The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ‘ ra I. No. 336. "mayor of Bate THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1924 = <q Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. .. Published PUBLISHING CO,, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois, anieceeensieninneiatietieetntateans Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Fight for Farmer-Labor Party at St. Louis Negroes Seek United Action at Big Assembly COAL DIGGERS IGALL STRIKE ON THE KLAN Mines Glose As Sta’e Troops Reach Herrin, Illinois t to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill.—T welve mines are already shut down and a general strike of all the coal diggers in Williamson county is expected in labor’s defensive fight against K. K. K. usurpers who have taken over the gov- ernment of the county and ar- rested Hugh Willis, state offi- cial of the United Mine Work- ers of America, Mayor Ander- gon and Sheriff Galligan, on framed-up changes of murder. The strike comes as hun- dreds of militiamen, members of the 132nd Infantry, arrived s reinforcements to S. Glenn Young and his policemen, who have lawlessly taken possession of the city. Veteran of Herrin Case. Willis’ arrest on the charge of rmneel fering Constable Cagle, is the secona mpt of operators’ forces to ame him. The first was at the fa- mous Herrin trial where he was com- pletely vindicated by a jury. | Arrested. with Willis by the Klan police under 8. Glenn Young, is the tin, an anti-Klansman, ne = its re He yrn and M. J. ut, eouty sheriffs; Jim’ Davis, John Mur- y, J. W. Brown, Alvin Thomas, te Smith, James Johnson and Ora jomas. All are held in the base- ABSOLUTELY USELESS x f d ment of the Elks’ Club headquarters, ‘ Great A il- Race Negro Congress where Klansmen foregather. | Klen Arrests Sheriff. i Sheriff George Galligan, who sought to restrain the terroristic policies of , the Klan, is lodged a prisoner in the eity jail, also charged with murder. | F. direct evidence supports the n’s charge. we ‘ | 8. Glenn Young, whom the United States invested with the authority of a federal “prohibition enforcement” agent as he directed the Ku Klux Klan raids on the foreign born miners of Williamson county, is, in control of the local police forces in Herrin and working hand in hand with the guardsmen. Soldiers Save Klan. The military forces of the State of Illinois came while Mayer Anderson’s men were fighting gallantly against a mob that was trying to break into; the hospital to lynch Deputy Sheriff Layman who had been shot by Ford, the Klan police chief, who preceded Young. The soldiers’ arrival at double auick with fixed bayonets, saved the Klan gunmen from the anti-Klansmen who were coming in onse to a hurry call. reePhe Klan dictatorship of the new chief of police, S. Glenn Young, sworn in by the assistant chief ir- regularly, is shown by his failure to make arrests for the shooting of Deputy Sheriff Layman by Chief John Ford. Witnesses saw Ford fire. lo ‘(Continued on page 4.) Klan Password Required Under Military Regime RRIN, Ill, Feb. 11th—With (ne + patrolling Herrin the Klan passw uired from all per- sons who wo! enter or quit the town limits, Young, the Klansmen, rules the town, y Illinois soldiery. Se.aiers’ fixed onets surround him, and a machine gan in mounted ou There is wik of a friendly arrest by the military to al- lay the resentment with which the town is seething. Opening Today Seeks to Weld Oppressed _Against Oppressors All previous attempts to bring American Negroes together will be overshadowed by the All-Race Assembly or Sanhedrin, which opens its doors in the-Wabash avenue branch of the Chicago Y. M. C. A., today, for a week’s deliberations. That is indicated by the large advance guard of delegates from the 41 registered organizations. There is now assurance that several hundred colored men and women will participate in the United Front congress which seeks to weld the Race together against the lynching, disfranchisement, peonage and Jim Crowism that is going on in full blast today in violation of the ordinary criminal laws, the 14th and 15th amendments and all principles of human justice. Minor, Fort-Whiteman Speaking. Speaking on a theme which is near to the hearts of negroes thruout America, Robert Minor, editor of the Liberator, and Lovett Fort-White- man, of the Chicago Defender, spoke last night at the Wendell Phillips High School, 89th St. and Prairi Ave., of the heroism and genius o! Frederick Douglass, the colored ‘i. tive who helped to organize the forces of abolition north of the Mason and Dixon line, The Minor-Fort-Whiteman meeting was the first of several