The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1924, Page 1

-———— THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 54. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. $$ by mail, $6.00 ‘aloe Lcd year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 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 Price 3 Cents LEGION AIDS SLAYER OF WORKER Illinois Labor Party Ticket Enters the Field CLASS PARTY ORGANIZED AT PEORIA MEET Duncan McDonald Is Named For Governor By KARL REEVE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., May 19—Ninety- seven delegates mostly repre- senting trade unions, formed the Illinois Labor Party here, adopted a platform, named a state ticket to run at the coming election, and elected Duncan MacDonald as delegate to the dune 17th Conference of Farm- er-Labor Parties at St. Paul. The convention, which was marked by harmony of opinion for independent political action of the working class, after adopting the platform and pass- ing resolutions unanimously passed a motion to instruct dele- ate MacDonald to work for the ‘ormation of a class labor party at St. Paul, and if one is formed, the Illinois Labor Party unani- mously voted to become a part of it. The state executive commit- tee of the Illinois Labor Party was also instructed to try to secure the co-operation of other oe apace on page 3) : Progressive I Metal Workers Resisting N. Y. Wage Slashing NEW YORK, May 19.—On Wednes- day evening, May 21st, there will be a meeting of Progressive Metal Work- ers at the Hungarian Workers’ Hall, 350 East Sist street. The bosses in the industry have en- tered upon a campaign of wage slash- ing and union busting which has been going on without a show of resist- ance on the part of the yellow union leaders. Today a first-class mechanic receives 60 cents an hour or less. Progressive Metal Workers are awake. They feel that it is time to put a stop to the bosses’ holiday. They have therefore, arranged the mass meeting on Wednesday to which have been, invited all rank and file who want to Improve conditions in the metal industry and halt the wage slashing campaign of the _ bosses. Many fine speakers will address the meeting, among them A. Overgaard of Chicago, National Chairman of the In- ternational Committee for Amalgama- tion in the Metal Industry. Admission is free. PULLMAN WORKERS 10 MEET TONIGHT FOR REVIEW OF STRIKE A review of the recent Pullman strike Is promised for tonight In Stancik’s Hall, 205 East 118th street, Pullman, at 8 o’clock. .A mass meeting of workers has been called by the Workers Party and able speakers will go over the strike events with the workers, showing how the weakness of ‘In- adequate organization prevented the strikers from gaining full benefit of thelr demands. J. Louls Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, Jack McCarthy, circulation manager of the paper, and M. Gomez, active on the Labor Defense Council, will discuss the strike with the workers. All of the men who went out in a spontaneous strike against the Pullman Company and all other workers of the plant or town will be particularly interested in this evening’s meeting. The issues and difficulties of the strike will be in- telligently taken up and the need for greater organization proved by specific reference. .The Workers Party position for a mass cli Farmer-Labor Party will be clearly set forth with a demonstration to the workers of the necessity for uniting in independent political ac- tion to fight the boss with his own weapon: POWER. Speakers in Polish and South Slavic will also address the mass meeting tonight at Stancik’s Hall, Pullman. Worker Seriously Hurt When Tank Car In Oil Plant Exploded ST. PAUL, Minn.,. May. 39. Fire caused by an explosion in car swept the Craig Oil and Refining Co. plant here today. At least one man was seriously in- jured. Police were unable to deter- mine whether others were within the range of the flames. A great cloud of smoke went up af- ter the explosion, enveloping the plant. Flames shot 250 feet into the air. All available fire fighting apparatus was hurried fo the scene. Police es- tablished a safety zone two blocks from. the plant. Thousands of gallons of oil and gas- oline are stored at the plant and po- lice feared new explosions. Higher Rents, Say Sharks. Chicago real estate sharks promise higher rents. Officials of the Cook Coouty Real Estate Board character- ized the report that they are pledged to reduce the present high rents as “bunk.” DETROIT, Mich, May 19.—Two bandits held up a branch of the Bank of Detroit here and escaped ~ with $30,000. DAILY WORKER'S EXPOSE OF ILLINOIS MINE REACTIONARIES GETS UNDER FARRINGTON’S SKIN PEORIA, Ill., May 19.