The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1924, Page 2

ij Page Two JENSEN'S LOCAL IN CARPENTERS? UNION HITS BACK Local Passes Resolution Opposing Suspension A storm of protest by the éight thou- sdnd members of nine locals of the| United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Atnerica, who were suspend- ed from the district council in order to keep opponents of Harry Jensen, president of the Carpenters’ District Couneil, off the ballot in the June elec- tion, came to a head when Jensen’s own local, No. 181, passed a resolu- tion rebuking Jensen for the suspen- sion. In spite of the fact that Jensen was present at the meeting, and spoke in defense of the action of his machine, Local 181, at their last meeting, al- Most tinanimonsly passed the resolu- tion declaring that a grave error had been committed and demanding that Jensen and his co-workers immediate- ly declare the nine suspended locals ih good standing again. Committee Comes Back. The committee, representing Locals 18, 1, 80, 416, 250, 1128, 1727, 2200 and 1693, which went to Indianapolis Sun- day, to appeal the case direct to Presi- dent William L. Hutchison, has te- turned and it is learned that Hutchi- fon told the suspended members that he will sustain their appeals on Locals 1 and 13. Local 13 had mailed in the building assessment on Thursday, May 22, the day before they were suspended. Lo- eal 1 had paid the district council the greater part of the assessment. The excuse given for suspending those lo- oals which had candidates up for elec- tion who opposed the Jensen slate was that the locals’ had not paid their building assessment. Suspended Without Notloe. Members of the suspended locals, however, pointed out to the DAILY WORKER yesterday that the locals had not paid these assessments for many weeks, yet they were suspend- ed Friday entirely without notice. One Send in your money for Ruthenberg Appeal Congress and get your premium. For every $6.00 you send us for coupons sold, you may have one of the following books: “A Week,” Libedinsky. “Thru the Russian Revolu- tion,” Williams. “The Great Steel Foster. Industrial Revival in Soviet Russia, Heller. Strike,” Labor Defense Council Room 307, 166 W. Washington St., Chicago, Ill. To be City CANTON, OHIO MORGANTOWN, W. VAs. May | BUFFALO, N. Y. AKRON, OHIO | PITTSBURGH, PA. EAST PITTSBURGH, P. DILLONVALE, OHiO .... “BELLAIRE, OHIO ... YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO . | CLEVELAND, OHIO years of struggle. SOWET CHIEF LEAVING | LONDON FOR CONFERENCE WITH FRENCH LEADERS LONDON, May 29.—The Soviet delegates to the Anglo-Russian con- ference, despite inspired reports to the contrary in the Tory press are by mo means disappointed with the progresa made by the negotiations so far. The result of the French élections considerably strengthened the diplomatic position of the Sov- fet Republfe and the passage of the Japanese Expulsion Bill in the American Congress, had a sobering effect on the anti-Russian saber- rattlers In the oriental empire. it Is reported that M, Rakovsky, chief of the Soviet delegation in London is leaving for Paris to take up preliminary discussions with re- sponsible members of the Incoming French Governenant, member of a suspended local told the DAILY WORKER yesterday that, “We have said from the first that the build- ing assessment will be paid as soon jas the proper committee is elected to take care of the funds. ~ : This committee was to have con- sisted of one member from each lo- it has never been formed. The com- mittee was supposed to have been elected and bonded before the locals paid over the building assessment. The membership has contributed the money, but the local unions are hold- ing it until the building committee is elected.” Council Meets Tonight. A special meeting of the district consider the cases of the suspended locals, one member of the district council told the DAILY WORKER yes- terday. The memntbership is especially wrought up over the fact that, altho the elections are not to be held until the second week in June, Jensen is trying to. keep the opponents of his slate off the ballots on the ground that they were nominated when the locals were under suspension. This was confirmed when Charles Sand, secretary-treasurer of the dis- trict council, told the DAILY WORK- BR that he did not believe the op- ponents of Jensen would be allowed back on thé ballots. “It's too bad,” said Sand, “But ac- cording to our law, the members of the suspended locals are not entitled to have their names on the ballot be- cause they were under suspensions when nominated.” Sand said that there were no locals council has been called for tonight to} MOSCOW JOYOUS AS COMMUNIST CONCLAVE SITS 1,000 Delegates There from Near and Far (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, May 29.