The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, June 17, 1924 ee ARREST FASCIST EDITOR INVOLVED INKIDNAPPING Socialist Deputy’s Case Creates Crisis (Special to the DAILY WORKER,) ROME, Italy, June 16,—In spite of Premier Mussolini's at- tempts to prevent the arrest of Sig. Filippelli, editor of the chief Fascist newspaper, Corriere Italiano, the police took Filippel- li from a Florence train at Orte station after a race by auto with the train, Filippelli hired the machine in which the Social- ist deputy and bitter opponent of Musgsolini, Giocomo Matteoti, was kidnapped. Sig. Filippelli had left Rome, resigning his position, immediately after be- ing questioned by Judge Grossi. Sig. Matteoti’s card as deputy was found on the roadside just outside of Rome. His body has not yet been found, altho the Socialist deputies Baldesi, Mu- Satti, and Ciccotti were dragg- ing Lake Vico all day. Editor Involved Before BOURGEOIS FLUNKEY WHO HAD SUPPORT OF THE BLOC NATIONAL Gaston Doumergue. President of the French senate elected president of the French Re- public who sits on the extreme tip of the left wing right. He was among those who toppled the Mil- jerand-Poincare combination in the it elections but the conserva- do not fear him. He is a capitalist tool tho many American liberals will’ sing pagans of joy over his election. But they will cry just as readily when he begins to do his stuff for his masters. ’ 4 ’ Sig. Dumini, until recently em- Queen be Maid Can t ployed in the press bureau of the ministry of the interior, has written Sig. Filippelli a letter charging him with connection in the assassination of Sig. Matteoti, This is not the first charge of violence against the Fascist editor. . Premier Mussolini has ordered the mobilization of his blackshirts and has removed wholesale arrests of Communists and Soc! s and has established a stricter censorship of the press and of all out-going mess- ages from Italy. Criticized Officials Out The Fascist dictator is also re arranging his cabinet to remove from the official stage the members most bitterly attacked by the opposition. Algo Finzi, secretary of the interior and Ceasare Rossi, former Syndica- list, and late chief of the press bureau of the interlior department, haye al- ready resigned to make room for new ave not yet drawn the fire of public opposi-| tion, The chamber of deputies has been indefinitely adjourned and there are many hints that it will not be re- convened until fall. Criticism and active opposition to the Fascist dictatorship have been in- creasing steadily and have the point of sufficient strength to threaten the Mussolini government, which has re- taliated by more oppressive measures than ever. The renewed strict censor- ship and imprisonment of the leaders of the opposition are Mussolini’s first moves to forestall any serious out- break against Yule. Send in that Subscription Today, Dish the Dirt About Her; Job Boycotted (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 16.—The Queen of all the Britons and most of the Irish has to manage to struggle along with a short crew of maids of honor, Altho the Queen has been making appoint- ments to fill out her household she doesn’t have a full crew yet. It doesn’t require much intelligence to be a maid of honor, all the Queen asks is that they keep their mouths shut when not on duty. She is partic- ular that none of her maids tell any of the royal family secrets. Since the only advantage of the job seem to be that it gives a “lady” a chance to get at a lot of royal dirt she can later dish to her friends, and since the queen forbids her helpers to gossip there is no object in becoming a maid ladies who do act as maids of honor are even forbidden to keep diaries. This prohibition is made so that the queen’s memory will be protected in case she gives one of the aristocratic flunkeys the gate. At present the Queen is struggling along with only 15 high-born menials. The usual quota is about 30, Building Laborers Send Delegate to St. Paul Convention Hod Carriers and Building Labor- ers’ Union Local No. 3, Chica; 7 lected Charles Erickson as dele: the June 17 convention at St. Paul. Local No. 3 hag 700 members. THREE STEEL WORKERS KILLED BY GREEDY COMPANY’S NEGLIGENCE ——_———_——— (Spi 1 to The Daily Worker) INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., June 16.