The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1924, Page 3

| | |Wednesday, June 4, 1924 | WORKERS UNITE INPHILADELPHIA FOR JUNE 17TH City Farmer-Labor Party Is Born By ABRAM JAKIRA. SHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 3.—Sev- enty delegates representing twenty- one labor unions and eight fraternal organizations of this city organized a local branch of the Farmer-Labor Party and elected a delegate to the June 17 convention. The Workers Party was represented by three dele- gates and the .oung Workers League by one. The following organizations were Tepresented by three delegates each: local No, 1073, United Brotherhood of carpenters and Joiners; local No. 1050, United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners; local No. 159, Inter- national Association of Machinists; local No. 623, American Railway Ex- press Employes, (two delegates); 1lo- cal No. 587, Paperhangers’ Union; lo- cal No, 306, Paperhangers’ Union; local No. 138, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; local No. 44, Millinery and Ladies’ Straw Hat Workers; local No. 140, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; local No. 53, International Fur Work- ers’ Union; local No, 279, Hotel and Restaurant Employes;~ local No. 2, Tapestry Carpet Weavers; local No. 1088, International Association of Ma- chinists; local No, 77, Upholsterers’ International Union; local No. 11, Press Feeders’ and Assistants’ Un- ion; local No. 122, Upholsterers’ In- ternational Union; local No. 106, A. F. W. Butchers’ Union; local No. 1039, Painters’ Union; local No. 1083, Paint- ers’ Union, and Workers Party of America, local Philadelphia. Following organizations were pre- sented by one delegate each: Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers; Philadelphia District Council Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- ers; Young Workers League; four branches of the Workmen’s Circle and four other fraternal organizations. June 17 Main Issue. The arrangements Committee sub- at 98 a resolution containing the fol- recommendations: 1. To organize a Farmer-Labor Party of Philadelphia and to elect a chairmen, secretary-treasurer and an executive committee to carry on the work of the party. ’ 2. To endorse the convention to be held in St. Paul on June 17 for the purpose of organizing ‘a national Far- mer-Labor Party which will nominate its own candidates for President and Vice-president and to send a uelegate to that convention. 3. To instruct the Executive Com- mittee of the party to prepare a draft of a platform and by-laws of the party to ve submitted for adaption at the next conférence of this party to be held not later than Tuesday, July 8, and 4. That during this period an ex- tensive campaign be carried on to secure affiliations of all labor organ- izations of this city not represented im this conference. This resolution was the cause of a lengthy and heated debate. Charles Kutz, chairman of the Pennsylvania “ON TO ST. P age the St. Paul convention. the workers will be given a tre- mendous impetus by the spec- tacular repudiation of the St. Paul Farmer-Labor convention June 17, by Senator Robert M. LaFollette as tainted with com- munism, if it shall serve to make a clean cut differentiation of the sheep from the goats of funda- mental reform. In a state of our civilization call- ing for the most heroic treatment LaFollette refuses any communion with the robust elements of labor leadership that alone have shown any real comprehension of the vital welfare and needs of the worker. With Gompers’ Gang He foregathers with Boss Gom- pers, a sort of Dick Croker of the political labor machine, in blind persistence in purely’ political tin- kering that ‘has no efficacy for real relief of a very sick society. They love their personal prominence and power more than human liberation. With them Mr. J. A. H. Hopkins, a millionaire beneficiary of preda- tory economics, financing a so-called progressive high-brow political block, called the forty-eighters, warns third party folks against St. Paul radicalism. They plan a safe and sane Fourth at Cleveland to acclaim the Pompadour Bob as the last thing in political hair-dressing. All they need is a kick-in of some of Frank Vanderlip’s disgruntled millions to make a real classy jazz party. Fear Enemies of Morgan The plaint of these palterers is that the active spirits at the St. Paul will be subverters of our bles- sed Mellon-Gary-Morgan-Rockefeller free institutions in cahoots with communism and internationalism of TH AUL!” GROWING DEM GOOD RIDDANCE, SAYS MINNESOTA FARMER-LABOR COUNTY CHAIRMAN OF THE LAFOLLETTE DESERTION (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) ROCHESTER, Minn., June 3.