The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il..No. 98. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. D> 290 THE DAILY WORKER. 5 Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cente per Copy. Price 5c HEER COMMUNIST CHALLENGE Enthusiasm Greets Launching in Chicago of Foster--Gitlow Ticket by the Workers Party RUTHENBERG AND FOSTER ELECTED TOCOMINTERN Dunne Represents U. S. Party in Moscow (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, July 11.—The exe- cutive committe elected by the Communist International before the party congress adjourned consists of able revolutionary strategists. The Russian representatives include such leaders of the Sov- iet government as Alexis I. Ry- kov, Gregory S. Zinoviev, Leo Kamenev, M. Stalin and Nikolai Bucharin,” These men belong to the old Bolshevik guard which engineered the prole- tarian revolution. The American representatives are two seasoned revolutionists, William Z. Foster and C, E. Ruthenberg, chair- man and secretary of the Workers Party with William F. Dunne as alter- nate. Dunne and Philip Aaronberg haye been put in the Control Com- Dunne at C. |. Headquarters. Dunne will officially represent the party at the Communist International headquarters during the coming year. Foster, Workers Party candidate for President of the United States, and Ruthenberg, party secretary, will re- main in America. Dunne’s experience in the trade union movement is ex- pected to be of great use to the in- ternational movement. The trade un- ion questiém has assumed tremend- ous importance in key countries which may fall into line with Soviet Russia by setting up workers’ and po dal governments in the near future. In ‘Germany, especially, the ques- tionjof Communist policy in the trade unions has become most vital. There the Communist International is direct- ing the workers to stay within yellow unions wherever it is possible in. or- der that the radicals who must lead the revolution may not be divided from their fellows. Only Revolutionary Force. The Communist International is go- ing into the next year of struggle against the international capitalists with a confidence that comes from strength and from a knowledge of revolutionary tactics based on the party’s experience in the last years. It is the one internationally revolu- tionary force, organized to overcome the common enemy. War Vet Tries Suicide. For the second time in two years Robert Williams, retired Canadian soldier today attempted to end his life by jumping into the Chicago River from the same spot on the Monroe street bridge and at almost the ident- ical hour he jumped into the river two years ago. Bridge tenders Boyle and Kennedy, who saved Williams in 1922, saved him again today. HUGHES’ “VACATION ~TN LONDON SEEN NOW AS POLITICAL MOVE (Special to The DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, July 11.—Secre- tary of State Hughes today cleared his desk in the state department preparatory to sailing tomorrow for London, where he will attend the meeting of the bar association in London. Strictly speaking, Hughes Is on a vacation, but diplomatic quarters here believe his European trip may prove of prime political importance, particularly because of the allied premiers’ conference on the Dawes ‘plan for Germany and possibly be- A of Hughes’ proposed alliance Fra England, and America to ‘one policy. i - © , By THOMAS J. O'FLAHERTY. WALL STREET’S BAIT (Drawn Especially for the Daily Worker, by K. A. Suvanto.) Two Angleworms. Big Start for Communist Campaign By KARL REEVE. Cheers and enthusiasm greeted the berg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, made at Wicker Park Hall, that the Communists would have their own presidential ticket in the fall elections. The solidarity of the party mem- bership behind William Z. Foster, candidate for president, and Benja- min Gitlow, for vice president, was again manifested by the shouts of enthusiasm which greeted the state- ment of Edgar Owens, Detroit dis. trict organizer, that: “Our program and our standard bearers will make our task very y. With such a program and such a ticket we will not have to explain that we are a Communist Party.” But when Charles Krumbein, the chairman, made his collection ap- peal, the audience which packed the hall had a chance to demonstrate that their cheers for the Workers Party and for the newly nominated Communist candidates were genu- ine expressions of deep felt enthu- siasm. Harry E. Greenwood of the Mid-City Branch started the pede of donations by calling out, “I gave $10 to the Farmer-Labor cam- paign, and I'll give $25 to the Com- munist campaign.” ,Within 15 min. utes $220 in cash had been collect- ed and $1,026 pledged by the party organizations represented in the audie The Bank Clerks’ union pledged $10; the Amalgamated Clothing Workers group of the T. U. E. L., $20, and Workers Party branches as follows: Lettish, $150; Northwest- ern Jewish, $100; German, $25; South Side English, $100; the North- west English, $50; North Side Eng- lish, $100; the Chicago Herald Com- mune to be located in Ru the Junior C. C. C., $10; the Rus- sian Branch, $25; South Slavic, $50 In cash; Cicero, $10; Douglas Park Jewish, $50; Finnish Branch, $100; Mid-City English, $30; Young Work. ers League, $25; Maplewood Y, W. L., $20; Rykov Y. W. L., $20; Doug- las Park English, $25; Englewood English Branch, $20; Marshfield Ju- nior, $1; Garfield Park English, Cicero, $10; Pullman, $25. ifter promising his