The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 1

| | Watch THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR “A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 64. SUPPRESSED IN BIG PLANT Army of ‘Spies Watch Over 40,000 Workers Uniformed policemen’ watch from every doorway at the great Western Electric. manufacturing plant at Hawthorne. Everyone who enters, if unknown, is ques- tioned; and everyone who leaves is given the official squint to catch the departure of any com- pany’s goods with him. Plain- clothes spies infest the work- rooms. Western Electric is strictly open shop. There is no sort of employes representation. There isn’t even the feeble pretense of a company union. All grievances are taken to the fore- man or to the personnel director in each department. His settlement of the dispute is final as far as the work- er is concerned. “Take it or leave it” is the policy. Personnel directors exist in each de- partment. Each is responsible for the smooth running of the work in his branch of the factory. The personnel menMeet at intervals to discuss their mutual problems of keeping the work- ers compleints quiet. House of Morgan Methods. The employes are allowed to join a club subsidized by the Western Elec- tric Company. This “employes” club has control of all social and recrea- tional activities of the workers. It also runs-the stores thru which the work- ers can return to the House of Mor- gan, which is the power behind the Western Ele¢ttric, most of their earn- ings. At tae small discount at which the goods are sold, the company ac- tually makes a profit on all ordinary goods sold. Bosses Control Club Elections. ‘The company furnished the athletic field, the equipment and the “inspira- tion” for most of the .activities. It supplies the teachers tor the scaools under the Hawthorne “employes” club direction. It finances the expen- sive political campaigns held yearly at the time of club elections. dt is said that Western Electric used to spend $100,000 on these club campaigns, supplying literature, pen- nants, posters, cards on telephone re- ceivers, and in allowing the canuidates time off for thoro handshaking thru- out the plant. While the pretty girls stood the strongest chances of win- ning, still many important jobs go to the official staff of the company who are classed as “employes” and belong to the Hawthorne club. Cheapening Election Costs. This year the company is economiz- ing and also trying to insure that its own candidates will make the best showing. The gaiety of the campaign is to go. The only appearance of t#e candi- dates will be before the assembled 40,000 employes when each will be given three minutes to speak and the “loud-speaker” device will amplify the sound sufficiently for all to hear. No “Labor Troubles.” Western Electric claims it has ne- ver had any labor trouble. It brags of its apprenticeship courses, particu- larly in tool-making and draftsman- ship. It gloats over its absurd official statement that it pays the highest wages compatible with living condi- tions. It points to the pension system granted faithful slaves and the sick benefits and the tidy little hospital where the workers can pay to have (Continued on page 2.) di SUBSCRIPTION RATES WORKERS Western Electric Sc ' UNIONISM IS 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. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1924 Farmer-Labor |Stands Solid For June 17th According to reports being received here by Joseph Manley, secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor party, the attack of Senator LaFollette on the St. Paul June 17 convention did not make a single dent anywhere in the nationai class farmer-labor move- ment. Most significant are statements coming from William Bouck of Sedro- Wooley, Wash., head of the Western Progressive Farmers, and from Wil- liam H. Green of Omaha, Neb., promi- nent in *he Nebraska Progressive party. Bouck Talks Straight Out. Bouck wires that: “The Western Progressive Farmers stand for a pro- ducers’ political party, from the ground up. We are not for any can- didate who is still hanging to the skirts of either of the old bunk labor hating parties. “We are for the St. Paul conven- |tion and for that convention to nomi- |nate a real leader of the people; one who has sympathy with and who will |go with labor nominating him and in- |sist that he be there to accept and |stand on our platform. LaFollette Only an Incident. “We are for the building of a na- |tional Farmer-Labor party now; a party that will stand like a rock for principle, and its candidate hew to the line of the program already put forward. “Mr. LaFollette is -but an: incident with us. We are not building our hopes or party around any individual, |but we will work only for that man or |men who will stand for an indepen- \dent producers’ party. Our state con- |vention meets this week and it will ispeak in no uncertain language on |this matter.” The Message from Nebraska. Green wired from Nebraska that: “The requested postponement from May 30 to June 17 was a political trick. The Progressive party of Ne- \braska is emphatically for a clear-cut farmer-labor convention, candidate and platform, and will have a large |delegation on hand to support that |program.” CHINA GIVES SOVIET RULE RECOGNITION Russia Renounces Czar’s Brutal Exactions (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, June 1.