—James L. Brewer, chairman of the Farmer-Labor Party of Monroe county, Minnesota, in a public statement lands telling blows on the disruptors who would sabot- Brewer says: My idea is that the cause of* the pure Russian brand. It f& just as well that the American people may be shocked into a real interest in these bogies. The splendid thing to happen at St. Paul would be to have a straight communist declaration put before the American people, and the can- didate might well be Bishop Wil- liam Montgomery Brown now on trial by the Episcopal Church for heresy at Cleveland. The charges against him are based on his book, “Christianism and Communism,” in which he says he cannot see how any educated and honest man can be today other than a revolution- ary heretic in religion as well as a revolutionary heretic in politics, predatory capitalism’s two servants being the church on the right and politics on the left. Dictatorship Tlie present chaotic conditions, if.left to drift, must eventuate in a dictatorship. For America so pluto- cratically well organized, as Mr. Russell opines, this would be at the outset of the Fascisti order, such as Mr. Gary surely has the pattern for from the experience of his friend Mussolini. ‘With Pompadour Bob in a theatri- cal pose as a grandiloquent apolog- ist for a defunct order and limelight- ing in mere beguilement of votes, we may still make history by a real clearing of issues this fall with a ~pretty fourcornered contest as fol- lows: Mellon Cally, for the Graad Oil Party; “Al,” the Wet, a Tam- many Blind Tiger offering; Battling Bob, his own platform, and Brown, the Red, Sovieted Bishop of the Churchless. With four solid years of Cal per- haps the blinders of the people may be completely shed. the local organization to affiliate with the state organization and will also prevent it from using the name “Far- mer-Labor” which is now the property of the state organization. Speaker after speaker took the floor and completely smashed the argu- ments of brother Kutz. They ably pointed out the difference between the “rank and file” convention of June 17 and the one: called by the high officials of the International Unions. They also showed that the June 17 convention has a definite program for Independent Political Action, while the July 4 convention is wiggly-wab- blying for the last two years and has no intention of organizing a Farmer- Labor Party. * Brother Baker, of the Machinists’ local, pointed out that the real inten- tion of William Johnston, the chair- man of the July 4 convention, is brot out very clearly in the April issue of the official organ of the Machinists’ Union. That isstie carried a picture of McAdoo with the characteristic in- scription— “McAdoo for President— Why Not?” Delegate A. Gersch showed that Stone, too, is not for In- State Farmer.cbor Party, was press|dependent Political Action, by quot- ent and was the first to speak against the resolution. He pointed out that the sending of. delegates to June 17 convention will make it impossible for WARTIME BANISHMENT NO BAR TO GAILLAUX WINNING POWER NOW (Spécial to The Daily Worker) PARIS, June 3.—Joseph Caillaux may return to his former position as premier of France, as the result of the political upset at the recent elections. ‘The fact that Caillaux ‘was accused of treason during the JOSEPH CAIL! war and banished from P; Political cliq then is by the in control time slogans are being forgotten in France id Caillaux’s star is . brighter than it has been at any time in his bourgeois political ca- _ poer since 1914, ‘ ing his speech delivered at the con- vention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. The resolution was adopted with but one dissenting vote. Officers Elected. . A. Gersch of Painters’ L. U. 1083, was elécted chairman and H. O. Mc- Clurg of Paperhangers’ L. U. 587, was elected secretary-treasurer. The following were elected to the Executive Committee: John Fitz- gerald, Painters L. U. 1039; Walter Johns, Int. Ass'n. of Machinists L. U. 159; Jatob Wakshull, Carpenters L. U. 1073; Andrew W. Pitt, Tapestry Car- pet Weavers L. U. 11; A. Jakira, Work- ers Party; Joseph Baldessaro, Carpen- ters L. U. 1060. The conference was addressed by Joseph Kunz, secretary of the Mary- and Peoples Party, who spoke ip favor of the June 17th convention. The Peo- ples Party will participate in that con- vention. The conyention adjourned full of enthusiasm and determination to make the Farmer-Labor Party of Philadel- phia a powerful weapon in the hands of the workers. Send in that Subscription Today. Princess Maxoutoff Is Out of Russia; Into United States (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 3.