The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 1

( THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 91. WALL ST. TIRES OF DEADL LaF oliette Hog Ties the Clevelan 7 |. SENATOR'S SHIP [S SAILING INTO C.P.P.A.STORM Bob’s Opposition to New Party is Fought By C. E. RUTHENBERG. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, July 2.—The Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action which meets here on the fourth will have within it two groups fighting for control} ofthe organization. While both of these groups are for the nomi- nation of LaFollette, they are divided as to how he shail run. On one side in the convention there will be a group made up of practically all of the railroad unions’ leaders and their dele- gates who are against anything that would make of the Confer- ence for Progressive Political Action a party organization. They want to endorse Senator LaFollette as an independent candidate and at the same time endorse republicans and demo- crats for various offices in the state elections. This group stands firmly against anything resembling the organization of a new party. It wants to per- petuate the old policy of the A. F. of L. and of the Conference for Progressive Political Action with the one exception that La Follette is to run as an indepen- dent for president and receive its endorsement. The voting strength in the Conven- tion is so fixed that these railroad unions on a roll call vote will have overwhelming control of the Conven- tion. “ \\ The Socialist Dilemma. Lined up against this dominant group are the Needle Trades Unions, the Socialist Party, together with a organizations which are Pah to the nomination of LaFollefte as an in- dependent candidate. They want the Convention to declare for the forma- tion of a new party and to compel SUBSCRIPTION RATES v 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. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. A FILLING STATION to the stand. (Drawn especially for the Daily Worker by K. A. SUVANTO. STRONG FARRELL DEFENSE PLEA OVERWHELMED BY FLOOD OF FOUL RAGING ABUSE BY PROSECUTION (Special to The Daily Worker) MERCER, Pa., July 2.—When court convened this morning Attorney I. E. Ferguson, of Chicago, counsel-in-chief in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ys. Andy Kovacovich, the Farrell steel worker being tried on a charge of sedition, sprung a miscellaneous following of political| surprise when he rested the defense without calling the defendant The defense realized that anything the defendant steel worker might testify to in his own behalf would never tear down the barrier of community prejudice. Before making his final argu- LaFollette to run as the candidate of | ™ent to the jury Attorney Ferguson requested the court to that party, This policy is particularly strongly advocated by the socialists, who find themselves in a serious dilemma. If they are unable to carry their point they face a situation in which the Socialist Party becomes part of a con- glomerate mass of voters supporting an independent candidate with the likelihood that in the process of the campaign in support of its candidate it will lose its identity and’ disappear. The division betwen the two view- Points is so strong, the socialists find themselves in such a difficult position, that there is even the threat of a walk-out on the part of the delegates favoring the organizing of a new party should the Convention endorse (Continued on page 2.) veverse the court rules and that* the defense be allowed to make its final statement to the jury following that of Prosecutor Myers, special prosecutor for the, commonwealth. The defense also asked the court to instruct the jury to find the de- fendant not guilty for lack of suf- ficient evidence, Both requests were denied by the court and attorney Ferguson turned to the jury and made his final plea in behalf of the defendant steel worker. Sitting right back of attor- ney Ferguson was the defendant steel worker and all,during the final ad- dress he displayed no emotion except to smile now and then when the (Continued on page 4) YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUER TELLS HOW MERE CHILDREN SLAVE IN HOT BUNTE CANDY ROOMS IN CHICAGO “By BARNEY MASS. Picture 1,200 young girls and boys, slaving in cold and hot rooms, straining every muscle in cutting and wrapping chocolates. and one-half hours of toil, which Candy Company go thru. their bodies, dipping, moulding, This depicts the daily eight the young workers in the Bunte Standing on hard cement floors, with the temperature regis- tering 50 degrees, wrapped in sweaters and shawls, young girls and boys, some as young as 12 and 13 years, dip, cut, mould and perform other operations on the candy. (Contin Speakers: } ued on page 3) WORKERS! Oppose the Fascisti! OBREGON TELLS WHY MEXICO IS NOW DEAD BEAT Is Broke But | Has Good Intentions NEW YORK, July 2.