The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 16, 1924, Page 2

Page Two WORKERS AND FARMERS GATHERING IN FARMER-LABOR IN MINNESOTA PRIMARY TODAY Expect Communists to Make Big Showing By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, June 15.—The Minnesota state primaries, to be held tomorrow, will witness an important struggle between the left and right wings of the state Farmer-Labor party, according to C. A. Hathaway, national secretary of the Arrangements Committee for the June 17th Convention of the National Farmer-Labor movement. Minnesota law requires that the nominated candidates meet directly after the primaries and elect a state committee of the party. The left wing, rank and file Farm 4r-Laborites, are pledged to support and put into power as the official committee, the committee elected by the state convention, while the right wing, the present Pike machine, will disregard the convention’s committee, and elect one com- posed of reactionary labor poli- ticians. 71 Candidates in the Field. There are 71 candidates on the Farmer-Labor ticket, sald Hathaway. There are eight candidates for gov- ernor, and seven for all other offices, except that of United States senator. The race for this last office is between Senator Magnus Johnson, who ap- pears likely to win, Michael Ferch and Hjalmar Dantes, Communist. Dantes made no personal campaign. He was put on the ballot by the Workers Party, and any votes cast for him will be straight Communist votes. The three most likely candidates for governor are Tom Davis. a ictor Lawson and Floyd Olson. D 3a i uppor bf the Pik .aachine. Lawson is editor of the\ ‘illmer Tribune, a member of the International Typographical Union, and has been a progressive for thirty years. Floyd Olson is supported by Minneapolis labor, but has little strength in the rest of the state. But the Minneapolis vote may be strong enough to nominate him. The most important candidate fo lieutenant governor are Emil kL. Holmes, national secretary of the World War Veterans, and Frank H. Keyes, banker of International Falls. Holmes is a left winger and supported by the Workers Barty. The candidate for secretary of state supported by the Workers Party is Susie W. Stageberg, secretary of the Minnesota Non-Partisan League of Women’s Clubs. She is opposed by E. A. Preuss and Andrew Trovatin, both progressives. Claim Sullivan's Election. The candidate for attorney general, Thomas S@llivan, supported by the Workers Party, bas a walkaway. There is no strength in his opponents. The prominent candidates for Rail- road and Warehouse Inspector are O. M. Thomasson, renegade socialist, most of whose campaign has consisted in attacks on the Communists, and bombastic waving of the red flag; B, Smith, supported by the Workers Party, and Fred Tilquist, member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men, Tilquist was a strong candi- a up to last week, when he issued a statement to the press urging the voters of the fourth congressional dis- trict to support Oscar Keller, yepubli- can candidate for congress. The rea- son for this statement was that the candidate opposing Keller is a Com- munist, and, rather than see a Com- munist elected, Tilquist sacrificed his own support. But no support has been withdrawn from J. F, Emme, and Tilquist’s chances have been wrecked. Bental! Makes Strong Showing. The left wing candidates for con- Bress dll stand a good chance. In the eighth district, out of five candidates, J. O. Bentall, Communist, is expected to get second or third place at least, and in the fifth district, out of six running, J. 0. Johnson, member of the Workers Party, is also expected to attract a heavy vote. In the fourth district, J. F. Dunne, ig unopposed on the Farmer-Labor ' ticket. He is a member of the Work- ers Party, and has been Socialist can- didate for mayor of St. Paul three bey tenth district the reaction- ries are strong. Hicks, formerly of © Non-Partisan League, is running 1 the democratic ticket. George D. awer, formerly connected with the alist party, and the defunct ap- to reason, is running on the Far- «bor and has the sup- the right wing in the party. 1. ‘, left wing Socialist, has the * the s Party and the wae . remy MINNESOTA MOVING INTO LIMELIGHT (Continued from page one) fore the growing strength of the left- ward sweep of mass discontent. A new day dawns with June 17 for the nation’s oppressed. The workers and farmers coming across the nation for the St. Paul gathering on Tues- day are not looking for a “leader,” They are looking and planning for an organization to unite their numbers. Wisconsin has been held up hither- to as the “radical state,” the state of new ideas, the state with new plans, But Wisconsin is ‘now history. La- Follette, like Palmer and Daugherty, THE DAILY WORKER Today, from the broad masses of the workers and farmers there rises the demand for the mass Farmer-La- bor party, “the Minnesota idea” that goes thundering across the land, the jonly real phenomena worth while in this year’s presidential struggle. Flivver Caravans on the Way, Last week saw the caravans of the workers and farmers starting toward St. Paul. Three cloudbursts struck the Nebraskans, reports William H. Green, secretary of the Progressive party of Nebraska, already here, but they will arrive on time just the same, Charles Gordon Dawes, the Chicago banker, who is now the Republican has issued his ukase against the Communists. LaFollette has been crying around Wail Street’s national Republican convention at Cleveland. He has been puttering about Cleve- land, trying to sell his platform of piffles to Lodge, Butler, Burton, Wads- worth and the other pet puppets of the plutogracy. Let the Many Laugh. And the reports of the delegates to “June 17,” already arriving here, is that the workers and the farmers of the nation have been laughing up- roariously at the LaFollette antics, just as they are considering the “Coolidge-Dawes” ticket as the big- gest joke in all America’s political his- tory. LaFollette hasn't made a dent in the June 17 convention. It did not need the reports of the arriving delegates to support this view. If LaFollette had been able to confuse the workers and farmers of the nation in their efforts to establish a class party of their own, then Mr. LaFollette would have cer- tainly received greater consideration at Cleveland, from the office boys of the House of Morgan. But LaFollette and his Wisconsin middle class ideas have gone down in the American political struggle. They have taken the count, not only of the regulation ten under the usual Queensbury rules, but they have re- ceived a complete knockout for all time. “Hell 'n’ Maria” candidate for vice president, hails from Nebraska, When the Nebraska farmers heard of the selection of this head of Chicago’s powerful Central Trust company as running mate for “Strikebreaker” Cal Coolidge, they just pulled their belts @ little tighter in preparation for the fight for the class party. at St. Paul. THE FIGHTER THE BOSSES E SAINT PAUL L CONVENTION J. L. Beebe, chairman of the Pro- &ressive party, is also here from Ne- braska. There will be more than a score of delegates from this state in all. Ayres in “Covered Wagon.” Tom Ayres, candidate for United States senator in South Dakota on th: Farmer-Labor party ticket, drove i: from Mitchell, S. D., in his Ford se dan, the latest in “covered wagons from the wheat belt and the cattle plains. More than twoscore delegates will answer present from this state on Tuesday. Charles E. Taylor, Montana state senator and member of the executive committee of the Montana Farmer- Labor party, is also among the early arrivals, All of these enthusiastically reiter- ated in person the declarations they had already sent to Joseph Manley, sceretary of the Federated Farmer- Labor party, that they were going ahead with the formation of the class Farmer-Labor party in spite of the LaFollette denunciation of June 17, FRANCE CHANGES GOVERNMENT; OL Herriot’s Cabinet Little Bit of Everything (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) PARIS, June 15.—After all the po- tical fuss over the change of govern- aent, the new premier, Eduoard Her- riot, has announced a cabinet that will undoubtedly, carry on much the same policies as the old. Hven the advent of France's first Protestant president does not so far, seem to have made much change, tho it is predicted exist- ing relations with the Vatican will be broken. The new president, Gaston Doumer- gue, is acceptable to both conserva- tive and liberal forces and has suc- ceeded in breaking up the loose al- liance which composed the “left bloc.” Anti-German War Minister. Herriot’s minister of war is Gen- eral Maurice Nollet, non-part: who was bitterly opposed by the Germans as head of the military control commis- sion. The new cabinet was supposed to be one with a conciliatory policy toward Germany, so that the choice of Nollet is puzzling to those who ex- A.| pected the new government to easen- tially change the policy of the old regarding the German situation. Herriot conferred with President Doumergue Saturday and announced later that he would go to confer with Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Eng- land next Saturday. Herriot has not made any further statement of what he intends to do to the previous ar- rangement with the Vatican w' by French consuls acted as Catholic emis- saries in certain foreign sections. Anti-Clerical Rule. Herriot is anti-clerical and Doumer- gue is Calvanist (Presbyterian in the United States); so the Catholic influ- ence in the new government is a mat- ter of considerable speculation. It was very strong in the old Poincare- Millerand government. The new French cabinet which meets today and goes before the cham- ber of deputies tomorrow is: Premier and minister of foreign affairs, Edouard Herriot; minister of war, Gen. Maurice Nollet; minister of justice, Rene Renoult; minister of the interior, Camille Chautemps; minister of finance, Etlienne Clementel; minis- ter of the navy, Jaeques Dumesnil; minister of commeroe, M. Raynaldy; minister of publie works, Victor Pey- tral; minister of edvcation, Francois Albert; minister. of Jabor and health, Justin Godart; minister of the colo- nies, Edouard Daladier; minister of pensions, Edouard Bovier-Lapierre; minister of agriculture, M. Queuille; minister @f liberated regions, Victor Dalblez. Under secretaries—Posts and tele graphs, Piere Robert; merchant ma- THE BOSSES OF ONE OF WALL STREET'S POLITICAL PARTIES William V, Hodges, attorney, Denver, Colo, was made treasurer of the Republican National Com- mittee meeting here today. Hodg president of the Den- ver Civil and Commercial Associa- tion and a graduate of Columbia university. He is 48. William M. Butler, M setts, who managed, Coolidge’s pre- convention campaign, was made chairman of the committee. Roy West, of Chicago, was ed as the new secretary. Ralph A. Williams, Oregon, and Charles A. Hilles, New York, were named vice-chairmen to succeed themselves. Mrs. A. T. Hert, of Louisville, Ky., widow of the national commit- teeman, succeeds Mrs, Harriet Tay- lor Upton as the women’s vice- chairman of the committee. achu- lect- Jap of Another Color. MEXICO CITY, June 15.—The re- actionary press of Mexico is praising the new American exclusion against Japanese. But at the end of their articles the editors tuck in the state- ment that if Mexicans dared advocate a Mexican-Japanese alliance, the United States would appropriate Mex- ican sovereignty over night. MINNESOTA! VOTE FOR THESE MEN JUNE 16! FORGET OLD PARTIES! MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 15.— Here are the men the Workers party members and its many sympa- thigers, of Distriet 9, are urged to support in the Minnesota primary elections tomorrow. For U, Senator—HJalmar Dan- tos, Orr, For Lieutenant Governor—Emil E. Holmes, Hopkine. For Secretary of State—Susie W. Stageberg, Red Wing. For State Treasurer—Cari Berg, Erskine. For Attorney General—Thos. V. Sullivan, St, Paul. For Rallroad and Warehouse Commissioner—A. E, Smith, St, Paul, Representatives for Congress. ist District—Otto 2nd District—O. injord. 3rd Distriot—J. kesmos, 4th = District—J. F. Emme, St. Paul. 5th District—J. ©. Johnson, Min- neapolis. 6th District—Halver &, Halverson, 7th District—O. J. Kvale. 8th District—J. O, Bentall, Duluth. 9th Distriet—Knute Wefald, 10th District—Iirving G. Scott, Representatives In State Legista- ture. 29th District—Oscar Coover. 86th Dist t &. Youngdahl. | moathly / Messenger: REPUBLIC DEMO AAAM TREN 4 MEAN THAT 3 3 ONE THERE \ 7 Z “6a THE LEFT bs 2 EXCUSE ME... BUT WE ARE GOING TO FiGtt AND REED FIGHTERS Drawn Specially for the Daily Worker by K. A. SUVANTO, STRATEGIC ADVICE FROM THE ENEMY “Drive away that little fellow with the big fists! We don’t like him. He is a devil to fight and always first to go over the top.” NEW OUTRAGE BY FASCISTI AROUSES ITALY Missing Deputy May Be Murdered (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, June 15.—Re- sponsibility for the brutal kid- naping and possible murder of the socialist deputy Giocomo Matteoti, bitter opponent of the Mussolini dictatorship, is being laid at the door of officials of the Fascisti government. Reports that the body of the Socialist was found in a wood near Vico are current here. Opposition to the Fascisti, which has been growing steadily for many months, has come to a head in street battles between the Socialists and Communists and the black shirts. The factions of the left, knowing that the government is making frantic efforts to hush the matter up, have combined in declaring a general strike by refusing to attend the sessions of the chamber until the parties guilty of the frame-up have been punished. An interparty council to direct strat- egy against the government has been formed to function during the coming crisis. Mussolini has answered by or- dering the entire “black shirt” mili- tia mobilized for his protection. No action has been permitted against Fillicelli, director of the Fas- cist paper Corrieri Italiano, altho it has been definitely established that he hired the automobile in which Mat- teoti was kidnaped. Fear of the militancy of Matteoti against the government, resulting from his violent tirade against Musso- lini’s financial policy at the opening of the chamber two weeks ago, is re- ported to be the cause of the deputy's mysterious disappearance, Weak palliative measures, such as the temporary arrest of Bumini, Fas- cist partisan, are being taken by Mus- solini in an attempt to save the face of the government. He angrily denied the right of any one to make attacks upon the cabinet, however, and de- clared himself in accord with the friends of the government who hope that it will take advantage of the pres- ent situation to rid the party of all one which have a leaning to the Boost Cotton Growing. MOSCOW, May 10—-(By Mail), The government of Bokhara is work- ing to restore the cotton growing in- dustry in the country, The growers are granted loans of American and local seeds, while the more needy also receive certain money loans. More- over, the irrigation system has been considerably improved, Co-operative Movement Grows. BACHMUT, June 15.—The co-oper- ative movement of the Don Basin is steadily growing. Since last Novem- ber the business of the 1abor co-opera- tives has grown 221 per cent. The (Continued from page 1.) Crime detection runs something like this in Chicago, A crime is com- mitted. The police arrive on the scene and question the victim, if he happens to be alive, or the witnesses. Then, if it is a robbery or burglary, they round up the suspects. A sus- pect is any one who is in the vicinity of the scene of the crime. They are taken to the police station and a desk sergeant or leutenant tells them they are guilty and it is “all cleared up.” They are yelled at and frightened half out of their wits. Blows and Threats, If there is the slightest circumstan- tial evidence against them they are struck and beaten, not very hard, but that is made up for by threats, A con- fession is demanded and all sorts of punishment promised. No one is ever told that he is un- der arrest and that he has certain rights, one of which is to refuse any and all questions. Any one who re- fuses to answer all questions is pre- sumed to be guilty and is then given “his medicine.” “Give Him His.” If the prisoner talks about his rights he is marked down as a “wise guy.” The police begin to “give him his,” and promise more. The writer, who has been a police reporter in Chi- cago, believes that the police do not know that prisoners have rights. Thre is certainly no machinery for ed- ucating them to a knowledge of the rights of an accused person. If the crime which the police wish to “clear up” is a murder, the pro- cedure is a little different. They first seek a motive and then get any one and every one they suspect of having such a motive and “give it to 'im.” The search for a motive on the part of the police doesn’t go very far. They simply ask Dr. Joseph Springer, coroner’s physician, who represents the coroner on all murder cases. It must be said for Springer that he has never been known to take part in the “goldfishing” of a suspect or even to approve of its being done, Doctor Saves Cops. Springer’s intelligence and 25 years’ ‘ience in murder cases is the it help the police have in clear- ing up murders. On a murder trail alone 99 out of every 100 police offi- cers in Chicago would be lost without him, Once a suspect is arrested his tor- ture begins in much the same fashion as that given suspects of lesser crimes. But it only begins that way; with a murder suspect the terrorizing . It is then that the “goldfishing” begins. A “goldfishing” begins with loud shouts and many curses. Gradually it progresses to the stage of the rub- ber hose. A suspect is taken into a room with a squad of detectives and uniformed policemen and is shouted and cursed at, If he will not talk or tries to explain himself in a manner not satisfactory to the police, some one crack at him,” Strike from Rear, This is usually done by some one standing at the prisoner's rear. He is hit in the back of the head or struck on the shoulder or the back. Usually the prisoner turns and the whole room full of police shout, “Turn around here you son of a bitch.” If the questioning reveals nothing the police want the officer in charge| tower here. asks two or three men to take the village co-operatives are doing #| prisoner into another room and there business he or sho (the police “goldfish” “THIRD DEGREE” TORTURES BARED women as well as men) is told this is their last chance to tell the truth. If they repeat their story or “try to stall,” the punishment begins. A rubber hose with slits cut in it (the slits running the long way of the hose) is produced and a beating is given. A rubber hose is a fa- vorite weapon with the police be- cause it is easy to get, easy to get rid of and inflicts great punishment when “properly” used, The slits leave large welts which are very painful for hours but then disappear. If the suspect still refuses to “kick thru” he is beaten further and threatened more and kept awake for days if necessary and not fed or given a drink. That is the “goldfish” in general terms; what it is in particular cases will be told in further articles. FARRELL MEN WILL BE TRIED ON JUNE 23 Steel _ Workers Fight Trust and Kien MERCER, Pa., June 15.—All efforts of the defendants in the Farrell criminal syndicalism cases to get a postponement of their trials were un- successful. The next cases will be called on June 23, John Radias and Tony Kovacovich will be the next to be tried. The Ku Klux Klan is putting all its efforts into having the trials of these foreign workers rushed so they can point to some as: nce they have given the steel trust bosses in killing radicalism among the workers. The Klan has adopted the prosecution of the Farrell defendants as their job in this section, The bosses have no interest in the Klans’ fight against thi Catholics and the Jew~ but they are willing to be she? sn down by the Klan if the Klew will help them kill any threat of unionism that raises its head within the steel trusts’ domain. The defendants have made no se- cret of the fact that they want a post- Ponement of the trials so they can raise money to help in their defense. But that is just why the Klan and the prosecuting attorney want to rush the trials; they don’t want these men to have a chance of being able to put up an adequate defense. Unless the trial of these two work- ers is to be lost for lack of funds the workers of the rest of the country must come to their ald by sending contributions at once. This fight is a fight for the rights of the foreign- born worker, both against the: steel trust and the Ku Klux Klan. Contributions for the defense should be sent to Max Lerner, organizer of District 8 of the Wor! Party, Room $15 Labor Temple, 2536 Buclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, Dying Worker Saves Lives, 8ST, JOSEPH, Mo., June 15.