—Mme. Sophie Samliemaya, the former Princess Maxoutoff of Russia, arrived here to become the bride of Alexander Rou- doy, one of the cogs in Ford's Detroit automobile factory. The princess hung out in Burope as long as she could, but, realizing that the chances of getting back to live on the backs of the Russian workers and makes little difference now. War- |peasants were rather slim and getting slimmer and slimmer, the princess be- took herself to this happy hunting ground for bankrupt celebrities. “Bend COUNTY OFFICERS ILLEGALLY SPEND WORKERS’ MONEY Cleveland .W orkers Want Men Ousted (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., June 3.—Workers and other citizens of this city are de- manding the resignations of the Cuya- hoga County Commissioners and of Prosecutor Stanton for participation in the amazing extra-legal case in which county officials loaned a private com- pany $1,400,000 of public moneys. State Insurance Officer Quizzing The Municipal Savings and Loan Company to which the county officials turned over the workers’ money is now in the hands of a receiver and 20 men, including A. R. Dittrick, chair- man of the county commissioners, ahd Edward Thobaben, assistant county prosecutor, have been summoned to appear before the State Insurancé Commissioner, Harry L. Conn at Co- lumbus. The money of Cleveland's workers was paid in-as county taxes to be used for public purposes and in direct de- fiance of the law this money was given to a private loan company on secur- ity of supposedly “completed build- ings” which in reality stand only par- tially erected, some of them not more than foundations. Little Chance to Get Insurance Less than half. the county money given the loan company was insured by authorized companies. The remain- ing $850,000 taken from the county treasury is “insured” by firms not per- mitted to do business under Ohio laws and the surety bonds for this amount were not registered with the state superintendent of insurance. Lloyds of London is one of the outside firms involved. Pi The penalties for the offenses which these county officials have comitted are fines of not more than $10,000 for the use of the county or imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than 10, or both fine and imprison- ment. Send in that Subscription Today. Oklahoma Going to St. Paul Despite “Red Menace” Cry (Special to The Dally Worker) OKLAHOMA CITY, June 3,—De- spite the red scare revived by LaFol- lette, the Oklahoma delegates to the St. Paul Farmer-Labor convention, to be held June 17, will not be recalled. State Chairman J. W. Houchin an- nounces that the original plan of send- ing delegates both to the St. Paul and the Cleveland conventions will be fo! lowed. : in that Subseription Today. _Send in that Subscription Today. _ 100,021. E DAILY WORKER * LAFOLLETTE NOT NEEDED, DUNGAN MCDONALD SAYS St. Paul Doesn’t Depend On Individuals’ Whims. (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 3.—“If the St. Paul convention depends upon the whiiff of one individual, then it had better never have been called,” de- clared Duncan McDonald, secretary of the Illinois Labor Party and its candidate for governor, in a state- ment calling for support of the June 17 gathering and denouncing the dis- ruptionists. McDonald said: “There has been an effort on the part of the old line politicians and their allies in the newspaper field to prevent this gathering of farmers and wage workers and ap- parently LaFollette is to be the pinch hitter in the contest. His denunciation of the present corrupt situation In his own party was in a measure responsible for the - call- ing of this meeting and now appar- ently he does not want it held. “If the convention depends on the whim of one individual as a possible candidate for the presidency, then it had better never been called. If it is going to be dominated by individ- uals, then it is a mistake. The In- consistency of LaFollette’s position lies in the fact that Re himself has been the victim of the same hys- teria that he now uses to prevent the get-together meeting in St. Paul. It Is not so long since he was charg- ed with being a “red,” hung in ef- figy, tried for his seat in the Sen- visited Russia, and performed all the other feats for which others are now denounced. Scolds G, O. P. Put Stays In It. “The strange thing about LaFol- lette’s position is that he denounces his colleagues in the Republican Party and yet refuses to desert them. He tells us of the need of a new party and yet remains in the old. In the organization now func- tioning as ‘The LaFollette for Presi- dent Club’ with headquarters in the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago, not a wage worker or farmer is on the committee. It is made up of manu- facturers, a banker and some mer- chants. “Apparently he wants to see where the lightning will strike in the old party conventions when it is well-known that both will be dom- inated by special privilege as they have been for many years. Then of course, if will be time to denounce them some more. Well, We Know Now. “It_is well that his position is known before the St. Paul meeting is held. His position will possibly keep some of the weak-kneed ones away, but the convention will be held and a definite program laid down embodying the demands of the producers on the farm and in the factory. There can be nothing in common between the producers and those who will dominate the old parties and who finance their cam- paigns.” Send in that Subscription Today. Methodists May Dance if Conscience Allows; Ban is Off > (Special to The Daily Worker} SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 3.