The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1924, Page 1

} hi. Vol. Il. No. 86. > / THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT RUSSIAN PARTY _ DECISION SHOWS * ‘ > COMPLETEUNTY Policies Win Unanimous Approval of Delegates That complete unity in the ranks of the Russian Communist. party is shown by the unanimous adoption of the resolution of the thirteenth congress of the Russian Communist party on the report of the central committee. When the vote was shown to be unanimous the dele- gates to the historic congress, that was held in Moscow, sprang from their seats singing “The Interna- tional.”, The resolution as officially reported by the International Press Correspondence is as follows: e* * Resolution of the Thirteenth Con- gress of the Russian Communist Party on the Report of the Central Committee. The Thirteenth Congress entirely approves of the correct political line and the organizatory work of the Central Committee which have se- cured to the Party the highest de- gree of success in all spheres of work under difficult and complicated condi- tions. The Conference notes with satisfaction the correctness of the work of the Central Committee dur- ing the period under reyiew, which was the first year of work of the Cen- tral Committee during which the Cen- tral Committee and the whole party were deprived of the direct leadership of comrade Lenin. The Congress wholely and entirely confirms the resolutions of the Thir- teenth Party Conference of the Soviet Tinion “Concernine tha Parte Strne. ture” and “On the Results of the Dis- cussion and on Petty Bourgeois Ten- dencies” and includes these, resolu- tions in the decisions of the Thir- teenth Congress of the R. C. P. The congress expresses its full approval of the Central Committee of the party for the firmness and Bolshevik intran- sigence which it showed during the discussions in safeguarding the funda- mentals of Leninisie against petty bourgeois deviations. Approves International Policy. The congress approves of the in- ternational policy carried out by the Central Committee which led to the de jure recognition of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics by a num- ber of the most important bourgeois states. The congress instructs the Central Committee to exercise also in the fu- ture the maximum amount of caution in the granting of concessions, to de- fend with all determination the mon- opoly of foreign trade, to develop the export of grain and endeavor to aug- (Continued on page 4) Report Missionary Killed. PEKIN, June 26.— The American legation has received confirmation of a report that an American missionary named Cunningham, was killed by a stray bullet during recent fighting at ‘Kweilin. Flyers Reach Calcutta, LONDON, June 26—A Central News Dispatch says the American round-the- world flyers have reached Calcutta. They flew from Akyab. STOCKS UNFLURRIED BY JACKASS CONVENTION; “SAFE,” SAY BROKERS { NEW YORK, June 26.—Wall Street is placid while Madison The ] since the convention began, there is no disturbance in se- s over the possibilities of an unfav@rable candidate. Th ntiment among brokers is that thé convention results will be safer for, finance. There is no alarm abowt LaFollette talk, either. Many convention delegates have visited the Stock Exchange, the legation having lunch- SUBSCRIPTION RATES KNIFE LA In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ep» *0 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1924 ——— ER Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 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 FOLLETTE FOR McADOO NEW YORK MONDAY ON FARMER-LABOR PARTY (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, June 26.—William Z. Foster, chairman of the Work- ers party, will report to the Work- ers party membership meeting next Monday evening at Stuyvesant Ca- sino, 142 Second Ave., at 8 p. my on: The St. Paul convention, The Workers party in the presi- dential campaign, Building the Farmer-Labor par- ty. Admission is by membership card only. Comrades are urged to at- tend in force——Charles Krumbein, District Organizer. N. Y. BOSSES WEAKEN: FACE STRIKE UNITY Amalgamated Expects Early Negotiations NEW YORK, June 26.—The big employers whose shops have been shut down by the strike of fifty thousand members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in the men’s and children’s clothing — industries have havin tha nvvonination nf Oren 9 see ses Ar erbeanewes we an association which it is ex- pected will negotiate with “The Amalgamated.” The strikers are meeting every day in ten halls scattered thru- out the clothing district. Old Time Spirit Lives Again The old time spirit of the members of the Amalgamated which has made it one of the most powerful unions in America is alive as never before. The bosses who have attempted to use the industrial depression to force the open shop on the workers must now see that they have started to play with a buzz saw. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated, summed up the demands of the union as follows: “First, to check reduction of wages, Second to stop the sending of work to non-union shops and assure the complete union shop, third, a minimum wage scale and the regulation of production and, fourth, unemployment insurance. The progressive workers among the rank and file of the strikers point out that the demands for a minimum wage scale and unemployment insurance are the most important in the list because the stabilization of union conditions in the shops would be impossible with- out them. Strikers Attract Attention As the fifty thousand workers left ie ane we the shops at 10,00 o'clock yesterday morning they attracted a lot of atten- tion from the delegates to the Demo- cratic convention. Many of the men’s (Continued on page 2.) Hear About German Communist Youth at Mass Meet Tonight Hermann Nuding, who has recently arrived from Germany, will be the chief speaker at a mass meeting to- night in Socialen Turnhalle, Belmont Ave. and Paulina St., at 8 p.m. The meeting is under the auspices of lo- cal Chicago of the International Work- ers’ Aid. The part of the American worker in helping the German will be emphasized as well as the story of the part the Communist Youth organ- ization had in the German elections. Delays Pole Flig MILAN, Italy, funds, NEW YORK CITY, June 26.