The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 1

x [ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 62. going forward full speed. “Senator LaFollette is evidently the victim of bad counsel,” said Mahoney, “if this report is an expression of his attitude.” “Arrangements have all been made for the gathering on June 17th, and delegates are expected from every section of the nation.” “The convention will. be composed of delegates from diverse groups. of Coal Diggers Hit K. + JUNE 17 MEET FEELS STEAM OF ENGINEERS Brotherhood’s Backing Increases Party Speed (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., May 28.— Sentiment towards the National Farmer-Labor-Progressive Con- vention to be held. in this city on June 17th, was given a big push forward by the action of the Minnesota legislative com- mittee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at their recent meeting here. Representatives of the twenty- six divisions of the order in this state unanimously endorsed the June 17th convention and criti- cized “Labor,” the organ of the railroad workers published in Washington, D. C., for ‘attack- ing it. Speaking for the committee, Chair- man Ralph Davis said: “We regret that this matter has been injected into the campaign and we Would like to have it dropped now. We admit that ‘Labor’ struck first, and we can’t blame those who are working for the success of the June 17th convention }. in defending themselves from the at- tack. If the paper did not have any- thing good to say about the conven- tion, then it should have said nothing. We want to show the Federation (meaning the Farmer-Labor Federa- tion of Minnesota) and the Farmer- Labor movement that the Engineers “are for it by. our continued support.” Cc. P. P. A. Likes McAdoo. The belief that the Conference for Progressive Political Action leaders have no intention of helping to build a new party representing the economic needs of the workers and exploited farmers is becoming more apparent each week. Each time the supporters of the Cleveland convention commit themselves, they make their real in- tentions more clear. The current issue of the Railway Maintenance of Way Employers’ Jour- nal, speaking editorially on the differ- ences between the ©. P. P. A. and the National Farmer-Labor Convention to (Continued on Page 2.) SOVIET GOVERNMENT WOULD MOVE MARX'S REMAINS 10 MOSCOW LONDON, May 28—The Soviet government, thru its delegates to the Anglo-Russian conference, has been carrying on negotiations with the British government with a view to transporting the remains of Kari Marx from Highgate cemetery to Moscow, where the Soviet republic planned to build a monument cost- ing half'a million dollars in honor of the founder of modern Commun- jam. . Jean Longuet, grandson of Marx and leader of the French yellow So- clalists, who have stabbed Marxian Socialism in the back, refused the request of the Soviet government for permiasion to transfer the body of ‘his grandfather to th pital of the first workers’ republic In the hlatory of the world. SUBSCRIPTION RATES LA FOLLETTE | Junel7 to Go (Speclal to The Daily Worker) St. PAUL, Minn., May 28.—If LaFollette does not want the support of ‘June 17th Convention, that gathering is prepared to go ahead without him. Such is the gist of a statement of William Mahoney, chairman of the Com- mittee on Arrangements of the St. Paul Convention, when shown the letter of Senator Robert M. LaFollette denouncing that gathering. Opposition from the senator from Wisconsin will have no effect upon preparations which are 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. Stand Fast for the Farmer-Labor Party Statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party SENATOR Robert M..LaFollette has come out in the open as the enemy of the Farmer-Labor movement. In his statement on the June 17th Convention he shows clearly that he is opposed to the workers and exploited farmers organiz- = permanent political party to fight for their class inter- In order to kill the movement for such a party which is reaching o r the country he raises the question of the Com- munist participation in the Farmer-Labor movement. .__.In other words he raises the issue of the “red menace” in the same manner that the reactionary Republican poli- ticians are raising this issue against the ce-aker movement. Coolidge, Lodge and LaFollette take their stand shoulder to shoulder. against-this..