— The famous Methodist ban on amuse- ments, which has held for 40 years, was suspended by a 3 to 1 vote in the convention here, The church worthies at last have decided to trust their flocks to individual consciences in the matter of choosing their pleasures. The spiritual principle by which the Christian “sheep” are supposed to act is to’ avoid “the taking of such diver- sions as cdnnot be used in the name of the Lord Jesus.” However, special advices will be ap- pended to assist the individual con- sciences in their new freedom. Good Christians will be urged to avoid “im- proper amusements and excessive in- dulgence in innocent amusements.” The worthies shook their heads over the spread of interest in “harm- ful” movies and dances and lifted up “a solemn note of warning,” conclud- ing with an admonition that all “our people” make, their amusements a subject of frequent prayer. Brookhart Racing For Senatorial Life In Iowa Primaries DES MOINES, Ia., June 3.—The race between Smith W. Brookhart and Bur- ton KE. Sweet for the republican nomination for United States senator proved a nip and tuck affair today as returns continued to come in from precincts balloting in the state pri- mary election held yesterday. Sweet showed considerable strength in the city precincts while Brookhart’s strength apparently lay in the rural districts. Of 1,183 precincts reporting out of 2,412 in the state Brookhart polled 106,678 votes while Sweet received Page Three AND OF WORKERS AND FARMERS LA FOLLETTE BELONGS TO THEIR PARTY SS SS SS SERAHK y * You. Know. meal ——~ Drawn by Wilfred Canan for The Federated Press. ‘ONTOST. PAUL’ DESPITE ATTACK OF POLITICIANS Michigan F.-L. Branch Sees ‘Its Only Hope (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich, June 3, — A straight-out letter reiterating the sup- port of the Wayne county Farmer-La- bor Progressive Party to the June 17 convention and denouncing Senator LaFollette’s betrayal of the farmers and workers has just been sent to William Mahoney, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements of the St. Paul meeting. LaFollette Has No Cure. The letter reads: “We, the Executive Committee of the Wayne County Farmer-Labor Pro- gressive Party, formed May 25 in De- troit, Mich. having considered the statement issued by Senator LaFol- lette, in which he attacks the class nature of the party to be formed on June 17 and the Communist tendency of certain elements, issuing the Call, wish to state that in our opinion Sen- ator LaFollette’s attitude should have no bearing on the plans going for- ward, exceft to clarify the issue and emphasize the unreliability of those liberals, who would, Moses like, lead the distressed farmers and workers out of the wilderness. The workers of the industrial centers, like Detroit, realize that the social ills from which we suffer lie too déep to be cured by simple political honesty, such as Sen- ator LaFollette promises the people. “Indusffial crisis, such as gripped the country in 1921 throwing six mil- lion workers out of employment and their families in destitution, call for such a thoro-going readjustment of so- cial economy as Senator LaFollette has never been, and is not likely to be, the advocate of. Class Consciousness Hopeful. “Senator LaFollette bemoans the growing class consciousness of the workers and exploited farmers. In this growing class consciousness, in- creasing (as it must) with each de- sertion of the farmers’ and workers’ interests by such liberals as Senator LaFollette, we see the only hope that the producers of this country will control the products of their toil and supervise their distribution, so that want among the toilers while the rich surfeit in abundance will be finally eliminated from the land. “This committee, in behalf of the Wayne County Farmer-Labor Pro- gressive ‘Party, supports the state- ment issued by William Mahoney, that Senator LaFollette’s attitude will have nothing to do with the plans for June 17. We wish to in answer to Senator LaFollette’s “red raid,” that the Workers Party of De- troit has tent valuable support to the labor movement in’ Detroit, and has] SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE YOUNG WORKER TREATS MILITARISM. PROBLEMS The Noung Worker, official organ of the Young Workers’ League of America, has just come off the press and is chuck full with ma- terial on its special anti-militarist campaign. The leading story by Charles Witter describes the pass- age of the naval and army appro- priation ‘bills im congress and points out the strivings of American capitalists towards preparations for a new war in the near future. Jay Lovestone depicts the growth of America’s armed forces; Julia Schulner tells the real story of the last war, and Max Shachtman points out the danger of new wars in the Dawes-Morgan plan. Besides these there are articles on the Communist position on war by Harry Gannes | and Martin Abern, Wm. F. Dunne on War and the Trade Unions, and Sidney Borgeson on the subject of how the next war will be fought. Cartoons by Art Young and Maurice Becker bring a sparkle and satire to the issue. Copies can be obtained from The Young Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill., at 5c a copy or 3c in bundle orders. Get it right away! been one of the chief advocates of carrying the idea of independent po- litical action’ from theory to action. We hold that the Workers Party, hav- ing its roots deep in the labor move- ment, constitutes a better support to a Farmer-Labor Party than Senator LaFollette, directing his political ef- forts for personal advancement from a swivel chair in Washington thru a committee of bankers, lawyers and others, in which the workers and farmers are conspicuous by their ab- sence. “We urge the Committee on Ar- rangements to redouble their efforts and pledge the support of the Wayne County Farmer-Labor Progressive Patty thruout all attacks of all poli- ticians whose personal interests may be injured by our actions. “Yours fraternally, “WAYNE COUNTY FARMER-LA- BOR PROGRESSIVE PARTY. “(Signed) William Reynolds, “Secretary.” Send in that Subscription Today. Winer “Red Menace” NEW YORK, June 3.—The “radicals bloc” in the freshman class of Colum- bia university outnumbers the 80 re- publicans and 48 democrats in the class. The “radicals” include Social- ists, Farmer-Laborites, and Indepen- dents, according to the poll. The class voted 181 to 50 for gov- ernment ownership of railways and 112 to 46 for nationalization of mines. Send In that Subscription Today. Communists Invite Appeal of Expelled Norwegian Party (Special to The Daily Worker) ~—The Executive Committee of the Communist International has extend- ed an invitation to the Norwegian Workers Party to send representa- tives to the fifth congress for the pur- pose of appealing from the decision of the Executive Committee causing the expulsion of the Norwegian party. The N. W. P., thru its Executive Com- mittee has answered that it considers it too late to appeal after the Execu- tive Committee has expelled it from the C. L and aided the formation of |a new party, which opposes the N, W. P. Neither does the N. W. P. consi- der an organizational re-entry prac- ticable at this time. But the delegation will be instruct- {ed to try to create conditions for a lasting and friendly co-operation with the third international in considera- tion of the fact that the international in principles and policy represents the same viewpoints and the same aims which the N. W. P. desires to further in Norway. bese TORT pa Ex-Patriarch Tikhon *'4 Will Push Church’s Approval of Soviets MOSCOW, June 3.—Ex-Patriarch Tikhon, released from prison last year, is proudly acclaimed as an ally now of High Presbyter Krasnitsky of the reformed “Living Church.” Krasnitsky announced that Tikhon \is forming a high church council with |him and six others and will shortly call a general meeting of church rep- |resentatives from all over Russia to proclaim the legal authority of the Soviet revolution and government and decree formal opposition to its ene- |mies, internal and external. The alliance is diplomatic for Kras- nitsky, enabling him to present a stronger front against his rival in the Living Church. Krasnitsky is very close to the Communist position ,ex- cept that he refuses to renounge his religious beliefs. Send in that Subscription Today. French Deported 140,000 German Workers from Ruhr ESSE Germany, June 3—Thouw sands of German rail workers and — their families are still exiled from their homes in the Ruhr by the French invaders. The French are also holding 1,700 German citizens in prisons on charges of sabotage, en- dangering the public security, ete, Of oners. The 140,000 who have been de- — ported or expelled from the occupied area are for the most part railwaymen these, at least 600 are political pris» nd their families, and petty etvil — ervice officials, u) ie CHRISTIANIA, May 10.—(By Mats”