The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARDS FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 313. Nation Greets First Issue of KLAN TERROR! REIGN WAR ON ALIEN LABOR Hard-boiled Fascist Has ‘Army Record of Brutality BY TOM TIPPETT (Spectal to “The Daily Worker”) HERRIN, Ill.—With two compan- ies of State Militia stationed at Ma- tion, and one at Herrin, Williamson county is again in the limelight. The trouble. this time is a booze war, cau] with a religious and racial ion prosecuted by the Ku Klan, assisted by federal pro- agents. Underlying it all is a continuity of attack against Williamson County because of its noble defense against the invasion of a coal mine owners’ ite army in the coal strike two é j}ago. "The troops are here by request of George Galligan, elected by @ Sweeping majority last year on the labor ticket. Their presence is to by federal agents, the Klan and many other groups in the county. Hundreds of alleged boot~ legers have been arrested while on the lother hand warrants have also Sworn out for Klan members and the chief prohibition agent. The homes of four foreign fam- dlies have been burned to the. ground by the raiders, and a member of the Royal Italian Council at Spring- field is here investigating the high handed methods used against the Italians by the vandals. The situa- tion is tense but since the raids have been called off no trouble is ex- pected. Homes Fired; People Beaten, According to Sheriff Galligan, whose wife and baby are very sick in a hospital, and who himself is confined to bed with a combination of an attack of. mumps and tonsil- itls, he called the troops on Jan. 7, only after homes had been fired and many people beaten and robbed by the raiders, He did it, he says, to prevent bloodshed. The soldiers were imme- diately sent by Governor Small. The sheriff’s office is not objecting to federa] agents enforcing prohibition, Galligan claims, but the manner in which the raids here were conduc- ted necessitated his action. The present “clean up” campaign commenced here two days before Christmas when federal agents, aug- mented by nearly 1,000 alleged klansmen, initiated a simultaneouq raid campaign thru the county. The county officials were not notified by the federal authorities that such a move -was to be made, The recent trouble began last summer when a public meeting was called in Marion by an un-named organization that admitted it was the “better element,” to declare pub- lic opposition to the sheriff's office, which was accused of being in league with bootleggers in the county. This assemblage announced its in- \tentions of “cleaning up” Williamson. , jiness men, preachers and various reformers Pientinas eke ve this gathering. e Ku Klux Klan appeared shortly afterwards and be- gan to function, Then there came into being an or- bie known as the Knights of Flaming Circle. Its business ‘was to fight the Klan. After a demonstration the Exalted Cy- clops and the Goblins of the Ku Klux Klan in their nighties, the following night was sure to see a parade of the Flaming Circle. Thus the effect of the Klan was neutralized, “Citizens” Get Busy. A Fil so-called piston! Taine phage dt By en organized, went ash- ington with protests. The federal authorities sent agents here who are supposed to have returned to headquarters with a report that Galligan was cooperating ‘with the rum runners, The sheriff denies this and points to iin of 86 stills and 600 lions of whisky destroyed on New ear's day, all of which had been (Continued on page 3.) Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year, Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year. * oi % > & > e ° @ ° “Daily” at Great Mass Meet’ FEE Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923. i; TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1924 Br 01 DAILY WORKER. , at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1 PUBLISHI ® “9 ” rs i MILK CRISIS GROWS WHILE TRUST FIGHTS Farmers’ Daughters and Wives in Demonstration The batitc between the mii! ducers of Lake County, Ind., 2 Chicago distributors is reaching an acute stage. ihe Milk Trust ex- Presses its vetermination t» cut the Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL ADIT ae merece ee ST 3 o ° i # But the Milk Trust Gets the Milk. the leaflets were given a more cor- dial reception than the speeches de- livered from the stage. “When the speakers were against semething the audience would cheer. Their invitations to join the Amer- ican Legion in order to get the bonus were met with silence. A ANTIMILITARISM GETS RESPONSE FROM WAR VETS sti cisectes sit tiny terewd to get up and speak as rank po ewer , {and filers. Even their speeches were Ex-Soldiers Jeer, Hiss Coolidge and Mellon not very cordially received, “The ex-service man is sick and tired of all the talk of the politicians, He is against war. His sentiments Veterans are more interested in | 8 against militarism. anti-militarism than they are in the bonus, They don’t think either Gool-! idge or Mellon is their friend, They will not be too anxious to enlist in the next war and will fight con- scription unless wealth is also con- scripted, NEW YORK.