The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1924, Page 1

é *\ i i THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD , FOR A WORKERS AND \ FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 81. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. ' Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ee eetetsnenntnneerenenn Ey 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents d MCDONALD, BOUCK HEAD TICKET Will Fight the Campaign On Militant Platform STRONG MEN ON |S! FLECTRIC TRUST t f FARMER-LABOR COMMITTEE These Leaders Insure Aggressive Campaign By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20.— Duncan MacDonald and William Bouck, candidates for president and vice-president of the Na- tional Farmer-Labor Party are both members of the national committee that met here today to plan for the campaign and map the future of the party. MacDonald is a member from Illinois and Bouck from Wash- ington. The two committee- men of the Workers Party will be William Z. Foster and C. BE. Ruthenberg. Party’s Committeemen. Committeemen of other states and organizations are as follows: FEDERATED FARMER-LABOR — Joseph Manley and C. A. Hathaway. AMALGAMATED METAL WORK- ERS—Fred G. Biedenkapp. RHODE ISLAND—James P. and Helen A. Siegel. SOUTH DAKOTA—August Peter- son and A. L. Putnam. MISSOURI—Stanley J. Clark and John Miehelic. Reid Carl Milde. COLORADO—George N. and William Dietrich. NEW YORK—James Campbell. MASSACHUSETTS — Thomas F. Conroy and Frank Deluca. PENNSYLVANIA—4J. C. Strong and H. O. McClurg. NEBRASKA—J. L. Beebe and Will- jam H. Green. OKLAHOMA—S§. M. Daniel Cobb. TENNESSEE—Frank Drufenbrock. and L. J. Holzapfel. IOWA—A. Kramer and L. J. Kalvig. CONNECTICUT—Robert McKenzie and John J. Ballam. . Falconer Stallard and As permanent chairman of the St. Paul convention Charles E. Taylor of Montana helped to bring the unity which has resulted in a national party of the workers and farmers, DECREE DEATH TO INJUNCTIONS AGAINST LABOR Fi ederated Press Gives Platform Summary (By The Federated Press) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20.— The unanimous adoption of a progressive Platform and a determination to launch a vigorous presidential cam- paign marked the closing of the har- monious third party nominating con- vention at St. Paul, June 19. g tion of Independence and calls for widespread public ownership of indus- tries, transportation and banking. The right of labor to organize on farm or in city work shops. Death to Injunctions. The abolition of labor injunctions and the use of the police and militia against labor. It declares that the po- lice and soldiers should help and not hinder labor. Child welfare legislation is declared for and maternity benefits, insurance for sickness, accidents, old age and death, to be paid for by a tax on wealth. A minimum wage, and resi- dential qualifications on voting is also included. The platform declares: That Amer- Declara- SLAVES HEAR W.P. PROGRAM Daily Worker Sales On Increase Thousands of workers in the Western Electric plant yesterday congregated on “THE DAILY WORKER corner,” and listened to Jack Johnstone advocate the Workers Party message of “All Power to the Womkers.” The workers at the plant have accepted the Workers Party open air school as a regular in- stitution. They read the party literature, buy the paper, and take a chance on being late to work by remaining even after the quarter of one whistle blows. Foremen were scattered thru the crowd today and several of the work- ers said to DAILY WORKER “new- sies,” “I can’t buy it now. I'll see you tonight.” The foreman who was Reeve’s boss while he worked in the plant bought a paper from Reeve yesterday and asked how the exposure was going. Reeve on Trial Today. Judge Henry Sandusky has ordered back numbers of the DAILY WORK- ER so that he can be informed on the Western Electric stories when Karl Reev: in CMAN Goa Sou Roses te oe with disorderly conduct and distribut- ing leaflets without a permit. After Jack Johnstone was thru speaking on the Twenty-second street side of the plant yesterday, a relative of R. L. Fairbrothers, 2255 South Ko- lin avenue, complimented the Work- ers Party members on their exposure of the Western Electric’s policy of squirming out of pension payments. Fairbrothers worker at the Western | Electric for thirty-five years and was | fired as a “disturber,” not receiving a| G. 0. P, IS BOMBED ON R. 1. SENATE FLOOR; MAY GALL THE TROOPS PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 20.— The State Senate, sitting here, has gotten to the point of throwing poi- son gas as a method of settling dis- putes. Bloodshed is feared if the Republicans refuse to stop their fil- ibuster. The Democrats want the Republicans to attend the sessions of the Senate so there can be a quorum. The Republicans, wishing to keep whole heads, avoid the Sen- ate floor. Yesterday when the Republicans attended the sessions, someone threw a bottle of chlorine gas on the Senate floor. Four G. O. P. sen- ators are in the hospital today as a result of the playfulness of the Democrats. The Governor is threatening to use troops to get the Republicans to do their duty and attend the ses- sions. Open war is feared. MINE STRIKERS FIGHT BOSSES’ GUARDS’ ATTACK Union Hall Burned by Coal Operators (Special to The Daily Worker.) MORGANTOWN, W. Va., June 20.