The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1924, Page 1

a { THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE. STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 80. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. bd PAs ERP 290 ORKER. Entered %s Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,.1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ll. 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 ST. PAUL BUILDING CLASS PARTY 40,000 Hawthorne Workers In Mor AND ELECTRIC CO. ARE BROTHERS Morgan Boodle. King Controls Both By KARL REEVE. The Western Electric Com- pany, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which is the Bell system, the General Electric Company, and many other electric companies and public utility corporations are connected in one gigantic elec- trical trust. The Heron ety a figure behind the scenes is J. Morgan and his millions. These large corporations all work together, instituting the same kind of speeding-up, low wage; non-union conditions, making motors and electrical apparatus, “leasing” these ma- chines to each other, and dove- tailing prices and facilities, and manufacturing to the mutual benefit of all—except the em- ployes. Built at Hawthorne. A new telegraphing printing ma- chine was invented by the Western Union engineers about 1912. This ma- chine supplants the Morse code on the heavy trunk wires. The machines are used on all the heavy trunk wires and ‘are operated by girls, who sup- operators are now needed on the Western Union system only on the shorter trunk wires and on the way circuits. A These labor-saving telegraph printing machines are built at the Western Electric plant at Haw- (Continued on page 2.) LABOR ADVERTISES ITS PROBLEMS BY DODGERS THROWN IN CONVENTION By ALFRED V. FRA FRANKENSTEIN. ST. PAUL, June 19. — Various sorts of handbills issued by labor unions are floating around this con- vention hall. The Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly have one out about the new Nicollet hotel, in Minneapolis, opening to- day with all the plute press of the twin cities singing its praises. The hotel was built with scab labor, and will be run by a scab corps of fiunkies to wait on the rich guests. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Local 180, has issued a statement concerning their strike on the F. A. Patrick overcoat factory at Duluth. \ The union has been out for three months, trying to enforce a decent . standard in the factory. ‘The women’s party has a huge sheet in circulation among the dele- gat enumerating the countries that have enacted equal right laws, and calling on the delegates to de- mand similar laws here. But by far the most noticeable and enthusiastically read sheet in the whole hall is The DAILY WORKER, which almost every dele- gate reads, and which is comment- ed upon favorably by almost all its readers. ; The corps selling the DAILY WORKER consists of Margaret He- lander, Rose Rubin, Emma Blech- schmidt and Ostra Sungail. They report that literature is selling like lemonade on a hot day. SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.—Local labor officials express themselves as disappointed and incensed at Cool- idge’s veto of the postal pay increase measures. “The veto is as unfair as ‘it is unjust,” says Paul Scharrenberg, secretary of the State Federation of Labor. “President Coolidge and Gov- ernor Richardson both advocate econ- \.omy., They show the same degree of “enthusiasm in this connection regard- less of how many laborers are made to suffer, or how many humane insti- tutions fall as the result of ruthless use of the economy ax.” WILLIAM MAHONEY | ST PALE Chairman of Arrangeinents Commit- tee that called: St. Paul convention. WORKERS GET WORST ABUSE “Goldfish” Torture Not for Rich Prisoners (By Ex-Police Reporter.) Why can the police use phe | ste can do things which are unlaw-| ful-and get away with them? If you have read the other articles in this series you have probably asked yourself that question. The explanation is simple. The American people have developed a fear of the police. Radicals Abused Most. It is the poor—the workers—who come in contact with the police. You never hear of a millionaire being ar- rested and “goldfished” for stealing a few dollars. It is the poor. and un- educated who are the victims of po- lie brutality. People of little educa- tion, they speaking little and poor English. From their experience they see that the police can be bribed, that they are corrupt. The police know that radical work- ers inform the poor about the cor- ruption of the police and the hosses’ (Continued on page 5.) Rhode Island Calls State Picnic Sunday For Farm-Labor Party (Special to the Daily Worker.) PROVIDENCE, R. L, June 19.—All the live people in this state will be at Vasa Park, on the Pawtuxet river at Warwick avenue bridge, this Sunday, June 22, The speaking begins at 2 Pp. m., and the subject is “Do we need a Farmer-Labor party in this coun- try?” There will be all sorts of live-wire labor men present to speak for the formation of a national Farmer-Labor party. Come by street car—come by auto —bring the whole family, says the committee in charge. Everyone is as- sured of a good time and a chance to discuss the most vital erat; of the day. Philadelphia Police Try to Tell H. M. Wicks That “Cal” is All Right PHILADELPHIA, J June 19.