The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1924, Page 1

H /, FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | Vol. Il. No. 97. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924 ors 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL 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 PICK COMMUNIST CANDIDATES; FOSTER AND GITLOW NOMINATED National Farmer-Labor Ticket LADIES GARMENT CHIEFS BETRAY 90,000 STRIKERS Bosses Get Everything, Workers Nothing (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 10.—Lead- ers of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union offered further concessions to employ- ers in secret conferences held in the last two days. The conces- sions, which further modify the Smith agreement in favor of the bosses, give the jobbers the right to purchase garments outside of the metropolitan districts with- out the sanitary label, thus nul- lifying a minor advantage gained by the union. The jobbers organizations have accepted the modified terms and it is expected that the reorganization strike of 32,000 cloakmakers will be quickly terminated. The stoppage of work was declared pending the ratification’ of a contract based on the Smith award. Eighteen thousand other cloakmak- ers are on strike against those inde- pendent manufacturers which had not accepted the commission’s finding as yet. Since the organized employers find the Smith terms satisfactory, with the later modifications, the lesser manufacturers are not expected to de- lay signing much longer. Surrender Denounced. The official's surrender is denounced by left wingers as a gross betrayal of the demands expressed thru interna- tional conventions. The 40-hour week was abandoned, the number of con- tractors is not limited and tho manu- facturers are ordered to use a mini- mum of 14 machines, as a guarantee against the tiny shops which menace union control, there is no machinery to enforce this demand. Investiga- tion of jobbers’ books to check up on the bosses’ actions is not provided for. The clause accepted gives the right to refuse such investigation should it in- terfere with business secrets. Sigman iesed. President Morris Sigman was hissed when he spoke in defense of the agreement and there was a dem- onstration for the Freihelt when he as- sailed the Communist paper’s editorial attacks on the agreement. The strik- ers see no real relief in the leaders’ compromise, | Fight, Urges Johnstone | By J. W. JOHNSTONE, President Morris Sigman,,,in con- junction with the commission ap- pointed by Governor Al Smith, is now playing the last act in the latest be- trayal of the Ladies’ Garment Work- ers in the strike of the New York cloakmakers. Complete surrender is now the settled policy of the Signgn machine. Not a single major point that the 50,000 cloakmakers are striking for has been granted by the governor's commission. Even the use of. the (Continued on Page 2.) company. Another Smith Article Soon In this issue of the DAILY WORKER, Philip Smith, university graduate and an engineer, telis the DAILY WORKER some of the ‘secret workings of the International Harvester company’s tractor plant. Mr. Smith, after being passed from one boss to another, finally drew reluctant permission from the assistant works manager, with offices in the Harvester building, to go thru the tractor works of the Mr. Smith was so impressed by the DAILY WORKER articles on the Harvester Trust that he consented to write an article _ exposing some of the bad conditions in the plant. Mr. Smith will have another article in,the DAILY WORKER next week. DONKEYS BRAY DOWN DELEGATE'S. WARNING OF INDUSTSIAL CRISIS By ROSE PASTOR STOKES. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, July 10.— Pande- monium reigned in the democratic convention when a rash delegate re- ferred to the industrial crisis. The audacious reference was made by Delegate Sinsmore of Massachu- setts, the youngest man in the don- key meet, during a nominating speech. He was howled down by the en- tire convention. Shouts of “Are you trying to raise the red flag?” came from outraged politicians who had just put over Morgan’s lawyer for first place on the ticket. “I'm not a Bolshevik, but,” cried back Sinsmore,—he got no further. ENGINEER TELLS OF HARVESTER OPENSHOP PENS Writes Expose Article About Chicago Plant Editor's) Note—The following ar- ticle was given to the DAILY WORKER, by Philip Smith, a grad- uate of Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, who spent a day alone in the International Harvester company’s tractor and reaper plants at Blue Island Avenue. Mr. Smith came across the DAILY WORKER ex- pose and consented to write an ar- ticle telling his experiences in the plant. By PHILIP SMITH. | had just arrived from the east a few weeks ago, and being a graduate of an agricultural college, as