The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, June 3, 1924 NEW YORK SEES |Capital Of Southern China LAFOLLETTE AS “"PUSSYFOOTER” His Statement Meant to Be Vague, Is Comment By LUDWELL DENNY. Federated Press Staff Correspondent, NEW YORK, June 2,—Conflicting opinions: are expressed in New York on the significance of Senator LaFol- lette’s statement condemning the St. Paul Farmer-Labor Party conference as Coniinunist controlled and intimat- ing that he may run for president as an independent candidate. Tho the general comment is that his statement is deliberately vague con- cerning his specific intentions, it is as generally assumed that he will run as an independent candidate. Left wing groups, as represented by the Volkszeitung (Workers party), stand behind the St. Paul meeting to form a Farmer-Labor party, pointing out LaFollette has not committed him- self to a Farmer-Labor party and charging that he is a representative of the small business and big farm class and an enemy of the workers and small farmers. Whether the Socialist party, a mem- ber of the conference for Progressive Political Action Cleveland convention, will support LaFollette if he runs as an independent bourgeois candidate is not clear. Socialist party officials when questioned, declined to comment upon LaFollette’s statement. Did He Consult Gompers? That LaFollette’s statement was is- sued only after “the LaFollette lead- ers consulted President Gompers, A. F. of L.,” is the idea of the Herald- Tribune’s Washington correspondent. The.same paper says editorially re- garding the Cleveland C. P. P. A. con- vention: “Many of its labor union members are already pledged to Mr. McAdoo.” “His (LaFollette’s) blacklisting of the St. Paul Farmer-Labor convention of June 17 is ‘old stuff’” says the Times. “‘Gentlemen,’ he is saying, don’t mix me up with that Soviet crowd. ... I’m radical, but not too darned radical.” It accuses him of “playing both ends against the mid- dle,” and threatening to secede with- out. seceding. 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Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps, Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hl,» Send 12c in silver or stamps for our Hails Holiday of Workers; Dr. Sun Assails Capitalism By JACK ARMITACE- (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, June 2.—It is not only in Occidental countries that May day is celebrated. In many Hastern lands the workers observe the day which has come to be recognized as theirs. These celebrations may appear novel to the Westerner,. but thru- out them all the spirit of class consciousness is evident. There could be no better evidence of the spread of Radicalism in the East than the fervour with which the Oriental toiler observes the —————— great workers’ day. Nowhere, it is safe to say, have May day celebrations been carried out with more eclat and profitable study of the great problem than in Canton, the capital of South China. Organized by the Kuomingtang (Ra- dical Chinese political party) the Can- tonese demonstrations disclosed a workingclass solidarity which is in- deed inspiring. Some fifty industrial unions, under the guidance of the Cen- tral Union, which probably will be- come the O. B. U. of China all added their quota to the success of the day. Every Worker Had Holiday. Canton was decked in gala attire. With a few insignificant exceptions, every worker had a holiday, including hotel ahd restaurant employes, who supplied three cold meals only, for oue hour at breakfast, lunch and din- ner times. At an early hour, huge congrega- tions of workers commenced to as- semble at the Tai Po Maloo, from when they marched to the Nin Quan theatre. Long before noon Canfon’s largest house of amusement was filled to overflowing. The three thousand inside were outnumbered ten to one by those who could not gain admis- sion. Punctually at mid-day a great roar of welcome announced to the expect- ant audience the arrival of China's great radical leader, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. The headquarters’ military band struck up a martial air and the crowd inside joined their -aéclammations with the general welcome. Dr. Sun Denounces Capitalism. No time was lost in preliminaries. In a brief speech Mr. C. K. Liu intro- duced his chief, giving a short ex- planation of the meaning for the workers of May-day. 9" ~~ Like many great orators, Dr. Sun at first appeared Somewhat nervous. Soon, however, he lost himself in the fervor of the message which he was delivering. He appeared inspired. ‘With quick steps he moved from one side of the platform to the other side, pausing now and again to drive home his points with telling emphasis. From start to finish he