The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 1

| | } j THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 95. WORLD CONGRESS GATHERS AT THE GRAVE OF LENIN Communists Pay Honor to Great Revolutionist (Staff Writer Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, June 19.— (By Mail.) —The second session of the Fifth World Congress of the Communist International was opened at 6 o'clock in the eve- ning of June 18, in the Hall of St. Andrew. The Congress de- cided to assemble for the day at Lenin’s grave at Revolution Square. Ten thousand men and women laborers gathered about Lenin’s grave to welcome the delegates of the Congress by singing the Internationale. With Lenin’s guidance, with the thought of Lenin in mind, the labors of the Congress are be- gun; in the spirit of Leninism it will solve its problems. That is the idea behind today’s discus- sien. Deeply moved, Kalinin, presiding officer of the All-Russian Executive] Board, pays homage to the memory| of Lenin. Common cause with the} peasantry, dictatorship of the_prole- tariat, war against the suppression of nations—these are the bases of Lenin- ism. In this spirit will the World Con- gress do its work. Lenin Great Inspiration. A delegate frém the German Com- munist party speaks or how strongly Lenin’s name and Lenin’s teachings have taken hold on the German pro- letariat. With wild cheers ten thou- sand . workingmen receive the an- nouncement, that the city of Hinden- burg vill be renamed Leninburg. Lenin was the creator of the Russian Communist party, he was the creator of the Soviet Union; he was the cre- ator of the Communist International. In the spirit of Lenin, under the guid- ance of Leninism, thru retreats and thru obstacles, the German workers will guide the revolution to victory. Roy of India explains what Lenin and Leninism means to the oppressed peoples of the East. The Second In- ternational was a loose union of the workers of the West. Lenin built the Communist International, which is welding the world proletariat with the Peoples of the East, in a common fight for freedom against capitalism and imperialism. The praesidium and the delegates thereupon file past the assembled workers. y New Trade Base. MOSCOW, July 8—The Gosterg (state trade board) is organizing a goods base at Novorossiysk (Black sea) for shipping to the Russian far east import goods from Europe, which are in demand in the far east. The SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE MARRIAGE OF THE OIL TRUSTS (From the New Leader, Léndon.) -yesterday. by Alfred Knutson, League movement and toured the wheat states for eight years going into thousands of farm- ers’ homes and finding out what they were thinking about. When. They Could Borrow. “North Dakota used to be the stronghold of LaFollette,” continued Knutsom™ “They were not so desper- ately hard up then. They could still borrow money from the banker. They could afford to wait for a solution and didn’t examine his progressive pro- gram so closely. “Now it is different. I have been in many farmers’ homes this year and there wasn’t a nickel in them; literal- ly pot a nickel. And they can’t bor- row a nickel. This situation has |changed their attitude towards the | loose generalities of LaFollette pro- | gressivism.” z i Answers Shipstead. Here the interviewer interrupted the Dakotan and called his attention to a statement by Henrik Shipstead. The Minnesota senator denounced the Farmer-Labor Party for saying the farmers had nothing to lose but their chains. He asserted that they had flivvers, phonographs and radio sets. “Yes, some of them have flivvers base will supply Russian wheat, salt and radio sets,” answered Knutson, and cement. } i pees on page 2.) COMMUNIST LEADERS DISCUSS BUCHARIN’S REPORT ON PROGRAM FOR COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Yesterday, the DAILY WORKER published Comrade Bukharin’s’ speech in presenting his report on the Communist Programme, the first part of which dealt with the general characteristics of the transition period. Today we give the discussion which followed, in was to report to the Fifth Congress. the Enlarged Executive which in turn Daily reports on the sessions of the World Congress will be published in the DAILY WORKER, * * * * Bela Kun: Who will guarantee the@———————____________ inflow of new proletarian elements into this organizing intelligentsia which is exposed to the danger of degeneration? Lloyd George and Masters. Bucharin: This) question is very interesting. It leads us to discuss the so-called oligarchy, The bourgeoisie itself does not rule as a whole class, but thru its parties, and their leaders, For, instance, the relationship of