The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1924, Page 2

(Continued from page LY gates who threatened lone bolts— Delegates W. J. Taylor of Nebraska and Frank Starkey of Minnesota, Taylor is an individualist farmer from Bryan’s state, who felt that he carried the weight of the world’s problems upon his own individual shoulders. Part of this problem, he felt, could be solved by handing LaFollette the nomination for president on a silver platter and shoving it down his throat with a golden spoon. The sub- sidized press and the yellow news agencies declared that Taylor bolted with 30 other farmers, Taylor Repudiated. Both William H. Green and J. L. Beebe, representative members of the Nebraska delegation, not only de- clared that there was no sympathy smong the Nebraskans for a bolt, but waid that Taylor himself had con- fessed his regret at his peculiar antics im the convention, This wes abso- Tately the only show of dissatisfac- Yon among the farmers over the de- Stsions of the convention. | Among the delegates of industrial Workers, Starkey, the St. Paul Gomp- @rs’ business agent, worked night and Way in an effort to create disruption. ‘ie played upon all elements. But hfs work was so coarse and apparent that he made no headway, and if he ‘walked out he walked alone, and no missed him. His actions from 6 start showed him to be an old arty henchman and not imbued with &ny sympathies for the development & Farmer-Labor movement on a na- scale, { Very Much Alone. | The Taylor and Starkey tendencies fwere the only split tendencies in the Convention. Taylor represents the state of mind of the farmer who has rot yet been persuaded that the land worker must co-operate with the city worker in building an independent litical movement. He showed in is remarks that he would like a Farmer-Labor party dominated by farmers, with the workers accepted as penitent brothers. It may be said that Taylor alone Yoiced this opinion. The universal de- mand was voiced for worker and farmer unity, with no prejudice dis- played against the recognized lead- ership of the industrial workers. The Starkey tendency was not a real tendency within the convention. {t was merely the open display of an outside influence injected into the fathering, the same influence work- ine In many ways under cover, There is no doubt that Starkey was working under Gompers’ orders. He Was working in the open while simi- lar disrupting influences were at work under cover. In fact, no con- vention of workers and farmers in this country has ever been subjected ‘o a greater or more insidious attack. Dug Up Red Scares. Gompers got his daily, confidential feports of the gathering. It was with fhis information that he directed his fzents in St. Paul. The Conference for Progressive Political Action was omg only represented in St. Paul by % Own agents, but it sent out spe- ally prepared propaganda from its ‘ashington offices, with new efforts, flong old lines, to expose “red con- wpiracies” and “Moscow influences.” The Socialists also had their agents E St. Paul, as did the anti-Communist fewish Daily Forward of New York ity. So energetic was the Socialist fort, directed from New York city, subvert the purposes of the St. wil gathering, that William Maho- » chairman of the arrangements jommittee, specially warned the na- mal conimiitee members of the ete tater perty against it. i Results in Closer Unity. The work of these would-be wreck- Seemed to haye the same influ- as the grossly malicious attacks the unscrupulous capitalist press. drove the delegates into closer ity in self protection. This uncover attack was a confes- jion, on the part of the Gompers ele- pents, that masses are driving to- ard the class party, while on the of other disruptionists, it was an mission of lack of faith in what ey expect the Conference for Po- ja Action to accomplish ‘at its leveland gathering starting July 4. In fact, when it was seen that dis- uption had failed, some of these ele- hents indicated a tendency to crawl jnto the St. Paul bandwagon. They yegan making secret overtures on low they could sneak off the Cleve- tnd wreck and affiliate themselves vith the live and going concern es- tblished at St. Paul. Such. over- res were made even before the gnvention got under way. But they feelved little attention then, And hey will doubtless meet with a cold veeption now. Hathaway Made Secretary. When the St. Paul forces organized fter the convention, in the meeting (the national committee, with two presentatives from each state and wo additional from each national or- pnization, Alex