held his au- dience, who, for once had cat aside their masks of Oriental impassivity, A few opening sentences were de- voted to reminding his listeners that May day was being. celebrated all over the world. Those celebrations, he said, took different forms, just as the means employed to get working class emancipation. were different. In every country the objective was the same, i Flays Imperialist. Power. China’s position was unique. Eco- nomically and industrially, she was under the heel of foreign capitalists. In nearly every other country the worker was exploited by his own na- tionals. Thus, altho the worker was robbed, most of the wealth remained in his own country. Not only was the Chinese worker plundered, but the money was sent to foreign Jands and was lost to the Chinese worker for- ever. Such a state of affairs was a disgrace not only to the Chinese toiler, but to the whole nation. As long as this was allowed to continue Chinese would be looked on as a ser- vile race. They desired recognition by Occidental labor organizations, but ‘they must show themselves worthy. With a combination of Occi- dental and Oriental Iabor they could. fight capitalism. (Applause.) Attacks Grasping Financiers. The foreign financier was the great- est enemy of the worker in China, where there was no capitalism as. known in the west. Foreign capitalism was endeavoring to get a still strong- er hold in the Orient. Already there was evidence of this in China, where | the demands of the powers were be- coming more and more insistent, Rail- roads and mines were under the sway of foreign financiers, who were suck- ing the very life-blood of China. Some ten years ago, China’s imports only exceeded exports by $10,000,000, but today, this excess had increased to $500,000,000 per annum. If this could happen in ten years, what would the position be in another twenty years? China's Industries Throttled. ‘Turning ‘to ‘the customs question, |. Dr: Sun declared that it was by this}. means that foreign, financiers strang- led any attempt on the part of China to build up her own industries. She was limited to a 2% per cent import duty which, with the present state of the country, was totally inadequate as y . Protests had .proved un- availing, and depended on the work- for the benefit of the masses. The foreign capitalist must go. (Applause.) Treaties Must Go. There were certain treaties between China and the foreign powers which were absolutely unjust. They had been forced upon China at the bayo- net’s point. Those treaties should not be reconsidered. They should be abol- ished. Just so long as the Chinese laboring class stood for this, the posi- tion would remain unchanged, for no- thing could be hoped for from the cor- rupt political clique at Peking. The Chinése worker was a human being, just as other toflers, and he had a right to demand decent conditions for himself and for his country. Then, and not till then, could they hold up their heads as free men. (Prolonged applause.) Short addresses were delivered by other speakers and the meeting joined the procession already formed by those’ outside. The procession was typically Chi- nese. Innumerable banners and flags, all bearing inscriptions setting out the workers’ objective were borne by thousands of men and women. Even the inevitable “dragon” was there, ac- companied by throbbing Chinese drums and crashing cymbals. Women Decked With Red. Every class of Chinese labor was represented, but perhaps the most in- spiring sight was the hundreds of wo- men militants who each wore the same shaped white straw hat trimmed with red and decked with the work- ers’ red rosetfe. Their quiet air of determination augvred well for the instillation of workingclass ideals into the children they are destined to rear. Dr. Sun's belief in “catching ‘em young” was vindicated. Tf as much good seed has been sown in other parts of the world, then there is hope not only for Chinese toilers, but for the workers of the whole world. STEEL TRUST GUIDING MINE DEATH PROBE Fake Investigation Hit By Minn. F.-L. Party CROSBY, Minn., June 2.—Over two months after the Milford mine inun- dation; which drowned out 41 iron miners working for a steel trust sub- sidiary, the governor’s investigating commission is getting down to work. The corporation's lawyer is managing the course of the proceedings, brow- beating worker witnesses and skillful- ly guiding the testimony of company witnesses. Nevertheless Ed Thompson, a min- er with 10 years’ experience, who threw up his job before the bottom of the pond above the mine broke thru into the workings, got in some effective testimony showing company negligence. Saw Mud Oozing Thru. He had found the roof of the bot- tom level sagging down so far that the trolley wire had to be switched to the side of the passage from the center. Later it was necessary to chip out the side timbers to permit the cars of ore to get thru. Mud and sand were oozing thru the roof for over a week before the cavein, Thompson testified.. The ladder road to the top was loose Yor 16 feet on one side and steps were missing in two different sections, he said, He quit work, because of the danger, eight days before his 41 mates on the job were caught by the downrush of mud and water and drowned. F.