the Lloyd George Cabinet to the bourge- oisie is not a class relationship. It is ‘aid the political bureau of the Rus- sian Communist Party governs Rus- ‘ sia, but that the proletariat has no voice, But it never occurs to anyone to say that Lloyd George/ stands on top and the capitalist underneath. They do not regard that relationship as a class division. * In what does the socially necessary relation between leaders and classes consist? It consists in the inequality —culturally—ot the members of the class itself. The vanguard of the class is the Party and in the Party the leadership—the so-called oligarchy. Under communism there will be no absolute equality, but the relation (Continued on page 4,) FARMERS LOSING LA FOLLETTE ILLUSION; DEMAND A RADICAL SOLUTION, SAYS DAKOTA LEADER “The Dakota farmers are losing the illusion of LaFollette.” This significant statement was made to the DAILY WORKER committee of the Farmer-Labor Party and an authority on the political movements in the Dakotas. Knutson ‘knows the northwestern. farmers. steader himself, he became a thoro student of the prow.-us of the men who were trying to dig a living out of the soil with one hand while fending off the mortgage sharks with the other. went into the old Nonpartisan *— An ex-home- Then he FIRST PROBED DAILY WORKER; NOW--BULLS Investigating Cicero Police for Beating Frank Matoucek, the assistant state’s attorney, who has been inves- tigating the DAILY WORKER at the request of members of the Cicero po- lice, has new been assigned by his boss, Crowe, to investigate the Cicero police for brutally beating up Miss Rosetta Duncan of the Duncan Sis- ters’ musical comedy, “Topsy and Eva.” Judging by the actions of Matoucek, Miss Duncan cannot hope for much aid from the state’s attorney’s office. It was at Matoucek’s suggestion that the police raised the bail of the Cicero for a series of articles against the Western Electric company from }$25 to $200. Matoucek, in the case of the DAILY WORKER, worked hand in glove with the Western Electric coim- pany and the Cicero police, who also seemed to be doing the biding of the Western Electric company. At the request of the Duncan sis- ters’ publicity manager, the DAILY WORKER reporter saw the reopening of their musical comedy. Of course, the publicity man was looking for a new angle on the Cicero beating up of ‘Topsy” for violating a Cicero traffic law. The capitalist reporters inter- viewed the DAILY WORKER report- er. He pointed out to them that his arrest occurred because the Western Electric company dominates the po- lice and administration of Cicero, They told him they didn’t think they'd use the story because the DAILY WORKER is a Communist newspaper. Police Don’t Follow Bryan. Miss Duncan received a broken nose and a beating up from the police of Western Electric town, who were evi- dently celebrating the holiday in the good old patriotic anti-Bryan manner, The DAILY WORK reporter is glad they were at least half sober when they arrested him on a charge of“‘disorderly conduct” for telling the citizens of the town the truth about the corrupting influence exerted by the Western Electric company on the Cicero police force, I DAILY WORKER reporter arrested in| SOCIALIST GODS BEHEADED AT jrobbed a local paymaster. oo 290 “LOOKING BACKWARD” GANG BID FOR SAM’S AID; IGNORE RUSSIA (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLEVELAND, O., July 8.—So rap- idly did the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action steam-roller its program and indorsement of- the Wisconsin “pillar of salt” that many of the delegates scarcely realized that the “convention” was over when it was, and still fewer appre- ciated that a resolution that would have committed the “progressives” to favoring recognition of Soviet Russia was quashed, altho some of the unions represented in the con- ference are on record in support of similar resolutions. LaFollette and also William Johnston of the ma- chinists previously have been for recognition of Russia. This former “indiscretion” is hushed now to bid for Sam Gompers’ smile. ACQUIT POLICE WHO TORTURED INNOCENT MEN Turn Kansas City Bulls Loose for More Crimes (Special to the Daily Worker.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 8.—Last February three men held up and The po- lice arrested three Negroes and, after 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 LA FOLLETTE DIVIDES SOCIALISTS Harvester Worker Tells S tory to “The Daily” “WE HAVE COLLAPSED!” IS ABE CAHAN'S CONFESSION AS THE SOCIALISTS BACK LAFOLLETTE By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer of The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, July 8.