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mission. of the United States. who will discuss the question of made by the National Popular’ Government League, here. The league has for the past three years been engaged in trying to save super-power for the people. It finds that Secretary of War Weeks is honorary chairman of the American committee, and Merrill is its general chairman, under specific approval from the-federal commission. Nine federal bureaus have sent repre- sentatives to the conference. Herbert Hoover contributes a paper, and former President Hadley of Yale, who was one of the directors of the New Haven Railroad while Morgan & Co. were looting its properties, is its most prominent apologist. One “Labor” Voice But that is not all. Among the honorary vice-chairmen and members of the executive committee, who run the conference and determine all of its announcements to the world, are Owen D. Young, chairman of the ;board of directors of the General Electric Co.; Sidney Z. Mitchell, president of the Electric Bond & Share Co.; Samuel Insull, president of the Chicago Commonwealth Edison Co.; Gen. Guy E, Tripp, chairman of KUZBAS (Russian State Industry at Keme- rovo, Siberia, operating coal mines with a production of 16,000 tons monthly; the, largest chemical plant in Siberia, now producing coke, ben- zol, tar, ammonia, etc.; a 33,000-acre farm, with, nine tractors; électrical stations, machine and woodworking shops, etc., etc. , Wants at itie the following workers for Russia Thirty pick miners Three hoisting engineers One electric battery lamp at- tendant One master mechanic with general mine repair know- ledge Two first class mechanics for general repair work One first class boilermaker Two first class pipefitters One first class mechanical clerk knowing Russian and English Two American linesmen with ¥ high tension experience Two electricians used to in- stalling electrical machin- ery in mine and factory Two first class plasterers, Russian speaking Two first class bricklayers, Russian speaking One woodworking machinery operator who can take care f of machines and sharpen own knives Etc., etc., etc. Other workers not mentioned above should make application and submit the same to the Kuzbas Office for ap- Proval in Russia, Nication forms sent on juest. jh worker must have for rtation. 4 Sai ach month, First on \ $ RUZBAS is the best place in Rus- sia ae workers with American ex- | rie to do the best work for 1" KUZBAS Room 402, 799 Broadway, New York, N, Y. Py 4 i §. ELECTRIC TRUST SHUTS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OUT OF BIG ' WORLD POWER MEET’S PROGRAM By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 30.—Worldwide propaganda against public ownership, development and distribution of hydro-electric power is the purpose of the World Power Conference, beginning dune 30 in London, to which Secretaries Work, Weeks and Wal- lace, constituting the Federal Power Commission, have lent the. ingenious services of O. C. Merrill, executive secretary of the com- Two hundred American engineers, managers and other ex- perts have sailed for England to attend the sessions, but so clever- ly has Merrill worked the arrangements, in sympathy with the wishes of his superiors, that not one word favorable to public ownership will be heard, on the formal program, from any citizen On the other hand, the case for private ownership will be elaborately set forth. Of the eight Americans ownership and regulation, every one is an enemy of public ownership. Twelve hundred municipally-owned electric plants in this country will be without a spokesman. vance of Merrill, who draws his $5,000 a year as executive officer for the law which was enacted to protect the hydro-electric re- sources of the nation against private greed. Power Trust En Masse. The astounding facts of this plot are disclosed in a study of the program and prepared speeches for the London conference, EEO SPE LER ESSERE SAAS RR REET And this under the contri- the board, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co,; H. I. Harriman, president, New England Power Co.; David P. Rushmore, General. Electric Co; H. M. Addinsell, member of Harris, Forbes & Co., power con- tractors. On the general committee are such men as M. H. Aylesworth, executive manager, National Electric Light As- sociation; H. G. Bradlee, senior vice- president, Stone & Webster, Inc.; Geo. H. Harries, vice-president, H. M. Byllesby & Co.; John D. Ryan, chair- man of board, Anaconda Copper Co., etc. Every big hydro-electric concern in America is represented by one or more of its officials. Not one munici- pality, or economic, sociological or political science association is repre- sented. Jas. P. Noonan, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is the only labor spokesman who will get a chance to say anything for America. Ontario Hydro Not On Program One of the sinister signs of the deal is that Sir Adam Beck, founder and head of the Ontario Hydro Com- mission, operating the greatest power business in the world, is not on the program. Ontario Hydro is the world’s most successful demonstra- tion in public ownership of power. Dr. Hadley, in his address, will say —in serene indifference to the scan- dal of private management of the New Haven Railroad—‘“From a prac- tical side, the history of state rail- road management creates a strong PRETTY SOFT FOR OIL KINGS WITH DAUGHERTY MAN THEIR PROSECUTOR By the Federated Press. WASHINGTON, June 30.