utmost efforts to make. the first national election campaign of the Workers Party a success, declared this elec- tion campaign the most significant of recent years. ¥, “One important difference in this campaign is that ther parties ins “Many of the farmers and workers are following the false leader, La- Follette. He IS a false leader, rep- resnting the petty bourgeois. Nev- iss it is greatly Ificant that masses of workers have taken a step to the left and deserted the two old parties of big business. “The first national campaign of the Communist Party of America will make this election campaign stand out as a landmark of history,” , amid stormy Foster expressed his deep pleas- ure at the reception of the news of the Communist ticket by the rank and file. “The C. E. C. wondered if the rank and file would unde ind the necessity of this difficult maneu. ver. You have given the answer.” Again Foster was loudly applauded. “When I say that this campaign will be conducted under the banner of the Workers Party | mean under the Red Flag. We're going to make it a real Communist campaign. “The minds of the people are open in this campaign as never before. We must reach them with our prop- aganda—make it a revolutionary campaign. Hundreds of thousands will hear the Comunist message. If we double our membership in this campaign it will be a réal Commun. ist victory.” Benjamin Gitiow, in accepting the nomination for vice president, there is a 8 impending In the United States. “Millons of workers will soon be walking the streets looking for work,” said Gitlow. “They will be filling the lodging houses and walk- ing in the bread lines, The open shop drive in this crisis will gain new momentum. The capitalists will soon reduce the wages and lengthen the hours of the workers. Resistance to the open shop drive will be savagely and brutally sup- pressed by both the Republican and Democratic parties. The Worke Party is the only party which rais its banner squarely with the work- ers against the coming open shop drive.” s Send in that Subseription Today. + in a presidential election. meeting that gathered in Wicker } by everybody in the hall, brough’ SMEARED OVER SECY. HUGHES Record in Java Field Uncovered by Dutch (By The Federated Press.) | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 11.| —Sinclair oil interests were jealously a by Secre- tary of State Colby and by Sec- retary of State Hughes, when, in ‘ol v of oil field of Djambi, in Java, was planned by a big syndicate known as the Bataafsche, early in 1921, as shown by a series of notes between William Phillips, then minister to the Nether- lands, and Dr. H. A. van Karne- beek, foreign minister to Queen Wilhelmina. These notes have been published in Senate Docu- ment No. 97, 69th Congress, first session. How the pressure was applied is illustrated by this note sent by | Phillips to Van Karnebeek on April 25, 1921: “I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I have just received a further telegraphic instruction from the Secretary of State advising me that in view of the wide pulicity which the matter of the Djambi con- cession is receiving in the United States, the practical exclusion of American interests from the Dutch oil industry would create an unfavorable impression and a situation of general discour- agement to prospective Amer- SINCLAIR OIL The Workers Party has hurled the challenge of Communism in the teeth of American capitalism by. nominating candidates Its standard bearers are William Z. Foster, for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, for vice-president. This was the announcement-that set the large membership Park Hall wild with enthusiasm. There was nothing mechanical about the demonstration that started when C. E. Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers Party, in a speech that was listened to with intense interest and silence it the audience to its feet, when he declared that the Workers Party, the party of Communism in the United States, had replied to the betrayal of the working class by the Conference for Progressive Political Action and the yellow socialists, by entering the polit- ical arena in the coming elec- tions with its own candidates, to bring the Communist message home to the workers and ex- ploited farmers of America. Feels Revolutionary Enthusiasm. The writer has witnessed many Workers Party meetings that were better attended, but not since the days when the revolutionary workers of America were aroused by the vic- torious Russian revolution has he seen @ meeting that showed by its action not alone that it was thrilled with the prospect of making a straight fight in the coming elections, but that also |gave a practical demonstration of its enthusiasm when the collection was taken up. After all that is the real test of whether an audience is behind the purpose for which the meeting is called or not. Over $1,500 in cash and |pledges were taken when Comrade Charles Krumbein, district organizer York, appealef-for funds. alone did the audience cheer for the overthrow of capitalism, the So- viet Republic and the dictatorship of the proletariat, but they showed a de- termination to back up their beliefs with hard work and the sinews of war. Labor Party Idea Betrayed. “The Labor Party movement was betrayed by the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action,” declared Ruthenberg in the keynote speech. “But the Workers Party had no part in the betrayal. “The Workers Party has carried on