—Voting in the election of general secretary- treasurer of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union, Local No. 390, of this city, gave Max J. Sillinsky a positive majority over all other candidates. The vote was: Sillinsky 46, Soderberg 21, Sweeney 18, Cariquist 4 REDUCTIONS, MINIMUM SCALE OF WAGES, DEMANDS OF AMALGAMATED (Special to The NEW YORK CITY, ‘June 26.—Charging ally Wi I Yast the men’s clothing manu- facturers in New York City had taken advantage of the present business depression to lower the standards of labor in the industry, Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, has issued a statement on the strike of the 50,000 members the union, as follows: * * By SIDNEY HILLMAN, President, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. HE decision made by the’ committee rep: general strike in the City of New York iting the joint boards for a vicinity, and unanimously endorsed by the clothing workers at their various meetings, has been neces- sitated by the policy pursued \by a great number of manufacturers in New York City who have utilized the business depression for breaking down the standards of the workers and reducing wages, ~ “This has been most glaring among the employers who send their work to contracting shops, which constitute the largest portion of the market. They withhold work from the con- tracting shops in order to get reduced prices with the consequent reduction of the wages of the workers of these contractors. “A number of employers have also attempted to bring back the so-called ‘social’ shop, which in reality is the old sweatshop, where no protective standards prevail. The competition that results from these sources has demoralized to a great extent the New York market, and if not stopped Will bring complete confusion. “The Amalgamated is attempting thru its efforts at this time to place the New York market on a basis where these irresponsible elements, which are detrimental to the industry as well as to the workers, will be held under control. “The Geinands of the unig¢n” at” this time are for a complete union shop. against wage reductions and for the introduction of minimum scales of wages, not for the purpose of add- ing to the cost, but rather to stabilize cost. In this connection the union is ready to discuss the regulation and control of production. It also demands at this time the introduction of un- employment insurance, which the em- ployment situation of the last few sea- sons has proved to be of necessity for the clothing industry. This need is based not only on justice to the workers, but on the ultimate benefit to the clothing industry. “The union will welcome any con- structive suggestions from the respon- sible employers for placing the rela- tionship between the employers and June 26.—Captain Roald Amundsen announced today he would delay his proposed flight across the north pole because of lack of employes on a more rational, just and equitable bas!s to all concerned in our industry. It therefore does not expect this to be a long struggle between the employers and the workers. It rather hopes that the responsible employers will make a speedy adjustment pos- sible, and in this manner not affect MELLON TAKES WITNESS STAND IN GRAFT CASE Harding Letter Used in Shake Down Probe (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 26.—Andrew W. Draft Farm Plank for Morgan FOSTER REPORTS 1) | (COMPLETE UNION SHOP, NO WAGE BARUCH WRITES PLANK TO FOOL TILLERS OF SOIL Wall Street Has Way in Democrat’s Platform (Special to the Daily Worker.) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York City, June 26.—While Boss Brennan, Boss Taggart and the Tammany triumvirate are dancing in the newspaper pages the platform committee is busy drafting a farmers’ plank over the tracing of Bernard M. Baruch, head of Morgan’s War Industries Board during 1917-18 and a close financial associate of the ruler of Wall Street. Members of the sub-commit- tee which is drafting the plat- form admitted that they are fol- lowing closely the farmers’ pro- gram suggested by Mr. Baruch. This farmers’ plank which is in- tended to bring votes from the wheat fields talks vaguely of co-operative marketing, the reopening of foreign markets and lower freight rates. In other words, it promises nothing to the agricultural producers of Amer- Mellon, Pittsburgh millionaire bank- er, and Secretary of the Treasury, took the stand late today as a defense witness ‘ men arr Vaan eae eg oe Ty euera: cuurt. larnecke are charged with conspiracy to remove liquor from bonded warehouses. Gaston B. Means, former special agent of the Department of Justice, told in federal court here how Jess Smith, friend of President Harding and Harry Daugherty used his authori- ty to investigate whiskey deals to col- lect some $400,000 in graft. Harding authorized Smith by means of a let- ter to undertake the investigation and Smith hired Means and others to help him. Means received packages of money from various persons and then turned the packages over to Smith. Means said he had received $100,000 from a Japanese and given it to Smith. The refusal of Means and Elmer W. Jarnecke, co-defendant of Means on a charge