The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1924, Page 3

@ -™: Saturday, June 21, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER ELECTRIC TRUST WORKERS FLOCK TO STREET MEET Big Crowd Hears How Workers Party Helps Two thousand Western Blectric workers spent their noon hour listen- ing to speakers representing the Workers Party and the Young Work- ers League, who talked to the men from the back of the DAILY WORK- ER truck, Labor Heralds, Liberators and DAILY WORKERS went like hot cakes as the Western Blectric work- ers listened to four speakers. They stayed until the whistle blew, and many of them turned away reluctant- ly, securing copies of “Why every worker should be a Communist and join the Workers Party,” before they went hack into the shop. Barney Mass told the workers about the class struggle. “The Workers Par- ty is here to see that you men have a means of organization and expression against the profit system which makes you slave,” Mass told his audience. As soon as Mass opened up the meeting, real estate men and card juggling soap sellers lost their crowd. The Workers Party meetings are be- coming a regular institution at the 22nd St. site of the Western Electric plant. They will be held here every day in the future. Manuel Gomez spoke on the signifi- cance of the workers having their own political working class party, and told how one is now being formed in St. Paul. He showed up the republican Teapot Dome convention, and said the democrats would be just as corrupt. Karl Reeve spoke on conditions in- side the Western Electric. “What is the remedy?” Reeve asked. “It’s a big problem but the Workers Party tells you that the problem of low wages and bad labor conditions will never be solved until you workers own and run the plant yourselves un- der your own workers government.” “At the present time,” Reeve de- clared, you beg like hell for a job, and then you work like hell to keep it. The bosses give you a meager wage and out of your labor reap millions of dollars in profits. Your problems will never be solved until the damn- able profit system is abolished, and the workers take over the factories and run them to serve each other as workers, and not for the dividends reaped by capitalists.” Jack McCarthy made a ringing ap- peal for the workers in the Western Electric to subscribe to the DAILY ‘WORKER, and not to be afraid to ejoin..a- union, -if. they would be-mer and not slaves. 2 THE LIBERATOR THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN POLITICS, LETTERS AND ART UVaESHUEOUNEN YOU NNEA HARE Max Eastman William Gropper John Pepper Fred Ellis Leon Trotzky Boardman Robinson Wm. Z, Foster Art Young William Dunne Floyd Dell ; Scott Nearing Mary Heaton Vorse i G. Zinoviev Cornelia Barnes - J. Louis Engdahl Lydia Gibson eS } C. E. Ruthenberg Michael Gold { | Jay Lovestone Moissaye Olgin | Upton Sinclair Joseph Freeman \ Eugene V. Debs James Rorty i Hugo Gelert Claude McKay is se it wie w ings! [am ! | Name ...... sees MINER AND FARMER HEAD CLASS TICKET (Continued from page 1.) worker of Duncan MacDonald in the United Mine Workers union for many years, nominated his comrade. Howat received an ovation as he came on the stage. “I want to nominate a man who cannot be bulldozed or beaten by any- one,” said Howat, who then proceed- ed to tell of MacDonald's long record of service in the organized Jabor movement. “He was first a member of the ex- ecutive board of the Illinois Mine Workers’ union, later becoming the president of the 100,000 Illinois coal miners, as good a bunch of fighters as can be found anywhere on the American continent. Fighter From Word “Go.” “He is a real fighter from the word ‘go. That is the kind of man the workers and faymers ‘need at the present time. That man is Duncan MacDonald,” and a bedlam of enthus- jasm broke loose in the convention. Alice Lorraine Daily, of South Da- kota, seconded the, nomination, de- claring, “it is a great satisfaction to me to second the nomination for pres- ident of their industrial worker of Ili- nois.” *Miss Daily pointed out that MacDonald had been born on the farm, that he had worked on the farm and in the mines. That he un- derstood the needs and the problems of both the industrial and land-work- ers. Member of Our Class. “Friends, he is of us,” she contin- ued. “He shares our viewpoint and our aspirations.’ He is a man of force, strength and kindness. I be- eve we have found a real man as our candidate for president.” It was at this point that Delegate P. A. Peterson, of Minnesota, raised the bugaboo of LaFoliette once more. He wanted to know if LaFollette had rejected, under or over his sig- nature, the nomination of the conven- tion. William Mahonay was called upon to answer. Mahoney stated that no definite written rejection had been received from LaFollette, but in a lengthy review of the situation he again showed that LaFollette would not accept the nomination. Mahoney On LaFollette. Mahoney then gave his interpreta- tion of the attitude towards LaFol- lette, growing out of the report adopt- ed by the organization committee. Mahoney held that the national com- miteet of this convention will nego- tiate with the Cleveland gathering of the conference for progressive politi- cal action on the question of candi- dates, inferring that if LaFollette be- came the candidate at Cleveland, in- stead of McAdoo, as is anticipated, that-heFollette would become accept able to the forces gathered here, who The Only Magazine of Its Kind in America Editor; ROBERT MINOR CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: The Liberator, formerly The Masses, has won for itself a unique position in the world of revolutionary, politics, literature and art, | ‘ | Become acquainted with this interesting and live monthly magazine, $1.00 brings The Liberator to you for six months. Use the Coupon below. THE LIBERATOR, 1009 N. State St., Chicago, Illinois. T enclose $1.00 for six months subscription | | would thereupon, thru their national]not this year, then in the very near committee, dates. Must Accept F.-L. Program. This seemed to satisfy Delegate Peterson, who thereupon withdrew his nomination of La¥Follette. Dele- gate William Z. Foster, of the Work- ers party, in reply to Mahoney, then made the following statement: “In view of the. statement just made by Mr. Mahoney, relative to the candidacy of Mr. LaFollette, | feel it incumbent upon me to state the position of the Workers’ party on this matter. In the coming<ne- gotiations bet in the national committee of the national Farmer: Labor party and other groups rela- tive to combined action upon a pres- idential candidate, the only basis upon which the Workers party will accept LaFollette as a candidate is, if he agrees to run as the Farmer- Labor candidate, to accept that party’s platform and its control over his elect campaign and campaign funds.” ‘When MacDonald was ushered to the platform for his acceptance speech as the party’s candidate, he did not mince words as to where he stood towards LaFollette. He re- ferred to him as “one whom he hoped at one time would be with us. MacDonald then argued that the United States was now in a position similar to that in the Roman empire before it crumbled into dust. He said it was a period where all power had fallen into the hands of the few. Better Red Than Oily. “I suppose I shall be presented as the candidate of ‘the Reds,” contin- ued MacDonald. “But I am not partic- ular about what the press says in that respect. I would rather be called red than be smeared with oil up to my eyebrows like the gang at Cleveland. ‘We have reached a crisis in this coun- try. The common people must speak up. They say that we are backed by Moscow gold. Well, so far as I know, every time the Communists hold a meeting in this country they always have to pass the hat to raise ex- penses.” MacDonald then took up the ques- tion of war and militarism. He said that the workers and farmers, on the eve of the next war must declare to the ruling class: “If you start a war go and fight it. We are going to stay at home.” The dominant idea must be, not only in America but all over the world, “there must be no more wars.” MacDonald Hits C. P. P. A. MacDonald then directed a few shafts at the coming gathering in Cleveland of the conference for pro- gressive political action. “Do not en- tertain the hope that Cleveland will subscribe to our platform,” he said. “We have made the start here. We are marching forward to victory, if withdraw their candi Wilt EEE RCIA pg Radel aoe RR RE ini future.” Kennedy Names Bouck. When the cheering had died, Dele- gate John Curtiss Kennedy of Wash- ington was recognized to place the name of William Bouck, president of the Western Progressive Farmers, in nomination as the candidate for vice president. But first he spoke a few words of MacDonald, who, he said, was a splen- did representative of the industrial wage earning group, a man in whom we can have the fullest confidence. Then Kennedy told of how Bouck had followed the advice of Horace Greeley