—President Frank Farrington and his associates have denounced the DAILY WORKER in the last three sessions of the convention. In addition, the DAILY WORKER reporter heard Farrington threaten the representative of another Chicago paper that he would have to stop printing stuff matter that knocked Farrington or he will have to leave the convention. PTET ERE BTR RR TALE ELT I The reporter got in bad by stat- ing that“Farrington had climbed aboard the Lewis bandwagon,” and by ridiculing Farrington’s alliance with Governor Small. Farrington has been buying the DAILY WORKER every day from Kit: ty Harris, as have two-thirds of the other delegates. When one delegate heard Farrington’s attack on the DAILY WORKER, he said: “If the DAILY WORKER representatives get thrown out of the convention, there will be a lot of other delegates thrown out with them. I am not a Communist, but I like your paper.” At the Friday morning session of the convention, Farrington declared, “We have a paper being distributed to the delegates that is not telling the truth, It has assumed thé authority of branding me as the most despised man at the convention. It prints scandal and infamous falsehood, and nobody says nay.” Qeorge M r Complains. George Mercer, chairman of the resolutions committee, on Friday af- WORKER in his hand, denounced it and blamed the Workers Party for the poor showing made by Walker in the Labor Party campaign. He forgot that the Workers Party was not in existence at that time. “I have been reading two or three of the numbers of this paper,” sald Mercer. “They call Farrington a traitor, Walker and Mc- Carthy, they say, are just kidding you and they tell you Otander is a liar, and that the Socialist party is bank- upt in intelligence: Saturday morning, Walker again objected to being called a renegade Socialist by the DAILY WORKER, and then admitted he was just tat. He objected to the DAILY WORKER de- claring Walker begged on his knees for favors from the old party politi- cians, and then said: “If he thought it would get the trade union movement favorable legislation he might get down on his knees to the politicians.” However, the DAILY WORKER has {too long a record as a friend of the rank and file miner to be discredited by cheap attacks of thin-skinned labor ternoon, holding copy of the DAILY |fakirs. LLG. W. LEFT WING'S FIGHT TO CONTINUE Staff Writer Tells How Sigman Won In Boston By REBECCA GRECHT (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON.—(By Mail).—The expulsion policy of the Sigman dictatorship triumphed. for the time being when the convention of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union defeated resolutions demanding the un- conditional reinstatement of all expelled members and the cessa- tion of persecution of the mili- tants. The vote was taken after the official steam roller cut short all discussion of the issues in- volved, refusing delegates the right to explain the principles of the Trade Union Educational League which was under fire. Nevertheless the fight for more efficient unionism and more revolutionary conduct of the class struggle which the T. U. E, L. is organizing will go on. The approval of Sigman’s red-bait- ing policy came at the close of the re- Port of the Committee on Officers’ Reports on the so-called “left hys- teria in our union.” This report charged the progressives with deliber- ately disorganizing the locals, with carrying on malicious campaigns of slander against. ‘the officials, and with belonging to a dual union, the Trade Union Educational League, which was viciously attacked ~as an outside agency seeking to disrupt the Inter- national. Resolutions from numerous local unions were read demanding in no un- certain terms that expelled members be reinstated, and that freedom of belief be tolerated in the organiza- tion. The committee recommended that these resolutions be not concur- ed in, and that the report be accept- ed. Saroff Defends Expelled. Delegate Saroff was then given the floor in defense of the militants. At- tacking the policies of the Interna- tional officialdom as responsible for the present chaos in the industry, he charged that the Sigman machine was driving out of the union all the ele- ments who had a truly constructive program for building up and strength- ening the organization. Saroff denied that the league was a dual union as it had never usurped the functions of a union. He explain- ed the principle of amalgamation for which the militants were battling, claiming that this had aroused the bitter opposition of the officials only because it threatened their well-paid jobs. The International, he empha- sized, did