The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 4

cores ’ » Ft 4 ~ per 190, $5.00 per 1000. ae Page Four WORKERS PARTY ISSUES VALUABLE SET OF LEAFLETS Help Distribute These To The Workers A list of leaflets now being issued by the Workers’ Party of America from thé National Headquarters at 1009 North State Street, which are for free distribution or sale follows. The leaflets are isued to enlighten the | workers and farmers of the United | States as to their own class interests. | ees The ‘Kept Government of the United States. This leaflet,-2 pages, tells briefly of | the Washington Teapot Dome scan- dals and who are the people involved | and why. Not only individuals are guilty, but the whole system is guilty. The Government of the United States is a kept government. You should help tell others this truth. 40c per 100, se 8 Stand Fast for the Farmer-Labor Party. This is a statement issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, giving a brief history of the developments for independent political action of the working farmers and workers of this country, appealing to the readers to work for the success of the June 17th convention of the Farmer-Labor movement. 40c per 100, $3.50 per 1000. Four pages. ae @ Fight Registration of the Foreign Born Workers. Laws before Congress propose to enslave Foreign Born Workers and consequently the American Born Workers, These laws will aid the employers in fighting unions and re- ducing wages. The selective immi- gration, finger printing, just like cri- minals, photographing and other fea- tures of these laws if adopted will make the workers worse slaves than they are now. The leaflet tells all about it and shows how to fight these proposed laws. Every worker should be interested. 30c per 100, $2.50 per 1000. che TE UNITED STATES TO-DAY. Thus is headed the Program of the Workers Party of America. It is a keen analysis of the class struggle, the social forces organizing and fight- ing for power, etc. It is a masterly document and every worker should be familiar with the contents of this leaf- let. It is illustrated with several ap- propriate cartoons. 500,000 is already sold. Send for a supply to-day. 60¢ LET THE MINERS RUN THE MINES. Ths leaflet speaks of the nationali- zation of mines; the establishment of worker's control and a Workers Go- vernment. What applies to mines, ap- plies to other industries. Help advo- cate: LET THE MINERS RUN THE MINES. 25c per 100, $2.50 per 1000. ‘2 * WHY EVERY WORKER SHOULD BE A COMMUNIST AND JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY? This is an 8-page pamphlet with forceful illustrations and cartoons. The reader of the pamphlet is con- fronted with a picture of actual con- ditions as they are in the United States and if he is true to himself, it will lead him to thinking and joining the forces of class conscious workers, Will you help? Price: 80c per 100, $8.00 per 1000. Greeks Vote For a Republic; Martial Law Is Proclaimed (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, April 15.—The Greek electorate have voted for a republié by a huge majority. A government bulletin just issued announces that the result of the plebiscite indicates that the overwhelming majority fa- voring a republic in Athens and oth- er large cities makes the result cer- tain. The government announces also that martial law has veen proclaim- ed but no reason for this drastic ac- tion is given. Money Wins Again, Motion to quash the indictments against W..E. D. Stokes, New York milionaire, and five others indicted | with him on charges of “framing” evidence to blacken the character of his wife, Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, is scheduled for hearing before Judge W. M. Cook, of the criminal court, today. JUST OUT! Book—164 page Poem, well bound, neatly printed. M. 8. Holt, M. D,, author and publisher. Weston, W. Va. Prince, $1.26 p. p. nace ind Twixt God and the Learn Yr “War-Lord’s revel, Who've robbed you lo these many And drenched this world in blood and tears. b+ Atte a child in human gore, ‘epared for WAR forevermore. n His 4.” true cause of The Grisis In . a 2 By A. J. COOK. (Editor’s Note: When this article was published in the Labor Monthly, London, issue of April, 1924, the au- thor was a member of the Executive Committee of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, from South Wales. A Chicago Tribune dispatch from Lon- don, under date of April 10th, reports that Cook was elected as Secretary of the Miners’ Federation to succeed Frank Hodges, well-known as a re- actionary and one of those principal- ly responsible for “Black Friday” in 1921, when the Triple Alliance broke down and the miners were defeated. Cook is quoted in an interview as saying: ‘ “Um still a Red, with all that.that means. | take my election as Secre- tary by the miners as an expres- jon of a desire for a militant, ag- ressive policy. As