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| { THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 94, HARVESTER CO. SHOWN AS CHILD OF J.P. MORGAN Interlocked With Every Big U.S. Trust SECOND ARTICLE. The International Harvester Company is part of the inner- most clique which dominates the industries of the ‘United States, and holds in the hollow of its hand the lives of millions of wage workers in America. The Harvester Trust, controlled to a great extent by J. P. Mor- gan and company, and formed in the office of J. P. Morgan by that gentleman in 2, is di- rectly connected with every other large trust in America. The International Harvester company was admittedly aided in its formation by Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of direc- tors of the United States Steel corporation. The Harvester Trust is linked with the Pullman Company, with the railroads, with the General Electric com- pany, with the Steel Trust, the Beef Trust, and is controlled by Morgan and his clique of bankers. Under One Master. Testimony before the committee on rules, House of Representatives, in 1912, brought out the fact that “It be- came. evident to the manufacturers-of agricultural implements ‘and machi- nery, after the formation of the Unigs ed States Steel corporation, that the raw material would be absolutely in the control of one gigantic corpora- tion, and the independent implement manufacturers endeavored to form some kind of an agreement in order to be in a position to meet the United States Steel corporation in its own field.” Proof was offered that “The ten (Continued on page 3.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES DEMOCRATIC P In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. a 290 SS Seanenenanee World’s Communist Forces Meet OPENING OF TH FIFTH CONGRESS STIRRING SCENE “Bill” Dunne Elected to the Praesidium (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 17 (By Mail.) —The Fifth World Congress was opened here at seven o'clock in the evening in the Bolshevik theater under the direction of the Moscow soviet. Over the _praesidium-table there is a picture of Lenin, wreathed with flowers; mes- sages of greeting in all lan- guages cover the walls. The room is packed; the crowd is listening for a raised voice. For the first time there appear workers’ organizations without party affiliation, peasants from the provinces to convey spoken greetings to those who take active part in the Congress. Thunderous greetings welcome the Youth Pioneers; shouts of praise meet the Lenin pioneers. The delegations bring the Congress symbolic gifts as re- membrances of Lenin. After Kolarow’s speech of welcome Zinoviev is chosen chairman; the presidium, is made up of Stalin, Bu- charin, Trotsky, Soviet Union; Braun, Gebhardt, Germany; Trint, Sellier, | France; Bordiga, Italy; Smeral, Muna, from Czecho-Slovakia; Katayama, Ja- pan; Roy, India; Dunne, America; Clara Zetkin. After stormy greetings Zinoviev de- clares that the Comintern should be proud to revive the memory of the work of Marx and Lenin. The fifth congress will bring the knowledge that Lenin's spirit lives on in his work. (Continued on page 2.) ENLARGED COMMITTEE OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSES PROGRAM FOR CONSIDERATION AT 5th CONGRESS This is the second article of a series giving the complete report of the Fifth World Congress of the Communist International and also the discussions which took place at the meetings of the Enlarged Executive of the Presidium of the C. I. prior to the opening sessions of the Inter- national. *) ® * * MOSCOW, June 15. (By Mail.)—Today’s session of the En- larged Executive of the Communist International discussed the program, to be presented to the Fifth Congress for consideration. Comrade Bukharin was the reporter. His report and the discus- ———— sion in brief is as follows: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD. Reporter: Comrade Bukharin. 