The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1924, Page 4

Page Four POLICE REFUSE TO SCAB IN BIG NORWAY STRIKE Say Transport Work Is Not Police Work Kristianfa, March 29—(By Mail.)— The ironworkers’ strike has now last- ed 21 weeks, that of the longshoremen 10 weeks and the general lockout five weeks. Both sides seem to have set- tled down to a fight to the finish. An immense outdoor demonstration took place March 17, when 15,000 marched under red flags and sang “The Inter- national.” During the longshoremen’s strike some policemen on duty in Kristi- ania had been ordered to do different kinds of work, which only could be classed as longshoremen‘s work. The executive committee of the police- men’s union as an answer sent the following circular letter to the mem- bers: “In. accordance with resolutions passed, the committee hereby empha- Sizes that in case of wage conflicts such as the longshoremen’s strike po- lice officers must act with the great- est care and discretion and abstain from everything which might be con- strued as taking sides. A lowering of the wages of workingmen will lead to the same result for functionaries, In self-interest one should therefore act- with caution. Refuse Challenge to Strikers. “Transport work is not police work. Such work done by the police will act as a challenge to the strikers and may easily cause riots. “Remember that the function of the police is to preserve order and peace and that one must not do anything which may provoke disorder. It is the duty of a policeman at all times to be neutral and impartial in his service.” One reason for the circular might be traced Wack to the general lockout of 1921. The police at that time made itself so unpopular with the strikers that the suggestion was made that the representatives of labor in the city council should vote against Wages and increase of wages of police function- aries. The circular aimed to avoid similar sentiment during the present * strike. Big Wave of Protest. The immediate result was that 10 of the 12 members of the executive committee were discharged, the other two given a warning, resigned as members of the policemen’s union. The union at two meetings requested the reinstatement of the discharged men. Policemen’s unions in other cities passed similar resolutions. A large meeting of city employes ~¥oted a strong protest to the Storting and government. The Storting had a lengthy debate on the question, and it was referred to the department of justice. “Norsk Politiblad” concludes an article with: “Shall it be necessary to strike a blow, it will be one of suf- ficient force.” How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. SSS SSE HAVE PRIN DONE IN YOU! From New, Clean Type On Our New Presses ANYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE from a card to a newspaper can be printed i WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY. Prompt Delivery, and every dollar of profit “WORKER a bigger and bett OUT OF TOWN ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Telephone, Mail or bring in your printing jobs. Have your business friends get quotatio need. Daily Worker Publishing Company, 1113 W. Washington St. NEW YORK, All Trade Union Militants are Invited to attend the GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING of the Trade Union Educational League, held at’ Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue (near 8th St.) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1924, at 8 P. M. Sharp SPHAKERS—EARL BROWDER, Editor of the Labor Herald: “The Present outlook in the Labor Movement and the Prospects for a J. W. JOHNSTONE, Assistant Secretary, T. U. B. L.: “The militants in action in the United Mine Workers Mass Labor Party.” and the Needle Trades.” endeeninnasi Wiens Sinaiiennetiliatniidioamrevanccmmnitian Sint (Continued from Page 1) local labor unions, farmer organiza- tions, progressive, professional and business organizations and to minori- ty political parties. It is aimed to get representation direct from the rank and file and to test out the sentiment of the people ior fundamental chang- 6s in. the operation of government. It is planned to have the voice of mil- lions of voters reflected at the Con- vention. In deciding the organizations that are eligible to send delegates’ no one has been excluded which is willing to subscribe to the five fundamental | planks, namely: (a) Government Ownership of Rail- roads. (b) Publid Ownership of Resources. (c) Control of money and Credits | by the People thru Government | |and co-operative Banks. (d) Restoration of civil rights guar- anteed by the Constitutron. (e) Abolition of the use of injunc- tion in Labor Disputes and other ju- | dicial abuses. Coalition of Progressives. This Convention is to be a coalition of all progressive elements which will agree to the platform and will join in backing a single set of candidates running on such platform. No inquiry has been made into the philosophic views of the groups participating. It is entirely a question of joining whole- heartedly in promoting a Third party movemeat in the campaign of 1924. There will