—The Russian gov- ernment printing house is now con- ducting & New York office with a ,stock of the books and periodicals published by it on hand. Jinportations jon ofder are quickly made, The Those are the sentiments of the agency trade name is Gosisdat, 15 ex-service men as guaged by a| Park Row, New York City. member of the Young Workers} ah League who attended an American| Watch the “Daily Worker’ for the Legion pro-bonus meeting at tho: first installment of “A Woek,” the | Garrick Theater. He passed out great epie of the Russian r evolution, anti-militarist leaflets to the service by the brilliant young Russian writer, men who attended and says that lury Libedinsky. It will start soon. Fight Against Brutal Conditions (Special to “The Daily Worker’) ‘ NGHAM, Ala.—Convicts who are leased by the state to mine bieedenh on as’ miners have rebelled at.the Thomas Weller mines in Shelby Cafiity. They are barricaded in mine buildings and have dynamite with which they threaten to blow themselves and guards to bits if the them. d a Co Bnd, heal of the State convict board, said that reports that the convicts had done damage to property’ is untrue. Sixty-six miners are in It. ¢ ig yon to state officials no reason for the revolt was given but ‘it is generally understood that conditions are so bad among convicts who ork in the mines under the lease system that they have plenty of cause for desperation. Mine officials bewail the fact that no notice of the revolt was given by the rebels, The usual investigation is promised. M tallments of “1 MARYLAND COAL | MINERS RECOVER — _- FROM BIG STRIKE : Jailed Union Men Now Returning to Homes (Svecial to “The Daily Worker”) FROSTBURG, Md:—The miners’ union in the George Creek and Up- | per Potomac mining regions is slow- | _ | ly recovering from the effects of the recent strike, The miners who ‘were sent prison for short terms as a result of rioting last August, are getting out one at a time and returning work. The rioting resulted from the ‘murder of 2 union miner by, gun- men of the Consolidation Coal Com- ny a few days'before. This treat- ent, ig contrasted with the tireat- j mont accorded a negro strike break- r who shot and wounded several ‘on miners and a town policeman An- other strike breaker who was ar vested the night of the riot and concealed weapons was found not guity when who was not even arrested. charged with carrying tried. When the gunmen who had killed the union miner. were finally tried at Hagerstown they were found not guilty, Among the miners much criticism is directed against the leaders the union who did not take a clear ent stand on the issues involved the strike and the court cases grow- ing out of it, Work Daily for “The Daily!” price to tne farners. The latve equally determined not to budge an inch from their position, The slogan of the farmers is “$2.75 a hundred pounds or we will fight until Tibb’s eve.” Mass demonstrations of farmers are being held ail over the strike area. The temper of the producer: is rising as the profiteers disregard the interests of those who produce the milk and the people who consume it, They are out for more and more profits. Demonstration at Elgin The farmers’ wives and daughters are now taking a hand in the fight. loud and often to the exploited workers of Ame ers, and they demonstrated b ings held thruout the priceless asset and publication could have, the hearty support of the pro- gressive men and women Ameri cess. Ashland Auditorium, bought the sou- venir edition of “The Daily and lis- tened ‘to speeches by party offi and representatives of the busines and editorial staff of “The Daily.” The workers of Chicago who helped to make possible the Daiiy were out to celebrate, and they did. | ecb acicnmanmen sa Sa Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized ‘The Land for the Usevs The Industries for the Workers | Protection of the Foreign-Born | Recognition of S Russia. | Pass dua eet eo WORKER py: mm NG CO., 1640 N. Halsted St,, Chicago, Hlinoi, * FI¢e 3 Cents, 879, ngs Souvenir Edition Main Speaker; Great Enthusiasm in Chicago; Toilers Everywhere Pledge Aid The appearance of the first issue of the first Communist daily in the English langtiage, was the occasion for monster mass meetings thruout the United States where thousands of workers gathered to express their joy over the establi iment of a militant defender of labor and a guide toward the goal for which labor is headed, the Soviet Republic. In every important industrial center in the United States the workers congregated to greet their paper. They listened to »| speeches,: good speeches, but the great attraction was “‘The Daily Worker.” At last the Communist movement in America was getting on its feet, it was developing it: vice so that it could speak rica, “January 13th” was, indeed, a red-letter day for the A y their enthusiasm, at the 8, th ‘The Daily \ merican work- United State ed to do across. “Bob” Minor said that already the Daily Worker was a worthy brother of Pravda, the great. Russian Daily Editor Engdahl took enough time from getting the second issue of the Daily on the press to be in attend- ance, “T was told by an old-time Social- ist the other day that he was glad to see that the Daily was soon to start because, ‘the sooner you start the in the tican working class, Chicago’s meeting was a huge suc- Thousands of workers crowded had In Elgin, Miinois, a parade of the Milk Producers’ Women’s Auxiliary was held. The parade was followed | by a huge mass meeting in a down- town theatre with E. C. Rockwell, secretary of the Producers’ Associa- tion and others as speakers. The Bowman Company, the largest concern affected, threatened today tromasralee the wereiine Waid Panmine ees - of the inner belt aad even go el where for its milk permanently unless the strike was called off. Spokesmen for the company stated that