—Three workmen of the Inland Steel company here were killed by gas in a room in the plant yesterday, two others were pronounced dead, but were revived by pulmotors, and twenty-five were taken to the company’s emergency hospital. ¥ Gas from a blast furnace is believed to ha’ the plant where the men were working, and ca HiT NEW YORK, filtered thru a conduit into id the tragedy. ATTENTION! TTT TWO WEEKS MORE to the WORKERS PARTY {EXCURSION To Bear Mountains on the Beautiful Steamer “CLERMONT” SATURDAY AFTERNOON 2 P.M. JUNE 28th Get your tick in advance, Don’t wait until the last minute. ADMISSION: $1.10 For Sale WORKERS PARTY OFFICE, 208 E, 12th St. JIMMIE HIGGINS BOOKSHOP, 127 University PI. Gompers’ Conspiracy Fails (Continued from page 1.) Dome oil scandal, with the multitude of other exposures, coupled with the wholesale bankruptcies of farmers and the growing unemployment in the cities, were driving the workers to- ward independent political action, which nmeant to the St. Paul June 17/ conference,, Sam Gompers Gets Busy, The officials in charge of the ar- rangements of the June 17 gathering here tell of the next step taken by Sam Gompers. He called a meeting in Washington, about eight weeks ago, of representative members of the | Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement. He felt that if he could strike at the St. Payl conference thru the Minne-| sota Farmer-Laborites that he could) then successfully wreck it, It is declared that the Gompers conspiracy was presented to the Minnesota Farmer-Laborites at a gathering held in Washington at the headquarters of the American Fedef- ation of Labor. This meeting was at- tended by the two Minnesota Farmer- Labor senators, Magnus Johnson and Hendrik Shipstead, by Congressman Oscar B®. Kellar of the Fourth Minne- sota district (Ramsay county, St. Paul), and Congressman Knut Wie- fauld, There was also present, in ad- dition to Gompers, Basil Manley, head of the People’s Legislative Service, a LaFollette organization. To the credit of the Minnesota Farmer-Laborites, they refused to be- tray the movement that had brought them into prominence and sent them to Washington. They refused to stab the St, Paul conference in the back, Gompers was unable to crush the class party movement in the north- west. This phase-of his conspiracy died in the hatching. LaFollette the Last Hope. Then Gompers decided to make his last effort. Minnesota had failed him, but there remained LaFollette, in Wis- consin, If LaFollette could only be persuaded to attack the St. Paul gath- ering, in favor of the Cleveland gath- ering, that would help the schemes of Gompers, who is, in fact, opposed to both gatherings. It is stated that LaFollette did not himself write the attack on the St. Paul conference, It was prepared for him, if not in the offices of the Ameri- can Federation, of Labor, at. least by the instruments of the Gompers- Johnston clique. Some say it was written by Basil Manley. And LaFol- lette, practically an invelid recuperat- ing from ill health, signed on the dotted line, in obedience to the forces jeratic candidate of Tammany Hall in |New York city, or some other wet as- |the morrow, in the camps of Al Smith |ton forces had won over LaFollette | ference. THE DAILY WORKER that hold him in their grasp. Most] powerful among these forces are the railroad brotherhoods that dominate the Conference for Progressive Polit- ical Action, and that may, in the last moment, quit LaFollette and reiterat- their allegiance to oil-soaked William Gibbs McAdoo, as they did at Chicago, while Gompers himself may-run off after Governor Al Smith, the Demo- pirant to the White House, The Immediate Object Attained. But no matter where they will be on or McAdoo, the Gompers and Johns- for their attack on the St. Paul con- And what a widespread use was made of the La¥Follette attack is now history. It was released to the whole capitalist press, to be suffe, fol- lowed by the indorsements of Sam | Gompers and William H, Johnston, in special statements, But it was also made the basis of a special letter sent hy Mr. Gompers to every one of the 60,000 local labor unions thruout the nation, demanding that they boycott the St, Paul confer- ence, It was made the basis of a con- tinued propaganda thru the various propaganda services of the A. F. of L. regime, maintained at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars annually taken out of the per capita taxes of the rank and file, The A. F. of L. Weekly News Letter and the Gompers Inter- national News Service were jammed with “red-baiting” articles in an ef- fort to frighten the workers and farm- ers away from participation in the St, Paul conference, Every labor publication in the land under Gompers’ control took up the hye and cry. They hunted in packs against any one turning his eyes on “St. Paul.” Gompers’ lackeys every- where were on the lookout for any one, in or out of inion meetings, seek- ing to have any section of organized labor send delegates to St. Paul. But It Is Here, But in spite of this Gompers- Johnston conspiracy, the delegates to the new nationally known “June 17 conference” have been arriving here for the past few days and are all ready for the opening of the conven- tion Tuesday morning. The June 17 conference has been subjected to the greatest possible test, and it has come out stronger for the ordeal, “Unity!” is the watchword in the face of new ordeals, the “Unity!” that means new victories, both against the enemies within and those without. The eve of the convention tomor- row finds the committee on arrange- ments actively at work smoothing out the rough spots for the big gathering. The committee of three, consisting | of William H. Green, Nebraska; Tom| Ayres, South Dakota, and Joseph| Manley, Illinois, picked by the ar-/| rangements committee, really set the machinery in