The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 8, 1924, Page 2

EERE Page Two KATE O'HARE TO SECURE SGALP OF LOCAL SCAB RAG Alleged Union Sheet Boosts Prison Goods Holding in her hand a copy of the Union Labor News, a local sheet that claims to represent the policy of the American Federation of Labor, Kate O'Hare, ex-war prisoner, who is con- ducting a campaign against prison- made goods, yeste y in a speech at the Chicago Federation of Labor, de- nounced the above publication for carrying an advertisement for The Bigyank Shirt which is manufactured by prison labor and sold on the mar- ket in competition with union-made goods. Mrs. O’Hare was introduced by John Fitzpatrick. No mention of her serv- ing time for opposition to the war was made by the Federation presi- dent or by Harry Scheck, of the Trade Union Label League, who also intro- duced her. But Mrs. O’Hare was not ashamed of her war record tho she sperted neither a gold star nor an iron cross. She told the delegates that she learned all about the condi- tions under which prison goods are made as a guest of the United States government in one of its bastiles. Ignorance Is Bliss! When Mrs. O’Hare came to Chicago, she told the delegates that the big department stores were selling prison- made goods in large quantities. As part of her fight against this practice, she visited the headquarters of the unions and found that none of them had given the matter any attention. Not even the officers of the Chicago Federation Committee on Convict La- bor were aware that thousands of shirts made by convicts were being sold here in Chicago. Harry Scheck made a lengthy re- port on his Union Label League. Some practical jokers, or perhaps, trade un- ionists who did not know of the exist- ence of the union label, éushioned the chairs with leaflets against vaccina- tion so that the delegates on their arrival could have an injection of anti- vaccine serum mentally before Fitz- patrick dropped his gavel. Folly of Being Wise. “A member of the Workers Party and a delegate to the Federation looked for the union label on the liter- ature but did not find it While Harry Scheck had his eyes on the ends of the earth in search of anti-union-label enemies to conquer, the foe was in his balliwick. The anti-smallpox se- + —_—--uM-may be worse than the disease, but labor fakers are badly in need of some serum to wake them up. Mrs. O’Hare threatened to go after the scalp of the Union Labor News. She said it was a disgrace for the organized workers of Chicago to al- low such a rag to exist. Run by men carrying union cards, it lives on the sweepings of the scabbiest exploiting buzzards in America, those who grow wealthy on the toil of the unfortunate victims of our social system who are incarcerated in the prisons of the na- tion. The committee on convict labor is now co-operating with Mrs. O'Hare in her fight against the sale of prison made goods, or perhaps the commit- tee endorses her efforts while she does all the work. Western Electric Workers Agree With Workers Party Talk The largest noon-time street meet- ing yet held at the Western Electric gates was held yesterday with Clar- ence Miller as chief speaker. Miller gave a good Workers Party talk, out- lining the need for workers’ organ- ization on both the economic and po- litical front to secure the government for themselves. Many of the workers who attended the meeting bought the DAILY WORKER and asked about joining the Workers Party. One of the work- ers asked about joining the electrical workers unian, also. When Miller called for discussion there was no Voice raised. He asked if anyone in the crowd disagreed with his statements and some one shouted out: “It’s impossible to disagree. true.” It’s all Send in that Subscription Today. “Honesty” is the last refuge of a ical Action. Square Garden, New York City, boos demned. Follette won't be worth anything. McAdoo. to interfere with their political tactic: (Continued from page 1.) ten of these are Hillquit’s supporters, while two or three are wavering and the remaining three or-four are more or less bitterly opposed to the new departure of the Socialist Party into the non-partisan “reward your friends and punish your enemies” policy. The disgruntled faction consists mostly of those called “the little fel- lows,” without gift of speech or national reputation. These are en- tirely at sea to know who will speak for them, but desperately hope that a minority report will bring them a fighting chance and a leader or two. The defeat of “Comrade Judge” Pan- ken for membership on the commit- tee of fifteen, deprives them of a leader, they think, tho Panken is re- ported to be wavering. At one time he was reported to be opposed to accepting the LaFollette plan until the C. P. P. A. makes good on its shadowy promise to “consider” form- ing a third party in January, 19265. Lee Refu to Run. James Oneal is said to have op- posed Hillquit in the “S. P.” caucus at the C. P. P. A. convention. Alger- non Lee, who