well as a member of the American Association of Engineers, | was curious to go thru the Harvester plant. | knew it to be the largest farm machin- ery company in the world and wanted to see it in action. I had not secured work since coming west, and thought to ask for a job at the same time. At the Harvester building, on South Michigan avenue, I was told at the information desk to go to the eight floor and see Mr. Frary. Mr. Frary is a member of the employment department. He told me it would be difficult to get employment, and sug- gested I ride out to the south side employment office and seek work there. When I asked for a pass, Frary said, “You go right out to the plant, they’ll probably let you in.’”” Disliked Giving Passes, I was really anxious to go thru the plant, however, because of the bene- fit it would be to me as a mechanical engineer, and I went down to the sixth floor again. Here the informa- tion girl gave me a note to Miss (Continued on page 4.) "that the cai Our Election Campaign and the Farmer-Labor Party ip dune, 1922, our party declared, in a mani- festo dealing with the application of the United Front policy in the United States, that the problem of the United Front politically was the problem of the formation of a Labor Party. Since that time the party has carriéd on a consistent United Front campaign h the end in view of uniting those workers and farmers who were ready to break with the capitalist parties in a mass Farmer-Labor Party with which the Workers Party would be affiliated. This campaign has been the major political campaign of our pai We have during this campaign advanced the cause of independent working class ac- tion and made the Farmer-Labor Party an issue in the American labor movement. We can‘ also say, without danger of the state- ment being challenged, that our party had made the greatest gains for itself thru this campaign for the Labor Party. It is thru this Farmer-Labor Party campaign that our party has established itself as a political force in the United States. It is thru this campaign that it has established its prestige and it leadership among the masses of work- ers and farmers. Nothing has contr so much to develop our party from a riaty group to a recognized political force in the life of the labor movement of this country than our manouvers in relation to the Farm- er-Labor Party. The Central Executive Committee declares aign for a Farmer-Labor Party was a correct estimation of the situation in the United States. It declares further that the campaign for the Farmer-Labor Party must be continued and will be a major cam- paign of the party in the future. We must, however, consider fundamen- tally the situation which our party faces in the present election campaign. The June 17 Farmer-Labor Party was not successful in mobilizing all the Farmer-Labor forces of the United States for a Farmer-Labor Party campaign. The convention made tentative nominations and adopted a tentative plat- form and organization plan. It was consid- ered possible that the Farmer-Labor ele- ments which still adhered to the Conference for Progressive Political Action would break away from that conferente when it again betrayed their hopes for a Farmer-Labor Party and that an alliance with these forces would create the basis for the Farmer-Labor Party campaign in this election struggle. The group in the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action which is for a Farmer- Labor Party did not have sufficient courage to take a stand for the principle of class Farmer-Labor action in the United States. Without protest it accepted the LaFollette dictatorship and became the tail to the LaFollette petty bourgeois progressive move- ment. The Conference for Progressive Poliitcal Action has become a petty bour- ~_ progressive United Front extending rom LaFollette to Debs, It is the supreme duty of our party to raise against this petty bourgeois progressive alli- ance which is misleading the workers the slogan of revolutionary class action. LaFol- lette is a menace to the labor movement. It is placing the workers under the leadership of the petty bourgeois—a class with a pro- gram in direct contradiction to the interests of the workers and liquidating their class movement. If the Farmer-Labor Party as formed at St. Paul represented a real United Front unifying a mass movement of farmers and workers which would stand firm and crary on the fight against LaFolletteism and the petty bourgeois proaresvve alliance, un- questionably the fight against LaFolletteism should be made thru the Farmer-Labor Party. Part of the organizations participat- ing in the June 17 convention are themselves infected with LaFolletteism and will be swept along in the wake of the LaFollette petty bourgeois progressive movement. Our party, therefore, faces the question