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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) Decoration Day Today the propaganda foxes of capitalist patriot- ism will congregate in packs to commemorate the heroism displayed by the fighting forces of the United States in‘all its wars. Wreaths will be placed on the graves of the Blue and the Gray of the Civil War. The tombstones of the fallen in the Spanish-American War will not be forgotten. Eulogies of the dead of the World War will be delivered from coast to coast. ‘The graves of the poor workers and farmers who gave their lives in these wars are monuments to a past that the working class of today should never again face. These lower-bedecked tombstones are stern warnings to the future of the city and rural masses of the ghastly lot that capitalism has or- dained for them. The workers, from the northern industrial cen- ters, who fought to-end chattel slavery, have died in vain. The hounding and lynching of Negroes and the ravages of the Ku Klux Klan in the south; the degrading working conditions and abject wage- slavery of the steel and. textile workers of the north are a sad commentary on the tragic conse- quences of this struggle for the exploited masses. The ruthless imperialist policies pursued by our capitalist government since its victory. in the Spanish war have been made possible only at. the cost of the lives of thousands of workers and farmers who died on the battlefields in the tropics or who were killed by the poisoned beef sold the country by the profiteering packing trust. The present plan to turn Europe into a coolie colony of the American capitalists is the logical outcome of the workers and farmers being misled into fighting to make the world safe for fraudulent employing class democracy. While the hired patrioteers and hundred per cent capitalist Americans are engaged in hypo- critically lauding the workers and farmers of yes- terday who gave their all that the present system might endure, the workingmen and poor farmers of today should resolve to make impossible the re- currence of such capitalist wars. Let us think of the graves of the thousands of workers who are killed annually while grinding out profits for the bosses, of the graves which are 1..~er decorated by the exploiters and their apologists. Let us think of the workingmen who have been slaughtered by the strikebreakers in and out of uniform, or of the hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers whose death was brought on prematurely by the misery and starvation visited upon them by the bosses who own our industry and the government. Above all let us resolve to end the vicious capitalist system that drives workers and farmers to murder their brothers of other countries, that shoots down striking laborers, that drives the farming masses into bankruptcy and ruin, and that permits the very class that murdered our comrades and brothers to desecrate their graves with the flowers of dishonest homage and hypocritical cant. Woll Knocks Constitution “We recognize that by our form of govern- ment... the difficulties of parliamentary action are almost inconceivable.” No, dear reader, these are not the words of a bold, bad Bolshevik, intent upon destroying the glorious constitution of the good U. 8. A. It is Matthew Woll talking, the heir-apparent to the throne of Gompers, president of the Photo-Engrav- ers Union, and staunch upholder of things-as-they- are. Even Woll, near-chief of the labor “red-bait- ers,” acknowledges the existence of the dictatorship of the capitalist class in America, “The difficul- ties of parliamentary action” to accomplish work- ing-class aims, says Woll, “are almost unconceiy- able.” But Woll draws the moral, not that this dic- tatorship of capital must be overthrown, but that Labor must submit unconditionally. Not even a mild Labor party can be allowed, according to Woll, because it would lead to something more drastic. “Those who are most zealous in promot- ing an independent labor party, while not avow- edly communistic in character, nevertheless and ultimately in their mind, are for the destruction of the concept of private property and personal freedom as we know it in our industrial. life. Prin- cipally for that reason the A. F. of L, has opposed a distinctive labor party . . . it would ultimately carry with it the adoption of the socialistic or com- munistic idea of society.” To question the unconditional rule of capitalism, leads to the adoption of the Communist program. True enough! But the fear of the red flag is not going to cause the labor movement to bow to strike-breaking governments, or the bankrupt farm- ers to kneel to mortgage-foreclosing sheriffs who are protecting the private property of the money- sharks by taking away the private property of the land tiller. And when the workers and farm- SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.09.,..3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8,00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50.,..8 