1, Fundamental Processes Secondary Processes. Under this heading I intend to con- vey the following: the whole process of building up a new order: Harvester Tru Engineer in and Mr. Smith became interested and he has contributed an article anti-union, slave-cdriving, speed-up, We will show how the Harv farmers. WATCH FOR THESE ARTIC HE DAILY WORKER prints with this issue the second of a series of articles exposing the International Harvester Company. The DAILY WORKER will print daily, stories showing how the Morgan interests, which dominate the Harvester Trust, have bankrupted the farmers at the same time that 'they have be methods, the wages of thousands of industrial Philip Smith, a graduate of Pennsylvania State agricultural col- lege, and a member of the American association of engineers, spent a day going thru the Harvester works. assistant works manager, and thoroly inspected all phases of the plant. unemployment by ignoring the Soviet Russia market for tractors and at the same time shutting down their plant for lack of orders. The International Harvester company has alded to bankrupt the Thru their coal mines, st sive factories and natural resources the world over they have tried to beat down the workers everywhere to the lot of open shop slaves. a) The real proletarian revolu- tion, viewed in all its stages, the mo- tive power of which is the proletariat, and which is thus the classic pro- letarian revolution; then: b) The combination of this pro- letarian revolution with peasant ris- ings as Marx has expressed it. Marx (Continued on page 6.) st Exposed By Daily Worker down, with open shop javes. He talked to MacDonald, the in the DAILY WORKER exposure corroborating our evidence of the and company union system. r Trust is aiding to bring about | mills, lumber camps, and exten- LES, (Special to The CLEVELAND, July 7.—William H. Henry of Indianapolis, intimate friend of Debs, with W. terrific attack on the Hillquit-LaFollette plan as submitted for ratification to the socialist party’s national convention here. Snow and Henry, deserted by James Oneal who went over to Hillquit in the committee on relations with the Conference for Progressive Political Action, stand as a minority of two against thirteen. Their minority report denounces the LaFollette conven- tion, declaring it “had failed to launch an independent party of labor, or even an independent third party; but is rather the erystalization of the vague sen- timent of unrest around the per- sonality of one man, and that man a life-long republican, who has never attacked the funda- mental foundations of capitalist society.” Can't Sign “Blank Check.” The minority report declares that the Socialist Party “cannot submere our identity and lose all we, have gained in forty years of painful ef- fort that has meant the self-sacrifice of thousands of workers for some hazy indefinite promise that seven months from now a labor party may be formed, or sign a blank check for a vice-presidential nominee not yet named. “Neither can we subscribe to a plat- form so delightfully vague and inde- finite as to the fundamental causes of social injustice, that any forward look- ing exploiter of labor, democrat or republican could subscribe to. A plat- form so meaningless that it might have been written by W. J. Bryan thirty years ago. Shall we look for- ward to the future or back to the past, ourselves to forces that can well wipe out the last vestige of the organized socialist movement for many years to come?” Wants Own Campaign. The minority recommends: i. “That this 1924 convention of the Socialist Party proceed to nominate its own candidates for president and vice-president of the United States. “That we proceed to conduct our own campaign on a platform and with a program that states distinctly the fundamental problems that confront modern society.” The majority report, in support of which will be mobilized this afternoon practically the entire national leader- ship of the Socialist Party, recom- mends: “That this convention concur in the endorsement by the conference for Progressive political action of the can- didacy of Senator Robert M. LaFol- lette for president of the United States on the platform submitted by him.” And that, while “The Social- ist Party firmly adheres to the prin- ciples of Socialism,” the convention shall, “authorize the incoming nation- al executive committee to endorse the candidate for vice-president of the United States to be chosen by the con- ference for progressive political ac- tion.” Berger Moves For Food, Just as the debate was about to begin amidst high excitement, Victor Berger moved adjournment “until we can eat,” saying “there will be better nature here then,” and carried the mo- tion. The belie is expressed that dur- | / ing recess an effort will be made to persuade the stubborn “left wingers” to call off the fight “in the interest of harmony.” ‘“They may change their minds,” was a hope expressed this morning by one of the Hillquit lieutenants, An- other suggestion is that possibly an effort is being made to gct a telegram from Debs endeavoring to pull his as- sociate Henrv off from the attack, Hillquit Controls Committee. “The Committee of 15” selected to determine the destines of the Social- ist party was made up as follows: Lena Morrow Lews, California, G, A. Hoehn, Missouri. Morris