the miners well know, | stand for a real live nation- al and international miners’ organiz- ation.” Under these circumstances this ar- ticle, which gives the issues and back- ground of the great impending bat- tle in the coal mining industry of Great Britain, takes on especial sig- nificance.) In 1921, after one of the greatest struggles in the history of Trade Un- ionism, the miners were defeated. For four months they displayed a spirit of solidarity unequalled in any move- ment. The Triple Alliance failed to function. As a result» 6f the defeat terms were forced on the men tliat produced conditions of poverty and slavery. Our “Mighty Organizdtion,” the pride of the Trade Union Move- ment, was shattered. The coal own- ers true to tradition imposed such tyrannous conditions that despond- TH “Ny | E DAILY WORKER The British Mining Industry ency spread like a disease, infecting most of the leaders as, well as the men. The suffering of the men be- came intolerable. Some of the old leaders, having very little knowledge of national or international economics, and believing the masters would yield to a human appeal, pinned their faith in an appeal to the coal owners beg- ging for fair-play and fair conditions. For over two years numerous meet- ings with the masters and Cabinet Ministers took place, but the appeal for a living wage fell on dead ears. Accidents have increased at an alarm- ing rate ‘since resumption of work af- ter the 1921 lock-out. (See the Re- port of the Government Inspector of Mines.) Safety was neglected—low wages and increased accidents go to- gether. In South Wales and Lancashire, aggressive action was suggested—the rank and file had reached the limit of endurance. Realizing that the prin- ciples of the 1921 profit-sharing agree- ment exploited the miners and failed to give them a living wage, the rank and file demanded the agreement be ended. “We are starving while work- ing, just as well starve without work,” say the miners, An industry that can- not provide a living wage for its work- ers should close down; “private own- ership-has failed.” For over two years the leaders pleaded, but every suggestion was met with a negative reply. The owners would not listen to reason. No other course was open but to give notice to terminate the agree- ment, A ballot was taken and the rank and file in every district declar- ed that the Agreement must go. On January 17, three months’ notice was handed to the employers. For sev- eral weeks even then our case was ignored, but the spirit of revolt spread.. The successful struggle of the railwaymen and dockers put new life in our men. The Executive Committee of the M. F. G. B. prepared for action and demanded that the owners should state their proposals. What a change! —suddenly, owners, Government and public became alarmed. At last at- tention was drawn to our conditions. On March 6 the same men, who for two years treated us with contempt, were now prepared to consider our case, Organized might had com- pelled the owners to move. It is a lesson that we shall not forget. Terms were offered that meant a small im- provement in our conditions, but did not bring us anywhere near 1914 con- ditions, taking into consideration the increase of the cost of living. On March 13, the adjourned conference met and considered the proposals; it reassembled on the 14th and unani- mously rejected the ferms of the own- ers. ‘ Having forty-nine mining members in the House of Commons, it was de- cided some time ago to introduce a Minimum Wage Bill to bring the min- ers’ wages up to a living standard. Every attempt possible to obstruct the introduction of the Minimum Wage Bill was made by the owners. They approached their Liberal and Tory friends, and succeeded in mak- ing the Government take the private members’ time, hoping to stop the Bill going forward, but to their surprise the Government agreed to accept the Bill as their own measure thus mak- ing it a Government Bill. In one week both a political and an industrial crisis arose. The miners are deter- mined, come what may, to secure a living wage and some clear under- standable agreement to govern wages and conditions in the future, ‘The great Miners’ Federation has been re-organized ready for the fight. KLAN SHOOTING CONSPIRACY AT LILLY EXPOSED Avenged in Advance to Put Out Lights. The Daily Worker has just received the true story of the Klan riots in Lilly, Pa., from a coal miner who wit- nessed the massacre. He writes: “It was a put up affair thought out beforehand by the Klan. The Klans- men made arrangements to have the electric street lights extinguished thé night of the demonstration. A group of boys—not men, as the newspapers report—got a fire hose to play on the Klansmen, as boys will, and the Klansmen wrenched the firehose from the boys and turned it, not on the boys, but on the people watching the parade. One Klansman yelled “Fire” and a