—Moscow is deo- orated and a holiday spirit is noticea- ble everywhere as the Thirteenth Con- gress of the Russian Communist Par- ty is considering the momentous questions confronting it. More than one thousand delegates from every section of the Soviet Re- public are on hand to participate in the sessions which are recognized by the Communists the world over and the capitalist governments of every country to be of extraordinary impor- tance. From East and West. At. yesterday’s sessions the conven- tion welcomed factory workmen com- ing from Vladivostock, the Donetz Ba- sin, Ekaterinaslov, Odessa and the other industrial centers of the repub- lic, These workers brot wreaths to lay on the tomb of Lenin. They pre- cal union in the district council, but} sented the delegates with new red banners as a mark of working class solidarity and purpose. Kamenev roused the delegates and workingmen to a high pitch of en- thusiasm in his opening address on the life and work of the departed leader of the international Communist movement and the world revolution. An air of extreme solemnity gripped |the inspired audience which rose in memory of Comrade Lenin and stood motionless for nearly ten minutes in honor of their dead teacher and leader. . Workers in*Shop Clothes. The sessions of the Congress are being heid in the famous Hall of St. Andrews. The many mirrored walls and ceilings and the sumptuous can- delabra are all bedecked with black crepe to commemorate the death of Lenin. As the hundreds of work- ingmen in their shop clothes and the delegates clad in peasant costume filled this hall of splendor one could not but be deeply stirred by this sym- bol of the new day in which the work- ing class and peasantry reign supreme over a land on whose territory the sun never sets. The tremendous power of Com- munism as the liberating force of the city and rucai: masses is dramatized by the striking contrast. A presidium of forty-two has been elected to facilitate the convention's E DAILY WORKER MACDONALD CLAIMS HE WILL QUIT IF HOUSING BILL LOSES LONDON, Eng, May 29—The Labor Government may resign and appeal for the support of the coun- | Brown Resigns; try if It Is defeated on the housing bill, according to the DAILY HERALD’S report of the Mac- Donald cabinet's decision. The correspondent states that the Labor premier and his conferees will immediately leave office if they IFITZPATRICK'S. FORMER PARTY AT LAST GASP Class Movement Gains The dissolution of the Farmer-Labor y of the United States was prac- |tically completed with the confirma- tion by the DAILY WORKER yester- |day that Jay G. Brown, national sec- are not campletely victorious in the [retary of the party, has resigned. debate on the bill for more adequate |Brown told the DAILY WORKER that housing. Part of the bill is direct- jhe is leaving town for the west coast ed against profiteering in bullding jand is severing connections in Chi- materials. cago. The resignation of Brown is seen as another preparation by those con- with ways and means of counteract- ing the apres of the new bour-|ected with the American Federation geoisie. of Labor to throw their entire sup- Great consideration will be given to Port behind Len Small, the Republic- the strengthening of the bonds be-|#2 good roads governor, in the coming tween the workers and the peasant |¢lecti¢ns. masses. The Communist party is|, The Chicago Federation of Labor at striving to achieve complete unity of |!ts last meeting deserted its party of purpose and action between the work- |{2dependent political action, and John ing class and the poor peasantry. Fitzpatrick withdrew from the Cook Zinoviev on National Problems. county and the national Farmer-Labor In his masterly address, lasting movement. Recently Jay Brown an- more than four hours, Comrade Zino-|"Ownced that all preparations had viev gave a detailed report of the re- stopped for the convention at Cleve- markable progress made by the So- land, July 4, “because we did not get viet republic in the handling of its |¢20ugh response.” internal affairs. Particular stress was Walker Began Retreat. laid on the