The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1924, Page 2

Page Two PULLMAN CZAR AFRAID T0 SHOW FACE IN MEETING Carry Took ‘Sick’ When Advertising Failed President E. F. Carry, of the Pull- man Car Works, deeply disappointed @ few old fogies when he failed to show up at a scheduled meeting at the Public Auditorium in Pullman Park on Monday night. Whether Carry was still weighted down with the Knighthood of St. Gregory, heaped on him by Cardinal Mundelein just; after he had given his employes a drastic wage cut, or whether Carry was afraid there might, by some strange chance, be an honest- to-God workingman in the audience, hag not been reported. However, Car- ry sent his regrets and the meeting broke up at 9 o'clock. If Carry was afraid to face some of the workers who had struck against his slavish company union, and against a wage cut, he worried with- out cause. As one of the visitors was heard to remark, “Say, there’s not a human being in the place.” Bum Show Well Advertised. Carry had made great preparations for this “mass” meeting. The twenty thousand Pullman slaves had been ex- herted to come. Leaflets were dis- tributed broadcast thruout the shop, declaring that “All loyal employes are expected to be present to hear their president speak.” Posters were put up on ail the bulletin boards announc- ing the “treat” which the Pullman piece-workers were to have in feasting their eyes on the president. Announce- ments were made in the local papers, “Carry, the benefactor of Pullman, will speak under the auspices of the Pullman Twehty Year Service Club on Monday night.” Carry must have got wind of the fact that instead of a mass meeting of workers, there assembled only a handfvl of veterans who had worked in the Pullman shops for twenty years or over and looked it too. There was also a sprinkling of office work- ers and their wives. “Lock Up Your Troubles.” There was a piano recital and a recitation by a worn-out society wom- an who continually sounded the re- frain in her poem that the workers should not worry. “Lock your troubles up in a box, sit on the box and throw the key away,” ran the theme. Con- sidering that the audience was com- Dose“ _of veteran Pullman em this \/as asking @ lotdue poem: siren When in the closing hours of the Illinois Miners’ Con- vention at Peoria, the Farrington forces were defeated in their twelfth-hour attempt to recover the appointive power, abolished during the last week's sessions, the downfall of one vicious machine that has hobbled Labor in Illinois was signed and sealed. Unofficial count of the roll-call vote showed that 496 delegates voted against Farrington while 443 were still under his control. official administration. thing deep and fundamental. delegates their instructions. determined steps forward. want to know who I am working for and want to know what kind of a man he is.” The DAILY WORKER could have suggested that Higgins go talk to one of the riveters or reamers who had their wages reduced as high as 50 per cent, and in the bargain, were speed- ed up under the Taylor piece work, stop watch system, if they wanted to get a real insight into what the Pull- man employes think of the man they work for. After Higgins had adjourned the meeting, he explained to the DAILY WORKER the meaning and purpose of the Pullman Twenty-Year Service Club. “No, this club is not run by the Pullman company officials,” said Hig- gins, “but only Pullman employes who have worked in the Pullman shops twenty years or over are eligible to join.” Only Benefit Is Button. Higgins seemed surprised when ask- ed what were the benefits of mem- bership in the club. “Well, there are no particular benefits,” he stanmered out, “you just get this green but- ton with the club initials on it, and everybody knows you are a twenty- year service man. You have to pay dues of 25 cents a month.” Higgins said the Pullman employes are permitted to have a Christmas en- tertainment every year under the aus- pices of the Twenty-Year Service Club. If the Knight of St. Gregory runs true to form, we'll wager he makes the employes pay twice for ‘every candle on the Christmas tree. |DAILY WORKER “1eOM “euy, Like all such artificial groupings, Far- rington’s hitherto well- oiled machine will quickly fall to pieces, now that it has received its walking papers as the All of which shows that the rank and file revolt is some- No amount of agitation and propaganda could have created the profound resentment against the old bureaucrats displayed by the delegates at District 12 Convention, and by the local unions that gave the The Illinois miners are taking BREED! BREED! BREED! FRENCH MILITARISTS CRY—AND GRY IN VAIN PARIS, May 27.