— State Cossacks today patrolled Brady, ling town in the mountains ring a battle between of the Brady-Warner Coal Company. The bosses attempted to evict strikers from their homes at midnight. One man was injured in the firing, which lasted to 3a.m. The union hall was destroyed by fire and many of the miners’ homes were riddled with bullets. Bosses Blast Town. Four blasts of dynamite rocked the town, and between 500 and 600 shots were exchanged between the strikers and the guards. Women and children in the company houses were forced to cent of pension money. Big Meeting Monday. seek refuge in cellars to escape the rhail of bullets that tore thru the George Ettlinger and Karl Reeve| flimsy structures. were other speakers at the open-air The Brady mine recently went on an Land for Users. The farmer planks demand the land NORTH DAKOTA—R. H. and Alfred Knutson. Walker meeting. Another noon meeting will|open shop basis, and when the union be held on Twenty-second street on|miners refused to accept a cut in if.-L. CANDIDATE SEES WORKERS RISING TO POWER Glad Movement Takes Negroes in Equally By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, June 20.—Disruptionists seeking to split the .Farmer-Labor convention in session here were branded as political witch burners by Julius F. Emme, candidate for con- gress on the Farmer-Labor ticket from the fourth district of Minnesota, in which St. Paul is located. “The only difference between us as delegates trying to build a mass Farmer-Labor party is not whether we are Socialists, Communists, Farm- er-Laborites or members of the Work- ers’ party; the only difference is whether we belong to the class that is exploited or the class that ex- ploits,” Emme said. Rush the Movement. “Were at St. Paul,” the speaker continued, “we are building the hub of a great movement, each spoke of which is a plank in our platform. The only difference between us must be jit we are willing to push this move ment thru, not what particular sect or philosophy we may subscribe. to.” Emme stressed the fact that the convention, in adopting the platform, had declared for racial equality be- tween white man and Negro. He spoke of the way in which the Inter- national Association of Machinists has sidestepped this question, privileges of a man. How Farmer-Labor Began. sota. Though Minnesota had always been republican, St. Paul was run by a democratic machine. As a result of a raw deal handed the workers of the city by this gang in a street car ticket of its own. candidate was elected. The party began organizing on a state basis, fighting the reactionary labor officials every step of the way, and bringing the Non-Partisan league, the socialists, the labor unionists and the farmers into line. The party had and y convention for calling a Negro a man with the rights and The speaker told how the farmer- labor movement originated in Minne- strike, the labor movement entered a The first year one MONTANA — J. Haaland, Jr. and Charles E. Taylor. OHIO—Scott Wilkins and A. J. Feld- haus. MICHIGAN—Charles S. Girard and William Reynolds. WASHINGTON—John Curtiss Ken- nedy and William Bouck. YOUNG WORKERS’ LEAGUE— Martin A. Hoyn and John Williamson. ILLINOIS—Duncan MacDonald and Morton L. Johnson; J. Louis Engdahl, alternate. Flay Syndicalism Laws. . Resolutions were adopted by the convention demanding the release of the class war prisoners, including the 100 still confined in California under the criminal syndicalism laws of that state. The repeal of all syndicalism laws also demanded. Resolutions were also adopted com- mending the “extravagant and reck- less service of the capitalist press to the cause of unity in the convention. The Ku Klux Klan was denounced. Congratulate Mahoney, Hathaway. (Continued on page 2.) Washington Plasterers Compromise. WASHINGTON, 'D. C., June 20.— The striking plasterers and cement finishers returned to work yesterday on a compromise agreement with the bosses. They will get $13 a day and the five and a half day week instead of $14 a day and the 40-hour week they struck for. for the users of land, government mar- keting and distribution and govern- ment loans to the farmers without in- terest. Economic and legal equality is demanded for women and the eco- nomic and political emancipation of the Negroes. Foreign affairs calls for the recog- nition of Russia, Philippine independ- ence, self determination for the United States colonies, withdrawal of U. S. marines from the Caribbean countries, non-interference in other lands to safeguard the investments or to collect the debts of financial in- terests. Twenty-four States’ Committeemen Twenty-four states and four national organizations have already named their committeemen to represent them on the national Farmer-Labor Party committee, Farmers Need Own Party. NEW YORK, June 20.