manner in which the many| The Illinois State Federation of La- nationalities constituting the Union |bor, with John Walker, renegade So- of Soviet Republics were being weld-|cialist at its head, had already desert- ed together into one powerful Soviet }ed labor party action in favor of the republic. The non-Russian speaking |corrupt Len Small at the primaries, minority peoples are today receiving |Frank Farrington, president of the and enjoying full rights and are|IIlinois mine workers, also refused to achieving their ambitions long re-|indorse a labor party and threw the straine€ and crushed by the czarist |support of his machine to the Repub- capitalist clique formerly ruling Rus-|lican camp. sia. At the same time that Brown an- In his speech Zinoviey declared, |nounced his resignation to the DAILY amidst thunderous cheering of the | WORKER, it was declared in well in- delegates: “We can say with pride |formed circles that Robert Buck has that, such problems as the Armenian |also resigned. Buck, while he would question, which has for years baf-|not deny his resignation from the ex- fled the entire world, which has for jecutive committee of the Farmer- generations proved unsolvable to the |Labor party of the United States, re- capitalists, has been solved by So-/fused to make any statement. viet Russia. We have done as well in Buck Quitting Chicago. our relations with the Soviet repub-| Friends of Buck told the DAILY lics of Georgia and the Ukraine.” WORKER that Buck will move to Trotsky for Party Unity. Washington, D. C., in about three Comrade Trotsky, who in the recent | weeks, and will resign from all activ- party controversy was at variance |ity in Chicago. Jay Brown will motor with the central executive comntittee,|to Seattle and will reside there here- made a strong plea for the unity of |after. the party. The spirit and contents} The Farmer-Labor party of the of his speech showed how the recent | United States was a thorn in the side disputes have been completely liqui-|of Governor Small in his campaign for dated. the nomination in the recent primary In closing his address, which was a|campaign. It declares in the national suspended who had nominees on the| work. A spirit of unity is manifest Jensen slate among their member-|in the ranks of the delegates. There ship. does not appear to be a trace of the “I don’t believe the Jensen slate isjeffects of the recent controversy menaced by its opponents in the com-| which was settled with the decisive ing election,” Sand told the DAILY |victory for the old guard of Leninist WORKER. “They haven't enough |co-workers and followers. Among the standing to worry us. Take myself | prominent members of the governing for instance. I was unopposed for | body of the convention are: Zinoviev, nomination, and: will run without any | Trotsky, Rykov, Djerjinsky, Kamen- opposition.” . ov and Krupskaya, the widow of Com- Members of Local,Union No. 80,!rade Lenin. however, violently disagreed with this Many Important Problems. statement of Sand. The congress is confronted with Sand told the DAILY WORKER that | numerous complex problems. Mere- in his opinion, the suspended mem-|jy ¢4 mention a few of the most press- bership will be allowed to vote ining questions one finds the following: the June elections, but that Jensen |ppe Communist party is determined will rule that the nominees opposed |to increase the proportion of its mem- to him cannot go on the ballots. Sand |pership which consists of industrial declared he believes that President | workers. The executive committee is Hutchison will back up Jensen. He Planning to launch a new drive for claimed the locals would be taken |mempbers in order to reach the mil- back into the union as soon as they }yion mark. Ninety per cent of this pay the district council their building | minlion is to come from the ranks of Russia and Germany A Tale of Two Republics AN 8-REEL MOVIE Time weMay 30. 81. . eM Ay 81 ccccmeresssererere Broadway Theatre Proceeds for the Benefit of German Workers who, though starving, are fighting to maintain the conditions they have won through long Distributed by the COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, III. assessment. the city workers, according to the Jensen’s opponents, however, term |pjan of the leaders of the party. This the election trick pulled by Jensen as |ig merely part of an elaborate pro- “the rawest deal ever pulled off in the |gram mapped out by the central ex- carpenters’ union.” ecutive committee to strengthen the Sepp rnaveryvrronarerea party organization. Report More Missionaries Dead. Building Up Industry. PEKIN, May 29.