no doubt, be Communists as there will be other schools of thought represented at the Conven- tion, but they will represent such a small fraction that even if they so desired, they would make no impres- sion on the great mass of farmers and workers who are interested in practical legislative measures and not in visionary doctrines. The editor of “Labor” should know that the Farmer-Labor movements of the Northwest are the only progres- sive political movements of any con- sequence in America. Nowhere else will the forces represented by this |mewspaper called “Labor” be able to make an impression except in the Northwest and particularly in Minne- sota. The organized political movements of the progressives in the Northwest have demonstrated their ability to ac- complish things in practical politics and they do not need any guidance from newspapers influenced by Wash- ington politicians. The June 17th Convention has been sponsored by the Farmer-Labor move- ment of Minnesota, which is not Com- munist and is in charge of a commit- tee of arrangements which is not con- trolled by the Communrsts. ; Over eighteen different organiza- tions from all. parts of the nation, none of which are Communist have joined in this call for the Convention of June 17th. Already thousands of responses have been received from the call and local and state organiza- tions are signifying their intention to send delegates. From present indica- tions there will be between five and ten thousand delegates and visitors at the Convention. It will be impos- Natural SSS; YOUR TING R OWN SHOP. n the shop of THE DAILY Reasonable Prices goes to make THE DAILY, er paper. ns on any printing they may Tel. Monroe 4712 ATTENTION! sible for any one group to control these proceedings and the leaders in Minnesota and the Northwest have sufficient practical] political experience to defeat any attempt at the capture of the Convention by any element. Convention Has Definite Purpose. It will be called for a certain well defined purpose; to adopt a platform and make nominations, and arrange to conduct a national campaign It is not intended to organize a party. This will come as a matter of course with the close of a suecessful campaign which will without doubt, go a long way if not succeed in electing Senator La Follette as President. The evident purpose of this Wash- ington newspaper in assailing the Far- mer-Labor Convention of June 17th, is to boost the July 4th endorsing Con- vention of the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action. These two Conventions are entirely different and should not interfere with one another. will be composed of representatives from State and Central bodies and from international organizations, eco- nomic and political and will not rep- resent the rank and file of voters. It is not a Third party nominating Con- vention, it is to be an endorsing Convention and may O. K. a Coolidge or a McAdoo. It is this difference that the St. Paul Convention is an avowed Third party affair of the rank and file to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President while the Cleveland Convention is an endorsing event, composed of high officials out of touch with the voters and may simply ap- prove the acts of one of the old parties. Reactionaries Assail June 17th. It is intimated that reactionaries are back of the June 17th Convention. This is an infamous slander befitting a less reputable organ than the official mouthpiece of the‘ progressive rail- road unions. The June 17th Convention was plan- ned six months before the Cleveland Convention, and the conference for progressive political action was given every opportunity to co-operate. The editorial in question says the Cleve- land Convention will safeguard the People’s interest. From the way some of the railroad brotherhood leaders are boosting Mc- Adoo and in view of the fact that Mr. Keating, Manager of Labor, is a re- tired democratic politician, it would be foolish indeed for the Progressive Farmer-Labor supporters to trust their political destiny to the men who will dominate the Cleveland Conven- tion of July 4th. The Farmer-Labor progressives of the Northwest are going forward with the June 17th Convention and_pro- claim to the progressive voters of America that a Third party ticket will be in the field and a campaign will be carried on 'to elect the candidates nominated. We do not advise anyone to stay away from the Cleveland Convention for we think that real progressives are able to estimate the importance of that gathering, but we do invite representation from every labor, far- mer and progressive organization in America to attend the June 17th Con- vention and help initiate a movement that will emancipate the wealth pro- ducing classes of America. 