The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1924, Page 1

RUSSIA READY TO! THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 96. BUY HARVESTER COMPANY, GOODS U. S. Hatred of Soviets Keeps Plants Closed THIRD ARTICLE. International Harvester Com- pany, almost completely shut down, with only a small force working five days a week, stub- bornly refuses to enter into reasonable large-scale business relations with the Soviet govern- ment. Thru the Morgan and Rocke- feller interests in the trust, the Harvester company has unlim- ited funds at its disposal and could allow the most stable gov- ernment in Europe enormous credits, with little risk. The Wisconsin steel mills, owned by the Harvester company is entirely shut down. The McCormick works on Blue Island. Avenue are entirely shut down with the exception of the twine mill. The Deering harvester works, part of the Internaional har- vester company, has laid off over half of its force and threatens to close entirely within the week. (Continued on,page 3.) 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. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1924 In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, PRINTED IN U. 8. a. SM—10-11-28 Works Form 288, WORKS PASS parn_Y/27__ 20 seb aid vax ona WY. pas DEPT. THE ACORPTANOS OF THIS FASS RELBASES THE COMPANY FROM ALL rrABiILITY IN CASE OF ACCIDENT OR INJURY TO HOLDER. DO NOT CONVERSE WITH EMPLOYERS) IF ANY INFORMATION IS DESTRED, CONSULT THE MANAGEMENT. VISITORS ACORPTING COURTESISS HEREBY EXTENDND Anz, YOU TIE GOOD oF THR SURVICE, RUQUESTED TO REFRAIN FROM GIVING THB GUIDB ANY GIFT, TIP OR OTHER EMOLUMENT. CARKY IN A CONSPIOVOUS PLACE AND DELIVER TO GATE-KUEFER ON LEAVING THE WORKS. (e/ Pass ‘TO. Tomorrow Philip Smith will tell the DAILY WORKER readers how he spent a day going thru the Tractor Works of the International Harvester company after securing the above reproduced Pi signed by R. R. Keith, superintendent of the plant. Notice that those who visit the plant are not allowed to converse with employes. The rule of the company is that the visitors must be accompanied by a guide, but in Philip Smith’s case the guide returned and allowed the engineer to continue thru the plant alone. FIRST ARTICLE TO-MORROW ‘Communist World Congress Is Told of New International Situation RUSSIAN RECOGNITION LIKELY BY JUGO-SLAVIA, | CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, Austria, July 9.—Recognition of Soviet Russia by two of the TINOVIEV TELLS ~ HOW COMINTERN WARS FOR LABOR Third Day’s Session of the World Congress (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, June 20—(By Mail).— The third session of the world con- gress of the Communist International was opened at 6 o’clock by Gebhardt. After the inauguration of the com- mission, Zinoviev spoke on the ac- complishments and the tactical policy of the executive board. Storms of ap- plause, lasting for minutes at a time and breaking forth again and again, greet Zinoviev. The delegates, stand- Ing, sing “The International.” Zino- viev proceeds: The Fifth World Congress must not only point out the path of the future; it must also test out the ground al- ready covered. For we are without Lenin’s guidance, and the internation- al situation is an entirely new one. Glancing back over the history of the Comintern, the speaker Wishes to in- sist that the Comintern, after its first Congress, was, without itself being aware of it, a propaganda agency. The - elemental discontent of the masses, (Continued on next page.) members of the Little Entente seems noff’s arrival at Marienbad to take the cure. more than ever likely since M. Litvi- It is authoritatively stated that Foreign ministers Ninchitch of Jugo-Slavia and Benes of Czecho-Slovakia are planning a conference with the Russian minister. Roumania has «strongly opposed the intention of her two neighbors to recognize Russia because of the Bessarabian question. Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia are both opposed to Roumania’s oppression of that territory which is so manifestly Russian. Czecho-Slovakia has been attempting to get France to recognize Russia, altho under the Poin encouraging the Roumanian militarist ire regime, France was policy in Bessarabia. Rival Rag to Seattle “Union Wreck” Raised By State Federation SEATTLE, Wash., July 9.