The Daily Worker's front page blazes with preparations for a massive Lenin memorial rally at Chicago's Coliseum, featuring speakers from multiple racial and ethnic communities including Chinese anti-imperialist C.S. and Negro labor organizer Lovett Fort-Whiteman. The Communist newspaper promises thousands will gather to honor the Soviet leader who died two years prior, complete with athletic performances, singing societies, and a three-reel Lenin film showing endless processions past his bier in Moscow. Meanwhile, coal country buzzes with news that United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis has accepted a peace plan to end the devastating anthracite strike that has kept 158,000 miners off the job since September 1st. The proposal, crafted by Scranton Times publisher E.J. Lynett, calls for immediate return to work and a 5-year agreement. In Washington, a bombshell lawsuit seeks $1,102,000 from ex-War Secretary John W. Weeks for allegedly fraudulent payments to friends during wartime Austrian ship purchases.

This page captures America's ideological crossroads in 1926 - a nation simultaneously embracing prosperity capitalism while harboring vocal Communist organizing in major cities. The massive Lenin memorial rally demonstrates how radical politics had found footing among immigrant communities and labor organizers, even as the Red Scare mentality persisted. The anthracite coal strike reflects ongoing labor tensions despite the decade's economic boom, while the Weeks corruption scandal hints at the cronyism that would later contribute to public cynicism about business-government relationships during the eventual market crash.

• The Workers Party school in Chicago offered courses including 'Capital, volume one' and 'historical materialism' starting February 8th for just 12 weeks - essentially a Communist university operating openly in 1920s America
• A lawsuit reveals that ex-War Secretary John W. Weeks paid an extra $550,000 to friends A.T. Herd and George A. Carden for Austrian ships, even after the claims board rejected their request
• The British Communist Review congratulated the Daily Worker on surviving two years 'under difficulties which could only be overcome by true Bolsheviks,' while hoping to start their own daily paper
• The memorial rally featured a Czecho-Slovak workers' athletic society performing an interpretive dance showing workers being beaten when divided, then victorious when united
• Railway consulting engineer O.H. Beyer told Northwestern shopmen they shouldn't demand $1.00 per hour or fewer working hours, arguing it's better to have less pay but work every day

• John L. Lewis, whose strike acceptance makes headlines here, would later become one of America's most powerful labor leaders, founding the CIO and serving as mine workers president until 1960 - a 40-year reign
• That $1.00 per hour the railway workers were demanding? It equals about $17 per hour today, yet the 'consulting engineer' argued they should accept less pay but more work days
• The All-America Anti-Imperialist League mentioned here was organizing across seven countries to resist 'Wall Street domination' - their Brazilian section formed just as Secretary Hoover was attacking Brazil's coffee monopoly
• French casualties in Morocco totaled 11,419 dead and wounded since July 1925, according to official war department figures - all to protect French banking interests in North Africa
• The Daily Worker cost $6.00 per year outside Chicago (about $102 today), making it surprisingly expensive for a working-class publication in an era when many dailies cost just pennies