The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 2

Page Two ATTACKONE.L. | EET COSTLY TO LAFOLLETTE Following Wanes Since Senator’s Statement ST. PAUL, June 16,—Altho the spokesmen for the various state delegations to the Farmer- Labor Convention concede that LaFollette has a personal fol- lowing in their various states, nevertheless, the general opinion voiced is that this support was given a tremendous jolt when the Wisconsin senator issued his attack against the Communists. Even men who had been staunch supporters of LaFollette in the past, admitted that he had said a lot that he should never have said, if he had any desire to maintain his popular- ity. That this popularity is now on the wane, there can be no doubt. The opinion is quite general that LaFol- lette’s popularity is due to the dftacks that have been made upon him. He is still looked \upon as a courageous fighter because of the attacks made upon him during the war, especially because of the effort that was made to unseat him because of his St. Paul speech. “The Myth of LaFollette.” This LaFollette sentiment still exists in spite of the fact that LaFol- lette’s opposition to the war ceased immediately the jingo attack was started against him; that he did noth- img during the war to safeguard the rights of free speech, free press and free assemblage and other constitu- tional rights, leaving this to other senators, who were considered less progressive. Out of this situation has grown what is known as “The LaFol-| 9 OF COURSE 1 CANNOT GE THERE MYSELF, BUT MY DELEGATES ARE READY TO DO THEIR... “ , +. DUTY EVERY TIME I PRESS THESE BUTTONS $; ‘ae VO e CANN ALL STATE FARMER-LABOR PARTIES SENDING DELEGATES TO JUNE 17TH JOSEPH MANLEYY * Secretary, Federated Farmer-Labor Party. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 16.—Ali indications are that there will be dele- in the June 17th National Farn t-Labor Convention, representing Jette Myth,” claiming that the LaFol-|¢Ve"y known state farmer-labor party th the nation. This plainly indicates lette the people think about is a myth-| that the St. Paul gathering, that opehs its sessions here on Tu: jay, is no ical persgn, in no way resembling the | hot-house movement, or artificial/ development, but that it is an. historic gathering growing out of the nation-wide desire for unity of all farmer-labor real LaFollette. In support of this position, there is| forces stru advanced the declaration that LaFol- Jette has never claimed to be a radi- cal, in fact, not even a progressive, the future. LaFollette Belng Analyzed. are discussing Senator and urged delegates to avoid it. It is pointed out that the same attacks that the reactionaries have made against LaFollette, the Wisconsin senator is now making against the workers and farmers seeking to organize a class party of their own. The same situation holds true thru- out the state of Minnesota. The office grabbing, in spite of principle, section of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor party and the Minnesota Non-partisan League is rather active in attacking taneous d iggling for independent action on the political field. This Spon- ‘e for unity comes in response to the economic pressure of the present capitalist system upon both the workers and exploited farmers. This that he claims only to advance those movement is of such ‘a fundamental nature that no one individual, whose measures that he feels will benefit the | POPUlarity may momentarily seem dominant, can possibly sidetrack it from people at the moment, that he claims | its historic role, which is to give an organizational base for the mass dis- to have no vision of nor program for | content now sweeping the nation. Oe the June 17 convention. Their attacks «#—In this way the arriving delegates |sound very much like the slanders LaFollette, | that were formerly used by the land- who has denounced their convention, | lords, bankers, food gamblers, and their yellow press In attacking the Non-partisan League, in its early days, and the once pioneers but now respect- able office holders in the right wing of the Farmer-Labor movement. The Minnesota Star, formerly the organ of the workers and farmers, and the Non- partisan League Leader, are now both opposed to the St. Paul convention. Magnus Johnson to Speak? There is some speculation as to whether Senator Magnus Johnson will appear at the convention. There are “GOLDFISH” HORRORS EXPOSED (Continued from page 1.) Chicago, recalls the treatment given &@ group of negroes in a certain Chi- cago police station the night a police- ™man was shot by a negro. The policeman was shot by an un- known negro when be tried to search him for a gun. Squads of detectives from the detective bureau, flivver squads and scores of uniformed offi- cers on foot scoured the district look- ing for suspects. Dozens of negroes were arrested and taken to the sta- tion for questioning. Beat One After Another. ‘When the patrol wagons arrived with the suspects, they were taken