The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1924, Page 4

Page Four WICKS WINS AND TURNS TABLES ON PHILLY POLIC Picnic Raiders Under Fire for Brutalities (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— After years of defeats and terrorism at the han of city, state and federal authorities, the Communists of PhiladelpMia have at last turned the tide and are jubilant over their victory, The | up the picnic, of the park like wild animals, From the first Wicks put the Police on the defensive by challenging their Tight to interfere in any way with the meeting. When commanded to cease talking against the strike-breakin: President of the United States, and insisted that he stood upon hi constitutional rights to criticize th President of the United States at any time and place and dared the police to show where he was in the wrong. The ignorant thugs disguisel as hu- man beings (plain clothes men) and uniformed lackeys of capitalism arres- ted him, and after many hours of puz zling their feeble minds charged him with disorderly conduct. At the preliminary hearitig, before bail was fixed the next day the judge, just returned from the Republican convention, where he helped nominate Coolidge, tried to lecture Wicks on the superlative virtues of “Silent Cal” whereupon Wicks objected and assert- ed that the Judge’s opinion of Coolidge had nothing to do with the matter and the only thing at issue was the five minutes’ speech he made before his arrest. Case Is Dismissed. The Defense Committee of Philadel- phia was immediately on the job and soon secured the release of Wicks. Then the Civil Liberties Union took a hand in the case. Attorney David Wal- lenstein of Philadélphia, one of the foremost lawyers of the Nast, was en- gaged as attorney for the defense, and when the case came up for hearing he immediately carried the fight directly to the prosecution and in less than ten minutes the case was dismissed. Judge Dugan admitted that the police were in error. Then in a conciliatory tone he said “But we all make mis- atest attack on free speech here was the arrest of H. M. Wicks at the Scheutzen Park Picnic of last Saturday, following which Police broke herding the People out si Cal Coolidge, he deliberately repeated the charges he had made against Coolidge On the 2nd of Jum in Vienna the Thir International Trade Union greeted by those great on, one-time 2% International, Do} Bauer, Fritz Adler and the or of Vienna Seitz. In a self. manner they praised their g cesses. Every worker, every man, every postal official in and Austria is organized. Theg. ry did not épenly notice that is precisely symbolical for the Whole Amsterdam International. Huge /em- bership, good functioning orgatiza- tions and—rule of action. For waile in Austria every sixth inhabitant isa member: of a trade union, whilst the So- cial Democrats receive continually more votes at the electiong—j re reigns in Austria the reactionary § ip- el and bank capital, and the workers wri continually on the verge of stay ae | tion. In fact the Amsterdam Internat) n- al Could not choose a better town in which to hold its congress. For what a heap of things the Al sterdam International is fighting) with phrases! For the eight-hour d; y, against war aud reaction, for bet Social conditions for the working cl; and a whole lot more. And what h the committee to report over the sult of this activity? The printed bort laid before the congress maki it clear to the most simple. Apa +) from long enumerations of very futi! organizatory matters, from the first { the last, it was a miserable wail ove the activities of reaction, over t! capitalist offensive and the pushin back of the working class. getic tone is only adopted when a’ tacking the revolution, the Russians. the Communists and the R. I. L. U. In the same way as the printed re Port of the federation, the speaker o the committee, Sassenbach, also had nothing to report as to a serious strug” gle in the interest of the proletaria® nor over the fighting measures intend ed for the future. The prominent Am/}- sterdamors and the great ones of the}; Second International assured each oth. er of their mutual harmony, in act an in will. Certainly they are of th same kidney, the Amsterdamers and the leaders of the Social Democratic International, they have both achieved equally complete bankruptcy, they) both have but one aim: to support capitalist society and to prevent and fight against revolution. Fritz Adler E ids = is e takes; Mr. Wicks makes mistakes, so do I, and go do the policemen, and we should be charitable and drop the case Wen 8 te > Y Wiltie Av aoe Attorney Wanenstein reminded His| Wish to make the body of the Inter- Honor that in case the defendant had | national big and strong, in order to expressed it precisely when he said: we fight against those who want to implant by means of disruption a wild snirit (Moseaw) in the masses.. “We \ tho R. delegation