—Atty.- Gen. Stone, bringing suit in the fed- eral court in Chicago against Stand- ard Oil of Indiana and 49 other com- panies, on the charge of violati6n of the anti-trust law by conspiracy to keep the price of gasoline at an ar- tificially high level, says he will press the litigation to a quick deci- sion. One of the chief assistants in these suits is A. T. Seymour, who was one of Harry Daugherty’s chief aids during the period when Daugh- erty was preventing the enforce- ment of the anti-trust law. presumption against encouraging gov- ernment management of electric plants.” Herbert Hoover will say: “It is the business of government to provide an open road for the exercise of the individual initiative of its citizens, not to substitute its own activities for that initiative—to regulate afd control, not to manage or operate.” All Big Bosses Julius Barnes, head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, will warn against “nationalistic monopoly,” while Guy E. Tripp, Fred R. Low, Carl D. Jackson, John W. Lieb and A. H. Markwart, the remaining Ameri- cans to discuss this issue, will plead against public ownership on various pretexts. Low is editor of a trade journal; Jackson is counsel for the National Electric Light Assn.; Lieb is vice-president of the New York Edison Co., and Markwart is vice- president of the Pacific Gas & Elec- tric Co, The National Popular Government League raises the question as to how long Merrill will have to wait before getting a job with the power people at $25,000 or so. “It fails to note that Owen D. Young, prominent in this deal, is the man who asked the Demo- cratic convention to adopt a “contin- uous policy” foreign relations plank in its platform. He is an associate of “Hell’n Maria” Dawes in the attempt of American bankers to get control of European industry. Whisky Secretary Will Vacation in Wet Old London (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 30.—Secretary Mellon is going to Europe. He will reach London in time to see Ambas- sador Kellogg enter the conference of the premiers on the German repara- tions plan, and in time to advise the world-wide conference on hydro-elec- tric power, which has been staged by the opponents of public ownership of power. But he goes abroad only for a rest, chiefly in quiet London. fHE DAILY WORKER “DOWN WITH MUSSOLINI,” CRY ITALIANS Grafter aa Murderer Bitterly Denounced NEW YORK, June 30.—Demanding the resignation of the Italian ambas- sador to the United States, 3,000 Italians in a New York mass megting at Carnegie hall cheered speakers who shouted “Down with Mussolini.” The meeting was held to protest the murder of the socialist deputy, Met- teotti, by fascist agents and high of- ficials in the Mussolini government. Fascists in the audience were unsuc- cessful in their attempt to break up the meeting, and after a fight were put out by the police. Arturo Giovanniti, secretary of the Anti-Fascist Alliance of North Amer- ica, said he had positive proof that Mussolini was “accessory before and after the fact of the deputy’s slay- ing.” He urged “a state of war be- tween the workers of the United States and the government of fas- cismo in Italy.” The letter to President Coolidge de- manded Ambassador Caetani’s resig- nation on the ground that he is an avowed fascist. Crying “Down with capitalism, down with fascism, down with Mussolini,” the audience ap- proved the letter. It reads in part: We submit that no member of such an organization is a fit person to reside in the United States, and that a nation governed by such a body does not deserve recognition as a sister nation to the civilized states of the world. The spirit of Musso- lini has poisoned all Italy. It gains strength thru American recognition.” The long record of violence by ¢he fascist dictatorship against labor unions was described by speakers who charged that Mussolini has sent men and money to this country to gain control of the Italian-American population and destroy the unions here. The connection between Mus- solini and his friend, Judge Gary, was pointed out. Scandals in the fascist government, “which make Teapot Dome look sick,” were described. Juliet Stuart Poyntz, for the Work- ers party, pointed out the hypocrisy of the United States government, which recognizes the white dictator- ship murders ruling Italy, but refuses to recognize peaceful Russia. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Next C. C. C. meeting of Local Chi- cago, Workers party, on Tuesday, July 1, 8 p. m., at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsh Blvd. Delegates, be pres- ent on time!