The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1924, Page 1

Var THE DAILY WORKER | RAISES THE STANDARD | FOR A WORKERS’ AND | FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 57. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. FRIDAY, MAY 23, 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 MINERS FIGHT FARRINGTON POLICIES CLASS COLLABORATION AND COMMUNISTS CONVENE IN RED MOSCOW Russian Party Congress Begins Today (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Russia, May 22.—The opening session of the Enlarged Executive Committee of the Com- munist International has been post- poned until the 10th of June. The Executive Committee of the Com- munist International also postponed the opening of the fifth World Con- gress of the Communist Imterna- tional until June 15, ir a MOSCOW, Russia, May 22.— The congress of the Russian Communist Party opens here today to consider the national policy and elect the party com- mittees which supervise the ad- ministration of the government. The problems of commerce and industry will occupy the center of attention at this year’s congress. ~ The party is expected to vote fur- ther encouragement to the , present campaign against the bourgeoisie and private enterprise. Undoubtedly more drastic action against the retail trad- ers will be planned by the Communist congress in its sessions. Attack Petty Bourgeois. The program at present calls for attack on the petty business men by special assistance given to the co- operatives. The government now al- lows co-operatives to choose their own locations for business, reduces taxes gives direct: support. The co-opera- tives are permitted to offer workers crédit terms on purchases of clothes and other necessities. Private traders are not given the right to offer credit, are taxed to the limit, are charged high rents on their stores and homes, and must’pay high rates for the education of their chil- dren. Boost Manufacturing. The question of stimulating the manufacturing industry of Russia will be the cause of much lively debate, it is anticipated. The authorities have been continuing their support of the manufacturing work even at consider- able loss, because of the militancy of the city workers. They have attempt- ed to pay for the losses here by gains in agriculture and raw material pro- duction. F. G. Dzerzshinsky’s work as head of the supreme council of national economy will be scrutinized carefully by the Communist congress. Dzer- zhinsky has attempted to put thru a program of strict business methods since his coming to office at the first of the year. He has met a good deal of opposition, He closed non-paying factories and tried to reduce the over- head expenses of large official staffs. Who Shall Lead? ’ The leadership of the party will be of great moment to the congress. Leon Trotzky, Commissar of War and the Red Army, and G. E. Zinoviev, president of the Leningrad Soviet and chairman of the Communist Interna- tional, are the two most outstanding figures of the party in Russia. Zino- viev has had the longer association with the dead leader, Lenin, which many of the Communists consider a great advantage to him in the bid for leadershi, Another matter that will receive im- portant consideration by the Com- munist congress is the “spring house- cleaning” of the party. All doubt- ful elements will be subject to investi- gation and a thoro purging process will be used to rid the Communist Party of Russia of unsafe elements. The Communist International and the Red International Labor Union meetings will follow the Russian \Communist Party congress here. SOVIETS FOR WESTERN NATIONS: NEARING VS, RUSSELL NEXT MONDAY NEW YORK, May 22.—The. great debate of the season has all New York on its toes with expectancy. Next Monday, May 25, at 3 p. m. in Carnegie Hall, Bertrand Russell, no- ted English philosopher, and Scott Nearing, well known American pro- fessor, clash on opposite sides of the subject: “Resolved, that the Soviet form of government is appli- cable to western civilization. Near- ing takes the affirmative; Russell, the negative. Samuel Untermeyer, the lawyer, will act as chairman. Bertrand Russell has travelled in Russia and China extensively and holds that the Soviets are not appli- cable to western nations. He is a great admirer of the Chinese cul- ture. Among his many books is a late one: “The Prospects of Indus- trial Civilization,” which was writ- ten after his Russian experiences. Scott Nearing is widely known for his classes at the Rand School and for his writings in the Liberator, monthly magazine of the Workers’ Party. The debate has been arranged by the League For Public Discussion. HARVEY TO SPIT FIRE AT HUGHES IN- EDITORIALS McLean Hires Knee Pants Boy On “Post” WASHINGTON, May 22,.