made a Bgainst the policy conducted hitherto by the Executive Committee. It began already in the opening speech of the English delegate been elected as president of the con- &ress and who very strongly empha- As the first speaker in the discussion, ew THE a WORKER en 23s of the Amsterdam International! ing class is particularly injurious to the English workers. Further it is intolerable to them that while the Eng- lish government is negotiating with Russia for the purpose of setting up the closest connections, the West European trade unions are incited against Russia. In addition to this there is the fact that the two worst reactionaries of the English trade un- ion movement, J. H. Thomas and Frank Hodges, having been appointed as ministers in the government, they have had to give place in the trade unions for the left leaders, Purcell and Cook. This attack by the Dnglish was sup- ported by a number of important pro- fessional secretaries, The Transport Workers, the Metal Workers, Miners titude of the Executive Committee to-|and other professional internationals wards the Russian trade unions and)are compelled to recognize more formally proposed the immediate-re-|and more that effective struggles in sumption of negotiations with the Rus- | their section of industry can only be sian Central Council upon the basis {carried on by means of the most far- of the letter from Tomsky of 7th of |reaching international solidarity, and February this year. Those out and/that this is impossible without the out reformists, Grassmann (Germany) | Russian and the rest of the revolu- and Mertens (Belgium), responded in|tionary unions. They wish to admit a furious manner to the English at-}the Russians, but have been prevented tack. Grassmann quoted the official | hitherto by the Executive of the Am- statement of the Central of the C. P. |sterdam International. of Germany in the Berlin “Rote All this shows that the power of the Fahne,” in which it was said that/old guard of reformist leaders is those Trade Union bureaucrats who | breaking up and that the revolution- wished to suppress the revolutionary | ary vital needs of the proletariat are feeling and speculated upon the work- | proving stronger than all the strong- ers’ honesty by enforcing signatures | holds of counter revolution no matter to a counter revolutionary question- | how cunningly designed. aire form, are class enemies of the| The Amsterdam International has proletariat. What do the English col-|no successes for fhe working class to leagues say now, asked Grassmann |record, but only defeat after defeat. triumphantly and bellowed forth: Only | The power of sixteen million workers when the Russian Trade Unions have |is wasted by it, and what is still worse severed their connections with the /is placed at the service of the class Soviet Government and the Commun-|enemy. Where the policy of the Am- ists will they be accepted by us. But |sterdam International holds sway the the disrespectful Englishmen. clapped ; cight-hour day and other social gains their applause when the passage from |are done away with, the impoverish- the “Rote Fahne” was translated to|ment of the proletariat grows from them and caTled out to Grassmann and | day to day and capitalist reaction be- his comrades: comes ever stronger and more inso- “What have you done with Rosajlent. In Russia, on the other hand, Luxemburg?” there exists the eight-hour day, wages “What have you done with Karl/are increasing, the position of the Liebknecht?” worker is improving and capitalism Already in the sitting of the Execu-|!ies prone. All the demagogy of the tive Committee held previous to the |Grassmanns cannot get rid of these congress, it is reported that the Eng-|facts and they also have their effect lish delegates said to Sassenbach and |in the trade unions affiliated to the Grassmann, that the latter were not | Amsterdam International. representatives of the German work- One of the finest show-pieces of the ers but of the German capitalist gov-|congress was “the fight against war ernment. and militarism.” Here the old me- Already in the sitting of the Execu-|thod of the Amsterdamers — great tive Committee held previous to the | phrases “for the people”; and behind congress, it is reported that the Eng-|the scenes, abominable cowardice and lish delegates said to Sassenbach and | betrayal plotted beforehand—were to Grassmann, that the latter were not} be seen in their full splendor. With representatives of the German work-j/none of the many questions on the ers but of the German capitalist gov- | agenda could the Amsterdamers better ‘ernment. show the heroic pose of a “great strug- ” ” as with this. What is the ~-derlying reason for Ble” oH oe nO ae ag there were not even three ists, Already on the first day, che discussion of the report, sharp s made themselves appar. the question of the attitude ussian Trade Unions and to . L. U., the compact English