—The State Federation of Labor has just put on another sail to help their ship over the stormy sea. The new sheet is the Washington State Labor News, a 12-page “weakly,” published here by, William Short, president of the state federation, and A. E. Wolthers, man- aging editor. Short is supposed to be collecting funds for the Union Rec- ord, official organ of the Seattle Cen- tral Labor council, but if he’s sup- posed to be running the other rag he's not likely to boost the Union Record far. / Harvester Trust. ne: their jobs. department. HARVESTER SLAVE CONTINUES ‘EXPOSE FOR DAILY WORKER “A HARVESTER TRUST SLAVE” in this issue of the DAILY WORKER contributes his second article on conditions which he and his shop-mates are forced to endure under the Morgan controlled » In this article we learn about the psychological effect the un- ary unemployment is having on the attitude of the men toward Our contributor tells how Negroes are forced to do the most dangerous and menial work in the plant at small pay. He takes us into the twine mill and shows up the prison conditions under which the poorly paid, uniformed women are compelled to work. In the next article the “HARVESTER TRUST SLAVE” will write about the wages and conditions prevailing WATCH FOR THE HARVESTER ARTICLES, in the assembling PHILADELPHIA PRESS CONDEMNS WILD “BULL” FOR DISRUPTING MEET (Special to the Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 9.— “Cop Starts a Riot: Orderly Meeting Called to Consider Political Condi. tions in Maly Disrupted by Un- called for Intrusion of Gumshoe Gink Who Got an Awful Beating for His Pains. ists Suspected of Plot to Discredit Movement Op- posed to Mussolini. Orators Held Under Extraordinary Procedure. No Badge or Warrant of Authority Exhibited.” It’s the conservative Philadelphia Transcript relieving itself after the disgraceful disturbance of the Mat- teotti protest meeting by an unau- thorized cop, Joseph Mazzeo of Gen- eral Butler’s police staff. “This ‘nut’ stuff makes a tremen- dous hit with Butler,” concludes the Transcript, which must have a polit- ical grudge against the potice chief that it takes such an interest in a meeting a sed by H. M. Wicks of the Workers party and other rad- lcal speakers who were denouncing Fascism and the crime and graft it has foisted on Italy. No Employment Here. DETROIT, July 9—While thou- sands of workers are being laid off or put on reduced schedules, the De- troit police department has sworn in 100 additional patrolmen, } ‘ OI nd Sra NTO * K.K.K. AMONG THE SOCIALISTS Fear to Hit Knighties by Naming Them By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, July 9.—The national convention of the socialist party here today spent its last afternoon much as the democratic convention spent so many of its afternoons—in a furious fight te decide whether to or not to denounce by name the Ku Klux Klan. After the election of the na- tional executive committee, dozens of delegates had lost in- terest and quietly slipped away to home-bound trains. Goebel Defends Knighties. The resolutions committee, making its perfunctory report, came upon the anti-Klan resolution, when suddenly the roof was raised. é George H. Goebel of New Jersey jumped to his feet,-angrily shouting his protest and demanding that the jresolution be referred back to the committee and that the Klan should not be named law-breaking or- ganization. . . “I know dozens of those people who are members of the Ku Klux Klan, and I know their lives, and I know they are not lawbreakers, and I know they would not lynch a Negro. Now, I say I haye lived there in New Jer- sey for years amongst people that I know to be good people, and they have joined the Klan. I know there are many people who belong to it who do not believe in these things that you want to condemn the Klan for. I say there are good people in this organization, and they join it be- cause they believe in its principles, and they would not break the law. All those crimes that you want to blame this organization for are only the working out of certain groups in cer- tain sections of the country who are using this organization for law-break- ing purposes.” In the uproar of mingled applause and disapproval August Claessens got the floor to say that the resolution should be referred back to committee. but for a far different reason from that given by Goebel. He demanded that the Klan be denounced by name. “You are not going to pussyfoot that question here!” he