—Martin Abern, City Sec- retary. Page Three (Continued from page 1.) nouncing, the attempt of the forty or so railway labor officials to interfere with his prerogative and privilege to be the sole political “spokesman” for the workingmen. In his sharp re- joinder to the political bootleggers of the railway unions who were, in his opinion, illegitimately trafficing with the labor vote, Gompers emphasized the fact that according to the old non-partisan policy the workers are to have no candidate of their own, are to indorse one only after he is nominated by one of the two big par- ties, and that then all wage-earners must go along with the candidate whom the majority of the labor bu- reaucracy indorses, no matter who he may be. Tammany Agent Bitterly Frank. But the group of labor fakers who have for years been the tail to the Tammany kite and have for a long time been delivering the trade union vote to the democratic ward heelers of New York were even more infuri- ated at the McAdoo propaganda by the railway union officials, These la- bor lieutenants of the democratic party capitalists saw in the McAdoo manifesto a blow struck at their own man, Al Smith. Forthwith, President James P. Hol- land of the New York State Federa- tion of Labor which has indorsed the Tammany candidate came out with a vicious blast which wrecked the whole machinery of organized labor faker- dom that has been running hefe so smoothly for the last week. Mr. Holland declared that “the ul- timatum” of the railway leaders did not speak for all the workingmen and that it “will not deprive Gov- ernor Smith of a single labor vote in the convention.” All in all, there are a maximum of fifty trade union card holders in the delegation of 1,098 and several hundred alternates, The Tammany lackey then went on to fume about the McAdoo statement: “In issuing it, Mr. McAdoo’s friends violate the rules of the labor move- ment exactly as they violate the rules of politics by threatening to bolt af- ter their candidate is defeated. They violate the rules of the labor move- ment by indorsing in advance of ac- tion by the American Federation of Labor a candidate who is opposed to the federation on one essential action and jwhose position is’ doubtful on another.” Mr. Holland was referring to Mc- Adoo’s friendship to the Ku Klux Klan which was repudiated by the Portland Convention and to the Re public Iron and Steel company’s law- yer being a bone dry, while the feder- ation is officially inclined towards lim- ited wetness. “Berry Pickers” in Panic. This feud between the firms of com- petitive labor vote sellers has had a depressing etfect on the campaign for the vice-presidency waged by strike- breaker Major Berry. The supporters WET GOMPERS FIGHTS FOR AL of the latter have orgatlized them- selves into a group known as the “Berry Pickers” with gorgeous head- quarters in the Waldorf Astoria. The “Berry Pickers” who are spend- ing much money in their attempt to put over the man who broke the last pressmen’s strike in New York City would rather keep out of influencing the choice of a presidential nominee. They feel that that Would be asking too much from the democrats. Hence they are rather disturbed at the ag- gressive steps being taken by the Mc- Adoo gang. But they dare not chal- lenge the railway union officials be eause they are afraid of losing some of their support for Berry. Last night the Berry managers suc: ceeded in preventing an airing of the McAdoo-Smith controversy at a meet- ing called by them in behalf of their man. The sessions for Berry were held at the Aberdeen Hotel and were attended by nearly ¢wo hundred la. bor officials. Hughe Frayne of the New York State Federation of Labor presided. It last from eight till mid- night. At the Berry headquarters the writ- er was told that all was running smoothly and that the outlook for his vice-presidency was good. But one could easily discern a feeling of dis- satisfaction on the part of his right- hand men. Berry said: “My candi- dacy is predicated sotely upon the desire to be helpful to the democratic party, and whatever contribution I am | able to make to it is based upon the fact that I believe the party to be |<o the progressive, liberal forward-look- ing party of America.” When your correspondent asked what single act on the part of the democratic party this policy of Berry was supported by, there was no one who could or would attempt to reply. From this pointed query the “Berry Pickers” turned to painting their chances rosy and avoiding the whole dispute. Cleveland Replies. The big bosses of the Cleveland Conference for Progressive Political Action are chafing under the préefent condition. They are beginning to feel tired of being made a football in the rough game now being played between the Tammany and McAdoo factions. D. B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, has already come back with a strong protest. He has just issued a statement in which he said: “The Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Firemen and Enginemen has no official representative at the democrat- ic convention and no one there is au- thorized to express the Brotherhood’s views.” Robertson further declared that not a single one of the six signers of the McAdoo manifesto was on the nation- al committee of the Cleveland Con- ference, that the July 4th gathering would be an open affair, and that La Follette would run regardless of what the democratic convention would de- cide or do. Going to the Harvest? Then Join the I. W. W. Statement by the Red International Affiliation Committee. se The great wheat harvest is on thru- out the Mississippi valley. From Oklahoma to the Canadian line and beyond, the grain is ripening which will furnish bread to America and much of Europe. The Red Inter- national of Labor Unions is interested in the workers who gather this great harvest. The migratory and jobless workers who, from all trades and all localities rush into the wheat belt every sum- mer are the most shamefully mis- treated and oppressed part of the working class. Hoping to save a few dollars to