in- to the station house one at a time and a lieutenant grabbed them as they came in the door and putting their head under his arm, yelled, “You black bastard, you shot him. Kick thru or I'll break your kidneys.” Then with the butt of his heavy re- volver, he would hit them in the small of the back. The fortured negroes would scream with pain and declare their innocence. They would then be put into a large room and the next vic- tim brought in. In the round-up of suspects the po- lice by accident, happened to enter a house where a group of negroes were playing cards. The negroes thought that the entrance of the police meant a raid and they al) tried to escape. Some of them made their way to the roof of the house and the detectives Surrounding the howse, made them jump from the roof py shooting at them. This was considered great sport by the detectives and police offi- cers who still recount with much gusto how near “those God Damn niggers came to breaking their necks.” Real Shooter Escapes. After a night spent in arresting and beating suspects, the police found that the man who had done the shooting had managed to escape with the help of a friend. The policeman who had been shot had wounded his assailant and the wounded negro made his way to a friend’s house where he was treated and helped out of town. The man who had helped his friend es- cape was arrested, beaten for hours J and then released. One of the negroes from the house in which the card game was being played, made his escape to the street and by running, managed to get to a railroad yard and hide in an empty railroad car. He was followed by a squad of police in an auto and when he was brought from the railroad car one of the policemen suggested to him that he run. “Run for it, you black son of a bitch, you can get away. You'll make it.” The negro refused to run, saying stolidly that he had done nothing to ran away from. While the policeman was urging the negro to run, his hand was on the butt of his gun. If the negro had run, it would have been easy for the police- man to have killed him and then a little “framing” would have fastened the shooting of the police officer on an innocent, but dead man. The police were especially brutal to everybody they arrested and suspect- ed on that occasion, because the man who had been shot was a policeman. In the minds of the police of Chicago, the greatest crime of which a man is capable is being a “cop fighter.” Broke Suspect’s Skull. The writer has heard a police offi- cer tell the story of how he was edu- cated to a knowledge of the fact that negroes are not as thick as they are said to be. “I had a nigger under ar- rest as a suspect for a robbery and was waiting for the wagon to take him into the station. I told him to tell me straight that he was the rob- ber and he refused. I took my ‘gat’ (pistol) and hit him a crack over the head and then another. Would you believe it? Bo help me Christ, that God Damn nigger’s skull wes broken. I had to take him to the hospital and there I told him if he told how he got that broken head, I would kill him. He didn’t tell.” You may ask, “Why. don’t reporters tell about these police methods?” They don't tell because they are com- pelled to work \with the police; it is from the police they get their informa- tion, A reporter on the bad books of the police gets no news. So the evil continues Tumors that he will appear to attack the Communists.. There are other ru- mors that he will not appear because the Commuhists are p it. It is learned that both Sidney Hill- man, president, and Joseph Schloss- berg, secretary of tte Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, will be de- tained in New York due to the strike now on in that city, but that this or- ganization will be represented by four of the members of its general execu- tive board. The figures now indicate that there will be about 1,000 delegates at the convention, the greater percentage the delegates of trade unions. Arrangements Committee at Work. The Committee on Arrangements has already gone into session and is making the initial preparations for the great gathering. Ccmmittees are al- ready being put to work, on rules, or- ganization, platform, credentials, and other routine matters, so that this im- portant assemblage will lose no time in getting down to its major task, once it 18 called to order. William Mahoney, editor of the Minnesota Union Labor Advocate, is chairman, and C. A. Hath- away is secretary of the Committee on Arrangements. Send in that Subscription Today. Fido Actors Ask Injunction Against Equity and Managers (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 16.