Howat, of Kansas, jas made national chairman, and C. |. Hathaway, of Minnesota, secre- + The national executive commit te was selected to consist of William » Minnesota; Joseph Manley, ; Alice Lorraine Daly, South Alfred Knutson, North Da- Scott Wilkins, Ohio, “committee of five,” with > PARTY STANDARD BEARERS ~ PLAN NATIONAL SPEAKING TUR the chairman and secretary, that will attend the Cleveland gathering of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, dnd as observers determine the attitude of the St. Paul conven- tion toward whatever develops in the Ohio city. The yellow press has variously reported the attitude of St. Paul to Cleveland. These subsidized sheets like to talk about the capture of the Cleveland gathering by Foster, Huthenberg, Manley & Co. The attitude of St. Paul to Cleve- land was clearly stated in the words of William Z. Foster, chairman of the Workers party, speaking at St. Paul, when he said: “In the coming negotiations be- tween the national committee of the national Farmer-Labor party and the other groups relative to combined ac- tion upon a presidential candidate, the only basis upon which the Work- ers party will accept LaFollette as a candidate is, if he agrees to run as the Farmer-Labor candidate, to ac- cept that party’s platform and its contro! over his electoral campaign and campaign funds.” This declaration clearly indicates that St. Paul does not go to Cleve- land in a begging mood. St. Paul has something definite and established, deeply rooted in the mass discontent of the industrial workers and the bankrupt farmers of the nation. It has a strong foundation upon which to build. The Cleveland outfit has nothing to trade with except the rap- idly waning popularity of the Wiscon- sin senator-politician. It is evident. that St. Paul is not in the mood for a trade. It is only open for the sur- render of such elements in the Cleve- land gathering as will go along for the building of a class-party. If La- Follette wants to go along on that basis he is welcome. But he will not be acceptable on any other ground. Desert LaFollette for McAdoo. It was not entirely by accident that the day following the successful ad- journment of the St. Paul convention, D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Firemen Enginemen, issued his statement, made public by the William Gibbs McAdoo head- quarters in New York City, that the railroad unions would support the democratic ticket instead of LaFol- lette, if McAdoo should be the demo- cratic candidate for president. _Rob- ertson is quoted as saying that the McAdoo candidacy would upset the plans of the Conference for Progrés- sive Political action, at, Cleveland, to nominate LaFollette, on July 4th. This is nothing new. The DAILY WORKER has pointed this out con- tinuously. It has shown that only the railroads’ presidential candidate, but Al. J. Smith, Gompers’ candidate as well, would wreck the Cieveland Con- ference. All that is new is that Rob- ertson has chosen the day following the convening of the St. Paul confer- ence to reiterate the endorsement giv- en McAdoo at the gathering held some time ago in Chicago. Brotherhood Chieftain Robertson said: The nomination of William Gibbs McAdoo will likely cause a change in the plans to place Senator LaFollette in the field as an independent candi- date, Mr. McAdoo stands high in the good opinion of the members of the organization of which I am thé head and his nomination would be received with great favor by large elements of railroad labor. Robertson Speaks for Officials. But Robertson is merely voicing the pious wishes of the officialdom of the railroad brotherhoods. They cannot control the railroad workers them- selves. This was clearly shown when “Labor,” the official weekly publica- tion of a large number of railroad un- ions, launched its attack on the: St. Paul convention. The protest of the rank and file of the railroaders vas so great that “Labor” had to cease in its attack. Robertson and his kind may quit Cleveland and go to New York, but the rank and file lines up with St. Paul. The St. Paul convention, fore, viewed from every possible angle, is the greatest political vic- tory yet scored by America’s work- ers and farmers. It was a great vic- tory won against every conceivable obstacle. Yet it was not a final vic- tory. It was just a milestone on the long and rugge along which labor marches, ever forward. It was another struggle, and another victory, the herald of still gr struggles, and still greater victories, there- until the workers win the whole world for all mankind, MOSCOW, June 22,—Prof. Krilof of the Ukrainian Academy of Science has been invited to the world congress of scientists this summer in Canada, At the last world congress, held in Strassburg, 1917, no Russians were in- vited. » LIVERPOOL BOSSES THREATEN LOCKOUT AS STRIKE ANSWER LONDON, June 22.