The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT “ Vol. Il. No. 84. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ! 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. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25,1924 <<»*" Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Workers! Farmers! Demand? The Labor Party i 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 Cent: BEER AND BERRY, BEGS GOMPERS A. F. OF L, CHIEFS ASK JACKASS POLITICIANS FOR TRIPLE FAVOR WINE, BEER AND MAJOR BERRY Yellow Editor Wars on Printers VEIL STRIPPED -OFF HEARST AS FRIEND OF LABOR Publisher Wires Attack On Typo Strikers (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, June 24.—William Randolph Hearst is personally backing the war against the printing trades in his composing rooms at the Seattle Post-Intel- ligencer where the printers are on strike and the stereotypers and mailers are locked out be- cause they refused to work with scabs. In a telegram to Secretary Charles W. Doyle of the Central Labor Council the publisher as- Sails the union men for going on strike and backs up his local Managers in their fight. Hearst Friendship, A Myth. ) For a long time many Seattle print- ers hoped that Hearst would adjust their grievances when he learned the \ facts, that they had been getting un- der the Seattle newspaper scale for months before the strike and that the new agreement the management tried to force would not only cut them still further, but would lengthen — their working hours and remove employ- ment safeguards. The myth that Hearst is a friend of union labor was still held with \__y-many-. It is now effectually shattered. - In @ reply to"Hearst the strikers and locked-out men sign themselves, “Your Former Friends.” The letter which lists some of the outstanding grievances, follows: | The Strikers’ Party. | “Wiliam Randolph Hearst, “Ritz Carlton Hotel, “New York. “Dear Sir: Your recent tele- ¥ (Continued on Page 2.) TEAPOT’ FALL AIDED U.S. OIL ' GOLOMBIA, U. S, -Secretary of Interior “Bought” Minister ‘Special to the Daily Worker.) OGOTA, Colombia, June 24.—An- ther “Teapot Dome” affair is seen by 2 Liberal party and radicals here in @ infinence of United States oil in- asts in the Colombian treaty nego- ations. Senor Carlos Urueta, min- ster to the United States in 1922, when the treaty was made, is particu- larly blamed and accused of selling to the American oil hounds. “phe now disgraced ex-secretary of United States interior department, b Fall, and Senator Lodge de- marced that their friends, the oll cap- be given guarantees against, ‘9 Colombian’ decree which de- government ownership of all no matter what the title. The m interests succeeded in get- he decree branded as unconsti- by backing the suit of certain ns thru the supreme court of tien to the Colombian * Party Members! Hear Foster! Willlam Z. Foster, chairman Workers party, speaks on the June 17th Farmer-Labor conven- tion at the monthly meeting of the Trade Union Educational League tonight, June 26, 8 p. m., at Northwest hall, North and West- ern Aves. The TUEL is the industrial de- partment of the party and all such meetings are to be fully supported by party members as well as other TUEL members. Hear Foster's report on the convention. The Farmer-Labor campaign for the coming months will also be outlined. A party membership meeting will be held July 8, when the tasks of the party in connection with the Farmer-Labor party campaign will be outlined—Martin Abern, City Secretary. LYNCH AND KLAN ISSUES BEFORE NEGRO GATHERING National Association In Session Today (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, June 24, — The lynching evil will be the principal issue before the annual conference of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of the Colored People which begins its sessions tomorrow. James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Association will present the latest facts on lynch outrages and give a report of the progress towards a federal anti- lynching law. Johnson will hit hard at the Ku Klux Klan’s activities in Indiana and other northern industrial states. The association's secretary will show that assaults on the Negroes are no longer confined to the South. Since the great Negro migration northward intoler- ance, discrimination and violence are increasing in the states north of the Mason and Dixon line. G. O. P. Is Anti-Negro. The matter of a federal anti-lynching law will be earnestly discussed at the conference. Failure has so far met the The Republican party has proved to be anti-Negro as well as the Demo- cratic Party which traditionally stands for Negro enslavement. The late pres- ident Hardiug’s declaration that he would stand against social equality of the Negro has settled all doubts on that matter. Disgusted with old Parties. The National Association is both a fact-presenting and a legislative-lobby- ing organization. Until now it has held ‘to the same policy as Samuel Gompers, of trying to get something done for its cause thru the capitalist parties. A change is impending. Many of the persons active in the organiza- tion