—The Chi- nese government, against the ex- pressed wishes and threats of the United States and French embassies in Peking has granted de jure recognition to the Soviet Government under an. agree- ment, the terms of which are int part as follows: Russia renounces payments due on account of the Boxer uprisings but specifies that asum equal to the payments be used for educational purposes among the Chinese workers, Both countries agree to suppress agitation or propaganda directed against each other. As China, at the present time is the happy hunting ground for anti-Soviet plotters fin- anced by French and American money, this clause means that China will be obliged under the terms of (Continued on page 2.) 50,000 NEW YORK CLOAKMAKERS MAY GO OUT ON STRIKE TODAY NEW YORK, June 1.—Fifty thousand workers in the ladies’ jay, according to announcements made at a meeting of shop chairman in Cooper Union. The workers a juarantee of 42 weeks’ work per year, insurance a Industry may go on strik garment demanding a inst unemployment, re- duction of hours of labor to 40 per week, and wage increases. The employers broke off negotiations ten days ago, refusing to talk about the demands. In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. $$$ ______ Replies MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 1—‘The St. Paul convention is not called to crown a king, but to found a party,” said Robert D, Cramer, west. The statement follows: lette had made no statement. exploited workers of the city and WITH WANTED: QUIT the press today regarding LaFollette’s attempt to disrupt the. farmer-labor movement. member of the committee on arrangements for the June 17 convention, editor of the Minneapolis Labor Review and a well-known labor leader in the north- “As a member of the arrangements committee | wish to make the following answer: June 17 convention will proceed just as tho LaFol- The St. Paul conven- tion is not called to crown a king, but to found a party, rooted in the economic organization of the progressives of the northwest aré not ignorant of the tremendous pressure that has been brought to bear not only on LaFollette, but also on other pro- gressives, to force them. to make statements in opposition to the St. Paul convention, by officiais of International unions who fear the passing of their power into the hands of the rank and file. > to. Attacks of LaFollette “Should McAdoo be nominated by the Democratic convention, LaFollette will find that some of those International officials who have opposed the St. Paul convention will support McAdoo. Fundamentally LaFollette’s attack on the St. Paul convention was a mistake, and from the standpoint of practical LaFollette politics it Is apt to turn out to be a sert- ous blunder. More workers are being sent into unemployment every day, more farmera are like- wise being dispossessed. These severely exploited elements will be the backbone of the St. Paul con- vention. They are not afraid of the radicals. They have suffered too long at the hands of the corrupt Republican and Democratic parties.” Cramer’s statement was given to the capitalist press. They all suppressed it, along with other statements supporting the June 17 convention. On the other hand, any obscure ward politician or faker, never heard of before, can now get his name in the headlines of these prostituted sheets by joining in denunciation of the St. Paul gathering. The respon- sible progressives are standing stronger and more milltant than ever for the pushing of the convention thru to success. THE HELP OF LAFOLLETTE In a statement to Cramer is a The St. Paul the. country. The Drawn Especially for the DAILY WORKER by K. A. Suvanto. Workers and Farmers to Turn the Grindstone. Carpenters Win Fight NINE SUSPENDED LOCALS RESTORED TO G00D STANDING Chicago Workers Made Jensen Back Water The nine pended local unions of the Carpenters’ District Council won their fight for reinstatement at the last .meeting of the district council, and Harry Jensen has been forced to reverse ‘ision and promise to print the names of his opponents in the June 14 elections on the ballots, it was announced by a delegate to the (Gontiniea on page 2.) Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ING LAFOLLETTE ab Shop Methods Bared Yellow Press Refuses to Publish Workers! Farmers! Demands The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Forelgn-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents RANK AND FILERS STOP CIRCULATING PETITIONS AS SENATOR JOINS BURNS “I had just started to obtain signatures to the LaFollette pre- sidential petition, but when | read his statement against the June 17th Convention in’ the Cincinnati Post, | quit.” This is the opening sentenc se in a letter written by Max C. Zange, of Cincinnati, Ohio, member of no political party, but one of the millions in America in rev olt against the capitalist parties, and hoping for an effective rebellion against the dictatorship of Wall Street. Zange’s reaction is typical United States among the oppressed workers and farmers, in? Follette’s treacherous stab the back to the organized farm- er-labor movement has des- troyed their illusions. They are thru with LaFollette. “Tm sorry that a man like LaFol- lette has joined the wolves,” says Zange in his letter. LaFollette’s repu- diation of the Communists, “because they believe in force,” he says, “is a repudiation of the most important for- ward step in American history. Was the revyplutionary war, that estab- lished the independence of the United States fought by speeches? In the Civil war, did they use the cannons and rifles for killing sparrows?” Capitalists Back LaFollette. At the moment the Senator from Wisconsin. breaks, with the. Farmer. pabor’ organizations, thé workers are also learning that the “LaFollette for President