The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 2

Page Two CLASS WAR 10 DOWN MUSSOLINI LOOMS IN ITALY (Continued from page one) ing of Fascist officials, grows hourly in spite of the repressive measures being used by Mussolini in his last terrific effort to maintain himself as head of the government. Mussolini Brings in Troops. If the king succeeds in bringing Mussolini's political enemies back in- to the government, the blackshirt leader sees his day done. To prevent this, he has brought all his Fascist reserves to Rome. But neither the Fascists nor the other reactionaries whom the king seems inclined to entrust with the government, can stop the rising tide of opposition and save the country from violent civil war unless strong action is taken at once. The people are too much aroused over the Fascist oppression and the latest horrible crime against the deputy to submit without a fight. Buropean officials look with great alarm on the present straining of op- posing forces and anticipate the grav- est results for all Europe unless some sort of stable influence comes to the rescue in Italy. What that “stabil- Nizer” could be is not predicted, be- cause none # evident in the turmoil, nor has any been for the two years the Fascists have ruled, except their now exposed iron fist and brass heart. Dawes Plan Endangered. The capitalists are greatly worried over the effect Italy’s internal war on the prospective July inter-allied con- ference on the Dawes report. With the German situation as uncertain as it is, the French situation almost too delicately poised, and the rest of mid- dle Europe and the Balkans still in turmoil, particularly in Poland and Roumania, the proponents of the American financiers plan to “save” (by enslaving) Burope, have cause enough to be upset and frightened. Soviet Inspires Hope. Off in the east stands Soviet Rus- sia, a bulwark and hope to the op- pressed workers and peasants, who are learning quickly that there ig nothing for them in any government but one formed by themselves. The capitalist industrial lords of Europe and America know well enough that it is the Communist idea which they must fight most if they wish to save their hides and fortunes. Fascist forces have been disinte- grating for months due to internal wrangling over the division of spoils. Cherges and counter-charges of graft have been flying thick and fast and given Mussolini a good many sleep- less nights. Probably he has already laid his plans for escaping with his own share of the boodle when the critical moment arrives and he is on the outside all around, as he seems very near to being now. Graft Leaks Out. Less than a month ago Italy was shaken with the attack of Massino Rocco against the minister of finance, in which certain shady dealings of the minister with Standard Oil were re- vealed. Mussolini succeeded for the few weeks’ interval in keeping news of the Fascist fighting out of the press, and particularly out of the for- eign news service, but the poison is leaking out now. From all indications Fascism is doomed in Italy, altho similar move- ments in other countries, such as the Ku Klux Klan and American Legion, have not yet reached their peak. And with the downfall of Fascism goes Sig. Benito Mussolini. After that, who knows? ‘ FROM ST. PAUL The Capitalist ner. into the city, the capitalist papers proceed to manufacture news out of the rather fertile imaginations of reporters tinged with the malice of enemies of labor. “Radical leaders in secret session,” shouts the St. Paul Dispatch, probably because its reporter was too lazy to dig up a story. Then it proceeds to rehash all the old misrepresentations. It says that the Communists are for LaFollette (whereas the outstanding feature of the temper of the arriving delegates is that most, Communist or tiot, are quite cold to LaFollette) and then proceeds editorially to prove therefrom that the Wisconsin senator is a Communist. Poor “Bob,” after all his struggles to prove that he is not even radical! The St. Paul News is somewhat more original. The Communists, ac- cording to that apostle of truth, have been barred from the convention ex- cept such as manage to sneak in with union credentials. To read its story, we all might as well take the next train back home. The reporter for this prize specimen of prostitute news- paperdom sees nothing but one de- feat after another in all the decisions of the arrangements committee, while ST. PAUL BARS (Continued from preceding page.) gang that met at Cleveland or the bunch that meets soon in New York.” Taylor demanded the land for the users and the jobs for the workers. Brooks No Delay. “The situation today brooks no fur- thér delay,” said Taylor in conclusion. “We