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ie iy THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 71. SUBSCRIPTION RATES LAFOLLETTE AND WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS VAINLY HOPE TO “PURGE” G. 0. P. AT CLEVELAND (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, June 9.—Even with Coolidge in complete con- trol, Senator LaFollette still hopes to “purge” the Republican Party and make it a fit instrument for carrying out his “pro- gram.” a “third party.” These are the conclusions He has no idea of participating in the organization of drawn from the announced de- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. cisions of the Wisconsin delegation to the G. O. P. convention, opening tomorrow, to introduce resolutions for a condemnation of Daugherty and Fall, an endorsement of the insurgents, de- claration against the Mellon tax P se re-assembling of Congress. KLAN MURDER TRIAL OPENS IN EBENSBURG, PA. Klansmen and Antis Are Indicted jal to The Da Daily Worker). - BBEN , June 9.—Expos- ure of the inner worklhike of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylyania, was awaited as trial of 29 Klansmen and 15 anti-Klansmen, the latter residents of the town of Lilly, opened here to- day. Scores of Kiansmen were called as witnesses in an effort to show who was responsible for the demonstration at Lilly on April 5. B The 44 men face charges of murder and riot as a result of the outbreak at Lilly during which three men were killed and a score of people including two young girls, injured. District Attorney D. P. Weimer an- nounged tuday he probably will move to try the defendants on the riot charges first. The defense will ask separate trials for each defendant. The state will oppose this move. On the one side was the state, press- ing indictments against both Klans- men and anti-Klansmen. In the sec- ond camp were the Klansmen, intent upon their own acquittal, yet deter- mined to give no help to their fellow prisoners—the anti-Klansmen. The third group was the anti-Klansmen ‘who were just as intent on helping to convict the Klansmen as is the state. ‘There has been no co-operation be- tween the two defendant groups until now. »-Send in that Subscription Today. F ‘ood Workers Elect Delegate to Go to St. Paul F-L Meet Ask Favors From Elephant. After a meeting of the Wis- consin delegation, John J. laine, Governor of Wisconsin and delegate-at-large from that state, announced that the fol- lowing resolutions would be in- troduced in the resolutions com- mittee: 1. Extraordinary session sof con- gress to be summoned July 7, to consider bonus, agriculture, trans- portation and reclamation proposals. 2.. That. Daugherty be con- demned and forever barred from holding office under the Republi- oe party. That Albert. B. Fall be re “pudlated ed and condemn ever barred from holding office. 4. That the convention commend those republicans who voted for the present tax law, and the Mellon tax plan be condemned. Talk About Graft. 5. That the individual republican senators be commended who op- posed the Muscle Shoals deal, who aided in uncovering prohibition frauds, in disclosing graft in the veterans bureau, in exposing malad- ministration of the Farm Loan Act, in the department of justice scan- dals, and in the probe of Senator Wheelers’ indictment. These resolutions would be embar- rassing to the administration, of course, but there is little liklihood of the chairman allowing them to come before the convention. ‘es Will be 100 Per Cent Cal. CLEVELAND, O., June 9.—The re- publican platform will be 100 per cent Coolidge, according to information given out here today. Senator Lodge is reported as out of the game, and Jim Watson and others who wanted to write the document have surren- dered to Coolidge. If this program groes thru, the document is settled. Charles B, Warren, who will be chairman of the platform committee, has arrived with the main planks al- ready decided upon by Coolidge sup- porters. The Bunk Planks. Among the planks in the platform will be: 1. While much has been done to improve conditions in agriculture, Albert E. Stewart, secretary of the Chicago branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ union, has been elect- ed a delegate to the St. Paul national Farmer-Labor convention of June 17. Mr. Stewart has been one of the most active directors of the food worke’ strike against the Greek restaurants of the city. t nd in that Subscription Today. there is still more to be done in the direction of co-operative marketing, and there should be readjustment of freight rates. 2. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway should be opened and in- terior waterways improved to afford an outlet for agricultural areas, Mellon Tax Plan. A taxation plan similar to that (Continued on page 3.) MINNESOTA’S RALLY TO BENTALL _ FOR COMMUNIST CONGRESSMAN : SCARES STEEL TRUST MAGNATES (Special to The Daily Worker) DULUTH, Minn., June 9,—This steel trust stronghold is Siffering from jumping nerves over the possible election to con- of J. O. Bentall as the first Communist to have the honor of attling for the exploited workers and farmers in the halls of pagrens under the banner of communism. Bentall is cont the Farmer-Labor party nomination in the primaries on June 16 as a member of the Workers Party. He | talking straight Communism and the workers and farmers are hungry for th e ‘The capitalist papers are pam which is aiding him c: message. “Bentall For Co ess" Clubs. the Communist candidate bly. “Bentall for Con- (Continued om page 3.) Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 19 TUESDA , and for- | , JUNE 10, 1924 at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING Drawn especially for the DAILY WORKER by Robert Minor. Already Be Seen. This Much of the Outcome of the National Republican Convention at Cleveland Can By ROBERT | MINOR. DAILY WORKER Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND, June 9.— Delivery of fifty high-powered rifles at the Harvard Avenue car barns, and con- tinued equipping of car windows with heavy steel mesh armor, gave just the necessary Coolidge touch to this city on the eva of the Republi- can convention which has little to do but ratify Coolidgism. John J. Stanley, president of the the Cleveland Railways, admits that the heavy boxes delivered yester- day contained rifles, but claims all who are allowed to use these rifles in the coming street car strike, will be duly authorized by law.. Organ- izing of the company’s armed forces is in charge of the Fred F. Field Service Company, of Cleveland, al- ready well-known for its recent rough record in fighting the strike of ice cream workers. More than 500 strikebreakers are already em- ployed. President Stanley boasts he can get five or six thousand idle workers who will be glad to take jobs: with low pay and long hours. The company insists on training scabs to operate cars:in the barns within plain sight of the union men. Union officials. made hurried visits to Harvard Avenue barns this morn- ing when the men, infuriated by the sight of armored street cars, scabs /| being trained, and rifles delivered, threatened immediate walkout. The officials persuaded the men to con- tinue work, while the company con- fers with International union offi- cials, William B. Fitzgerald and Ea- DELIVER RIFLES TO CAR BARNS ward MecMorrow, and with local president William Polk and secre- tary, William McRea. Direct intervention of the Cool- idge administration in the local la- bor quarrel strengthens the queer rumor that the republican conven- | tion leaders will make strike “an | example” for the exposition of re- publican labor policy. This is pro- Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Barn Recognition of Soviet Russia THE DAILY Washington Bivd., WORKER . Chicago, Ml. Price 3 Cents CO., 1113 W. CAR STRIKE LOOMS OVER 6.0.P. Cleveland Open Shoppers Prepare for Open War on Workers CRUCIFIED REPUBLICAN CIRCUS TO PICK PRESIDENT MAY BE DISTURBED BY OMINOUS LABOR STRUGGLE By ROBERT MINOR. Editor of “The Liberator.” Staff Writer and Cartoonist of the DAILY WORKER. CLEVELAND, June 9.—With trains pouring into the city many thousands of visitors and delegates, with hotels already jammed and streets overflowing with sight-seers and drink- hunters on this eve of the repudlican national convention, an ominous struggle between the street railway corporation and its employes threatens to become the real subject of interest con- cerning the great president-making circus. In the car-barns today are a number of cars on the windows of which has been fastened heavy wire grating like that used on the windows of police-patrol wagons. These cars are equipped for the strike that is foreshadowed. The Cleveland Railway Co. officials two days ago ordered union motormen and conductors to run these cars out on the street before the strike has even begun! The union men are wild with anger, refusing to touch the cars thus equipped for scab running. The republican national committee appears to be upset with the prospect of the labor struggle taking place while the,Coolidge convention is on. Cleveland business interests are trying to avert what they call “an insult” to the* republican convention. But the business men are not willing to go so far as to ask the street- car corporation to pay the men. the twelyé Cents per hour intrease which Desertion of St. Paul Costly to Schaper was granted them as a beggarly com- (Special to The Daily Worker) promise by a board of arbitration, the. corporation refusing to abide by MINNEAPOLIS, June 9.