—Unless the Liverpool building trades workers take immediate steps to end their unofficial strike, employers threaten a lockout July 5, involving half a million mon, ‘ \LAN KNOGKED “OR | ROW OF STARS AND STRIPES, HE GROWLS MUNCIE, Ind—Jdune 22.—Soft seats and plenty of swag for Klan gleagles have knocked Klan cash, reserves for a row of stars an stripes, claims James F, Halde- brand of Muncie, in bringing suit for a_ receivership against the Knights of the Ku Klux Klar, Realm of Indiana. Hildebrand claims that the Klan is insolvent and owes $6,000,000. Walter Bossert, imperial Klan representative in Indiana, is match- Ing the words of “The Star-Span- gled Banner” to the tune of $20,000 a week, Hildebrand says. Over $5,000,000 paid into the Klan treasury by Indiana knightshirts was divided up among Klan officers, it is charged. “My efforts to get an account ing,” says Hildebrand, “were met with a stern command to ‘go home to Muncie.’” AMALGAMATED TO BATTLE CLOTHING BOSSES IN N. Y, Union is Threatened Says Hillman (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 22.—Fifty thousand men clothing workers in great mass meetings thruout New York City have voted unqualified ap- proval of the decision of officials and shop chairmen of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers to fight rather than let the employers continue to break contracts, cut wages and deal with nonunign contract shops. The resolutions passed at the rank and file meetings give authority to the union officials “to take any measure they may deem necessary to protect our interests.” Thé resolutions fix the following terms for settlement: “That settlements with employers shall be made upon assurance that there will be no wage cuts and that there should be established a mini- mum wage scale, regulation of pro- duction and an unemployment insur- ance fund.” Industry Depressed. President Hillman at the meetings oe upon the workers “to organize at the action will be swift and the victory complete.” He described how the union was organized in New York 10 years ago and finally won the 44- hour week and a $4 a week increase last year. He reported a general de- pression in the industry thruout the country. “In the last depression, (1920), the employers tried to destroy the Amalgamated by a lockout—and failed. Today they are trying to put one shop against another, one union member against another. “Unless we take action there will be wage reductions, the sweat shop, and destruction of the union,” said Hillman, adding that “the employers cannot stand a strike. There is gen- eral feeling among Amalgamated members as exprsesed in the meet- ings that the union must meet the present challenge of the employers and win, or else New York will rap- idly become an open shop clothing market. Send in that Subscription Today. BIG CAMPAIGN . COMMITTEE IS LEADING FIGHT (Continued from page 1.) MONTANA—Charles E. Taylor, J. Haaland, Jr. MASSACHUSETTS — Thomas F. Conroy, Frank Deluca. MICHIGAN— Charles William Reynolds. MISSOURI—Stagley J. Clark, John Mihelic, NEBRASKA-J. L. Beebe, William Green. NEW YORK—James Campbell, NORTH DAKOTA—R. H. Wall Alfred Knutson, OKLAHOMA—S. M. Stallard, Dan- fel Cobb. OHIO—Scott Wilkins, A, J. Feld- haus. PENNSYLVANIA—H. 0, ,McClurs, J..C, Strong. RHODE ISLAND—J. P. Reid, Helen Siegel. SOUTH DAKOTA— August Peter- son, A. L. Putnam, TENNESSHE-—Frank Drufenbrock, L. J. Holzaptel, WASHINGTON—William Bouck, J. C, Kennedy, WEST VIRGINIA—W. F. Tay! WISCONSIN—Franklin Shoemal Carl Milde. WORKERS PARTY-— William Z, Foster, C. B. Ruthenberg. METAL WORKERS UNION— F, Biedenknap. y YOUNG WORKERS LBAGUE— Martin Abern. AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS—Not yet named. 