‘‘n Bh tae? LaFollette's statement should raise in the mind of every exploited farmer and industrial worker the question why LaFollette is attacking the June 17th Convention. What is there about the June 17th Convention that LaFollette fears? The cry of Communist participation is merely a red herring and not the real ground for LaFollette’s opposition. * * . * TRE TRUTH of the matter is that LaFollette does not represent the exploited farmers and industrial workers. There is nothing in his program which stands for their inter- ests. LaFollette is the representative of the small business men of this country in opposing the Farmer-Labor move- ment, is fighting in the interests of this class and against the exploited farmers and workers. His opposition to the June 17th Convention is really opposition to the formation of a class Farmer-Labor Party which will fight the battles of farmers and workers—even against LaFollette. There is another reason why LaFollette fights the June 17th Convention. His statement shows that he still has hopes that one of the two old parties will “purge” itself of th influences which have long dominated it.” The workers and farmers who support the June 17th Convention have broken their ties with the old parties. They have flung down the gauntlet and entered the political arena to fight their own battles. LaFollette is against such independent political action. He wants the workers and farmers to wait for him and possibly to be led back into the old parties by him. |E Workers Party has many times warned the workers and farmers of this country against putting their faith in any individual politician. It has told them over and over that their strength lies in their organizing a Party which will make an uncompromising fight in their interests. It pointed this out Jast spring when an attempt was made to call off the June 17th Convention in the interests of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. LaFollette’s attack on the con- vention of farmers and workers shows that the warnings of the Communists were based upon a clear understanding of the situation. ' LaFollette says that the Communists are in the Farmer- Labor movement for the purpose of disrupting it. The Workers Party challenges ollette or any other politician of his stripe to show any group in this cou! which has worked consistently and energetically to build up a sas mass movement of farmers and workers as have the munists. While LaF) \lette and his followers have remained in the Republican ani Yemocratic parties, the Workers Party is fighting in every : © of the nation to help the workers and farmers create their own mass Farmer-Labor Party. The reason why the Communists support the formation of a Farmer-Labor Party was stated by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto which was written seven and a half decades ago. Marx wrote of the Communists, “They have no interest separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole.” In the same statement, the founder of the Communist movement wrote: : " “The Communists fight for the attainment of the im- mediate aims for the momentary interests of the working class but in the movement of the present they also represent and take care of the future: ‘of the mov ! ‘HE Communists seek, in the present movement in this country, for the formation of a Farmer-Labor Party, the first great step forward by the workers and farmers to fight their battles against the old capitalist parties. The Com- (Continued on Page 2.) “This co’ ype AG Sons Ahead Without La Follette att progiexifves who are willing to join a coalition to place a single set of candi- dates in the field for president and vice-president of the United States on a platform calling for fundamental changes in the laws regarding the railroads, banking, nattral resources and courts. “Senator LaF ollette is the unanimous choice of those who have expressed themselyes, anid will doubtless be endorsed unless he directly forbids the use of his name, In that event, some other will be named. “Commumists will constitute but a small fraction of the delegates at the convention, and as long as these are willing to submit to the terms of the coalition, theif co-operation is acceptable. ention is not based on doctrinaire theories, but on stern eco- nomic realiti Senator LaFollette is evidently the victim of bad counsel, if this report is an expression of his attitude.” Klux Klan IKING FOOD ORKERS HOLD MANY MEETINGS Revolt of Restaurant Employes Spreads ‘The restaurant workers’ mass meet- ing at 214 North State St., at which one of the DAILY WORKER editorial staff will speak, is one of a series of meetings to be held in all parts of the city, the Amalgamated Food Work- ers’ office announces. These meetings will lead up to a general mass dem- onstration of all the restaurant work- ers in Chicago. ~ Reports coming into the office’ of the inn last might were that the the special, “Food Workers’ Strike Edition” of the DAILY WORK- ER was a huge success. The food workers covered the North Side strike zone and West and South Side sec- tions of the city. Sold Like Hot Cakes. On West Madison St. the sales of the DAILY WORKER were exception- ally, good. In the section near the Crystal restaurant, on the corner of Madison and Kedzie, which 1s affected by the strike, the strike edition of the DAILY WORKER -sold especially well,. The union members who dis- tributed the paper report that many men passersby, after reading about the conditions of the Greek restaurant workers, came back and promised their support. One man said it was a shame the way the American Association of Greek Restaurant Keepers has been taking advantage of the Greek work- ers with their long hours and small pay. Daily Worker Everywhere. Other zones covered by the special Food Workers’ edition of the DAILY WORKER were near the Askounis restaurant, 1166 North Clark St.; the Elite restaurant, 1035 Wilson avenue; Peterson’s restaurant, 1007 Lawrence, and sections