The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1924, Page 1

@ | a ba | Hear DUNCAN McDONALD, Farmer-Labor Presidential Candidate, WICKER PARK HALL, Tonight THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND oe GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 90. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ORGAN TO GIVE DAVIS TRYOUT THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2,1924 <x Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. Published Daily except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING .CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amaigamation 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 \,U. S. Marines Slaughtered 3,000 in Haiti DUNCAN McDONALD Candidate for President of the Farmer-Labor Party who will open campaign in Big Mass Meeting tonight at Wicker Park Hall. STORY OF LONDON UNOFFICIAL RAIL STRIKE AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST YELLOW LABOR FAKERS inion By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, (By Mail.)—The unofficial strike of railway shopmen commenced. The effects in London were immediately noted thru the closing down of about forty of the stations on the city’s complicated and immense underground railroad system. In various other centers, such as Cardiff and Birmingham, the shopmen also struck. These-withdrawals of labor, however, af- fected only the Great Western Railway, and the amalgamated London electrical lines. Tho strike was a result of the long period of waiting which the railway shopmen, most of whom are organized in the National Union of Raiiwaymen, had been thru, in the hope that the executive of their union would initiate a national move, in order. to remedy the lot of the shopmen. For two years, the leaders of the unofilicial movement state, this question has been talked about; but nothing has been done. It is because of this dilatory attitude, on the part of the union leaders, that the unofficial strike was started. The moverent began really at a rank and file conference of railway shopmen in Bristol, where the demands were drawn up. These demands included a ten shilling advance in wages, with a minimum of three pounds weekly; consolidation of the exist- } {28 Special weekly war bonus of sixteen shillings and sixpence; in ne Week's holiday annually with pay; the guaranteed day and week. After the Bristol conference, which took place in May, these demands were presented to the railway companies who refused to negotiate with the workers, on the claim that the mat- FT _ ter did not come-within the na- tional agreements between the employers and the union. The unofficial strike commit- tee, composed of representatives of various grades of the shop- men, and of various localities, secured quarters in the London Labor College and proceeded to lay plans for the strike. In the meantime the executive com- mittee of the National Union of Rai!- waymen was bestirring itself at last not to secure the men’s demands, however, which it had delayed doing for a couple of years, but to wreck the unofficial strike which the men had launched after long and fruitless waiting for their officials to act. (Continued on Page 5.) WAR ON COLOR BARRIER ISSUE AT NEGRO MEET Communists Lead Fight, | with G. 0. P. Blocking (Special to "The Daily Werker) PHILADELPHIA, July 1.—If the official actions of the annual conference of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, now nearing its close here, are in accord with the practically unanimous senti- ment expressed by speakers and delegates, the proposals for un- qualified, full social, political, civic and economic rights for Negroes, will go thru with a bang. Practically the same proposals which were made to the Negro Sanhedrin conference last Feb- ruary in Chicago by the Workers Party delegation and sympathiz- ing elements and which went down to defeat before the on- slaught of the combine of fed- eral office holders, real estate speculators who profit by segre- gation of ‘their own ‘race, and proprietors of employment agencies, have been brought be- fore this conference by Robert Minor, of the Workers Party, who is seated as a delegate. To Let To First Comer. These measures include a deeply radical proposal for taking the matter of segregation entirely out of the hands of private real estate specula- tors, requiring the public posting of all residences for rent, with rental fixed, and establishing by_ law the right of “the first comer,” be he Negro or white, to rent any residence in any part of the city, independently of the will of any landlord. Needless to say, there is hardly any doubt that strong, if silent, opposition to so drastic a proposal will be found among the con- servative republican element repre- senting property interests. Another resolution proposed by the Communist delegate would cut the Gordian knot of school segregation by federal law taking the entire school system under national jurisdic- tion and prohibiting any segregation or distinction of color in schools. Color Line In Schools. The principle of abolition of segre- gation in schools has been endorsed 100 per cent by every speaker who touched the subject. The objection of some timid elements of Negro teach- ers, some of whom desire segregat- ed schools thru fear that no Negroes can obtain teaching jobs except in Jim Crow schools, has been routed by a fiery speech of the Negro preacher, Dr. William Lloyd Imes of Philadel- phia, who insists that the conference take stand for the right of any Negro teacher to teach in any school, regardless of color of pupils or of teacher,” There is little doubt that “(Continued on page 2.) WORKERS 10 GELEBRATE “FOURTH OF JULY WITH BOOST TO FARM-LABOR Don’t forget the great workers’ Fourth of July. picnics! Here are a few of the biggest ones scheduled: Chicago: at Stickney Grove, Lyons, Illinois. dames Cannon, peaker. Take 22nd street car to” end of line; change to Berwyn- Lyons car and get off at Harlem ave. Cleveland: at Russick’s