not object to politics in the union for it permitted Abe Cahan, an outsider representing the socialist party, to dictate its policies. The real objection was against those who prop- agated principles in any way opposed to those sanctioned by the Interna- tional. Wher he demanded whethér agita- tion for independent political action could be regarded as disrupting the union, sneering comments were heard from all those who had been loudest in applaudizg the administration's pol- icy, and first in calling previous ques- tion to choke off discussion of the pro- gressives’ position. Floor Denial to Others. Delegate Saroff was the only one permitted to speak. No sooner had (Continued on Page 2.) URGE FOREIGN BORN TO PROTEST DAVIS’ STAND HERE TOMORROW, (Special to The Daily Worker) May 19.—All of this vicin- ity have been urged to come out and demonstrate their opposition to the bill for the registration of aliens, which will be advocated here at Carnegie Library, on May 21, by Secretary of Labor Davis. The sec- retary will speak at 8 m., at the library, corner of Ohio ind Federal nt MINERS HEAR HOWAT GIVE CLARION CALL Urges Farmer-Labor Party On Convention By KARL REEVE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill, May 19.—De- claring that the time had come for the workers to assert them- selves in a “real live Farmer- Labor Party,” Alex Howat, ex- pelled Kansas mine workers’ president, won the enthusiastic support of the miners’ conven- tion. Howat spoke for several hours, sharply criticising the government of the two old par- ties and the use of the injunc- tion in strike-breaking, con- demning the Kansas Industrial Court Law, and urging the United Mine Workers’ union td organize the unorganized mine fields of this country. Refers to 1919 Strike. Referring to the strike of 1919, Howat said that the government had stepped in with an injunction just coal operators licked to a finish. Howat stated that at that time the strike was called off, implying that the International union officials had sold out. The ‘deposed mine president urged the miners to “elect. men to represent us, and file, in the legisla- tive halis of this country.” He said: “We'll always be in the same shape as long as we go along with the old parties, “Let us refuse to be hood-winked any longer,” cried Howat, “and de- ceived by a few screaming politicians. We can only judge by the past, and we have learned by the past that there jis no hope for the workers in the class of people who are in the old parties. For F.-L. Despite Walker. “I am for a Farmer-Labor Party 'even tho Brother Walker is discour- laged by the few votes he received, |and I haven’t changed my position in |the least. “There must be a start sometime {and the time has come for the work- ers to make that start on a party of their own.” The former mine union president then continued that if the capitalists want laws to be respected they should make laws the people could respect. He declared that the time had come when the people should let the law- makers know they want their rights and are ready to fight for them. Told of Allen’s Folly. He told how Governor Allen of Kan- sas had the idea he could ride into the presidential seat at the White House on the backs of the workers by putting an end to strikes with his Industrial Court Law. Howat related how Governor Allen had had fond hopes of passing indus- trial Court Laws all over the country. “We must be aggressive in going on with the fight,” Howat called to the convention. “Let there be no sur- render to the employers of labor. Some move must be made by the In- ternational organization to see that the unorganized miners of this country are brot into the field of the miners’ union.” Victim of Farrington Deal. Howat was brought dramatically before the attention of the delegates in the morning session when the reso- lution demanding Farrington explain the famous graft charges, was before the delegates. “The victim of the Lewis-Farring- .|ton deal is sitting in this hall right now—-Alex Howat!” cried John Watts, one of the movers of the resolution. Tremendous applause greeted the when he believed the miners had the | Think This Over Here is something for Chicago workers to think about. John Bajur, a friendless laboring man was shot dead as he was coming out of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad yards with his hands full of a few rotten potatoes which he had taken to keep his family from starving. Bajur was shot Sunday by a railroad gunman named Dewey Norman. The killing was peculiarly atrocious. Wit- nesses say no warning was given the starving man before the gat barked. Yesterday an inquest into the cause of Bajur’s death was halted—at the request of a certain Lawrence Packman who said the American Legion wanted to testify. Can a corporation gunman shoot a starving worker without warning and then escape investigation thru the aid of the American Legion? Is membership in the American Legion a license to com- mit murder with impunity—so long as the victim is a friend- less worker? What about it, workers of Chicago? DORIOT, FRENCH Y. C. L. LEADER, FREED AFTER ELECTION AS DEPUTY PARIS, May 19.