sharp attack Purcell, who had Sized in his opening speech that this congress must lead to a new epoch and establish unity with the Russians. the English delegate Bramley very Sharply condemned the brusque at- Ab 4p LTUL Grvag varsed y, imperialism is heading with gr the conduct of the English delegates’ In the first place, as the result of speed towards a new and much great-|surpassable pathos. tarism. Never again imperialistic war! What proletarian will not enthusias- tically join in this cry? Such is the speculation of tie Amsterdamers; by this excellent means they are divert- ing the proletarians from rebellious thoughts and preventing them from realizing that they have been betrayed a hundred times in the urgent ques- tions of the eight-hour day, starvation, wages, etc. The greatest phrase-monger the Am- sterdamers have in their ranks, M. Jouhaux from France, was presented to the astonished audience at the Vi- enna Congress as a fierce dragon- killer, And this same -M. Jouhaux, who in 1914 suddenly changed from a radical syndicalist to a rabid patriot, who was the right hand of the socialist ministers of munitions, Albert Thomas and the friend of all munitions manu- facturers, who not only spurred on the French, English and American pro- letarians to greater and greater deeds for the war gods but also helped to suppress anti-war revolts of proletari- ans and mutinies of soldiers — this same Jouhaux just as at the last con- gress in Rome so also in Vienna, was put up to report upon the fight against war and militarism. He submitted tc the congress as a written report a big pamphlet, in which was preached the necessity of the fight against war by every possible means. M. Jouhaux did not propose a new motion, as he is of the opinion that the one adopted in Rome can also serve for the fu- ture, as it contains the most extreme measures the proletariat has at its disposal, the international general strike in case of an acute war dan- ger, etc. More than that can really not be demanded from the Amster- damers. The practical value of this boasting resolution of Rome was to be seen at the outbreak of the Ruhr conflict in January, 1923. Jouhaux attempted to defend the complete failure of the Am- sterdamers in this crisis by making the boldest assertions. He enumerat- ed all the beautiful decisions they had then taken, and added, apparently himself feeling that in fact they had done very little: “What could we have done to enforce results? Perhaps the gen- eral strike? It presupposes a power- ful workers’ organization and the sup- port and the good-will (!) of public opinion. We had the duty to protest and we have done it with all our forces.” Can the cowardice of the Amster- damers be expressed more clearly than in their own words formulated by Jouhaux in his written report? Well hardly. And in spite of it these sorry heroes have the face to submit to the public anew their resolution with the general strike. And Jouhaux consi- “tere? himself compelled to make a , " speech against war marked with un- We must not and openly declared in hjs innocence what all these enthusiastic Amster- dam heroes thought to themselves and what they will do when the event occurs. This English trade union lead- er, Ben Tillet by name, said: “We must fight more energetically than hi- therto against war. Till now the Com- munists were the only energetic op- ponents of war; we must not leave them this monopolist position. We must take timely preventive measures against war, for “If a war breaks out, everyone of us stands by his own country.” Here lies the crux of the question. Ben Tillet also received great ap- plause for his declaration. And who would not prefer this Ben Tiflet, in spite of his nationalist point of view a hundred times to Jouhaux and Co., who are not a bit less nationalist than he. He is less dangerous than they, because they consciously use the phrase of a general strike in order to lull the proletariat and to persuade it that it is a real fight till it awakens in a shower of grenades and finds it- self powerless in the face of a new im: perialistic people’s slaughter. We stand by our country. This was the cry of the reformists of all coun- tries in 1914; by this means they have driven millions of proletarians against each other and to death. And there is not the least doubt that they will do precisely the same in the future war. The Amsterdamers know per- fectly well that these “countries” are the imperialistic states of blood-thirsty capital, but in order that the masses do not notice this fact too soon, they talk all around about the progress of democracy, and for this reason the Tuling classes permit their states to be administered by “labor govern- ments.” As MacDonald is showing in England, as Noske, tmomas and the many others have shown before him, they provide the necessary* war arm- aments and carry out the bloody crushing of the workers as well as any capitalist government defined as such. Not'a word was uttered at the Vi- ennese Congress as to how the im- perialistic war can really and solely be met, i. e., by immediate and ruth- .