The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 1

\ Minor’s First Cartoon on the Cleveland G. O. P. Convention Appears on This Page Today THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 67. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. coe = 290 Published Do Nata eee co., Demand: Workers! Farmers! The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents WORKER tt Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, LAFOLLETTE IS UTTER FAILURE BIG ELECTRIC PLANT LAYING OFF WORKERS Western Electric Turns Out Nearly 19,000 Over nine thousand men have been laid off at the Western Electric man- ufacturing plant at Hawthorne, work- men told the DAILY WORKER re- porter, who went out in workingmen’s clothes “job hunting” in order to find out the conditions under which the ‘Western Electric employes have to work. Men are being laid off every; jay, and one workman told the JXAILY WORKER that within two weeks nineteen thousand will have been laid off out of a total working force of thirty-nine thousand men. Youngsters Work. The Western Electric plant, filled with thousands of boys who should be in high school and college, pays the lowest wages and forces the men to work overtime to get wages that will no more than support a single man decently. “You'll have a hard time finding a job in the Western Electric,” a pass-| erby told the DAILY WORKER. “I was working in the cable forming de- partment and was laid off the begin- ning of last week. The work is piece work, but most of the men in this de- partment don’t make more than the day rate. The day rate of pay is $20.45 a week, or 41 cents an hour. The ten are paid only for the time punched on their ‘time clock card.’ Spies Thick as Flies. “You'll have a hard time finding a had big blisters on my hands for a couple of weeks. Working on the cables tears the skin right off of your hand. They tell you when you take the job that you will soon be able to make four cables a day, but that’s all bunk. They pay $3.75 for a cable, and for a long time it takes two days to finish one cable, and you make your day work rate. It takes over a (Continued on page 3.) Cokesburg Miners Elect Delegates to St. Paul Convention COKESBURG, Pa., June 4.—Local Union 5071 of the United Mine Work- ers of America, despite the propa- ganda of John L. Lewis and Gompers, voted to send a delegate to the St. Paul convention on June 17. The of- ficial machinery of the U. M. W. A. has been used extensively by the Lewis gang to discredit June 17 among the miners. The red bugaboo was played to the limit but the coal diggers are not easily frightened and Cokesburg’s reply to the reactionary propaganda .was to get on the band wagon for June 17. Send in that Subscription Today. ‘ JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK, PLANS TO JOIN RANKS OF FARMER-LABORITES JAMESTOWN, N. Y., June 4.—A call has been issued here for the or- ganization of a Farmer-Labor Party, June 12, at Central Labor hall. All labor and fraternal organizations are being invited to participate in the convention. The movement has the support of quite a number of lo- cal labor organizations and it is ex- pected that a strong local organiza- tion will be formed to co-operate in state campaigns. Send in that Subscription Today. LA FOLLETTE CRIES FOR HIS MAMA | Drawn Especially for the DAILY WORKER by Robert Minor. 4 Makes Very Weak Attempt. TACTICS OF THE WISCONSIN SENATOR PREVENT ACTION ON WORKER-FARMER NEEDS (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4.—At the zenith of his career in politics, Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin has proved himself a dismal failure. His half-hearted efforts, more than the parliamentary skill and trickery of the old guard of the Democratic and Republican parties, are responsible for the ad- journment of congress without having acted on the most impor- tant problems pressing for solution. By a vote of 53 to 36 the senate decided to adjourn on June 7. The motion of the Wisconsin senator to stay in session until duly 7 was defeated by a vote of 52 to 36. Thus all attempts to get a vote on even the limited farm relief measures, the abolition of-section 15a of the Esch-Cummins act guaranteeing the railway interests a minimum of nearly six per cent profits on watered investments and fictitious capitalization and the discarding of the railroad labor board are now ended. The hundreds of thousands of bankrupt farmers and the work- ers are left out in the cold, despite the numerous loud promises made to them by the LaFollette*— group in the last elections and on the eve of the opening of congress last December. COMMUNIST ON The fact that La Follette’s pet hobby of railroad legislation did not Ukrainian Not Allowed to Consult Lawyer eyen get a hearing in this session, that the railway interests have a |firmer grip on the governmental strike-breaking machinery than ever, that not a step was taken to alleviate the acute suffering of the farmers did not seem to worry the Wisconsin sen- ator, coming as it did at the end of a long period of procrastination on his part. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) Many people who have seen con- kunsky, accused by the American au- = NEW YORK, June 4.