near 63rd St. and Cottage Grove, and Blue Island Ave., near Halsted St. The food workers’ headquarters re- ports that the New Day restaurant, 807. East 63rd. St., told their employes that every union member must get out of the union or they would be discharged. In retaliation, the em- ployes quit in a body during the eve- ning meal rush hour, waitresses walk- ing out with the male employes. Greeks Worst Paid. Secretary Albert E. Stewart of the Amalgamated Food Workers said yes- terday: “The DAILY WORKER spe- cial edition telling about the strike as undoubtedly stirred up the people of Chicago who use restaurants. They have learned that the Greek restaurant workers. are among the poorest paid and the hardest worked in the city. In a few days we will is- sue another special food workers’ edi- tion, and will distribute a larger num- ber than the original two thousand, Kilauae Lively. MILO, T. H., May 28,—-One explo- sion from the crater of Kilauae, vol- cano 30 miles from Hilo, on the island of Hawaii, enlivened last night. ERB 290 MINERS BAR MEMBERS OF ENEMY ORDER Convention Closes with Rank and | File Victory PEORIA, lil, May 28.—The convention of the Illinois Mine Workers adjourned today after giving Frank Farrington two decisive defeats on the appoin- tive power and administering a beating to Farrington on the estion of the: Ku Klux; Kian. The convention again went on record against admittance of miners into the union who be- long to the Klan, in spite of Far- rington’s plea. Farrington pleaded with the delegates not to discuss such a delicate sub- ject on the floor, claiming it would do no good. The convention today decisively passed resolution No. 7, of the resolu- tions on constitutional changes, which again robs Farrington of his appoint- ive power. This resolution passed with a substantial majority, over the vigor- ous opposition of the Farrington ma- chine, Delegate Joe Tumulty tried to ex- pose to the convention how the pres- ent election laws allow elections to be stolen by the Farrington machine. Farrington ruled Tumulty out of order in an attempt to prevent exposure of his election methods. ROYAL PANHANDLERS ARRIVE IN LONDON 10 TOUGH BRITISH BANKERS LONDON, May 28.—The King and Queen of Roumania were® right royally welcomed by the royal fami- ly of England on their arrival in London yesterday. All the princes and princelings that the English workers are carrying on their backs were the together with sundry titled parasites from other coun- tries, whose subjects got tired feed- ing them and presented them with the choice of two evi her sub- mit to having their h removed or getting out of the country. They chose the lesser evrr and are now living comfortably on the broad backs of the loyal Britons. Hundreds of bl ihirted Italian and British Fascisti crawled on their bellies before the Roumanian panhandlers, who are here openly and brazenly on a begging expedi- tion. They were bounced out of Paris by the result of the elections and are playing London as their last European stand. If they can- not land any dough here, they may come to the United States. They need the money, but refuse to go to work, DOCTOR PROVES CAPITALISM IS THIEF OF CHILD’S BIRTHRIGHT KIRKSVILLE, Mo. May 28.—Effects of poverty on the equality of children under modern Industrialism are brought home by the fact that out of every three school children in the United States, two are suffering from physical defects which will interfere with their development into normal men and women, — + RO ee Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicag AKERS: Wisconsin Senator Raises Cry of “Red Menace” While Hitting June 17 Convention WO WASHINGTON, D. C., May that has been masquerading a f the support of the workers and Not only Senator Robert M er 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 28.—Camouflaged progressivism, ake militancy in an effort to win farmers for this fall's elections, today turned loose its guns on the class Farmer-Labor Party Con- vention called for St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. farion LaFollette, who has been in hiding during most of the Teapot Dome exposures, but the Conference for Progressive Polit more brazen in its flirtations w ical Action, that is daily growing ith the old parties, issued state- ments attacking the promising gathering of workers and farmers at St. Paul. Both statements carry the stamp of the reactionary Gompers regime in the American Federa-*- tion of Labor. They raise the bugaboo of the “red menace,” a tune so often played by the Palmer and Daugherty regimes in the hys- terical department of justice, under both democratic and re- publican rule. The Blessing of Burns. While the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action has already, on every occasion, raised the “red” bo- gey, Senator LaFollette now joins the | pack, that received the blessing of the ousted Detective William J. Burns, who said: “Altho I do not sleep in the same bed with Mr. Gompers, I certain- ly support him in his stand against the Communists,” or words to that effect. Tt has been felt all along that Sen- ator LaFollette would seize the first possible opportunity to desert and be- tray the growing