Committee,” with head- quarters in Chicago, is composed en- tirely of capitalist and middle-class elements. The chairman of his committee is the Honorable W. T. Rawleigh, of Freeport, Ill, a wealthy manufactur- er of medicines. The vice-chairman is Dante M. Pierce, of Des Moines, Iowa, a rich publisher of a chain of magazines and papers. The treasurer is R. F. Koenig, director of the Second National Bank of Freeport. LaFol- lette is organizing his campaign en- tirely thru capitalists. and their hang- ers-on. A “Personal” Campaign. LaFollette’s efforts to destroy the Farmer-Labor Party movement are part of hts attempt to harness all elements of discontent to his purely personal and independent desire to be president.. Not only the Farmer-La- bor Party is being ditched, but even a middle-class “third party” is taboo to him and his friends. LaFollette will try to force his nom- ination at the republican convention, thus demonstrating clearly that he does not want to destroy that cor- rupt machine of oppression. If he does not get that, then he threatens that he “may” run as an indepen- dent, without organizing a party of any kind. He sees nothing but his own personality and ambitions. He repudiates entirely the desires of the workers and farmers for organized po- of that going on thruout the La WILL BISHOP BROWN BURN AT STAKE? |Found Guilty Under Old Law Providing Penalty {Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., June 1.— copal Church, has been declared guilty of heresy by the special tribunal trying him for his book, “Communism and Christian- jism.” The verdict is based upon an- cient ecclesiastical law, accord- ing to which the guilty one is subject to torture or burning at the stake, as punishment for un- orthodoxy. While there seems little likelihood jof the Bishop actually being burned alive, yet it is pointed out that the same legal foundation exists for such penalty as for the verdict of guilty. “Not Thru,” Says Brown. “This is the last heresy trial,” said Bishop Brown, after the verdict had been delivered by Bishop Murral. cf Baltimore. “I am not thru. I will | knock at every door in the land to get | justice.” Bishop Brown challenged. the court |to answer whether its members be lieved literally the dogmas which he jis charged with denying. He put a long list of questions to them, which must have stumped the worthy churchmen, for they refused to answer them. Bishop Brown charged that no sane man longer believes that Jonah ac- | tually swallowed a whale (or was jt | the other way about?); that Jesus was born of a virgin; that God had smoke jin his nose; that Jesus actually. pro- jduced intoxicating beverages from Vilinon Monta omery. Brown. + {Bishop of the rotestant Epis, litical power, for a party of their own. |plain water in violation of the 18th F.-L. P. Proclaims Independence. | Amendment, and many other dogmas LAKE COUNTY LABOR TO JUNE 17TH WAUKEGAN, Iil., June 1.—Unanimously voting to endorse the June 17 Farmer-Labor convention at St. Paul tonight, the Lake County Central Labor Union ected Fahle Burman, member of the Carpenters’ Union, as their delegate. Fight the Western Electric! “The Western Electric” is one of the most powerful open shop inter- ests in the nation. It employs 40,000 workers in its one plant at Haw- thorne, a Chicago suburb, Every worker should know all about “Western Electric.” They must know “Western Electric” in order to be able to fight it. The DAILY WORKER today starts a special series of articles on “Western Electric.” Read these articles. Get other workers to read them. Send In your “subs” to be sure you get the paper regularly. Address the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. From all over the country, declara-| tions come from leaders of the farm- | ers and workers organized in the vart- | ous Farmer-Labor Parties, denouncing (Continued on page 2.} MANY CELEBRATE AS - SOVIET CONSULATE IS OPENED IN TURKEY MOSCOW, April 22—(By Mall).— Constantinople reports a solemn opening of the consulate-general of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics in the presence of represent- atives of the foreign office, military authorities, chamber of commerce, Merchants’ society, trade unions of Turkish workmen and iso repre- sentatives of the Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Greek mis- sions, big banks and the press. The hoisting of the red flag of the Soviet republics was saluted by the guard of honor, The military band was playing “The Ihternational.” The solemn ceremony produced a |tarist dictatorship. of the church. ‘ The court which pronounced Bishop Brown guilty of heresy, failed to clear themselves of the same charge. The jauthor of “Communism and Christian- ism” believes, with the most of man- | kind, that even the trial court keeps \its fingers crossed on some of these | items, Bishop Brown faces ejection from the church if the verdict of heresy is upheld. Appeal is being made, Sick Class War Victim To Face Spanish Directory SAN QUENTIN, Cal., June 1—Ra- mon Sanchez, criminal syndicaligm prisoner who has fought deportation proceedings for two years, has given up the fight and wil accept deporta- tion to Spain, where he faces pro! able torture at the hand of the Sanchez, suffer- ing from incipient tuberculosis as a result of prison, has been foremost in all protest strikes, having spent weeks in the dungeon on several Like all California celina! Sema great impression on big crowds of dure, ism victims, he was never accused of people who came to see the proce- |imes overt act or any “crime” except membership in the I, Wy. We % i a