The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 1

arrays ele First Minor Article on G.O.P. Convention Direct from Cleveland in Monday’s Daily Worker THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 69. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at. Chicage, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. —_—____. SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924 GES 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ——— CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents HEARST BREAKS WITH PRINTERS DAWES PLAN tions, including return of Ruhr prisoners and repatriation of those expelled from the occu- pied zones because of sabotage against the Franco-Belgian oc- cupation. Approval of the program presented by Chancellor Marx means a further step in the subjection of Germany to the rule of the international bankers. The only effective opposition offered to. the proponents of the Dawes plan came from the Communists. The lat- ter fought it in the interests of the working class out of whose blood will be wrung the interest on the hun- dreds of millions which the bankers will loan to try to put capitalism on its feet again. The nationalists - opposed the scheme faintly, but were merely ” “using their opposition to bargain for positions in the cabinet. This.group, which contributed so much to German defeat in the great war because of its Communists Offer Only Opposition i BERLIN, June 6.—The Ger- | man Reichstag today formally. approved the action of the gov- ernment in accepting the Dawes report as a basis for settlement of the reparations problem. The parliament adopted a re- solution approving the experts’ plan with only slight reserva- Stupid blundering, acted equally stu- pid in the manouvering preceding the formation of a government after the election. The Catholic party, of which Marx is a member, plays a dominant role in the new government. Whether the Dawes plan can be put into operation, does not, however, en- tirely depend on the good wishes of parliament. The workers who have suffered grieviously for the past few years will be called upon to work still longer hours in order to satisfy the greed for profit of the international bankers. Whether they will bend their backs to the master’s lash for an- other while or rebel remains to be seen. Meanwhile the prestige of the Communist party is increasing among the masses while that of the yellow social democrats is rapidly sinking. FIVE MINERS KILLED DAILY BY BRITAIN’S - GREEDY GOAL BARONS LONDON, Eng., June 6—Five s? miners are killed each day on the ? average in the coal mines of Great \ Britain, according to the statistics } of Herbert Smith, President of the a) / Miners’ Federation. Every 215,000 ¥ tons. of coal is stained with the blood of a worker sacrificed. Last year 212,256 men were injured and disabled for more than seven days. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinois. Enclosed find §... labor movement that will organize NAMB Sent in b Make Your Answer Today! .. to cover the list of . to the DAILY WORKER taken on the list below. 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 by La Follette, Gompers and the whole yellow press on the class farmer- Labor Convention starting June 17th: dnremenseennersseserseneemeceneesesssseseeeeenseenen|seenearenseesasssnsesssseraneneessseaneseneneonne® Write plainly, in ink if possible. for special $1 for two months sub cards. Duncan MacDonald Speaks Before Two Miners’ Conventions TAYLORVILLE, Ill, June 6.—The Taylorville sub-district of the Hlinois Mine Workers of America convened here yesterday. Duncan MacDonald of the United Mine Workers, candi-+ date for governor of Illinois on the Illinois Labor party ticket and dele- gate from that organization to the June 17 Farmer-Labor convention at St. Paul, has been invited to address the sub-district convention. MacDon-| comfortable The Convention Behind the Conventions. By ROBERT MINOR. Another article on the Cleveland G.. 0. P. convention, written espe- cially for the DAILY WORKER, see ICE, clean, white beds, soft, easy luxury in “first class,” big, roomy, cars that roll with a ald will speak on the independent po-|soft, low hum of solid respectability, litical action of labor and on the June 17 St. Paul convention. The sub-district convention of Staunton, Ill, which met last Wednes- day, also listened to a Labor party speech by Duncan MacDonald. ‘The West Frankfort sub-district conven- tion will meet in the near future. It is predicted that the conventions will elect several delegates to the St. Paul convention of farmers and workers, as there are strong progressive sen- timents among the miners in these sections. Russia Has Air Mail MOSCOW, June 6.