of conspiracy to accept $21,- 000 from Smith for repayment to per- sons whom Smith thought were trying to have him indicted, caused Smith's suicide, Means said. Means had also threatened to tell all he knew about Smith and the whis- the standing of the New York market in the country. Hopes for Regulation. “The New York market today has a cost basis that is comparable with that of the rest of the country, and, with orderly procedure in industrial relations, it may expect to hold its place as one of the leading clothing markets in the country. While the unfon will leave nothing undone to stop the attempt to make wage re- ductions and to safeguard the inter- ests of our membership, it is hopeful that the responsible employers will see the wisdom of regulation as against chaos in this market, and will join in an effort toward stabilization. Masaryk Talks Some More. VIENNA, June 26.—President Masa- ryk of Czecho-Slovakia has been mak- ing speeches in the German part of his territory with great promises of what his social democracy would do for the Germans in his country. All the bourgeois elements rallied to Masaryk, but the workers looked on scornfully, with an eye on the revolu- tion rising in Germany. key deals to Congress if he was called as a witness before any investi- gating committee, he said. Means said that it was necessary to take the money from these persons in order to get the information Presi- dent Harding desired. A man named W. T. Underwood, whose address Means did not know, was associated with Smith in the in- vestigation, Means said. Underwood puid Means his salary and is paying the cost of the defense in Means’ trial, he testified. Underwood had refused to give his address because he was living with a woman not his wife, in Washington Means insisted, when the prosecutor tried ,to imply that no such person existed. It was during an eight-months’ per- iod that Means collected the $400,000 and* turned it over to Smith. The $400,000 was collected for about 15 whiskey deals, Means testified that the letter to Smith from Harding authorizing the investigation, had been stolen togeth- er with many other papers from him during the senate committee investi- gation of the Rgpartment of Justice early this year. CROOKED OIL TRIO—FALL, DOHENY, SINCLAIR—ESCAPING INDICTMENTS (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 26.—Albert have not yet been indicted in the oil Fall and Harry Sinclair and Doheny fraud cases. The federal grand jury summoned here to “punish the guilty” expires under the terms of the law next Monday, June 30. administration clique goes free, Its report is not yet made, ff it falls to indict, the Most of the principal witnesses who appeared before the Walsh com- mittee of the senate in the Teast Dome Investigation have likewise appeared before this grand jury. for Gaston B. Means and El- me ne ica but a mirage of phrases, intend- ed to hide the robbery of the farmers by the banking interests that Mr. Ba- ruch represents. The terms vsed in the nronosed far. mers’ plank are intentionally vague, but Mr. Baruch has already shown that he believes in no co-operative agricultural enterprises which are not under the heel of big business. The DAILY WORKER recently exposed Baruch and Armour’s proposal to un- load a chain of bankrupt grain eleva- tors on a farmers’ organization—in the name of the co-operative move- ment. Pointing Out the Bunk. Members of the New York Farmer- Labor party are also pointing out the shallowness of the proposals for the capture of foreign markets and for re- lief thru lower freight rates. Foreign grain markets must reckon with the growing grain exports from Soviet Russia and with the ability of bank- rupt European nations to pay Ameri- can prices. And the issue of lower freight rates brings in the question of railroad influence at Washington, which Mr. Baruch does not intend to disturb. With Morgan men controlling the terminology of the farmers’ and League of Nations’ plank, and con- (Continued on page 2.) GUNMAN FROM WEST VA. STRUTS HIS STUFF AS BOOB DELEGATES STARE (Special to the Daily Worker.) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 26.—Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan county, West Vir- ginia, and chief gunman for the non-union coal operators of that state, is a delegate to the Demo- cratic convention. Chafin struts about in a wide hat and makes no bones about the fact that he packs ite are press agenting him as a bad man and hero to the open shoppers among the other delegates. They tell wild stories of his heroism dur- ing the armed march of the union coal miners into Logan county. Their favorite is that he stopped the march single handed. The truth is that Chafin’s heroism consisted in firing on women and lone un- armed miners. Chafin and his gun- men's army was saved from total annihilation only by the calling in of United States troops. But to the small town union haters here Dor To be able to look at a man who has the reputation of having shot and killed union organizers ie a treat that many of the delegates will never get a chance to ses again. They look their fill and Chafin struts his stuff for his own and their pleasure. Sheriff Chafin is equally popular with Major George L. Berry. motive Engineers, in Cleveland. story in the New York World, Leary,Jr., a camp-follower of the reactionary elements in the labor movement, in which it is shown how the labor forces are being mobilized in support of Wilson’s son-in-law. Stone’s Agent on the Ground. Leary makes the statement that “Herman Wills, vice grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, announced: he had been sent to the meeting by Warren S. Stone to represent Stone personally and the organization generally in an effort to ‘put McAdoo