are here to act for the class Farmer-Labor party.” A large number of greetings from local unions and other workers and nonpartisan organizations were read to the delegates. Vice Chairman Dunean MacDonald in taking over the chair also turned his attack on the kept/press. He urged that. the delegates conduct them- selves that the subsidized sheets will know when the convention adjourns that they are strangers to the truth. MacDonald presented the conven- tion’s secretary, Alice Lorraine Daly, South Dakota, for her promised re- marks. She ¢onfessed she was a pro- duct of Minnesota’s schools, including the State University, but admitted it had taken her some time to recover from the mis-education she had re- ceived, Lies Don’t Interest Her. “I have been asked by delegates since yesterday what I think of the reports in the yellow press attacking the convention as communist control- led and I answered that I am not in- terested in such trival matters as ap- pear in these malicious publications.” Like Taylor she admitted she had not been in secret sessions with Foster and Ruthenberg. “Today and tomorrow let us think of the disinherited and the disposses- sed who are looking to us to lead the TO WASHINGTON WITH THE DAILY WORKER The representatives of the workers and farmers from all over the United States are at St. Paul building a class party that is destined to sweep the from power and place a Workers’ government in Washi ton. During the next few months one of the greatest polit- political parties of capitalism ical battles ever waged in America will be fought with the Farmer-Labor Party leading Get into this fight NOW with the DAILY WORKER. against the capitalist parties. Let your answer to LaFollette and his disrupters be a subscrip- tion to the fighting Communist daily. Subscribe now. THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Mlinols. to the DAILY WORKER taken on fet the workers and farmers know Follette, Gompers and the whole labor movement that will organize NAME peessescrenesencereesesneonsssenes Make Your Answer Today! foe womens tO COVEr the list of ......0.00. subscriptions secured at the Special Rate of $1 for two months. 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Each has a different story, each lies in a different man- While the arrangements committee was completing prepa- rations for the big gathering, and hundreds of delegates flock everyone is kowtowing to “Battling Bob.” The Communists are ousted it says, altho Foster, a member of the committee, “strenuously fought the move, but found himself in the minority.” Exactly opposite is the ‘story of the Minnesota Star, which used to call itself a “labor” paper. Accord- ing to the Star, the Communists have got a strangle hold on everything. It says that all the permanent officers selected are either public or secret Communists, and that Moscow is in complete control. All of which is entertaining, but not very instructive. The actual facts of how the arriving delegates feel and speak are ignored by the capitalist press. Luckily, the workers do not have to depend upon the journalistic pros- titutes entirely. The DAILY WORK- ER, with its class angle, and its vigor- ous championing of the workers’ and farmers, has become very popular. At this convention, as at so many al- ready in its short life, it seems de- stined to make a host of new friends and deliver another blow at the poi- soners of working class thought—the lying capitalist daily press of America. “RED BAITING” way. Let us not forget the millions for whom we are speaking at this hour. Spirit of Youth Right. She pointed out that the leaders of modern revolutions have been between thirty-two and forty-six years of age. “The spirit of youth is divinely courageous. The spirit of youth is apt to be right. I believe the spirit of youth is here.” Woman Rings Unity Call. Assistant secretary Jessie Bullock Kastner, Washington, urged the dele- gates to get together on the things they could agree on, and then differ outside on everything else from evo- lution to bobbed hair. © “The platform decided on,” she said, “let us then proceed to the selection of national candidates who will stand on that platform.” As she sat down, Miss Kastner was given cheers, like Miss Daly before her. Release Labor Prisoners. This was followed by the announce- ment by delegate Ryan, Washington, that Miss Kastner, as a member of the Washington Legislature had intro- duced a resolution in that body de- manding the release of all class war prisoners. An additional report of the credentials committee showed 522 del- egates seated. 