sustain them over unem- ployment, lying advertisements trick them into overcrowding the district, thus, in absence of effective! organiza- tion, depreciating wages and lengthen- ing hours. Hired by the Slaves of Bankers When these workers get off the train at any town in the harvest dis- trict they see a big blackboard with some outrageously low wage marked on it as the “Going Wage.” That board and the wage marked on it are put there by the small town reaction- aries of the Chamber of Commerce— not by the farmers. The bankers are the real bosses, the bankers hold mortgages on most of the farms. It is the bankers and their clique in the Chambers of Commerce who set this “Going Wage”—and they will loan money to the farmer only upon his agreeing to pay the workers he hires no more than the banker wants them to get. The farmers are the aves of the bankers. The workers are hired by the farmers, the slave of the banker, who supervises the farmers’ expenses for wages paid. The Wm. Z. FOSTER | ALEX. HOWAT JOSEPH "MANLEY banker is the real boss—the place to jstrike is at the blackboard, against the Chamber of Commerce gang. But when workers refuse such low wages, offered by the “free employment agen- cies” of the Chambers of Commerce, they are brutally attacked by govern- ment authority, city, state and federal. In such attacks the Fascist gangs like the American Legion and the Ku Klux Klan aid in beating and jailing the workers on any pretext or upon none, The R. I. L. U. will not cease its efforts to abolish such conditions. Only one organization has tried to unite the harvest workers against their exploiters. That organization is the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (A. W. I. U.) No, 110, of. the I. W. For ten years it has tried each summer to organize the harvest work- ers. This summer, as before, del- egates will canvas the workers on the freight trains en route to the harvest, will mingle with them everywhere, urging organization and issuing union cards. The Red International of La- bor Unions unqualifiedly endorses this struggle of the A, W. I. U. to organize the agricultural proletariat. Out of Work? Make the Harvest! Among the thousands who will ride the freight trains, gather in thé jun- gles and sweat in the fields this sum- mer, are hundreds of Communists or Communist sympathizers, all support- ers of the Red International of Labor Unions. Many unemployed members of the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League will make the harvest this summer, Among the larger but backward mass, these revolutionary workers have a duty to perform. Tirelessly, the members of the Workers Party and sympathizers, sup- porters of the Red International, must support the Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union of the I. W. W. They. must join the A. W. I. U. if possible before reaching the harvest and spread its special propaganda for harvest workers. They must help the delegates to organize, actively giv- ing militant assistance and leading the fight against the timidity and in- difference of the masses. When eligible they themselves should become dele- gates. The initiation fee is $2.00 and the dues 50 cents per month. Join thru any delegate of the I. W. W. or at the following halls: 601 West Madison St., Chicago; 515 North 16th St., Omaha; 115 Nicollet Ave., Min- neapolis; 202 Front St., Fargo, North Dakota. The Red International Demands. The bankers and business elements in the Chambers of Commerce are the most reactionary group in the harvest district. It is they and not the farm- ers ordinarily who incite and assist the persecution of migratory workers by authorities. By vicious attacks and imprisonment of I. W. W. organi- zers they hope to wipe out all organi- zation and rule the harvest workers completely, making them accept any wage they put on the black board. Since it is these bankers who actual- ly own the farms thru control of every dollar the farmers get in or pay out, since it is the banker who sets the wages and takes the profit, it is upon these bankers and Chambers of Commerce that demands should be made. The A. W. I. U. of the I. W. W. has, however, neglected to set general and standard demands for enforcement in the harvest. Faced with a difficulty in standardizing because it looked ex- clusively at the farmer and not at the real boss—the bankers—it abandoned Cleveland, Ohio, Notice! ULY 4th PICNI FRIDAY, JULY FOURTH yea tine standards, yielding too much and too easily to variation in production, with- out seeing the financial control cen- tralized behind the farmer. But the agricultural proletariat cannot sacri- fice its interests to the interests of the country bankers and the petty bourgeoisie. A union without definite demands upon the employers as a class is not fighting the struggle for the workers. Instead of concentrat- ing all forces against the Chambers of Commerce and their blackboards and “going wages” it uses the speci- ous plea of “striking om the job,” makes local demands that are not en- forced. No effort is made to enlist the great mass of non-members for militant mass struggle against the point of control of agricultural wages —the bankers and business parasites of the country towns. But the I. W. W. must offer returns for dues and support. Everywhere, Communists and supporters of the Red International must raise their voices among the harvest workers, demanding that the I. W. W. fight, in the towns, around the blackboards, against the Chamber of Commerce gang and the banker bosses of the district—for the following demands: 1. This year, not less than $5 per day. 2, Not more than eight hours per day, and double time for over- time. 3 No work on Sunday. 