—The socialist party national:conven- tion in session here has voted by a large majority to-endorse the “insurgent-progressive” republican Senator Robert M. LaFollette for the presidency of the United States, not to name a socialist candidate, and to authorize the national executive committee’ “in its discretion,” to endorse whatever vice-presidential candidate that may be selected by the Conference for Progressive Political Action. The decision came after a long battle in which Abraham Cahan, editor of the socialist Jewish Daily Forward, made an amazing speech, saying “They know we have collapsed. Let us face reality and admit it. Now that we are helpless, let us join hands with somebody else.” Morris Hillquit, at all times master of the convention, made the speech of his life, pointing out to the delegates that with LaFollette in the field and supported “by the labor vote,” the socialist party candidate would get such a small vote that it “would be a shame to speak of it.” Cahan repudiated the past twenty years of leadership by® beet too “class-conseious” and| | JIM CONNORS, LOCAL LABQR LEADER, CAUGHT RIDING IN SCAB TAXICAB too “radical.” This precipitated a row in which Hillquit got the floor to denounce Cahan for Jim Connors, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Switchmen of North America, and one of Will- 8’... torture, _beafing and. burning, made them sign long, de- |tailed and contradictory confessions. By ROBERT MINOR. Hillquit’s opponent, led by Debs’ as- ‘sociate, William H. Henry, had a wet blanket thrown upon their bitter fight, thru the means predicted in these dis- (Special to the Daily Worker.) | CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 8.—Three | of the smaller gods of Socialism fell | today when William M. Brandt of St. | Louis and Edmund T. Melms of Wis-| consin failed of re-election, and James Oneal of New York failed to get on the national executive committee at | | picked up on suspicion in East Chi-|decision of our convention,” advising Ramsey, one of the three, was % hor- ribly mauled that the doctor rushed |Patches: The Hillquit group wired to him to the hospital at once. His re-|Debs at a Terre Haute sanitarium covery seemed unlikely. warning him of an impending split, In Missouri to assault a prisoner is|and enough time was killed by mid- a penitentiary offense. A week after |day adjournment to get out of Debs he absurdly contradictory confes-|an answering telegram, to the effect ions were gotten, three prisoners |that he would “willingly abide by the ago, Ind., voluntarily told of the Kan-|that the party “make no nomina- the: Socialists’. national. convention |°2*. “17. 2OMup. of pemee thats Seer here. William H. Henry, leader in the fight for the “left wing” minority re-| port, was beaten after four ballots. The new committee is Hillquit, Ber-| ger, John Collins of Illinois, Harkins | |of New Jersey, George E. Roewer cd Boston, James Maurer of Pennsyl- vania and Joseph W. Sharts of Ohio.! Debs was re-elected chairman by ac- | “Does this mean that Comrade Debs | will have a seat and vote?” and, being | answered affirmatively, objected to “creating an office for any man to make a committee of eight votes which find it impossible to do busi- ness.” MACDONALD TRYING TO PATCH UP REPARATION | PLANS WITH HERRIOT | (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) LONDON, July 8.—Prime Minister MacDonald went to Paris today to attempt a reconciliation with France over the matter of the ex- perts’ report and the proposed inter- allied conference. He was accom- led by Sir Eyre Crowe and two \extreme vigor. tors knew nothing, and, confessed. All three deny that the Kansas City victims had any hand in it. Race organizations protested with This being an election year, the prosecuting attorney at last roceeded against Smithers, a detec- tive, and Newman, a private slugger of the police commissioner. The trial took two days, The torturers were identified by all |clamation after Berger had demanded, |three victims. A policeman who was a witness “could not be found.” There was copious evidence as to the pitiful state of the men when rescued from the city police. The case was so formidable—even without the wit- nesses the state “could not find”— that the defense contented itself with pleading for a light sentence. The jury (all white political scav- engers, of course) acquitted the pris- oners after a few minutes’ with- drawal. Let us now ponder on the fourteenth amendment to the holy constitution. SAN. FRANCISCO, Cal. July 8— Organized laundry workers, girls, suc- ceeded in raising their weekly wages to a scale ranging up from $19 to $29.25. Most of the girls will receive 24 to $25 