—Bear sons for the republic is the cry of placards all over Paris, posted by the Na- tional Alliance for the Increase of French Population. The posters show two babies, one large, blonde and blue-eyed, supposed to repre- sent a German child, the other small, brunette and dark-eyed, rep- the French baby. The “France is in danger. The Boche mothers bear 1,145,000 children an- nually, our women only 760,000. This means revenge. French births decreased 27,000 per year since 1868. German births increased cor- respondingly. If things continue France is lost. Therefore, French patriots, produce children, the more the better. And you, French women, do your duty and bring cheldren into the world. Vive la France!” But the landlords and food profi- teers are not patriotic. Big Picnic On Decoration Day The committee in charge of the joint picnic to be held on May 30, by the T. U. E. L., and the Y. W. L., an- nounces further reasons for the at- tendance of every trade unionist, sym- pathizer and young worker, at the first maio~ anrial «> se one ne sea THE DAILY WORKER i _ One Machine Smashe FRENCH RADICAL SOCIALISTS WAR ON MILLERAND Poincare Backers Hint at Dictatorship (Special to The Daily Worker) _ PARIS, May 27.—The drive to jim- my president Millerand from his of- fice is now in full swing. It is be- Meved the socialists will consent to accept portfolios in the Herriot gov- ernment, provided the president is re- moved. This would be a good excuse for them to break their pledges against collaborating in the left bloc cabinet. The majority of the French socialists are undoubtedly against participation in the cabinet, but it is safe to say that this is not true of the leaders. The socialist organ, Le Populaire, points out that there are two ways to force his withdrawal; one is by re- fusing to form a government and the other, to move a reduction of his sal- ary. In the meantime, Herriot is letting it be known that he is no enfant ter- rible. Like the American La Follette, he has a reputation for being a dan- gerous enemy of the big capitalists, but so far he has not inflicted any severe wounds on them. He is a sup-, porter of the league of nations, yet he no less than Poincare, insists on “se- curity” against Germany, and pay- ment of reparatoins. His is in hearty accord with the views of Ramsay MacDonald on the question of the league of nations. Herriot is for the Dawes report and will talk about the evacuation of the Ruhr only after the Dawes plan is put in operation. Poincare, in a speech declared, that his Ruhr policy would not be given a kick in the slats by the new government and that he would be back in power again after the left bloc failed to accomplish any- thing or make good its pre-election promises. On the Russian question, Herriot declared himself as follows: “I do. not confound the Russian people nor the Russian government with the Communist International. In trying to re-establish relations with the Soviet Republic, T shall not let myself be manouvered by agitation and shall not forget that small French investors have great interests in Russia.” Herriot also expressed thanks to Poincare for the frankness which his political opponent put him in touch with the foreign negotiations of the government. Meanwhile, Poincare is warning the country against secret German military preparations, and de- claring that France would not with- FARRINGTON PLAYS HIS TRICKS PEORIA, Ill, May 27.—Discarding the last vestige of loyalty to the Iili- nois miners who pay him his salary, President Frank Farrington: yester- day told the convention that if their vote, taking from him the power to appoint union employes, were allowed ‘to stand, it would mean that the legal investigators would have to be elected in the last minute of the convention. Despite the fact that Vice President Harry Fishwick, acting as chairman, when Farrington’s report was being discussed, ruled that the vote against the appointive power meant that the constitution committee would be hon- or bound to bring in a report along the. lines voted by the convention, Farrington is making a last desperate effort to get the delegates to vote against their instructions and reverse their previous action. Farrington called to his aid Chief Counsel Angus Kerr, of the legal staff, and was also backed up by the report brought in by his appointed commit- ee on constitutional resolutions. Rules Against Berkowich. Farrington had ruled S, Berkowich out of order on the ground that Berk- owich was not a delegate to the con- vention, when Berkowich tried to pro- test against the joint group board al- lowing him to be blacklisted without protest. Farrington decided against