are so disgusted with the anti- Negro attitude of both the old parties that they are considering the idea of supporting a new political movement free from capitalist constraints in ef- fecting justice. But Davis Will Speak. The association is not a working class affair, however, and conservative tactics still dominate. This is illus- trated in the choice of Theodore EF. Burton of Ohio, Secretary of Labor James A. Davis and Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts as speakers. Mildly setting off these labor haters are John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church of New York and James Weldon Johnson, Class Organization Is Need. But the fact that respectable and conservative methods are not getting racial equality for the Negroes, is forcing attention of such issues as claim that Senor Urueta was “in-class organization of black and white ” by American oil money and inflaenced the court. A tri- appointed by the con- workers together—this pressure is attempts to put thru the Dyer bill. | WORKER. eee Opening Session ‘HE 13th Congress of the Com- munist Party of Russia was opened on the 24th May by Comrade Ka- menev. In eulogising on the merits of Comrade Lenin and in emphasizing the importance of the 13th Congress of the RCP. the speaker declared: Comrade Lenin is the creator of the OP. of Russia and of the Communist International. He was the best party comrade and guide of the workers of the whole world along the road of struggle to a better future. Among others there were unani- mously elected to the Presidium: com- rades Kamenevy, Stalin, Zinoviev, Ry- kov, Bucharin, Trotzky, Tomsky and Molotov. After tribute was paid to our late Bulgarian comrade Blagoev the Con- coming from the outside but it is felt even within the 'N. A. A. C. P. Send in that Subscription Today. JAY LOVESTONE: working class writers are telling the readers of the DAILY WORKER, in article gress addressed a telegram of condol- ence to the CP. of Bulgaria. Thereupon the Congress decided to send a telegram conveying greetings . 4 Author of “The Govern- ment Strikebreaker” Especially drawn for the Daily Worker by K. A. SUVANTO HELP! OFFICIAL REPORT OF 13TH CONGRESS _ OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY The congress of the Russian Communist Party, the greatest séction of the Communist=Internattonal, concluded. itssessions shortly before the opening of the Fifth Communist World” Congress--now~mecting. These accounts, the first authentic report of its proceedings, will be of the greatest interest to all comrades in America, and will therefore be printed in as complete a form as they are available. best kind of an introduction to the reports of the World Congress which will soon be available and will be published in full in THE DAILY They will be the eS AEE AR SAU to the V. World Congress of the Com- munist International: “The death of Comrade Lenin has induced the Com- munist Parties of the whole world to draw their ranks still closer together. It is the greatest pride of the Russian CP. to be in a position to aid the Co- mintern and to be one of the most faithful sections of the Comintern. A new wave of revolution is gradually rising. The recent elections in several countries show a rapid growth of the forces of the Comintern which also give rise to new complicated problems for the Comintern. The Party Congress is happy to be able to inform the Co- mintern that its Russian section is emerging from its. crisis more firmly united than ever. The proletarian dic- tatorship within the Soviet Union has consolidated itself, the economic situa- tion has improved, the RCP. remains ever true to the World Revolution!” The Congress further decided to send telegrams to the Communist (Continued on page 3) TO MINERS, TRANSPORT, METAL AND CHEMICAL WORKERS INTERNATIONALS! In view of the special internation- al significance of the German min- ers’ strike, we propose the immedi- ate enforcement of the following measures in support of the strikers: Establishment of a complete coal boycott of Germany during the strike; Support of the striking miners by a solidarity strike of the transport, railway, metal and chemical work- ers in Germany and an international miners’ strike; Joint organization of international relief collections. We are awaiting your reply in- forming us of corresponding advice given by you to your organizations. Our organizations already advised accordingly. KALININ, International Propa- ganda Committee of revolution- ary miners. SHAKNOVSKY, International Pro- paganda Committee of revolu- tionary transport workers. VOROBIEV, VACKSOW, Interna- tional Propoganda Committee of revolutionary metal workers. DOBROVOLSKY, __ International Propaganda Committee of revo- lutionary chemical workers. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 24.