The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Hell for Europe—Maria for America A Forecast of the Republican Convention By ROBERT MINOR, (Written Especially for the Daily Worker.) ‘HICH particular individual is chosen by the great dominant group of lords of finance and business as their servants in public office, is of slight consequence.to the masses who have no real voice in the choosing and no hope in the choice. But if there is little difference to us in con- crete results, there is much illumina- tion to be had by watching the proc- ess by which the great billionaires choose their Simon Legrees as over- seers of this giant plantation. We have just gone thru a rehash of the Republican conventiofi of 1920, brought out in the Teapot Dome in- vestigation. Those with sharp eyes ~—and especially those who read the DAILY WORKER—have gazed with astonishment on the process by which the last president and vice-president (now President Coolidge) were picked and placed ™ the White House by the boards of directors of oil companies and banks. The great Republican convention of 1920 looks like a lame puppet-show, now, in retrospect, when we know that the voting on the con- vention floor was all a farce and that Harding and Coolidge had been se- lected in advance, not in Chicago by the delegates, but in an office in Wall Street (or was it 26 Broaiway?), and that the managers of the show at the last minute received from Boies Penrose, bribe-taker of Standard Oil, @ long-distance telephone call instruct- ing them to stop the fireworks and to nominate Harding and Coolidge. Again we will have a show, at the 1924 convention of the Republican party. But the capitalist rulers of the United States cannot afford to give us so much of a circus, this time. They have had to reveal in advance that Coolidge — little-souled, cold-blooded, narrow-minded, tongueless Coolidge —will be nominated for the presi- dency on the Republican ticket. There is less margin of safety, this timo, with the masses stirring in unrest; every possibility must be utilized in order to pass thru the presidential election with the least possible jolt. Not even a change of personnel is to be had, if it can be avoided. The big powers of Wall Street have en- sured in advance and even publicly revealed, that Coolidge will be the Republican nominee. Whether Coo- lidge will be president, depends upon the needs as they develop during the campaign. The powers that put Coolidge at the head of the Republi- can ticket will put another fish of the same school at the head of the Demo- cratic ticket—which is the old insur- ance-policy plan. If the Democratic ticket, with McAdoo (or a more ex- pedient substitute for McAdoo), is elected, it will make no difference to the Sinclair-Standard Oil-Mellon and Morgan interests. No petty-capitalist interests can get control of either of the old partie, this year as the Bry- anites got control of the Democratic party in 1896. But from all signs it appears that the Wall Street dynasty thinks at the present time that its best bet is on putting Coolidge, tried-and-true strike- —$ breaker, farm-robber and silent re- tainer of the inner ring of high fin- ance, into the White House. It seems to be the smoothest way, using the advantage that is always held by the politicians in control of the govern- mental machinery, However, since Harding died and Coolidge moved up, a new second butler must be chosen—and ‘there comes the chance to give a show. The only excuse for a circus at Cleve- land is found in the uncertainty (in the public mind) as to who will, be the vice-presidential nominee. The chances are that this, too, is all set- tled. But the public hasn’t been told. The public is to be allowed the luxury of some suspense on this minor Point. The suspense is probably only for the public, and very artificial). There is much reason to think that General Hell-and-Maria Dawes has already been slated for the vice-presi- dential nomination, tho it is rash to guess. The newspapers have very obviously been manufacturing a Saturday-Evening-Post-hero reputation for Dawes during the past few months. The Dawes report is not all report—it is also a reputation. Modern capitalists use all by-products, and a useful fame could surely be foreseen for’ the man selected to go over to settle the European tangle, Dawes is ideal for the campaign. | “Hell-and-Maria” will make a good slo- gan among meek ladies and gentlemen with a repressed desire for he-man swearing. Dawes carries all the requi- sites. He is a military man—that is, of the army purchasing-agent’ type. He is a cold-blooded financial manipu- | Report, and the Daugherty injunction. later, a