8. Girard, ir, Send in that Subscription Today. TH DAILY WORKER FIGHTING CLASS LEADERS FORM FL COMMITTEE Miner and Machinist Lead List of Seven Who are the leaders of the| new party formed at St. Paul? This question is answered by looking at the names of the na- tional exebutive committee of} seven, elected at the close of the convention by the large national committee. This committee con- sists of the following persons: ALEXANDER HOWAT, chair- man. .Howat represented the Pittsburg (Kansas) central labor union at the St. Paul conven- tion. He is known thruout the world for his fight against the Kansas industrial court law in which, tho spending nearly two vears in jail, he killed the law ind Gov. Allen’s political am- ditions. He is the outstanding ational figure in the United Mine Workers of America. C. A. Hathaway. Lo eee HATHAWAY, secretary. Thruout the long period of prepara- tion and organization of the June 17 convention it was Hathaway who car- ried out, in co-operation with Ma- honey, the work in the central office, He represented the machinists’ union in the convention, and is a leader in the Minnesota Farmer-Labor federa- tion, William Mahoney. { WILLIAM MAHONEY, committee. | man. Influential in the Minnesota | movement, editor of the Union Advo-| cate of St. Paul and an old timer in the labor movement, Mahoney used | his strategic position in the great move for uniting the sincere farmer- labor elements into a national Party. | He was chairman of the arrange- ments committee and, with Hatha- way, assisted greatly in bringing the | June 17 convention together, | Joseph Manley, JOSEPH MANLEY, committeeman. | Into the united movement that came | out of St. Paul was brought the Fed-| erated Farmer-Labor party, formed last year in the great Chicago con- *|the Farmer-Labor party of Ohio at the vention. Manley, as secretary of the Federated, is now serving on the com- mittee of the new orfanization. He is a well-known trade unionist, mem- ber of the Workers party and a struc- tural iron worker. Alioe Loraine Daly. ALICE LORAINE DALY is chair- man of the South Dakota Farmer-La- bor, party. She has been.the candi- date of that party for superintendent of public instruction (1920) and for governor (1922), and polled a large vote. A school teacher who rebelled against the domination of the state) by big business, she has won the| complete confidence of the farmers and workers of South Dakota. She was a delegate from her party to the June 17 convention. Alfred Knutson. ALFRED KNUTSON is a leader of| the Farmer-Labor party of North Da- kota, serving in the place of “Dad"| Walker, the outstanding leader of that party, member of the state legis- lature, who is now in a hospital suf- fering from blood poisoning. He is a working farmer and an active leader. Scott Wilkins, SCOTT WILKINS, candidate for governor of Ohio on the Farmer-La- bor party ticket, is the seventh mem- ber of the committee that leads the new national Farmer-Labor party. He lives in Lima, Ohio, and is known thruout the state for his many years’ activity in the Farmer-Labor and So- clalist movements. He represented convention. “Thefts of public property more scandalous that the sale of the Teapot Dome naval oil re- serves in the United States were being carefully planned by Mussolini and his henchmen when this atrocity occurred,” Presi went on. Oil Went to Sinclair. “The oil resources of Italy had been sold out to Sinclair; the government was ready to cable tothe United States that the transaction was complete and that the Sinclair company might en- ter the Italian field. Seaports had already been handed over to American capitalists by ar- ranging that the work at the ports was to be monopolized by American firms, These American concerns, in turn, made tremendous profits by turning over their labor contracts to various small firms at high prices. Ready to Sell Railroads. The next move of the Fascisti lead- ers in their money-hunting expedition was to be the sale to private com- panies of the railroads, up to now un- der state control. “Matteoti was perhaps the only man in Italy, besides those directly con- cerned, who knew of the tactics of Mussolini's government, and who was in a position to prove what others merely suspected. He had in his pos- session documentary evidence show- Cal’s Weather Bureau Arranges Concession To Catch Hot Voters WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22,— When sharply on the stroke of noon yesterday the earth jumped the imaginary milestone in space that marks spring from summer, the weather bureau announced that the time for workers to worry about the price of ice was here. As a conces sion of the republican administration it was announced they could forget all about coal prices without being accused of sedition, As an added ad- vantage given only in years when there is @ presidential election the | days will be made shorter not hotter. They will be shorter so the workers will have less time to worry and they will be hotter so there will be more worry crowded into edch day. In this way both the discontented city work- ers who must fight to keep the milk from turning sour,and the ice trust will be satisfied. NEW YORK, June 22.