—Frank Watson, railroad telegrapher; died of heart ailment at his post in a switch ) ‘When the body was dis- covered the hands were tightly clutch- ing and ST. PAUL Monday, June 16, 1924 PINCHOT’S MEN BREAK UP BG PHILA OUTING Wicks Arrested for Criticising “Cal” (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 15. —Neither the thousands of pic- nickers at Schuetzen Park, nor the steel state’s mounted police were disturbed from their activ- ities by the heavy rain storm which broke here Saturday. The police rode in on the crowds of merrymakers and ar- rested H. M. Wicks of New York who was making the principal speech, which included remarks not flattering to the little cau- tion in the White House. The happy picnickers were dispersed and Wicks taken to jail on the sharge of “disorderly conduct.” The picnic has been scheduled for rain or shine and was for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER. The people had come in droves since morning, and were in the height of the fun when the mounted Cossacks arrived, “fashionably late,” and broke up the crowd around the speaker. Music and Fun Any Way. The Lithuanian Singing society and the O. Lyman Union orchestra had been making the park ring with mu- sic, and the dancers were stepping it at a great rate just before the police butted in, Games of all kinds and contests of various sorts had filled the children, grown-up or otherwise, with joy. The hot dogs were yelping from the stove ana everybody was gloriously happy and ready to listen with enthusiasm to the well-known speaker. But the steel trust has its own no- tion of how to run a state, and didn’t miss the opportunity to send its Cos- sacks to join the picnic and create a disturbance, The steel lords, Gary, Schwab and their gang don’t care how rowdy the Ku Klux or American Le- gion Fascists get in Pennsylvania, but let a bunch of Honest workingmen and their families go out for a good time and they declare it’s unbecoming to the humble state of slaves and send their armed horse guards to “put sense in the workers’ heads” by knocking the men on their heads and riding as terrifyingly as possible into the ranks of the. women and children. Steel Trust for Fascism. Freedom in Pennsylvania is only al- lowed as the steel trust sees fit. Free rein to the hoodlum Klansmen, who put the jinx on the trials of workers whose only crime was their class con- sciousness, like the men in the Far- rell cases, but nothing doing when the workers themselves want a little fun. The steel “daddies” of little Calvin- of-the-big-White House guard their puppet’s reputation even more care- fully than he does himself. Workers who don't see what a nice, clean little boy the oily party has put in the big chair and intends to keep there, mustn't call Cal a-“strikebreaker” or anything disparaging. So H. M. Wicks from yw York was arrested by the Cossacks, acting for the steel trust, when he departed from the con- ventional —_adoration-of-the-president Policy allowed by the steel “daddies” who tried so hard to make congress agree with Cal in not forcing them to Pay such heavy taxes, The Philadelphia workers, in spite of the lack of old Bill Penn's “broth-; erly love” ideas and practices in the state named for him, are not d ir aged by this latest attack upon 5 and consider that their picnic wasn’t at all a failure. Rain and mounted cks arrests can’t spoil their it, they declare proudly, and plan even greater activities for the DAILY WORKER and for the movement in the United States for a real class Farmer-Labor party, which will ulti- mately tell the steel lords and Cal where to get off the map. | } Send In that Subscription Today! FARMERS MORTGAGED UP TO THE EYES; JUST READ THESE FIGURES (By the Federated Press.) NEW YORK, June 15.—-Mortgages on farms, homes and business prop- erties in the United States are in+ creasing at the rate of a billion doly’ lars a year and now unt to ale most $25,000,000,000 dollars, aceord+ ing to a report of the National As sociation of Real Boards. » This is greater than the total amount of money in circulation In the country plus all the gold and silver reserve in the United States treasury. Nor do the figures in the report include mortgage loans and bonds iseues secured by coal, tim- ber and mineral lands, railways, city transit companies, industrial plants and the like, | |