The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1924, Page 1

» THE DAILY WORKE \ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND Workers! Farmers! Demands The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users 3 The Industries for the Workers / | FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Entered ; : red as Second-class matter September 21, 192f, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Rocugaitien ar Sivael eee In Chicago, b; x , - P 2 : Vol. Il. No. 88. SUBSCRIPTION RATES pitiaentionce ee i a Pee secur. ai MONDAY, Ep **” Published Daily except Sunday by ‘TH! DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents JUNE 30, 1924 PUBLISHING CO., 11138 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. GOMPERS PARTY IGNORES UNIONS Donkey Keeps ‘Its Klan Knightie By One Vote MILLIONAIRE DEMOCRATS KEEP JACKASS PLATFORM IS SILENT ATTACKS ON FRIEND COOLIDGE ON RIGHT TO ORGANIZE; NOT FROM THEIR PARTY PLATFORM PLEDGED AGAINST CHILD LABOR By JAY LOVESTONE. iad i Which Is Your Platform oe three princwal platforms of thé presidential election are now before the workers. On the besgeetiny: ‘\ are paramount #0 the industrial workers and exploited farmers, these platforms make inStyctive comparisgn. Read, and decide which is your platform: Industry (Special to The Daily Worker) Farmer-Labor — Public Ower. Re is: Privat, Bing. | (Special to the Daily Worker) ship. The nationalization Of} The blican arty spp tk Rete ce Rahat Sra | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 29.—= | MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 29.—Mil- pa seks Bangers eyo. mitted fight for the preservation | Samuel Gompers’ democratic party has adopted its platform for the 1924 campaign. This is also the platform endorsed by Major George L. Berry who will be in the race this week for the vice-presidential nomination. It is also the platform to which James A. Holland, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, Gompers’ lieutenant in Tammany Hall of the f ent system of ownership lionaire democrats won their fight to prevent any attack on Presi- all industry. dent Coolidge by name from getting into the democratic platform. The document limits itself to vitriolic denunciation of the repub- licans in general without mentioning Coolidge. plants, and means of communica- tion and transportation. Labo Organization These millionaire democrats have been much in evidence. Farmer-Labor — Abolish injune- R@Bjican—Silent on injunc D ; politics, is enthusiastically committed. P lemocratic—Same as the R b- i i Owen ‘D. Young of the house of Morgan having a hand in the ed ape apo, Reiley o0" bias ent on labor unions; si- lican. a hede oa a oe eS ee nk ising the L ti = ; 5 ie of armed forces. Re- * 6 ‘ plank praising the League of Nations and Bernard M. Baruch in grnment to protect workers PUBMCaP Sora is for injunctions, Injunctions against labor are not mentioned; scribing the agricultural plank. John W. Davis, attorney for the House of Morgan and Standard Oil interests is in the running for the presidency. Wiliam G. Mc-¢———__——_——_—__—_—_ Adoo, another millionaire candi- date, has the backing of Sen- ators Wheeler and Walsh of Montana. Davis’ friends are not too optimis- tic of too good a ride for their dark horse this week. If it were not for the ghost of a third party haunting this convention Davis would be made the winner of the donkey Derby. His/ corporation connections are s0 it and repulsive that the po- tical bosses here simply can’t see how they can make the presently much-needed’ “progressive” label stick to this pale steed. Cox Gallops On. Spurred on by the prayer to the Holy Trinity, Cox, who was snowed under in the 1920 elections by seven _million yotes, was brought out of, the against employers, instead of us- ing them against workers to break strikes. The open shop drive is not condemned; Abolition of child labor is not pledged; _ The Railway Labor Board, which fought the shopmen’s ~ unions in 1922, is not referred to in the vague railroad plank; Labor, which is offered nothing, is told that it is not a commodity—chill comfort for the workers, whose labor is bought and sold at the lowest price; The anti-labor Ku Klux Klan is not attacked by name; Expropriation of the farmers by the banking trust is ignored entirely in the agricultural plank; Jdailing of the thieves who looted the nation’s resources in the famous Teapot steals is not urged nor even spoken off; Haiti and other Carribean nations, that have been over- run by American marines usurping the government in behalf of New York bankers, are offered not a word of hope of com- ing freedom. The democratic platform is the most reactionary the party has put into a presidential campaign in thirty years. It is a challenge to labor which will swell the tide of revolt expressed thru the class Farmer-Labor party orgahized at St. Paul bghind Duncan McDonald and William Bouck, NEGROES HIT AT unions, and using of against labor. day. Newton D. Baker of Ohio was his stable boy and jockey combined. Cox galloped on, but was limping. League of Nations Lauded. Baker, Wilson’s secretary of war, lauded the league and declared that “in national affairs we can be neither reactionary nor radical.” His attack on the “unparalleled depravity” of the Republican regime and his plea for Cox were met with some cheering which was artificially prolonged to last about ten minuies. Wheeler, Walsh With McAdoo. Little interest was manifested in the seconding speech of Smith by William J. Quinn of Minnesota. When W. H. Maloney of Montana rose to second Smith, his voice failed him, and Chairman Walsh had to make, his. announcement. Many (Cor 16% on * Farmer-Labor—Maximum eight hour day, and adjusted to. give work for all; constitutional