The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 10

p Ne \ \ THE DAILY WORKER January 13, 19: SPY CAUGHT IN MOLDERS’ UNION The North-Side Branch of the Workers Party salutes The Daily Worker, “Jim” Cronin Placed in the ‘Rogues’ Gallery” By JOE CARROLL “Guilty!” When this verdict was pro- nounced last month by the trial com- mittee of the International Molders’ Union,in the case of its member long popularly known as “Jim” Cronin, militant it placed definitely in Labor's “Rogue’s Gallery” one of the most organ dangerous and brazen of labor spies. A “Confidence Man” This “Jim” Cronin, now 85 years of age, has been an active member of the Molders’ Union almost since of the boyhood. He was elected as Presi- ene dent of the Philadephia Central La- toiling bor Union when but 24 years eld, Quickly gaining the confidence of the masses. ruling republican politicians of the state, he was chosen a member of the Pennsylvania Industrial Commission, of which body he was chairman until May 15th last. He also enjoyed the confidence of the international of- ficials of the union, and was delegated to represent the international office on many commissions of importance. But indisputable evidence brought out at his trial showed that for some time he had been in the pay, not only of the state and his own union, but also of the employers themselves, for whom he was operatingg as a, spy, on the payroll of a detective agency. As is so often the case, it was only thru an accident that these facts be- came known and the resulting in- vestigation fully exposed his treachery. This investigation disclosed, among other things, that the Bureau of In- dustrial Relations was in fact an anti-labor detective agency, with the purpose of shattering labor organi- zations generally, reducing wages in certain large industrial plants, and increasing the working hcurs where- ever and whenever possible. In this El they were quite successful—thru ENGLISH 4|“under-cover men” who were mostly BRANCH ¥}union officials. By various methods $!the morale of the workers was low- | ered to a point where more hours of iemployment and the acceptance of less wages could be forced upon foeecencencencemcancencmncaecmn can emt Cae ITEC CNSR E SECC SRS Cee mee: | GREETINGS FROM THE © NORTH.- WEST Drew Large Salary eet eet et OP DOPE O TEEPE TERS D ' : eet panh spend Poets FA 3 3 3 The evidence gathered also showed 2 *|how a man high in the ranks of $ ~s CHICAGO 3 Philadelphia labor circles was paid 3 #| $200.00 weekly by this organization. Ang the United States Department of Justice was clearly shown up as 2 “feeder” nf eniee and atrikehraal. ee 4 oe Peet ortorioriorioriontontontosioniortoctoniontontontontoni tries, ers to the private field covered by} such agencies as the “Bureau of In- dustrial Relations.” So that during the course of this trial the Depart- ment of Justice was quite aptlv re- ferred to as “the United States | strike-breaking agency.” The International Molders’ Union has done a great service to the labor movement, in thus courageously fac- ing the issue and purging its ranks. From the facts brought forth in this | ease, other unions will be advised of how to proceed against labor spies | within their own ranks. The dis- closures made have lifted the veil hiding the workings of the “under- cover” ‘spies in labor unions, It seems almost beyond belief, that men who have risen from the ranks of the workers, and know the injustice and ovpresion suffered by them, can so 3 vilely betray their fellow workers. | The method of traitor-making re- 4| mains the same—only the price has been increased—since the days of DR. A. J. CHYZ Osteopathy Physiological Adjustments Chiropractic - 1009 NORTH STATE ST. CHICAGO Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 12 N., 1 P. M.to6P.M,7P.M.to9 P.M, GREETINGS from Oklahoma City. Mrs, LILY JACKSON, International Book Store. Judas Iscariot and his “thirty pieces of silver.” Amalgamation means strength! = PGP IGIOS GREETINGS from DISTRICT NO. 6 Workers Party of America Cleveland, Ohio Res, 1632 S. Trumbull Ave, Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Bldg.. 