—American bankrupt farmers can expect no help from increased Buropean markets, if the survey of the Institute of Econo- mics is valid. “Europe's agricultural production is being restored faster than her industry, and consequently than the buying power of her cities,” the report states. “The whole econo- mic tide is against an increase of European demands and high prices for American foodstuffs in thgjmmediate tuture.”” Send in that Subscription Today. STRIKING POSTAL WORKERS TIE UP \ (Special to the MONTREAL, Que., June 20.—The { ave met greatest success in the provi CANADIAN SERVICE DESPITE SCABS Daily Worker) Dominion-wide postal strike seems to inces of Ontario and Quebec, the two ' jargest cities in the Dominion—Toronto and Montreal being hardest hit. Thursday or this morning. closed. Police surrounded the general of the Canadian Federation of Postal were taken on. In Montreal letter carriers are out to a man and no deliveries were made Lock boxes were not filled and windows were postoffice. In Toronto, headquarters Employes, 200 strike breaking scabs The postal workers demand higher wages. Monday. The sales of the DAILY WORKER| breakers. wages the company brought in strike-|as great difficulties to face as the A vote was taken by the on the South Side and Cicero news-|strikers to drive the scabs from the stands have very noticeably increased | settlement. since the exposure of the Western Hlectric slave-driving speed-up con- ditions, Police Rule With Terror. Sheriff Yost of Morgantown, who went to the scene of the shooting with An important Western Electric ex-/a force of deputies, returned at dawn Dose article will be in next issue. with four prisoners, present national farmer-labor move- ment, but it was in the end success- ful, and Emme predicted as great a success for the national organization | perfected here during the last three days. Send in that Subscription Today. HERE 1S PARTY PLATFORM The Declaration of Independence enun- ciated a principle that every human being is endowed with certain inalienable rights. Among these are the right to life, liberty and These rights are today denied the great mass of people of this country by a privileged class which thru its economic and political power dominates the life of the people of this country. This privileged class has, thru the organ- the pursuit of happiness. ization of trusts, thru interloc ates, thru the great banking institutions of Wall Street, concentrated control of the eco- nomic life of the country in the hands of a financial oligarchy with its headquarters in Wall Street. It uses its power to amass great wealth for itself at the expense of the hap- piness and well-being of the farmers and in- dustrial workers who are the the wealth of this country. In order to maintain its privileges and to aid in its exploitation of the industrial workers, this privileged class has fastened its grip upon the government. uses the legislative, executive branches of the government alike as instru- ments in its service to secure greater and greater profits and to amass greater and greater wealth. It has used bribery and corruption to steal from the people the natural resources of the country. Thru raids upon the public ing the war and in the settlement of war contracts it has looted the people of hund- the privileged It uses the ditions. king director- living. producers of reds of millions if not billions of dollars. The legislation passed by Congress is cleverly designed to increase the profits of class. It has driven millions of farmers from the land thru its financial manipulations. courts to strike down the in- dustrial workers who dare to carry on the struggle for better wages and working con- It uses the police power and soldiers against the same industrial workers who seek to secure from industry the means in wages sufficient for a decent standard of It has created governmental wars which have no other purpose than to keep the workers in subjection and make impossible the realization of their aspirations for a higher standard of living. farmers and It and judicial foreign lands ments in the It uses the Supreme Court to protect its propertied interests and its right to bring process against the welfare of the millions who produce wealth. It maintains a great army and navy for the purpose of protecting its investments in and coercing weaker govern- interests of the Wall Street financial oligarchy. It has not hesitated and. will not hesitate to throw this country into war and sacrifice millions of lives and millions of wealth in order to protect its financial interests and in- treasury dur- crease its opportunity to make profits. In the face of these conditions, only one (Continued on page 2.) COAL DIGGER AND FARMER HEAD CLASS PARTY IN CAMPAIGN 10 SMASH WALL STREET'S RULE By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Editor of the Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20.