-L. Hits Fake Probe. The Farmer-Labor’ clubs of the Sixth Minnesota district, at their May 4 convention at Brainerd, severely condemned “the inactivity and dila- tory methods employed by the inves- tigating committee to date. Russian Workman’s Invention is Given Govt. | Assistance MOSCOW, April 22.—(By Mail.)-— A workman-student named Chishloff, invented an improved typing machine which can work with a speed of a short-hand writer. The commission of experts, recognized this invention as important and assigned a special sum of money for an immediate construc: pee THE DAILY WORKE “FITZ” BROWN FARMER-LABOR PARTY BURIED Caretakers Flying in all Directions WASHINGTON,. June 2,—Samuel Gompers is prepared to slaughter the fatted calf for John Fitzpatrick, who had wandered far from the non-parti- san political fold when he launched his Farmer-Labor party in 1919, thus serving notice on Gompers that the sheep who are led to the polls on elec- tion day to vote for capitalist “friends of labor” by that notorious reaction- ary would in the future be guided along the road of class solidarity and taught to rely on their own rather than the promises of quondam friends. But Fitzpatrick has fallen by the wayside. The masses did not rally to his Farmer-Labor party, which he tried to keep within the bounds of “respectability.” The reactionaries would not touch his movement with a forty-foot pole, and he did not feel any too comfortable in the company of the radicals. To use a favorite ex- pression of his own, “he was in a most unhappy position.” A Sinking Ship. The July 3.conference was the final straw that broke the political camel’s back. There were other straws that made the camel tremble at the knees even before July 3. There was the withdrawal by Gompers of the $600 a month organization subsidy from the Chicago Federation of Labor, a few weeks before the date of the confer- ence, John H, Walker was busy try- ing to convince Fitzpatrick that he was sailing in dangerous waters; that the Communists would. put his ship on the rocks; that he should put his unseaworthy political craft into dock and become an able-bodied seaman on board the Gompers ship, even tho Gompers flaunted the skull and cross- bones of class collaboration in the face of labor. The rest of the story can be told briefly. Fitzpatrick seceded from his own convention. The decline was rapid. His party broke into smith- ereens. He gradually surrendered ev- ery radical principle he stood for. Into the arms of Gompers he flew. haan Crew Deserting. Today his party is no more. Jay Brown has resigned as secretary and left for.Beattle. Robert M. Buck is in g the New Majority, the official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the now defunct Farmes- Labor party. The resignation will take effect June 27. Unless some ac- tive person who wants a job takes the initiative in assuming the manage- ment of the New Majority, that organ is Hable to cease publication. Fitz- patrick looks upon it as a nuisance. Labor leaders as a rule do not like to be bothered with papers. Most of the organs of reactionary trade unions are simply advertising sheets run for the profit of one or more, get-rich- quick artists. Buck and Brown played a sorry role at the July 3 conference and since then, While avowedly for inde- pendent working class political action, they have allowed themselves to be used as tools by Fitzpatrick against the national class party movement which will meet in St. Paul June 17. They have met the fate of all leaders who fail to take a determined stand for the things they believed in. They failed to satisfy left or right and fell down between two stools, “Much Joy in Heaven.” There is considerable chuckling in A. F. of L. headquarters over the col- lapse of the Fitzpatrick political bub- ble. While the Chicago labor leader is assured of the benevolent friend- ship of Gompers, now that he has donned the “regular” harness, the weekly news letter sent out by Sam’s scribbler, Chester Wright, does not miss the opportunity to take a slam at the dying Fitzpatrick Farmer-Labor party. It says: “Th atement con- cludes with a brave claim that the officers are ready, ‘when we can,’ to resume former activities, but it is clear that the Farmer-Labor party as ational movement is permanently located in the political graveyard.” Buried the Corpse. The Fitzpatrick-Buck-Brown polit- foal party died on July 3 and since then it has stunk in the nostrils of the class conscious workers. It is some satisfaction to learn that its CLEVELAND, OHIO, TAILORS WANT MAX SILLINSKY FOR SECRETARY (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 2.