mont’ss 1 RE RROD YEAS AR ASE RG a Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year Chicago, Illinois J, LOUIS BNGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) “ MORITZ J. LOEB.... esssnee Ee ItOrs Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ee 290 Nd OOOO OO Passing the Test It was a real trial of the quality of the men, pioneers in the Farmer-Labor party movement in Minnesota, who have joined in making the June 17th Convention in St. Paul, when they were faced with the outrageous statement of LaFollette against that gathering. These men had accepted LaFollette as the standard bearer of the new movement, not only because they shared the popu- lar illusions about him, but principally because they wanted to unite the broadest possible masse$ in the revolt against big capital. When LaFol- lette tried to knife the great gathering, called to lay a solid foundation for the revolt of the workers and farmers, the leaders of the St. Paul Convention Committee had to make a fundamental decision. They did not hesitate. With cheering unanimity and in unmistakable terms, they told LaFollette ’ where to head in at. They served notice on him that he has been a “leader” by courtesy only, and that June 17th is not the property of any man; that the movement will determine its own desti- ) nies. If LaFollette does not like it, he knows what he can do. The statement issued by William Mahoney and C. A. Hathaway for the committee on arrangements is a historic document in the development of a class party of workers and farmers. Mahoney’s statement is not a Communist docu- ment. While it calls for a clean break with the capitalist parties, and for an all-inclusive combina- tion of class elements for that purpose (things which haye the unqualified support of alt Com- munists in America) it is still permeated with the illusions of “democracy” and the expectation of achieving fundamental changes without serious social conflicts. Communists do not sharé these illusions. That is one of the reasons why the Workers Party maintains its separate organiza- tion. These illusions can only be shattered thru . +++the-workers atid farmers, acting as a class, getting into the political struggle and thru a long process of experience in the political struggle. Therefore, the Workers Party supports the formation of a farmer-labor party. The capitalists of America will force the growing farmer-labor movement more and more to the Communist position. So we can afford to give our heartiest and most complete co- operation to the next step in the class struggle, for which Mahoney and his associates stand— June 17th and the class party. The Minnesota movement has proved that it cannot be dominated by any vacillating politician of the middle-class type. It has resolutely asserted its independence. The test is passed in splendid fashion. Advertising rates on application. a Kan the Klan Condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan by the miners’ convention of District 12, Illinois, again draws attention to this budding organ of Fascism in America. Like other Fascist bodies the world over, the Klan is attempting to permeate labor organizations, not to make them stronger fighting organizations against the employers, but to weaken them, break up their class lines, and serve the capi- talist class. The poor tools who make up the rank and file of the Ku Klux Ktan do not, of course, understand what they are doing. They are stupid and igno- rant, and elevate these qualities into the virtues of 100 per cent Americanism. Taught to believe that this makes them the natural rulers of the land, they become willing accomplices in the most atrocious crimes, at the direction of the sinister forces behind the scenes directing the affairs of the Klan. Rumor has it that some of the rag-tag and bob- tail of the Chicago labor movement is being lined up in the Ku Klux Klan. Certain it is that the organization is boring within the United Mine Workers of America, where, in a few backward villages, they control the locals. But the wizards and kleagles can never flourish in the soil of the Jabor movement. Union men will be on the watch to kan the Klan. sareanse paste they must choose between ruthless, exploiting italism on the one hand, or communism on _ indeed begin to kiss the breezes of these great and i The anonymous “expert”. who writes for the| glorious United States. Chicago Tribune on economic subjects, under the ‘name of Scrutator, continually wails about the _ evils of “tampering with natural economic process- es.” He has no confidence in the ability of human brains to manage society. The job must be left to “natural law: Considering the mess that his bosses have made of “managing” society, it must be admitted that he has some reason for his distrust. “Policy at Moseow adapts itself with dizzy speed to the needs of the moment,” comments the New York Times, deploring what it calls the “reaction toward Communism” now taking place. It must make the capitalists envious of the Russian work- ers’ leadership, when they have to contemplate the stupidity and confusion, the lack of all trace of clear-headed, decisive action, of the Coolidges, Mac- Donalds, Poincares, ‘and others, temporarily in charge of capitalist governments, An electric bricklayer that does the work of 20 masons, is the latest startling announcement. In Soviet Russia such an achievement would mean inereasing welfare for the workers; in America under Fs it spells starvation for the = “wi. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! Join the Workers Party! scarce: and bia. nia. er. section, New M A class i tical publi: ers really learn the truth of Woll’s statement that|is being rand in Local 1 cap-|to prepare comrades for par- the |ticipating in our open air speaking other, at that time the red flag of Bolshevism will |°*™?™8"- THE DAILY WORKER ; \ | TRACHTENBERG IN CHICAGO AFTER 12,000 MILE TOUR AND AMUSING EPISODES WITH D. OF J. DICKS Alexander Trachtenberg stopped in the DAILY WORKER offices yesterday morning, very tired and very happy. He has just finished one of the most successful tours ever made by a Communist speaker in the United States, covering 12,000 miles and addressing 54 packed meetings. One of his last meetings was in Minneapolis where capitalist newspapers assailed him for urging the building of a powerful Farmer-Labor party moyement*—_____________—— at the St. Paul convention—the St. Paul Dispatch alone lavish- ing a half. column editorial to the attack. Trachtenberg’s tour led him (thru the wide open spaces where liberty is thru the eastern mill towns where it doesn’t exist but he left behind him an is knowledge of the Soviet system of great Russia and the rising tide of revolution in Germany which give American workers hope in their own struggle for freedom. Best Meeting in Vancouver. “My best meeting,” said Trachten- berg, “wasn’t in.the United States all, but in Vancouver, British Colum- There, one of the big theaters was jammed to the doors. I had just come from Seattle where the. timid leaders of the labor movement de- nied us the Labor Temple. It was in- spiring to find such enthusiasm for the international revolutionary move- ment. Big- meetings were held in: Califor- In Los Angeles the Industrial Workers of the Warld ‘turned over their hall to the Trachtenberg: meet- ing when the owners of the hall that had been engaged, got cold feet. A second successful meeting was held there in the Workers’ Party hall. D. of J. and Labor Fakers. Trachtenberg found a splendid feel- ing for the revolutfénary movement among rank and file union men in the City of the Angels tho trade union leaders there have been working hand in hand with the department of jus- tice. tional League members seized in the raid on the T. U. E. L. hall, have been turned over to the labor fakers by the department of justice for expulsion purposes. Department of Justice agents had a habit of shadowing the Communist lecturer, but they did their shadow- ing very obviously. says they are just as foolish as the fellows who worked for the czar back in the 1905 days when he was in the old Russian revolutionary movement. Names of Trade Union Dick Lennon is Very Crude. In Erie, Pa., Trachtenberg ran into that very crude federal operative, Mr. Lennon, who was loaned by Burns to the Steel Trust during the. Farrell sedition trials. Lennon, posing as an innocent visitor, asked the lecturer a string of questions, ending with the query, how the revolution was com- ing in the U. S. He seemed very much disappointed when Trachtenberg mere- ly answered that no class gave up without a struggle. turant, Lennon moved over to Trach- tenberg, “Say, you were wrong about Daugherty. It was a frame-up against him.” Thru the Ohio steel towns private industrial spies kept tab of the speak- They were spotted at all meet- ings by Workers Party members. Trachtenberg is on his way home to New York. Trachtenberg to Write Story. In a special article in an early is- sue of the DAILY WORKER magazine will tell his own story of the “What I Saw in Rus- sia and Germany” tour. Trachtenberg NEW YORK CITY Party Activities Industrial Organizers to Meet. The left wing movement in the nee- dle trades and the results of the nee- die trades conventions will @e dis- cuss at the next meeting of Local ‘ork, Industrial Organizers, on londay, June 2, 8 p. 12th St., Room 2. The eastern district industrial organizer will lead the dis- cussion. In addition the regular report of in- dustrial activities, will be given. — All industrial organizers should at- tend without fail. The situation in the needle trades is of egtreme impor- tance for our party, and every active comrade should be acquainted with ‘it. at 208 Class in Public Speaking. UNCLE WIGGLY ca- Trachtenberg Later at a res- East |suit “coat” as well as for a “sepa- speaking New York HICAGO FOOD STRIKERS HAVE Looks Like Defeat for Restaurant Bosses The Central Wxecutive Board of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union of America, has