Hillquit, New York, Victor Berger, Wisconsin. Joseph E. Cohen, Pennsylvania, Thomas Duncan, Wisconsin, Joseph W. Scharts, Ohio. Cameron H. King, California, James Oneal, New York. George E. Roewer, Massachusettes. J, Henry Stump, Pennsylvania, John Collins, Illinois, I, G. Miller, West Virginia, George H. Goebel, New Jersey. Thobey, Kansas, It is estimated that about nine or (Continued on page 2.) for inspiration?” Shall we surrender | [PARTY INDEPENDENCE IS ISSUE AS SOCIALIST MINORITY DISSENTS FROM SUPPORT OF LA FOLLETTE By ROBERT MINOR. Daily Worker) R. Snow of Illinois today led a MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS = | | WILL MOBILIZE PARTY ENTHUSIASM TO ACTION The first of the series of mem- bership meetings which are to be held in the most important centers of the country to familiarize Work- ers’ Party members with the pro- gram of work laid out by the Cen- tral Executive Committee will be held in Chicago tonight, Tuesday, July 8, at 8 p. m., in Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. William Z. .Foster,, Chairman of the Workers Party, and C. E. Ruthenberg, Exe- cutive Secretary, will be the speak- ers tomorrow and at the other mem- bership meetings of this series. Friday, July 11—Minneapolis, Minn., Richmond Halls, 225 So. Fitth St., Hall No. 2, 7:30 p. m. | Thursday, July 17—Detroit, Mich., | at 8 P. M., House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Friday, 18—Buftalo, N. Y. Saturday, July 19—Boston, Mass. Tuesday, July 22—New Haven, Conn. Wednesday, July 23—New York City. Thursday, July 24—Philadelphia, Penna. Friday, July 25—Pittsburgh, Penna. Saturday, July 26—Cleveland, Ohio. It is important that every mem- ber of the party get to one of these membership meetings so that he will be prepared to aid in the build- ing up of the party thruout the country and in increasing the party influence Claim Fink’s Presence Nullifies a Perfectly Good Oil Indictment WASHINGTON, July 7.—E. L. Do- heny and E. L. Doheny, Jr., today filed motions in the district supreme Court to quash the indictments recently re- turned against them by the special oil grand jury charging conspiracy and bribery. They contend the indictments were invalid because of the presence of a department of justice official in the grand jury room during the taking of testimony. Send in that Subscription Today. DEBS GONGURS IN THE HILLQUIT SCHEME 10 WREGK SOCIALIST PARTY By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, DAILY WORKER.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 7.— A telegram from Debs to the National Socialist convention here virtually acquiesces in Hillquit’s plan, saying he will willingly accept this con- vention’s action advising no Social- ist nominations being made and ask- ing that no division be ma Immediately after reading of Debs’ telegram, Panken introduced a substitute motion Intended to limit right of Socialist ie. aay Executive Committee in agreeing to vice-presi- dential nomination. “If we accept the majority report,” he said, “we may find ourselves in the position of “having, to swallow a vice-presiden- tial candidate who is at the time on the democratic ticket.” Closing, he warned, “Remember that some members of the Execu- tive Committee of the Conference for Progressive Political Action have already expressed themselves in favor of a vice-presidential can- didate who now has his name be- fore the democratic party conven- tion for that office.” | tral LABOR FAKER FOUND T0 BE VICIOUS SPY Pittsburgh Discovers Beattie’s Backers ASpecial to the DAILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 7.— Robert William Beattie, vice- president of the Firemen’s and Oilers’ union, editor of that union’s Journal, secretary of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union, and president of the Pittsburgh Labor Bank, member of the 1919 Steel Strike Committee and of the executive committee for or- ganizing steel workers, and campaign manager for John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, in his race against Sam Gompers at the Denver convention of the A. F. of L., has been exposed as a labor spy. For more than twelve years Beattie has been employed by the Railway Audit and Inspec- tion Company and by the Cen- Industrial Service, two manufacturers’ and employers’ detective agencies. For the same period Beattie has been a “rep- resentative” of organized labor, rising to iligher “positions “each “year,~ and always being one of the bitterest op- Ponents of all yrogréssive measures in the labor movement. He has been one of the toughest reactionaries, na- turally enough, that the Pittsburgh unions have had