—The members of the Journeymen Tailors’ | Union, No, 162, of Cleveland, are working hard to place their fighting prog- | ressive business agent, Max J. Sillinsky, into the general secretary-treasurer- | ship of the national organization. Thru Sillinsky’s fighting spirit the Cleveland tailors were among the | first in the country to win a 100 per cent week-work system. That was in | 1919, Association tried to bring back the piece-work system and establish the open shop, The Cleveland tailors say that in that bitter fight it was’ Sil- linsky’s leadership ‘which won the struggle. It is the memory of those days, as well as Sillinsky’s present program of all progressive measures, such as amalgamation, a labor party and recognition ‘of Soviet Russia, which makes the tailors of Cleveland sup- port Sillinsky for the leading position in the national organization. While Sweeney, the reactionary now occupy- ing the general secretaryship, re- fused to even visit the bosses and stayed at his -hotel—Sillinsky is re- membered as the real leader, who took his place on the picket line, who was beaten up by the bosses’ sluggers, yet continued to lead the strike in In 1920 the Merchant Tailors’ #— spite of a fractured skull and bruised features. The Cleveland tailors, in common | with the bulk of the membership | thruout the country, expect all mili- tant members of the J. T. U. to! work and vote for Sillinsky in the union election now beginning. The other candidates have no policy, ex- cept for Sweeney’s policy of slander and autocracy against the left wing of the union, and his vote for the un- seating of William F. Dunne from the| A. F. of L. convention and opposing | both Communist and progressive measures at every, chance. The Prospects are that Sillinsky will win the election by a large majority, in spite of all Sweeney's political tricks, Send in that Subscription Today! MOONEY MUST BE FREED, SAYS MISSOURILABOR Support ef Lshoe Press is Strongly Urged By MARTIN A. DILLMON. ST. LOUIS, June 2—Resolutions in- structing the officers to continue their fight for a Missouri workmen’s com- Densation law; demanding immediate release of Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings; demandfig beer and light wines; condemning Gov. Hyde for his unfair ‘attitude toward the striking miners and the railroad shopmen, fea- tured the 21st convention, Missouri State Federation of Labor, which was held at Moberly. Other resolutions indorsed Bryn Mawr summer labor college, Howell- Barkley railroad bill which is aimed at elimination of the rail labor board, deplored lack. of loyalty to the. labor press on the part: of trade unionists, and urged that labor papers be given support. The executive officers were instruct- ed to continue participation in the con- ference for progressive political ac- tion. Hits Daugherty Strikebreaking. President Wood’s report showed that labor bills fared badly in the Mis- souri legislature. Harry M. Daugh- erty received attention when Wood, discussing the 1922 shopmen’s strike, said, “I am firm in the conviction that someone in the department of justice, and I now think it was Daugherty, sent out gunmen and commissioned them as deputy U. S. marshals, and that these men were instructed to cre- ate violence. Many things were hatched in the minds of the railroad managers to get public opinion on their side, and they failed. There was less violence in that strike and less crime committed than in any one of our big cities in a single day.” President Wood, Secretary George R. Paterson, with all other executive officers of the federation, were re- elected unanimously. The next con- vention will be held in 1926 in Jeffer- son City. owners, finally overcome by the ob- noxious odor from the stinking corpse, decided to bury it, and two of them could not even be happy in the vicin- ity of the graveyard. Fitzpatrick may visit the grave occasionally to put a wreath of flowers and perhaps drop a tear over the remains of his once promising political child, but, tho he may think the inscription on the tombstone should read, “Here lies the body of Independent Working Class Political Action,” he will yet learn that renegade labor leaders and petty bourgeois liberals cannot hold back the marching hosts who are driven by necessity to build their own political organizations and under revolutionary leadership to march forward to vic- tory with the Soviet republic as their goal, UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS "T cant see a ithout my 1,000 FURRIERS FLAY OFFICIALS FOR FASCIST RULE N. Y. Workers Revolt at Kaufman-S. P. Machine (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, June 2.