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657--Central 4945-4947 QUICKLY OUSTED i WITH THE Y CONDUCTED - BY TH for rejoicing for they know that th Working Youth Greet the ‘‘Daily”’ The Communist Youth of the | League of America, enthusiastically greet the appearance of this mighty | through-the-year plan.” | weapon of ALL the workers—THE DAILY WORKER. We know that the organized young workers of the entire world, under | fraternizing with their boys and as a the banner of the Young Communist International, will find this an occasion |Tesult you have disobedience which, WORKEDS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE Youth Views By HARRY GANNES The Father-Son Plan — No more are the youth looking up ties. To capitalism this is a vital thrust. | A scheme has been thought-up by | Walter W. Head of Omaha,’ Neb., jwhich he calls the “Father-Son Head com- |plains that fathers have not been United States, the Young Workers carried to its logical conclussion, is is first English language Communist | 6 ta] to the existing order. His Daily published will be on the forefront in the battles, not only of every! scheme was destined to obscurity! section of the American working class but likewise in the interest of the|The business Babbits are too busy international proletariat. |during the daytime with extracting We shall strive to reach the masses of the American working youth , Profits from their workers and at with and through the DAILY WORKER, and it shall never be said that the Communist Youth of this country ever lagged in the support of this greatest| pany of some female devotee of |of undertakings of ‘the American revolutionary workers. | Terpsichore. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA night in getting over “that tired feel- ing” that are prone to, in the com- The workers are only too glad to get some sleep after a 12 hour workday to be bothered listen- ing to the righteous grumblings of a couple or a dozen of impoverished lads. President Coolidge has a son, and By Martin Abern, Sec’y. THE STRUGGLES OF THE YOUNG r,t As the fighting organ of the American working class, the Daily Worker is concerned with and will represent every section of the toiling masses in this country. With six to seven millions of young workers in industry in the United States; 100,000 in and about the mines; 8,000,000 on the farms (most despicable of all, among all these are to be found 2,500,000 chil- dren ranging from the age of 5 to 15), the Daily Worker recognizes that it must deal with the problems and struggles of the masses of ex- ploited youth. Therefore, a special department, to be known as With the Young Workers and Children of the Working-class, is to be a regular feature of this paper, and is to be conducted by the Young Workers League of America. Here you will find, in as much detail as possible, the struggles of the young workers against the master class on the job, the shame of child labor in this land of ‘“demo- eracy,” the gross distortion of the mind of the children in the capitalist public schools and through such or- ganizations as the Y. M. C. A., boy and girl scouts, To Carry On Anti-Military Work The militarization campaigns now being carried on particularly affect the working class youth. Through- out the world, the revolutionary young workers are known as the most ardent fighters against militar- ism as a class issue and not as a} pacifist diversion. Karl Liebknecht relied mainly up- on the revolutionary youth move- ment of Germany, when the whole rotten fabric of the Socialist organi- zation completely failed at the out- break of the world war; and the youth were not wanting when it came to fighting in the interest of the working masses and against the im- perialists. In the United States, the Young Workers’ League, as the recognized co-operating organization of the Young Communist International takes the lead in the anti-military campaign of the workers, not only nationally but on an international scale. The efforts to organize the vast number of indifferent working youth into the trade and industrial unions now existing was initiated by the Y. W. L., and is being sabotaged by Samuel Gompers because he is afraid of the virility of a fighting revolutionary organization which will act in the interest of all the workers within the labor movement. Has Children’s Organization The Y. W. L, maintains that even the children of the workers should be organized to fight and struggle against the capitalist system be- cause they contribute in good measure to its victims. In the schools the worker's chil- dren are pumped full of lies about their father’s unions, about the rights of the workers to organize politically and seek to wrest better conditions and ultimately political Section, The Daily Worker.) lit, in a letter to Head. i We can favor the plan, applied to power from the hands of the capi-| the workers. What can be eke talists. Patriotic bunk and a glori-| Tevolutionary ieee Sacto have fication of war and militarism, though |™asses of young fk L an ve th not stated in the curriculums, are , their proletarian fathers din f beg part and parcel of all of our public| of the blessings of a goading fore- schools. jman, of long. cage a . health-de- suildeen -coumee daisy pe eri black despair of unemployment, of the ¥.. WL ra phe pe hi = ne > the fear of old age under capitalism, © or Section, wile) of-workers competing with each other takes all the children of the workers for a crust of