supplemen- tary mass rng el during the prog- ress of “Negro Week.” Some of the most distinguished negro leaders in America will be present at the congress and there will be a full sized delegation of colored men from the Workers Party and the African Blood Brotherhood, The five Workers Party delegates are Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Gordon 0. Owens, ae eveone Burton, Ethel Hall and C. Phillips, Asking Reco; of Russia, The congress will put. itself on record in favor of the recognition of Workers Standard of Living Falls As Rents Rise; Worst Victims Are the Negroes, waily Worker Reveals By JAY LOVESTONE. nly are the workers compelled to live under the most} movement ur; dopioeabia conditions of sanitation and congestion, but they| 8 the objective of the Negroes, bi forced to pay exorbitant rents—rents far be- wide pay | of.their scanty budget allowances for housing. “More and more the workingmen and w&king women of New York are being driven to cut down on their food, clothing ! order tobe able to pay the high rents that are and education in “daheon th pees nee hat Re S 3 isoaa AN eR e ie a Soviet Russia, if the program of the worker element goes thru. Recog- nition will be urged because Russia is the only powerful nation that puts theories of racial equality into prac- tice and that is carrying on ary active campaign thruout the world for the eapaltty of the darker peoples, ‘earing that the convention might neglect the fundamental economic is- sues which underlies the persecu- tion of the black race a strong group of delegates will do all they can to keep these issues to the fore and will strive for the adoption of a vig- orous: program for - industrial free. dom of the negro in northern indus- tries as well as on southern plan- tations. Prominent Negroes Attending. William B. Dubios, editor of “The Crisis”; Alain Lock, philosopher from Howard University; Jessie Fausset, literary critic; William. H. Moore, poet and critic; Mrs. Ida B. Well, known far and wide among the mem- bers of her race for her agitation against race discrimination in the south; Monrose Trotter, editor of the “Guardian,” of Boston, and president of the Equal Rights League; William Braithewaite, poet and critic, of the staff of the Boston Transcript;” Bishop Jones and Bishop Hurst, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, are among the prominent Negroes who will take part in the deliberations in the day sessions at the Wabash Avenue Y. M. C. A, and speek to mixed audiences at the ‘endell Philips High School, 39th and Prairie, in the evenings. No cs ogy etch will be present from Garvey movement. The United Negro Improvement Associa- tion holds to its African nationalistic policy and refuses to take part in a movement that is toncerned primar- | ay, with winning rights for Negroes. where they ive. The Garvey the return to Africa Bank Broke; Took Money. EDWAR! SVILLES Ill,—Three offi- cers of tha detunce First State and Savings Bank of Wood River were’ } Mee COOLIDGE- FILIPINOS CABLE C.P.P.A WILL MISS McADOO, LOST LEADER Farmer-Laborites Strong At Third Conference (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUUIS.—The Conference for Progressive Political Action opened its sessions here today with the greatest uncertainty for future plans prevailing among all except the left wing delegates, such as JWilliam Ma- honey, of St. Paul, Robley D. ts we + MELLONg># m SCHEME Forward to the Farmer-Labor Party To the Delegates to the Conference for Progressive Political Action. TE Republican and Democratic parties are discredited as I never before in the history of this country. It has been generally known that these parties are the parties of Wall Street and the privileged class but the Teapot Dome looting of the nation has made this clearer than ever before. Senators, cabinet officers and even presidents of both political parties are exposed as the agents of big capitalists struggling for greater profits and looting the nation in the process. On the other hand, the farmers and workers of this country are more determined than ever to create a political party which will represent their interests. The May 30th Convention of the Farmer-Labor forces at St. Paul in this country will bring into existence a great Farmer-Labor party which will fight the polit- ical battles of the workers on the land and the workers in the industries, Will the Conference for Progressive Political Action in the face of these events continue its bankrupt policies of trying to pick out republicans and democrats, and vote for these on the Cramer, of Minneapolis, and others, who came here definite- ly