motion when it brought} in recommendations for the appoint- ment of small committees immedi-| ately, for the consideration of the| vamous convention problems. These small committees will be later super- seded by the various committees of the convention itself. The commit- tees thus set to work were the fol- lowing: Small Committees at Work. Credentials Committee—C.A, Hath- away, chairman; Tom Ayres, South Dakota; P. J. Wallace, Montana; Fred J. Fraley, Kansas; R. H. Walker, South Dakota, Platform Committee—Joseph Man- ley, Illinois, chairman; William H. Green, Nebraska; Charles E, Taylor, Montana; Tom Ayres, South Dakota; Mrs, A. R. Colvin, Minnesota. Organization Committee — William Mahoney, Minnesota, chairman; Wil- liam Bouck, Washington; Fred J. Fra- ley, Kansas; William Z. Foster, Mli- nois; Walter Thomas Mills, Califor- nia; ©. A, Hathaway, Minnesota; R. H. Walker, North Dakota. Committee on Candidates—J. L, Beebe, Nebraska; C. BH. Ruthenberg, Illinois; Senator A. B. Whitmer, North Dakota; Charles T. Taylor, Montana; C. D. Thompson, South Da- kota; Tom Ayres, South Dakota. Convention Called at 10 A, M. The convention will be called into session by William Mahoney of St. Paul at 10 oclock, Tuesday morning, The ‘call for the convention will there- upon be read by Secretary C. A. Hath- away, This will be followed by the report of the credentials committee, followed by the election of a perma- nent chairman, vice chairman, sec- retary and assistant secretary, The order of business for the con- vention will then include the election of a platform and resolutions commit- tee of 15 members; a committee on organization and finance of 15 mem- bers, and a committee on candidates of 15 members. The report of the’ committee on platform will probably come up on Wednesday. The organization com- mittee report’ may also be considered on the second day of the convention. One of the last tasks of the conven- tion, to come up on Thursday, the final day of the convention, will be the consideration of candidates. ESTHONIA IS WILLING TO HIT SAWDUST TRAIL : Red Army Inspires : os Penitent Spirit (Special to the Daily Worker.) REVAL, Esthonia, June ‘16,—Es- thonia is getting. tired of being a base for imperialist operations against So- viet Russia. The Red army can be thanked for the change of heart. The imperialists are willing to use her to make trouble, but not willing to help her when she is not fighting their fights. That seems to be the idea; that has developed in the minds of her people. The changed attitude toward Rus- sia is reflected in the fact that Hs- thonia is letting Russia use her Bal- tic ports to ship goods to the outsiae world. The whole country realizes that the jingo attitude doesn’t pay. Jaan Tonnison, president of the Es- thonian parliament, in a recent state- ment said: “We believe in free tran- sit and trade for Russia, for, so long as Russia can freely use the Baltic ports she will help us in our efforts to maintain our independence. We no longer consider ourselves a barrier which stands between Russia and the rest of Europe, but a connecting link between eastern and western Eu- rope.” Pashitch Ministry in Jugo - Slavia. is Doing Some Worrying VIENNA, June 16.—The reactionary Jugo-Slav government is sitting on sharp tacks. Its latest attack on the workers and peasants is to declare all members of the Croatian farmers’ Re- publican party enemies of the si This bars 69 Republican delegates from a seat in parliament. What frightened the Pashiteh min- istry was the recent trip to Moscow of Stephen Radich to attend the peas- ants’ international congress. The Croatian leader failed to secure any assistance in the capitals of the bour- geois nations, so he went to the éapi- tal of the workers’ republic, where the welfare of subject people is among the first considerations of the emanci- pated Russian workers and peasants. Domocracy in Jugo-Slavia is of the modern type. City councils with a ‘strong Communist representation are dissolved by the government. The people can have representation sure enough provided it favors the Pash- i point of view. If not—dissolu- tion. Send In that Subsoription Today, ermany. The new premier made | this statement: FRANCE WILL RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA, GIVE POLITICAL AMNESTY; PREMIER HERRIOT STATES POLICY (Special to the Daily Worker.) PARIS, June 16.