bread? from the age of 5 to 14. But the plan will not succeed. The The ovine htigee: is not a school; ’ proletarian fathers have no time. Too it is a part of the political movement’ much of the day is taken up in mak- of the revolutionary vanguard of jing a Hing: Y when he is unem- the working class, the communist ployed, the worker is not in a mood party, and as such, it seeks to draw\tg adopt the recommendation of the children into the struggle against | Coolidge, that the plan “is also in- ie ibe nets the capitalist |tended to encourage,” the boys, “to 3 jes as citizens justices and brutalities of the capi- Wicesest Children in Jail Get talists—in the schools, on the streets, Brutal Treatment pest Pats rc they “meet other The commotion aroused when one s of the boy inmates of the Chicago To Carrv Latest Youth News Parental Schcool oe ees for ror | For the latest news of the con-|was beaten to death has not yet ate {ditions and activities of the young|down. workers in all industries, on the| An investigation of the treatment farms, in the army, and whereverjof the children in these institutions the petavt class youth Reeepatte who, dete nig ence a Fart you will have to come to the Youth|of’ the workers, reveals brutality Section of the Daily Worker. This| comparable with, the slave-like ex- i be the only workers’ daily that|ploitation of the six pg Po children will carry the true news of the in-|in the mills and on the farm, ternational youth organization, the Every state in the United States | Young Communist International and!has one or more of these boy and |its various sections. girl prisons that have no other exause The Daily Worker Youth Section|for existing than to make life mis- supplements the excellent _ semi-| erable for those children of the work- to their elders as the super authori-| } Imanthhy afietal nrean of thaVeunolers whose condition is the most un- League, The Young bearable under capitalism. A great Worker, issued on the 1st and 15th|percentage of the offenders of the of every month. The Young | capitalist law that comprise the child Worker is published exclusively in|Prisoners tell gripping tales of pov- the interested of the exploited|«rty and want. ‘nrown into the young workers, and an endeavor is|Vilest sort of institutions, these chil- being made to build up a mass cir-}dren are trained for a life of crime culation among the American toiling|and shame. youth. . Military drill and utter subservience It will be in this section that the|@%€ Part of the training of the chil- young workers, League members or dren in penal institutions; and a no, will be able to express them-|Steat section of the gunmen in the selves and write of their life in the| United States got their first lesson in factories, in the mills, in the army|Such parental ang reform institu- or wherever the bosses’ whip has|tions. driven them. It is almost impossible to-ascertain Even the children are invited to the true nature of the base treat- contribute to this corner of the|ment of inmates (even though chil- paper. dren) of these prisons as they are The Youth Section of the Daily|threatened with the direst punish- Worker, will from time to time,|ments when some fake investigation afford its readers exclusive labor|is forced upon the ward healers in news pertaining to the younth,|charge of all of the state govern- through its special correspondents | ments. in over 60 cities throughout the| The number of child and youth of- United States. These are not paid|fenders is growing at a rapid rate. pen prostitutes such as write for|All of these child institutions are the capitalist dailies, but young, en-| overcrowded, thus adding to the al- thusiastic workers, who recognize the|ready animal-like condition of the class struggle and are aiding in|youthful prisoners. Child labor is every possible way to bring it to its|one of the evils that is part of many successful termination. of these prisons. We invite you to become a regular reader of this exclusive feature of ‘a labor Daily. It is a regular procedure of the capitalist local authorities to initiate an investigation when some child is murdered by the inhuman monsters in charge, but nothing comes out of addressed: Youth|it as capitalism must have these in- stitutions @s part of its system, (All communications for this see- tion shoulg be Sete teeteeetoatenteatente aeetecgeeteceeteetoedeetendectectecteetoigentententeeteny The South ‘Slavic Branch, No. 1, of Chicago, sends greetings to first issue of the ENGLISH COMMUNIST DAILY for best success. Steven Saljacis, Branch Secy. Birthday Greetings to “The Daily Worker” CHICAGO, ILL. Office Employes Union, No. 12755 George Maurer Julia Schulner P. Emma Blleckschmidt Augusta W. Kruse Elsie Newman Ida Dailes Ii. 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