committed to the formation of a Farmer-Labor party as op- posed to the Conference’s pres- ent program of non-partisan action. Chester Pratt, Wisconsin Ton-Partisan; who opposed the ‘armer-Labor party movement t the Chicago, July 3, Conference .as heard from the rank and file thru old party tickets, or will it align itself with the forces of the militant workers and farmers who are struggling forward to a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government of the United States? This is the question which the Conference at St. Paul will decide. The reactionary leaders of the Conference, who are pledged to old party candidates, who want to make the farmers and workers again vote for a McAdoo, or some other so-called “good man,” will do their utmost to continue the old policies. These delegates in the Conference who really represent the interests of farmers and industrial workers will fight for the adoption of a new policy and the endorsement of the great Farmer-Labor Convention on May 30th. . referendum on the question and is nstructed to try and swing the con- ‘erence for independent workingclass political action; ninety per cent oi the Wisconsin league farmers were for a Farmer-Labor party. ‘i Others Have Change of Heart. _)-cThere are other delegates here who have had a change of heart and are ready to desert the capitalisi parties under pressure from the rank and file, but what their voting is wil. not be known until the conference gets down to business. Cloge observers of labor’s politica! activities know that the Conference for Political Action has been built up around the McAdoo for Presiden idea and everything looked good unti McAdoo was caught in the flood of oil that rolled out of the teapot. The officialdom of the conference, William H. Johnston of the Inter national Association of Machinists the officers of the Railway Brother. hoods, controlling the voting strength of’ previous gatherings, are now without a candidate unless a deal ha; been made with Senator LaFollette. What these labor officials will do ir y the present difficulty will be interest MANILA.—The Philippine Labor |ing te watch, Confederation has just passed a Hagel One thing is certain, Recent de lution thanking the Workers Party of | velopments, the Teapot Dome scan America for the declaration recently|dal involving both old parties, anc made in the form of a resolution |the continued depression in the agri adopted by the labor elements of| cultural sections has strenghtene Chicago, demanding that congress, immeasurably the elements who wan and the government of the United to cut loose from the old parties and States vote and act immediately to} begin to build a solid political party grant the Filipino people complete | of workers and farmers with the eco independence from the rule of Amer-| nomic organizations of these group: cc Fagg tty as its foundation. ‘he resolution in question. was|, May Do the Foolish Thing. unanimously adapted by the workans ‘*Tt' may be that the cautious hades attending the massmeeting for Fili- ship of the Conference for Progres pino national freedom held under the| sive Political Action may be foolisi Ghinage, EF placa Party in enough to try and put the oil-spac This is the second time in recefl hac ag Be vamp ny roy Weeks that the workingmen of the) tit republican party candidate or a. Philippine Islands have expressed a “third party’ candidate. their gratitude to the Workers Party Both of these proposals oad mon struggle against their common Lely ae j Vt Cork eh ae en capitalist imperialist enemies. At the | one pi aeduent greg out last national convention of the Philip- Leber " of the Farmer ine Federation of Labor, held in perty. movement is impoasibl. Tandy, similar action was taken in|‘ Postpone any action and endors the unanimous adoption of a resolu-|®"4 send delegates to the May su. id convention in St. Paul. tion kage fo the bi ye (reed nm iber- . ste tht Filipinos," ° "* Teachers Strike, 200 Strong, When Pay Is Held Back News 8 In Truck Killed, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb, 10,—Six i (By The Federated Press) MEXICO CITY.