to fight during his long “service.” Cronin Discovery Helped. The expose of Beattie’s spying ca- reer inside the union movement came, about after the discovery of the spy, James C. Cronin, had increased the diligence of investigators in the Pitts- burgh district, who were attempting to clean out the bosses’ spies in the labor movement. ‘ When a certain employment agency in this city was found to be operating a bootleg booze joint in connection with its agency, it was found by in- vestigators that Beattie reported to the organization of which this agency was a subsidiary. A report of Beat- tie’s work was sent*to Dr. Royal Meeker, commissioner of labor and in- dustry for Pennsylvania, to E. C. Davi- son, general secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Machin- ists, and to others, who assisted fur- ther investigations. Eight Years in Navy. Briefly, this report and subsequent investigations of Beattie’s activities showed that Robert William Beattie, formerly of Milford, Mass., entered the service of the Railway Audit and Inspection company as an operative on January 27, 1912, after eight years’ service in the United States Navy as water tender. Beattie was sent to Pittsburgh as a fireman and joined the union there while working for the Duquesne Light Co. He reported so well that after four years he was proj moted to “cover” the whole Pitts- burgh district. Delegate to Portland. When it was discovered that the Central Industrial Service Bureau, run by W. W. Groves, formerly of the Railway Audit and Inspection’ com- pany, was selling the report of the Metal Trades convention of the A. F. of L. held at Portland, Oregon, Octo- ber, 1923, to Pittsburgh manufactur- ers before the unions involved had had a chance to act on the decisions | of the convention, investigators found | that Beattie was an employe of this | “private police” service and had been | since 1920. Beattie was a delegate | to the Metal Trades convention. } A check was made on the evidence | (Continued on page 2.) Army Against Strikers. HAVANA, Cuba, July 7.—The gov- ernment of Cuba announces that it has} apponted two military inspectors to} provide guarantees to the United Rail: | roads of Havana so they can start reg-| ular passenger service in spite of the! strike, The worke: swered with a threat of a gene: rike that would tie up the whole island. Martial law may be declared, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Workers! Farmers! Demand: 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 Russia Price 3 Cents RTY IS CRACKING LONG DRAWN OUT DEADLOCK IN NEW YORK. INTERPRETED AS DONKEY'S DYING WRIGGLES (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, July 7.—The In- digestible political fodder that has laid like a brick in the stomach of the democratic donkey for decades today threatens to relieve the animal of all further discomfort by the simple expedient of killing the brute. The holy water of the Catholic leader, Smith, will not mix with the crude oil of the Protestant champion, McAdoo; the sacred fires of Romanism cannot burn brightly in the presence of the Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan. The battle taking place in New York today is looked upon by trained political observers as the dying wriggle of the demo- cratic party. For generations this heterogenous organization held together only on the basis of office. The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the corresponding increase in the political strength of the old and worldly wise Catholic church brought to a head a struggle that has been eating the heart out of' the donkey for many years. This convention opened under th brightest auspices—thanks to the mis- doings of the present republican ad- ministration—that marked the con- vening of any democratic convention in the history of American poli- tics. Today finds it a wreck of its former self, not united against the re- publican enemy but divided into war- ring factions, which only united into two main factions, with mutual hatred supplying the cement. Poor Old Donkey. If Wall Street had the intention of getting rid of the democratic party by splitting it up and providing a place of tefuge for its most reaction- ary wing in the republican party, the class conscious party of Big Busi- ness, it appears now that it has ac- complished its purpose. The McAdoo and ~Anti-McAdoo factions are irre- concilable. Even in the event of a compromise before the election is over, it will be only a compromise on the surface. The fires of hate burn too fiercely underneath to permit any co-operation at the pols. An event of historical significance is taking