professional banker. He is a typical public-franchise corporation head, with some training as a legal shark. And, above all—he is one of the Old Guard of the Standard Oil- McKinley-Mark Hanna-Penrose-Forak- er school—a fact that few will re- member. He—in case of any event making him president, would be a con- tinuation of the dynasty founded by Mark Hanna with Standard Oi] money in 1896, with William McKiMey as the figure-head. Of course it is possible that the Wall Street powers will not choose Dawes. They may think it wiser to befuddle the brains of petty-business men and timid workers and farmers, by using a “radical” reputation in the running- mate of. the “conservative” Coolidge, In such a case the. vice-presidential nominee might be the wild horse, Borah, come tame to eat out of the} hand of a master who appreciates at times a spirited steed. But at the} present writing, appearances, sham or real, indicate the choice of Dawes. The platform of the Republican party this year will be—the Dawes Nothing else. This is one of the straws that indicate that the wind blows toward the real intention of Wall! Street to nominate Dawes. | For the deepest of all political and | economic necessities of the capitalist | system today is to consolidate and stabilize the hegemony of American Wall Stréet dver Europe, and to break the backbone of the Labor movement at home and abroad, destroying its will to independent action and reduc- ing it to a corrupted vassal to be used in subjecting the colonial world and Buropean continental Gurope. The Dawes Report and the Daugh- erty Injunction are the Republican platform and the Democratic platform. That is, in reality. There is some frightened protest from Republican senators—not against the platform, but against REVEALING the.platform. Those senators with restless farmers and workers at home are crying that “Coolidge can stand on that platform, but we can’t.” They need some cam- ouflage, some words to twist—some- thing to hide behind. They may be granted sdme flowery words—but the platform will be the Dawes Report and the Daugherty Injunction. Among these senators is—our old friend Bob La Follette! For La Fol- lette will crawl into tne back door of the republican convention with a Laz- arus platform—a platform begging a few crumbs for the beggar at capital- ism’s door, the small business man. La Follette is still a Republican. Frightened by the great light in the skies—the light of the coming storm of class action of the workers and the impoverished farmers—La Follette erawls back in the Republican fold. La Follette will be cast aside, as he was in 1912, to run as an independent on his own egotism with only the aim of sabotaging the farmer-labor effort to form a new class party.. The other frightened senators may or may not |be granted a few confusing words with which to cover the real platform. “Hell and Maria” Dawes as a vice- presidential candidate, looks like the chief outcome of act 1 of the show at Cleveland. Morgan’s Hell for Burope —why not “Maria” Dawes for Amer- ica? TWO SONS OF MULTIMILLIONAIRES COMMIT ATROCIOUS MURDER AS CLIMAX TO CAREER OF PERVERSION Two young perverts, sons of millionaire business men murdered the 13 year old son of another millionaire “just to get a thrill out of it.” The spectacular crime is the talk of the country. A New York clergyman commenting on the case said: “Like froth and dregs we have our millionaire criminals produced by idle- ness and dissipation and our back alley criminals produced by po- verty and hatred.” The capitalist press ladles out every detail of the gruesome crime and cir- culation managers were not so happy in weeks. Nothing helps to induce the pyblic to buy papers so much as a spicy murder reeking with sex. “What “Was the compelling motive { } 1 4 } - behind the murder of the young Franks boy? Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two 19-year-old university students murdered Robert Franks, son of a multimfllionaire pawnbroker. The fathers of the Leopold and Loeb boys are also multimillionaires. The mur- der was planned months in advance, according to a confession made by the two prisoners. They had several boys listed as possible victims. The Frank boy happened to be the first. The murdered lad was educated in the Harvard school, which is reputed to be a nest of perversion. One of the instructors, Mr. Mott K. Mitchell, admitted being a sexual degenerate. ~Nathan Leopold made an exhaustive study of degeneracy and supplement- ed the knowledge acquired from books by a varied personal experience. The murder was committed in a most cold-blooded manner. The vic- tim was inveighled into am automo- bile and