—Resumption of relations between France and Russia is one of the first tasks Premier Herriot has set before the new government of the Third republic. General political amnesty also will be given, and the term of compulsory military service will be reduced at once. embassy at the Vatican will be withdrawn by the anti-cleric premier, with the support of the Protestant Presi-*- dent Doumergue. Herriot promised these measures be- fore election, in response to the grow- ing demand of the French masses for dealings with Soviet Russia, for abatement of political oppression, for relief from ‘the long military training, and for the removal of Catholic in- fluence in French government. | Enforce Blght-Hour Work Day. | The new premier’s announced pol-| icy includes a demand for the strict) enforcement of the eight-hour day in| industry and for the speedy develop- ment of the new system of social in- suranee. Concessions to private in- dustry, championed in the financial bill by Poincare, will be abolished and the state monopolies which the for- mer premier killed will be restored. Direct taxes will be established as rapidly as possible in place of the in- direct taxes which the chamber re- cently adopted under the influence of the old government. Opposes German Nationalists, Herriot has made it clear that he considers his choice of General Mau- rice Nollet a wise one because of the new war minister's wide knowledge of military conditions, particularly in | | “Our cabinet is animated by a kind- ly spirit toward Germany, and we are ready to assist the young German de- mocracy, but we ‘will display merci- less severity to the German Nation- alists.” The premier believes that the Ger- man Nationalists are preparing mili- tary forces under the guise of gym- nastic organizations, just as they did, he says, after the peace of Tilsit in 1807. He is firm in the stand he in- sists France must take against Ger- man militarists, The German industrial lords and Nationalists are expressing their ir- ritation at the selection of General Nollet thru their papers, such as the Kreuz Zeitung, Ruhr Agreement Renewed, The industrial kings are also up in arms over the renewal of the s0- called “reparations” agreement pro- viding for the delivery of coal, raw material and machinery from the Ruhr district to France and Belgium. The agreement will continue until June 30, altho the German magnates had intended that the Dawes “busi- s The French ness men’s plan would supersede it on June 15, when the old agreement expired. The German bosses claim the agreement is ruining their plants without paying adequate reparations to France and Belgium. Foreign Minister Stresseman of Germany has announced that the gov- ernment is publishing all its secret documents on the years preceding the war and that later a general investi- gation of the pre-war history will be demanded, requesting other nations to open their files as well. Stresseman says, in his attempt to prove Germany not the sole culprit: “The kaiser’s efforts for peace show thru all the documents like a continuous silk thread.” Abortion Issue of German Campaign is Still Hotly Debated By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Conrespondent) BERLIN, Germany, June 16.—Abor- tion was one of the minor campaign issues of the recent reichstag elec- tion. Paragraph 218 of the German law makes abortion punishable by five years’ imprisonment. Tho the elec- tions are over, the discussion goes on merrily. The Socialists promised their voters that one of their first acts would be a bill for a repeal of the law. The Communists are likewise opposed to the law. Workers point out that the idle rich always find high-priced physicians who will perform the abor- tion, while the women from proleta- rian families are often driven by eco- nomic distress to do away with un- born babies and, as they are ignorant of medical practice, often get them- selves into danger. They are then brought to the city hospital, and ‘as soon as they have recovere raigned in court and face 5 Jail. One of the leaders in the demand for the abrogation of Paragraph 218 is Dr. Helene Stoecker, prominent in the women's and pacifist movements, and also intimately acquainted’ with med- ical conditions in workers’ famili She was recently invited by the Rus- sian government to inspect sanitary conditions in Russia, Send in that Subseription Today. ‘ascites POLISH TROOPS CLASH WITH RUSSIAN REBELS + IN STOLEN PROVINCES Special to the Daily Worker. DANZIG, June 16.—There is a rev- olution going on in the Ukrainian and white Russian provinces an- nexed by Poland during the war “to make the world safe for democra- cy,” according to information reach- ing here from Poland. Battles are going on between the revolutionists and the gendarmes in the cities of Belsk, Neswiej and smaller towns. There are many killed and wounded. The Warsaw government sent de- tachments of=soldiers to aid the gendarmes. In the city of Zabalo- towe the gendarmes tried to break up a protest meeting of Ukrainians but were met with arrhed resistance. There were killed and wounded on both sides. Military rule has been proclaimed in all the revolutionary provinces, The government inaugu- rated a strict military censorship. CLEVELAND CAR STRIKE IS OFF ONE MORE WEEK Union. and a Company Wait on Council (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 16.