—Michael Biio———— gress at work for years and who have watched La Follette press his case HE CRIES AND HE SCOLDS, BUT HE DOESN'T LEAVE HIS MAMA. By ROBERT MINOR. (Specially Written’ for the Daily Worker. ) }of “no rocking of the boat” and his |lame public statements giving obvious- IVE aiden ago Calvin Coolidge |1y false corroboration to perjured tes- “had not a chaifte in the world” | timony—all of this branded Coolidge to be nominated to succeed himself | jas the center and core of the gang of | as president. | thieves, As “the principal” in the most sor-|fact, at least, if we may assume his| did scandal of billion-dollar larceny, {ignorance of the chief business that as the protector and concealer of per-|was being transacted by his daily as- sonal bribery in the looting of the} sociates and confidants in the Hard- navy, as the personal friend and ad-|ing cabinet. visor of the thieves and as the debtor to their private purses for his past election, branded more clearly than are most of the ‘petty thieves that go to the county jail. His private telegrams to those di- Coolidge was caught and |its Classless Mass Helpless. The country appeared to “rock to foundations” over the Teapot Dome revelations. Surely that intangi- ble thing which is called “the public,” was interested in the affair. Surely “the public” (conceived, if we can so as the accomplice-after-the- | conceive it, as a class-less mass) was interested, had a desire, if not the means, to condemn the colossal crime. Coolidge, drowning in a flood of oil, “had not a chance” to be nom- inated for president. But today Coolidge is as good as nominated. In state conventions, and in open primaries which are supposed to be the best guarantee of the ex- pression of the “public’s” will, Cool- idge, smeared with oil, has swept everything before him. Coolidge had a dangerous rival: Henry Ford, who is a democrat or a |republican according to which nomi- nation he can get. Ford, a republican this year, was considered the great} obstacle to Coolidge’s success. Ford was hammering on Coolidge with in- cessant criticism. In as callous a deal Big. Capitalism Always DEFENDS Itself and Its Stewards |rectly involved in the crime, the se- \|eret conference of his secretary with |the $100,000 bribe-taker, his promise as was ever put over, the respectable president bought off Henry Ford with the promise to “deliver Muscle Shoals”—the “public’s” priceless herit- age worth untold lions. A few days after receiving the promise, Henry withdrew his candi-| dacy and endorsed Coolidge. The deal was exposed just as clearly as the Teapot steal. Coolidge was caught in the act of buying off a rival, for his personal gain, with public treas- ure—caught as definitely as are most shoplifters in the county jail. Captures Republican Primaries. But Coolidge swept everything be- fore him in the open and free prima- ries, The idea that Coolidge would lose the ‘nomination because of his expo- i (Continued on Dage 2.) LA FOLLETTE CLUB IN WASHINGTON JOINS THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY (Special to the Daily Worker.) SPOKANE, Wash., June 4—A “LaFollette-for-President” club, started here some two months ago, has been transformed into a county branch of the Farmer-Labor party. The club was organized at a meeting at which William Bouck, president of the Western Progressive Farmers, spoke in March. Members of the Workers party, led by William McVey, objected to the organization being built around the candidacy of LaFol- lette and urged that it become a unit of the Farmer-Labor party of the state of Washington, which was done. + Thru the activities of the members of the Workers’ party in co-operation with other workers who joined the farmer-labor unit, a series of meet- ings was held in school houses in the city of Spokane at which interest in the farmer-labor movement was aroused. As a result of these meet- FOLLETTE’S HOME STATE GAVE LARGE ORDER FOR SCAB COAL |) MADISON, Wis. June 4.—Protest by the Milwaukee Federated Trades Council against the purchase of coal from nonunion mines by the state of Wisconsin were heard by Gov. ine last week, Frank J. Weber represented the Milwaukee trade unions. President Frank Farrington, of the Illinois miners, had notified Weber that Wisconsin had arranged for 85,000 tons of nonunion coal from western Kentucky and West Virginia, while 30,000 miners in Iilinois were unable . to get work because of shutdowns. While the Wisconsin state board of control emphasized the epine aspect, Gov. Blaine’s decision has not been disclosed, ‘ a * , ings it was possible to call a county convention and organize the Farmer- Labor party on a county scale, The convention of the county organization, recently held, elected delegates to the state Farmer-Labor party convention, which is to be held in Seattle on July 5 and 6. Members of the Workers’ party of Spokane, who have born the brunt of this work, feel that with only five members to rely upon they have ac- complished a great deal for the farm- er-labor movement. Another Injunction. ST. PAUL, June 4.—Federal Judge McGee, who became notorious in ty- rannizing over Minnesota during the war, is in the anti-labor spotlight again as a result of his injunction declaring that the strike at the Foot-Schulze Shoe company plant was at an end. The strike is still on and has been on for 50 weeks, and will continue on|of unorganized protests that ofte: NEW PULLMAN STRIKE STARTS IN CAR SHOPS A mass meeting of the striking workers of the wood car department of the Pullman company shops at 108rd St., will be held this morning at 10 o'clock in front of the gate. About 250 men walked out of the Pullman plant from the wood car de- partment Tuesday morning, demand- ing an increase in wages.. The work- ers were paid a day rate of $5 and piece work rate of 38 and a half cents acar. They are asking 60 cents a car. Make Refrigerator Cars. The wood car department of the Pullman company shops do the work on wodden refrigerator cars particu- larly. Company men have already ap- proached the strikers, having in mind the recent stiff strike of the riveters, reamers and buckers, but the wooden car workers have refused to go back to the job until their demands are granted, The present strike is the same sort of a spontaneous walk-out that oc- curred a little over a month ago at the Pullman works. It is the same sort oc until the wage cut is rescinded, the | curs in railroad shops, especially those union declares. — ) of Pullman and Hegewisch, where the WALL STREET HAPPY AS LA FOLLETTE WON'T FIGHT IN WASHINGTON NEW YORK CITY, June 4.