pastouris- ing machinery has been dismantled at the Dundee and Barrington plants and moved to Chicago. Frank T. Fowler official spokesman for the Milk Producers’ Association in a statement to the Daily Worker declared that the Milk Trust knew it was beaten. During the first days of the tieup, considerable milk was shipped from Detroit and Cleveland, but these districts are now barred. Producers in nearby states have given their word to the Lake County strikers to cease shipments of mili to the Chicago: Milk Trust. The milk supplied to Chicago is dwindling daily according to Mr. Fowler. One thousand, two hun McHenry County farmers, numberi 1,200 voted unanimously to stand by the association. While the producers a ing to get the state go tervene in an inve milk strike, the Milk out its best legal mi rmment to in- igation of the rust has trotted injunction prehi distributing company in Chice Farmers’ Enemies Meet !' The n farmers a Jencine same tr {city workers. They n e mmon cause workers of g the milk far- strike, Mr. John M. | Glenn, president of the Illinois Manu- facturers’ Association was delivering the following gem at a national far- mer-manufacturer conference in the congress hotel. “The farmer and manufacturers,” declared Glenn, “have everything in common. Neither has anything in common with the labor. Both farmer and manufac- | turer are employers, both are capital- | ists, both are producers, both are in- vestors.”” The Daily Worker challenges Mr. Glenn to walk into the strike head- quarters of the Milk Producers’ Asso- ciation in the Sherman Hotel and make that statement in front of any one of the representatives of the farmers of Lake County. If the interests of the capitalists and the farmers are iden- tical, why this deadly quarrel be- tween the farmers who produce milk and the capitalists who take the far- mers’ produce and sell it to the con- sumer at a large profit? Can Mr. Glenn answer this question? to to} mers to win their . of in be e endesvor-|° un | Carpenters and Coppersmiths in Greetings to “The Daily Worker’: Among the first American Federation of Labor local unions in Chicago _ to send im greetings to The Daily Worker, are Local No. 5Sl,of the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union, and Local No. 1367, Carpenters and Joiners of America. remem ee Speeches were listened to and ap-]sooner you will fail.’ I_answered plauded, but the center of interest | that people told the Bolsheviks of was the first edition of “The Daily | Russia*the came thing in 1917. They Worker.” succeeded in their revolution. We When Earl Browder, managing | are succeeding with our F r. editor of the Labor Herald, bean the auction of the first copy of “ne first English-language Communist daily, the crowd “snapped into it.” Bids came thick and fast. Browder was | forced to put a time-limit on the auc- tion and announce that the highest bid at the moment. of closing would {take the Jacob en, a member of the orth West Jewish branch of the of the United Brotherhood of First of Many Dailies. “The first number of the Daily Worker marks a turning point in the Communist movement of ¢! try. It is our biggest It marks ¢ inning of big achieve It is merely the first. More are sure to follow.” James P. Canne Workers Party, a » chairman of the as chairmen of Workers Party of Chicago got it for the meeting. Salzman brought J. Louis nl, E ithe zreetings of the Young Workers ger © {League. .He aroused enthuaiastic se when jhe told what “The could do for the yo International e first cory of Minor, editor of emed anxious to get on maneged to run dding beyond the range of an regular Worke meeting here Haessler, 1 erated Pri of Chicago, spoke on “The Stimulus in Radicalism,” show- ing how the radical as he looks over world tend d trend tow- ard a communal organization of soci- ety get kiek out of life while the reactionary looks to the future with fear and foreboding, The Russian film, “The Fifth ,| Year,” will be shown at the Pabst ater Saturday, Jan. 19. A large nce sale of tickets is reported the daily papers are giving the good publiiity. C,_E, Ruthenberg, Exceutive See- retary of the Workers Party, in de- livering the first speech of the eve- ning, said: “The Communist International has It is a worthy ization. Soy- ve defender t. Carl The Fed- campaign to m e The Daily poss do not need to m: Worker a success, It is the fastest America. What we do need to do is the Daily Worker a bigger r success. You, the work- are al Sarit ers, can do thet. You will do it, I Watch the “Daily Worker” for the know.” first installment of “A Week,” the They'll Put It Across. From the manner in which his re- marks were cheered it was plain that great epic of the Rus: by the brilliant young Russia: lury Libedinsky, volution, nm writer, It will start soon, 4,123 Desert U. S. Navy in Five Months in San Francisco District (Special to “The Daily Worker”) SAN FRANCISCO,—Life in Uncle Sam’s navy is not all that it is cracked up to be if desertions from this district areeto be taken as an index. Accord figures issued by the 12th district naval headquarters there have been 4 desertions during the past five months. Of these 1978 are stili at large, A glance at the list of reasons given by officials in explanation among which are “misrepresentation of navy life and insufficient cruising,” would indicate that something more than alluringly written “join navy and see the world” ads are needed to make s ly sailors out of gr: country boys, Week”-What Do You Say? See Page 2 |