--“In propor- tion to the Protestant population the decline in church attendance over the last 33 years is 62 per cent,” accord: ing to the report on rural churches by the Institute of Social and Religi- ous Research, New York. ing how the Italian officials were con- ducting their business, It was to ob- tain and to destroy these documents that the Fascist! murdered Matteoti. Matteoti Had the Goods. “The Socialist deputy’s speech at the opening session of the Parliament, denouncing the tactics used by the Fascisti in terrorizing voters into staying away from the polls or else into voting, in some cases many times over for Fascisti candidates, roused a storm of protest against Fascisti from the working men of Italy which threatened to overwhelm the govern- ment. The next day Mussolini made a violent speech, threattning the op- position with extreme measures if their criticism of the oMctals did not stop. “Coolly, Matteoti went ahead with his plans for revealing the methods of the Fascisti leaders. He was sched- uled to speak, at the next session of the chamber, on the financial policy of the Banco Italiano Disconto, the foundation stone of Fascist power. Would Air Bank Scandal, “This bank was the means whereby Casare Rossi, a penniless man until he allied himself with the Fascisti in 1921, amassed his millions, It 1s con- trolled by @ small gang of dictators, . Victim of the cut-throat gang of Fascist officials who were fed by Standard and Sinclair Oil money. PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION IS RISING ABOVE FASCISTS’ TRAIL OF GRAFT AND MURDER IN ITALY “A tottering bourgeois government has committed a das- tardly act in a last desperate attempt to save itself from the prole- tarian revolution, now almost at hand.” This is the way in which Antonio Presi, editor of “Il Lavora- tore,” the Italian Communist daily newspaper in America, char- acterizes the murder of the Italian Socialist deputy, Giacomo Matteoti, at the instigation of Fascisti officials. about the bankruptcy of any financiers who failed to put their resources at the disposal of the fascisti govern- ment. The Finzi of the Banco Disconto is the same Finzi so seriously implicated in the murder of Matteoti, and the only reason why he has not been in- dicted is that his wife is the niece of Cardinal Vannutelli, giant financier of Italy. Fascist Press Trust. _ “Another figure in the group is Fillipelli, editor of the Fascist organ “Corriere Italiane,” one of the chain of newspapers which the Fascisti have established in Rome, in Florence, in Bologna—to spread Fascist propax ganda and to keep public opinion un- der control, Since the first day of the Fascist dictatorship, the Italian press has been simply a huge trust, owned by a handful of opportunists, “Matteoti’s exposure of the gov- ernment was only the brand needed to rouse the workers to fury. Discon- tent was already rife all over the country. Sicily, former stronghold of the petty bourgeoisie, sent a Com- munist deputy to the present Parlia- ment, and this in spite of the fact that the Fascisti had driven hundreds of Communist sympathizers out of their yoting precincts, and had kept them away until elections were over. Soclalists Failed United Front. “A general strike of all workers has been averted only by the disruption- ist tactics of the Socialist party, which refused to cooperate with the Com- manists in their efforts to throw off tbe Mussolini dictatorship. “The murder of Matteoti, whose revelations would have prevented any further delay of the proletarian re- volt, was directly instigated by Mus- solini, and practically every important Fascist official had a hand in it. “Mussolini is now trying to save his face by turning on his friends and ar- resting them to appease the workers and peasants, When it was discovered that it was WFilippelli who had ob- tained the automobile in which Mat- teoti was kidnaped, Mussolini, fear- ing violence, ordered the chief of po- lice to arrest Filippelli and put him into a room in a hotel, and allow him to escape later. Fillipelli’s escape raised such an outcry that Mussolini was forced to arrest the chief of po- lice for neglecting his duty. Blackshirts’ Black Record. “Amerigo Dumini, another Fascist who had a hand in the kidnaping, has the record of having killed fifteen workingmen in Tuscany, where he led prominent among them Cesare Rossi,/a band of mercenaries, His threats and Aldo Finzi, former secretary of|to tell of the tactics of these bands the Interlor. The bank