The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 4

Page Four EfHE DAILY WORKES MANY TAILORS’ LOCALS BACKING MAX SILLINSKY Red Baiters Can’t Down Progressive With nominations coming from some thirty five cities for Max J. Sil- linsky for General Secretary Treas- urer of the Journeymen Tailors Union, the campaign for the office in the Journeymen Tailors Union has started with vigor. Since the American Federation of Labor Convention at Portland, when Thomas Sweeney, the present Gen- eral Secretary Treasurer of the union voted for’ the expulsion of William F. Dunne, there has been a heated discussion over this action of Swee- ney’s as against the action of Max J. Sillinsky who was one of those who voted against the expulsion of Dunne. Protest Vote Against Dunne, Protest after protest have been registered by»locals, individuals and groups in the union against the out- Tageous action of Sweeney. The of- ficial organ, issue after issue, has been filled with letters of protest and criticism against himself which Swee- ney against his will has been forced to pubish. At first not daring to publish Dunne’s speech in Portland, he launched a vituperative campaign of slander and vilification against all those disagreeing with him'but the avalanche of sentiment against him became so great that he was forced to publish Dunne’s speech in full in the Official Organ. As the time for nominations for the office of General Secretary-Treas- urer grew nearer and it became mani- fest that Max J. Sillinsky would be nominated against him on the issues that had arisen in the Journeymen Tailors Union, Sweeney began to use the official organ as a mud slinging instrument against Sillinsky and those likely to support the latter for the office. Today the “Journeymen Tailor” has practically become a personal ‘weapon of Offetise and Defense for Sweeney. Foolish Red Baiting. Sweeney has inaugurated a cam- paign of red baiting in the union. All of his opponents, all those desiring different methods to be pursued and different action taken are “Com- munists, Bolsheviks, Disrupters, Reds.” Sweeney hms come out as a safe and sane “socialist” and in one of the last issues of the Journeyman Tailor declares that only by building the socialist party will anything be accomplished. Big Locals For Max. _.. The Jast issues of the “Journeyman Tailor” have begun to contain de- rogatory articles on Soviet Russia, one of them pointing out how Soviet Rus- sia was violating the sacred principle of agreements in refusing to rec- ognize Czarist debts. Among the locals endorsing Max Sillinsky for Secretary-Treasurer are: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York City, San~ Francisco, Detroit, Butte, Buffalo, Toronto, Canada, Denver and Kansas City. These locals and the members of the Journeymen Tailors Union know for what to take the so-called socialistic leanings of Sweeney and his likes and on the other hand look to Sillinsky’s action in Portland as well his stand with Progressives in their policies as as- suring them a militant aggressive leadership of their union. The task of the Progressives in the Journeymen Tailors Union is clear. It is now up to every forward seeing member of the Journeymen Tailors Union to exert every effort to assure the election of Max J. Sillinsky and the voting in of a consistent progres- sive policy for the Journeymen Tail- ors Union instead of decrepit reac- tionary and disitegrating policy of Sweeney and his like. Morpheus Hugs Two Moonshine Sleuths; Inspector Fires Them NEW ORLEANS, March 31.—Ed- ward Rooner and Alvin Johnson, motorcycle policemen, detailed on a special hunt for bootieggers, high- waymen ani other law breakers, were found fast asleep in a shed by Supt. of Police Molony on a tour of b jon. They: are now looking for another job. Pleasure! CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 8d Avenue For Defense and Relief of Class War Prisoners Delightful Programs and Dancing Every Night— Bargains “Big Value” HELP A GOOD CAUSE!? By Your Attendance and By Donating for the Booths Materials for Hats and Dresses or Finished Goods, Ornamental Cae Bet: Ete., or Cash Money to help defray expenses of Send Contributions to NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE 80 East 11th Street, New York City TICKETS ON SALE NOW Party Membership, Attention! 