The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 102. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. MCDONALD PLEADS FOR BANKERS 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 17, 1924 Bys> 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents Planning to Send U. S. Warships to Brazil GERMAN RIGHT WING LEADER MARES REPORT Admits October Errors in Speech to Comintern Editors Note: Heinrich Brandler, leader of the right wing of the Ger- man Comunist Party appears be- fore the Comintern in today’s re- port from our Moscow correspon- dent. Brandler, admits some mis- takes in connection with the Ger- man party’s tactics in the revolu- tionary crisis last October, but de- fends himself against accusations from the left that he is using me- thods of the petty bourgeoisis. #8 (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 23 (By Mail) —After the opening of the seventh session today Heinrich Brandler stated that he was not appearing, as a delinquent and _ a convict, to make a speech de- fending himself, but simply to make an answering report. This report ought to clear up the questions of whether he be- trayed the German revolution, of whether he was responsible for the October debacle, of whether he allied himself with petty-bourgeois, — social-demo- cratic croups, of whether he __Strove for a revision of Lenin's théory of the state. The speaker says that he be- lieyes that he was only carrying out the political policy of the Third and Fourth Congress and that he considers this policy correct now without any re- vision at all. The speaker recognizes that he. made serioys mistakes, but he had to fight the October legend in order to quicken the healing process. The chief reasons for the October retreat were, that we undertook the wrong task, that we used in- correct tactics, and that we estimated our proportionate strength incorrectly. The plan was laid out conjointly. Wanted to Change Party. The speaker sketches his activities in the Communist Party of Germany after the Rathenau affair. He wanted to make the party Communistic, for at that time the expression ‘“Bolshe- vistication” was not yet current. The chief task was to change the party idealogically and structurally so that it might take over power, and for this he made the necessary preparations. _ The organization of shop councils, of control committees, of centuries, the reorganization of the party on the ba- sis of shop nuclei—all this proves that he is no petty bourgeois, After the severe defeats of the proletariat, he wanted to prepare the party thoroly, since to fight only in order to get a beating is anti-Communistic, There was very little discussion on the sub- jects of party organization and the dictatorship of the proletariat, which was a mistake, but a great deal was actually done, Admits Mistakes, _ The speaker admits that he made a mistiike when he did not try to span the gap between Berlin and the party as a whole thru the admittance of Masslow and Ruth Fischer into. the Central Committee. At the time of the Cuno government it might have been possible to mobilize the masses successfully to organize shop councils and control committees in Thuringia, (Continued on page 3.) Kleagle Young Kieked Out. EAST ST. LOUIS, IIL, July 16— S. G enn Young, former Ku Klux Klan booze-chaser and anti-miners’ union fighter, has been removed from his ) temporary and assumed job of “klea- gle” ig Herrin and for Williamson county. Young was ousted “because he exceeded his authority as a klan off- cer in publishing statements regard- ing an official of the United States government.” \ “fighting Bob” Evans, only a little less notorious than Young, takes his nlace RUSSIA (Report of Speech Delivered MRADES :—It was my months of 1921 in Sovie vestigations, I declared upn m; had won the day. my judgment in 1921. victory. Even the capitalists pelled to recognize that. smashed a great breach in the ism. The exploiters can neve (Continued o: WORST INJUNCTION By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER I studied the situation diligently with all thé resources at my command. I tried to see things as they were, not as I would like them to be. And finally, as a result of my in- that, in my judgment, the Russian revolution was a success; that it had already surmounted difficulties pronounced alto- gether impossible, and that, even though it were still faced with problems utterly staggering in their immensity and com- plexity, the same invincible spirit that had carried the re- volution onward to that point in the face of the most tre- mendous obstacles, would carry it still further, in spite of every barrier, until the final victory is achieved. and said that the revolution had met its greatest tasks and Tonight I am glad to tell you that I was not mistaken in I was not then carried away by a re- volutionary optimism that blinded me to fatal realities, as many of our Liberal, Socialist, and Syndicalist friends said. The Russian revolution is a success. I can say that now with utmost assurance, upon my return from a six weeks’ stay in Russia in April and May of this year. The valiant Russian Communists have fought the thing through to unmistakable