2 oe COMMITTEES CHOSEN ST. PAUL, Minn. June 18,—The convention committees were selected as follows: Organization committee—Whitney, California; Dietrich, Colorado; Be- dacht, Connecticut; Foster, Illinois; Kramer, Iowa; Howat, Kansas; Sim- ons, Massachusetts; Reynolds, Michi- gan; Mahoney, Minnesota; Cannon, Missouri; Wilson, Montana; Green, Nebraska; Brunn, New Jersey; Wein- stone, New York; Knutson, North Da- kota; White, Ohio; Stallard, Oklaho- ma; Conte, Oregon; Merrick, Penn- sylvania; Putnam, South Dakota; Halzafel, Tennessee; Kennedy, Wash- ington; Tenhune, Wisconsin; Meitzen, Texas. Platform committee—Ryckman, Cal- ifornia; Ballam, Connecticut; Mac- Donald, Illinois; Howat, Kansas; Git- low, Massachusetts; Cohen, Michigan; Hathaway, Minnesota; Clark, Mis- souri; Stoner, Montana; Dietrich, Ne- braska; Lore, New Jersey; Poyntz, Rhode Island; Whitmer, North Dako- ta; Wilkins, Ohio; Cobb, Oklahoma; Conte, Oregon; Manley, New’ York; McGowan, Pennsylvania; Ayres, South Dakota; Rubenbrock, Tennessee; Ryan, Washington; Naylor, West Virginia; Donovan, Wisconsin. Committee on nominations—Gor- man, California; Falkner, Colorado; Bittleman, Connecticut; Browder, Il- linois; Kelvig, Iowa; Fraley, Kansas; Lovestone, Massachusetts; Owens, Michigan; Enstrom, Minnesota; Mihe- lic, Missouri; Holland, Montana; Tay- for, Nebraska; Snyder, Oklahoma; Krumbein, North Carolina; North Dakota; Ruthenberg, Strom, Pennsylvania; Siegel, Rhode Island; Hagen, Tennessee; Mason, Washington; Reben, West Virginia; Halonen, Wisconsin. Send in that Subscription Today, Fine For Race Discrimination. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has won a civil rights case in the Cleve- land, Ohio, courts, where a restaurant keeper was fined $50 and costs for refusing to serve Mrs. Grace Taylor because of her color. Send in that Subscription Today. ‘ THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1.) their conventions. This is our con- vention.” LaFollette Attack a Fizzle. MacDonald then differed with Tem- porary Chairman Mahoney in the ef- had on the convention. He didn’t think that LaFollette had hurt the |convention, “The others are not here because |they didn’t have the price to come,” |he said. “There are 75,000 coal min- jers out of work every day in the week in Illinois. The same is true in Indi- ana, Ohio and other states. They couldn’t come becausé they couldn't buy a railroad ticket or get gasoline for their flivvers. That is why they didn’t come, and not because LaFol- lette frowned on the situation, Have No Pullman Cars. “In Ohio, out of 440 coal mines, 360 mines are closed down. They have no work, That's why they are not here. They couldn't charter Pullman cars, like the monied gang that went to Cleveland and is next week going to New York.” MacDonald continued in a humorous vein, declaring: “I know we are taking a chance by com- ing here among you reds in the north- west,” When the laughter had died down, MacDonald turned his guns on the Wisconsin aggregation of LaFollette “that attacked this convention and then went and sat thruout the entire Teapot Dome meeting of the Repub- lican party at Cleveland,” concluding with: “If we are reds, then by God they are yellows,” and as he sat down waves of applause swept thru the huge delegation. The workers’ phil- osophy from the coal mines had swept into the convention and cap- tured it. LaFollette’s name had be- jcome anathema. 500 from 30 States. The preliminary report of the cre- dentials committee, delayed several hours because of the large influx of credentials at the last moment, showed nearly 500 delegates present from about 30 states. Other organizations with delegates seated directly were the World War Veterans, the Workers party, the Prison Comfort league, the Federated Farmer-Labor party and the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America. Minnesota has the largest delegation fect that the LaFollette attack had’ numbering 127. Iinois is second with 44, Other States with large delegations are: California, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ne- braska. But smaller delegations, some- times a single delegate has appeared from such isolated States as Alabama, Maryland, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Oregon. Fight For Chairmanship. The race for the permanent chair- manship of the convention furnished the first struggle of the convention. Senator Charles E. Taylor, of Montana was nominated by one of the delegates from his state and it all looked like clear sailing until delegate Taylor, of Nebraska, in the midst of the nomina- tion, started a fight for his method of nominating by states and voting by states. Temporary chairman Mahoney had declined the permanent chairman- ship in a very definite speech, but the Minnesotans threw Thomas Vollom, defeated candidate for Governor in