'HE PRESENT situation of the Workers Party in the struggle for the formation of a mass, class Farmer-Labor Party will be presented to the membership of the party in a series of membership mass meetings in the principal cities, The development of the Farmer-Labor movement requires the mobilization of the entire party for an intensive campaign during the coming months. It is essential that every party member not only NEW YORK READERS, ATTENTION! INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR APRIL 10-13, 1924 give the campaign the greatest support. possible, but it is equally important that every member of the party know exactly what the party is trying to do. which the united front movement The whole party must understand the role for the Farmer-Labor Party plays in the struggle for the Proletarian Revolution, the Soviets and Prole- tarian Dictatorship. In order to present the situation to the membership meetings have been arranged in the district headquarters city of eight districts, which will be attended by the members in these cities and also by comrades invited from the nearby cities, These meetings will be. addressed by C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Party. His subject wili be “The Decisive The meetings arranged are: Cleveland, Sunday, April 6, Euclid Ave. Pittsburg, Monday, April 7, 8 Philadelphia, Tuesday, April 431 Pine St. Stage of our Labor Party Policy”. at 3 p.m, Labor Temple, 2536 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. 8, 8 p. m. Amalgamated Centre, New York City, Wednesday, April 9, 8 p, m., Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. Boston, Thursday, April 10. Buffalo, Saturday, April 12. Detroit, Sunday, April 13. Chicago, Tuesday, April 22, Every party member in the cities mentioned should attend these meetings. Every party member within reach of these cities should come to the meetings. The Party must know and understand the policies of the Central Executive Committee. The Party must mobilize all its strength for the campaign which the Party is now entering. CONDUCTED - BY TH Young Workers League.of America, 1009 N. State St.,.Chicago, Ill. To All Shop Nuclei and Branches of the Young Workers’ League:— Dear Comrades: it becomes neces- sary to cancel the National Confer- ence of the Young Workers League set for May 30th, 31st and June 1st, 1924, in Chicago. ‘Lhe purpose of calling our National Conference was fully explained in the call. However, there have been changés in circumstances the past few days which necessitate the cancellation of the National Conference. The Young Communist Interna- tional has called a Bureau Session in the month of May to take yp its immediate problems and its regular Fourth Congress was to be held on International Youth Day, in Sep- tember. The regulations of the Young Workers League call for a National Convention of the League within four months after the Con- gress, of the Young Communist In- ternational. The Young Commun- ist International, however, has de- cided in view of the change by the Communist International of its con- gress, to call the regular congress of the Young Communist Interna- tional immediately after the Com- munist International Congress in June. . BULLETIN Congress, it would mean that if we Issued by the should hold our National conference as scheduled, on May 34th, the Third National Convention of the Young Workers League would have to fol- low but a few months after our Na- tional Conference. This would be a financial and technical impossibil- ity for us. We are therefore calling off the National Conference and in- stead will call the regular Third National Convention of the Young Workers league a few months after the Young Communist International Congress. In the “Young Worker” you can read the letter from the Young Communist International informing us of the cancellation of their Bu- reau Session and the calling of their Fourth Congress, from which follows, logically, the postponement of our National Conference. Since you have had the call and agenda for the National Conference but a few days, there should not be any great inconvenience caused be- cause of the postponement: 7 We ask you to continue energeti- cally with the work of the League; discuss more closely than ever the immediate and future problems and lay the basis for district organiza- fions so that when the Third Na- tional Convention of the Young Workers League is called we shall be able to note large strides forward Since it would be necessary to|of the League. : : call a-convention of the Young With Communist greetings, Workers League shortly after the MARTIN ABERN, Young Communist International Executive Secretary. Teapot Dome Labor Secretary Puts New | Of Oklahoma Run Chains on Aliens WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31. ~The screws have. been further tightened on aliens within the Unii- ed States by Secretary of Labor James Davis who, in a new ruling, declares that an alien who has been admitted to this country for tem- porary residence must first secure the consent of imntigration authori- ties before endeavoring to become a citizen. In line with his recent policy of making it as hard for the alien as possible, Secretary Davis now rules that if immigration authorities care to they can ship the immigrant out of the country. An alien who has temporarily been admitted to this country,-even tho ke decides to re- main and become naturalized, is gub- ject to the whim of the immigration authorities, according to the new ruling. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! 3RD ANNUAL At Afternoons and Evenings gidone in 8 i ga ae Big Oil Candidate By ERNEST R. CHAMBERLAIN. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY, March 31.— Oklahoma’s farmer-labor forces are swallowing hard trying to accustom themselves to the sensation of sup- porting a millionarie oil man for U. S. senator. Charles J. Wrightsman of Tulsa is the nominee of the Farmer-Labor Progressive league for the Democratic primary. His friends stress his ability to finance @ cam- paign. Opponents of Wrightsman at the El no convention united in sup- port of Fletcher Davis, a Pittsburgh eounty school teacher and member of the Farm-Labor union, to whom rallied the enthusiastic youth of the Red river ready to ride the rods and pass the hat to conduct a campaign. J. Luther. Langston, league man- ager, came out for Wrightsman, say- ing that all money expended by the Tulsan would go thru the league to be used in behalf of the entire ticket. The Oklahoma der’s forces, ral- lying about 200 of the 601 delegates present, made a ‘ong fight for a third party but were outvoted. A third party move is under way head- ed by George Wilson and numerous Socialists and followers of LaFollette who insist on availing themseves of the recently enacted state law to meee a Farmer-Labor ticket in the eld. They propose to file their ticket and then campaign for the league candidates in the Democratic primary. If the league candidates are successful their names can also be inserted in the third party ticket by having the third party men with- draw in their favor. This has been Minnesota Farmer-Labor Famer-Labor Forces campaigns. He Wants the Right Dope. To the DAILY WORKER—While selling the DAILY WORKER Fri- day, March 28, on Cadiliac Square, young fellow approached me and asked if this was a Communist pa- ark On being assured it was, he informed me that he had been hear- Farmer-Laber Party Is Riled At Leader’s Action (Continued from page 1) dates referred to in said resolution,” chief among whom was Governor Small. The resolution referred to was that adopted by the executive board of the Illinois Federation of Labor which urged the support of not only the Re- publican Candidate Len Small and Newton Jenkins, but also the Demv- eratic candidate for governor, Kent Kellar. ' Thomas C, McCabe, secretary of the Cook County branch of the Farm- er-Labor Party, when interviewed by the DAILY WORKER, said, “I stand by the decision of the executive board of my party. I don’t believe Small will win the nominatjon anyway. Even if he did, the Marmer-Labor Party intends to run candidates by means of petitions. It was the unani- mous sense of the executive board that the old party politicians are dis- reputable, and I don’t believe labor will gain anything by indorsing the old ‘party politicians. Violated Party Principles. “Let John Fitzpatrick speak for himself. He knew of the motion which the party executives unani- mously passed, Perhaps he has fallen into some trap set for him by the politicians, HE HAS VIOLATED THE SPIRIT, POLICIES AND PRIN- CIPLES OF THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY, in my opinion. Byt let him speak for himself.” “It is to be regretted that some trade unionists have placed their lib- erty in jeopardy and at the mercy of unscrupulous politicians who have in past times aligned themselves against labor.” John Fitzpatrick was faced, by the DAILY WORKER, with the con- tradictory statements of the party which’ he helped to launch—The Farmer-Labor Party—and the reso- lution which he signed. “It is a perfectly logical situation,” said Fitzpatrick, “what I meant was that if the trade unionists are bound to enter the primaries, then they should vote for Small. I did not advise them to participate in the pri- maries.” Let Facts Speak. But Fitzpatrick did advise trade unionists to participate in the pri- maries, not only in the communica- tions quoted above, but in his en- dorsement of the resolution passed by the executive board of the Illi- nois State Federation signed by Fitzpatrick, which resolved, “The nominations of the three candi- dates, Newton Jenkins, Len Small and Kent Kellar, are hereby urged. Resolved further, that. le uhion- ists in all congressional and sena- torial districts be and hereby are urged and advised to support these candidates,” Fitzpatrick was asked what he had to say to this and to the state- ment of McCabe that “All loyal Farmer-Laborites must urge union- ists to stay away trom the pri- maries.” “That is a different proposition,” said Fitzpatrick. He abruptly ter- minated the interview without say- ing goodbye, dashing out the door and down the stairs while the DAILY WORKER reporter was ask- ing him another question. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Cabaret Dance Will Entice Tired Reds To Northwest Frolic An innovation in entertainments will be introdgced to the workers of Chicago on Thursday evening, April 3, when the North West Side Eng! branch of the Workers Party asso- ciated with the Maplewood branch of the Young Workers League, will pol- ish the floors of the Workers Lyceum at 2733 Hirsch Boulevard for the cabaret dance which every militant foot artist in the city is looking for- ward to, ‘ It might be stated at this stage of the gume that the cost of participat- ing in this novelty is thirty-five cents | chai including your share of the cost of making the world safe for democracy and paying the household of Jess Smith and other gay lads who held forth in Washington before the Teapot burst. \ That little matter taken care of we will not let you in on the other secrets but we can hint that between now and Thursday this paper will carry a VERY IMPORTANT AN- NOUNCEMENT in the advertising columns relative to the cabaret dance. The advertising manager of the DAILY WORKER bought a ticket for the affair after the committee on ar- rangements gave him the copy for an ad. The worst is yet to come, K, K. K, Turns Up A Joker. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 31.— A comical part in the Milwaukee municipal elections was provided b: the Koo Koos. The Ba Ame can, the alleged publication of the | jm; Klan, has “indorsed” Socialist Candi- date, Hoan, for mayor; much to the| Cann displeasure of the latter. ayor Hoan was quick to re- yudiate the unwelcome endorsement, ut this did not prevent the o) forces to make an issue of it in the bitter municipal election cam; now taking place in the city, Mayor Hoan ¢ that this a trick played on him for the pose of alienating about 7,000 col- ored votes in addition to a consider- able Jewish and Catholic support. per ee Lindlahr Dies. who erindeétedia “hatarh cure” peters] tarium in Chicago, died week. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Barns Man Planned Deportatioiy and Shooting of Foreign-Bovn Miner, Secret Letter Sijows How William J. Burns private detectives use the inn Vgra- tion authorities to get rid of radical foreign born workers who are endangering the profits of the corporations which retain the agency is shown in a confidential letter from a Burns PUr-| Pennsylvania Railroad expenses |the blanket pardon fssued’ by : operative which has fallen into Workers of the World. The letter is from Operative “Z.3” to G. G. Pross, manager of the Los Angeles Branch of the Burns agency. “Getting Rid of a Red.” “Z. 8,” otherwise known as J. J. Spear, an Arizona delegate for the Metal Mine Workers Union of the I. W. W. until he was exposed and expelled, says that a certain “Dunn,” who seems to be another operative, informs him that an I. W. W. named M. Demitroff was afraid of deportation to Aastria, the possession of the Industrial where he would be shot as a de- serter from the Austrian army. This, commented “Z. 3,” ought to be “a good chance to get rid of our Red.” Other letters in the Burns wobbly file show how all such information ‘was turned over to Department of Justice agents or local authorities in the interest of the copper com- panies who were retaining the Biwns agency. ’ Facsimile of J.ctter. The facsimile of the original let- ter follows: 12.P¢ Qe27 ~ 23 GE te bch tas ge Wiebe 4 ia tfcnat sean Gant. . ¢ hot ta gtned haftkA wo JIM CANNON AN EDWARDS CLASH SUNDAY, APR. 13 Big Debate at North- Side Turner Hall pereerinitie: polite to the certainty that the debate between James~P. Cannon, of the Workers Party, and Forrest Edwards, of the Industrial Workers of the World will be the biggest event of its kind that Chi- cago has had in years. Indications are that both Workers Party and I. W. W. members, in Chicago, are wholeheartedly back of their rfien. Ralph Chaplin, who will act as irman, is one of the “old time wobblies” who was released from jail only a short time ago, under dent Coolidge. Forrest Edwards, who will try to show “that the Workers Party must fail to achieve anything of import- ance for the workers,” is also an ex-inmate of Leavenworth peniten- tiary. He was formerly secretary- treasurer of the “Agricultural Workers Industrial Umou,” tne ag- ricultural branch of the I. W. W. He is said to be widely known in the harvest fields of the west, “Jim” Cannon; mting the viewpoint of the Workers Party, has been a prominent iigure in the rev- olutionary working class movement for years. He is national chairman of the Workers Party. The question to be debated is: “Resolved, That the Workers Party Importance for’ the warkera?” with ‘or workers, it Edwards taking the allirmative, and on the negative. The struggle will take pce at the North April 13 all, Sunday afternoon, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Bad Rails; Big Profits, Four cars of the Broadway Limited, between Chicago and New York, were de- today at Hamlet, Ind., about ‘0 miles from here. Passengers were a shaking up, but none hurt. A switch caused the derail- ment, it was stated, — New York Bosses’ Joker Would Kill