—Samuel Gompers, the rest of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor and a host of lesser A. F. of L. functionaries are busy at the demo- cratic convention lobbying for favors. As one of the democratic National Committee expressed it the chief Gompers’ demands are for “Beer and Berry”—the modi- fication of the Volstead Act in favor of light wines and the nam- a ele ee ing of the pressmen’s czar for the vice-presidency. Would Kill Labor Board. The A. F. of L. hopes to have the Democrats come out for the repeal of the Esch-Cummins law, which makes the Railroad Labor Board possible; the repeal of the Sherman Anti-Trust law which is made the basis for in- junctions against labor restraints of trade during strikes, and a constitu- tional amendment against child labor. Besides the Sherman repeal the la- bor officials are urging additional le- gislation against injunctions. Forget Wilson Record. The fact that the last democratic administration was controlled by su- per-business and was fiercely anti-la- bor, in its latter years especially—as is witnessed by the breaking of the steel strike and the injunction against the U. M. W. of A. in 1919—is convenient- ly ignored. They also blind their eyes to the fact that the same forces con- trol the party today. Looking the old parties’ record in the face would force them to come out for a workers’ and farmers’ movement or admitting they did not sincerely want to gain any- thing thru political efforts. Met in Astor Hotel. COUNCIL PROBE SHOULD STRIKE ELECTRIC TRUST Put Western Electric on Stand! By KARL REEVE. ‘ The Western Electric Com- pany boasts that it is a “public utilities” corporation and con- sequently that employment is steady at its Hawthorne plant. That is the claim when the com- pany hires you. When it fires you, it takes ad- vantage of the industrial depres- sion and shouts “hard times” and gives you the gate. But this The Berry boosters laid out_their |i8 Only part of the electric trust’s eauipaiga ins palstial rooih “at the itis scheme or Tédu Astor Hotel. Samuel Gompers pre-|Standard of living for its work- siding told his lieutenants the popu- larity that Berry has gained in busi- ness circles since his handling of the pressmen’s strike. It was pointed out by others that the publishers would (Continued on page 2.) JACKASS PARTY FOR BUSINESS SAYS KEYNOTER Harrison Frankly Tells Who Are Masters MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 24.—- “The Democratic Party is a friend of business, big and small.” Thus did Senator Pat Har- rison sound the keynote for the demo- cratic convention opening here this morning. “We are for honest busi- ness,” he said, “and honesty in oper- ation.” , It was a dull and uninspiring speech. All about corruption of the republicans and the honesty of the democrats. The first ten sentences contained the word “corruption.” It sounded like an airing of scandals in the closing sessions of the senate. Democratic taxation plans, the tar- iff, and the graft of the republican administration will be the leading democratic issues. Not a hint even about the problems of the working people; not a suggestion of concrete relief for the bankrupt farmers; not a mention of the growing ar’ of un- employed industrial workers; “We are for business” was indeed the keynote of the democratic convention, just as it was of the republican convention. ers. It is why Western Electric lays off thousands of its work- ers to re-hire them at a lower Wage and enable the directors to count more profits. Council Committee Probes Rates. All work on the Bell telephone in- auguration of the change to the dial system, replacing the ordinary tele- Phones has been arbitrarily and un- necessarily suspended, further intensi- fying unemployment. The city council at the present time has a sub-committee of the judiciary committee investigating the exhorbi- tantly high telegrapIt rates. They All Hang Together. Practically every electric company and electric motor manufacturing company is connected with the West- ern Electric company and with the J. P. Morgan Electric Trust. The Northern Electric company of Canada, the Automatic Electric com- pany of Chicago, the Kellog Switch- board and Supply company, the Stromberg Carlson Telephone manu- facturing company in Rochester, and many smaller electric companies are owned or controlled by the Western Electric company. The Western Electric company is connected with the Radio Corporation of America, which has a monopoly of the wireless field. The Radio Cor- poration of America was formed by the General Electric company, which interlocks with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company, the International Radio Telegraph company, the Wireless-Specialty com- pany, the United Fruif company, apd the American Telephone and Tele graph company, which includes the Bell Telephone systems. Has Factories Everywhere. The Western Electric corfipany has factories in Belgium, England, France (Continued on page 3.) NAVAL OIL RESERVE INDICTMENTS ARE HELD UP UNTIL NEXT MONDAY WASHINGTON, June 24.—Action ment in connection with the leasing deferred by the special grand jury Monday. on indictments sought by the govern- of the naval oil reserves today was hearing the evidence here until next and pictures, the story e Daily Worker is Showing You How Donkey Party Performs in New York “BOB” MINORS E:ito:, «the Liberator” Democratic National Convention. of the