16 Crime Charges Facing McDonald, Shop Strikers’ Foe OKLAHOMA CITY, April 16—Alva McDonald, U. S. marshal for Oklaho- ma, now defending himself against charges in Washington, is the officer responsible for the “ctvil war” com- muniques that flasher over the Asso- clated Press wires from Shawnee, Okla. during the 1922 shopmen’s strike. He charged the shopmen with burning bridges and firing volleys’ in- to the property of tne Rock Island railroad and various bombing opera- tions, one being an explosion that blew a hole in the front porch of a strikebreaker. His imagination was also active otherwise. McDonald, a friend of Daugherty, now faces 16 charges including alle- gations that he has been intoxicated on duty, a visitor of disorderly re- sorts, a passer of bad checks, and that he shot Al Spencer, train band- it, without justification. McDonald says the charges are baseless and are inspired by a government secret Agent in Oklahoma and the Bartles- ville chief of police. He admits that he drinks but denies intoxication. He admits visiting disorderly houses in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, but ex- Plains that he was looking for train robbers. E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOM Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren | 42 W. H cy 169 N. Clark 118 8S. © ni 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S, Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 E Rieck Boston Baked Bread Fresh Made Coffee Ld ja sary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton St. Phone West 2549 FOR SALE ~- ve aioe Cwnee insane aaa ke op. a cl . j= dress Box 3A. Dally Worker, The Cleveland Convention of July 4th, | & THE DAILY WORKER FUTILE WAR OF REACTIO TRACHTENBERG TELLS POWER OF RUSSIAN UNIONS All Labor Laws Must Get Their Sanction By ANDREW OVERGAARD (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 16.—A very successful meeting, attended by hundreds of trade unionists and their friends in this city Sunday afternoon, was addressed by Alexander Trach- |tenberg, who recently returned from Russia. The Cleveland workers were inter- ested to learn the truth about the labor unions in Russia, as they have recently read so many attacks in the Jewish Daily Forwards and other yel- low sheets. 'The speaker gave a very interesting explanation of the devlopments and structure of the Russian unions, Most interesting was his description of the | conditon of the members of the unions or the Russian working class, which of course proved that the eharges by Gompers and Co. are nothing but plain lies. No labor laws are enacted without the sanction of the trade unions. On all important committees in Russia also sits trade union repre- sentatives, 7 The speaker dwelt at length on the cultural work of the trade unions and how the government, or rather the industry, must stand the expenses of maintaining union headquarters, etc. Imagine American steel workers in Gary having the office of the shop committee next to Hilbert T. Gary. There are 95 per cent of the workers organized in Russia on a voluntary basis, and the unions are the real power behind the Soviet Government, declared the speaker. They are work: ing with the government for the es- tablishment of complete Communism in Russia, Trachtenberg Talk On Russia, Friday, Must Not Be Missed Alexander Trachtenberg, who speaks Friday, April 18, at 8 p. m. in North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark St., will use material gathered thru 14 months of study of the Communist movement of Russia and Europe. Comrade ‘Trachtenberg has done much research work in the field of the history of working class move- ments. Comrade Trachtenberg will tell the latest néws of the Russian situation, and will give the effects of the re- cognitions of foreign countries of the Soviet Government. Thé German Communist movement of recent years will also be touched on, Steel Company Spy Exposes Himself To Workers of Canton (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, Ohio, April 16.—An in- dustrial spy using the name of “Jack O’Brien,” has appeared here. He showed up in Cleveland at C. E. Ruthenberg’s meeting last Sunday and introduced himself to Ruthenberg as a farmer-labotite from Canton, but he is actually a member of the pri- vate police force of the United States Alloy Steel Corporation here. At the Trachtenberg meeting here this same “O’Brien” introduced him- self to Trachtenberg as “president of International Steel Workers Union.” Three workers have been discharged from the steel mill here in the past week for being members of the Workers Party of America, ‘When the DAILY WORKER started this “O’Brien” wrote in and said how much he liked it and what he was fiedne for it; the militants here have ritten the DAILY WORKER for copies containing this letter. It is hoped that the publication of this new item will put the workers of Canton on their guard against this stool, Russian Health And German Misery, In New Motion Picture Russia and Germany—a Tale of Two Republics, is a new motion pic- ture now being exhibited in aid of re- lief for German workers. It shows Germany in the throes of a life and death struggle and Russta going along on the way of peace and reconstruc- tion. In Russia streets are being re- paved and buildings are going up. In Germany troops with steel hel- mets march. The workers retreat reluctantly; the misery is unbear- able; children are dying of hunger and disease, Against the beautiful setting of old German cities, hunger is making its ravages among the sutf- fering population. And yet tremend- ous forces are grappling with each other. This picture is released by the Com- mittee for International Workers’ Aid, 32 So, Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. GARY, Ind., April 16.