Monday’s primaries into the arena, while Taylor was hesitating for breath in an effort to put over his proposi- tion. Non-Delegate Barred. Mahoney, in the chair, ruled out Vollom as a candidate as he was not a delegate. But South Dakota came to bat for the nomination of its gubern- atorial candidate, A. L. Putnam. In the meantime Duncan MacDonald and Scott L. Lipple, were also nominated but declined. But the delegates had another card up their sleeves. Having tired of making nominations they insisted on having a look at the candidates, now including Mahoney, who had had a change of heart and thrown his hat into the ring. With MacDonald in the chair the candidates who remained, Taylor, Putnam and Mahoney, were each given five minutes to speak. Taylor Wins Overwhelmingly. The vote by states showed Taylor overwhelmingly elected permanent chairman with 718 votes, 116 going to Mahoney and Putnam getting only his own State of South Dakota with its 14 votes. MacDonald was made vice chairman, the only opposition came for a time from the candidacy of C. U. Burquist, of Minnesota, but his name was withdrawn in the midst of the balloting. Press Writers Name Red. One of the intensely revealing mo- ments of the convention came when the capitalist newspapermen having Union Ladies Sore at Late Congress; Lotta Gas; No Work “(Special to the Daily (Norker,) WASHINGTON, June 18.— “Never, in all probability, nas a session of con- gress left behind it such confusion and disappointment as exists since che adjournment of the senate and house on June 7,” says a bulletin is- sued by the National Women’s Trade Union league. It gives details of the effect of the failure of congress to pass the deficiency appropriation bill and of the government printing. office to return to the house and senate for signature another appropriation bill, affecting salaries of more than 200,000 government employes. This bulletin notes that rail labor legislation got nowhere; the federal department of education measure did not emerge from committee; the post- al wage increase bill was vetoed at the last moment by Coolidge; farmers’ relief legislation was not acted upon; the workmen’s compensation bill for the District of Columbia, ousting pri- vate insurance Companies from this line of graft, was strangled in commit- tee; three proposals for international tribunals for settlement of interna- tional disputes were merely discussed. Send in that Subscription Today. « [Alex Howat Typifies St. Paul noted that “Groups of 25 Farmers” had delegates in the conven- tion petitioned that they be given a delegate, and presented Robert Minor, editor of “The Liberator” and special writer and cartoonist of the “Daily Worker” as their choice, The press writers claimed they num- bered more than 25, and that they had hastily organized into the Upton Sin- clair Brass Check Local No. 1. Most of the delegates were acquainted with Sinelair’s exposure of the capitalist press in his book, “The Brass Check.” They caught the spirit of the thing and Robert Minor was immediately seated as a delegate with one of the big demonstrations of the convention. Press Delegate Hits Press. Upon being called upon for a speech, Minor ripped into the subsidized press in general, and especially for its treat- ment of the convention news. He ex- tended an apology to the convention for the prostituted newspaper profes- sion, one of the products of a sordid society. He told of his covering of the re- publican convention at Cleveland for the Daily Worker, pointing out how the republicans had nominated a re- frigerator for president, and a “Hell ‘n Maria” for vice president, blowing hot and cold at the same time. Befor: he was through, Minor had torn the “Brass Check” press to shreds so much so, that his constituency, passed up a note that he should return for further instructions. Demands Class Party. In closing his remarks Minor made a plea for the class Farmer-Labor Party, the first outspoken plea of the convention. The demonstration it aroused was proof positive that the delegates are here for a class party, strongly centralized, ard that they will be satisfied with nothing less. Minor’s speech. made such a hit that delegate F. H. schoonmaker, Wisconsin made a motion that was adopted, that a@ copy of it be sent to Upton Sinclair, while delegate Arnold, of South Da- kota, wanted it printed in a, leaflet, which was also approved. Alice Lorraine Daly Secretary. Delegate Joseph Manley, Illinois, paid a glowing tribute to Alice Lor- raine Daly, in nominating her for | secretary. She was elected without opposition. Miss Jessie Bullock Hast- ner, Washington, and Otto Wangerin, | Minnesota, were made assistant Se- cretaries. WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ CAUCUS ST. PAUL, Minn., June 18.