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. \\ | ABRRRRERIRRRRIE eee I THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 78. FASCISTI RULE EOF TERROR IS COLLAPSING Call Issued to Form Stop-Gap Cabinet ROME, Italy, June 17.—The bloody Fascist rule of terror led by Dictator Benito Mussolini is tottering and revolution threat- ens Italy. King Victor Emman- SUBSCRIPTION RATES HISTORIC MUNICIPAL -ST. PAUL AUDITORIUM HOUSES CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 17.—The historic June 17th National Farmer- Labor gathering assembled in St. Paul’s Municipal Auditorium on Fourth Street, between Franklin and Washington Sts. This is the tremendous amphitheatre where Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, made his speech, in the early days of the war, that resulted in a fight being made to oust him from the U. S. senate. Many large workers’ gatherings have been held here. The main floor space is reserved for the delegates. The balconies are open to the public. An admission charge, however, is made of 50 cents uel has called in his ‘‘cousins,” the nine members of the Order of Annunciation, all of them his relatives or former prime minis- ters of Italy, to’ urge them to form a new government to save the country from the two-years deferred revolution by supplant- fng the blackshirt iron hand which has lashed and lacerated the kingdom since 1922. Mussolini, the gore-smirched Fascist dictator of Italy, will not be excluded from the new cabi- net, judging from the meagre news which trickles by the cen- sor, but his political enémies in the Order of Annunciation will undoubtedly curtail the pre- mier’s control of the govern- ment. Black Shirt Grip Weakening. The smashing career of the Fascists In destroying ruthlessly labor and rad- {eal organizations and suppressing all Oppusition speech and assemblage and censoring the press has been less and Jess successful and much more sub- ject to hostile criticism by all except the black shirt “run amuck” terror- ists. The dark, bloody deeds of the Fascists have been a warning to other nations’ reactionary forces, such as the Ku Klux Klan and American Le- jon in the United States and the hite terror” in Poland and Rou- mania. The present grave crisis is the re- sult of the accumulated discontent at failure of the Fascists to settle Italy by any but blood-stained, iron-fist methods. / Kidnaping Was Last Straw. The disappearance of the Socialist deputy, Sig. Matteoti, a week ago, and the laxness of the Fascist officials in investigating the kidnaping and prob- able murder of the keen anti-Fascist, directly precipitated the tense situa- tion and impending fall of Fascism. Strip Ben of Power. Sigs. Giolitti, Salandra, Orlando, Behanzer and Tittoni are among the “cousins of the king,” who may be (Continued on page 3.) NAVAL HEROES NOW BLAME BIG DISASTER ON DEAD SAILOR’S HAND SAN PEDRO, Calif. June 17.— Mystery surrounding the second ex- plosion aboard the U. S. S, Missis- sippi, in which seven sallors were Injured, four fatally, was cleared up in testimony at yesterday's hearing of the naval probe. Definite assertion that the sway- Ing, stiffened arm of a dead sailor killed in the first blast in turret No. 2 struck the firing switch of gun No. 5 when the body was being removed from the wrecked turret room was given by George C. Ogle- tree, seaman first'class. The switch was thrown into contact and the gun was fired. : WITNESSES) TELL ALDERMEN OF DEGREE” TERROR USED of any one day’s session, or $1 for the sessions of the whole conven- tion. “GOLDFISHED” VICTIMS FEAR In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ELECTRIC TRUST | FIRES MEN 10 EVADE PENSION Daily Worker’s Biggest Expose Tomorrow By KARL REEVE. (Sixth Article.) The Western Electric Com- pany, while printing numerous pamphlets and advertising in the daily papers, the great benefits granted to its employes, robs the worker at every chance. The Western Electric pays sick and death benefits only where it is impossible for its Welfare Department to squirm out of the payment. The West- ern Electric wherever possible takes the bread out of the POLICE REVENGE Terror Seals Mouths of Tortured Persons (By Ex-Police Reporter) When Charles Wharton, attor- ney for William Wilson, teacher at the exclusive Harvard. Bow , School, appeared before the Police Committee of the city council Monday and told why Wilson refused to appear there to tell the story of the beatings he had received at the hands of Michael Grady and his-detective squad, he showed in a few words why the “goldfish” system of the police department has not been exposed before today. The writer believes that ex- posure of the “goldfish” terror system of the Chicago police de- partment is of vital interest to every reader of the DAILY WORKER for any class con- scious union man is in danger of torture is he is arrested. Silenced by Terror. Wharton said that he had urged Wilson to come and tes- tify before the committee but that Wilson was afraid to. “Wil- son said that he was afraid that if he pushed the case against Grady any further he would go out some night and never re- turn. I told him his fears were groundless. Wilson said that if anyone had told him that 2 months ago that a man would be treated as he had been treated while in the cus- (Continued on Page 5.) Russia Cuts Book Prices. MOSCOW, June 17.