while one of the murderers drove the car, his companion beat the Franks lad over the head with a chisel until death resulted. The body was then taken to a railroad culvert in an unfrequented spot, stripped naked and concealed, but not sufficiently. It was discovered by mere accident and clues leading to the apprehension of the murderers were found near the body. It appears from the confessions of the youths and intimate stories of their activities thet both were sex per- verts. Psychiatr¥sts ascribe the mo- tive of the crime not to the ransom theory as suggested in a letter writ- ten to the father of the dead boy, but because the two boys, petted and pam- CHURCH CZAR WANTS READY CASH TO KEEP POOR HUMBUGGED Having systematically humbugged the workers Into spending their time and money to watch his entry into Chicago after he had been honored with a rank a degree higher than that of Jesus Christ, Mundelein is trying to make it up to them by ap- pealing for ready cash to be used, insibly, for the relief of the Cath- elle poor. Disregarding the possibility that the Catholic poor might attempt their own salvation, the great spir- itual hypnotizer urg: united char- ity front as of helping the exploited. In a letter to the Catho- lics of Chicago, he asks for “one united effort in an organized way to Practice the various corporal and spiritual works of mercy so strongly mmanded to us by our Lord and vior.”” , Mundelein says that he places this appeal for ready cash before everything. UNITED FARMER-LABOR OF NEW YORK STATE SUPPORTS JUNE 17 NEW YORK CITY, June 8.—“On to St. Paul, June 17,” is the word send out by the United Farmer-La- bor Party of New York state, to all its connections. In a statement by the executive committee, selected at the convention of May 18, at Sche- nectady, all organizations represent- ed there are called upon to renew their efforts for the St. Paul conven- tion as the answer to attacks now being made upon that gathering. OSS AEE Deas ae Wetabon Enc es GFP 2 EER EE SS Si HHO pered and having nothing to do but satisty their desires, committed the murder to hide their degeneracy from the public. This horrible crime dramatically brings the rottenness inherent in cap- italist society to the front. On one side of the social scale we have pov- erty and misery, millions of workers going without enough to eat, children without enough clothes to cover their bodies, mothers undernourished and fathers overworked or unemployed. On the other side, we have the idle rich, rolling in luxury, produced by the workers, their children brot up surrounded by servants and flunkeys, their smallest want attended to. Te them the only problem is to escape boredom, Having no outlet for their normal energies, they’ turn to dissipa- tion and perversion. State’s Attorney Crowe rubbed his hands gleefully after the boys con- fessed and said, “I have a hanging case here.” More laurels for Crowe, even if two lives must be blotted out. A dog eat dog society. The capital- ists prey on the workers and prey on each other. The workers live in misery, {gnorance and disease, thru poverty. The capitalists sated with wealth degenerate thru debauchery and vice. What is the solution? Not merely the hapging of a victim or two of this rotten sysfem, but the abolition of the system itself. The preachers will say, we must go back to the Bible. Nathan Leopold is a confessed atheist but he believes Gods are useful for keeping the working class submissive with their eyes on the next world, while Leopolds robs them on this earth. Tt is not expected that the two young millionaires’ sons will go to the gallows. Had they been workmen and committed the same crime, noth- ing could have saved them. But there are millions behind them and for those who have money, justice is just what it says. Send in that Subscription Today. PRIZE PLAY. “The First of May,” a one-act play by Eleanor R. Wembridge, was chosen by Jane Addams and others as the best social service play. Send in that Subscription Today, Ship Bishop Brown to Russia, Bawls. Oil King’s Lackey CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 3.—“Wil- liam Montgomery Brown should be put out the back door of the church and sent first-class to Russia with his be- loved infidels. and bolsheviks, to! whom he says he is bishop,” Rey. W.| W. Bustard declared yesterday be- fore a crowd that packed Euclid Ave-| nue Baptist Church, popularly known | as the “Rockefeller Church.” | Chorus Girls Strike. BERLIN, Germany.