a point of order made for the same rea- son, and allowed Kerr to speak in Farrington’s defense, altho Kerr is not a delegate. The motion upon which Farrington tried to sneak back his appointive power was No, 76, of the resolutions on constitution, which would give Farrington the right to appoint legal investigators. It is with the legal in- vestigators that Farrington has been able to saddle the Illinois miners with his tyrannical machine. Farrington ‘has been able to control the elections, steal the votes, and use his legal in- vestigators to good advantage to him- self as committee members at the dis- trict conventions. The legal investigators have been the real bone of contention, and Far- rington is looking ahead to the elec- tions next December. The delegates say that if Farrington’s appointive power is kept from him, he will not even dare run for re-election, knowing that a fair vote at the next elections will depose him in favor of some pro- gressive. Finally Get Resolutions. The stage was all set by Farring- ton and his committee to railroad thru the resolution allowing him to retain control of the legal investigat- ors. The book of resolutions on con- stitution, altho printed two weeks ago, and in the hands of Farrington’s pet reporters for over a week, were not given out to the delegates until now. The delegates have been asking for these resolutions daily, knowing that they contained some of the most important business before the conven- tion. But Walter Nesbit, who was in charge of their distribution, had de- clared he did not know where they were. Immediately after the distribution of the book of resdlutions, Farring- ton’s committee at once started in on the resolution relating to the appoin- tive power. This was contrary to all proper procedure, as there are five resolutions in the book which should have been considered before the first resolution on appointive power came up. This was in line with Farring- ton’s procedure the day before, when he defied all the laws of the conven- tion and brought in the report of the committee on appeals and grievances instead of the report on resolutions. Farrington’s game has been to save discussion of the appointive power un- til the last minute and then adjourn the convention with the matter still hanging in the air. Create Much Confusion. After Kerr spoke for his boss, Far- rington, the committee’s report was amended, to still further confuse the situation; then the amendment was rushed to a vote without any one get- ting the floor. | The amendment was carried by a vote of 224 to 168. The motion as amended was being put to a vote when the delegates began to wake up and find what was being put over on them. Delegate John Hindmarsh took the floor and pointed out to the delegates that they were ¢onfused by Farrington’s trickery. “To continue to vote as you did on this amendment would be to undo what you did a few days ago,” said Hindmarsh. “To al- low Farrington to appoint the legal investigators means that you have re- turned to him his appointive power, which you so decisively took away a few days ago. I warn you that if you were instructed to vote against the appointive power to watch what you are doing on this motion.” Hindmarsh told the delegates that if they followed out their instructions they would have to vote down the committee’s report as amended and take up one of the resolutions from amongst the 63 that pertain to the subject. The convention adjourned for the day after Hindmarsh had spoken, to take the matter up again at the morning's session. Aid Mooney Defense Fund. After a discussion, the convention voted, 269 to 101, for $500 to the Tom Mooney defense fund. | 91 CTATECINJINF FAR ST PAUL ed for reverance for God and the ok But everyone waa waiting expect- antly for the piece de resistance of the evening—the talk of St. Carry. Expectancy thrilled The audience as Mark Higgins, presi@ent of the Pull- man Twenty Year Slavery Club, rose. He was to introduce Carry. Higgins, however, regretfully an- nounced that Carry was sick. “He is under the.doctor’s care and his fami- ly is worried about him,” said G. Hig- gins. “I kaow that you will be sorry to hear that Carry has a gore throat.” The DAILY WORKER reporter didn’t blame Carry for giving the twenty-year termers the run-around. What could Carry get out of these worn-out pieces of machinery. They had served their sentences. Loyal Slave Praises Boss. Mark Higgins spoke a little in eu- logy of Carry. “Probably a good many of you have never seen Carry,” said Higgins, “let alone talked to Mim. I worked as a furnace tender in the Pullman plant for 36 years, and I never say Carry except once, a year and half