—The surrender of Senator La Follette to the Old Guard on the question of immediate adjournment of congress by his failure to resort to filibuster- ing, in which he is reputed to be skillful, has had a buoyant effect on the opening of the stock market. Leading industrial stocks shot sky- ward when the exchange was as- sured that congress would adjourn on Saturday. Baldwin Locomotive stocks led the advance reaching a new high of 112, Suth anti-labor and open shop concerns as the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the American Can Company iw ther stock rise to high levels and recovered consider- able lost ground in response to the that the Wisconsin senator made no fight to prevent congress from closing sessions. slaves are speeded up to the limit and then are confronted with a wage cut. Company Shown Up. As the DAILY WORKER so consis- tently pointed out in. the previous strike at the Pullman works, the Pull- man company is one of the Morgan conce! “J. P.” is himself a mem- ber of the board of directors, hundreds of mil-} on numerous other occasions were sur- | prised at the weak attempt made by him to prevent the senate reactionar- ies from reaffirming the position of the house which was for adjournment by a vote of 221-157. The consensus of opinion here before the stinging defeat was administered the insur- gents is summed up as follows by the observer of one of the leading metro- politan dailies: “If Senator La Follette is sincere in presenting his resolution, he will {no doubt resort to one of the filibust- |ers for which he is so well-known, and may do everything possible to pre- |vent the Senate quitting its work in time for the Cleveland convention next week.” La Follette Is Insincere. | Obviously La Follette was insimcere in order to force congress to show \itself on the various questions con- | fronting the country. The fact of th¢ matter is that in the house the so- called progressive bloc, from whom considerable determined opposition was expected in an effort to thwart adjournment, did not even participate in the debate onthe issue. The in- surgent whip in the House, Represen- tative Nelson of Wisconsin, was silent thruout the proceedings. In the Sen- ate, floor leader La Follette merely greeted the reactionary line up of the unified democrats and ‘republicans with a smile. If La Follette had resorted to fili- bustering as he has on occasions of far less importance to the working and farming masses he could have de- feated the agents of the big interests in their plan to hasten adjournment. The old guard of both capitalist par- ties was anxious to close sessions in order to get a chance to repair their political fences which are badly in need of mending in many states. It is the plan of the administration forces to blame the inactivity of the first session on the tactics of the so- called progressives who will be chargéd with having tied the hands (Continued on Page 2.) thorities of being a member of the Communist Party, was ordered de- ported to Ukraine. He surrendered at Ellis Island, according to the order of the court, on February 17, 1924. Under the laws of the United States, he. could not have been held in cus- tody more than four months and would have been released, if it were not for a man named W. Zahajewich, who maintains an office at 470 West 23rd St., New York City. He declares him- self as Ukrainian representative of Soviet Russia. He claims to be the authorized agent of a Soviet Ambas- sador at Washington, D. C. who has been issuing passports in the Ukrain- ian language. This man supplied the United States |in his advanced notices of the fight to | the finish that he was going to make | authorites with some sort of passport, assuring the steamship company that he, as an Ukrainian Representative of Soviet Russia, would obtain permis- sion from the Ukrainian Consulate at Roumania or some other country, for his admission into Soviet Russia. As a result of that, the steamship com- pany consented to accept him and he was actually deported on May 25. Comrade Bilokunsky was not even given a chance to notify the attorney or National Defense Committee. Can’t Seek Liquor In Autos INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 4—A severe blow was dealt enforcement of state prohibition laws today when the supreme court of Indiana handed dowr a decision declaring it unlawful to stop automobiles promfscuously and search them without search warrants. LITVINOV TO HEAD SOVIET DELEGATION AT ANGLO-RUSS PARLEY MOSCOW, June 4.—Maxim Lit- vinov, head of the Soviet trade missions abroad left here today for London to take the place of Chris- tian Rakovsky as chief of the Rus- sian delegates to the Anglo-Russian conference. Rakoveky is going to Paris to confer with the new French ministry regarding recognition of the Soviet regime. N.Y. BULLS IN CAMP LEARN HOW MACHINE GUNS ‘SETTLE’ WORKERS (By Federated Press.) PEEKSKILL, N. Y., June 4.—Intensive training in the gentle art of putting down labor demonstrations by using machine guns and riding down workers is being given to the riot battalion of the New York city police department, encamped at Peekskill. Five hundred and fifty picked men will be put thru their paces for two weeks. National guard officers are helping with instrue- tions. The cops wear regular army uniforms—which they pay for note their own pockets. They are also required to buy their own K