— Two unnamed/ Another problem of serious import American missionaries are reported {before the delegation is that of to have been killed at Kweilin Kwang-|strengthening the Soviet system of sal, when northern troops beseiged |national economy. Soviet Russia has that city May 8. a long road to travel yet before it will realize the complete Communist pro- gram for economic reconstruction and industfial reorganization along Com- munist lines. \ The congress will deal especially rice ister andl) me saben eats Hi a DRUGS AT LOW PRICES THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth shown ; Place eCity Auditorium ».Osage Theatre FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CEN AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Blvd. We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 671, 572; Austin 4117 We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, ete, womwAkron Armory Loyal Theatre Palace Theatre Engineers’ Auditorium Maennerchor Hall jaza Theatre Pantheon Theatre Workers’ Hall The Primary Cause Of 85 per cent of all diseases is due to EYESTRAIN Consult GEO, HOFFMAN, Dr. Opt. Suite 1608, 59 E. Madison AID passionate appeal for the greatest possible unity and the building of an invincible Communist party, Comrade tal general aims. I understand the duty of every ciplined Communist, of my duty as a party member at the present momement. I am ready to admit, as every other member is, mis- takes, but these are not aimed against discipline and party unity.” Despondency From Facing Bosses’ World Takes More Victims An old lady committed suicide in by covering her face with chloroform- soaked towels. “Despondency over ill-health,” her landlady said. A married man of middle age com- mitted suicide at almost the same time by inhaling gas. “Despondency over ill health and unemployment,” his wife said. These cases are only two of many suicides because of “despondency over ill-health and unemployment” which the conditions of the profits-system society brings on young and old. The young, altho down and out, will yet cling to life a little longer. The young can work when there are jobs, But the old are scrapped by the greed of the bosses. The old, worn-out workers, forgot- ten and weary, muster their courage to end the burden of life which no merciful god will remove, Fight for Gold Coast. “Ma” Streeter has started suit for $100,000,000 damages from the Chi- cago Title and Trust company and ap- proximately 1,500 wealthy Chicagoans. This is a continuation of the fight by the late “Captain” Streeter, who claimed ownership of the “Gold Coast,” now the home of the Potter Palmers, Cyrus H. McCormick and other millionaires. VETT ER EN A HEALING OINTMENT For Burns, Boils, Bruises, Chronic Wounds, Abso: or any affection were pus appears. Used with astonishing results in the great war for serious wounds, frostbites and skin inflammations. Remarkably rapid healing qualities. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded, Once used you will never be with- out it. One physician alone has used “Vetterin” in over seven hundred cases with success every time. Interesting and convincing pamph- let enclosed with order. Price $1.00 per tube or tin; $9.00 for one dozen, mailed free, Agents wanted in every camp and shop. Write for special agents’ prices. VETTERIN COMPANY, 790 Argyle Road, Brooklyn, N. Y. Trotsky said: “The Communist par- ty is always correct in its fundamen- her dingy room in a boarding house and Cook county constitutions of the Farmer-Labor party that no member may enter old party politics and calls for complete severance of all work- ers from the two old parties. While Small was able to draw Fitzpatrick, Wills, Clay and other members of the Farmer-Labor parties in line to his support, their positions as executives of the Farmer-Labor party laid them open to the charge of being double faced. The New Majority, official organ of the Farmer-Labor party of the United States, is in danger of suspension of publication thru the complete collapse of the Farmer-Labor movement. It is thought that the policy and purpose of the New Matority may soon be drastically changed. Tightening Small’s Fences. The withdrawal of Brown and Buck from Chicago is seen as a move of Small to tighten his fences for the coming elections. The Chicago Fed- eration of Labor will probably try to pass the indorsement of Len Small at their next meeting. At the same time that the leaders of the old Farmer-Labor movement were scrapping their Chicago Federa- tion of Labor party, the Labor party of Illinois announced an intensive speaking campaign thruout the state on behalf of its candidates. The La- bor party of Illinois elected Duncan MacDonald of Springfield to the St. Paul Farmer-Labor convention on June 17. The Labor party of Illinois has declared for an independent class labor party. A Souvenir From Walla Walla Prison. 