—When Magistrate Dugan got back from vot- ing for Coolidge at the Cleveland con- vention he called-up Harry M. Wicks, of New York, who had been arrested for calling Coolidge a strike-breaker, and lectured the prisoner on Coolidge as the greatest man alive. Whereupon he accepted $500 cash bail and set the hearing for June 26. The case is being fought by the American Civil Liberties union and the Workers te the basis of constitutional rights of free speech. COMMUNISTS NAME PRESIDIUM IN STH CONGRESS hwaite Delegations Here from Big Countries (Special to the » DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, June 19.—The Presidium of the fifth Congress of the Third In- ternationale, which is in session now in the Kremlin, has been announced by the Comintern. Gregory Zinoviev is the chairman, The Russian Communist Party is} represented in the Presidium by Sta lin, Bucharin and Trotzky. The Ger- man party by Braun and Hebhardt, While Clara Zetkin has come to re- port on the “Independents” of Ger- many. Chief Representatives. France will be represented by Tibint and Selje; Italy by Borodjia; Chechoslovakia by Shumeral and pee the Scandinavian countries by efio; the Balkans by Kolaroy; Japan by Kata- England by Stu- Pain by Krajewski; yama; India by Roy; art, and the United States by Dunne. The agenda for the discussion of the Fifth Congress is as follows: AGENDA. 1. Lenin and the Communist Inter national. On the basis and propagation of Leninism. Speakers will be appointed by 2 many, France, India and Bulgaria. 2. The World Economic Situation. Reporter: Comrade Varga. Report on the Activity and Tac- tics of the Communist Interna- tional. Chief Reporter, Com- rade Zinoviev, eventually co-re- porters from the sections. The Question of the Program. Reporters, Comrades Bucharin, Thatheimer and eventually a third comrade to be appointed by the Program Commission. 5. Trade Unions Tactics. 6. The National Problems— a) Attitude of the Communist Parties to the National Ques- tion (Russia, Poland, Czecho- Slovakia and the Balkans). Reporters, Comrade Stalin, a Polish, a Czechish and a Jugo- slavian Comrade. b) The revolutionary movement in the East and in the Colonies (india and other countries). Reporters, Katayama, Roy and others. c) The Negro Question. Report- ers will be appointed by the French and American Parties. The Problems of Organization. a) The org tory structure of the Parties (Factory Nuclei, ete.). b) Statutes of the Communist In- ternational. ¢) The work of the Communist 3. 4, 1A Parties among the masi of the women, d) Hlegal Work, ‘ e) Work in the Army. Reporter, Comrade Piatnitzly, Mixke- vitch-Kapsukos and a German Comra 8. Propaganda Work. 9. Fascism. Reporter: an Italian and a German Comrade. % 10.The Question of the Intellec- tuals. Reporters, Comrade Zet- kin, a French Comrade and a representative of the Colonies. 11, The Peasants’ International. 12, The Youth Movement. 18. The International Red Relief. 14. Problems of the Individual Seo- tions. a) Russia, b) Germany, ¢ Italy, d) Bulgaria, e) England, 1) The United States, g) Japan. Reporters: Co-reporters will eventually be appointed by the Sections concerned, 15. The Co-operative Question. 1 jon of the Executive Com- mittee and of the President. the Communist International. \B0.P, Senator Not Wanted by Workingclass St. Paul Sperning All Capitalist Ca Candidates > J. LOUIS E ENGDAHL. ST, PAUL, Minn., June 19.— ‘All indications today are that the name of Robert Marion La Follette will not even be men- \tioned as'a presidential possibili- ity in the national farmer-labor convention here. The committee on nomina- tions is ready to report. No tele- gram has been sent, and will not be sent to the Wisconsin senator urging him to stand as the candidate of the convention he has so maliciously attacked. The selection of candidates will proceed according to the organ- ization committee report that appears in another column. Delegate William Mahoney, St. Paul Minn., urged the delegates to back the majority report, While the convention was waiting for the committees on platform and candidates to report greetings were in their demands for the class party of the city and land labor. . Build Permanent Party. John Curtiss Kennedy, secretary of the Washington Farmer-Labor Party, declared, in addressing the conven- tion, that “we came here to build a permanent, bona fide working class party.” “You cannot be too radical for the Washington’ delegation,’ he said. “The more radical you are the better we like it. You may be too conservative to satisfy us but we will stick just the same.” The report for the committee on nominations was made by Fred J. Fraley, editor of the Kansas Leader. The report seemed unanimous until the bucking delegate, W. J. Taylor of Nebraska, introduced a minority re- port for himself, declaring that “we favor La Follette for President if he will become the candidate.” Minority of On One of the Nebraska delegates rose and asked Taylor if he had consulted his delegation. “I spoke to the farmers,” he said. “Then you don’t believe in coneult- ing the industrial workers,” snapped back the delegate. Delegate Morris Fromkin of Wiscon- sin got the floor and argued that the minority report was out of order. “La Follette does not want our nom- ination, and I want to add that he doesn’t deserve it. We in Wisconsin know La Follette for what he real- ly is.” Delegate Louis Engstrom, Crooks- ton, Minn., also a La Follette booster originally, got on the band wagon with the majority report, since La Follette had, rejected the convention's nomination, (Continued on page 2.) WORKERS PARTY LOCAL IN TEAPOT DOME (WASH. ) TO PICNIC ON SUNDAY WASHINGTON, D. D. C., June 19.