seems more or less waveringly to oppose Hillquit, de- clined to run for membership on the committee, supposedly, to give Oneal a better chance, in the belief that Oneal would be the spokesman for the “left wing.” If this is an ab- surdity, it must be blamed on the in- nocence of the “little men.” Another of the “little men’s” hopes is Cam- eron King, historically known for hanging on by his finger-nails to the extreme edge of the far end of the right wing. Even now he objects to the term “left wing,” tho he opposes Hillquit. King said Monday that the two main points of objection to Hill- quit’s program arise from the fail- ure of the C. P. P. A. to nominate a vice-presidential candidate and the failure to form a labor party. He thinks the latter point can be over- looked, but the failure to nominate a running mate for LaFollette is harder to swallow. Boom for Maurer. There is a rumor that the “left” may insist on the Socialist Party nominating James Maurer of Pennsyl- vania as vice-presidential candidate and then to try to force him onto the ticket with LaFollette. This brings out a suspicion of the writer that the candidacy of Maurer with LaFollette was a part of the price that the So- cialist Party expected to get for the (Continued from page 1.) that Cromwell’s Covenanteers suf- fered from when they slit their op- ponents’ throats in the name of the Lord. The Boyne Water. One begins to feel that it is a dress rehearsal of the battle of the Boyne, with the cohorts of Prince William of Orange on one side and the Catholic followers of King James on the other. workers of the United States today as the famous battle of 1691 meant to the deluded and helpless followers of the contending royal heads. In 1691, while the Catholic masses fought and died for the Catholic King James, the pope sided with the Prot- estant William of Orange. The work- ing masses who quarrel under the ri- val banners of Smith and McAdoo, Catholic and Protestant workers, do {not seem to be yet aware of that his- toricdl fact. The political leaders will not allow their religion to interfere with their business if they can avoid it, but this religious bigotry is a pow- erful factor that cannot be ignored, or PHILADELPHIA BULLS FORCED T0 FREE MEN ARRESTED AT PICNIC By ABRAM JAKIRA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 7— The inciting to riot and assault case against Henry M. Wicks and five others was dismissed this morning. The policeman was blamed but no char, were pre- ferred. The local press vigorously denounced terroristic police me- thods. This is the second case of leoal thuge breaking meetings. And this fight means as little to the| THE DAILY WORKER RAIL CHIEFS’ “HONESTY” KEYNOTE RIDDLED BY WILLIAM Z. FOSTER politician, “They all talked ‘Honesty’ at Cleveland,” said William Z, Foster, to the DAILY WORKER after returning from the Conference for Progressive Polit- “Honesty” was the keynote of the convention. on the mouths of all the railroad union chiefs there. “But this ‘Honesty’ sounded strange coming from the very men who were playing false to the very candidate they were in the act of endorsing. While the executives of the railroad unions, which furnished 50 to 55 per cent of the C. P. P, A. delegates, were officially supporting an ‘honest government’ move- ment at Cleveland, their representatives were hard at work in Madison The word was ting for the nomination of William G. McAdoo on one of the old parties’ tickets that was being so roundly con- “Tf McAdoo is nominated in New York their promises to support La They will knife La¥Follette and push “At Cleveland they hadn’t enough LaFollette spirit for a demonstration. Their minds were back in New York with their first choice, McAdoo. “*Horesty’ enters into their political keynotes but they never allow it SOCIALIST FEAR FOR INDEPENDENCE deal, and that Hillquit let himself be haggled out of it. It was possibly such a move as this from the floor, that William H. Johnston so ruth- lessly smothered under his gavel when he violated every rule of the Cc. P. P. A. convention last Saturday in refusing to let the convention con- sider the vice-presidential nomination. Certainly a very sore disappoint- ment and discouragement is upon this convention, and the discontent seeks leaders where there are none. Debs, ill in a sanitarium in Chi- cago, is not here. A socialist publi- cation distributed among the dele- gates contains a fervent appeal by Debs for the saving of the party. Evidently the article was written in strange misconception of what the tentions of the active leaders of the party were, for Debs speaks of “What will take place at St. Paul on June 17th or at Cleveland on July 4th,” and repeatedly mentions his hope for “a united labor party.” Calls It Screaming Farce. Those who know the leaders of the alleged “left wing” here can take it only as a screaming farce, For in- stance, Gerber who speaks openly of the “left wing,” is expected to fight on the floor, tho not a member of the