ago. I didn’t get close enough to touch him, but I did get real close to him and got a good look at him.” “It is too bad Carry didn’t show up,” Higgins continued. “I know you folks wanted to get a glimpse of the man you are working for. I know I always THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY Our Civilization Determining forces and modern tendencies a lecture by PROF, FERDINAND SCHEVILL (U. of ©.) Thursday, May 29th, 8 P. M. Athenaeum Hall 59 E. VAN BUREN STREET Admission 75¢ T.U.E. DANCING GAMES GOOD FOOD OLLLu FAUT UN | ‘FOOD WAR FRONT Scab Restaurant Men Get Strike Message The Special Food Workers’ Strike Edition of the DAILY WORKER was well distributed yesterday. Dozens of workers sold thousands of copies of the “Special” to both patrons and workers in Chicago restaurants. Un- organized workers were eager to buy the paper which told their story and carried the message of the union in spite of the injunction of Judge Hugo Friend. Restaurant patrons were just as eager to know all about the strike. They bought the paper in large num- bers and many after reading it came back to the strikers who sold it and gave them contributions to help the work of organizing the sweated work- ers. Swells All Read It Altho the sale of the paper was greatest in working class neighbor- hoods the “swell” districts were not overlooked by the union workers. Sheridan Road and the Wilson Ave. district were visited by the unionists who reported big sales. “The most effective weapon we eould have gotten under any cirdum- stances,” was the way one member of the organization committee of the Food Workers’ Union described the “Speeial” of the DAILY WORKER. “Tt enabled us to take the message of the union right to the workers and the public under the nose of the in- junction. The bosses know how to use publicity and it is fine to see the juch a valuable weapon Good Job Well Done “The DAILY WORKER talked’ in the language of the workers. The effectiveness of the “Special” was ad- ded to by the fact that it was so well done. The paper was there. We must hand it to the staff which turn- ed out such a fine sheet for us, A g00d job well done, that’s what it was.” L. Trade Union Educational League 1 enone eo ata gat ee A’ progfam: ae aoe “mat bespeaks not only an enjoyable time, but also a profitable one. Three splendid speakers in short, snappy talks are to add a valuable note to the gathering. Bob Minor, editor of the Liberator and the country’s great- est cartoonist, will be at the festivi- ties. J. W. Johnstone, district organ- izer for the T. U. E L., who has just returned from the Miners’ Convention where the militants have accounted for themselves so splendidly, brings a welcome note from the field of bat- tle. And Max Schactman, editor of The Young Worker will speak for the young militants. These three speakers, attraction enough for any affair, are only part of the program. Arrangements have been made to introduce novelties new to Chicago’s gatherings. Games and sports of many kinds have been ar- ranged. For the children the grove facilities provide swings and a merry- go-round and decorations will add a festive ‘note to the occasion. Last year’s most successful affair will be duplicated if all advance no- tices of the ticket sale and the com- mittees, preparations are to be taken as indications. The grounds are Al- mheim Grove. Take Forest Park to the gates, or Madison street car and transfer to suburban line. Many Die In Storms. Memphis, Tenn., May 27.—Nineteen known dead were reported in dis- patches reaching here from sections of Alabama and Mississippi swept by a storm early today. 100 TRAPPED IN MEX MINE; HUMAN LIFE 1S CHEAP TO U. S. OWNERS MEXICO CITY, Mexico, May 27. —In a mine cave-in near Guad: jara more than 100 workers were killed. Many of the bodies have been recovered. The Mexican mines are even more than those in the United They are mostly owned by “gringoes” who don't give a damn about the lives of “greasers.” — draw her military forces from the Ruhr except in a measure equal to the Dawes reparations. He makes it quite clear that the Dawes plan does not insist on Ruhr evacuation. In view of the fact that Poincare is about to quit office, the significance of his threats is increased by a state- ment in the Nationalist Fascisti news- paper, The Liberte, that the present situation in France is similar to that of Italy after the second Nitti gov- ernment, before Mussolini seized power. This may be a hint that should the left bloc be unsuccessful in muddling thru, Poincare and the heavy industrialists, who are his back- ers, may pull off a Mussolini stunt, and establish a Fascisti dictatorship. The financial