—Jacques Doriot, recently elected a Communist dep- uty from a Paris suburb, was grant- ed amnesty today by the President of France. The President was forced to free Doriot after his elec- tion; it was not any sudden rush of generosity to the President’s head that freed Doriot. Doriot was sentenced to prison for two years because of anti-mill- JACQUES DORIOT taristic activities in the Ruhr. He will take his seat in the Chamber of Deputies June 1. Doriot’s activ- ities in the Ruhr district were in connection with work of the Young Communist League of France. The French government got very ex- cited in trying to discover a plot be- tween the Young Communist and the German government. The Com- munist Leaguers made no bones about their working with the Young Communist movement of Germany but denied that they were trying to help the German government. Scores of other young Commun- ists were also arrested and sen- tenced to from 15 days to 18 months in prison. Doriot will work for the release of his comrades who are still in prison from his seat in the Chamber of Deputies. ‘Threat Of Methodist Church To Follow Christ, Raising Hell SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 19.— Interest in impending action by the Methodist Episcopal General confer- ence on a resolution “outlawing” war as far as the church is concerned, to- day overshadowed that manifested in the election of four new bishops. Election 0’ bishops for vacant Epis- |copal seats at Buffalo, Omaha, Chat- | tanobie and Singapore was first on the day’s order of business, however. The conference appeared divided over the resolution against war. The committee on the state of church adopted by a considerable majority a resolution calling for the church to take a decisive stand in opposition to war while leaving it to an individual's own conscience whether he partici- pates. Telegrams opposing adoption of the “anti-war” resolution have poured in mention of the honest Kansas fighter. during the past few days. Check Graft Probe. The Lewis-Farrington correspond- (Continued on Page 2.) Boost The DAILY WORKER. you are a worker, it is your paper. It JUDGE VICTIM OF PHOBIA WHEN ALIENS APPEAR FOR CITIZENSHIP (Special to The Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., jay 19.—Joseph Aspinall, New York State Supreme Court Justice, who makes a practice of denying citizenship to persons who exercised thelr lega! right in claiming draft exemption as aliens during the war, is on a rampage again. Within the last few days he le! to 118 Spplicants on that ground 4 has denied citizen- without even giving them a hearing. — WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL OFFICE IN NEW BUILDING Ruthenberg Saws Bars Off Windows The DAILY WORKER” has new neighbors. The National Offices. of the Workers’ Party and the Liberator have moved to the new DAILY WORK- ER building. The National Office and the various language federation of- fices had all their furniture, books and papers sent over from 1009 N. yesterday morning they came into the new quarters ready to straighten out, their stuff and proceed to work. When “C.F. ‘Ruthenberg, ‘hational secretary, arrived at the new address the first things that struck his eye were the iron bars on the rear win- dows of his new office. Calling the at- tention of all and sundry to this in- sultingly counter-revolutionary condi- tion he called for a hack saw. Nick Dozenberg, head of the literature de- partment, produced the saw and the| two men began the removal of the ob- noxious bars. Bob Minor, editor of the Liberator, returning from his trip in the east, arrived in time to see the wielders of the saws attacking the bars on his windows. do,” snapped Bob. ary workers are to achieve freedom it will be only thru their own efforts. If bars are to be sawed I will saw my own bars. Gimme the saw.” So saying Bob got to work. The new telephone number of the national office will be the same as roe 4712 and 4713. The address you know—1113 W. Washington street. Female Fink Kills Man Who Shared Love With Others COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 19.