—Citing sev- enteen reasons in explanation for the default, President Obregon of Mexico has announced the temporary suspen- sion of Mexico's debt agreement with tne international committee of bank- ers, in a cable to his financial agent here. Placing most of the blame on his former finance minister, Adolfo de la Huerta, for misrepresentation in ar- ranging the loan, Obregon goes into lengthy detail for the government's reason in failing to pay on June 30 the interest due on its recognized debt of $700,000,000, The decvee said a great number of both civil and government officials and employes had not been paid for several months in an effort to make good the interest due, but gave assurance the government expected to be able to pay up all the accumulative interest due the bankers by the end of this year. ~ Kluxers Who Killed Lilly Citizens Get Two Years in Can (Special to The Daily W-rker) EBENSBURG, Pa., July 2.—Twenty- eight participants in the Ku Klux Klan riots at Lilly which resulted in murder, were given sentences of two years each, by Judge Thomas O. Fin- letter of Philadelphia. Their two. year terms in the county jail begin from date of incarceration. Eighteen of the prisoners are klans- men and the remaining ten are citi- zens of Lilly who met the violence of the Kluxers with their own weapons. Most of those who fought the Klan are Irish Catholics. Three citizens of Lilly were killed during the~ riot which took place last April. Send in that Subscription Today. a 20 a> RINGMASTERS TO CLOSE UP DONKEY CIRCUS Boost for Klan Lover Gets Bryan a Razzing (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MADISON SQUARE GAR- DEN, New York, July 2.—Na- tional Chairman Huli, of the Democratic party, sent word to warring donkey drivers late to- day that the nomination dead- lock must end. Conferences are being held tonight to agree on candidates. Hull’s request met with imme- diate consideration because of his relation to the heavy cam- paign contributors, otherwise csnown as the “big fellows be- lind the stage,” or the “boys who get what they want.” Bryan Gets Razzing. The afternoon session broke up al- most in a riot as the 38th ballot end- ed. William Jennings Bryan got the worst razzing of his old age when he took the convention stage for William G. McAdoo, Bryan's plaudits for the Klansmen’s candidate aroused the hundreds of Catholics present to wild resentment. There was a metiley of “bods” and cheers, cheers from the K. K. K. McAdoo element and boos and yells from the Catholics in the New York, Massachusetts, Indiana delegations. Cuffs Wall Street. The Commoner’s confused middle class outlook was never exhibited more strikingly than this afternoon when he praised Doheny’s lawyer as the strong progressive which the par- ty needed and then launched into a mild attack on Wall Street’s attempt to dominate the convention. “Oil, Oil!” They Cry. At the mention of McAdoo’s name, hisses, booes and jeers crashed against opposing cheers and shouts of applause. “The oil man, how about the oil man?” came up from the floor. Indi- viduals tried to make speeches de- nouncing McAdoo's oil connections. “Oil, oil, oil,” came first this one and then that. “I’m from Jersey City,” cried one man. “I voted for you three jes.” “Will the gentleman inform me of his stagus?” “I'm from New Jersey,” was the f reply. “And I voted for you every (Continued on Page 2.) Morgan’s Man T is not surprising ‘that John W. Davis, Morgan's dark horse, who is trotting for the big prize on the Garden track, should have been entered from West Virginia. The attorney for the House of Morgan is distinctly a New York corporation lawyer, who lives with- in motor car distance of Manhattan Island. But he had no trouble in getting the endorsement as the favorite son of a state where he maintains only a nominal residence. West Virginia is a coal barony of the Steel Trust, the Pennsylvania railroad and the coal subsidiaries of Standard Oil.~ In the first two cor- porations James Pierpont Morgan, Davis’ employer, is a dominant financial figure. In getting the en- dorsement of West Virginia for Davis it was not necesary to trouble the democratic voters of that state. The endorsement was put thru very easily by means of the democratic politicians who guzzle at the trough of the coal lords. There is no representative gov- ernment in West Virginia. Both partiés are creatures of the coal barons. Every governor in recent years, from the cowardly Cornwall, to the man who guaranteed Sid Hat- \ field protection to lure him into a murder trap, is an appointee of the coal interests, who in turn are part of the interlocking financial groups represented in Wall Street. John W. Davis is a fitting candi- date, registered from a fitting state Published Daily except sunuay for the work his masters will ex- pect him to do if he goes over. The approval he has given the slaugh- ter and framing up of union coal miners is warrant of the tactics he would pursue in the White House. But—if Davis breaks a leg in the race Morgan has other entries who please him well. The list of nom- inees insures that the democratic alternative to Coolidge will be an agent of super-finance. Expose Murderers of Matteotti! MASS MEETING Tonight, West Side Auditorium, Racine and Taylor. Antonio Presi, Enea Bormenti, Alvaro Sadillo, Mat Goreta, Louis Engdahl, Max Salzman’ = Workers! Farmers! Demands 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 Ruséia Price 3 Cents GK fii DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. by d Conference World Communist Movement Fights War and Militarism ae ALL UNITS OF THE WORKERS PARTY: The Communist International has called upon all Com- munist Parties the world over to organize great demonstra- tions and agitatiqn against war and militarism and against the social patriotism of the Social Democratic Parties on the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the great world war. The week from July 27th to August 4th has been set aside for these demonstrations. The workers of the world are still suffering and bleeding a a result of the great capitalist slaughter. Altho the effects f the world war are not yet over, capitalism still exists and threatens to again engulf the world in a similar slaughter. The imperialist ambitions of the exploiters are preparing the ground for new sacrifices of millions of.lives and millions of wealth. The only force in the world today that stands against this slaughter for profit are the revolutionary workers of the world. It is only thru a blow that will abolish capitalism from the earth that the danger of new wars can be averted. Here in the United States we see this danger developing in constant efforts to increase the military power of the country, in proposals for military mobilization, and mobiliza- tion of great masses in support of preparedness movements. At the same time the government more and more openly interferes in other countries in the interest of the capitalist class. Animosity between America and Japan which has its basis in their conflicting economic interests in Asia, American interferences in Central and South American countries in the interests of he banking power of Wall Street grows more and more frequent. And in these activities there are the germs of a new war, a new sacrifice of the workers. The Dawég report drawn up by American experts pro- vides machinery, for the enslavement of the workers in Europe and the excuse for interference by this esur , should the financial interests of the American capitalists be in danger at any time. The Central Executive Committee of our Party enters with enthusiasm into the campaign in support of the world- wide demonstration of the Communists. It calls upon all Party units to immediately mobilize their strength and to organize themselves for a week of agitation and demon- stration against militarism, imperialist wars, and for the social revolution and the triumph of the workers. The activities of the Party shall take the following form: 1—Mass meetings shall be arranged by every City Cen- tral Committee during the week from July 27th to August 4th. The National Office, thru its speakers’ bureau, will sup- ply the speakers for these meetings. 2—The Central Executive Committee will issue a mani- festo in leaflet form for distribution during “The Week” and every Party unit must order supplies of this leaflet and give it the widest possible distribution. Sample copies with order blanks will be sent to the branches within a few days. 3—The new Party pamphlet on American Imperialism just published by the Literature Department of the Party shall be sold at all meetings during “The Week.” It is our duty to expose American imperialism’s activities in support of the financial interests. i 4—All Party papers shall issue special anti-war'‘and anti- militarism issues during the week from July 27th to August 4th. 5—Resolutions against imperialist wars and militarism shall be introduced by all Party members who are members of labor unions as well as other workers’ organizations. 6—Wherever possible, Party organizations shall invite the co-operation of other workers’ organizations such as trade unions, friends of Soviet Russia, co-dperatives, etc., to join in United Front organizations in support of this came aign. 4 ’ The triumph of the workers and peasants of Russia in — establishing their Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the best safeguard of these workers and peasants against im- perialist wars and militarism. The party organization and members in carrying on their work in connection with the Anti-Imperialist War and Militarist Week must point this out to the workers. The end of the period of capitalist mass slaughter can only come with the social revolution and Soviet Republic of the world. Comrades! It is our duty to mobilize all our strength in me of this world-wide demonstration against war and militarism and against the treachery of yellow reformist Socialism which collapsed with the beginning of the world war. Let us answer the call of the Communist International with fervor and enthusiasm and demonstrate that we are part of the world party of the proletarian revolution which is fighting everywhere against world capitalism and its accom- paniment of mass murder to safeguard the profits of the exploiters.. Fraternally yours, Central Executive Committee, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman, C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. On to the International