f been arranged by Dillon, Read & Co., ; i" i | at. 7 per cent interest. It will make Fight Longer Day, GIVE MONEY PLEASE! For Coal for the Strikers’ Homes! MARXIST a publie offering today for that LAWRENCE, Mass. — A mass. For Bread for their families! They have made a hard fight! 7 . amount. meeting will be held under the au- Now are winning! Now you must hel ! By N. Bukharin The issue matures in 1958 and it spices of the Central Labor Union of Give th pid pa LCT ORY. te gg sre ss is understood that the subserinvien Lawrence against the bosses’ propa-' igh oth f yi soimayd The Present Chairman of the A i ‘ Deniindiel laternatienh! price will be just under par, indicat- ganda for a change of hours from 48) f . biak ber th ing a yield of a little better than the to 54. The meeung will be held in’ Coie gy This splendid analysis of Lenin and Guaranteed by the coupon rate. the Oliver school hall on Haverhill Make all contributions by check or money order to eee te ks ch dof Marxian in Bee-Farmer. The loan ‘was negotiated with | street, Friday evening? Babe 11 ‘All. v! ¢! N. u rin, who is con- e he . Ais'or the Spavent” mn x Delivered in New York City Ricardo Martinez Vargas, as financial workers of Laveenee ae urged to Bot A mere pereousl at following prices: agent for Bolivia. In accordance with attend. Speakers will be announced | It is rather an attempt to analyae 2 Lbs. 7 3 Lbs. $1.00 |}* law recently passed the loan will, jatoy, | \ Lenin's contribution to the principles = Lbs. o » AS oe. 91 be applied to complete the railroad tie phases. st fue ubject: ithe 5 Lbs. $1.50 from Potosi to Sucre, to equip and | Dry Drive’ in England F Mearuce, “erobten “3e' “impertauam: | 103% Goes to Daily Worker, improve the line of ban Quita a toch®: | LONDON, Feln 2—Hngland was in-| 799 BROADWAY Room 225 NEW YORK CITY & Tae Problems Awaitin mee Order'-by Mail. the work of an eitehitvl railroad ths troduced today to an American Pro-, fi Om male now at 40 in 4 Copy, ate between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, Mibition crusade. Emil Louis Hohen- | trnetively bound in paper. %, ¢ thal of South Manchester, Conn.,avell : , J. A. FEURER Rit a dk sour eliekak ehcall, pea prohibition worker in *the] Get 10c Coupons and sell them TO HELP US FEED the r DAILY WORKER 3656 Park Ave. ¥.c Bolivia will be connected with all the Waited. Abad me d ; , - 36: . + C. 7) otficignt railway systems of the coun- Unite ates, arrived here and an- Strikers’ Children. 5 at 38 First Street New York, N. ¥ Agente Wanted nounced his intention of launching a ‘ ly a - try, as well as with neighboring-coun- prohibition campaign be England. tries. pens. | Vv PASSAIC STRIKE STILL ON!

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