committee. W. R. Snow, of Illinois, seems to think he might fight. Snow's attitude toward the half-promise that a third party might be formed under the leadership of a defeated non- partisan candidate after the election is that “the whole thing is too much like signing a blank check.” Fears Party Break-up. Delegate E. D. Ladd, of Elmira, N. ¥., was asked why he opposed the Hillquit-LaFollette plan. “Because,” he replied, “I think it will break up the socialist party.” “I don’t know why in the hell we came here,” said another delegate, “if all we have to do is to accept that plan.” A supporter of Hillquit remarked that he supposed the plan would be ratified, after some little trouble. “If we don’t,” he said wistfully, “we'll have to begin all over again, from the beginning.” No One Against LaFollette. “Is there any chance,” he was asked, “ that you might put up a rival candidate against LaFollette, in case the plan is not ratified?” “No,” he said, “we will not have a candidate against LaFollette; nothing would be done anyway until after election.” DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CRACKING | always controlled. On the seventh day of the ballot- ing, peace seemed farther off than ever. The only thing that seemed nearer was a split. Talk of moving the convention to another city was in the air, It is even reported that a formal motion to that effect will be presented and voted for by the Me Adoo forces. As such a motion, ac- cording to the ruling of the chair, will need only a majority to carry it, the convention may adjourn, with McAdoo holding a convention of his own at which he will be unanimously nomi- nated. Toward the close of the afternoon session the leaders feverishly intent on bringing about the semblance of harmony, succeeded in having the con- vention adopt the report of the “peace committee” which released the dele- gates from all obligations to their re- spective favorite sons and candidates. This was vigorously opposed by Mc- Adoo. ‘The unit rule still stands, however, but McAdoo Toks like a dead ghost in a white night shirt just now. CHICAGO PARTY. ACTIVITIES Open Air Meetings. This Week. TUESDAY—Roosevelt and st. . Dat eatt eee ia aea 2 zt — t North Side Branch, Ye WW, Teo nate THURSDAY—62nd and Halsted. Engle- wood, Y. W. L. FRIDAY—North and Rockwell, N, W. Ww. P, ivision and Wash- YY. W. Le id Central Ww. P. 30th Sub-CCc, Roosevelt, Park, Douglas Park owl and State, South Side 112th and joht SUNDAY. rinfield “and Maral Marshfteld, ¥ a Moot! 7 WwW. of Bnlarged Ci E: i) ‘edn ay, duly ith, at Rooms ee t. Special mat sections will that y a Gdiegats, eh So er 5 ge" ‘Central sends | BUNTE SLAVES EAGERLY BUYING DAILY WORKER Exposes Rouse Youthful Candy Workers By BARNEY MASS. The DAILY WORKER has entered into the drive with the Young Work- ers league at the Bunte factory. daily at the factory gates. The Young Worker has been selling there for the last eight days. The DAILY WORKER expose of the conditions in the candy factory is pushing its sales. punch the time clock in sufficient time ahead to be at work at 8 a. m. sharp. Changing apparel, etc., must be done on their time, as the company will not permit its time to be consumed for the welfare of its workers. There is no chance for getting even a minute’s rest. The machines set the pace and those who cannot keep up the speed are given the discharge slip. Those coming in sleepy are quickly awakened when work begins. hot kettles full of sweets is a danger- troubles. All traces of the human be- ing vanish and the young workers are transformed into automatons. For nine whole hours each day you cease to exist as a human being. Candy Mostly Bitter. Bunte's bitter-sweet chocolates are indeed what the term implies—more bitter than sweet. When labeling this particular kind of chocolates (its pro- duction must have been taken into consideration (not only the flavor)ag was kept in mind, but the human bit- terness incorporated with it. The term “bitter” preceeds “sweet.” It is the only truthful item in the Bunte ad- vertising. The candy eaters of the world and those eating particularly the Bunte brand have given little of their attention to the term bitter. It has escaped their notice. With the DAILY WORKER in the fight, big results are expected. The DAILY WORKER will in the future carry more exposures on the child slavery in the Bunte factory. Don’t miss your every day edition of the DAILY WORKRR, a paper devot- ed to your interests. Jewish Bakers End Strike with Terms No Better, No Worse A representative of the Jewish bak, ers’ local No. 237, announced to the Chicago Federation of Labor that the strike of his organization had been ended and that the men had all re- turned to work. The bosses had not been able to put thru their wage re- duction of $6 per week on the one hand and the men had not been able to get an increase of $5 for which they had hoped. The union signed the old contract. The federation went on record, by! motion of Oscar Nelson, as endorsing an