— Local Washington (D. C.), will hold ite first pignic of the season on Sun- day, June 22, 2 p. m., at the popular picnic grounds, located at 6520 Georgia Ave., N. W. All branches, including the Young Workers’ League, have united In an effort to make this plonic an affair that will be long remembered as an excep- tionally enjoyable occasion, There will be refreshments, games and many attractions. It is hoped that comrades from Baltimore and Iphia will come to Washington for the day. “new host of labor unions gan’s Grip WESTERN UNION [LA FOLLETTE IS OUT MANY LABOR UNIONS TAKING PART IN GREAT ST. PAUL CONVENTION (By Federated Press.) St. Paul, Minn., June .—— The number of. delegates has increased to 522. They include many central labor bodies of the American Fed- eration of Labor, local craft unions of the building trades, transporta- tion brotherhoods, machinists, bar- bers, printers, steamfitters, shoe- workers, roofers, painters, boiler- makers, stenographers, housewives’ unions, clothing workers, co-oper- ative societies both of producing farmers and of consumers, ladies’ auxiliaries of trade unions, pro- gressive and Farmer-Labor clubs, foreign language insurance and protective societies, labor and farmer publishing societjes and sev- eral national organizations, includ- Ing the Workers’ Party, the Fed- erated Farmer-Labor Party, the So- cialist Party, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, thes “malgamated Metal Workers, the Young Work- ers’ League, the World War Vet- erans and the National Prison Com- fort Club, SINCLAIR OIL ADDS FUEL TO FASCIST FLAME Massolini ore Calvin' Drops His Aids (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, June 19.—Oily American dollars out of the same dirty pocket that other sticky dollars came to buy Tea- pot Dome from the United States Navy by “fixing” government officials are primarily respon- sible for the present near-revo- lutionary crisis here and for the extremely precarious position of the Fascisti and their man-of- iron leader, Benito Mussolini. This was made plain when the terms of the agreement between Harry Sinclair’s Consolidated Oil Corporation and the Italian Fascist government were given out. Grafters Murderers, Too. Oily American dollars that went into the hands of high Fascist offi- cials are blamed for the murder of the Socialist deputy Matteoti, who had documentary evidence on this and other instances of Fascist graft of staggering magnitude. Matteoti had intended to expose the whole rotten mess under the Fascist’s blackshirts but the robber officials proved to be murderers as well and made off with the deputy and his papers. Charges that two high Fascist offi- cials, presumably the Secretary of the Interior and the chief of his press bus reau, accepted 20,000,000 lire (about $860,000 at present exchange) from the American oil crook stick with the persistency of tar. The Fascists were’ to deliver. to Sinclair ofl concessions on Italian soil which would be worth 600,000,000 lire (about $25,800,000), Part of the bribe money was to be spent on newspapers to buy favorable attention for the oil transaction. No doubt Sig Filippelli, arrested editor of the suspended Fascist Corriere Ital- iano, was led into assisting in the despatching of Deputy Matteoti by the magic passing of the dirty American dollars into his hands. Fifty-year Concession. Sig Aldo Finzi, former Secretary of the Interior, did not prove so prudent as the American Secretary, Albert Fall, but waited until the oil scandal actually broke upon him before re- signing his position. His whereabouts and those of his assistant, Caesare Rossi, at present are not known, tho both continue to send letters to the newspapers in an effort to answer and ivert the charges of graft and misuse of office that are being hurled at them. Fifty-year oncession. Actual details of the Sinclair con- (Continued on page 2.) press. place. ! newer and greater victories. GOMPERS’ St. Paul, to divide the conven- tion. The delegates had heard and partially discussed the report of the platform committee. But the delegates decided that they wanted to study the document over night and offer amend- ments to another meeting of the platform committee. Into the peaceful trangactions of the convention Delegate Starkey launched an attack on Communist delegates, charging that they were maneuvering for the previous ques- tion to prevent the delegates from | voting to have the proposed platform printed. It was evidently an effori to pro- yoke disruption if not start 4 bolt. On J heels . of jegaty aTKey's: -as+ sdtit, Delegate C. Ef Ruthenherg of the Workers’ Party{ got the floor, stated the Communists were perfectly satisfied to have the /platform printed and discussed on the morrow, and the motion to have this done went thru with a roar. “Unanimous,” Says Mahoney. Then came William Mahoney with the report of the organization com- mittee, a unanimous dvcument that had been thrashed out in extended meetings of the committees. “There is nothing elusive about this report,” said Mahoney. “There is nothing