gone. on record to back up the Chicago branch of the un- fon, morally and financially in con- ducting the strike of the Greek res- taurant workers, Charles Kellar, Chi- cago district organizer, telegraphed from New York yesterday. Kellar will remain in New York for,a few days, addressing local unions affiliated with the Amalgamated Food Workers, and other unions which are expected to give financial ald’ to the Chicago or- ganization fight. A general membership meeting of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Un- ion was held at the Food Workers’ Hall, 214 North State St., Wednesday night, at which it was decided to vi- gorously continue the organization of all the Greek restaurant workers in the city. Albert B. Stewart told the DAILY WORKER that new members are pouring rapidly into the union. Thufsday night's mass meeting at 722 Blue Island avenue, was well at- tended. Speakers in both English and Greek told the audience of the bad effects caused by the long hours under which the restaurant employes are forced to work. Pittsburgh to See “Russia-Germany” on Monday Night PITTSBURGH, Pa., Mi 29,—The great. wonder film of “Russia and Ger- many—A Tale of Two Republics” will be shown here at the Nixon theatre, on Monday’ evening, June 2. There are eight glorious reels of fine photography showing the coming revolution in Germapy and the ter- rible conditions which are bringing it about, as well as the reconstruction work which is going on in Russia, now a country of peace. As there will be only one perform- ance in Pittsburgh, reserved tickets should be secured at one. They can be had at 722 Fifth avenue. The picture is shown under the auspices of the American section of the International Workers’ Aid, and all proceeds from the picture will be used for relief work among German workers and their families. Y. W. L. Group ° Will Give Program A in Concord, N. H. By HILMA PAANANEN. WEST CONCORD, N. H., May 29.— The Junior Group of West Concord, will hold an entertainment in hall, West Concord, Saturday, May 31, The leading number of the program will be a speech given by Bloomfield of Worcester. There will also be poems, singing exercises and a show, “The School Struggle,” all given by the Junior Group. Every one is invited to this entertainment. On Sunday forenoon Bloomfield will attend the Junior Group meeting, and he will instruct them. All parents, in spite of nationality, are strongly urged to send their children, and all parents are invited to attend also this Junior Group meeting to find out what this group in reality is for. Akron Calls City Conference ; Farm-Labor Action FRENCH COMMUNISTS WAR ON HERRIOT AND BANKER DAWES’ PLAN PARIS, May 29.— The Commun- Ist party of France, thru Its dally organ Humanite, opened a vigor ous campaign against Herriot and the left bloc for its acceptance of the Dawes plan, which, In the words of the Communist paper, would I the counter-revolutionary holy ice of the bourgeois parties.” The Communists refused to join the pre-election anti-Polncare left bloc, in which the Socialist party joined, but instead formed a united front with the peasants under the slogan of a workers’ and peasants’ government. ‘The Communist challenge caused considerable nervousness in the ranks of Herriot’s suporters, whose margin of safety Is- very slim. “German So Democracy,” de- clared Humanite, “the English So- clalists and our left bloc receive with enthusiasm the Dawes plan to reorganize the trembling capitalist system and to choke the proletarian revolution. All workers should fight it to the bitter end, for the peace of the Dawes plan means a workers’ famine and the peace of the tomb.” The government press accuses the Communists of being In the pay of the German government. This charge brings a loud laugh from. the French workers. The French Nationalists claim Germany could now place one million soldiers in the field and that the radical gov- ernment will prove easy picking for the Berlin militarists. Herriot will not be allowed to go to sleep on his job. Irish Unemployed. DUBLIN, May 29.— President Cos- grave, in a recent speech in the Dail, is quoted as saying that there were 80,000 unemployed persons in.the Irish Free State, most of whom belonged to the agricultural labor class. Wages Rise With Living Costs. PARIS, May 29, — Leading Paris dressmakers have observed the agree- ment made with their employes last. October, by raising the latter’s wages in relativity to the increased cost of living. | Our Daily Pattern for to be held in Columbus, has been called for June 1, here, at the Hnright Bldg,,.313 S. High street, room 4, at 9:30 a.m. The cfty conference is called because many individual groups of workers and unions cannot afford to send representatives to the state convention on June 7 and 8. The city call is signed by the Mold- ers, Machinists, Bakers, and Rukber Workers’ Unions, and by the Work- ers Party branch. A POPULAR MODEL 4702. This is a good style for a rate” garment. Wool mixtures, silk or wool alpaca, pongee