was made a|forced Mussolini to release him from success by a process of terrorizing the} prison, where he had been thrown as concerns which opposed it, Tho gang|a concession to public feeling, jot two or three managed to bring” “Whatever apologetic seca NUR NS TAURUS eUN amaoneg-arwevcaRRee MURDERER OF MATTEOTI HAS CONFESSED (Continued from page 1.) It is generally believed, however, that the body was found near Lake Vico, but was in such a horribly mutilated condition that the authorities at once burned it, fearing to add fuel to the fire of the already highly incensed public wrath. The Italian trade unions have called all workers to cease work in a brief “general strike” to commemorate the |kidnaping and brutal murder of the fearless Deputy Matteoti. Dictate to Ben Today. Premier Mussolini, no longer dic- tator, meets tomorrow in conference with a special cabinet council to be |told what he must do to avert revo- lution in this critical moment when the opposition forces are crying for his resignation, for new elections, for |@ new government, for the mobilizing |of. national militia, and the real radi- cals, the Communists, for the prole- tarian revolution. The once “strong |man” pretends that the cabinet group is only going to advise him as to his speeches in the reconvening parlia- ment, but his excuse is too thin to hide the imminent danger of the pre- mier and what remains of his govern- ment. The temper of the populace is ex- tremely touchy. The presence of thousands of Fascist troops quartered all over the city, even to cavalry in the ancient Coliseum, does not add a feeling of peace and security. A Fas- cist stabbed a citizen today when he saw the other reading an opposition paper. Deputy Forni refused to fight a duel with Signor Freddi, who has just resigned as head of the Fascist party press bureau, in a fight that grew out of the Matteoti affair. Can't Fool People Now. Ettore Viola, one of the Fascist deputies and a holder of the gold medal for conspicuous bravery in the world war, said that a meeting of the holders of the gold medal. expressed to the king their “unalterable confi- dence” in Premier Mussolini, But even tho the Fascist majority is pus’: ing the so-called “housecleaning” for Mussolini, the intimacy of the pre- mier with the confessed criminals has put him in an exceedingly bad light among the people in general. Experts who investigated the “death car,” in which Matteoti was kidnaped and probably slain, re- ported that it showed signs of a fierce struggle. The cushions were torn and blood-stained, Fragments of the gory upholstering were found in a suit- case in the hotel room which Sig. Filippe Filippelli, former editor of the suspended fascist paper, Corriere Italiano, occupied. Filippelli has broken under the strain of his im- prisonment and added much to the confession of Dumini. Not All Told Yet. The Matteoti murder has brot to light many other terrible crimes, which former fascist officials have been committing under the protection of their offices, The sacking of ex- Premier Nitti’s home and the murder- ous attack upon the dissenting fas- cisti, Misuri and Forni, are now charged to the gang of fascist crim- inals who murdered Matteoti. The assault upon the opposition leader, Amendola, is blamed upon them, be- sides numerous other deeds of a des- perate nature and unestimated graft. No date has been set for the re- opening of parliament and it is a mat- ter for speculation whether the fas- cist majority will dare to bring up the Sinclair oil concession for the ratification of the deputies, Oily Politics Again. The whole Mafteoti scandal has developed out of the desperate effort of the fascists to cover their tracks of graft and violence. The socialist deputy had intended to expose their rotten system and particularly the immense graft connected with the Sinclair fifty4year concession, The fascisti in the department of the in- terior had been engaged in highly profitable dealings with Standard Oil as well as its friend, the Sinclair Con-" solidated Oil. Cesare Rossi, now specifically con- nected with the Matteoti affair as one of the prime conspizators, and former secretary of the interior department's escaped definite implication in the murder of Matteoti. solini resorts to now are simply tempts to save his own skin. calling of the blackshirts to patade the streets of Rome, singing their war songs, is »cactically an admission of his own weakness, , Communists Strong, : The Communist party of Italy @ splendid organization. It is espectal- ly strong in the northern part of the ~~ a