—Russia has re- moved all taxes and duties of book manufacture and book sales within the Soviet union. This appliés to pub- lishing houses of the state, co-opera- tive and educational organizations, while the taxes on private publishers are reduced to one-forth. The high cost of books “putting them beyond the reach of those who most need them,” is given as a reason, Send in that Subscription Today. TO EXTORT FAKE CONFESSIONS / The City/Council committee on Police will continue their {soon as thé investigation /of the charges made by Walter Wilson against Lieutenant ernoon, Charles Wharton The coming hearing will be attend- ly and his detective bureau squad at a meeting This was decided on Monday when Wilson at the committee hearings sending word thru scious labor organizations which are afraid of police;determined to get to the bottom of the torture system which has frequently been used against radicals. 'T. F. Bolton, attorney for Grady and his squad, objected to the committee hearing the charges against Grady (Continued on page 2.) . mouths of the widows and or- phans of men who have died leaving a long record of serv‘- to the company. Learn nile The Western Ele est speed work, in return, The ization of but uses hold « the ctric requires high- but gives low wages us company fights unfon- the plant tooth and nail, the Hawthorne club to keep a on the minds and activities of employes. Bunk Filling Begins. The bunk-filling process starts as “prospective” employe” ts given an application to fill out. Along- side the application blanks is a pile of pamphlets, ten by eight inches, en- titled “A good place to work, the Haw- thorne works, Western Electric com- pany.” ; From the time the employe enters the employment office until he is in- ducted into his new job, and daily, continually, as long as he is in the trust’s employ, the Western Electric company fills him with propaganda intended to make him anxious to get and hold his job. Along with the clubs, pamphlets, (Continued on Page 2.) BOSSES INSPIRE RAID ON FRISCO TRANSPORT MEN Seized Under Anti-Labor Syndicalism Law Special to The Daily Worker. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. June 17 — The offices of the Building workers union, the Transport Workers union and the Defense Committee of the I. 'W. W. here were raided yesterday and more than ten men were arrested and charged with criminal syndicalism. This raid follows the raid on the San Pedro headquarters of the transport workers and the recent reversal by the higher courts of several important criminal syindicalism cases. The most important of these cases was that of McClenigan et al. In that case 27 workers were sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison for membership in the I. W. W. When they were convicted the trans- port workers in the harbor of San Pe- dro went on a five day protest strike, This strike spread to other ports and tied shipping all along the coast up as tight as a drum. Now the higher court in ordering a new trial for the men say that they did not get a fair trial. Postpone W. Va. Mine Trial. CHARLESTON, W. V., June 17.— Seven months delay will occur before J. C. MeCoy, who was on the coal miners’ side in the war against the company gunmen in West Virginia in 1921, goes to trial for the third time on @ murder charge. The long post- ponement after ‘two convictions that have been opened for retrial means’ that the operators, who control the courts, may be getting tired of their long effort to railroad union miners into the penitentiary. Send in that Subscription Today, th Re Capitalist Press In Lying Plot Against St. Paul By J. LOUIS (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, June 17.—Amid all the wild reports sent out by the yellow press about the vention here, perhaps the vilest canard is the one announc- ing that the Communist delegates had been barred from the gathering. This malicious falsehood was carried, in one form or another, in practically all the capitalist dailies and thru their news agencies on the eve of the convention's opening. Of course there was no basis anywhere for this lie. “There was never at any time any move to unseat the Communist delegates,” declared C. A. Hathaway, chairman of the credentials committee. “The matter was never brought up by any one, it was never discussed. This is only some more hair-brained factional lie frantically circulated in an effort to discredit our convention. reports can be expected during the sessions of the conven- tion and after. There is only one thing for the workers to do and that is to quit buying and reading these kept publica- tions. Let them support and strengthen instead their own press. All that the capitalist dailies will publish about this convention will be lies, lies, lies.” FYPASEEXCITES {STEEL TRUST'S mike we ee Ane STOOLPIGEUn. TO MORE ANTICS Western Electric Finks Look for Investigators completely upset by the DAILY WORKER exposure of the speed-up conditions inside the plant and has put its undercover secret service chief, C. H. Gerding on the job to pacify the men. The facts of the re- newed activity of the Western Elec- tric secret’ service were revealed to the DAILY WORKER by a person high up in one of the administrative branches of the company. “The