—Anounce- ment by F. B. McLean, of the Wash- ington Post, heretofore the mouth- piece, of the administration, that he has engaged Col. George Hatvey as editorial director of the paper, be- the state department, and has raised the eyebrows of the entire adminis- tration, Harvey Visits Gal. Harvey resigned as ambassador to Great Britain after Coolidge came in- to the presidency, and it was at first understood that he was to manage the 1924 campaign. He came here and stayed a week as a guest of the White House. Then he vanished, and soon afterward his persgnal representative here ceased to pick up hopeful busi- ness magnates and other notables and escort them to private interviews with Cautious Cal. At that time it was noised abroad that Harvey had urged Coolidge to begin negotiations with Russia. Sen. Borah and Harvey had met and talked. Sen. Ladd and other travelers thru Russia had given Harvey their views. Coolidge made an equivocal statement in his December méssage, and then Permitted Hughes to slap the Russian government in the face when it in- terpreted this declaration as a hint to offer a conference on Russo-Ameri- can questions. Harvey had never loved Hughes; now it was thought that he esteemed the Secretary of State even less. Harvey Tough Reactionary. While Harvey is a reactionary’ of the most outspoken, even vindictive type, he is likewise incapable of for- getting personal differences. His con- trol of the editorial policy of the Washington Post means that drops of vitriol will be deposited on the blush- ing countenance of Hughes at critical moments, if Hughes remains in the cabinet. : b United States Navy Needs More Cruisers To Fight For Peace WASHINGTON, May 22,—A naval construction program involving $150,- 000,000 is necessary to bring the United States navy up to the 5-5-3 treaty ratio, Chairman Butler of the House naval affairs committee, de- clared in the House today. A_ bill providing for this program will be called up in the House next week. EDOUARD HERRIOT, PROSPECTIVE ‘FRENCH PREMIER ASSURES BANKERS THEY NEED NOT FEAR HIS POLICY (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, May 22—Edouard Herriot, slated to be the next premier of France, assured President Millerand today that the radicals and socialists who will assume office, intend to pur- sue a sound financial policy. ‘The assurance had an immediate ef- pin aca exchange, the franc rising to 18.05 to the dollar. It,is understood | Sd * sé". ‘ that what Herriot told the president, will enable him to reassure J. P. Mor- gan and the syndicate, which loaned France money when the franc was tumbling. © The entire political situation is brighter as a result of the conference, which took place at thi » with Premier Poincare and ier GARY STEEL TOILERS HOLD BIG MEETING Speakers Talk Unionism To Large Audience The exploited slaves of the Steel Trust in the city of Gary, Indiana, are recovering from the psychological effects of the defeat suffered by them in 1919 and are showing an interest in organization that is a decided relief from the apathy that pre- vailed there until recently. This was indicated when Roumanian Hall was packed with workers of all nationalities on Wednesday evening where an organization meeting under the auspices of the Executive Council of Organizations in the Steel Industry was held. The steel workers listened atten- tively to the speakers and at the con- clusion of the meeting many of them signified their willingness to join and help organize the workers in the steel industry thruout the country in one united body, in order to be in a posi- ‘ion to win more of the product of ‘heir toil from the greedy robbers who own the steel industry. E. Johnson, chairman of the Lake County organization committee, pre- sided. William Hannon, secretary- treasurer of the Executive Council of Organization in the Steel Industry, spoke on the necessity of organization and invited the steel workers to sign application blanks for membership. Other speakers were A. Wilson, of trical herty. The organizers of the meeting were Pleased at thé numbers that turned out. Many of the leaders in the great 1919 steel strike were present. Some of them frankly expressed their view to the DAILY WORKER reporter that only a union comprising all of the workers in the steel industry, would challenge the enthusiasm of Gary's slaves. They held that the workers who saw ‘their strength frittered away in 1919, between rival international un- ions, who quarreled for the per capita would not care to go thru the same experience again. They wanted to