—Following its recent attack on the Actors’ Equity Association for belonging to the American Federation of Labor, the miniature company union calling it- self Actors’ Fidelity League has ap- plied for an injunction preventing op- eration of the ten-year contract be- tween Equity and the Managers’ Pro- tective Association which went into effect June 1. Since the small anti-union group of managers controlling the Producing Managers’ Association in May lost its injunction fight against the union and the new agreement, the new move by Fidelity comes as a surprise. With a reputed membership of only about 50 to begin with, Fidelity lost several of its most prominent members last month when Fidelity officials aMxed their signatures to anti A. F. of L. and Herrin propaganda. These have joined Equity which now has over 10,000 members and controls the profession. The Equity contract, which Fidelity would have vacated, is ip force wi¢h all but seven New York productions which have been closed by the union strike. The exceptions are va- rious independent prodacers who have separate contracts with the unton, Send in that Subscription Today. | ls: } ¥ 4 a / < a es Ae, wt As ANNAN oS 5807 nies NSAYS Drawn Specially for the Daily Worker by K. A. SUVANTO. Some Old Party Sympathizers Must Have Been Planted in the Farmer-Labor Convention. | NEED STRONG STOMACH IN SCAB SHOP (Continued from page one) is run on the-time clock system, and the numerous bosses make the new employe go thru every conceivable form of registration, show him his new job, and keep him on the string as long as possible before introducing him to his time clock card, which he must fill out and punch before his pay starts. Given a Lecture, I had already spent over three hours waiting in the employment of- fice and talking to Knudsen, and it took almost three hours before I got to the process inspection department Tuesday morning, My number, given to me Tuesday night, was 376, and this ticket had to be shown at the employment office at 8 o'clock Tuesday moriing. The clerk at the employment office then made out duplicate registrations of my name and address, number and department, and gave me one to take to the hospital, along with my num- ber. I passed by two guards, one of whom gave me a biting lecture be- cause I dared to smoke in the West- ern Electric Yards. “I don’t see why they gave you a job here,” he said. “Smoking is not allowed, and it’s a poor way to begin in this company by breaking the rules. You'll have to change your attitude if you want to get ahead here.” In the waiting room at the hospital were 28 fetlow-sufferers who had just been hired like myself. freckle-faced lad about 14 or 15 years old came around and abruptly took the numbers and registration cards from us. We waited about 40 min- utes, and then, at 9:30, a female voice was heard in the adjoining room cali- ing out our numbers. As our num- bers were called we jumped up and walked in the general direction of this sharp, commanding, virago voice. Men are rushed thru like so many cattle at the hospital. The com- mands are issued in sharp, hurried tones, and any slight mistake of the new men in going into the wrong room or delaying brings forth a bit- ter tirade from the young kids vrho form the major portion of the hos- pital staff. The first time No. 376 was called J} failed to respond quickly enough, and one of the men said gruffly: “Get on in there. Do you want to lose your job?” I walked into a large room in which sat young girls at a row of desks. “No, 3767" one girl called out in a sour voice. “Sit down,” she said abruptly. “What's your name, where do you live, married or single, sign this card, now sign this one; all right,” she finished rapidly. “Go int? the waiting room again and sit down.” Given Once Over. After another long wait, No. 376 was called out again from another room at the other end of the hospital, and I was ushered into a long toilet with a bench along one wall. “Take off your shirt!” a grammar school kia ordered, and, “Sit down and wait un- til you are called!” I took off my shirt and then was told to go into room No. 8. Nobody else was in room No. 3, a little doctor's office, and I picked up a morning paper which was lying on the doctor’s desk. He came in after a half hour's wait, and was very displeased to find me reading his paper. He grabbed it roughly out of my hands and threw it down on the desk. The examination given me by doc- tor No. 3 was farcical, especially aft- er the Jong wait. He hurried thru the examination, which lasted about three minutes, First the doctor examined my teeth ‘ A young; in the following manner. He took a wide, thin splint of wood and jammed it into my mouth, pulled it immedi- ately out again, threw it viciously on the floor, and made a check mark on my card signifying that my teeth were in “perfect condition.” Doc Doesn't Bothe One tooth there is considerably bad, I told the doctor. “A cavity f8ll out some time ago and I haven't had a chance to get it fixed. Will you please look and see if you think it has an abscess in it?” “Oh, it’s all right,” the annoyed doctor answered. “Go to a dentist the next chance you get and have it fixed up.” Next came the examination of my eyes. He placed a piece of paper over my right eye and pointed to somsy fine print tacked on a card on the op- posite wall. I couldn’t