—Cau- cuses are today an accepted part of the Farmer-Labor movement as a re- sult of the gatherings since adjourn- ment yesterday of the delegations of the 30 states with representation here. They not only selected their representatives on the various con- vention committees, but talked over the big issues of the young movement in which they are playing a part. While some of the delegations con- fined themselves to the selection of their committeemen, others spent a good part of the night deciding their stand toward the LaFollette candi- dacy, the form of organization the new party is to take, and the platform that is to be adopted. Hathaway Beats Starkey. The more than 100 delegates of the Minnesota delegation constituted a small convention in themselves. Ev- ery effort of its most reactionary IN PLANNING CONVENTION WORK St. Paul Trades and Labor desembiy, two to one. Starkey sought to have the Minne- sota delegation adjourn from the Au- ditorium to the Labor temple for fur- ther caucus. This was fought on the ground that many of the farmer dele- gates had gone off to other meetings, and it was pointed out that the hold- ing of this rump gathering would not be fair to them. Starkey then called on the conservative delegates to go with him to the Labor temple, and a few of his boon companions went off with him, Reactionaries Aided G. 0. P. It is charged that the little Starkey group of business agents was active on the Republicans’ side in the recent state primaries, that they really have no place in the Farmer-Labor move- ment. In the small Starkey group are such men as Frank Fisher of the Building Trades council, J. J. MeCoy wing to plant the seeds of disruption Of the electrical workers, and a few was successfully fought. The com- fnitteemen selected were William Ma- honey, organization; C. A. Hathaway, platform; Louis Engstrom, candi- dates. Hathaway, member of the Workers party, defeated \the reaction- ary Frank Starkey, delegate of the WAR PROFITEERS’ ROTTEN SHIPS TO BE SALVAGED BY MORE MONEY (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 18,—One more effort to save the 375 idle shipping board vessels from rust and decay in the harbors and roadbeds where they lie is to be made by the board, it was announced today. With funds made available by congress, Diese! Zyep internal combustion engines are to be installed on sixty of them, while private enterprise will be encouraged by the shipping board to take over and similarly equip the remainder on a 50-50 basis. Saturday meeti out which will appointed their Branoh permanent agents at once. 4 Chicago Branch Agents! A most important evi y 3 held in THE DAILY WORKE ington St., Saturday, June 21, at 3:00 P. M. Marked progress has been made during the past month in boosting the Chic new plans will be presented and worked ive further impetus to the rapidl wi DAILY WORKER eketon mais rd It is essential that every Branch Agent be present next Saturday. Workers Party branches which have not yet ints should arrange representatives present at the meeting and to elect their of Branch Agents will be Building, 1113 W. Wash- circulation and at the to have Ruthenberg Is Still Under Sentence, Did Yo Gel Your Defense Button Yet? others. It was this element that managed to get a snap vote in the St. Paul Trades and Labor assembly, sending Starkey as its delegate, with the in- struction carrying the joker that if the Communists were in control he should withdraw, If he bolts the con- vention, the Minnesota delegates say he will bolt it alone, California Shelves Anti-Red. In the California caucus the Pacific coast delegation completely isolated, so far as the committees are con- cerned, another turbulent factor in the person of Walter Thomas Mills, who specializes in anti-Moscow ar- guments and forgets all about the fight against the capitalists. The Cal- ifornia delegates decided they could get along without Mills’ services, and put J. H. Ryckman on the platform committee; D, A. Gorman, committee on candidates; Anita Whitney, organ- ization committee. The Washington delegation made these selections: J. H. Ryan, Tacoma, platform; John C. Kennedy, organiza- tion, and Samuel Mason, candidates, Brass Check Local No. 1. Two of the California delegates, W. W. Holther and J. H. Ryckman, have sent the following telegram to Upton Sinclair at Pasadena: “More than 25 correspondents at convention organized on the job as Upton Sinclair Brass Check Local No, 1, Gave Bob Minor credentials as their delegate, Called up for speech, Bob savagely excoriated capitalist press. Local demanded Bob's recall for further instructions, Tremendous ovation, Harmony prevails. Wire greetings. Holther and Ryckman.” LABOR DEFENSE COUN- CIL, 166 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Thursday, June 19, 1924 HERRIOT WANTS POUND OF FLESH Communists @ Attac Dawes’ Plan (Special to the Daily Worker.) PARIS, June 18.