exploited workers and farmers togeth- er for joint political action in a class farmer-labor party. This effort has been sabotaged by the labor fakers, (Continued on page 2.) BAD CONDITIONS ARE LAID BARE BY AUTO WORKER Happy, Tho Fired for ican participants in other branches of Dutch industry.” Couldn’t Stall Oil Secretary. Van Karnebeek, in reply, assured Phillips that the Djambi concession was the only one from which foreign interests were to be in any way dis- couraged; there were other rich fields in the Dutch East Indies to which American capitalists would be wel- come, Answering this excuse, on May 11, (Continued on Page 2.) THIS IS THE SPIRIT! HERE'S STARTING THE CAMPAIGN WITH PUNCH July 11, 1924, Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. Dear Comrades — Inclosed find check for $10 which we pledged last night at the opening of the Work. ers Party election campaign. Realizing the important and his. toric step that our party is taking, we further pledge ourselves to work to our utmost In this paign, both in the raising of more money and in the election campaign. RAISE AND FOLLOW UP TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION THE SLOGAN OF “ON TQ A 100,000 MEMBERSHIP.” Fraternally yours, RYKOV BRANCH OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, Hyman Siegel, Branch Organizer, Reading Daily Worker The DAILY WORKER has received a letter from Felix R. Belle; of Green Bay, Wis. who says he is “still very “happy for get- ing the black slip” for reading the only working class daily newspaper in English in the United States, the DAILY WORKER. Belle writes: “Dropping you fel- lows a line to let you know that I Felix R. Belle was one of the DAILY WORKER family in the Willys-Overland plant in the city of Toledo. I put in a complaint about their making slaves in their lumber yard in West Toledo and also in the auto plant. Not even drinking water in thejr lumber yard that is fit for a dog to drink. I also got expelled for reading the DAILY WORKER at the plant. I am still very happy for getting the black slip. We all have to fight now. For the DAILY WORK- ER.” FELIX R. BELLE. Remember “Riverview, August admitting the holder to the Worke: ing reduced rates on many of the an energetic campaign to bring the) of the Workers Party Press Picnic this year. the Intersection of Western and Belmont Avenues. | CHEER GARMENT MILITANTS FOR BARING TREASON Rank and File Furious. at Leaders’ Betrayal (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK CITY, July 11.— The strike of about 1,500 cap- makers of the Wholesale As- sociation members’ shops may end this week. The strike of men’s clothing workers is also near its end. And the so-called strike of nearly 50,000 cloak- |makers was actually ended be- fore it was called when Governor Smith's mediation committee, with the consent of the union officials, granted the cloak job- bers another concession, after which the agreement was ac- cepted. At a conference of capmakers’ union officials with the Whole- sale Cap Manufacturers’ As- sociation held yesterday, an un- derstanding was reached. The bosses agreed to pay three per cent of thé Wages to an uhem., ployment fund. The demand that employers be not permitted to work was referred to arbitration. The strikers and bosses are to meet tomorrow and decide on jacceptance of the agreement. | Settlement with the mens’ cloth- jing manufacturers up to this time |have been signed by about eight per jcent of the bosses, with the same jagreements as signed by the Cloth- jing Exchange Association. Drop Label. The last concession which union | officials of the cloakmakers granted to the jobbers, permits the jobbers to |buy ready-made garments in out of | town shops not carrying the so-called sanitary labels. This opens channels for cloak jobbers to evade real union control. The strike of cloakmakers called was for reorganization purposes, and to compel independent manufacturers to sign agreements as recommended by the Governor’s commission. T. U. E. L. Exposed Deal. Members of the Trade Union Bdu- cational League, thru the DAILY WORKER and the Jewish Freiheit, discloséd the concessions to the cloak jobbers which, union officials tried to hide from the rank and file. The un- ion leaders resented the disclosure and attacked the Freiheit and the Trade Union Educational League et all mass meetiags held yesterday. Cheer Freiheit and T. U. E. L. At the big mass meeting in the Manhattan Lyceum yesterday, Inter- national vice-president Seidman read a Freiheit editorial on the conces- sons. Instead of enraging the work- ers against the Fretheit and the T. U. EB. L., the meeting turned into @ cheering demonstration for the left wing spokesman, tho the betraying union officials were hissed and booed. President Sigman and other officials attacked the left wing and its papers at other mass meetings, but were com- pelled to admit the secret concessions —uncovered and diselosed by the Trade Union Educational League mili- tants—had really been granted to the jobbers. Brazilian Rebels Hold City. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Arminius T. Haeberle, American consul at Sao Paulo, where a revolution is in prog- ress, reported to the state department today that the entire city is now in the hands of revolutionists and the governor of the state has fled the city. RIVERVIEW, AUGUST 10th 10th.” That is the place and date Riverview Park is at Tickets are 350, rs Party Press Picnic and also giw Riverview rides.