or- ganize along the lines of industry and ignore craft divisions. This is also the position of the more Progressive and farsighted organizers that the DAILY WORKER representa- tive came in contact with. One could not but feel optimistic after seeing the splendid enthusiasm at the Gary meeting on last Wednesday evening that sentiment for organization is now growing so fast among the steel work- ers that only a rigid adherence to an antique form of organization can halt the forward march of the mill slaves. All the speakers made a very good impression on the audience with the exception of an interruption from the floor, which caused a little irritation and annoyance. It was understood, of course, that a goodly number of Steel Trust spies were present with the object of attempting to break up the meeting, but there was too much unanimity to give any such attempts even a slight hope of success. Those in charge of the organization work in Gary and vicfhity announced that another meeting would be held at an early date. DAILY WORKER ARMY IS PASSING IT ON; MAKES NEW FRIENDS QUICKLY It does give the staff of the DAI- LY WORKER a great deal of satis- faction to get letters like the follow- ing from its readers.’ Everybody likes to know that their work is be- ing appreciated and Communists are no different in that respect. We will try to make every paper a Iit- tle better than the one the day be- fore. Let us know what you think of it. “To the DAILY WORKER: Will this make you happy? They are the words of one who did not escape the cross during war days. The DAI- LY WORKER is simply great, and destined to have a very large in- fluence. We read it and pass it on to others, who pass it on in turn. 1 trust,—how far that little candle throws its beams. “Cordially yours, Cd ty {i orkers, and T. J. O’Fla- 4 ‘ the Broommakers’ Union, W. N. Tuck- We would like to put this question up to’ President Frank Farrington presiding at the Illinois Miners’ Convention at Peoria: “What do you hope to accomplish by forcing the with- drawal of the DAILY WORKER reporter from the Miners’ Convention?” There can be only one answer. By some far stretch of the imagination, Farrington hopes to intimidate the DAILY WORKER. He thinks he has the power to stop the DAILY WORKER telling the truth about the crimes of the reaction within the Miners’ Union. He thinks he can play the role of censor. * * * * But the DAILY WORKER will not be intimidated. It will not be bludgeoned into hiding the truth. Our reporter on the outside of the convention hall at Peoria, Illinois, is more powerful than ever. The DAILY WORKER attacked by Far- ington, the enemy of progress, will become stronger than ever among the wide masses of the miners’ union member- m- * * * * It was Albert Sidney Burleson, as postmaster general during the late war, who tried to crush the labor press that Was opposed to the war. _ Burleson thought he could make the workers of the nation back the Wilson war regime if he could wipe out labor's publications. So he barred them from the mails, while the department of justice brought indictments against labor’s editors and sent some of them to prison. But the truth persisted. All the nation now knows it was a capitalist war. The Wilson regime has fallen. Burleson has been forgotten. J.sMitchell Palmer and Harry M. Daugherty, the war and post-war attor- ney generals, have been swept into the discard. Instead of a compromising, timid socialist movement of the pre-war and war days, there is now a fighting, courag- eous Communist movement in the United States. * * * * One of the biggest issues at Peoria was the Howat issue. That is the issue on which the backbone of Farring- ton’s power was broken. That is the issue that the DAILY WORKER stressed at the Indianapolis Convention, last winter, It is the issue the DAILY WORKER has raised con- tinuously since the convention of the Illinois Miners’ Conven- ‘Hidt victory for the Pank and file. « * * * \f the Howat fight had failed Farrington would have rested on his laurels. If Howat had been sent back to Kan- sas, repudiated by the Illinois miners, Farrington would have been satisfied, and the chances are that the DAILY WORKER would not have been molested. But the Howat fight won. The DAILY WORKER played a great part in winning that fight. The crushing defeat of the whole Lewis-Farrington alliance, drove Mr. Far- rington stark mad. He went the way of all despots. In desperation he turned on the DAILY WORKER, and in his wild rage, forced the DAILY WORKER reporter out of the convention hall. We accept the attack of Mr. Farrington as the greatest tribute he could possibly pay the DAILY WORKER. We have but to remind