—More than a CENTRUM LEADER TO FORM CHOP SUEY CABINET |Political Odds and Ends Are Invited BERLIN, J 2.—Chancellor Marx Catholic Party leader, has accepted |the commission to form a government from the Socialist pri ent of the Im- perial German Republic, the notorious lackey of the German capitalist class, the renegade saddler, Ebert The new cabinet will contain a strong minority of Fascisti, it is be- lieved. The extreme nationalists fa- vor the Dawes plan with reservations, Socialists are also expected to be giv- en portfolios As a matter of ract, the Socialists can hardly be distin- guished from a certain element among the Fascisti. They joined in singing “Deutchland Uber Alles” in the Reich- stag to drown the “Internationale” of the revolutionary Communist deputies. On the industrial field they are the willing tools of the industrialists. They are the strongest supporters of the Dawes plan to keep the German workers in ery. The Nationalists have Portfolios of the Economic posfs. The first session of the Reichstag ended in a riot. The impetus was given to the disturbance by the ap- pearance of the hated Ludendorf to answer the roll after having filled up on whisky at the Reichstag bar. From then on, cries of “mass murder” and “coward” echoed thru the chamber. An attempt to eject the Commun- ists is expected at the next session. The Socialists are expected to lead the attack, backed by the Fascisti. The crowds in the gallery applauded the Communists and jeered the reaction- asked the Interior Food and thousand members of the Furriers’ union crowded Webster hall in answer | to a call by the progressive leaders. | They came to hear what the left wing | is proposing to clear up the chaotic | situation in the trade, to receive re-| Ports on the recent convention which | “legalized” the Kaufman dictatorship, | and to protest against the Fascist- Socialist rule in the union. Kaufman tried to frighten away the| workers from the meeting by threat- ening expulsion to all who attended. The constitution of the union was| amended at the recent convention to give the machine power to expel any | one who criticizes it. It is worthy of note that this amendment was adopt- ed during the session in the city hall of the Socialist Mecca, Milwaukee. Demonstration for Gold. Disregarding the bureaucrats’ threats of expulsion and blacklisting, the union members came to the meet- ing. They listened to Shapiro, Suroff, Miss Polansky and Gold with intense interest and. applause. Gold was given.a demonstration. The workers’ answer to the threats of the officials was given in the fol- lowing resolution, which was adopted by acclamation, and signed by several hundred members, each with his name, address and union ledger num- ber: Denounce Traitorous Officials. 1. I protest against the despotic Taws which were made at the con- vention. 2,1 protest against the union of- ficials that neglect their obligations | and duties to the workers, especial- | ly at this critical time. 3. I protest against the Fascisti dictatorship established by our union officials. I demand that the union should defend and help the workers in their need, and protest against the fact that some persons use the union for their own per- sonal ends. It the officials now try to enforce their exceptional laws, and throw out every one criticizing them, they will have to begin with more than a thou- sand in New York city. Officials and Bosses Are Chums. At the meeting were brought out the terrible facts that when com- plaints are made against employers, the officials pay no attention, The bosses are allowed to run everything their own way. No effort is made to enforce the union agreement, even in the question of the minimum scale of wages, The officials, friendly to the bo terrorize the workers by every aries, so it is also planned to clear the galleries and allow none there un- less they show their red cards in the yellow Socialist international or carry some credential from the Fascisti or ganization. Bakers Cause Unemployment. 1 (By The Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 2.—Wide spread unemployment in the textile industry is due partly to a war be Conboy, United Textile ‘Workers of America, told the annual convention, Catholic Conference on - Industrial Problems in session in Pittsburgh. 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