—For more than a month the chorus girls and ballet | dancers of the government opera have been on strike for better wages, The opera management tried to scare them into coming back at the old figures by threatening them with dismissal, which in the case of state employes also means forfeiting of pension rights, The strikers maintained a united front, however, and turned down the suggestion. They have been raising strike funds by giving concerts and entertainments, He Fought for His Country. SAN FRANCISCO.—Frank Caffery, a@ war veteran recently discharged from the base hospital at Palo Alto, fell violently ill in a lodging house where he had taken refuge. The land-| lady phoned the Central Emergency hospital and was refused an ambu- lance, the hospital saying it was not an emergency case. A few hours later Caffery died: The coroner is investi- gating the liability of the emergency hosiptal. Brookwood Labor Commencement. KATONAH, N. Y.—Education and not hot air will make social progress, said Prof. H. E. Barnes in addressing the 13 students of Brookwood Labor college at Katonah graduating from the two-year course. They are the second class to complete the work. Union officials and others attended the exercises, Lynch Ahead in Typo Election. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,, June 3.— With but only fifty unions unheard from, James W. Lynch, Syracuse, N. Y., today apparently had been elected president of the International Typo- graphical union, it was said at the international offices here. Don't Doctor, LEIPSIC, Germany.—A warning not to study medicine has been issued to university students thruout Germany by the Association of German Physi- cians. The reason is overcrowding of the profession for years to come. Cal to Act on Tax Bill WASHINGTON, June 3,—President Coolidge wil act on the tax bill today, it was authoritatively indicated at the white house after a final conference on it with Secretary Mellon. He is expected to sign. BUDAPEST, Hungary.—The plight of the workers of Hungary is so des- may walk out any 1 strike. The average wekly wage of workers of ordinary ability is 260,000 kronen, while the barest minimum to keep body and soul together is 600,000 kronen. FRANKFORT, Germany—The La- bor college of Frankfort, perhaps the best workers’ institute on the conti- nent, has weathered the depreciation SCAB BOSSES GRAB RADIO IN TRUST (Continued from page 1.) Director Oliver Ames of General Electric and Western Union, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. ean easily “fix things up” with the telegraph trust. Besides Western Electric manufactures most of the equipment used by Western Union. In fact, the company started as a manufacturer of telegraph apparatus | in 1869. | Yesterday the family relationship} between Western Electric, American | Telephone & Telegraph, General Elec-} trie, Western Union and J. P. Mor-| |gan & Co. were briefly sketched in| the DAILY WORKER. Today we will show how the electrical trust is tied up closely with the world’s money trust and almost countless profitable activities in many sections. Money, Money, Money. To begin with, Edward R. Stetti- nius, director of Western Blectric’s cousin, General Electric, is also a director on the following corpora- tions, according to the Directory of Directors, New York City, 1921-1922: Babcock and Wilcox Company, Fidel- ity Phenix Fire Insurance Company, General Motors Corporation, Interna- tional. Agricultural Corporation, Inter- national General Electric Company. Taking only one of the companies just named show how extensively its operations are, we choose General Motors Corporation, which puts out the Buick, Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmo- bile, General Motors Truck and Chey- rolet cars, and A-C spark plugs, Delco starting, ignition and lighting sys- tems, Harrison radiators, Hyatt bear- ings, Jacoy steering gears, Jaxon rims, Klaxon horns, etc., etc., besides controlling iron and steel and other subsidiary companies necessary in the production of autos and parts, Morgan, Financial “Papa.” Then, of course, J. P. Morgan him- self directs in the Aetna Insurance Company, Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Discount Corporation, the First Security Com- pany, International Mercantile Ma- rine, Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Association, Montana Farming Corporation, the Pullman Company and the United States Steel Corpora- tion. The Pullman Company and the U. 8. Steel are notorious for following the same anti-labor, strictly non- union, speed-up policy that the West- ern Electric pursues. The Pullman Company, which makes, owns and/ runs all the Pullman sleepers in the country as well as manufacturing freight and passenger cars, does have a weak pretense of company union- ism. In the recent spontaneous strike at the Pullman works, just