class conscious farmer-labor movement in the United States. He has done this in his state- ment issued today, in which he uses the. of..Communist -participa- tion in the St. Paul convention to withdraw from it. At the ‘same time LaFollette con- ties of Wall street when he made clear that he still had his eyes on the na- tional conventions to be held at Cleveland and New York city. LaFollette’s statement today took the form of a letter to Attorney Gen- eral H. L. Ekern of Wisconsin, in full as follows: LaFollette to Ekern, “My dear Ekern:— “I have your letter of May 17, ing that many of my friends in W: consin are anxious to know my at tude toward the ‘Farmer-Labor-Pro- gressive convention’ called to meet at St. Paul June 17: “I should not feel it incumbent upon me to declare my attitude except that my name is being used by the pro- moters of that convention in such a way as to convey the impression that it has my approval and, as a result, some of my friends in different parts of the country contemplate attending the St. Paul convention. Because of these facts, I feel it my duty to state my view frankly. “I have no doubt that very many of those who have participated in bring- ing about the St. Paul convention have been actuated by the purest desire to promote genuine political and eco- nomic progress. He Smells “Fatal Error.” “Nevertheless, in my judgment the June 17th convention will not com- mand the support of farmers, the workers, or other progressives be- cause those who have had charge of the arrangements‘for this convention have committed the fatal error of making the Communists an integral part of their organization. “The Communists have admittedly entered into this political movement not for the purpose of curing, by means of the ballot, the evils which afflict the American people but only to divide and confuse the progressive movement and create a condition of chaos favorable to their ultimate aims. Their real purpose is to establish by revolutionary action a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is absolutely re- Pugnant to democratic ideals and to all-American aspirations. The official declarations of the Workers Party show clearly that they are seeking to use the Farmer-Labor party of Minne- sota and other progressive organiza- tions that have lent their names to this, convention as a means of advanc- ing their own en Quotes from “Daily Worker.” “This is shown by an official state- ment of the Central Mkecutive Com- mittee of the Workers Party of Amer- iced, as follows: “(Printed in the DAILY WORKER— the official organ of the Workers (Continued on Page 2.) fessed his allegiance to the old par-| BAKERS STRIKE FOR WAGE BOOST. AND UNION SHOP \Jewish Workers Walk Out at 1 A. M. | Two hundred members of the Jew ish Bakery and Confectionery Union of America, Local 237, went on strike at 1 o'clock yesterday morning for an jincrease in wages and against the at- |tempt of the bakery owners to break jup their union. | The men immediately gathered at |Liberty Hall, 3420 West Roosevelt Rd., and held an enthusiastic strike jmeeting which did not break up until 4 in the morning. Business Agent Lipkin told how the union had asked for an ingrease in. wager.and_ men had been locked ont in an at- tempt of the. bossés to break the union. _The bakers unanimously pledged to stand solidly together until \the strike is won. The strike and lockout, which cen- |ters around the Douglas Park district, includes the White Palace bakery, which is one of the most reactionary establishments in town. Daily Forward Had Seab Ad. It was declared in a speech by one of the members at the strike meeting that the Jewish Daily Forward, yel- -|low Socialist journal, carried a front page ad for men to work in the bake- shop at 1308 South Kedzie Ave. The union member sald: “This bakeshop is supposed to be union, but is well known as a scab shop.” A strike committee of seven was elected, and the union will establish headquarters at 3420 West Roosevelt Rd., which will be kept open from 10 a, m. until 6 p. m, Daily Worker Ald Pledged. Hymie Harris of the Young Work- ers’ league, who was asked to talk to the strikers, told them about the help the DAILY WORKER had given in the garment workers’ and the Pull man car builders’ strikes. He prom~- ised that the DAILY WORKER would support the striking bakers with both publicity and speakers. Redskins Leaving Reservation To Live Like Wage Slaves (By The Federated Press) ALBANY, N. Y., May 28.—Whole families of Iroquois Indians are mov- ing off the reservation in New York state to secure opportunity for work and to merge with white civilization, according to Albert C. Hill, chief special schools bureau, state depart- ment of education in his annual re- port. There are only 6,000 Ind! left in the state. He predicts th gradual absorption arid amalgamation with the whites, NO DAILY WORKER ISSUED SATURDAY; MAGAZINE FRIDAY Owing to the fact that Friday, May 30, is a holiday, Memorial Day,” recognized as such by the printing trades, there will be no Saturday ts- sue of the DAILY WORKER this Section will appear, the same as usual, in Friday's Issue. M your arrangements now with get your Friday's DAILY WORKER. hoythe