—Duncan MacDonald, ceal miner of Springfield, Ill., Washington. That is the national ticket of and William Bouck, farmer of Sedro-Woolley, the workers and farmers of the United States organized into the National Farmer-Labor Party here. It is the presidential ticket born of the herculean efforts of the nation’s workers and farmers to unite their forces polit- ically thru-out the nation. Altho the cloud of LaFollette hovered over the convention, and especially the nomination of candidates to the last, the nomi- nations went over unanimously, voted on. no other candidates being even MacDonald Hails Unity and Power. The unbridled enthusiasm of the delegates in greeting their candidates may well be expressed in the spirit of MacDonald’s *, TRON MAN’ OF ITALY NOW A BROKEN REED Latest Murder May Be His Last ROME, Italy, June 20.—The tense situation here has been aggravated, not abated, by the finding of the horribly mutilated body of the Socialist deputy Giacomo Matteoti, for whose murder the recent Fascist chief- tains and officials are being held in jail. The United Socialist Party has determined to con- stitute itself a “civil party” and to sue for damages. Even the Fascist majority in the parliament, thru its execu- tive committee, is demanding that Premier Mussolini recon- vene the assembly of deputies for a thoro investigation into he Fascist murder of the Social- ist deputy and even more thoro inquiry into the persistent charges of monstrous graft on the part of high Fascisti officials. Mussolini is being pushed to a more sweeping Yhouse-cleaning” to save the Fascisti from com- plete repudiation and ruin. Dictate to Dictator. The country is in turmoil despite | the desperate efforts of the dictator, | now virtually the tool of his support- | ers in parliament, to quell every dis-| turbance and keep the labor and radi- cal leaders in prison. The general protest strike is far more effective| than the fascist directory will admit. The feeble attempt to pin the Mat- teoti killing to an “international ad-} venturer” proved futile, altho the man| did admit that he was hired by Amer- igo Dumini, leading Florence fascist and criminal, to shadow the murdered deputy and assist the fascist conspir- ators in securing the documents showing their graft, which the deputy had intended to expose. Sell Titles Like Buttons. More of the “dirt” is discovered daily. Sig. Filippelli, former editor of the suspended fascist organ, Cor- riere Italiano, made a fortune by sell- ing Italian knighthoods at monopoly prices. Sig. Aldo Finzi, dashing young fas- (Continued on Page 2.) Z closing remarks in accepting the nomination, when he said: “By uniting their forces the workers and farmers can move the universe, and when they do that the world will be theirs.” Hats in the Air. Pandemonium broke loose as Mac- Donald finished. Delegates cheered, applauded, threw their hats in the air. They felt the joy of a big job well done. The way for the making of the nominations came with the adoption report of mittee on nominations. Hyen the California stalwarts, including Wal- ter Thomas Mills and George C. Kidwell, lined up for the report. Gomperites Swamped. When the vote came about three votes, those of the so-called Starkey faction of St. Paul Gompers business agents voted against it, continuing their disruptive tactics. All indications are that this Starkey group is acting under direct orders from the Gompers headquarters in Washington. Gompers is receiving daily confidential reports of the con- vention from his agents in the con- vention. Howat Names Fellow Miner, Alex Howat, of Kansas, a fellow (Continued on page 3.) HOWAT CHOSEN FARMER-LABOR PARTY CHAIRMAN By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 20.—Alex- ander Howat, Kansas, was unanimous- ly elected chairman of the national committee of the Farmer-Labor party at its first meeting here today, called to organize its forces, determine its attitude towards the conference for Progressive political action soon to meet at Cleveland, and to plan the campaign for its national ticket—Mac- Donald and Bouck. In spite of the last broadside of the yellow press, the delegates were going home today, fol- lowing adjournment last night, united in support of the organization created here. “He’s sorry this morning,” was the way the Nebraska delegation char- acterized delegate Taylor, Nebraska, one of its members who threatened a lone bolt. “He is sorry this morn- ing that he made any such threat.” Progressive Farmers Meet. SALT LAKE CITY, June 20,—The Utah Farmer-Labor Progressive state convention will be held in Salt Lake City beginning Jvly 23, according to a call sent out by its secretary, M. P. Bales. DENMARK GIVES SOVIET RUSSIA OFFICIAL RECOGNITION HANDSHAKE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 20,—Denmark has given de jure recognition to Soviet Russia, according to the official report of the American minister at Copenhagen, John B. Prince. ernme: milar to that of MacDonald had announced its intention to give the Soviet government full as the legal government of Russia. With Japan and France ready to their recognition to Soviet Russia, it United States to withhold its official recognition, Denmark has recently e a “Labor” gov. in England and the new ruling party recognition will be Increasingly foolish for t