—Five per- sons, three of them policemen, were shot here today as the result of a quarrel between two Mexicans, over a love affair. Joseph Bosquis and Fran- cisco Jaciner, the Mexicans, may die. Trachtenberg Tour ‘Thursday, April 17, Grand Rapids, full details to appear later. Friday, April 18, 8 p. m., Chicago, North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark St. Saturday, Apr{! 19, Milwaukee, full details to appear later. Sunday, April 20, Gary, Ind., full details to appear later. RUSSELL WANTS LIBERALS TO SAVE EUROPE FROM U.S, Assails U. S. Finance; Soft-Pedals Labor (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 16.—Bertrand Russell, British pacifist, picks Ameri- can liberals for the task of saving Europe by preventing the growth of American financial imperialism. He made his appeal to the liberals at a dinner given in his honor by the League for Industrial Democracy and the Penguin Club and attended by several senators and representatives. Russell's appeal was not addressed to the labor movement, and he did not tell the assembled liberals what force they should employ powerful enough to defeat the financial giants whose aggressions he was deploring. Attacks Dawes Report. However, the liberal gentry, some of whom have looked kindly on the Dawes report, heard that Wall street plan severely assailed: Russell par- ticularly emphasized the point that the Dawes plan provides for an American financier as umpire in the determination of all disputes as to the application of the scheme of collec- tions against Gerniany. Russell said that the accident of the date of German elections coming ahead of the date for the French elec- tions, this year, might result in turn- ing the European scale from peace to war once more—since a great in- crease in the reactionary strength in the German Reichstag would lead to a strengthening of the reaction -in France. “Speaking for a minute as a patriotic Briton,” he whimsically remarked that if America were to summon France to pay the interest on her American debt, she would have to “stop building airplanes with which to destroy London,” or she would have to admit bankruptcy. Russia Not Controlled. He pointed out that American finance is steadily gaining mastery of the destiny of the world, since all other nations except Russia and China—‘whose agricultural popula- tions are willing to endure famines occasionally as the price of indepen- dence ‘of the international money lend- ers”—must borrow to rebuild and maintain their industrial civilization. American finance is subject only to control by the American people, and finance in general constitutes the ac- tive government of the world. If war is to return, on a scale which may wipe out both sides, due to the use of disease germs as weapons, no power remaining in Europe can cope with it. But America, by preventing the lending of credit to warmakers, can enforce peace, The responsibil- ity of the liberal movement in America is to prevent the growth of financial imperialism here, which will encourage the slaughter or extinction of the peoples of Europe. California’s Papers Pretty Rotten, Its University Admits (By The Federated Press) BERKELEY, Calif., April 16.—Dis- covered—what’s the matter with Cali- fornia. Prof. George S. Turnbull, school of journalism, University. of California, announces that this! state is second in the United States for its high percentage of brass check news- paper readers. Fifty-three percent of the citizens of California buy a brass check daily—only 1 percent be- hind Massachusetts, which sent Cal- vin Colidge to the Presidency and leads the country for devourers of the capitalist press. California 1s first in the nation, however, among readers of the commercialized magazines, But They Chose the Dollars. WASHINGTON, April 16.— “The choice between oil and dollars has to be made,” a statement issued today at the White House by the Presi- dential Commission on oil reserves recently appointed by President Cool- idge declared. ‘ The statement, whicn outlinés the full policy of conservation to be fol- lowed by the commission, was issued immediately following a meeting be- tween President Coolidge and the members of the commission, Dr. George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey, Charrman; Admiral Hilary P. Jones, of the General Board of the Navy, and R. D. Bush of San Francisco. Pennsy Plans Financiering. WASHINGTON, April 16-—The Pennsylvania Ralroad today applied to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for authority to issue $20,100,000 ot 6 per cent equipment trust certifi- cates, proceeds to be used to finance the purchase of 8,000 box cars, 3,000 automobile cars and 1,000 stock cars. “Thursday, April 17, 1924 SSS SSS es eee een Is Your Name On The Honor ROLL? 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