read it, as I didn’t have my glasses with me. I stumbled about half thru the first line, making several errors, and then stopped altogether. What a Farce! “Other eye,” the doctor said, ang before I got fairly started on that eye he made a check on my card op- Posite the place signifying “perfect vision.” After a series of quick but rough proddings and pokings in various parts of my anatomy, the doctor told me to, “Put on your sbirt and go into the waiting room again.” Another long wait in the waiting room, and No, 876 was called out jagain. I was given a envelope and told to take it back to the em- ployment office. I promptly unsealed | it, and found it be another card which disclosed the information that I was in perfect physical condition, eyes, teeth and all, having passed the ex- amination with the grade of A. I was at last able to go to my depart- ment, arriving after 11 o'clock. Gor- don looked at his clock with a sour grimace, and asked what kept me so long. Even then I was not allowed to punch the time clock, but finished out the morning talking to B. Stock, my immediate superior, In my next article I will tell about some of the Western Electric bunk peddled to me as a new employe, and will analyze the benefits—to the com- pany—of some of the widely advor- tised Western Electric clubs and em- ployes’ institutions. Andy Mellon and Cautious Cal Don’t - Care About Congress WASHINGTON, June 16.—Deter- mined to prevent the calling of an ex- tra session of congress next month to pass the deficiency appropriation bill to take care of the office staff that is to send out the soldier bonus applica- tion blanks and to provide the $20-a- month pay raise granted to the fleld force in many departments, the ad- ministration says that it will find money to keep the governmental ma- chinery going until December. Andy Mellon is to ride roughshod over the budget law, and Secretary Weeks is to do the same, The war department is to juggle its funds to provide the $182,000,000 tund for the bonus prepa- ration, It expects to get the money back next December. For the civil service force the $26,000,000 needed will come from various funds which Mellon will divert to tnat purpose. © If the administration respected the law, it would necessarily summon con- gress to vote the money. The admin- istration does not want to start a session which it cannot quickly stop, and in which a majority of both houses would be hostile to Coolidge. 4 ee ____e “COMMITTEE OF 17” ON ARRANGEMENTS TAKES UP PLANS FOR CONVENTION (Special to the Daily Worker.) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 16—The committee on arrangements of the June 17 national Farmer-Labor convention, new in session here, of the following: Willlam Mahoney, chairman. Cc. A, Hathaway, Minnesota, seo- retary. ‘Tom Ayres, South Dakota. R. H. Walker, North Dakota. William H. Green, Nebraska. Joseph Manley, Illinois. Robley ©, Cramer, Minnesota. Willlam Z. Foster, IIlinols. C. EB. Ruthenberg, Illinois. Fred J. Fraley, ‘Kani A. B. Thompson, South Dakota. John C. Kennedy, Washington. Willlam Bouck, Washington. Charles E. Taylor, Montana. Minnesota, J. L. Beebe, Nebraska. Duncan MacDo ) Mlinois. Alice Lorraine Daly, South Da- kota. NAVY MOB TARS UNION WORKERS (Continued from page 1.) defended themselves bravely but were outnumbered by the raiders. More than fifty of the occupants of the hall were injured in the fight. Try to Cover Up Union mén, liberals, radicals and civic organizations thru the state of California are aroused at the brutal treatment given workers by the mob. In order to divert attention from themselves the mobbers have had a guard thrown about the morgue con- taining the forty-eight dead sailors, de- claring that the I. W. W. will bomb it. Officers Encouraged Raid Officers of the United States Navy here were thankful to the mob for turning public attention from the dis- aster and the inefficiency of the navy. Many workers declare:the raid was encouraged by the militaristic minded officers of the navy for just that pur- pose. It is significant that the use of the navy against unionists was in the home state of Curtis D. Wilbur, secre- tary of the navy. Ever since the disaster the naval officers have fought desperately to prevent news of the disaster from being made public. se @ Poor Equipment Caused Disaster| ~ LOS" ANGELES, Calif.” Jute” 16+ Pour equipment and inefficiency caused the disaster on board the bat- tleship Mississippi last Thursday, in which 48 sailors lost their lives. That has been proven by witnesses before the naval board of inquiry which is holding sessions here investi- gating the accident, according to a coxswain and a boatswain, both of whom testified before the naval board. The air pressure which should have prevented the back firing of the gun was not up to normal. The steel door between the powder room and the gun turret was out of order and could not be closed these witnesses testified. Old navy men charge that the acci- dent results from the inefficient man- agement inevitable as long as politic- jans rule the navy. Send in that Subseription Today. R. R. Slaves Get the Gate; Skeleton Crew Guard Roads Profits MILWAUKEE, June 16.