volley of bullets rained on the defenseless crowd. “The citizens were unarmed and were unprepared for trouble. The Klansmen were injured by their own members because they wore civilian clothes in order to act as guards. In this way they were undistinguishable from the rest of the crowd. “Along the fhain line of the Penn- sylvania Railroad there were found by citizens of Lilly, nearly a hundred revolvers which were thrown out of the special train by the Klansmen. There are about ten Klansmen who live in Lilly, but the miners would not let them demonstratv. The massacre was perpetrated by Klansmen from Johnston and Altoona, each about 25 miles from Lilly on the Pennsylvania railroad. Oklahoma To Have Bona Fide Farmer- Labor Party Soon OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., April 15. —<A Farmer-Labor party convention to be held in Oklahoma City May 9 and 10, will form a new party, distinct from the Farmer-Labor Progressive league whith indorsed candidates and adopted a platform at El Reno, The league is a political organization with- in the Democratic party. The Farmer- Labor party is to be a new political party. ‘The Farmer-Labor party meets two deficiencies of the league. ‘It pro- vides for the placing of La Follette electors on the presidential ballot and provides a set of state candidates Should league candidates be beaten in the Democratic primary. It is necessary to procure 5000 sig- natures to petitions in order to place a Farmer-Labor party in the field. Once in the field there need be no primary contest. One vote for the Farmer-Labor ticket at the primary will assure it a position on the bal- lot for November, The proposed platform includes pub- Me ownership government banking, public control of all natural resoure- 8, restoration of civil liberties, aboli- tion of injunctions in labor disputes, Detention and development by the gov- ernment ownership of a super-power system to connect into ‘one system hte nly-Home”’ credential “Heavenly - Ait ARS. were right—the clergy’s it WARS" wore wrong on them's the all public electric power projects, How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to eubscribe today. Party Activities Of Local Chicago JAMES P. CANNON will speak be- fore the South Slavic Branch, No. bs of the Party Thursday, April 17th, 8 P. M., on the Labor Party Policy of the Party. The meeting will take Place at the C. S. P. S. Hall, 18th and May Streets, ea ALEXANDER BITTELMAN will speak before the Douglas Park Branch (Jewish) on the Recent Con- vention of the Jewish Federation and the Labor Party Policy on Wednes- day, April 16th, 8 P. M., at Liberty House, 3420 West Roosevelt Road. Comrades and outsiders are invited to attend these meetings. s+ 8 MAX SALZMAN, Member N. E. C. of Y. W. L., addressed an open meet- ing of the Greek branch of the W. P. at the Hull House on the question of Protection of Foreign Born Workers, Over a hundred were present at this meeting. * ee THERE WILL BE a meeting of the DAILY WORKER subscription agents of the Party on Monday, April 21, 8 P. M., at 166 W. Washington Street, Room 307. - ee UNITED FRONT MAY DAY CON- FERENCE meeting will be held April 23rd, Wednesday, at 180 W. Washing- ton Street, Room 200. Letters have been sent to unions in Chicago, as well as to fraternal societies, inviting them to participate in the United Front May Day Conference. es «@ m WILLIAM F. DUNNE, EDITOR DAILY WORKER, will speak Thurs- day, April 24th, 8 P. M., before the meeting of the Englewood Branch of the ‘Young Workers League at 6357 8. Ashland Avenue, on the subject of Anti-Militarism. All local members should watch this column for news of all rou- tine and special Party meetings.— Martin Abern, City Secretary. Australian Labor Calls For United Political Front SYDNEY, N. S. W., April 15.— The Labor council of New South Wales has issued a manifesto calling for the linking up of all working class political parties with the Australian Labor party in order to secure a unit- ed working class front. “We realize,” the manifesto, “that the day when all working class parties are accepted into the Labor party will be a historic day. The need of a united working ctass is apparent to all. “The council realizes that only a united working class can secure a workers’ government. Only a work- ers’ government can take the neces- sary steps for dealing with the imme- diate problems of the workers.” Had Too Many Relatives. KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 15.— “Too many relations” was the explan- ation given by bank exgminers today for the downfall of John M. Moore, bank president accused of having de- faleated $600,000 from the Fidelity National Bank and Trust Company. J, BALTRUSAITIS, NEW POLITICAL, FRAMED BY DICK Civil Liberties Union Shows Up Injustice “NEW YORK, April 15.