shouted. Victor Berger asserted his position that no member of the socialist patty can be a member of the Klan. He said that in Wisconsin members of the socialist party had joined the Ku Klux Klan, “and we kicked them out, and we are going to do it again.” Al- gernon Lee of New York, denying a statement of Goebel that the Klan is a religious moverttent, offered a substi- tute motion, which became the mo- tion finally acted upon. Denounced as Fascisti. Gerolano Valenti of the Italian So- cialist federation said the Ku Klux Klan in America was essentially the same thing as the Fascist organiza- tion in Italy. “While I listened to Goebel’s words,” said Valenti, “I won- dered whether I was at Madison Square Garden at the democratic con- vention, or whether I was at the so- cialist convention. There is no differ- ence between the -Fascisti and the Ku Klux Klan, except that the Fas- cisti would burn a Negro without a mask.” Marie McDonald denied that the Klan question is a religious issue. “It is a political issue,” she said, “a race issue, and an issue of super-gov- ernryent,” demandiig that the resolu- tion be passed. Delegate John Frank Danis of Illi- nois said that as a delegate to the United Mine Workers’ convention at Peoria he had learned that the min- ers’ organization was being eaten to pieces by the Klan. “Then, near my home,” he said, “there was a mass (Continued on Page 2.) - o> 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE 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 DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ‘NOMINATE MORGAN’S MAN DAVIS Jobless Army Grows at ENGINEER INVADES HARVESTER TRUST DEFENDERS OF 4nternational Plant Lawyer for International Banker Gets Presidential Nomination at New York (Special to the Daily Worker) Rese SQUARE GARDEN, New York, July 9.—John W. Davis, attorney for the House of Morgan, and the Morgan controlled Bell Telephone company, was unanimously~nomitated by the democratic convention this afternoon. The nomination of Morgan's choice shows the final supremacy of Wall Street.In-the-ie- cisions of the democratic party and the collapse of the so-called Bryan “progressives.” Unity with Wall Street. Catholics and protestants sup- ported Davis as the rush towards him accelerated with the 101st ballot shortly after noon. The Romanists and the right wing of the Kluxers found it possible to unite on the solid rock of Mor- gan’s door step and by the 103rd ballot the Davis nomination went over with a two-third’s vote and was then made unani- mous at the motion of Tom Taggart. Many delegates bitter- ly protested within the councils of their delegations. George Brennan, the Illinois boss, who has been nursing Davis sentiment in his back stage conferences for the last week swung his legions into line and the Tammany Hall delega- tions helped in the noble task of putting the Morgan man over. Bosses Mobilized Davis Drive. The nomination was foreseen after the withdrawal of McAdoo and Smith in the early morning. The other Wall Street alternative, Carter Glass, was quickly seen to be a second choice. In the light of the suddenly mobilized Davis drive, Senator Ralston’s with- drawal is seen in a different light from yesterday. It is now believed that Ralston’s telegram to Tom Tag- gart was forced. The big party con- tributors had served notice that they had picked another man. There was a tumultuous scene in the Garden as the Davis army swelled under the recruiting of the state bosses. The bitter end opposition was submerged, voices of the Davis boost- ers drowning out the *progressives” who groaned with shame as they saw the jackass forced within the hafts of the Morgan cart. Bryan in Gloom. The face of William Jennings Bryan turned into an unmistakeable Jerem- iah’s as he saw the money devil had conquered the hopes of the middle (Continued on page 2.) DAVIS FOUGHT UNITED MINE WORKERS UNION IN BIG CORONADO SUIT (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 9—John W. Davis, nominee for president on the democratic ticket, ts exposed in militant labor circles here as the attorney who fought the United Mine Workers of America in the famous Coronado suit. Davis sought to force the international union to pay the sum of $6000,000 damages for property losses sus- tained by the Bache-Denham com- pany in Arkansas during a strike in 1914, Lower courts upheld Davis’ contention. The United States