Farm. Howat, Foster, Manley, !speakers. Pittsburgh: Russian-Lithuanian picnic at Elewyn Park. Philadelphia: Young Workers League Picnic. FARMER-LABOR CANDIDATE WILL SPEAK TONIGHT Will Flay Elephant and Jackass Parties Duncan Me! id, Farmer- Labor candidate President, will open his campaign in Chica- go, tonight at 8 o'clock, in Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue, speaking on the subject of “The Farmer-Labor Party and the Oil Parties.” McDonald was unanimously nominated for President by the Farmer-Labor Party organiza- tions, taking part in the recent convention at St. Paul, Minn. He is well-known to the labor move- ment of this state, having been pre- sident of the Illinois Federation of Labor, and for many years head of the Illinois District of the United Mine Workers of America. He is 54 years old and has been a coal miner during the greater part of his life. Following the Chicago meeting, Mc- Donald will begin a campaign tour taking him over the greater part of the United States. McDonald is one of the best plat- form speakers in the labor movement and swings a wicked tongue on the enemies of the working class. His excoriation of Samuel Gompers at a convention of the United Mine Work- ers of America is considered a classic. Active in the Socialist Party for a number of years, McDonald unlike other leaders in the movement has given wholehearted support to the Farmer-Labor united front political campaign that resulted in the recent successful convention at St. Paul. McDonald who lives in Springfield, Illinois, was given a cordial greeting by supporters of the Farmer-Labor party movement after his arrival from St. Paul where he was nominat- ed for the presidency on the Farmer- Labor Party ticket. OFFICIAL REPORT OF 13TH CONGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY We publish today the deliberations of the concluding sessions of 'the Russian Communist Party, continued from our issue of June 25. The DAILY WORKER readers have an opportunity to read an authentic and first hand report of the movement in the Workers’ Republic in their own paper and are not obliged to depend on the fanciful and garbled versions concocted and perverted by the paid liars of capitalism and the yellow socialists, who are clean mad because the Russian revolution succeeded, thus spoiling their pet predictions. A Fourth Day of Congress (Continued). Speech of Comrade Kuybyshev. The Central Commission has sup- ported the Central Committee in the struggle for party unity and for the maintenance of a strict Bolshevist line of policy. The Lenin recruitment offered us the possibility of a large- scale work for the improvement of the state economic apparatus, The Provincial Control Commissions con- Russia is making news and making history. ————————— sist up to 75 per cent of workers. The task of the congress is to enlarge the commission by nominating work- ers to it. Speech of Comrade Bucharin. The world economic position re- veals three fundamental new pheno- mena: first the end of the boom per- fod in America; secondly an improve- ment, a certain stabilization of the (Continued on page 4) * * ISLANDER TELLS LEAGUE HOWLS. BOMBED WOMEN Fear of U. S. Prevents Sympathy Resolution (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LYONS, France, July 1.— United States marines killed more than 3,000 peaceful Haiti- ans, often by bombs dropped from airplanes upon villages where women and_ children perished, Dantes Bellegarde, for- mer minister of public instruc- tion charged in winning a bitter fight to bring before the Inter- national Federation of League of Nations Sogieties the question of American military occupation of Haiti. A preliminary fight on whether the subject should be introduced took place before the federa- tion’s political commission, with delegates from 30 nations pres- ent. Delegates Fear Discussion. Many delegates feared discussion of Haiti’s appeal yuight increase. has- tility from certain quarters towards the league, and they endeavored to quash the resolution offered by Belle- garde, expressing the Federation’s sympathy with Haiti. Bellegarde won to the extent that the commission was held competent to discuss his resolution, but the pro- posal itself was defeated. Deny Education Funds. As minister of public instruction, he said, he had been unable to obtain an order from the American financial agent in Haiti for educational funds. He said the gravest commercial crisis hafl been precipitated. United States marines were even conscript- ing peaceful citizens, forcing them under pretext of a road tax to con- struct strategic roads to all parts of the islands, killing over 3,000 of those who revolted against forced labor. ae 8 | Unionist Witnesses Tyranny of Marines in Enslaved Haiti WASHINGTON, July_1—A repre- sentative of the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor, stopping off in Port-au- Prince, Haiti, for a few hours, en route to Central America, saw an American marine dragging two boys to jail. He inquired as to their crime, | and found they were “suspected” of Petty theft, but that they would be given 18 months at hard labor, any- how. The labor man spent the hours until his ship sailed, dm»trying to se- cure the boys’ release, but failed. HOW SAMMY GOMPERS | WOULD YELL AGAINST THESE BEER STRIKERS BERLIN, July 1—Berlin has been in deep distress over the strike of 6000 brewery workers who don’t see why the brewers should be do- ing land office business while the men who produce the beer are paid low wages. The brewery workers went on strike shortly before the holidays, during which time Berlin is filled with thirsty strangers and people generally are inclined to sip more beer. The result was a beer shortage in most of the smaller saloons, while the larg: blishments had to go to the expense of ordering whole carloads from other beer towns, such as Nuremberg, Munich and Dortmund. . The strike develops that four car- loads of beer are consumed in Ber- lin per hour during the summer season. Sixteen breweries are involved. The brewery worke demand a weekly wage of 45 marks ($10,70.) MACDONALD AS BRAVE IN DEFEAT AS IN MOMENT OF VICTORY LONDON, July 1.