—An applica- tion for the pardon of another politi- cal prisoner who has just been sent to Leavenworth under the war-time Es- pionage Act will be made this week by the Americar Civil Liberties Union thru its Washington _represen- tative on the ground that he goes to prison for a war-time offence “six years after the Armistice, three years after the suspension of the Espionage Act, and three months after the re- lease of the last of the federal poli- tical prisoners by order of. President Coolidge.” The Military Again The prisoner is Joseph Baltrusaitis of St. Louis, Mo., who was sent to Leavenworth on March 12th, after months of delay of the case in the courts, on a charge of attempting “to cause disloyalty in the military forces of the United States” by distributing a Communist leaflet. The Civil Liberties Union, in a statement on the case, styles it “one of the most flagrant and inexcusable Political prosecutions on record.” The statement reads: “This case of Baltrusaitis is a striking injustice, not only because he has gone to prison so long after the war under a law long since sus- pended, but particularly because his prosecution was wholly inexcus- able. The undisputed facts are: “interfering With Recruiting “1, He was charged with inter- fering with the recruiting and en- listment of soldiers in November, 1920, when soldiers were no longer being recruited. “2. The only charge was handing to a detective who visited him at his Place of business some copies of a Communist leaflet entitled “Proleta- rian Revolution or Wage Slavery.” “3. The leaflet made no reference whatever to the war or military service. It voiced the usual Com- munist political ideas. “4. He was sentenced to two years in prison on Oct. 24, 1921, on an indictment brought on May 3, 1921, after the Espionage Act had been suspended. Six Years After Armistice “5. He went to prison on March 12th last, six years after the Armis- tice, three years after the suspen- sion of the Espionage Act, and three months after the release of the last of the federal political prisoners by order of President Coolidge. It is expected that President Coo- lidge will act favorably and prompt- ly on the application for pardon filed by the Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Baltrusaitis, in order to accord him the same treatment as to other prison- ers convicted for belief and opinion, The Civil Liberties Union also points out that there fg another war- time case on appeal in the United States Supreme Court which may ro- sult in twelve more persons being sent to prison for expressions of opinion against the war, This case involves twelve socialists from Cincinnati in- dicted in 1917 for opposing the draft act. It is planned to file pardon ap- plications on their behalf in case the Supreme Court affirms the conviction. WESTERN PENNSY KLANSMEN FAIL IN TERROR TACTICS Miners Are Wise To Robed Hypocrites By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. Flying the flag in. front and placing a Bible inside of every school in the Chartiers Valley section of Washing- ton County, Pa,, is the answer of the Ku Klux Klan to the organization of the workers and their wives and chil- dren by the Workers Party, the Y. W. L. and its Junior section. These “Knights of the Nightie,” whose pretense at being sanctimonious, and who seriously believe that they are keeping their identities concealed, are known for what they really are to those who comprise the popula- ton in that section of Western Penn- sylvania. A certain miner of Houston, Pa., puts the case right when he says: “Y'll bet half of them are afraid to let their wives know that they belong to the Klan, because of the dual lives they live, while the other half belong to it, so as to provide an excuse to their wives when they are out trying to worm their way into the confi- dence of the vamps and flappers they meet, while innocent wifle thinks they are saving America from destruction at the hands of the Reds.” Another one says: “Why, I know them so well that I could tell their hides in a tanyard.” Yet these bud- ding “Kleagle and Wizard” hounds, who wait until darkness comes to put on their robes and “step on the gas” to get to some hillside, there to burn their flery crosses, think that nobody is aware of their membership in the organization that was founded, or at least revived, by a white slaver. Company Tools Unite. All elements, not necessarily klans- men, but who are opposed to organ- ized labor, are united in their efforts to break up the Party and Y. W. \ branches in that section. They have even gone so far as to have a con- stable, better known as “Seldom So- ber Rathbone,” go to the homes of some of our foreign language miners, threatening them with jail or placing their children in an institution for incorrigible children, if they refused to drop their membership in the Workers Party and compel the chil- dren to quit the Junior section. The answer to these efforts on the part of the klan and its wiling dupes is—more organization. The party of the workers is in this section to stay, and neither its petty small business men nor the industrial lords above then, with the aid of the “two by four” constables, are going to scare the workers of Washington County into submission to them any longer. F. F.