Compensation Bill NEW YORK, March 31 n= izations representing over 900,000 wage earners have joined together here to fight the ‘joker’ which the employers are endeavoring to insert as an amendment to the Twomey- Wilson silicosis bill, introduced by labor. t Declaring that if the bg am (Md substitute is passed by the legisla- ture, the entire Compensation act of New York will become null and void, representatives of the Worker's Health Bureau, the New York Feder- ation of Labor, the Central Trades and Labor Council, and the Building Trades Compensation Bureau, point out that the joker would create a medical’ board of three physicians, whose decision would be final. “Sillicosis is a lung disease pre- valent in certain dusty trades, and often leading to tuberculosis,” these organizations declare. “The effect of the joker would be to nullify the Compensation Act. The injured. worker would be denied the right of appeal.” Legion Gets Stung; Bergdoll Refuses To Return to Jail (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, March 31.—Grover aes Bergdoll is back in Eber- The youd, Philade! companions, the S er boys, are Fon tia a to the United’ States at time, Bergdoll charged that a “quartet of newspapermen” who have been working to induce him to return, in the interest of an American news- paper concern, offered him American Vbetant” aa wel bo Silae epustoot “Bryant” as well as o' documents -consuls in Ger- many to extend ci draft avoider said he had not made himself liable under the law: ot believe was illegally convicted jesertion, said, ““T never took oath as a soldier, nor He tald the ne off fe sa newspapermen offeren him annulment or sling 08 the desertion charge if he return with them, but that he was skeptical, negperseretninstenaeet Ss of Host, tie, ey ed site “oy My gal “Just were a call. Ry any cl ii n and his] Tuesday, April 1, 1924 WILSON WISHED GERMAN VICTORY BEFORE HE DIED” Said France Should Be “Cleaned Up” (Spectal. to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 81— “To the zero hour, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the spiritual leader of a cause only temporarily lost,” writes Sames Kearney, pub- lisher of the Trenton, N. J., Times, in an intimate copyrighted article appearing this week in the Satur- day Evening Post. Kerney says- in his article that Wilson thought his radio speech de- livered on Armistice day brought a reaction which showed the pendu- lum riticcg Wu in his direction, The writer then reveals the bitter feeling Wilson had accumulated to- ward the attitude of France, Furor Over Radio Speech. “When I reminded him that there was quite an international furor over his radio reference to the ‘sinister climax’ of France and Italy having ‘made waste paper of the treaty of Versailles,’” Kerney writes, “he fired back in a spirited voice, ‘I should like to see Germany clean up france and I should like to meet Jusserand and tell him that to his. face’” Revealing Wilson’s idea of his place in world opinion, Kearney on *the former president fur- er: y “I am going to try to look at myself as tho I did not exist—to consider the whole thing in an im- personal way. From the messages I get I realize that I am_ every- where regarded as the foremost leader of the liberal thought of the ‘world, and the hopes and aspira- tions of that liberal thought should find some better place of expression than in the senate.” And at this point the writer quotes Wilson’s estimate of the senate: “Outside of the United States, the senate does not ambunt to a damn, and inside the United States, the senate is mostly despised; — they haven’t had a thought down there in fifty years.” Did Not Support Cox. “You know I have a temper and if I was to go to tne senate ) should get into a row with that old Lodge, who no longer counts for anything. Ags I have remarked be- fore of him, I'd rather be a dead ‘dead man than a dead Itve man. The senate would hardly provide the place for liberal leadership that the world is seeking so sadly.” Kerney revealed Wilson, as not supporting the dential aspira- tions of James M, Cox, tho regard- ing his stand in the last election as a “brave one.” “‘His master’s voice has spoken,’ was his breezy comment on Presi- dent Coolidge’s message to con- gress,” Kerney writes, and “of the administration world court idea,” he said, ‘they don’t know where they’re drifting; Hughes is at sea and they have no program.’” | IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Slaves to Rest Sunday. MONTREAL, Mar, 31.—Provision is now made for the observance of Sunday as a day of rest at Shawini- gan Falls, one of the chief centers of the pulp and paper industny in the province“of Quebec. The mills cease operations Saturday midnight and re- main closed down 24 hours. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subseribe today. fear ° Are you self-conscious’ $- it, U.S. A. 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