—Mrs. Grace Dolby, 35, was arrested in a rooming house here today and held on charge of murder in the death of George B. Hackney, a widower, and father of four children. Jealous of his attentions to other women, Mrs. Dolby, who has a hus- band and four sons, threw carbolic acid in Hackney’s face in a motion picture theatre last night, causing burns and shock from which he died on the way to a hospital. State street Saturday afternoon and| “Here, here, that will never “If the revolution-| that of the DAILY WORKER—Mon-} INQUEST OVER FINK’S VICTIM IS POSTPONED Murdered Man Stole Handful of Potatoes The American Legion is hold- ing up the inquest over the body of John Bajur, 44, who was shot and killed Saturday by Detective Dewey Norman, of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- road, for the theft of a handful of rotten potatoes. The inquest, which was to be held yesterday morning, was postponed until Friday on re- ceipt of a letter from Lawrence Packwood, 6226 Stony Island ave., asking that the Legion be permitted to appear in defense of Norman. The letter attempts no justification for its action, and no reason for its stand can be found excepting that Norman is apparently a Legionaire. Evidence of eye-witnesses indicates that the shootirtg of Bajur was a cold- blooded murder. Martin Nalas, 610 May street, was present when the shots were fired. “I was just passing by the yards,” Nalas told a DAILY WORKER re- porter, “when I noticed a man who was carrying a few potatoes in his hands. As he way of the yards’ office, a detective sprang out. Without a word he fired three shots at the man with the po- tatoes., JLam_sure that. De Spee Daly. signal and no command.” Stole Potatoes to Live. Bajur, who is Polish by birth, had been employed irregularly as sawyer at the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co. His wages seldom amounted to more than $24 a week, and his family, con- sisting of a wife and two children, }found it impossible to live in their |three tiny rooms at 836 N. Racine ave- |nue, without taking in a number of boarders. For some time Bajur has been working only a few hours a day; he has been unable to protect himself thru union action, since the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co. makes |it a pomt of honor to fire any em- |ployee affiliated with a labor organ- ization. A son of 18, Adam, has been out of work for many weeks. Bajur’s other child is a girl of 15, of stunted growth, with the drawn cheeks and compressed lips that tell of years of hunger and cold. She said that neigh- bors had often come in with stories | of the vegetables that could be picked up in the yards. Norman is being held at the Des- plaines street police station, pending the inquest. Strike Urged As Weapon For Sunday 4 School Teachers ~ BURLINGTON, N. J., May 19.—A strike of Sunday school teachers is |the novel suggestion of Walter 8. |Athern, Boston University. In an ad- |dress to the New Jersey Sunday |Schol Association’s annual convention, he said this was apparently the only method whereby teachers could get “tools.” DISCOVERY OF BURNS FRAME-UP PLOT CAUSE OF NOTORIOUS FINK’S SUDDEN EXIT FROM DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, May 19.—The reason for William J. Burns’ sudden deck sion to disconnect himself from the payroll of the Department of Justice was revealed when the Brookhart committee investigating Harry M. Daugherty and the D. of J. while under his direction unearthed proof that the Mexican revolution of 1921 in Lower California, with Albert B. Fall as disbursing agent. William J. Burns tried to frame department with the information. Burns and he decided to quit. doubtful however if his hurried exit will save hiin from being placed in the dock. An agent by the name of Gershon was dismissed from the D. of J. in 1921 for interfering with the shiTpment of arms to Mexico. Fall called Gershon to his private car and told him to lay off. Daugherty and Burns knew of Fall's activities, Gershon wanted to get this informa- tion before the investigation commit- tee and Burns was warned in a tele- Jeram on February ist, this year, It ‘mm was financed by the oil thief Doheny, t the D. of J. agent who furnished the News of the forthcoming expose reached It is® was this telegram, the Brookhart com- mittee was after, when tt asked Daugh- erty for the D. of J. files, and were met with a refusal. Immediately Burns learned that Gershon Was on the war path he proceeded to frame him. He wrote a letter to L. G Wheeler, his agent in Los Angeles, suggesting that arrangements be made to “get” Gershon. He said it could be “fixed up” with the District Attorney. But Burns was gotten first. It lool as if this notorious crook's career nearing a close.