-L. P. Meet Scheduled. On April 27th they are to hold a convention of the Corfhty Federated Farmer-Labor Party, and the chazices are that Constable Rathbone will be looking for his first real work in many moons after the next election. The Washington County Federated Farmer-Labor Party is planning to care for a big crowd’that day, and in- dications are that the representatives of the rank and file will be out in large numbers. The convention will be held in Canonsburg and much is expected in the form of constructive action. Labor Fakers Getting Bounced from Fat Jobs By “Friend of Labor” (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO.—Mayor Rolph, for 16 years ruler of San Francisco, holds cards in half a dozen labor unions. But under, his mayoralty union labor has gradually lost every appointive office in the city except two—Wm. P. McCabe of the fire com- mision, and Timothy A. Reardon, who has just been demoted by Acting Mayor McLeran (Rolph being on a trip to investigate the labor govern- ments of the Antipodes) from presi- dent to mere member of the board of public works. As soon as Rolph returns a committee from organized labor will wait on him and inquire as to this state of affairs. The mayor replaced the late George Tracy, who long represented labor on the civil service commission, by an attorney; and named a contractor to succeed Paul Scharrenburg, secretary Califor- nia State Feedration of Labor, on the city planning commission. La Follette and Frazier, PLENTYWOOD, Mont., April 15.— Senator La Follette for president and Senator Frazier of North Dakota for vice president will head the Montana Farmer-Labor party ticket on the pres- idential primary election in Montana May 27. Delegates will also be elected by the party voters for the national convention of the Farmer-Labor move- ment at St. Paul June 17 when La Follette is expected to be nominated for president, The Miles City Trades & Labor as- sembly and two Iocals of the Bear Creek United Mine Workers affiliated with the party in the past week. Diptheria on increase. SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 15.—Diph- theria is on the inerease in Illinois, according to the weekly report of the State Department of Health, Boycott California Fruit Or Hoof-Mouth Plague May Get You SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 15.— Nature is aiding the I. W. W. boycott of California products, Dr. J. Edward Carlyle, an authority on the hoof and mouth epidemic, states: “The peo- ple of the United States are in grave danger of contracting the hoof and mouth disease by eating California fruits. Dust from the pastures and grazing fields of infected animals blows onto the fruit and can be car- ried out of the state, California-made clothing might also catch this same dust and it is possible to contract hoof and mouth disease from it.” The I. W. W. boycott is maintained because the state sends men to prison for-1 to 14 years tor nothing more than membership in the I. W. W. New York for Al Smith. ALBANY, N. Y., April 15.—The name of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York will be formally presented to the national Democratic conven- tion in New York next June as New York’s choice for the Democratic nomination for President. we “The End Co-Editor, with Wm. Z.. Foster, of EVERYBODY WELCOME / : Wednesday, April 16, 1924 Trachtenberg Tour inesday, April 16, 8 p. m» Det ade & Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. (Russian Trade Unoins.) Thursday, April 17, Grand Rapids, full details to appear later. Friday, April 18, 8 p. m., Chleago, North Side Turner Hall, 820 N, Clark St. Saturday, April 19, Milwaukee, fufl details to appear later. Sunday, April 20, Gary, Ind» fulf details to appear later. Six Dead—Investigate. DANVILLE, HL, April 15—Two fm vestigations’ were started today fo determine the blame for the railroad crossing crash here last night in which Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson and four of their six children were killed. Their automobile was struck by an express train on the Wabash railroad crossing at West Lebanon, Ind, THE DAILY WORKER. Get one How many of your shop-mates re | them to subscribe today. A UNUAOUNNOUUAONOQOOAOAUOOQUOUOHOSEQOOOGUUOUOAGQOONODEEOTEREOGOELUCOOEUERUTECOUEUUOUCOQOOGOQ 000008000000 You should be sure to hear the lecture on of Teapot Government” The Crisis in the Capitalist Parties, and Farmer-Labor Unity, ’ EARL R. BROWDER the Labor Herald; member of the Central Executive Committee, Workers Party. McDERMOTT’S HALL 5445 S. 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