Western Blectric keeps a down-town office for its secret serv- ice and undercover work among the employes,” this man told the DAILY WORKER. “In this offiée, room 704, Tacoma Building, the Western Electric secret service chief plans and carries out the efficiency ideas and C. H. Gerding, the chief stool pigeon of the plant, has his name on the door. The office is a blind office, and few people know that Gerding is head of the Western Electric secret ‘service with offices here. “The activities of Gerding and his men have greatly increased since the DAILY WORKER reporter worked in the plant,” the office man of the West- ern Electric told the DAILY WORK- ER. “The employment office has been reprimanéed for allowing the DAILY WORKER reporter to slip thru. Since the DAILY WORKER exposure only a few men have been hired and for every one hired a Western Electric stool pigeon has also been hired to keep his eye on the new employe. Straw Boss on Carpet. “B. Stock has been called up on the carpet, and was within an ace of los- ing his job. Stock was told by the offi- cials that he deserved to be fired for revealing so much to a new employe. Stock’s answer was that he tried to give Reeve the psychology of the Western Electric company so as to make him a better employe. The offi- cials warned him that if he was again talkative to a new employe, or re- vealed any more of the company's methods, he would be fired.” Police Disruption of Philadelphia Picnic To Be Told Thursday PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 17.— Emergency membership meeting of the Workers party of Philadelphia is called for Thursday, 8 p. m., June 19, PUBLISE ENGDAHL, National Farmer-Labor Con- Many more such silly POLICE ARREST FILM BACKERS Published Daily THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 2, 1879. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18,1924 <>" Italy Threatened Wi ept Sunday . W by THE DAIL ington Blvd., {ING Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Y WORKER Chicago, Ml. , SAYS ST.PAUL volution CONVENTION DELEGATES GIVE THEIR ANSWER TO BAITERS HOWLING FIGHT COMMUNISTS! By J. LOUIS Editor of The MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM, ENGDAHL, Daily Worker. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 17.— “Fight Capitalism! All eyes on the enemy! All eyes on the big bankers, the big landlords and t! These were the stirring slog: he big food gamblers!” ‘ans with which the many hund- reds of delegates, from the industrial centers and the farms of the nation, representing nearly every state in the union, went into session here today in what has popularly become known as the “June 17th Convention” of the National Farmer-Labor forces of the country. These slogans have grown conference has been compelled reality. It is the answer of the out of the long, hard road this to travel in order to become a convention to the slogan of the reactionaries, “Fight the Communists!” REACTION IS IN DISFAVOR, The apologist for the attacks of LaFollette, Gompers, John- ston and other agents of the reactionary elements in the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the Conference for Progressive Political Action, find themselves very much in disfavor. They find themselves strangers in the gathering. There may be a few Oo of them, come to the convention bent on disruption and con- fusion, but they found out be- fore the gathering got far under way, that their presence was not welcome, that they were looked upon as interlopers. “We have but one enemy, and that enemy is capitalism. Let us go after this enemy with all our might.” This is the way that many of the Monessen ie ree Picture Anyway“ er (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) MONESSEN, Pa. June 17. — Charles Roberts, Morris Schindler, and Comrade Onoken, arrested here for showing the International Work- ers’ Aid film, “Russia and Ger- many,” have been released on $700 cash bail apiece. The local authorities, violating all legal procedure, have confiscated the films. Charles Roberts, repre- senting the national office of the In- ternational Workers’ Relief, will re- main in Monessen and institute pro- ceedings for the immediate recovery of the film. The Civil Liberties Un- jon has also taken up the case. MONESSEN, Pa., June 17.— The Monessen police were unable to stop delegates summarized the situation and typifies the spirit with which the convention, is going ahead with its business, and will continue to a~ hsi. “ ness unless something very much un- foreseen, at this moment occurs. Preliminaries Gone Thru With. It was not expected that the big is- sues beford) the convention would be touched in any way on the first day of the convention. But these issues were the topic of considerable discussion as the convention went thru its preli- minaries, the calling to order by Will- iam Mahoney, chairman of the Com- mittee on Arrangements, acting as the temporary presiding officer, with C. A, Hathaway serving as secretary. The address of welcome was given by Chairman Mahoney and dealt largely with events leading up to the great gathering here. In the elec- tion of permanent officers, Charles E. Taylor, of the Montana Farmer-Labor the showing of the International |P2@Tty was made chairman; Duncan Workers’ Relief film, “Russia and