and gone West, first into the} mines, to be driven from one mining camp to another, and then going into| Washington, where he helped organize the agricultural workers. Solution Under Capitalism. “The Western Progressive Farmers has made a new departure in the organization of farmers. It recognizes that there is no solution of the prob-| lems of the farmers under capitalism. | This organization knows that all| power must be wrested from the | money power. That the exploited must build their own workers’ and farm- ers‘ republic.” When William Bouck was called to the platform following the ovation that greeted his unanimous nomina- tion, he didn’t indulge in pyrotechnics, but immediately began discussing in- ternationalism. Internationalism Vital. “They téll us that we must have nothing to do with anything that | smacks of internationalism. I want to say that I claim the right to investi- gate conditions in other countries as |dustrial Workers of the World, amid jand conditions better than the farm- |statement he had made about the La | Follette candidacy, |front of the convention hall and de- well as in this country, and to ig how those conditions affect us. want the farmers to talk earuiiteek ism. They ali know that the price of their wheat is fixed in the Liverpool market. Liverpool settles the price of world wheat. You farmers can crawl back into your Minnesota and your North Dakota but your markets, the price of your wheat and other grain will not crawl in with you. That is an international question,” Bouck Praises Wobblies. Bouck also paid tribute to the In- the cheers of the delegates, showing how they had cleaned up the lumber camps in the state of Washington and were now enjoying a decent wage ers. It was at this point that Delegate Starkey of St. Paul again projected himself into the proceedings. He wanted Delegate Foster to repeat the He came up to the clared in the best threatening attitude he could muster that “I'll have to re- move myself from the convention if Foster's statement means that the Communists are in control of the con- vention.” Starkey Laughed Out. While the convention laughed Starkey out of countenance the. chair- man, Delegate Taylor, ruled that he was out of order, and Starkey was ;glad to drop into the nearest seat. Delegate Joseph Manley then made the report for the platform committee. The report, after two hours’ discus- sion and numerous efforts to amend, was finally adopted in its original form as it appears in another column. MISS ALICE LORRAINE DALY a j * se 4: Thrill of Lifetime At Young Workers : er) Big Picnic Today Did you ever come to a picnic and find yourself surrounded by a crowd lof a few hundred working class chil- dren singing revolutionary songs? Have you ever seen the children of ;the United Workers’ Sunday School in action? Have you ever seen the |Junior section of the Young Workers’ ‘League carrying on its work among {other working class children? | If you haven’t you have cheated yourself of a thrill that comes once in a lifetime. Come to the picnic of \the United Workers’ Sunday Schools, ‘to be held this afternon at Brand’s Park, 3259 Diston avenue, near Cali- fornia and Belmont avenues. The fun starts at 2p.m. and will continue to about midnight. Come. For the kids there will be games and other pleasures. Ice cream, yum, yum, and all sorts of good things to q eat. For the older folks there will be } Speakers, a concert, and for those } who cannot control their feet there will be dancing. Admission at the door is 50c. If you meet someone selling tickets before the picnic starts, you can get a ticket for 35c. Church Goers Don't. NEW YORK, June 20.—‘In propor: | ~ tion to the Protestant population, the decline in church attendance over the last thirty-three years is 52 per cent,” according to the report on rural churches by the Institute of Social and Religious Researches, New York. Send in that Subscription Today. One of the most eloquent speakers in the Farmer-Labor move- ment, and South Dakota school teacher, who was elected secretary of the Farmer-Labor-Progressive convention at St. Paul. More Prison-made Goods. TRENTON, N. J., June 20.—Compe- tition of prison-made goods with union made products will be increased if plans of a conference in session in Trenton materialize. Gov. Silzer has called here representatives of twenty- seven state institutions from six states adjoining New Jersey to ar- range for interchange between states of prison-made goods. 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