|less fight against capital, against the capitalist-democratic system. The Amsterdamers do not want to hear of such things, for it would mean a revo- lutionary fight. They do not wish revo- lution, they want to have “peace” with capital; they are apostles of “peaceful” democratic development and therefore “stand by their coun- try.” Thus the declaration of Ben Tillet in Vienna has shown like a lightning flash to the whole international work- ing class that iniperialism and war have no better allies than the Am- sterdam Trade Union Federation. And it_is high time that the workers of ae Monday, June 30, 1924 ARMER-LABOR . CAMPAIGN TOBE TOLD TUESDA Members Will Hear of Tasks at Meeting A Workers party membership meeting of Local Chicago has been called for Tuesday evening, July & 8 p. m., at Imperial hall, 2409 N. Hal sted St. William Z, Foster and C. E. Ruthen- berg, spectively,’ of the Workers party, will present a review and analysis of the Farmer-Labor convention in St. Paul on June 17 and will outline the pol- icy of the party in building the Farm- At this meeting Comrades chairman and secretary, re er-Labor party and in conducting the national election campagn. In -ad- dition, a practical program of work for the party membership of Distri 8 will be laid down in connecti: with the Illinois Labor party »& Cook county Farmer-Labor campaig Success has been achieved at tl St. Paul Farmer-Labor convention; strong base for a large and milit: Labor party has been laid. Worke, party members must be wide awak: to the role of the Workers. party ir the growth and development of the Labor party. The Workers party, the backbone in the Labor party drive, has but begun its work in this field The left and militant elements tha’ now make up, for the most part, thr Farmer-Labor party, must increast their work, strengthen and broader the Farmer-Labor party by a cam paign to affiliate the trade unions an other working class organizations t the Labor party so that, as swiftly a possible, the Labor party may groy and embrace the wide mass of th: workers subscribing to independem political action. The national elections campaig: offers a splendid opportunity to di vorce thousands of workers from the capitalist parties and bring them into the stream of working class politi- and working class political parti The Farmer-Labor party has nor nated Duncan McDonald, a miner, i president of the United States, a William Bouck, a proletarian thin. ing farmer, for vice president. Thr the parliamentary campaign ‘medium among others} great headway \can be made for the}Labor party. The Workem party membership ha a big task before it, the largest y- Get thoroly } acquainted with Workers party policy and camp by making sure that YOU attenc membership | meeting, on Tur July 8, 8 p. m., at Imperial hal” N. Halsted | St. Yous y nan mom hare we wha wit © 8s |recognize © yar? all counti.. 2 WHAT MB At [AEST Merwe een ys crag sae ovens stake and say*to tu. msterdamers: |@ big job, similar td the party 1 made a mistake he would have been sent to jail, but that the police evi- dently should be permitted to make mistakes with impunity. , produce in it a sound mind. Great organizations, great bureaucratic ap- paratus and no revolutionary spirit in the masses, that is the highest ideal of five years experience, it is becoming recognized more and more among the English trade unions that the anti- Bolshevist incitement carried on by the German and French Amsterdamers is er people’s slaughter than the one we|only adopt resolutions but perform have passed thru. But as in the year,/ pacifist deeds, he thundered forth, and 1914, the broad masses will only recog-|the audience, among them M. Albert nize the danger when the first shots }Thomas, enthusiastically applauded. Police Now On Defense. all reformists. The Philadelphia men and women who arranged the picnic are deter- mined that their affairs shall hereafter be run without interference from the police and intend to push the case to the limit. Mr. Wallenstein interviewed Superintendent of Police Mills and se- cured the admission that the police at the picnic acted without any semblance of authority and that no such arrest should have been made and the picnic should never have been disturbed. He has promised a thoro investigation. Meanwhile damages to the extent of some hundreds of dollars will be asked for the breaking up of the picnic and the destruction of refreshments, liter- ature, etc. A civil suit for false arrest will also be instituted as soon as arrangements can be made. The Workers Party members now have assurance that no more meet- ings will be disturbed, and that the police will cease to play the parts of outlaws whenever they hear an attack upon some politician, even though he happens to be President of the United States. At a membership meeting, after the trial, there was more enthusiasm dis- piayed than has been in evidence /and one in Illinois, the report states. . here in many years. With the right of /Of these four, two are mombers of free spoech ostablished the work here |the Workers Party. California leads will go ahead with more vigor than) with 106 political prisoners. Wash- ever before. ington has five; Idaho 3; Pennayl- vania 3; Oklahoma 2; Kansas 1; Mli- Prevent Klan Parade. nois radeed ga 1, Local busi- , Cal, June 27.