Supreme Court finally decided against payment of the damages in this case but estab- lished the dangerous legal cedent tha inion could be sued for strike Io 5 Union men are speculating as to whether Samuel Gompers will fol- low his invariable custom and en- mocratic nominee— notorious anti-labor- They expect nothing but the Prior to his nomination, Davis’ managers soli- cited Gompers’ support. The head of the A. F. of L. dodged a formal decision until the convention had acted, but he is expected to declare himself now. ite, worst from Gompers. Wall St. Nominates RETER an exhibition of good-natured tolerance, which al- lowed the small trusted capitalist of the tall grass to hawk their antique notions of political ethics in the big circus auditorium for over two weeks, Wall Street finally cracked the big whip and forced its servants in charge of the démo- cratic convention to cut out the horse play and do what they are paid for. That is to serve Wall Street. John W. Davis, of the House of Morgan, as reiterated by E the Daily Worker was the favorite candidate of Wall Street and Wall Street, was successful in putting him across. In ‘ spite of the maudlin shrieks of William Jennings Bryan, spokesman for the Ku’ Klux Klan and his threat to fight to the end against Davis, Wall Street thru its clever injection of the religious issue and its manouvering of the “Commoner” into the role of Klan defender, discredited that old faker until toward the end of the sessions, his appearance on the plat=* form was the signal for boos and hisses. Davis was put across when the road was clear. Services to Plutocracy Who is John W. Davis? He is the outstanding reaction- ary in thé democratic party. Since he first entered politics, his ability was placed at the disposal of Big Business. In congress and out of congress he has never failed in his loyal- ty. He is now a member of the J. P. Morgan banking firm. He was solicitor general of the United States under the first term of Woodrow Wilson and from 1918 to 1921 was Wilson's ambassador to the Court of St. James where he distinguished himself as a toady and flunkey. The British imperialists liked him so well that he was made an Honorable Bencher of the Middle Temple. He is a legal representative of The Irish Free State government in America. Among his other qualifications is the fact that he is a 32nd degree mason. With a Gunman’s Aid Davis is the attorney for the Telephone Trust and suc- ceeded in raising the telephone tolls in New York fifteen per cent. Davis was supported at the democratic convention by the notorious Don Chafin, of Logan County, W. Va., leader of the army of Baldwin-Felts murderers who are specialists in the art of strikebreaking and killing union miners. Davis represented the coal operators in the famous Coro- | nado case against the United Mine Workers of America. As these lines are written, Wall Street has not selected a running mate for Davis. But it will be just as careful as it was at the republican party convention. Coolidge and Davis! Dawes and... ! Wall Street can laugh heartily while some deluded workers will quarrel over the shadow boxers. Two Wall Street Parties The republican party is the party of big business. The democratic party was.once the party of little business. But it is that no longer. Wall Street now has it by the neck. La Follette at the head of small.business, labor bankers and in- dependent capitalists proposes to clean the capitalist political stables and make capitalism tolerable. It cannot be done. Wall Street will capture the LaFollette outfit as it has the democratic S makag Capitalism cannot be reformed; it must be destroyed. Only a class party, with the aim of overthrowing the capitalist system represented in the United States by Wall Street, will solve the problem for the workers. That-pro- blem is freedom from exploitation, from wage-slavery and the thousand evils that flow in the wake of this robber sys- tem. Only thru a workingclass party based on the class struggle and aiming for the conquest of power for the work~ ers and the establishment of a Workers Soviet Republic, with a dictatorship of the proletariat to replace the dictatorship of Wall Street, can this country be freed from the present nightmare of want and war, and industrial anarchy, Hoportant! Communists and Sympathizers! Mass Meeting Tonight! Wicker Park Hall-2040 W. North Ave. Price 3 Cents ae pec: 5 as