—Defeats mean nothing in the young life of the British Labor Party government. It went down for the seventh time last night in the house of commons, but walked out smiling, determined to hold on to the King’s govern- ment as long as possible. The defeat was administered on the \government’s entertainment tax proposal, and a majority of 55 went into the opposition lobby. Formerly government defeats were taken rather seriously, but since McDonald came into office, they no longer create any excitement. AMALGAMATED BEATS CLOTHING BOSSES’ UNION Strike Now Centers Against Independents By BEN GITLOW. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 1.—Thirty- five percent of the 40,000 Amal- gamated Clothing strikers will return to work tomorrow morn- ing in settled shops, following the surrender of the New York Clothing Manufacturers’ Ex- change. Full union recognition was won on terms which will be used as a basis for future settfe- ments. The settlement followed a day of inspiring mass picketing. Thousands of workers turned out at five in the morning to picket the struck shops. Numer- ous arrests failed to discourage the strikers one whit. All the discouragement was in the ranks of the bosses. Most of the arrested pickets were promptly discharged. Will Beat Rest in Line. The struggle of the Amalgamated will now continue with increased energy against the bosses outside of | the Exchange and the union is con- fident that one hundred percent union control will be won. Settlement of the Exchange shops was authorized by strikers at num- erous meetings where the basis for the agreement was read. Strikers ac- cepted the basis for the new agree- ment, details of which will be worked out later. The terms include: 1. by members of the Exchange and their contractors; 2. Maintenance of present wage scale, a minimum wage scale to be union and employers 30 days after signing agreement. 8. The minimum scale to be worked out is to be commensurate with and dependent upon produc- | tion with the understanding that production costs shall not be in- creased; 4. An/unemployment fund for un- employment insurance is to be established after December 1st, to be made up of three per cent weekly payment on wages paid workers, half to be paid by em- ployer and half by workers; 5. Steps are to be taken to im- mediately set up arbitration ma- chinery; 6. Agreement year. is to last one Will Finance Fight Financial support from the 12 to 18 thousand strikers who will return to the workshop will be of great aid in financing the battle against the bosses who are still holding out. Union members see more complete unionization of the city than the Amalgamated has ever had. Non- + | Street, Full recognition of the union | BIG. BUSINESS CRACKS WHIP ON JACKASS MEET ‘Smith Brays to Wilds of Wall Street (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 1.—Wall which has been con- spicuously in the background since the democratic convention opened its hysterical sessions in the great circus auditorium of Madison Square Garden, today decided to call a halt on the horseplay indulged in by one of its legal arms and get down to business, or at least show an in- dication of approaching normal- cy. EMohdons not able to crawl out of the oil puddle, is sinking rapidly. Rats are known to desert a sinking ship. The delegates from Missouri turned thumbs down on Wilson’s heir and scooted over to John W. Davis of the House of Morgan, former ambassador to the Court senator from West Virginia. Doheny Man Loses Gun. With this deflection, McAdoo ‘be- gan to lose the benign grin that hitherto adorned his countenance and the fiery look of the invisible empire gleamed thru his piercing eyes. Wall Street gave McAdoo his try- out, as a man of his oes de- served, but oil and holy Water could not mix and the Ku Klux Klan oil can, canned by the dollars of the Catholic Doheny, could not satiate the political appetite of the Tammany tiger, who in the person of Al Smith is willing’ to serve Wall Street, in more agreeable company. The rise of senator Davis to promi- nence as a potential presidential contender was the most significant event of the today’s balloting. Davis is a Wall Street man ap to his eyes. And the crucified bourgeoisie of the west are a littlé scared of the finan- cial ogre. But Wall Street has the money and if it pays the piper it will call the tune. Walll Street will get a servant out of this convention but it chooses its servants with care, As McAdoo slipped a significant thing happened. Al Smith, his leading opponent made an important an- nouncement, which was that he would accept second place on the ticket with any other man the party might put up except William Gibbs McAdoo. Catholic White House Scheme. This would mean that the Catholic | Church, as already suggested in these | . jtempt to edge its way into the White worked out by joint agreement of | rouse by the vice-presidential route. |A columns, would make a desperate at- strong conservative protestant, who would satisfy Wall Street for | first place and for second place a disciplined Catholic, listed as a pro- gressive by the fatuous liberals, who because of his Roman connections and Rome’s connections with Wall Street would be just as safe for Mot- gan in the White House, in the event of accidents, as Dawes would be in case Coolidge dropped out of the pic- ture. Morgan Is Pope’s Agent. It should not be forgotten that J. P. Morgan, a synonym for Wall (Continued on Page 2.) DAILY WORKER SOLD AT TWO CLEVELAND STANDS FOR WORKER'S BENEFIT CLEVELAND, 0., July 1.—The DAILY WORKER is sold by com- rade Papcun at the corner of West Superior and the Public Square. union plants which have been lurking in the city are expected to be forced into line. Labor's greatest English daily is also sold at Schroeder's Newstand opposite the post office. of St. Jamesyant vtitca sia