4, Transportation on passenger trains at the expense of the state. 5. No ar- rests of unemployed workers, no per- secution of I. W. W. delegates by either city, state or federal authority. No illegal violence by Legion, Cham- bers of Commerce or Klan. 6, Aboli- tion of the imfamous wage-reducing agencies disguised as “employment offices”—all hiring to be done thru the union or its delegates. 7. Release of all class war prisoners and repeal of “criminal syndicalist” and other op- pressive laws. Assert Yourselves! Communists and supporters of the Red International of Labor Unions must raise their voices for the above demands in every group of workers going, to or gathering in the harvest. These are the demands of the Red International of Labor Unions for the improvement of conditions for the ag- ricultural workers. But these de- mands should become the demands of the Agricultural Workers Industrial Union of the I. W. W., which cannot expect to keep the members it organ- izes unless it offers more benefits than the right to ride freight trains undisturbed Communists and Red International- ists must not only build the Agricul- tural Workers Industrial Union of the I. W. W., but must inspire and direct it in the struggle. Assert yourselves everywhere as Communists, as Red Internationalists. Speak up! Lead the struggle! But besides the above demands, Communists and Red Internationalists must combat the non-revolutionary propaganda of the anarchist element, must demand an end of censorship in the I. W. W. press against members who are Communists and supporters of the Red International of Labor Unions, must uphold the proletarian dictatorship, the soviet government, and continuously advocate the affilia- tion of the I. W. W. to the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. All harvest workers must fight for improved con- ditions, for working class unity and working class rule, The Red International Affiliation Committee, 1514 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill. at RUSSICK’S FARM Take W. 25th St. thru car to end of line, o./ Started by |, W. W. MEMBERS AND COMMUNISTS CROWD PRISONS Workers Must Unite to Open Jail Doors NEW YORK, June 80.—There are 121 men in the prisons of seven states solely for expression of opinion or membership in a radical organiza- tion.” Efforts to repeal the laws un- der which they were convicted and to the prisoners have been the American Civil Liber- release ties Union. The union’s report on “State Politi- cal Prisoners” charges that the pro- secutions were of a political and in- jdustrial character, as “not one of these 121 men was charged with or jconvicted of any crime against person or property” but were imprisoned “for their opinion on public matters.” All of the prisoners are members jof the Industrial Workers of the | World, except 3 in Pennsylvania and j1 in Illinois. Of these four, two are |members of the Workers Party and, two of the Union of Russian Workers. California leads with 105 political prisoners. Washington has 5; Idaho 8; Pennsylvania 2; Oklahoma 2; Kan- sas 1; Illinois 1 and Arkansas. The defendants in no case got a fair trial, the report declares, the offence being “bound up with their radical eco- jnomic views that a conviction was al- jmost a foregone conclusion.” The governors of the 7 states in- |volved have already been appealed to |by the Civil Liberties Union to re- lease the prigoners, but with the ex- jception of Governor Pinchot of Penn- sylvania, they have taken a “hostile position.” Governor Pinchot, how- ever, cannot act except on the recom- mendation of the Board of Pardons, which has recently refused to recom- mend pardons for the men in Penn- sylvania. Two governors are praised in the report for their stand on State Political prisoners. One is. Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, who released James Larkin, Irish labor jleader, and 4 others convicted under the New York anti-anarchy act; the jother is Governor Len Small of Illi- nois, who released William Bross Lloyd and .6 communist associates convicted under the Illinois anti-sedi- tion act. Do You Know? why Bishop We iv. Bi little booklet “COMMUNISM and CHRISTIANISM” was tried before a court of 8 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Cleve- land, Ohio, recently? Does it not seem curious Why a little booklet should excite such an 2asy-going and well protected bunch of bishops and the institutions they represent, to bring it before a so- called church court and find it guil- ty? Guilty of what? Is it not funny that the 8 bishops, sitting as trial judges should refuse to answer some 400 or more ques- tions put to th:m by the author of the book? Don’t you think all that is worth 20 cents, the price of the book? Send us $1.00 by mail and we will forward to you 10 copies of this world famous booklet by parcel post, Sell them to your friends and others for 25 cents apiece. Literature Department, Workers Party of America, 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, CHICAGO, ILL. 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