—A new aerial post route is being opened between Moscow and Leningrad. subscriptions These “subs” were its forces at the St. Paul Farmer- ADDRESS Better print the names. Send in carrying the better class on their er- rands of joy-chasing and money-get- ting thruout the land; uniformed, po- lite porters, all called “George” by the swagger gentlemen passengers— Pullman cars. That's Frank O. Lowden. The human embodiment of Pull- man cars may be president of the United States— perhaps. It is very doubtful. We don’t know. Those who give the tip, may be fooling. But the chance is strong enough to justify some curiosity as to just who and what is Frank O, Lowden. Heard of in 1920. The public heard most of Frank O. (ex-governor) Lowden in 1920, when suddenly several hundreds of thou- sands of Pullman Company dollars were poured into the republican con- vention to purchase the presidential nomination for him, at the same time that another deluge of Proctor & Gamble’ soap money was poured in among the delegates to buy the nom- ination for General Leonard Wood— and both lost the nomination when Senator Boies Penrose, the Standard | “OFF AT CLEVELAND, GEORGE!” Who Will Get Vice-Presidential Nomination? Why Not Lowden, the Pullman Millionaire? Oil money-carrier, telephoned on the long-distance from -Philadelphia, or- dering ‘the managers of both. Lowden and Wood to throw their delegations to Harding and Coolidge. General Wood has had his solace in the governorship of the Philippines; and Lowden—well, he may be given a very likely chance to become presi- dent after all, in 1924. All “Georges” His Servants. Mr. Lowden was a young lawyer practicing in Chicago thirty years ago. He didn’t amount to much, then; but he was destined to amount to much as soon as he married and settled down, for he was soon to marry the Pulynan Company and all its inter- minable «string of big, luxurious, pro- fitable cars, aid all the “Georges” were soon to becoma his servants. The Pullman Company was in its youth, but was already powerful, and was fast rolling up the hundreds of millions that were to be the making of Frank O. Lowden. The Pullman di- rectors were anxious to make its. em- ployes in the big Chicago works build cars faster and’faster, longer hours per day, at lower and lower pay; and there must not be any union to snatch for the workers any of the pennies that were to go to make Pullman pow- erful. The shopmen in'the Pullman works struck. The American Railway Un- ion backed them up. Switchmen, en- gineers, conductors, brakemen, re- fused to’ turn a scah Pullman wheel. (Continued on page 2.) WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT FEELS LA FOLLETTE MADE BIG MISTAKE IN ATTACKING ST. PAUL CONVENTION WASHINGTON, June 6.—LaFollette made a mistake in attacking the St. Paul convention, Federated Pri admitted by Laurence Todd, correspondent of the and a supporter of the Wisconsin senator. “Now that it is certain that the labor and farmer elements bent upon creating a new party will proceed to hold this convention, the problem does not appear so simple as his advisers assumed it would be,” “Lae ays Todd, Follette will not continue to combat the left while resisting the right, because he has not the strength for a double battle of that kind.” Advocates of a farmer-labor party point out, however, that if LaFollette wants peace with St. Paul it is only because his first treacherous blow was tion of the farmers and workers. and for the purpose of getting another opportunity. 8 one of the most dangerous enemies of the class organiza-| Will W. White, pilot of the other, He MISSOURI STAYS STRONG FOR F-L PARTY JUNE 17 States Convention Meets June 8 (Special to the Daily Worker.) ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 6.—“We want a Farmer-Labor political party no |matter who else likes it,” is the sen- \timent expressed by one delegate, |which seems to be sweeping the ranks |of workers and farmers electing dele- gates to the state convention to be held June 8 at Hagedorn’s hall, 2412 North 14th St., St. Louis. W. M. Adams, the secretary of the provisional arrangements committee for the Missouri State Farmer-Labor convention, made the following. state- ment in the name of the committee, in conection with the attack of Sen- ator LaFollette on the St. Paul con- vention. " “The workers and farmers of Mis- souri are convinced of the need for a political party to defend their inter- ests. This is made plain by the re- ceipt of credentials from railroad workers’ organizations, garment workers, butcher workmen, machin- ists, tailors and a number of others, since Senator LaFollette issued his mistaken attack upon the Farmer- Labor convention at St. Paul..... “The state convention here will be held as previously arranged, and ey- ery indication points to 100 per cent support for the organization of a class Farmer-Labor party at the big na- tional convention in St. Paul. Our slogan still stands ON TO ST. LOUIS FOR ST. PAUL AND A MASS FARM- ER-LABOR PARTY.” Airplane Falls on Child Cotton Slave Resulting Fatally SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 6.—Jose Ramos, child cotton picker, was in- stantly killed today when an airplane, colliding with another at an altitude of 1,300 feet, fell on him. Lieut. Stewart L. Thompson, pilot of one of the planes, was killed, and Lieut. leaped to safety in a parachute, SOUTH DAKOTA “DIRT” FARMERS ANGRY OVER LAFOLLETTE ATTACK Robert Marion LaFollette thought he only had to shake has wavy, gray locks at the Communists in obedience to the command of the very doubtful Sam Gompers In order to frighten the dirt farmers of the northwest into political hysterics and make June 17 as popular to the working masses as the Sahara desert to a Chicago bootlegger. But the means did not justify the end and Joseph Manley, secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor party, is flooded with letters and telegrams from the great open spaces where almost everybody has a vote protesting against the La- Follette surrender to the reaction- aries who hope to smother the grow- ing class party of the farmers and workers and drown it In a sea of non-partisan political horse- trading. Senator