and would be suitable for this design. The collar may be rolled high or low as illustrated. This Pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, NY. BACKING - Friday, May 30, 1924 '_o—------- AS WE SEE IT By T. J |, O'FLAHERTY., After LaFollette delivered his rushing blow” to the American Communists as the Chicago Tribune had it, J. A. Hopkins, his stenogra- pher and the handy man who mails his monthly bulletin, the three re maining survivors of the Committee of 48, ostentatiously announced their withdrawal from the June 17 conven- tion, A middle-aged lady in Wiscon- sin admitted that she had sinned grievously in having promised to go to St. Paul without first getting the advice of the Badger political Solo- mon. This is the net result to date of the grand assault.on the mass con- vention of the American workers and farmers. All will-be well, unless Gompers declares war on the “reds.” ‘We have often heard of people be- ing obliged to eat their own words, but if Bishop William Montgomery Brown has his way, he will make the bishops who are trying him for heresy, swallow the whale that swal- Jowed Jonah. Brown claims it would be» much ‘easier for Jonah to have swallowed the whale. There are other fish stories listed by the rebel bishop that should prove as obnoxious to the theological gullet as the whale story. There is the virgin birth theory, for instance. We wish the bishop good luck and bet ten to nothing that he will be found guilty. The sum of $16,000 is offered as @ reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons’ who took the life.of the boy Franks, son of tne millionaire pawnbroker. The Herald-Examiner and Chicago Tribune have put up ten thousand of it. Morons are suspect- ed of being responsible for the crime, but any moron who would show such mental helplessness as the Chicago police have displayed since the out- rage was committed, should be hanged on general principles. At first the crime was to be solved in the usual twenty-four hours, but after every- body who wore a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, drove a gray automobile or used a portable typewriter, was ar- rested, the police department an- nounced it was clueless, excepting a pair of glasses thru which it is look- ing for inspiration. The capitalist papers are offering rewards for the ap- prehension of the criminal in order to keep interest aroused in the mur- der and in circulation. The House. of Representatives passed a bill calling for an appropria- tion of $111,000,000, to repair battle- ships and build new cruisers. It is rumored in Washington that the noise created in the capitol over the Jap- anese exclusion law was fostered by the large navy boosters in order to create the necessary atmosphere for putting the bill across. There is con- siderable profit in building battleships and even tho they may not be used, before new inventions render them obsolete, they can be utilized in col- lecting Wall Street’s bills in South America. General Pershing has joined the New York police force. He was pre- sented with the gold medallion and be- ribboned credential of the Traffic As) sociation of the force. Pershing al- ways appeared to us befter fitted for a job on a busy street corner stopping traffic than digging his spurs into a desk. He has an excellent face for stopping a runaway horse. Wisconsin Senator’s “Red Bogey” Is all Shot to Smithereens (Continued From Page 1,) formal affiliations with the Republic- an party, the most infamous political machine ever in control of the Ameri- can government.” The statement was drawn up at a conference attended by William A. Schaper, Farmer-Labor candidate for governor of Minnesota; Robert D. Cramer, editor of the Minneapolis La- Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assem- bly; William Mahoney, chairman of the committee on arrangements for “June 17” and editor of the Minnesota Labor Union Advocate, official organ of the Minnesota Federation of Labor 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. A 38-inch size requires 2% yards of 40-inch material. Pattern mailed to any addréss on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS The state convention on June 7, and 8, will be held in: Columbus Federa- lion Hall, 50% Gay St., Columbus. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 29.—Local Workers party, will hold a ion day pi May 30, at Rus- sick’s farm, end of West 25th St. car line. There will be games, prizes and dancing. ) AKRON, Ohio, May 29.—A city con- ference for.the election of delegates. to the State Farmer-Labor convention A and St. Paul Trades and Labor Assem- bly, and C. A. Hathaway, secretary of the committee on arrangements for “June 17.” Mahoney stated he believes Senator LaFollette's letter to Attorney Gen- eral Ekern of Wisconsin was inspired by Basil Manley, Washington, who has opposed the St. Paul meeting from the start. UGH FOR THE CHILDREN r } =) ¥ 4 bor Review, the official organ of the ‘4

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