—Thirty- two hundred fifty men are laid off at the Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road. So little freight is being moved in the growing depression that the local shops can- not be operated profitably. Those laid off indefinitely and probably through- out the summer include 500 mainten- ance of way men, 750 mechanics and helpers in the motive power depart- ment and 2000 carbuilders and repair men, A skeleton force remains. Send in that Subscription Today. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., labor movement that will organize NAMB | nanennnnnennenennnareneeneseensnen snenennneennesesnseesconennerense: Make Your Answer Today! / Enclosed find $......0000 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 ‘et the workers and farmers know Follette, Gompers and the whole yellow pr Labor Convention starting June 17th: Aeeneneanerenselenenseedsseenerensasssersessensasenseassesessorseses Write plainly, in ink if possible. Better print the names. , Send in for special $1 for two months sub cards, INVESTIGATES’ DAILY WORKER Scab Bosses Using Anti- Labor Prosecutor (Continued from page 1.) against Reeve,” Moutaocik said, “one for distributing hand-bills without a permit, and one for disorderly con- duet. I am not now in a position to state whether any other action will be taken against Reeve or against the DAILY WORKER, Can't Stop Paper's Sal Morris Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER, superintended the sale of the DAILY WORKER in front of the gates at the Western Hlectric plant yesterday at noon. “There is absolutely no law which can prevent us from selling the DAILY WORKER on the streets,” Loeb said. “I understand some of the Western Blectric officials have tried to scare our salesmen away from the plant by threatening them with arrest. They will continue to sell the DAILY WORKER every day on the streets around the Hawthorne plant.” “We will fight the case charges against Reeve to the higher courts, if necessary,” said Loeb. Reeve's defense has been placed in the hands of Samuel Holland, 160 N. La Salle St., who declares the charg: es will be fought to a finish. Company Uses State’s Attorney. It was the unanimous opinion of lawyers interviewed by the DAILY WORKER yesterday, that the appear- ance of an assistant state’s attorney against a person charged with dis- orderly conduct is rare, and is prob- ably the first case of its kind. “On some of my cases in Cicero and other out of town Cook County court rooms, I have begged and plead- ed for an tant state’s attorney to take up cases for me,” one down town lawyer told the DAILY WORK- ER. “They are mighty hard to get. I have even offered to pay the ex- penses of a state’s attorney’s man on important assault and battery and burglary cases and have been unable to obtain one.” This lawyer told the DAILY WORK- ER he feels sure that Crowe's assist- ant state’s attorney Moutaocik ap- peared against Reeve because of the tremendous influence wielded by the Western Electric management on Ci- cero politics and police courts. Workers Indignant. _Cieero workingmen yesterday told ‘the DAILY WORKER that if the state’s attorney’s office really is anxi- ous to determine the facts about the Western Electric plant, its influence in Cicero, the low taxes it pays to Cicero compared to the high taxes it would have to pay if Cicero were in- corporated with Chicago, that Crowe should conduct an investigation along the lines of the DAILY WORKER ex- posure. “The people of Cicero, most of whom are illpaid workers in the Western Electric plant, pay for the police and all the expenses of these jury trials. [?s damnable the way the courts are used to take up the cases which aid the Western Blectric to keep union conditions out of the shops. We get low wages in the Western Electric, and part of these wages go out in taxes, which are used to pro- tect the low wage’system for the Western Electric company,” one resi- dent of Cicero said to the DAILY WORKER. Borg Falsified. The quotation which offended the dig- nity of the state’s attorney's office was NOT as Borg had put it, a statement that 25,000 girls are forced to become semi-prostitutes. The exact, and the only passage referring to these semi- prostitutes, declares in the DAILY WORKER of June 13, that “B. Stock, the section head of the jack inspec- tion department, practically admitted to me that many of the girls, due to their low wages, are forced to become semi-prostitutes.” The sales of the DAILY WORKER around the Western Electric plant reached the 3,000 mark yesterday. Send in that Subscription Today. subscriptions These “subs” were the truth about the attacks by La on the class farmer- at the St. Paul Farmer- its force ADDRESS Heeeeeneeeeenesennes: eeenenenerees sesseseussenneonasunessuneageecssapensenemnnnegsanersnesonsses