tricky about it. It meets the situation that confronts us.” He then read the report and moved its adoption, stating that the report did not complete the work in this convention of organizing the Farmer- Labor party. He said that it merely laid the foundation of a Farmer-La- bor party truly representative of all groups. “What we want is all groups in fa- yor of a Farmer-Labor party on a single platform in support of a single candidate,” said Mahoney. “We know that there will be new groups within the next month ready to co- operate with us.” Foster Takes Floor. He was evidently referring to the elements that are certain to break away from the Cleveland gatHering of the Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action when that gathering next month turns its face against in- depent political action. Delegate William Z. Foster of the Workers Party then got the floor, pointing out that there was some dif- ference of opinion in the organiza- tion’ committee. He urged the impor- tance of the report of the organiza- tion committee, claiming the question of the indorsement of candidates was insignificant in comparison. Communists’ Purpose. He declared that the Communists NATIONAL FARNLABOR PARTY SWEEPS ST. PAUL; PLATFORM MARKS HISTORIC CLASS STEP By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ‘(Editor of the Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 19.—“We declare organization of a National Farmer-Labor Party.” This historic declaration was made in a midnight session here of the national farmer-laor forces of the nation. thru the convention unanimously and with roaring cheers. The 100 per cent unity on this question is the reply of thé workers and farmers of the nation represented here to the attacks of LaFollette, Gompers, Johnston and others speaking for the reactionary sections of the labor movement. It was achieved in the face of the attack of the whole yellow No greater demonstration of the unity of the class con- scious elements of America’s workers and farmers has ever taken A new milestone has been passed. The basis is laid for in favor of the It went AGENTS LICKED. A last minute effort was made by a reactionary group of Gompers business agents headed by Delegate Frank Starkey, of pall na At ARE MERE UATE [had come to the convention believing in the immediate organization of a centralized Faw.er-Labor party. “But there is an issue even greater than the organization of the Farmer-La- bor Party,” said Foster, “and that is the unity of onr movement. We be- lieve that altho this organization is not as complete as the plan we pro- posed, but we are satisfied that this plan will develop the Farmer-Labor party that we want. We urge that the convention give its whole-hearted support to this proposition. Starkey Henchmen Ridiculous. Hardly had the cheers greeting Fos- ter’s declaration died down when Del- egate Fred Siegel of St. Paul, one of the henchmen of oe Starkey, got the floor a! motion -titet - organization be published and. take the same course as the platform. The move was so evidently an effort at disruption that his proposition was first laughed at and then voted down overwhelmingly. Report Carried Unanimously. Chairman Duncan MacDonald then put the motion to adopt the commit- tee report and the Starkey-Siegel dis- ruptionists did not recover in time to even vote against it. It went thru unanimously. The struggle of the building of the national Farmer-Labor Party is therefore launched upon the following plan of organization: Re- port on the committee on organiza- tion of the National Farmer-Labor Party: 1. We declare In favor of the om ganization of a national Farmer Labor Party. 2. That this new party shall be entirely free from any alilance with or be subject to the control of any organization serving the in- tereste of those who profit from the private ownership of the great monopoly in industry and bog merce. 3. That both the Republican and Demooratic Parties are the servants of these great private interests and that their representatives In public office, their committeemen in charge of their party affaire and the source of their party funds are selected by, financed by and used by the beneficiaries of these enemies of the common good. ECONOMIC-POLITICAL UNITY 4, That the only way In which a new party can be established free from the influence of monopoly and corruption control is by making the economic and occupational groups which do and must exist in every modern community, the units of its organization, together with such labor and farmer political groups (Continued on Page 2.) FARMER-DELEGATES AT ST. PAUL PLAN NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO USE MASS ECONOMIC POWER By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN, ST. PAUL, June 19.—William Bouck, of the Washington delegation to the Farmer-Labor convention, announced a farm- ers’ meeting during the sessions of the convention here that resulted in an enthusiastic gathering. Bouck opened the meet- ing by stating that the two old parties have demonstrated their rottenness and worthlessness to the farmers and workers, and — said it was high time the farmers got together in an economic — and political organization to fight for their own interests. “Labor,” said Bouck, “has had union organization for a oe time, and therefore is in an aristocratic position bears Ww (Continued on page 2.)