editorial from a Chicago paper} which berated Coolidge’s veto of the postal workers’ increase bill. The editorial made the open shop profiteer Ford, an example for Cal to study. When Jack Johnstone of the painters’ union pointed this out, while agree- ing with the condemnation of the pres- idential veto and the remarks on be- half of a living wage for postal work- ers, Nelson got up red-eyed again and, shouted “disruptor” at the peaceful protestor. American Minister to Rumania Must Report To Standard Oil Co. WASHINGTON, July 7—The Ameri- can minister to Roumania, Peter Au- gustus Jay, has been ordered to re- turn to the United States to report to the state department on the new Rou- manian oil law against which this country has strenuously protested, it was learned at the state department today. . Jay, strictly speaking, is not being recalled, and it is presumed he will return to his post after conferences here. It is the understanding that this government will take no further | action regarding the ofl law question unitl Jay makes his report. A Correction. To the DAILY WORKER. Dear Comrades—iIn the DAILY WORKER for yesterday, in the article by Max Shachtman on the Cleveland convention, a statement was made that the machinists’ organization had dropped to 35,000 members, which is incortect. The union hag still over 76,000 members, altho this is a big drop from the membership during the war of about 350,000, Please make this correction in the next issue. Other contents of article were excel- lent, Fraternally yours, ANDREW OVERGAARD, Chairman International Committee for Amalgamation of Metal Trades. How many of your shop-mates read language| them to subscribe today. THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of Workers are buying this militant labor The young candy makers must Working by the machine and pouring ous occupation and little time can be spent in worrying over one’s own We A Yin G UR i 9 bret Mle: A i 4, fi aad vn N Vee We, WZ Win | SSEREMS | M, 5 Fo Ze? » Marshfield Juniors Trim Smith School Team; Séore 14 to 9 The baseball team of the Marshfield Junior Group of the Young Workers League’ maintained its splendid ath- letic record by beating the Smith Public School Team handily. Score, 14 to 9. The game was marked by splendid team work on the part of the Juniors under the able leadership of Comrade Captain Greenberg. In the second in- ning Lewis, rightfielder, sent the Smith school outfielders chasing the ball while he and the two men on bases came in, scoring the first homer of the game. Greenberg and Wainer followed example and knocked the ball out where the (Stass grows chalk- credit. From the first it was evident as to who the winner would be. The lineup of the victors follows: Pitcher—A. Weiner. Catcher—William Lurye. First base—Willie Metz. Second base—Geo. Greenberg. Third base—Julius Eckless. Short stop—Mayer Heller. Center field—Harry Goodman. Left field—Sam Brown. Right field—A. Lewis. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. (Continued from page 1.) holding of Dolla in prison was becom- ing a scandal against the “liberal” governor of Pennsylvania. The Civil Liberties union and the Labor Defense council of western Pennsylvania joined energetically in the effort to obtain a pardon for Dolla, with the re- sult that almost every labor conven- tion held in Pennsylvania durihg the last six months went on record as de- \manding Dolia’s release from prison. The pressure was becoming too strong for Pinchot’s pardon board— and for Pinchot. The board was at last constrained to ignore the vicious lies and the transparent plea of the |steel trust, and recommended a par- don for Jacob Dolla. For four and a half years Dolla has lain in prison. He is still awaiting arrival of papers from the state capi- tol, but a day of so more and He will LABOR FAKER (Continued from page 1.) against Beattie by investigators. was found that the National Surety company had bonded him for the eight years that he had been employed by It. the Railway Audit and Inspection company. John C, Greer, who signed Beattie’s application to Railway Audi and Inspection company, was found to be the spy’s uncle, living in Norris- ination Demanded. ‘When the evidence was conclusive enough, Beattie was presented with a demand to resign by Timothy Healy, president of the Firemen and Oflers. Tuesday, July 8, 1924 i Drawn by Wilfred Canan for The Federated Press and the DAILY WORKER. WORLD COMMUNIST CONGRESS MEETS (Continued from page 1.) |The speaker recalls to his hearers the |battles of the proletariat—the revolt- jing Polish workers, who even now are being brought to trial in Krakow; the rising Bulgarian peasants; the thou- sands of German proletarians who are |being exploited with the help of the \German Social-Democracy; the revo- \lutionists in India and Egypt, who, |with. the sanction of MacDonald, are being thrown uiito jail; he welcomes \the German and French Communist | youth. . He greets the Polish youth organ- ization and the