The Russian working class have widen and widen until finally the great proletarian flood pours through and overwhelms the capitalist class all over IN 1924 in Chicago, July 16, 1924.) good fortune to spend four t Russia. While I was there y return to the United States I believed of the world have been com- wall of international capital- r patch it up again. It will m Page Six) IN CHICAGO HISTORY GRANTED WESTERN UNION; CRIME FOR INDIVIDUALS TO QUIT Slavery days have returned again in all their former glory if the injunc- | tion granted yesterday by Judge Wilkinson of the Federal District Court in Chicago to Western Union Telegraph company is upheld by higher courts. Judge Wilkinson’s injunction makes it unlawful for an individual to quit work when his quitting will hinder t! Telegraph company. he operations of the Western Union The unions affected directly by the injunction are the International Brotherhood of Hlectrical Workers, Local 135, the Bricklayers and Plasterers BIG OIL CROOK DOESN'T WANT TO TELL CRIMES Sinclair Asks Court to Keep Him Off Stand (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 16.—Harry F. Sinclair has lost the first round of his fight in the federal courts to avoid testifying on the Teapot Dome oil fraud before the senate public lands committee, He will carry the case to the supreme court. Jugtice Hoehling of the District of Columbia federal court has ruled that the senate of the United States may require answers to questions put to Sinclair by its committee, For his refusal to answer he was indicted on ten counts by a federal grand jury on March 31. Sin- ‘ctair's lawyers, headed by Martin W. Littleton of New York, who had defied the Walsh committee, moved to quagh the indictment on the ground that congress had no constituional right to question unwilling witnesses, even tho they do not plead the peril of incrim- inating themselves, Justice Hoehling declares that con- gress has the right to get information by testimony secured in the usual manner of investigations. » Meanwhile congress has adjourned and the committee has rendered its report. Hearings will be reopened in December in order that Sinclair's tes- timony may be had, unless the su- preme court is still toying with the question of his rights as against the committee, f slnntegenciaiabanani Typographical Convention Aug. 11. TORONTO, July 16.—The 69th ses- sion of the International Typographi- cal union opens in Toronto.Aug. 11. locals 5 and 6, the I. A. of Marble Slate and Stone Workers, the Plum- bers and Steamfitters, the Elevator constructors, and three locals of the Structural Iron Workers. The injunction grew out of a one- day strike of electrical and other union workers on the 23-story Illinois Mercantile Trust company building, May 27. The union electrical workers, masons, plasterers, marble workers and many of the other building crafst- men quit the job when the non-unon employes of the Western Union, ac- companied by gunmen, came on the premises to install call bells and ticker service wires. The architects and the union officials tried to settle the matter then. The union (offered to drag out the wires installed by non-union men, free of charge, and put in the new wiring on contract, but the company refused. It then ap- pealed to the court to enjoin the unions from quitting work on other buildings when its non-union workers (Continued on next page.) LAUDS MORGAN PLAN AT MEET International. Unity Is Urged for Investors (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 16.—Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald, in his keynote speech at the opening of the fifteenth post-war inter- allied conference today, lauded the Dawes plan and pleaded for adequate guafantees to the in- ternational — bankers who will float the $200,000,000 loan pro- posed ky the experts for the economic restoration of anti- Communist Germany. His remarks were listened to with great satisfaction by Owen D: Young, president of Morgan’s General JHlectrice company. Young will probably be made agent-general of reparations if the Dawes plan is indorsed. MacDonald’s speech was regarded as a pledge to the Morgan interests | that the military resources of Eng. |land will be used, if necessary, to ex- jact the blood money, should the Ger- |mans default from poverty to revolu- \tion. It was also a declaration to the allied nations that the international bankers ex} them to quit their squabbles to pool their re- | sources in support of the program out- lined in the Dawes report. | “Noble Words,” Says Herriot. Premier Herriot of France, in.a non- commital speech, thanked his col- | league for his “noble words,” and said |that he believed the interests of the |various peoples concerned could be conciliated. The difference of opinion, which Herriot is veiling during the earlier discussions of the conference, relate to the question of priority of |interest on the loan or reparations. The international bankers are in- sisting that interest on their loans shall come first and reparations sec- ond. Ramsay MacDonald shares this view, but the Frenchmen insist that reparations shall come first. Bankers Come First. Furthermore, the French are de- manding