Tom Ayres, of South Da- kota, prominent figure in the Farm- er-Labor party of that state, sees no calamity following in the wake of the LaFollette anti-Communist broadside. In a letter to Comrade Manley he says: “The Farmer-Labor party move- ment will not suffer from the’ La- Follette action, but LaFollette will. By the time he gets thru slamming the core of this movement he will be a discredited flivver like Henry Ford, who is as dead politically as Albert B. Fall. “We shall all be on deck at St. Paul with a big delegation. Our only course to pursue is to go to the grass roots and the mines for our candidates, We have got to build from the bottom and ignore the so- called popular figures, in an effort to establish a cli Farmer-Labor party. I guess this is the time to begin.” LaFollette has succeeded In ex- posing himself as a false alarm thru his attack on the St. conven- tion more thoroly in one statement than the Communists could have done in years. Machinists to be at St. Paul for F.-L. of Massachusetts (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., June 6.—Thomas Conroy, recently elected delegate to the St. Paul convention of June 17 to represent the new Massachusetts Farmer-Labor Party, is well known in Worcester where he is secretary of Machinists local union 694. His alter- nate is William Simonds of the Stenog- raphers’ union. A state executive committee was elected for the new Farmer-Labor Party and a platform was adopted with the following planks included: Recognition of Soviet Russia; in- dependence of the Philippines; aboli- tion of state constabulatory and cit- izens’ military training camps; feder- al regulation of hours and minimum wages in industry; abolition of all in- junctions in strike cases; erection by the state of homes to be rented at cost and free meals in the schools. Whiskey Secretary of Treasury Has New Prohibition Bureau WASHINGTON, June 6.—The Crampton Dill establishing the prohi- bition unit as an independent bureau in the treasury department was passed by the house today 275 to 90 and sent to the senate for concurrence. The measure was endorsed by Secretary Mellon. [BIG LOCKOUT AND STRIKE IN SEATTLE Pressmen Fear Czarist Fist of Berry By HARVEY O'CONNOR (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Presa) SEATTLE, June 6.—William Randolph Hearst, publisher of 24 daily papers and numerous other publications, owne:. of news, picture and feature serv- ices, seems bent on a finish fight with the printing unions in his Seattle morning daily, the Post- Intelligencer. The union composing room of 100 men is on strike and 20 union mailers and 15. union stereotypers are locked out because they -will not handle non-union type from the strike- breakers Hearst has installed. Union pressmen remain at work, | fearing that George Berry, their international president and a Democrat candidate for the vice presidential nomination, may order union crews from. other towns if they go on sympathetic strike. Big Strike Negotiations. The strike of the printers followed five months of fruitless negotiations, the P, L, management refusing to the contract @lready in force on the four other Seattle newspapers. A large crew of non-union printers from a typographical school in Spo- kane and the extra force of a non- union Los Angeles daily had been on hand several weeks awaiting the ex- pected walkout, but the paper was seriously crippled nevertheless, issu- ing but one edition instead of four the morning after the strike. Long Strike Negotiations. The strike was forced as a premedi- tated effort by Hearst national offices in New York City, it is believed here, and the entire resources of the power- ful Hearst organization are pledged behind the effort to introduce the non- union shop in Seattle. Whether this is the opening wedge in a nation-wide effort to deunionize all Hearst papers is not known, but it is believed likely that insofar as conditions are favora- ble the program will be carried out elsewhere. “Willie” Loses Much Money. Within three days, it was computed by members of Typographical Local 202, the strike has cost Hearst a sum (Continued on page 2.) LUDENDORF TOLD 10 SHUT MOUTH, FILLS BELLY WITH BOOZE BERLIN, June 6.—General Luden- dorf is discovering that being a deputy in a republican parliament is a far different thing from being quartermaster-general of an impe- rial army. Apopletic—with rage—the general stalked out of the reichstag cham- ber and sought refuge in the bar when the Communists shouted: at him during today’s session: “Shut your mouth.” Ludendorff probably had not been so spoken to in 40 years and his fury knew no bound: is réply was drowned in the jeers of the opposition and he was forced to leave the chamber. WAGE SLAVE GETS A BUTTON WHILE WESTERN ELECTRIC BOSSES PILE UP GOLD MILLIONS IN THIRTY YEARS Joseph McClair, Western Electric employe, thinks he’s happy, for he has just completed thirty years of service in the company, and he is-going to reap a “suitable reward.” the Western Electric company in 1894, fresh from a pros) McClair came to Ss farm. He started in the humble position of oiling machinery, but he was told and believed that if he persevered true merit would prevail in the end and he would receive promotion. McClair took the advice of the Western Electric manage- ment very seriously. He was told, “Be loyal. work well, stay with the company, be satisfied with (Continued on page 3.) If you do. your your wages,