—The Ku | ess interests opposed to the I. W. W. eee ota bot hold its big parade | 2nd federal authorities seeking to here on the Fourth of July. The chiot/create “red” soares are chargrd in ‘of police rescinded the permit, on the the report with being behind these ground that the parade would “threat prosecutions. The defendants in no i en the public peace”; and between | case got a fair trial, the report de- 400,000 and 150,000 Knights of tho/clares, the offence being so “bound Knightie who had intended to demon-|up with their radical economic views strate their strength in the state will that a conviction was almost a fore- have to find some other place. Sone conmtuston,” The governors of the seven states involved have already been appealed to by the Civil Liberties Union to release the prisoners, but with the ex- ception of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl- vania, they have taken a “hostile po- And still this congress of the Am- sterdamers was not free from a rebel- |lious spirit; altho out of a hundred RELEASE RADICAL P. |sion of opinion or membership or convicted of any crime against person or property” but were imprisoned “for their opin- ion on public matters,” Two Communists Involved. All of the prisoners are members of the Industrial Workers of the World, except three in Pennsylvania leading the working class into the abyss, into the arms of reaction, and that isolation from the mussian Work- RISONERS AND REPEAL ANTI-SYNDICALISM LAWS, CAMPAIGN CRY OF CIVIL LIBERTIES NEW YORK, June 29.—A campaign for the release of 121 men locked up in the prisons of seven states “solely for expres- in a radical organization,” and efforts to repeal the laws under which they were convicted, will be started by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to a report just issued by the union on “State Political prisoners.” The 121 men are serving sentences from 1 to 28 years under criminal syndicalist and peace-time sedition laws. report charges that the prosecutions were of a political and indus- trial character, as “not one of these 121 men was charged with The union’s sition.” Gov. Pinchot, however, can- not act except on the recommenda- tion of the Board of Pardons, which has recently refused to recommend pardons for the men in Pennsylvania. California Blackest. Singling out California as the state which outdistances “ail other states compined in the number of prosecu- tions and intensity of the anti-radical drve,” the Civil Liberties Union charges that “scores of men in the prisons of California today were con- victed solely on the testimony of three Professional witnasses, paid ten dol- lars a day each by the prosecution, to testify that the I. W. W. teaohes vio- lence.” One of the three witnesses, the report alleges, confessed in court that he deserted from the naval and military forces of the United States eleven times and was once confined in a government insane asylum. This witness appeared at nine trials as an expert against the I. W. W. The other two witnesses are also charged with being self-confessed criminals. Copies of the report may be ob- tained by addressing the American Civil Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Ave- nue, New York City. Farmer-Labor Party Candidate for President WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 At WICKER PARK HALL Auspices: Farmer-Labor Party Cam- | 8 P.M. 2040 West North Avenue paign Committee—Admission Free are fired. And till then the Amster- So far everything would have been Away with you traitors and dema- gogues. There is no fatherland for us under capitalism, for us there is only fierce class-struggle and war against imperialist capital. This is jamers are able to play the role as | gone smoothly, if a less astute English j the only way which leads to a real the true fighters against war and mili- ‘delegate had not mounted the tribune | peoples’ peace. WOMAN ACTING MAYOR CLEANS SEATTLE HOLES Mayor With Donkeys Wires Retort (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., June 29.