whether it shall participate in a Farmer- Labor Party campaign in which the Workers Party will have to bear the brunt of the work and will have to largely conduct the cam- paign thru its organization, or whether it shall conduct a Communist campaign against LaFolletteism in the name of the Workers Party. A campaign in the name of the Farmer-Labor Party would, in the face of the Cleveland betrayal, unite only a rela- tively small part of the Farmer-Labor forces with the Workers Party. On the other hand, our party would be greatly hampered in its agitation and propaganda and could not use the political campaign for the direct upbuild- ing of the party, if the campaign were con- ducted under the name of the Farmer-Labor Party. The United Front campaign is only of value to our party if itinites with us large groups of workers for common action. The degree to which this would be true in the Farmer-Labor campaign is not sufficient for a United Front campaign. The Central Ex- ecutive Committee of the party, therefore, has unanimously decided that the Workers Party shall enter the campaign in its own name, nominate Communist candidates and conduct a Communist campaign. The alignment in the election will be the capitalist republican and democratic parties, the LaFollette petty bourgeois progressive alliance, and the Workers Party ek the slogan.of.working class. action on a Com- munist program against the capitalist and against the petty bourgeois misleaders of the workers. This situation should nerve every member of our party for the most aggressive and militant struggle our party has ever made. OUR PROGRAM Our program and policy during the cam- paign will be the following: 1. To run candidates nationally, in the states, and locally, under the name of the Workers Party, wherever it is possible for us to put these candidates on the ballot, this to include the nomination of presidential electors in every state in which we can get on the ballot. 2. The National Executive Committee of the Farmer-Labor Party formed at St. Paul has endorsed the-eandidates of the Workers Party in this campaign and called upon all Farmer-Labor groups who stand for working class action to support these candidates. Our party shall urge all local and state Farmer-Labor Party organizations to en- dorse the Workers Party candidates, main- taining their organization intact and using them to support the Workers Party cam- paign during the election struggle, thus also preparing the ground for continuance of the fight for the Farmer-Labor Party after the election campaign. 2-a. A campaign fund of $50,000 shall be raised thru circulation of subscription lists and donations from sympathetic organizza- tions, 3. Every unit of the Workers Party must at once form election campaign committees for the purpose of organizing and carryin, on the work in support of the campaign o' the party. 4. The National Office will at once place in the field a corps of speakers who will be routed to every part of the country in a speaking campaign in support of our candi- dates and program. 5. The National Organization will issue a series of campaign leaflets which must be distributed by the party organization in mil- lions of copies. 6. The Party National Organization will print during the campaign a series of cam- paign pamphlets dealing with the issues of the campaign and with the fundamentals of the Communist movement for the purpose of education of the workers to support our movement. 7. Party papers in all languages must give special attention to the election campaign supporting the party campaign in every way possible. We must make consistent use of the elec- tion campaign for the upbuilding of our vty A No meetings must pass without invit- ing the workers present to join our party. No piece of literature can be issued without containing a similar appeal. Withdrawn ye fe Communist candidates are in the field this year against the Wall Street parties and the so-called “progressives.” This result was achieved when the National Conference of the Workers Party, meeting yesterday, following the withdrawal of the St. Paul ticket of the Farmer-Labor Party nominated: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, of Illinois, for Pre- sident; BEN GITLOW, of New York, for Vice- President. Lew The Workers Party Conference was held at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted St., immediately following the gathering of the National Executive Committee of the Farmer-Labor Party. In withdrawing the St. Paul candidates, the Farmer-Labor Executive Committee declared that the Farmer-Labor forces of the United States must throw their support to the candidates of the Workers Party, to fight against the betrayal of independent political action of the Conference for Progressive Political Action at Cleveland, Ohio, July 