—The street railwaymen's union, which post- poned the car strike last week in de- fiance to the G(reat). O(il). P(igs). convention, again backed up and agreed to a week's truce with the company at the request of the city council, President John J. Stanley, of the Cleveland Railway Co., held out until late Saturday before agree- ing to the truce. It is presumed that the street rail- ways committee of the city council will try to devise some scheme of mediation during the week and seek to avert the strike entirely. Company Prepares for War. Meanwhile nothing has been done to prevent the company from com- pleting its strikebreaking arrange- ments. Crews of scabs are quartered in the car barns in readiness for the break of relations and the * company is continuing night and day armoring cars. William Polk, president of the car- men’s union, refused to deal with the company or its president except thru a mediator. Polk waited for the coun- cil committee to suggest a plah 6: mediation to relieve the tense situa- tion. Stanley obdurately refused to recog- nize the previous arbitration board award of a 12 cents increase to the railway men and declared that he would establish the open shop if the Page Three PARTY PROPOSES NATION'S SLOGAN j | “Face Facts and Fight,” | Organizing Cry By JOEL SHOMAKER, Farmer-Labor Candidate for Governer of Washington. SEATTL Wash., June 16—FACE THE FACTS AND FIGHT is the livest slogan of the West. It has been adopt ed by the Farmer-Labor Party of King county, Washington. The slogan bids fair to become a national emblem, for the delegates to the St. Paul conven- tion will present the slogan and ask for national endorsement. Mrs. Emily M. Peters, one of the best workers in the Farmer-Labor Party of the State of Washington, pre- posed the slogan entered in competi- tion with scores of others for a prize of five dollars. The winner accepted the money and donated it to the party. FACE THE FACTS AND FIGHT will be used on buttons, banners, and gen- eral advertising. St. Paul Delegates. With the selection of a live eam- palgn slogan the Farmer-Labor Party of the First Congressional distriet proceeded to elect five real workers as jdelegates to the St. Paul convention, | Then they selected five equally good jmen and women as alternates to the meeting that will put the national par ty on the political map. The delegates to represent the Farmer-Labor Party in the First Con- gressional district are: John OC. Ki nedy, Joel Shomaker, Mrs. Fannie B. Perry, Mrs. John C. Kennedy and F. A. Johnson. Alternates are: James A. Duncan, Cheater A. Tarr, J. B, Ellie ger and Mrs. Elsie Sheldon. The party plans to rent rooms in one of the central office buildings and open headquarters for carrying on an intensive campaign for the national, state and county tickets. Every offiee to be filled by election, will have a Farmer-Labor candidate on the ticket. The party expects full representation on all election boards. State Convention July 5, 6. A call has been issued for the State Convention, to be held in Seattle, July 5 and 6. It is expected that 600 delegates will be im attemdance at that convention. The lines are plain- ly marked and the fight outlined as Farmers and Laborers vs. Capitalism. The power question stands at the head of important iseues in the state. A private corporation, claiming assets of $800,000,000 for stock sales pur pores and way down in the thousands tax levies, promises trong fight e campeign and lature. They do not want the principle of public ownership giv @ trial. Send in that Subscription Today. NEW YORK, ATTENTION! union would not submit to the rail-} LAST SHOWING DOWNTOWN way company. He said that if the union representatives did not meet him at 10 o'clock Saturday morning he would send out word to the stree railway employes that the company would no longer deal with them as an organization but only as individuals and that if they wanted to tontinue work as individuals they could. Threat of Open Shop. The union regarded this as merely a threat designed to intimidate the men into scabbing and thru their rep- resentatives answered that the union was awaiting council action and that, Stanley’s mere declaration of “open shop” would not force the strike until the union had seen what the council committee decided. President Polk stated, however, thet if the company actually began opera- tions with the scab crews which the union men have already had to endure quartered in the barns, the union would immediately call out its men and the strike would be on. Mayor Clayton C. Townes appealed to Stanley “in the intergsts of the public,” to walt the action of the council railway’s committee. Stan- ley at first gave no indication of tak- ing any other attitude than that of “the public and the union be damned.” Edward McMorrow, international vice-president of the carmen’s union, FOR THREE DAYS “RUSSIA and GERMANY” A TALE OF TWO REPUBLICS Bight reels of stirring scenes from new life in Rw Actual et events from Germany’s recent unrest. An inside story of the worlds’ two most interesting countries. Also A New Russian Comedy THE MIRACLE OF THE SOLDIER IVAN At |THE EAST SIDE OPEN FORUM 9 SECOND AVENUE (Corner Houston Street) Wed., Thurs., Friday June 18, 19, 20. is now in the city to assist and advise| One performance only at 8:30 P, M. Mr. Polk and William B. Fitzgerald, another international vice-president, will come back from Detroit if the strike breaks out. Send in that Subscription Today! Each Bvening. 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