amend- ment making child labor a criminal offense on part of employer; a minimum wage for all workers; social insurance; maternity insur- ance; revenue for these things by tax on unearned incomes. Imperialism and Fo Farmer-Labor—Recognize Soviet 1 ublican—No recognition Russia; abolish imperialism by giv- Sovi Russia; no independenc ing immediate independence to Philippines; silent about imperi Philippines, self-determination to ism, which has been the settl colonies and possessions, removal policy of the Republican party. of troops from occupied countries SEM - Democratic—No proposals for regulating work day; silent on un- employment; evasive on child la- bor; silent on minimum wage, so- cial insurance, etc. Willing io al- low states to regulate products of convict labor. Democratic—No recognition of Soviet Russia; favors independ- ence of Philippines, but makes no ledges; silent about imperialism, ich Democrats fought against “x ago, but accented and carried out during 1913-1918 in Wilson ad- or South América, an,» absolute ~ \v le 4 ‘ by one det onl orca | bs t,o 4) non-interference in other countrirs é ministration. FLECTRIC UNION was a fight against its antlCatholic|| for purpose of safeguarding invést- f K. K K ENMITY bias and not against its anti-unionism. ments. z § . 6 & E 6 ATION In this the Irish democrats followed " ae ee the lead of the notorious Dantel 0’Con- N egr oO P. r obi em NEEDS Te BRING. nell, Ireland’s great Catholic “eman- Farmer-Labor—The Farmer-La- bor party recognizes the particu- larly vicious economic and political oppression and exploitation of the Negro race in America, and pledges itself to extend its struggle to free all toilers to include the political and industrial emancipa- tion of the Negro workers and neg Farm Problems Republican—No mention of Ne- Democratic—No mention of Ne- gro, but Coolidge on record as ap- gro, but convention is half Ku proving former slavery as fitting Klux Klan. Negroes for proper place. cipator,” who fought union labor on the one hand but headed the Irish bourgeoisie on the other in their fight for civil recognition by the British government. In the Name of God. William Jennings Bryan made his first oratorical outburst during the convention in a speech against the proposed anti-Klan plank. He pleaded with the delegates in the name of Christianity not to assail the K. K. K. IN ALL FORMS Denounce Race Attitude of 3 Administrations PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 29.— Segregation of Negroes in special re- sidential areas, in schools and in gov- ernment departments in Washington were denounced’ by the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Co- TOUMION LABOR SOFT PEDALLED Reactionaries on Both ALL WORKERS IN Western Electric Must Be Organized. The reactionary officials of Sides of Klux Fight ‘MADISON SQUARE GAR- DEN, New York, June 29.— The utter indifference to labor issues at the jackass convention was again shown in the fight rer the Ku Klux Klan which the by name because to do so might affect the chances of the Democratic party, which Bryan insists is an agency of the Lord. The final decision of the convention, by a bare 642 3-20 to 541 3-20 votes to keep an attack on the white hoods out of the platform showed that the fear of party defeat was a convincing argu- ment. Klan Trusts Score Donkey. Passed around among delegates be- fore the voting was a copy of the Klan Kourier, official organ of the Illinois K. K. K,, praising the “sanctity” shown at the republican convention (where the Klan was not assailed), in comparison With the whiskified Cath- olic controlled New York convention. The bandmaster at Cleveland played “Onward Christian Soldiers” with such fervor, said the Kourier, that many people thot he must be a Klans- man, Delegates felt the force of the Klan threat to vote the republican ticket. -¢" order weathered by one at a single one of the » against the fascist 4 its tarring, lashing zof unionworkers. vas made either * crimes against which has suf- lan brutalities sup in Ameri- » the K. K. K. came nents. It was led as Brennan, of Illi- Jassachusetts, and “are worrying over their communities. 3ryan Plank. . * . ca over the plank|Janitors in Frisco om ot speech, the) ~ Schools Find Their on. It was a very . had been hammered Pay Raise Was Joke '. Bryan and his fel- vers of the platform i not mention the ‘ther did it list the ech and the press t radical labor and oms by the United } SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.— City ;school janitors, who wanted an in- jerease in pay, are objecting to the form in which it was granted by the ) Board of Education. The janitors now ; receive $120 a month but will have to iberty Only. wait five years for gradual increases and the other Cath-|to $135, except for those who have al- did not give a rap for |ready served five years. Women who reedom of speech and|o the same work as men cannot re- ar as it affected labor, |celve more than the $120 now being 1 committee's omissions|paid, no matter how long their serv- spects aroused no objec-|ice, and new women janitors will get minority report dealt only |only $105. vecific case of the Ku Klux che fight against the Klan] Send in that Subscription Today! e Daily Worker Is Sending C. E. Ruthe Readers the Story of the Meeting of the Farmer-Labor—Secure the land to users thereof; public ownership of marketing institutions, etc., with participation of farmers in management; loans without inter- est to farmers in distress; develop- ing of marketing organizations op- erated at cost. Labor Party stands clear-cut of the workers and farmers. Democratic—Against public own- ership; proposes nothing to stop dispossession of farmers now g0- ing on; favors loans from banks to current usury; tells farmers to help themselves as best they can, while the Democratic party will change the tariff. Republican—Against public own- orship; proposes nothing to stop dispossession of farmers now g0- ing on; favors loans from banks at current usury; tells farmers to help themselves as best they can, while Republican party will change the tariff. identical, and both stand for the intorests of t for action and measures ag: In which class a GOMPERS SCOLDS AT RAILWAY MEN WHO THREATEN TO DESERT ‘e you? Which DONKEY UNLESS McADOO IS RIDER By JAY LOVESTONE. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, June 29,—One the eve of the Democratic choice of standa serious breach in the ranks of the -bearer there has developed a hundreds of labor fakers loung- ing around the lobbies of the sumptuous hotels. There is a split between the railway union officials on one side and the Tammany-Gompers The fight, which is developing serious out over the actions of six rail-"(, heat bac road union chiefs making a} strong demand for the nomina- tion of McAdoo, The New York State Federation of Labor leaders who have for years been the petted sons of Tammany are fight- ing tooth and nail for Smith. Gompers is not ‘yet openly for the Tammany idol. He is pursuing a policy of not “interfering” with the nomination and then endorsing the donkey leader once he is chosen. In the meanwhile the “Grand Old Man” is on his hind legs fighting side by side with Tammany gang on the other. mensions, has broken the McAdoo forces. McAdoo }.abor Fakers in Oepn. Timothy @hea, of the Brotherhood of Locomotife Firemen; A. O. Whar- ton, of the} Railway Labor Board; A. J. Frankl@a, president of the Boiler- makers’ and \Iron Shipbuilders’ Union; J, G. Luhrson, president of the Broth- erhood of Railway Telegraphers, and E. M. Millimen, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes, have just signed a mani- festo in behalf of McAdoo, threatening the convention with the club of a third party at Cleveland on July 4th if the On every issue of vital importance, the republican and democratic parties are practically 3 capitalist class. On every issue the Farmer- ainst the capitalist class and in favor is your party? AMENDMENT BANNING CHILD LABOR RATIFIED FIRST BY ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 29.— Arkansas ts the first state to ratify the proposed amendment to the Unit- ed States constitution, which would prohibit child labor. The lower house of the state legis- lature by a vote of 45 to 40 and the state senate by a vote of 15 to 13, voted to ratify the amendment. Indorse St. Paul Work. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 29.—The Kansas City branch of the Farmer- Labor party has indorsed the work of the June 17 convention at St. Paul and will go ahead to help the national party’s program here. Russia to Join Postal Union. BERNE, Switzerland, June 29.—Sov- ict @ussia has notified Switzerland as surveyor of the Postal Union that she is ready to join the union. lored People in convention here. Shelby Dawson of Washington pro- tested against the segregation of Negro workers in the government de- partments in Washington. He said the policy had been started by the Wilson administration and continued by the Harding and Coolidge adminis- trations. Residential restriction he called infamous. He called on the delegates to “fight this segregation to the last ditch until we can live where ever we want to.” W. S. Henry of Indiana said: “If our children begin in segregated schools the finger of humiliation will follow them the rest of their lives.” Irving T. Nutt of Camden N. J. told of the fight the Negroes of Camden had put up against segregation in that city, Engineers in North West Find Farmers’ Fate Hits Them Hard MOBRIDGE, S. Dak., June 29.— Employment for locomotive firemen is a serious problem thru the west, ac- cording to Financial Secretary Har- old W. Scott, Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen, Lodge 752. “On the division on which our lodge is there are two engineers working on every engine,” Scott de- clares, “and there is not a single fire- man holding even a place on the ex- tra list.” Engineers, being former firemen, the Electrical International Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers, under the regime of Mike Boyle, have allowed the open shop conditions to steadily de- crease the union membership. | Without ‘protest, the union ° officers seeming to take direc- ions from Samuel Insull and the Electric Trust rather than the- rank and file militant trade un-— ionists, have opposed amalga- ~ mation, have neglected to carry on organization drives, have championed the worn out and — ineffective method of craft or- ganization, have raised initia~ tion fees and have allowed their organization to dwindle in size and effectiveness. It is against this corrupt Mike Boyle machine that the militant members of the Electrical workers’ union, the In- ternational Committee for Amalgama- tion in the metal industries, and the Bi Trade Union Educational League pro test. “There is pressing need for {ft mediate action and the task is a big one,” says the Amalgamation Bulletin, “The decline in membership in the electrical industry since 1918 is dan- gerous, especially so when during this (Continued on page 3) Ve & Ad Lightning and Dynamite Kill Six. WINSTON SALEM,, N, C., June 29. are given the preference for the sec- ond job in the locomotive cab when jobs are scarce. “We are willing to go where there will be work for us all the time,” Scott asserts, “as we have been un- certain of employment for the past four years.” -Six persons were killed here when lightning struck and exploded 150 pounds of dynamite. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. 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