situation is growing worse and worse. The lefts blame the rights and the rights blame the letts. The Communists blame both and declare the only solution of the ills that afflict the sick social body of France, is a Workers’ and Peagants’ government as a step toward a dic- tatorship of the workers and pea- sants and the beginning of the work to social reconstruction on a Commun- ist basis. The illness of the franc is blamed on the Poincare financial backers by the lefts, while the reactionary press say that it is not surprising if French investors should prefer to withdraw their investments from French indus- tries, feeling their wealth would be safer in some other country, not gov- erned by radicals. The Poincare crowd now point to the buge French debt as the cause of the slump in the franc. M. Painleve, the leader of 39 Repub- ican Socialist deputies, is out for the presidency of the Chamber; a posi- tion which is regarded as a stepping stone to the presidency of the Repub- He. Senator Anatole De Monzfe, a con- vert to the program of recognizing Soviet Russia, is mentioned for finance minister. BOSTON, Mass., May 27.—Marcus A. Garvey, president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, talk- ed to a big crowd in Boston, about his project for a huge African repub- ie. Radical negroes insist the negro must win his rights in America as well as Africa. | wh OA SRR Ma By askivds we eens (Continued from page one) established them as permanent organ- izations. These were the Farmer-La- bor parties of Minnesota, South Da- kota, and Washington, and the Pro- gressive parties of Idaho and Nebras- ka. In addition to these, the conven tion was supported by the Farmer Labor parties of Montana and Nort. Dakota, which, altho they are new parties, are backed by some of the most influential men in the political life of the state. New State Parties Building. The organizations named above were all in existence at the time the June 17th convention was called. Since the call for the convention was broadcasted thruout the country the sentiment for independent political action by the workers and farmers has been greatly stimulated. The Farmer-Labor Party of Colorado, which has gone thru several cam- paigns has decided to line up in sup- port of the June 17th convention. In many other states conventions have been or will be held for the purpose of organizing state parties and elect- ing delegates to the St. Paul conven- tion. In Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, New York, and Illinois, conventions have been held in the last week, made up of delegates from workers and farmers’ organizations, which in each case nominated a state ticket, took the necessary steps to get their party on the ballot, and elected dele- gates to the June 17th convention. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, and California calls are now out for state conventions for the avowed purpose of supporting the national movement.’ In Iowa, Oregon, Michi- gan, and Wisconsin efforts are being exerted in’ an attempt to form state organizations in time to actively par- ticipate in the November campaign. In the Farmer-Labor parties of West Virginia and Indiana, strong groups are working in an effort to line these parties up behind the St. Paul convention. - Permanent Party Assured. The nation-wide agitation for a par- ty representing the interests of the ALTENHEIM snd cali ian Aoidomobe Libr ny JOINT PICNIC In Chicago May 30 Tickets 35 Cents’ farmers and workers independent of the two old parties is stimulating in- terest everywhere. The building of Parties in the states named shows conclusively that the new party is as- sured. The decision of the Amalgamated Jlothing Workers in their convention ust closed in Philadelphia to send jelegates to the June 17th convention with instructions to work for the for- mation of a crystallized organization in the American Labor movement, and their action is sure to have its ef- fect on the other Internattonals, There are strong indications of a split in the C. P.-P. A. over the ques- tion of supporting McAdoo on the Democratic ticket or La Follette on a ticket independent of the two old par- ties. The events of the past few days af- fords good evidence that the support piling up behind the June 17th con- vention in St. Paul has aided in break- ing many of them away from non- partisan action and convinced them of the wonderful possibilities of build- ing a new party this year. With this split now evident, it is well to remember that the position of the St. Paul convention is that they will adopt a policy and program fiexi- ble and broad enough to. include all elements who stand for independent political action by the workers and farmers. ‘They have repeatedly’ de- slared for unity of action between all farmer-labor elements. The organisations already built’ and in the process of building show con- clusively that the foundation for the St. Paul convention is firm. At the St. Paul convention the real Ameri- can Farmer-Labor Party will be built. Escapes Arrest. DANVILLE, Ill, May 27.