4th. Fifty delegates from the various cities and states thruout the country were called together by the Central Executive Cam- mittee of the Workers Party to decide the carrying out of the Workers Party campaign in view of these new developments. “The Workers Party of America raises the banner of independent working class action, the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government, and the overthrow of the capitalist system. In the face of the complete surrender of the labor unions, and many of the elements on record for the establishment of a Farmer-Labor Party, who at Cleveland, on July 4th, turned over their movement to middle class poli- ticians, bankers, merchants, etc., and accepted without pro- test the most reactionary political platform yet laid before munist movement of America—to carry out a clean-cut Communist campaign against La Folletteism and against the capitalist system, and to call upon the workers everywhere to rally to the Workers Party as the only center of resistance to capitalism, as the only party of revolution, as the only fighter for even such elementary needs of the workers as the establishment of a Farmer-Labor Party.” This was the keynote of the opening statement made by C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary of the Workers Party, in opening the Party conference. The meeting proceeded to the nomination of William Z. Foster, for President, and Benjamin Gitlow, for Vice-President, and adopted the statement of the Workers Party that appears in another column. The Workers Party Conference was followed by a great mass meeting at Wicker Park hall, which is being held as this story goes to press. This meeting will launch the Workers Party cam- paign and place the candidates and platform before the workers (Continued on Page 2) HALF MILLION thousands of people could meet to- ERS HEER |gether on that field with common pur- pose, WORK C Like a Great Wheel. SOV UNION Several thousand Cheka battalions from Moscow, the Kursanti (or Rus- sian “West Point”) cadets, and the Moscow Celebrates the Birthday of U. S.S. R. Red Army forces kept perfect order in the vast multitude and quietly ar- By A. L. PERCY. (Special to The Daily Worker) ranged the immense assemblage into eight great sections with’ radiating MOSCOW, Russia, July 10.— Can you imagine a whole city Soviets dared the hoodoo and proved by their careful planning and almost 20 feet apart along the “spokes” and maintained the orderly shape of the crowd with an almost imperceptible minimum of effort. unnoticeable control that hundreds of* aisles leading out like spokes from the pyramid platform which was the speakers’ center. The soldiers stood assembled in one great cheering multitude—half a million people maitaining perfect order while tremendous peace-time demon- strations of all ages? Can you picture the tens of thousands of children in bright red trunks, hundreds of thous- ands of workers in long Rus- sian blouses‘ of blue or white, young Communists in smart black leather suits with red badges, soldiers in many kinds of uniforms, and scattering people from all parts of the world in their picturesque costumes? Then maybe you can begin to see the thrilling throng which filled the Houdinka field for the commemora- tion of the first anniversary of the Russian Federal Union. For the first participating in one of the most | More than 500 foreign delegates to the Communist International's Fifth Congress moved down the aisles thru |the great crowd and ascended the low- est stage of the platform pyramid. The Central Executive Committee of the Comintern climbed to places on jthe second platform, above the mass jof delegates. Trotzky and Bukharin were not present yet. Cheers Like Thunder. } Then with a terrific roar the crowd jacclaimed the arrival of Zinoviev, at- tended by a guard of honor. The ap- plause ceased for a few minutes while the chairman of the Executive Com- mittee of the Comintern mounted to + the highest stage of the pyramid, but jit broke out again upon his reappear- ; ance at the top, | The platform-pyramid was a gro- (Continued on page 2.) | Big Street Meet Tonight. The Northwest branch of the Work. time in 30 years this field, used now|¢rs Party will hold an iteresting for aviation, was the scene of a great| Street meeting at the corner of North population demonstration. Not since|Ave. and Rockwell St. tonight at 8 the tragic day of the coronation of the|0’clock. Any one who lives in the yvi- ezar in 1894, when thousands of work-|cinity or who wants to hear a good, ers were trampled to death by soldiers|live talk, be on the scene promptly, and their horses, has the field been| advises Sadie Goniek, secretary of the used for a public celebration, but the Northwest branch, ‘ the workers, there is only one course left open for the Com=-,_., __.