—Be- cause chief of police William Severyns did not obey her ultimatum to effect certain reforms within 24 hours, act- ing mayor Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the dean of the University of Wash- ington, has declared herself head of police with Capt. Claude Bannick her assistant. Mayor Dr. Edwin J. Brown has wired from the asses’ convention, which he is attending that “Severyn’s all right and will be put back as soon as I can get home.” Brown tried for years to get into the mayor's chair of Seattle, using his dontal ads for political purposes, He pretended to be a great friend of la- bor, but has done nothing to prove it since the people of Seattle, weary of his constant running for office, finally put him in. His widely proclaimed “socialism’ failed to become evident when he got into power and even the wobblies had to show him how to clean up thd bootleg and gambling Joints when “dehorned” the town during their lum And now n is braying with the rest in Madison \Square Garden, New earthquake of gredt violence shaking Eastern Japan, cularly in the region of Chosi Kyusha were made today by Prgf. Kakamura, noted seismologist, MEMBERSHIP MEETING WILL HEAR TASKS IN COMING F.-L. CAMPAIGH Comrades W. Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg, chairman and secreta- ry respectively, of the Workers party, will review the June 17th farmer-labor convention and outline the work of the Workers party in the further development of the Ia- bor party and the national elections campaign before a membership meeting of local Chicago on Tues- day evening, July 8, 1924, at 8 p. m. at the Imperial hall, 2409 N. Hal- sted St. Members of the Workers party and Young Workers league are expected to attend in force. Ad- mission will be by card only. Chicago and New York Bus Companies Merge; Will Run Scab Shop John Hertz, multi-millionaire head of the scab Yellow Taxi companies of New York, Chicago and half a dozen other cities, has announced the merger of the Chicago and New York Motor Bus companies into a $25,000,000 con- cern, His announcement said that as soon as the new organization was completed it would begin expansion which means that the scab organiza- tion will try and compete with the unionized street car, elevated, and subway systems of New York and Chicago. The new organization is already talking of getting hold of the bus lines of St. Louis and other cities, Hertz is also head of the Yellow Cab manufacturing company which manu- factures the cabs for the Yellow con- cerns and the busses for many bus companies. Union officials of the street carmen’s Russian Timber Exports Increase Rapidly This Year CHITA, June 29.—4,000,000 cubic feet of wood were exported from the Maritime Area during the last year by the “Dollesa” (Far Eastern Timber Board) and about 1,000,000 cubic feet were exported by private persons during the same period. 75 per cent of the export went to Japan, and the rest to China. Most of the exports were raw material, only about 15 per cent being worked timber, the timber exported by private persons was all raw material. This year, however, the exports are increasing immensely: 20,000,000 cu- bic feet were ready for export by May 1, One-third of it has been prepared on the strength of contracts, while the other two-thirds will be released on the markets. Japan will get 65 per cent of this amount, China—25 per cent and the remaining 10 per cent will go to England and Africa. The quantity of wood to be exported by private persons has increased from one to four million cubic feet. The proportion of manufactured wood has also grown dnd is double of last year’s namely 30 per cent of all “Dolloss” materials. “Boycott America” TOKYO, June 29.—An anti-Ameri- can society former here to protest United States exclusion provisions is selling ‘Boycott America” metal but- tons. PITTSBURG, GRAND Given by RUSSIAN AN GOOD ATTENTION! bers, in the Labor party campa. are also expected to be present. mission to party and Y. W. L. me bers will be by card only. Useless In Useless Line. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, June 28. —The King and Queen of Spain ar to be invited to attend the interna tional pilgrimage of royalty and bis business to the Carmel mission ne Montrey, the site of the first Cath. mission in California. Extradition Treaty Signed. SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 29.—r~ dition conventions between Br and the United States hav’ signed. ‘GANNON WILL TEACH SPEAKERS CLASS BEGIN ON JULY The speakers’ class of local v... cago to for publi speaking for mass meetings, | tures, “soap-boxing”, etc., will, Monday evening, July 14, at © at the Workers’ Lyceum, Hirsch Blvd, second floor der the direction of Comrade Jar. P. Cannon, associate executive retary of the Workers part who are to parti rs’ class, necessa ited, have already been no Comrade Arne Swabeck his class on “Trade Union ¢ and Tactics” last night. T! class will be held on Thursda 3, 8 p. m., at 1902 W. Divisio. PITTSBURGH, PA. RAS Rendering E ‘Serv tebe METEEER, ite eos 1 PIC D LITHUANIAN OF W. P. OF A, at ELWYAN PA Friday, July 4th at 10 A. M. MUSIC Admission: Gentlemen 50c, Ladies 3. INS: Take Washington and Charleroi cars at Elwyn Station. All are invited.