a week with union shop con- ditions, new employes to be secured thru the union, arbitration for dis- personal secretaries. pute settlements when mediation fails. |tions,” and hoping that “above ‘all there will be no division.” Cahan Brutally Frank. Cahan’s speech was one which should stand out in history. It was the most brutally frank disavowal of “class consciousness and Marxian theory,” as “bunk” having “nothing to do with us,” and the most accurate summing up of the new policy of the Socialist party that could possibly be written by friend or enemy. “I am willing to go ahead with this policy and vote for LaFollette,” Ca- han said. “But not with any idea that such a labor party is to be expected. I will do it with the idea that we are at last to face reality; that we are at last to look the facts in the face. “I know we will have a hard time trying to convince the readers of the Forward that they should vote for LaFollette. The party has been | oe “Jack of self-control,” in mik- ing “reckless statements” and using “unseemly, shameful and unjustified epithets.” iam H. Johnston's floor leaders ai the Cleveland meeting of the con- ference for Progressive Political Action, evidently does not take his ry union card very seriously. Connors has an office in the Fed- eration Building, the walls of which are plastered with stickers reading “Yellow cabs are scab cabs,” yet this same bonafide red- baiting labor faker, on landing at the Englewood station on his re- turn from the Cleveland confer- ence, could not take a union cab or a street car to haul him to his residence, ‘but boarded a Yellow cab under the eyes of ten trade unionists who were watching him. After Connors boarded the scab cab, two of the trade unionists, also returning from Cleveland, re- buked the labor faker for patroniz- ing the scab cab. He was dumb. What will the union chauffeurs of Chicago and trade unionists in general think of a labor leader who is not satisfied with fighting the radicals in the union, but goose to the extent of supporting a seab organization like the Yellow Taxi company? Connors fought the Communists at Cleveland and posed as a bonafide trade untén- ist, but while he rode home In a scab taxi the Communists he denounces rode home in street car. McCORMICK HARVESTER WORKER WRITES DAILY WORKER STORIES ABOUT WORKING FOR BIG TRUST A worker who has been with the International Harvester company for over five years, who knows the policies of the world’s largest agricultural “A HARVESTER SLAVE” TELLS US ABOUT COMPANY.UNION “A Harvester Slave,” who has worked in the Inter- national Harvester Company tractor works for several years, wrote a series of articles for the DAILY WORKER telling in a personal way, just what he thinks of the com- pany union, of the working conditions, of the wages he receives, and of his company’s attitude on unemployment. This ‘Harvester Trust worker is taking a chance on being blacklisted, on losing the means to support his family of four by being fired. But because he believes in the DAILY WORKER, and because he believes in sticking to his class—the working class—above all other responsi- bilities, he was glad to take that risk. The DAILY WORKER will not reveal who this man is. We are glad to print his stories, because we know of their value to the other workers in the Harvester plant and to the working class in ee AILY WORKER should be grat The readers of the ful to the “Harvester Trust Slave.” Watch for his articles. machinery manufacturers, and who is not afraid to tell the truth about the slave-driving company, has written a series of articles for the DAILY WORK- ER. No doubt the Harvester Trust will try to ferret this man out and black- list and discharge him, The DAILY WORKER will protect this class-con- scious worker as much as it is possible to do so. He exposes the true work- ing conditions inside the Harvester plant. * 2 8 ® By A HARVESTER TRUST SLAVE. | have worked for the International Harvester company for well over five years, altho if | had not been married and did not have three children to support | would have quit long ago. | have worked at several different jobs for the Harvester company, hav- ing been transferred more than once. At present | am working in the tractor works at 2600 West 31st Boulevard. In all my experience with the Harvester com- pany I have never earned more than 50 cents an hour. Generally my average is around 40 cents an hour. How can a man support a family of four decently when his average wages are thirty dol- - lars or less every week? Bosses’ Union. I attribute the low wages forced on the men to the vicious company union. 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