—When 200 teach- ers were fired in Ueuyo Lareda after the teaching staff had waited over a month for pay, the whole teaching body went on strike. They are still out, and one of them, « principal, is in jail for refusing to give up the keys of his school. The schools are now locked but the teachers and pils are planning open them by ‘orce, : THANKS TO THE WORKERS PARTY Greeting by Philippine Labor Confederation (Special Cable to the Daily Worker) newsboys and a nan were killed near here early today when the truck in which they were returning from a Lea as struck by a Northwestern railro train, TWO DESERT FROM U, S. COAST GUARDS AND FACE 20 YEARS-IN PRISON work on the matter. Milwaukee Goes to Honduras. SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 10—The scout cruiser Milwaukee today re- pod to ‘Amapala, Hondl sy on " nduras, ro- tect American lives, said to Be ans in the revolution of the Seren come © eos dl ., The Industries for the workers! A “conciliatory commission is at) The policy of the Conference for Progressive Political Action thus far has been a betrayal of the farmers and industrial work- ers whose desire for independent political action brought about the original conference. The first conference in Chicago in February, 1922, sprung out of the desire in working and farming masses for a political party, sreere and distinct from. the old ties, which sould Gghteom——- their bat siege tles. The industrial workers of the city had learned during the experiences in the years since the war that the existing govern- ment, whether a republican or democratic administration was in power, whether a good or bad republican or democrat was qlected to office, was always on the side of the special privileged class and Wall Street. The farmers have had the same lesson taught to them. They have seen the government use its power thru the Federal Reserve Board to bankrupt the farmers of the United States. They have seen the government use its power in the support of the railroads that robbed the farmers thru high freight rates. They have seen the government use its power to help the bankers to hold the mort- gages on their jand while refusing assistance to them. They have learned their lesson in the fact that millions of farmers have been driven from the land because they could not gain even a living under the conditions which Wall Street and the exploiters forced them to submit to. These industrial workers and farmers express their dis- content with the acts of the government in the demand for the organization of a political party which would fight their political battles. They had high hopes when the first conference of farmers’ and workers’ representatives was called in Chicago. They still had high hopes after that conference, that the representatives who had gathered in Chicago would in the Cleveland conference adopt the program which they had refused to adopt in Chicago. The action of the first conference at Chicago was a betrayal of the farmers and workers. The action of the second conference an Cleveland was an even greater betrayal. Will the St. Louis Conference answer the demands of the industrial workers and farmers or will it again follow the wishes of a few reactionary leaders, like Johnston and Keating, who have their own political game to play? The Conference will be asked to endorse the May 30th Con- vention of-farmers and workers. It will also be asked to endorse the Republican or Democratic candidates who have betrayed the farmers and workers many times. Will the Conference again cake its stand with the agents of Wail Street or will it align itself vith the farmers and workers? Those delegates in the Conference who really represent in- ‘ustrial workers and farmers—and there are many such—will uot again support the agents of the republicans and democrats in the Conference in betraying the Farmer-Labor movement, The May 30th Convention is the hope of the farmers and workers of this country. In the Twin Cities, on May 30th, there will come into existence that organization which the farmers and workers desired to create when they forced their representatives to go to the first Conference in Chicago. The May 30th Convention wili nominate a Farmer-Labor candidate for president. It wili adopt a platform representing the interests of the farmers and industrial workers of this coun- try. The St. Louis Conference is the last opportunity of the Conference for Progressive Political Action to show that it really represents the workers and farmers. If it hoids to its policy of endorsing republican and democratic candidates, it aligns itself with Wali Street no matter what it endorses. if it gives its sup- port to the May 30th Convention it will align itself with the workers and farmers and show that it reaily has an interest in their struggle for a better life. THE 'tiME FOR DECISION IS AT HAND. IS THE CON- FERENCE FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION FOR WALL STREET, OR FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOV- ERNMENT IN THE UNIVED STATES? Central Executive Committee, Pe Workers Party of America, C, E, RUTHENBERG, * Executive vey me aowrwre