—In order to escape arrc t on a warrant charg- ing embezzlement, J. W. Zuckweiller faa @ bottle of metal polis and Sleeping sickness is decimating French African colonies, German scientists refuse to supply their fam- ous serum, while France is enslaving Germans, . Wednesday. May 28, 1988 ~ | STRIKING FOOD WORKERS TELL PUBLIC FACTS Plan Mass Meuting On Thursday Night The striking Greek restaurant workers will present the barbaric con- ditions under which they were forced to work before the strike, to the gen- eral public at a mass meeting to be held Thursday night at 722 Blue Island avenue. The Chicago branch of the Amal- gamated Food Workers’ Union de clares, that when thé general public knows the evil effect of the 12-14 hour day and seven-day week on the men, that they will refuse to eat in the 170 scab restaurants which issued the injunction against the strikers. Central Board Report. Charles H. Keller, organizer of the Chicago branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers, will report today on the results of his conference in New York with the central executive board of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union. The central executive board is expected to put all the power at their command back of the striking restaurant workers, in the fight on the injunction Judge Friend and the Greek restaurant owners who granted the blanket injunction restraining the strikers from picketing. Flock Into Union. Albert B. Stewart, secretary of the Chicago Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, said today that all over the city workers in the Greek restaurants are flocking into the union. “This is the first strike I ever heard of where an injunction was issued against picketing before the men went on strike,” Stewart told the DAILY WORKER reporter. “But a general campaign to get the restaurant work- ers of the city into the union will more than counteract the attempted intimidation of the strikers by the is- suance of the blanket injunction.” Stewart said that no injunction can be issued which will prevent the men from joining the union. “It’s getting so now that the men who are being fired for joining the Amalgamated cannot be replaced by non-union men. They are all joining the union, and will soon be one hundred per cent or- ganized.” Will Tell of Strike. The mass meeting Thursday will be addressed by en bt pom Greek = Sen eew atetthn Y. W.L. Young Workers League NOTED SPEAKERS SPORTS FOREST PARK And LNkuow. “4ue Story ux tne suike will be told, and the public will have an opportunity to gain a true picture of the conditions under which the Greek restaurant workers are forced to live and work. Communists Jeer Von Tirpitz, Asking, “Where Are Your Submarines?” (Continued from page one) to command the votes of the clerical, Peoples’ Party, the Democratic and Bavarian People’s Party and the Unit- ed Socialist Party. \ Troops Guard. The Nationalists claim. the right to elect the president of the Reichstag. Secretly the Nationalists are not un- alterably opposed to the Dawes plan, but cannot admit this openly, as they were elected on an anti-Dawes plat- form. Considerable pressure is being brot to bear on Germany by the Ramsay MacDonald government to bring about acceptance of the Dawes report. The British government is anxious to sta- bilize the capitalist system and holds a club over the head of German lead: ers who might be inclined to resent the mortgaging of Germany to the In- ternational bankers. White today the Reichstag is the centre of intefest, rumblings of in- dustrial warfare come from the Ruhr where over half a million miners are still on strike. Mr. A. J. Cook, secre- tary of the Britsh Miners’ Federation and radical left winger who has not changed his mind im: tely he as- sumed office, said that British workers could not support their seven-hour day unlass they support the German miners for the same prin- ciple. O'Flaherty in Milwaukee Tonight. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 27.— Thomas J. O'Flaherty, editor of the Irish People, will attack the laws against foreign-born workers now be- fore congress, at a mass meeting in West Side Turner hall, 804 Fourth St., at 8 p. m, Wednesday, called by the Milwaukee Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers.