The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 1

{ Vol. Il. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT No. 77. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. THE DAIL Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 19: by mail, $6.00 per year. ces 290 WORKE } at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1924 ‘ R Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganiged The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents UNITY!” GRY HEARD IN ST. PAUL » ~~" WORKBR Which ‘contains an article - STATE'S ATTY. | 3.4 INVESTIGATES’ \e \ ‘ \ ‘\ DAILY WORKER Scab Bosses Using Anti- Labor Prosecutor The sales of the DAILY WORKER around the gates of . the Western Electric plant great- ly increased yesterday, despite the investigation which assist- ant state’s attorney Frank Mou- taocik yesterday admitted is be- ing conducted by state’s attor- ney Crowe's office. The investigation was insti- tuted at the suggestion of A. Borg, Cicero plain clothes man, an eager backer of Western Electric exploitation, who de- clared he was shocked at the use of the word “semi-prosti- tute” in an issue of the DAILY WORKER. The state’s attor- ney’s investigation is to decide whether or not the DAILY WORKER has been printing “scandalous matter.” Frank Moutaocik, assistant state’s attorney, told reporters that, “The thing the state is interested in is not the charges again3t Karl Reeve, but whether or not the paper is printing scandalous matter. We want to go over the facts and find out whether or not that. charge is true.” “I have sent for every DA on the Western Electric, and expect to get them and go over them today,” continued the assistant state’s attor- ney. “I am not now in a position to state what definite action will be tak- en toward the DAILY WORKER. We are going over the papers and will see whether or not they are printing scandalous matter.” Borg Active for Trust. When asked whether he was called in by the Western Electric company and who brought the DAILY WORK- ER’s exposure to his attention, Mouta- ocik said to a reporter, “I was in the Cicero police court on other matters and a Cicero policeman brought the articles to my attention.” It was learned that A. Borg, who has twice put Reeve in a cell while awaiting bond, once when a convicted burglar was waiting in a reception room with his wife for bail to be brought, had given assistant state’s attorney Moutaocik the DAILY WORKER articles. “There are two charges launched (Continued on Page 2.) {LA FOLLETTE WILL NOT RUN SAYS TACOMA ED; JUST SENSE ENOUGH TACOMA, Wash., June 16.—LaFol- lette knows better than to run for president, in the opinion of Editor John McGivney, Tacoma Labor Ad- vocate, the official organ of the Cen- tral Labor council. He writes: _ “Contrary to the general notion, the Labor Advocate does not believe that Senator LaFollette will be a candidate for the presidency on any such thing as an independent ticket. LaFollette is one of those liberal politicians who first of all are politicians. His ideal- ism is a strange mixture of political pragmatism and quixotic earnestness, but he manages to realize where he is at with a very accurate gage in- deed of public sentiment, in Wiscon- sin,” COMPANY PARADERS CAN'T STOP SALE OF WORKER'S NEWSPAPER While members of the Hawthorne Club, organized by thie officials of the Western Electric to create good feeling and make the employes for- get their low wages, were parading around the vicinity of the plant at noon yesterday the DAILY WORK- ER “newsies” were selling over 1500 DAILY WORKERS. Western Electric workers again expressed indignation at the perse- cution directed by state’s assistant attorney Frank Moutaocik, against the paper, which Is exposing the open shop company's treatment of its employes. “That stuff in your paper is all true,” one mechanic told Jack Mc- Carthy, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER. “it isn’t strong enough,” another man said. The workmen tell the DAILY WORKER salesmen that the piece work speed- up drive of the bosses has been completely demoralized since the ex- pose by the labor newspaper. NEED STRONG STOMACH FOR OPEN SHOP JOB Company Doctor Gives Rough Going Over The unemployed worker, hir- ing out at the Western Electric company at Hawthorne, has to have a mighty strong stomach and a great deal of inexperience, if after going thru the four hour process of physica! examination and mental cross-examination, he still retains a shred of loyalty for the company which pays him an insignificant wage. Before starting thru the mill that landed me in the process inspection department as an em- ploye of the company, I talked to several new employes who had been hired the same day. “I told the doctor that I’m not a horse or a cow, and if you have to be ordered around, prodded, hollered at and pushed from ohe fresh kid to an- other, they could go to hell with their job,” one union man told me. “I stood it as long as I could, but when I land- ed in the hospital, filled with new em- ployes, and received typical Western Electric treatment there, I walked out and quit before I had started.” Joined the Family. After experiencing the hospital strong| arm third degree handed out by the Western Electric, I sympa- thized with this union man. After being interviewed by the sharp-faced individual in the employment office who allowed me to fill out an appli- cation; after giving this application to a clerk; after being interviewed by Mr. Noble of office No. 2, in the employment division; after being sent from the ignoble Noble to Knudson, who, after consultation with G. Gor- don and B. Stock, hired me, the en- tire afternoon was consumed, and I found that I had just started to be indicted into the “one big family” of the Western Electric. The Western Electric company robs the workers of many thousands of dollars every year by making them go thru the four-hour hiring out process on the time of the men. Everything (Continued on page 2.) LEWIS, MINE WORKERS’ AUTOCRAT, REVOKES CHARTER OF DISTRICT 17 WHEELING, W. Va., June 16.—The latest victim of the autocratic head h. of the United Mine Workers of America is District 17 which eovers the bloody boss ruled state of West Virginia, when that district's autonomy was Suspended by the international executive board at Indianapolis. The long smouldering feud between the leaders of District 17 and the uncrowned king of the United Mine Workers of America has at last broken out beyond control and Percy Tetlow, a notorious Lewis lackey, pointed head of District 17. The excuse given by Lewis for taking away the autonomy of the district _ Is that the policies of the international union were not enforced. Thus West Virginia follows Kansas and Nova Scotia on the index expurgatoris of the man who had the ambition to be Calvin Coolld: Republican ticket. running mate on the INAVY MOB TARS AND FEATHERS UNION WORKERS California Business Men Organize Gangsters (Special_to The Daily Worker} SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 16. —The seven union men who were kidnaped Friday night by a mob which raided the |. W. W. Marine Transport Workers’ hall here have returned to.their or- ganizing activities after having been tarred and feathered by a mob led by sailors and marines from U. S. battle ships in the harbor. The seven workers were taken from the hall in a truck Friday night and taken out into the desert where they were beaten and then tarred and feathered. During the raid six children were injured by the mob. One child is still in the hospital. Disaster Used as Excuse The raid was instigated by the busi- ness interests of San Pedro who are seeking to crush unionism on the water front. Then use the recent dis- aster on the U. 8. S. Mississippi where forty-eight sailors were killed as the excuse for the attack. The mob leaders cleverly incited their fol- lowers to violence by asserting that the I. W, W. members had made slur- ring remarks about the dead. and were able to incense the sailors who lead the mob against the I. W. W's. The raiders entered the hall while an entertainments. was in progress and with axes broke down the doors and demolished the place, carrying every- thing they could find into the street where it was burned. Three girls were severely scalded when the raid- ers threw a urn of scalding coffee on them. Wobblies Defend Themselves The workers who were in the hall (Continued on Page 2.) POLICE CRIMES TOLD IN COUNCIL ‘GOLDFISH’ PROBE First Witness Tells His Story to Aldermen Drunken police have picked out cer- tain men, robbed them, flung them into jail and kept them for days with- out being booked, and conducted re- peated and continual searches on their premises according to the testi- mony of Samuel Cheery, 533 West Division street, first witness before the City Council Committee on Police, which began hearings yesterday. Money Disappears with Bills Cheery told how Lieutenant Jensen, of the detective bureau flying squad, went into his combination pool room- grocery-butcher shop a week ago last Saturday night with a squad of drunken policemen. When Jensen's men departed, $800 in checks and $150 in cash, which he had been counting on a flat-topped desk, disappeared simultaneously. Upon hearing that they were ac- cused of taking this money, Jensen came back with his strong arm squad, Cheery told the committee, and ar- rested everyone in the place. It was only after his lawyer, Richard Pren- derpast had threatened Jensen re- peatedly with counter action that Cheery and the others were released on bond. Arrested when Police Charged They were arrested Saturday night at eleven o'clock and not even booked until late Sunday. Cheery declares he was continually threatened by the police as they de- clared he was on their “bad books.” When charges were filed with the chief of police against Jensen, Pren- dergast was told by Jensen that “he was drunk or doped” when he made these charges. Workers and Farmers! Fight for Your Class! This day, at St. Paul, marks the beginning of new strug- gles and new victories for the jobless workers and the bank- el of the nation. “June 17th” has gone down on the calendar of the most ee as the date of the organization of the class party oO workers and farmers in America. jut this gathering of workers and farmers cannot mark the completion or victory of any great effort. It is but a milestone on labor’s rugged and difficult road to power. And on this highroad there is but one guiding beacon, Workers and Farmers! And that guiding beacon is contained in the aggressive slogan, “Fight for Your