— Withdrawal of support to Dr. the decision. And so, on the issue of that twelve cents, a nasty discord |Wm. A. Schaper, candidate for nomination may be thrown into the Republican |jthe Farmer-Labor convention. Another “Berry” Affair. There is some talk—tho the writer cannot youch for its accuracy—of this incident swelling into another “Berry” affair. City Manager William R. Hopkins is said to be negotiating with William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Street Railwaymen’'s Association, and with Vice-President William Fitzgerald, to get these inter- national officials to force the men to| for governor, was announced by jthe Workers Party, District 9, in an open letter by Norman Tallentire made public here. The action of the Workers Party follows the withdrawal of |Schaper from the committee on arrangements for the June 17 convention, and his issuance of a statement against the Workers Party and the formation of a national Farmer-Labor party. submit. without a strike, or, if the The statement makes clear that the | vided they can get the union of- ficials to serve as “model” union men by outlawing the strike. Local Secretary Polk may be call- ing the bluff of Secretary of Labor Davis, by accepting his offer of as- sistant in adjusting the trouble. But anyway the company makes a ges- | ture of refusal of the Davis offer, and the situation makes ideal ground work for a great stage play with the republican counterbalance to the demoeratic Berry incident. NATION-WIDE QUIZ OF BLOODY KLAN DEMANDED (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 9.—Decloring the credentials of Senator Earle B. Mayfield, Texas, are “stained with the blood of helpless victims,” attorney Luther Nickels, chief counsel tor Geo, E. B, Peddy, contestant, today de- manded that the senate committee now probing Mayfield’s election. in- vestigate “the true nature of the Ku Klux Klan.” * In a 90-page brief filed with the com-} - mittee today, Nickles asked that. the senate investigate the acts of the klan ‘on a nation-wide scale, mentioning famoits crimes like those at Mer Rouge, Louisiana, and Inglewood, Cal., and other places which he blamed on the organization, Concerning the Mer ties case this brief saps, “An inquiry into the facts will show that. the klan was| responsible for the death of Daniel and. death or disappearance of Rich- ards and that such responsibility was reported to the imperial officers by their confidential agents prior to the time when these officers so strenuous; ly denied klan connection.’”* St. Paul Unionists Elect Delegates to June 17 Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn. June 9,—The Trades and Labor Assembly elected its president, Frank Starkey, to repre- sent the organization at the June 17th national Farmer-Labor party conven- tion. y The Ramséy county convention of the Farmer-Labor Federation elected C.J. McClogan to represent the di- vision at the June 17 convention. Japs Try New Cabinet. LONDON, June 9.—Viscount Kato has accepted the task of forming a|_ Japanese cabinet to succeed that of Premier Kiyoura which resigned Sat- urday, according. to. the: Central News. INJUNCTIONS HIT BY U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jyne 9—The su- preme court today held that the pre- vention of the filling of orders for in- terstate shipments by the actions of strikers in preventing the manufac- ture of articles ordered was not in- terference with interstate commerce and that acts of such strikers could not be enjoined by federal courts. The injunction against the picketing of the striking United Leather Work- ers’ International union in St. Louis, granted trunk manufacturers by the federal district court there, and con- firmed on appeal by the United States circuit court of apepals for the eighth circuit, was set aside by the supreme court. LONDON, June 9.—The Portuguese Far Eastern flyers flew today from Rangoon.to Bangkok. strike comes, to outlaw it, help to recruit scabs thru the international office at Detroit, Mich. endorsement previously given him by the Workers party, came only after he had been consulted, and had made So faa I know of nothing that would justify the inference that the |his stand clear regarding June 17 and the formation of a national party. international union officials would co- operate in this scheme. But there is a strong indication that some power- ful Republican and business interests Schaper a Quitter. “We affirm that our endorsement *s given in good faith,” the letter “helieving as we then did, that are working for another “Berry” in- cident for what they seem to think would be a dramatic staging of the bor, James J. Davis, who is a guest of the convention, sent a telegran. federal labor conciliator at Cleveland, | YO. continue your support of to intervene in the threatened strike, |the \. ,' convention and of a class (Continued on page 3.) organi «idw of the workers. Insofar ahead of his arrival to A. L. Faulkner, |\ theory of “good” unionism in a way that” would be associated with the Republican convention. Unquestionably, great pressure is being brought to bear upon the union officials. Coolidge’s secretary of la- as you are now on record against (Continued on page 3.) Make Your Answer Today! THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, flinois. 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