18 Pen Pictures drawn by a class war prisoner. Neat booklet; 25c each. Address Mrs. Eugene Barnett R 2, 12th St., CLARKSTON, WASH. A BIG BABY GIRL BORN to Comrades A. B. Zailig and wife, of Suite 5, Ramona Court, Winnipeg, Man., Canada, on Friday, May tb» 28rd, at the General Hopital. A. B. ZAILIG. “WARI WHAT FOR?” — HEAR {T TONIGHT; YOU YOUNG WORKERS Every one who has to fight the battles of war when the government gives the high sign is invited to hear Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, tell a few startling truths about war and war-makers, Shachtman speaks at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd,, at 8:16 Pp. m, tonight. “You ought to. know why you fight,” is the Young Workers league cry to all young men of the country. The girls can listen in, too, because they have brothers and friends whom they can tell what they should should know about war. The meeting tonight is open to all and is held under the auspices of the Maplewood branch of the Young Workers league, Brookwood Labor College Struts In New Scholarships KATONAH, N. Y., May 29.— Five recent trade unon conventioris have promised financial assistance to Brookwood Labor College, and the second commencement day in its history on May 80 will find Brook- wood accepted and approved as organ- ized labor's own college. Conventions of the International Ladies’ Garment |Between Normal Workers, District No. 2 of the United Mine Workers, which has already established two scholarships, Penn- sylvatiia and Virginia State Federa- tions of Labor, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America have all gone on record to establish scholar- ships or to make direct contributions of corrésponing value. Labor leaders and prominent educa- tors will be the only speakers at the commencement exercises. These in- clude James P, Coughlin of the New York Trades and Labor Assembly, Joseph Schlossberg, Fannia M. Cohn, Rose Schneiderman, Dr. Henry Lin- ville, Abraham Lefkowitz, Spencer Miller Jr., Workers Hducational Bu- reau, H. W. L. Dana, A. Brownstein, Christian Madsen of the Chicago Painters, and Harry Elmer Barnes, the eminent sociologist, who has been recently making a searching analys- is of historical methods and challeng- ing the orthodox historians, Dismiss Troops to Pay Emplpyes. MEXICO CITY.—In answer to a committee of the starving Mexican government employes asking for the suspension of payment of the debt to the United States, President Obre- gon said that he has begun to de- mobolize the troops which took part in the last revolution, and that the money saved would be used to pay the teachers and office workers. Obregon also said that by June he ex- pected the teachers’ salaries would be paid with regularity, Vil Organ of the Dancing! Singing! in the spirit of Today It Is Germany. | 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, III. Enclosed please find §.. victims and their families, Under auspices of Workers Party, Lithuanian Section SUNDAY, JUNE Ist, 1924 aan fi P clcoies WHITE EAGLE’S GROVE A Good Dinner will be served Take 22nd St.-Kenton cars to end of line. Berwyn-Lyons Cars to Grove. SSS ESS 600,000 Miners Locked-out In Germany 7,000 Workers In German Prisons Shall the wives and children of these class-war victims be permitted to starve? Or shall we come to their rescue SELF HELP AND INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY | Tomorrow It May Be América. Sign that German Relief Brigade List THEY ARE CALLING! a a Cae PORN Aas” Io Committee for International Workers’ Ald, Friday, May 30, 1924 Labor Runs Factory. MEXICO CITY.—During his ab- sence in Hurope Cesar F. de la Re- guera, owner of the large textile mill Guadalupe will leave the administra- tion of his mill to a committee from the Mexican Federation of Labor. Luis N. Marones {8 to be chief of the directing committee. 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