outside of Chicago, the company union finks were largely responsible for the breaking of the strike, altho it took them over a month with an alliance of hunger and non-support of the strike by fellow workers to conquer the men who stayed out. All Slave-Drivers The United States Steel needs no introduction to the working-class, It, too, has always been known for its long hours of labor, its slave-driving pace, and its extremely poor pay. Like its relatives in the financial family, the Pullman Company and Western Electric, it has always bitterly opposed the least sign of organization among to the workers, altho it is quite willing to relate itself into a gigantic combine of business int of the mark in Germany. . Various trade unions had to withdraw the stu- dents they sent at their expense, but the lectures continued, a nancial, to be: “public” as sible. The “family” takes the profits, the “public” squeals a little thru its liberal publications, and the workers slave and die. Western Electric, like the Pullman Company, likes to puff out its chest in the brassy company magazine “for the employes” about its sick benefits and pension system. It is a benevolent system and works out most advantage- | ously—ON PAPER—for the employes. In practice, the workers seldom get anything, unless they slave sf{lently for years and years and years, Pensions on Paper Only Theoretically the Western Electric pays sick benefits, but the. first stipu- lation is that the worker must have been employed two years by the com- pany. Then he may get benefit to the extent of four weeks full pay and nine weeks half pay—according to the pa- per formula. For 10 years service, if he is taken ill, the Western Electric Company magnificently offers to keep him on full time pay for 13 weeks and on half-time pay for 89 weeks! But if Western Electric wants to ex- cuse itself from the paying Benefits, it whines “times are dull” and lays off the men and women without allowing them a whimper. Pensions are supposed to be deter- mined by age and length of service and the Western Electric Company generously refuses to pay less than $30 a month to any pensioner. But if he doesn’t warrant that much, accord- ing to his service, the poor worker is likely to be let out without anything at all. No Chance for Intelligence The rate of pensions is supposed to be determined by taking one per cent of the annual salary of the worker for the past ten years times the years of his service. “Salary” may mean that wage workers are excluded from the long service pension. Few of them manage to stick thru all the ups and downs of industrial depressions when men are laid off right and left, as at present. The workers who are lucky, or un- lucky enough to get pensions have have a clear record of slavery to the Western Electric Company. “My com- pany right or wrong” must have been their motto thruout their years of servi- tude. And when they at last are given pensions, they are still in bondage to the company. They must not speak against it. They must hold themselves ready to return to the job in case the company thinks it necesary “to avert labor trouble” or to spy on workers sus- pected of having an idea of organizing their fellow slaves. gga ae re ‘alking ift to Hungry School Kids. CLEVELAND, 0O., June 3.<-Thrift instruction, given to the pupils in the Cleveland public schools for about four years, has been ordered discon- tinued by the board of education. Superintendent of Schools R. G. Jones is quoted as saying that the teaching of thrift “has not proved of sufficient value to pay for the time taken from regular classes.” 5 Perhaps one of the reasons for this action is the wide-spread unemploy- ment and short-time work in this city, It is rather a joke to speak of “thrift” thousands of Cleveland workers under present conditions, large num- bers of whom are either unable to get work at all or else can scarcely get enough time in to provide the bare necessities, ‘ Send in that Subsoription Today. Wednesday, June 4, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER AND THE VICTORY By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. On the one side the DAILY WORKER. Against it the whole yellow press, Yet the triumph has been complete. * * * * The backbone of LaFollette’s attack is broken. Minnesota has declared for June 17th. Nebraska speaks up for June 17th. Far off Washington never wavered for June 17th. California takes its stand for June 17th. 