place in this old garden famous the world over for its spec- tacles. This is a spectacle for the political gods. The wise heads of the democratic party—those whose individual interests: would be hurt by allowing the jackass to die—are in terror over the prospect. Hurried conferences are called. Papers that formerly boosted ‘Al Smith now urge him to withdraw. Al withdraws, but he- only fights more effectively. No, he doesn’t withdraw. There is a long “if” attached to the conditions. He will quit if McAdoo quits. Mc- Adoo will not quit. He only grasps his bible more firmly and delivers an- other speech about righteousness. His followers have another religious orgasm. The battle lines are drawn tighter. Dark horses drop out but owing to McAdoo’s intransigeant stand and Smith’s plausible compromise they come whinneying to Al’s hitching post. The crowds in the galleries cheer every accession to Smith’s strength. The southern delegates curse the galleries in a pious sort of a way. But it’s the kind of piety (Continued on Page 2.) LA FOLLETTE ORDERS ANTI-KLAN RESOLUTION KILLED IN CONVENTION (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 7.—Sen- ator La Follette having in mind the trouble created by the Ku Klux Klan | jthe Lebanon lodge of the union de- resolution at the democratic conven- tion, had no intention of allowing the question to come up at his conven. tion. So he had it smothered in com- mittee. Here it is as proposed: Whereas, the American Federation of Labor at the Portland convention condemned the Ku Klux Klan as a menace to organized labor and urged all workers to keep out of it, and Whereas, the Ku Klux Klan is arous- ing race and religigus hatreds and violating the rights of freedom of ex- pression which is fundamental in our constitution, and this organization al- so violates the principles in regard to the rights of immigrants and foreign- born enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, which were so unani- mously approved when read before this convention, Therefore, be it Resolved, that this convention of the Conference for Progressive Political Action denounces the Ku Klux Klan as un-American and a menace to the liberties of the American people. ‘JACOB DOLLA, STEEL STRIKE VICTIM, FREED Labor Pressure Forces Pinchot to Act By ISRAEL BLANKENSTEIN. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 7.— Jacob Dolla, frame-up victim of the Lebanon Steel com whose spy John Aldridge en- gineered a “dynamite plot” while |a member of the Lebanon lodge of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union, has been ordered released from his 17 year sentence after a long a begun by the Labor Herald in January, 1923, and supported by the whole Communist press. Dolla took an active part in the 1919 steel strike and, know- ing several foreign languages, he succeeded in lining up the strikers in a solid body. This was his real offense, a crime against the steel trust’s profits. But a Pinkerton detective by the name of Aldridge, then a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, fixed up a job on Dolla by placing two bombs near a boarding house where some scabs roomed. Only one exploded, and that did no damage, but Dolla wes at once arrested, placed in isolation and tor- tured until trial, then sold out by at- torneys who took his money, but gave him no defense. Gets Word to Labor Herald. It was after he got into prison that the steel trust tools lost enough direct control over his actions to enable him to get word of his terrible treatment to William Z. Foster of the Labor Herald and James Maurer of the State Federation of Labor. Then, for the first time, Dolla’s case got publicity—in the Labor Herald. The Worker, then a weekly, and other Workers party publications took up the fight, and ever since have carried on a hard campaign to get Dolla par- doned. Repeated efforts, in which Clinton 8. Golden of Philadelphia ac- tively assisted, altho the officials of serted Dolla, were made to get him a pardon. But each time the attorneys of the Lebanon Steel. company brought in some fake story, and the guileless appointees of Governor Pin- chot on the pardon board always swal- lowed the company’s fairy tales. Conventions Demand Release. Finally the Labor Herald campaign reached the point where the further (Continued on Page 2.) YOU SAID IT, BOB, JR.! Robert M. LaFollette, Jr. his fa- ther's organization ant, was asked to define the political movement from the eyes of its en- emies of the left. “It is a melange of middle class intelligentsia, petit bourceo! a trade union bureaucracy struggling to find a formula for class collabo- ration,” he said.