over.’” “I have full authority,” he said, “to speak and act for Mr. Stone.” The meeting referred to was a gath- ering of “McAdoo boomers” among railroad men held in the Vanderbilt hotel, at the call of Martin F. Ryan, vice president of the American Feder- ation of Labor and international presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, to organize their drive for votes for McAdoo. This outfit organizea as a steering committee, with Timothy Shea, as- sistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men, as chairman, and Albert O. Wharton of the International Associ- ation of Machinists, as secretary. Wharton is a renegade Socialist, who has gone along with the machine of William H. Johnston, head of the (Continued on Page 2.) FOSTER TELLS T.U.EsL, ABOUT ST, PAUL MEET Big Gathering of Union- ists Enthusiastic The Chicago Local General Group of the Trade Union Educational League held a most rousingly successful meeting Wednesday evening at North- west Hall. A program even more in- teresting than usual brought out be- tween five and six hundred enthusias- tic Communists and left wingers who, upon solicitation by Chairman Brow- der and Secretary Carmon, cleaned up the whole supply of pamphlets, carted off hundreds of LABOR HERALDS for distribution and poured in scores of subscriptions and renewals for the leading labor magazine of America— the LABOR HERALD. Comrade Carmon, as secretary, re- ported the month's activities of the various local industrial groups, telling how he and others had visited the branches of the Workers Party, urging intensified industrial activity by party members. Meetings had been held with the industrial organizers of the party branches and with the prospective act- ive assistance of the Workers Party mechanism, the future promised to be even better than the past. The League, working through the party members, must lead the workers generally in the big fights approaching. Overgaard, Johnstone Report. Reports from particular industrial group workers are an important and interesting part of these T. U. BE. L. rionthly meetings. Comrade Overgaard dwelt upon conditions in the Metal Trades industry, showing how the work of the left wing is beginning to bear fruit, In spite of opposition by the union officials, a good representa- tion from the Machinists’ Union went to St. Paul—and stuck, the convention of the I, A. M. next September promises to be galvan‘zed by the left wing re- bellion against the notorious class collaboration scheme known as the “B. & O. Plan” of the president of the Machinists’ Union, Wm. H. Johnston (Continued on page 8.) RAILROAD CHIEFS PLEDGED TO WISCONSIN SENATOR IN N.Y. FIGHTING FOR OILY LAWYER (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 26.—Altho repeatedly on record as championing the independent candidacy of LaFollette for the- presidency, it is now leaking out here that Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is giving the wisconsin senator the double-cross in an effort to put the oil- soaked lawyer, William Gibbs McAdoo, into the White House. “The old parties are drowned in oil,’ were words attributed to “Chief” Stone in addressing the recent convention of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of America, at Philadelphia, and later on a demonstration for LaFollette at the convention of the Loco- All of which is now strangely interesting in view of a special under the signature of John J. PORNSTAR MALES U.S. BLOCKS FRENCH PACT WITH RUSSIA Hughes-Poincare Plot Ties Herriot’s Hands (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.—Secretary of State Hughes has made no statement on the recent disclosure of the agree- ment existing between France and the United States, which hs signed ... wer pre Poincare, that binds both coug- tries to give “mutual consent” and to confer upon the wording of any recognition statement be- fore either negotiates with Soviet Russia. Premier Herriot started out very bravely with his announce- ment that recognition of Soviet Russia would be one of the first considerations of his govern- ment, Herriot Is Shown. Then the diplomatic officials on the Quai d’Orsay showed Herriot the document drawn up between his pre- decessor and the “honorable” stiff- necked Hughes whose anti-Russian policy is only too well known, and the new French premier was in- formed that he also was bound by the scrap of paper. When Poincare looked at the Lon- don conference between the Soviet government and Britain and said that France might not reject an invita- tion, Hughes immediately informed the Frenchman that he could do no such thing and the matter was dropped. Herriot’s Hands Tied. As the DAILY WORKER of Chica- go suggested, Herriot’s sudden si- lence on the question of Russia is due to the tying of his hands by the irk- some agreement with the United States, whose state secretary as yet is quite unbending on the Russian question. French Ambassador Jusserand signed the pact with Hughes for Poincare. Hughes has been more and more chagrined as more nations extended a friendly hand of recognition to So- viet Russia and is trying to hold France to his same unreasonable “bitter end” policy. KNITGOODS WORKERS CALL CONFERENCE 10 ORGANIZE A UNION PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 26.— A committee of knit goods workers is calling a conference for Wednes- day, July 3, at the Machinists’ Tem- ple to discuss the possibility of or- ganizing a union in the knitting trade. It is several years that the knit- ters of Philadelphia have been working without a union,. with the result that they work as long as 52 hours per week for shamefully low wages. The committee finds a favorable sentiment among the workers for a union and expect to have a large number of knitters at the confer eng :