'Nlinois and New York repeat “For June 17th.” Michizan adds its voice “For June 17th.” And now comes Montana. * *. * ° The roll is being called and there hasn't been a single break all along the line. For the attack of LaFollette, spurred on by Gompers, and aided by the yellow press, the defeat has been disastrous. For the class-conscious workers and farmers of the nation, and their only spokesman in the daily newspaper field, the DAILY WORKER, the triumph is overwhelming. * * ~ * “It couldn't have been accomplished without the DAILY WORKER,” is the declaration heard on every side. “The DAILY WORKER won the day for the class Farmer-Labor party, for the mass convention of the farmers and workers to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota,” is the unani- mous admission. * * ° * What a chorus of opposition! The best scribblers of the kept press yelled that the June 17 convention had been all shot to pieces by the attack of LaFollette, endorsed by Gompers and receiving the “Amen!” of the dilletante millionaires of the “Committee of 48." _ William Hard, once heralded as a liberal, but now writing for the worst of the thie etd | organs of capitalism, sent out the glad tidings from Washington that “June 17th” had been wrecked. Charles N. Wheeler, political writer for William Randolph Hearst, booster of LaFollette as an “independent” candidate, recorded the victory for reaction in the millions of copies that daily pour from the Hearst presses. All the subsidized sheets of the profiteers were unani- mous in giving LaFollette all the space he needed: while it denied any opportunity to reply to his opponents. With these sheets stood the Minnesota Star, a so-called labor paper, published at Minneapolis, Minn., that has been repudiated by Minnesota's city workers and ers. ~ With them there lined up the Milwaukee Leader, Victor Berger's Socialist organ, that joins Wall Street in its hatred of Communism. What a powerful opposition! * * * iJ But that opposition has been humbled. It has been crushed. Today it is in the dust. The onward march of the June 17 convention is more steady, more determined than ever before. And the credit for this tremendous triumph ad in great part, by common acclaim, to the DAILY WORKER. : From the first hour that it appeared on Jan. 13, this year; the DAILY WORKER has fought single-handed amo all the nation’s dailies, for the class Farmer-Labor party o all oppressed workers and farmers. It has had its writers at the gatherings of the workers and farmers wherever they have been held over the country. It has recorded the steady onward march, of all who feel the lash of toil, toward the class party. - In daily articles and editorials it has pointed out the necessity for independent political action for the workers ‘and farmers. It has repeated the story in pictures and cartoons. Today, with new glory, the DAILY WORKER keeps its eyes steadily on the future. It looks forward to ever greater achievements, with the aid of its growing army of readers. If the DAILY WORKER has won the victories that it al- ready has to its credit, with the limited circulation that it now enjoys, what greater triumphs may it not achieve with tens of thousands of new readers? That is a question that is easily answered. The greater the number of DAILY WORKER readers, the greater its accomplishments. * * * * That is a truth that all our present readers should care- fully consider. We want them all to make that truth a livin; reality. We want all of our present readers to carefully and seriously consider, RIGHT NOW, what they can do to win new recruits for the DAILY WORKER'S growing army of readers, A decisive reply has already been given LaFollette and his backers. But that reply must be heard in even greater, in thunder tones. It will be heard, louder than ever, if the DAILY WORKER, thru an immensely increased circulation, can reach thousands of new readers. We want you to help. We want you to start in getting new subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER, Cut out the list below and get at least four names TODAY at the special subscription rate of TWO MONTHS FOR ONE DOLLAR. You can do it! Try it, and the results will convince you that there is nothing easier in all the world. TRY IT My Answer to La Follette THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois. Enclosed find §..... . to cover the list of .., Subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER taken on the list below. These “subs” were secured at the Special Rate of $1 for two months. This is my effort to let the workers and farmers know the truth about the attacks on the class farmer-labor movement. NAME ADDRESS SHPeneed ba ceneaeenennseseseneseen seeenennnene Oe enReeaeeenseeeeneeessaneeneaeseneesenieetensnnes: Write plainly, in ink if possible. Better print the names, Send in for special $1 for two months sub cards, ODAY! —_—_ —-