—The 29 Commun- ists in the chamber of deputies served notice on Premier Herriot that the revolutionary workers of France con- sidered him and his cabinet agents of the bourgeoisie and would oppose him vigorously as the left bloc made its debut. Marcel Cachin, Communist spokes- man, tore Herriot’s speech into tat- ters, branding the Dawes report, which Herriot accepts without reser- vation, a plan to enslave Europe, “First the bankers are laying their hands on Germany,” said Cachin, “and France’s turn will come next. The Dawes report cannot solve the repa- rations problem.” While Herriot mouthed about free- dom in general and peace for the world, he said nothing about the ex- ploitation of subject peoples by the ?rench imperialists. Herriot talked about the evacuation cf the Ruhr aft- er the French capitalists took their pound of flesh out of the body of Ger- man labor. “Why did you not say anything about the evacuation of Syria and Morocco?” demanded Ca- chin, The Socialists, true to their role of crawling time servers, supported Her- riot, but on the question of a break with the Vatican a Socialist deputy attacked Herriot for proposing to open an embassy in Moscow and to close one at Rome. The new Herriot government is a middle-of-the-road one much like the Ramsay MacDonald “Labor” rule of England, and both seem determined to stuff the Morgan-Dawes reparations plan down the throat of Germany. Herriot goes to England Saturday to confer with MacDonald. Herriot and President Doumergue |made their official policy statements |to the chamber of deputies by begin- ning with a hypocritical “concilia- tory” smile at Germany and saying |that France would not move out of the Ruhr until Germany had given in fact all the guarantees provided by the American financial “experts” who assisted “Hell-an’-Maria” to put over Morgan's little plan for running west- ern and middle Europe as one branch of his banking business. Not Far from Reactionary. France’s new government asserts its severest opposition to the German poationalinte and industrialists, but. ‘takes care to safeguard its own na- tionalists and industrialisté by reiter- ating its “right to reparations.” The social reformists, Herriot and Dou- mergue, are only a little less obvi- ously attentive to the demands of the French and American capitalists who are ‘still the “power behind the throne’ (or “chair,” now) than their predecessors, Millerand and Poincare. Herriot is a little shrewder in read- ing the public psychology.. Like Mac- Donald of England, he is not really in- terested in the workers and peasants of his country, but tosses them a few social-reform promises like scraps of food from the banquet table of the financial lords whom he is really serv- ing. Tiibeaay 7,000 Germans haye been allowed to return to their homes in the occupied territory and 600 of the 800 expelled German customs officers have gone back to their jobs. The French and Belgium Ruhr railway op- erators have hired 80,000 German workers to run the lines. Another Social-Democrat. The new French government is op posed to the German nationalists and industrial Jords, who in turn cordially hate Herriot. The German democrats seem on the whole pleased with the change in French affairs. Herriot is not too reactionary nor radical for them. He is a business man. But German Communists, of course, see thru the futile pretenses of Herriot and know that he will try to force the enslavement of German workers as well as French. The German industrial leaders want the masses of German workers to pay the reparations, while France seems intent upon forcing every German fac+ tory to meet a specified industrial ob- ligation, The German workers will anyway besides giving the German in- dustrial barons their profits, unless the growing Communist movement succeeds this time in sweeping away the debris of the social democracy and the cheap beer-cellar nationalist plots. Premier Herriot protested again that his cabinet was one of “concilia- tion” toward Germany and that his minister of war, General Nollet, was an offense only to the extreme nation- alist militarist Germans. Recognize Russia. Exploitation of the colonies may have been put in the program for the imperialists, or perhaps it is just a phrase anyway. notions of conquest, however, was one Lo of the statement of foreign pol- joy. tions, according to Herriot, after the beaten nation plies with ‘the treaty of Versailles. — FROM GERMANY iy » Wa alge Repudiation of any . 4