the miners’ delegates, and the member- ship of the miners’ union, that the kept scribblers of the worst capitalist sheets, and the yellowest of the subsidized news agencies, are allowed to remain in the convention hall. Those who fawn on this cheap edition of a Caesar are tolerated. * * ® * The fight of the DAILY WORKER for the rank and file of the Miners’ Union will continue. Our reports of the present historic convention of the Iilinois Miners’ Union will continue ‘to be as exhaustive as ever. Let Farrington know that the truth cannot be silenced by a Czarist decree. No matter how much the truth may hurt Mr. Farrington, and his ally, Mr. Lewis, it will be told in.the columns of the DAILY WORKER. And it is the truth about all the varied phases of the tremendous struggle in which they are engaged that will help solve the problems confronting the membership of the United Mine Workers of America. It will help free them from the capitalist system that now holds them enslaved. Nobody Claims Poor Indiana Senator Granny Dead From Endorsed For Cal’s Street Car’s Blow For six days a wrinkled little old The Truth Hurts, tion at Peoria. And it was this issue that was settled in a Running Partner “A FRIEND." |fined $°* lady lay unconscious on a cot in one of the county hospital wards. No one ever called up to find out about her. No one ever came to see her. She lay there fluttering between life and death ever since she had been brought in after a street car struck her. Then she died, Perhaps somewhere in the city the little old lady has left a distraught family, a daughter or son who doesn’t realize that the government some- times knows what happens to lost children and wandering grannies. Per- haps there was a sick old grandfather at home waiting the pathetic old lady's return. Anyway, the worn old body of the little granny will be laid in the Pat-|K ters’ field, unless someone claims it for other services. Some one from the hospital may remember to send a few flowers for the funeral and then earth will claim its own. NEW YORK—Roy Meyers, an actor first and only person arrested for buy- ing liquor in New York since the pro- hibition laws became effective, was ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 22.—A resolution endorsing Senator James E. Watson for the Republican nomination for vice-president was unanimously adopted early today by the platform committee of the Indiana Republican convention. The platform approved does not mention the Ku Klux Klan but de- clares that the laws must be enforced upon the “high and low alike,” with- out prejudice to race, creed or color. This plank, coupled with Senator Wat- son's de ition in his keynote ad- dress that quetsions of, religion or membership in secret organization are not within the province of political patries, was found acceptable by the Three hundred delegates said to be members of the Ku Klux Klan bolted district caucuses last night to attend a meeting at which a slate for state offices of the Kian was agreed on. ALBANY, N. Y.—Herbert Fuller fell three tsories down an airshaft, shat- tering the glass canopy. He was ar- rested, charged with malicious des- structino of property. mended a “class collaboration” several days. Unanimous the floor supported. Delegate after delegate dis- agreed with this but felt that their hands were tied because of the Jacksonville contract. Delegates showed that the union had not kept pace with the develop- ment of industry. They showed that What was offered by Farrington was also offered by the coal barons and that we should organize as a class; that it had been wrong for the miners to stay at work when the railroad workers were on strike, and vice versa, Boost Non-Union Coal. Delegate John Watt pointed out that the Federated Press had showed that there was a movement on foot to buy non-union coal, no matter whether it cost more than union coal, in order to destroy the United Mine Workers of America. He showed that it cost in Illinois $1.65 per ton to mine coal and $2.70 per ton for freight, while in West Vir. ginia it cost $3.25 per ton to mine and the freight rate was $3.17. He showed by statistics that it cost more to mine and ship coal in non- union fields than it did in union, and that Farrington’s proposition was not a solution, but only aggravated the situation. Exposes Farrington’s Bunk. He pUinted out that to cheapen pro- duction was bunk. He showed that to live up to the present agreement was going to bring the greatest hard- ship to the organization. Not one single delegate supported that part of the report. None of them seemed to know what should be done about it. Farrington Gets Pessimistic. Farrington, talking