Class!” * * * * The two old parties, the democratic and republican par- ties of Wall Street, fight for the great capitalist interests, the plunderbund. Middle class organizations, the small business men's tendencies in the old parties, these fight for the interests of the small bankers, the little landlords and the helpless, pica- yune industrialists. But this class always remains the left wing of Wall Street just the same. Neither of these classes will fight for the robbed work- ers and farmers. The exploited in the cities and on the land can get no relief from these elements in modern society. Rather, in the developing class struggle in America, as else- where, these two classes unite against the masses of men and women who eonstitute the working class. * * * * Workers and Farmers! You must do your own fighting! You must fight for your class! You must organize to fight for your class! The fundamental task of this June 17th Conference is to organize the vanguard of the workers and farmers into a olan party—the party of the workers and farmers. ‘Such an effort was made a year ago at Chicago, at the He duly 3rd Convention. The, Chicago Conference did heroic work for the class party of workers and farmers. It blazed the way for this June 17th Conference in St. Paul. The work started in Chicago must be advanced in St. Paul. Upon the foundation laid at Chicago, the St. Paul conference must help rear the superstructure that will bring into its fold the broadest masses of the nation’s city and land toilers. * * * * It is impossible to minimize the difficult nature of this task. The attacks on this St. Paul Conference will be fol- lowed by new and more bitter assaults against the class party. But labor knows no exhaustion in the long fight for its complete emancipation. The oppressed in all ages have struggled, suffered, sacrificed and survived thru succeeding and changing forms of civilization. There is no bottom to labor's reservoir of strength to renew the combat against its enemies. It stands more powerful than ever today girding for the future conflict. 2 * * * > The working class will come out of this June 17th St. Paul Conference stronger than it went into it. The work- ers and farmers will profit by the difficult experiences they are passing theu, They will build better in the future be- cause of the malicious attacks that have been made and that are still being made upon them. In these struggles the DAILY WORKER greets the work- ers and farmers of the nation, represented thru their dele- gates in the St. Paul Conference. It stands shoulder to shoulder with them in their every day struggles to build their power. In the fight for the class party, as in every other labor struggle, the DAILY WORKER will continue to be in the front line trenches, as always. Workers and Farmers! Forward for the Class Party! Forward for the Victory of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- ernment! Forward to the Rule of Labor! ? CARPENTERS BUY DAILY. WORKER ON ELECTION DAY Stahl Runs Strong as Votes Are Counted The DAILY WORKER. materially aided in placing the issues of Satur- day's carpenters’ election before the members of the Carpenters’ and Join- ers’ union who voted Saturday to elect district council members. Altho the votes are still being count- ed, it is thought that Frank Stahl, who opposed the reactionary Jensen ma- chine, will be the victor by a sub- stantial majority, if the votes are fairly counted. Over two thousand copies of the DAILY WORKDR were sold at the carpenter halls where the polls were taken, Kitty Harris, in charge of the distribution of the paper, announced. Mrs. Nick Dozenberg, who sold pa- pers in the Jensen stronghold, was expelled from one hall by the Jensen officials, but Comrade Dozenberg per- sisted and the janitor of the hall al- berg then sold over two DAILY WORKERS. The DAILY WORKER analyzed the three-year regime of Harry Jensen and showed how he has done absolutely nothing while in office to build up the carpenters’ organization or combat the open shop drive. Under Jensen's re- gime, affairs in the carpenters’ union have grown steadily worse and it has become increasingly difficult to or- ganize the unorganized carpenters. —_—_———$—$—$$ NUTMEGS FORM CLASS PARTY; BALLAM IS ST, PAUL DELEGATE NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 16.— The Federated Farmer-Labor party of Connecticut was formed at a convention consisting of the repre- sentatives of 27 working class and farmer organizations here yester- day. Thirty-eight de! ites attend- ed the convention. Robert MacKen- zie of Stamford was nominated to run for governor, with a full state slate to run with him. John J. Ballam was elected to represent the new state party at St. Paul. A resolution calling on the St. Paul convention to form a olass party to fight for the exploited farmers and workers of the country was passed, hundred | Crowe Comes to the Aid of Western Electric DELEGATES OF WORKERS AND FARMERS HEAR OF GOMPERS CONSPIRACY AGAINST JUNE 17 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 16.—Worker and farmer delegates, gathered here tonight, stand before an historic decision at the National Farmer-Labor Convention that opens in the St. Paul Municipal Auditorium on the morrow. “Unity!” is the watchword that passes from lip to lip. “Unity!” in the face of the most determined efforts to break the solidarity of the most oppressed sections of the city and land workers. And the one thing th great gathering is its rank and the make-up of the July 3rd Con at can save the “Unity!” of the file character, not at all unlike vention in Chicago, last year, ATTACKED BY EXPLOITERS. The June 17th convention that convenes here on the morrow has had, of course, the solid opposition of the yellow press of the landlords, bankers and food gamblers. But in addition it has been subjected to the worst slanders of the whole right wing section of the organized farmer and labor movement, not to mention the so-called “progressive” sections of the old parties of capitalism. This veritable cloudburst of villification, altho it defeats its own purpose in time, is temporarily confusing. face of that confusion that thet— ery for “Unity!” raises its voice among the assembling delegates here, delegates determined to lay the foundation of a class Farmer-Labor Party, with a definite mass character. Exposing the Conspiracy. It is only gradually that the* vast conspiracy against the June 17 con- vention is becoming known to the delegates here, and it will oe ae er time for it to reveal ifself to the masses of city workers and farmers of the nation. For the first time, during the post- war period, the broad masses of the American people grew to correctly in- terpret the attacks of the yellow sub- sidized press. Men like Wheeler of Montana, Frazier and\Ladd of North Dakota, Johnson and Shipstead of Minnesota, not to mention LaFollette himself, were swept into the United States senate on the waves of protest lashed to fury by the bosses’ kept press. But these same masses are now passing thru a new ordeal that is new to them. These same men whom they raised to power are now attack- ing, in just as bitter and vindictive terms, the young and rising move- ment of the class conscious workers | and farmers, which these masses feel belongs to them. Hunting Out the Attack. The conspiracy against “June 17” was hatched in Washington, in the offices of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists and chairman of the so- called Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action, that meets at Cleve- land, July 4. The Johnston-Gompers attack was planned for the simple reason that the masses were turning toward June 17 at St. Paul, in preference to July 4, at Cleveland. St. Paul was eclipsing Cleveland, not to mention the threat to Gompers’ own pet political policies. The long series of “red-baiting” ar- ticles sent out by Gompers’ own anti- Communist propagandist, Chester Wright, brought no results. The Wright-Gompers attack only helped build the St. Paul gatherings. The Conference for Progressive Political Action, held in mid-winter at St. Louis, was a fizzle, and the Teapot (Continued on page 3.) And it is in the POLICE INCITE RACE RIOTS BY “THIRD DEGREE”. Investigator Exposes Goldfish Methods (By EX-POLICE REPORTER) Mike Grady and his detective bureau squad will be the goat for an evil that involves the whole police department, judg- ing from present indications in the “goldfish” investigation be- ing conducted by the police committee of the city council. But the “goldfish” or “third degree” evil is much bigger than either Grady or the detective bureau. Every police district in the city uses the “goldfish” at times to help “clear up crimes.” One of the effects of the “goldfish” is that it has brought about a tense situation between the negroes of Chi- cago and the police department. The police are constantly expecting a re- currence of the race riets which dis- graced Chicago in 1919. The police claim they have found that hundreds of negroes are carrying automatic pistols bought from mafl order houses. Mass Terror Against Negroes. The police are always ready to give a negro the “goldfish.” Not only de they “beat up on” individual negroes, but when a crime is committed the Police terrorize whole negro neighbor- hoods. Harmless and innocent fami- lies have their homes invaded some- times in the dead of night. They are cursed and kicked and beaten and shoved around. If a negro man should show his resentment against police officers for hitting his wife or daugh- ter, he is knocked down. Negro suspects are giten the “gold- fish” as a matter of course. The writ- er who has been a police reporter in (Continued on page 2.) GOLD DUST TWINS OF WALL STREET CHALLENGE TO WORKERS WHICH FARMER-LABOR PARTY WILL ACCEPT The Wall Street Gold Dust Twins, Calvin Coolidge and Gen- eral Hell an’ Maria Dawes have convention to ey the banner tions that. will writ been selected by the Republican of extreme reaction in the elec- @ the political death warrant of those two flunkeys of Big Business next November. Coolidge, the strike-breakin; the favorite son of J. Pierpont International. governor of Massachusetts, is organ and the Bankers’ Black He stands for the World Court, an alias for the Nations, which his master Morgan needs to police the world into” submission interest payment steady. (Continued so that his far flung loans may be secure and ae Calvin Coolidge is the man of words and fewer ideas but Big Business will supply the ideas Hell an’ Maria Dawes will supply the words.