Ger- many,” Friday night, altho they ar- rested Charles Roberts, Morris Schin- dler and Comrade Okonen, after the showing of the picture. The Monessen authorities have con- ducted a stubborn campaign to keep the truth about the Russian and Ger man revolutionary workers’ move- ment from the slave steel mill work- ers of Monessen. A week ago the lo- cal authorities, by means of a so- called “bureau of inspection, depart- ment of labor in industry,” tried to stop the film. Comrade Roberts, representing the International Relief, was forced to se- cure a new hall, because the steel- trust authorities trumped up an anti- MacDonald, of Illinois, vice-chairman; Alice Lorraine Daly, of the South Da- kota Farmer-Labor party, secretary The convention then proceeded to the election of committees. Two Important Committees. It is felt that the two big commit- tees of the convention are those on organization and candidates, with 15 members each. While all the dele- gates seem to be unanimous for the class party of workers and farmers, there seems to be some difference as to just what the organizational nature of the party shall be. This matter. was thoroly discussed by the Commit- tee on Arrangements, with prominent delegates sitting with it, but no de- finite decision was reached. It was fire law. Roberts protested on the|@ecided to refer the whole matter, grounds that’the Russia and Germany | Without recommendation, to the con- film is the new non-inflammable ma-| Vention committee. One of the bones terial that conforms to all fire laws | Of contention is the admission of na- thruout the country. tional political parties. While this The International Workers’ Relief | Would hit the Workers party, it would office in Chicago announces that altho | 4/80 hit other organizations like the the showing of the “Fifth Year” has| Socialist party. The delegates ad- been stopped by local authorities in| vancing this point of view fail entire thirteen different places, this is the | ly to understand the nature of a Farm- first time anyone has been arrested|@r-Labor party, with its all-inclusive for showing actual moving pictures of | Mature. For instance, J. Ramsay Mac- the effects of French imperialism on] Donald, the premier of the British La- the German workers in contrast to (Continued on page 2.) the workers’ government of Soviet Russia. STATE DROPS CHARGES AGAINST OFFICIALS OF W. VA. MINERS UNION FOR CLASS PARTY WORKERS PARTY MEMBER WINS IN MINNESOTA Gt Dawl Viatowe Nama Avhe 2 meme YULCIO sium Emme for Congress By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ST. PAUL, June 17.—Julius F. Emme, Workers Party mem- ber, became the candidate for congress in the fourth district (St. Paul) of the Farmer-Labor Party at Monday’s primar! elections. The election fight will therefore be between the Com- munist and Representative Oscar E. Kelley and Daniel W. Lawler, former mayor of St. Paul. Sufficient returns have not yet been received to indicate the outcome of the congressional race in the Farmer-Labor Party race in the Duluth district where Jacob O, Bentall, Workers Party member was a candidate. The Farmer-Labor senator, Magnus Johnson, ran away from the field of candidates in the senatorial race. Floyd B. Olson was running ahead as the Farmer-Labor candidate for gover- nor, with William A, Schaper who re- pudiated the Workers party indorse- ment and attacked the Farmer-Labor convention opening here to day, run- ning far in the rear. * A QUITTER’S FATE By ALFRED FRANKENSTEIN, (Special to the Daily Worker.) ST. PAUL, June 17.—Prof. William A. Schaper, defeated Farmer-Labor candidate for governor of Minnesota, was snowed under because of his re- pudiation of the national Farmer-La- bor convention, in session here today. Dr. Schaper, former professor of eco- nomics at the University of Minne- sota, was ousted from his chair there (Continued on page 3.) WASHINGTON DELEGATION IS SOLID OF WORKERS AND FARMERS WITH NO COMPROMISES By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, he ers, 521 York ‘ pened gre titees > rahi CHARLESTON, W. Va., Ave. H. M. Wicks will be at this dune 17. meeting to tell about his arrest, trial} —Al! charges against Frank and the meaning of the police disturb-| Keeney, for presi Fred ance at our picnic, Two vitally im-| Mooney, former secretary, and Will- lam Blizzard, former sub-district president, district 17, United Mine Workers, growing out of disorders during the armed march of 1921, were nolle prossed by the state clr cult court at Fayetteville this after. noon, portant problems that are seriously menacing the party today will be dis- cussed and decided upon. All Workers party members and Young Workers league members are requested to be at this meeting. Ad- mission by cards only, Editor of The Dally Worker, ecial to The a orker’ ST. PAUL, Minn. June 17,—-One of the steel rods in the backbone of this National Farmer-Labor Convention is the dele- gation from the Pacific Coast state of Washington. It is headed by William Bouck, president of the Western Progressive Farm- ers, and John C. Kennedy, secretary of the Washington Farmer- Labor Party. “We're here and more are on the way,” announced Kennedy and many were the stories he told of how funds had been raised (Continued on page 3.)

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