in support of his class collaboration scheme, painted a Pessimistic picture of the conditions in the mining industry. He stated that his report was only an emphasis of the contract and that no part of his report was out of line with that contract. He stated that there were grave doubts in the minds of the interna- tional officers, as well as in his own mind, as to whether the miners would get much work under the present contratt. He said that he had many letters from Illinois coal operators, stating that there would have to be a modification of the contract and that no one could tell what the future held for the miners unless the Ken- tucky coal operators were forced to accept the contract. Delegates, hearing this, remembered that part of the published letters be- tween Farrington and Lewis which was concerned with the keeping of (Continued on Page 2.) GERMAN COMMUNISTS ARE READY TO STAGE BIG AMNESTY DEMONSTRATION BERLIN, May 22,—Communists are mustering wives of their im: prisoned comrades for demonst While a clamor is raised in the corridors and outside the parliament buildings, Communist members plan to de- mand amnesty for all political pris- oners. APPOINTIVE POWER HIT BY RANK AND FILE DELEGATES By KARL REEVE. (Special to The Daily Worker) x E PEORIA, Iil., May 22.—Not one delegate supported District President Frank Farrington’s report, in that part which recome policy, in the discussion at the District 12 Miners’ Convention today. The delegates are bitterly protesting against the appointive power, and are fighting the report of the committee on officers’ reports, which has recommended to them that they disregard their local union instructions urging the abolition of the appoin- tive powe The fight over this issue is likely to continue for Opposition. There was almost two hours discussion on that part of the president’s report, pages 42 Lspnip Oo which not one delegate from 6-HOUR DAY IS HAILED BY COAL DIGGERS Farrington Makes Plea For Mine ( Owners By KARL REEVE. (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., May 22.—Dis- satisfaction over the three year wage agreement was expressed by delegates to the Illinois mine workers convention, in a spirited attack on the section of Presi- dent Farrington’s. rgport.daalinge with the wage scale’ The prog- ressive delegates declared that it was “a fine accomplishment” — yes, a fine accomplishment for the coal operators. The report of the committee on officers’ reports designated the three year agreement signed between the officers of the mine workers-of America and the coal operators at Jacksonville, Fla., last February as a “splendid ac- complishment,” and “apprecia- tion is extended to our scale committee.” But delegate Tu- multy pointed out that if the miners, in their referendum vote, had been allowed to vote on the wage scale first and then on the three year agreement, that the contract would have been voted down by the miners. Operators Like it. Ve are told by our officers that this is a great achievement,” said Del- egate Tumulty, “and that they made the best contract they could under the circumstances.” But we are also told by the coal operators that “this is the best contract that they have eve’ signed ‘with the miners union.” Delegate Lawrence Lamb demande that the committee on officers’ r Ports tell the convention just whe this splendid accomplishment ca) in, and the chairman of the commit replied by hixting at mysterious cumstances which prevented a be contract, He declared that the tract was made under difficult cumstances and that it was the contract that could be made, con ing all circumstances, “Your answer is a splendid e' of my question,” called out De Lamb amid laughter. “Under the present agreem: men are working eight hours and producing 50 per cént mc than the supply demands,” s: gate John Watts. “How man delegates are now earning r $4 per day? In my sub-distr of 36 coal mines are closed « that is true of all our sub-di Officials “Powerles: “All the officers of our after the other, have state did not know of a way out bles. They have admitt« (Continued on Pa; SOCIETY PARASITES THREATEN T DIE FOR COUNTRY; SPLEND MOLINE, May 22.—The Illinois Federation of Women's C self to “stand side by side” with the manhood of the country | No doubt the flag. manhood that clips coupon: These society ladies hate t! ble exist hypoerit jive their slaves. { f ting Amazons will stand where the behind the firing line, with that por! id lives on the fruits of + very thot of pacifism, cannot be any pacifism in society as long as these fi without labor, while millions of workingel ale women are e} ce on the pittance that the husbands and keepe