Young Communist In- ternational, who have already per- workers, but who still live to witness the throes of world revolution. The fifth congress is not, it is true, cele- brating the outbreak of the world rev- olution; but already dozens of thrones itself under Soviet rule, Communist parties are being built up everywhere; the flood of Social-Demoeracy is be- ing stemmed, altho it had built up a good name for itself with lies and promises. In spite of great obstacles, the work is constantly progressing. World War Anniversary. The fifth world congress coincides with the tenth anniversary of the out- break of the world war, and the Com- JACOB DOLLA IS SET FREE be a free man—back with his wife and family, who stuck loyally by him thru the dark and painful years. Foster Hails Dolla Release. “I am surely glad to learn of the |successful end of our fight for Jacob | Dolla’s release,” said William Z. Fos- ter, leader of the great steel strike, notified of Dolla’s coming pardon. “The steel trust can feel that it has got a licking by the militants of the T. U. E. L. andthe spunky fight put up by the left wing union movement in general beginning a year and a half ago. We need all the Dollas outside of prison, because the open shoppers are beginning again to attack the la- bor unions on a wide scale, and the whole labor movement welcomes Dolla back to the outside world, where there is work to be done for every- body.” IS VICIOUS SPY During the investigations of Beattie and Cronin, other prominent men in the labor movement in this vicinity have been involved in complicating circumstances. The investigators are continuing their work, determined to) oust every labor spy who is infesting this movement and hindering its progg re ‘These snakes in the grass are insi- dious but not invulnerable, They can be found .and branded so that they will not be able to knife the workers in the back while pretending to be the “representatives” of organized la- bor. |formed countless services for the} ing up two more four base hits to their are tottering, a sixth of the globe finds | lin which Dolla was victimized, when | munist parties arranged demonetra- tions lasting from July 27 to August 4 against the slaughter of the people and against the treacherous Social- Democracy. We desire a united front with Social-Democratic workers, but jon the occasion of the anniversary of |the world war we will tell of the sins lof the treacherous Social-Democratic leaders. The Second International held demonstrations against the war as if it was not at all to blame. We ‘denounce their sins. We will raise our voices, not for them, but against them. The Vienna congress of the | Amsterdam International adopted res- \olutions against the war, but all their leaders accepted the war and drove |milions of workers to the fields of slaughter. The congress will solve knotty problems without Lenin, but in |Lenin’s spirit, with the help of the |bond which has gathered these peo- ples together, and in the spirit of unity. Rykov Applauded. After Zinoviev, Rykov takes the chair and is caught in a storm of ap- Plause from the delegates. Rykov wel- comes the world congress in the name of the people’s commissars and in the name of the central committee of the Russian Communist party, and gives voice to the fact that since the fourth world congress great errors against. the majority of the working class have been rectified. The flood of Sociab Democracy is at an ebb; the Commun- ist parties are becoming majority par- ties. The battle grounds have changed all over the world, Since the time of the fourth congress we have lived thru the capitalist offensive; at this moment we are witnessing the ris- ling floods of revolting work The Soviet Union has made great strides ‘in building up workers’ organizations and in freeing fettered nations. The central committee is backed by the en- tire Russian Communist party. The Russian Communist party of the So- viet Union is mightier than ever. The ‘Soviet Union can wait quietly while ie strength of the proletariat is uni- | fled. Class Struggle Forgotten, In the name of the Red Interna-— tional of Labor Unions, Losovsky | greets the congress. He emphasizes | the fact that at the Vienna congress | of the Amsterdam International not a | word was spoken concerning the class | struggle. Only the Bolshevik parties ; ing the revolutionary battles. 4 After this came the greetings from the side of the workers’ delegates, ; which were answered by Gepparut, Treint and Stuart. The congress calls on the red army and the red fleet to stand firm against the white terror, against the suppression of colonial peoples. The world congress approves the executive decision concerning the holding of demonstrations against the war and against the Social-Democratic traitors, Under no circumstances shall these demonstrations make com. mon cause with the Social-Democrats; above all they are to direct their ef- forts against Social-Democracy, in al- liance with sympathetic organizations.