that Great Britain make a specific pledge of military assistance to France should she clash with Ger- many or other nations. They declare that the English promises are too gen- eral in character, so far as aid to France is concerned. The British gov- ernment, they say, is willing to inti- mate that she will take measures against a Germany which defaults in itates when asked to pledge definite military assistance to France. In other words, England is more con- cerne with the security of the inter- national bankers’ loans than she is with the safety of her late ally, they charge. Want Germany in League. .The MacDonaldites are also urging that Germany be brought into the League of Nations. This the French eve opposed to. MacDonald believes that Germany should’ be restored to a sound financial position in order that (Continued on next page.) OGDEN ARMOUR SHOVES INDEBTED ELEVATORS ON BANKRUPT FARMERS The J, Ogden Armour company, and a banking group centering around the Chase National Bank have just unloaded a $26,000,000 “co-operative” Grain Marketing company on the farmers of the country. The largest concern selling out to the farmers—and selling the farmers out—is the J. Ogden Armour Grain company. J. Ogden Armour was reported practically bankrupt before the consuma- tion of this deal, whereby the farmers banking syndicate to buy into a wrecked coricern. J. corporation, Davis, L. Nolan, Merrill Grain com- pany of Kansas City are also members of the banking group, which unloaded the bankrupt Armour Grain company onto the farmers’ organizations. Armour was so hard up that he haa to sell his real estate, his home, and most of his stock holdings which were the largest in the city, Armour had nm forced out of the Armour pack- ing company by the bankers, were induced to make a deal with the The Rosenbaum Grain ©.‘ Staffer ‘and theo—————— ee Jost $20,000,000 for the Armour Grain company, and went heavily in debt to the bankers. They have now suc- ceeded in selling his wrecked con- cern to the already bankrupt farm- ers. The obligations and responsibil- ities of the Armour Grain company have been shifted to other shoulders, while the bankers, as managing direc- tors of the ew combine, retain con- He| trol of the.new corporation, LABOR PREMIER | her payments to the bankers, but hes- | AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL GOVERNMENT DEFEAT TO BRING IN LABOR (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 16—The Austra- lian government has fallen thru an adverse vote in the commons, said a dispatch tonight from Melbourne. The Labor Party probably will form a new government. WORKERS PARTY NAMES ILLINOIS TICKET FOR FALL Dunne Up for Governor, Loeb for Secretary William F. Dunne was nomi- nated to run for governor of Illinois, at the Workers Party nominating conference held Tuesday night, when the Com- munist campaign for the fall elections in _ Illinois was launched. * é The campaign of the Workers Party thru-out Illinois this year jis expected to clarify the badly muddled Illinois political situa- tion. Len Small, the republican governor, has been indorsed by the reactionary state federation ‘of labor officials. : The socialists announce that they will not run a state ticket this year if a LaFollette man runs on an inde- pendent ticket. A LaFollette state ticket is expected to be chosen at the stae convention called by the Confer- ence for Progressive Political ction, to take place in the Auditorium, July 27. In the face of the lackeys of big business running on the two old party |tickets, and the represntatives of lit- tle business running on the LaFollette ticket, supported by the socialists, Dunne will carry the slogan of “All power to the workers” into the polit- ical fray. Gordon Owens has been nominated for congress from the First congres- sional district; Sam Hammersmark, of the DAILY WORKER, for the Sev- enth congressional district; George Maurer, for the Eighth congressional district; J. W. Johnstone for the Ninth congressional district; J. Pelle- grino for the Sixth congressional dis- trict, and for the Fourth congression- al district the candidate will be chosen later, 5 In Electrical Workers’ Union. Bach branch and City Central Com- |mittee in the state will select a cam- paign committee, which will work jointly within each congressional dis- trict and each county. William F. Dunne is a member of the Electrical Workers’ Union, and was expelled from his place as dele- gate to the Portland convention of the A. F. of L. for being a Communist. Dunne will speak thruout the state, raising the stdndard of militant trade unionism and Communism in the face of Len Small, indorsed by the Gomp- ers labor fakirs of Illinois, ~ Miner for Second Place. John Watt of Springfield, Ill., secre- tary of Sub-district 4, United Mine Workers of America, has been chosen for lieutenant governor. Moritz J. Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER, will run on the Workers Party ticket for secretary of state, He is a member of the draftsmen's union. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, is the nominee for United States senator from Illinois. Bentall for Attorney. For congressman at large, state of Illinois, E. B. Hewlet, coal miner from ‘West’Frankfort, Ill, and Robert Mi- nor, editor of the Liberator, will rep- resent the Workers Party. D. J. Bentall, Chicago attorney, has been named for attorney general of Illionis. Twenty-nine candidates were to be nominated for presidential elec- tors. Minnesota State Federation. FARIBAULT, Minn., July 16.—The Minnesota State Federation of Labor opens its annual convention in Far- ibault July 21 | j ‘PRETEXT’ FOR (Special to The WASHINGTON, D. C., July to Santos, Brazil, as soon as de cuse. that there has been tremendous damage in the fighting. the Caribbean, political troubles of anyone of the various small Central or South American countries of- fered the pretext for the Amer- ican imperialists’ advance. Woodrow Wilson sent the United such action, and countless times the sugar trust has called*out American army and navy assistance in Cuba, Porto Rico, Panama, etc., to settle the particular country’s difficulty in the trust's favor. Armour Plant in Santos. Armour and company, the biggest of the “Big Five” packers, has a tre- mendous plant at Santos. Besides American capitalists have great coffee heldings in southern Brazil. With the advance of the rebel army upon Santos, it is quite likely that the Armour and other American |send for protection States warships. U. S. Arms in Six. United States armed forces back| run Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Pa-| nama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. The army, navy, and marines have} not yet been permanently stationed} in Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia where American agents run the government's finances. Guat- emala, Costa Rica, and Mexico have their policies dominated by American interests, altho they Have no official financial aid appointed from the United States. Brazil to Follow. Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela have evaded direct American financial control so far, but American capitalists have gobbled up big chunks of their land and gone in for wholesale exploita- tion of their rich resources and the ited le of these countries, ob- serving the absorption by the United} States of the control of the govern- ments about them have been trem- blingly waiting for their own day of fate. It seems that Brazil's is at hand and that the “friendly” United States| will usurp one more Latin American | country to her capitalists’ interests | under the elastic Monroe Doctrine, | which never did anybody but the United States imperialists any good. Oklahoma Labor Meet, Sept. 15. MUSKOGEE, Okla., July f6.—The Oklahoma State Federation of Labor opens it 21st annual convention in MACHINISTS! READ STATEMENT OF YOUR PROBLEMS ON PAGE 4 All members of the International Association of Machinists will be interested in the statement on the coming convention, to be held in Detroit, starting Sept. 15th, issued by the International Committee for Amalgamation in the Metal Trades. This statement is published in full on page four, it is a complete st ment of the problems facing the |. A. of M. at ite coming conven- tion, and the attitude of the left wing towards these problems; The measures for which the Trade Un- jon Educational League militants will fight are outlined, and the whole document is of vital impor- tance to metal trades militants. Read itl States marines to Vera Cruez when} the American oil interests required | agents urged the American consul to} from United} up the American financial agents who} STATE DEPARTMENT AWAITING TURNING GUNS ON SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY Daily Worker) 16.—The department of state in- timated today that it would:soof send United States warships velopments there gave them ex- For the present the state department will not act on the appeal of the American consul at Santos because of the lack of approval by the American embassy at Rio de Janeiro. The political rebels of Sao Paulo and Santos, the coffee capital, guaranteed “adequate protection” to foreign interests but the meagre reports which have escaped the censor indicate loss of life and possibly property, The United States state department has never before hesi- tated to send its warships into southern waters, particularly into whenever the* HEARST SHEET PUT ON UNFAIR LIST BY LABOR Central Body Condemns | “P.-I.” as Scab.Goods | (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) EVERETT, Wash, July 16.— Hearst's Post-Intelligencer is on the- unfair list of the Everett Central La- bor Council. ~The action was tdken at the last meeting on the request of fuses to handle the “P.-I". The Ever- jett typographical union had already voted to assess a fine of $20 against any member caught reading the rat sheet. Everett’s decision is expected to be followed by the central bodies in Bellingham, Anacortes and other Sound ports and will seriously cut down the circulation of the “P.-I.” it is believed thru the entire northwest |from Vancouver to Portland and Spo- kane. Council’s Statement. The resolution adopted by the Bver- ett council indicts the “P.-I.” manage |ment in the following terms: “Whereas, The management of the Seattle P.-I. has forced a strike and walkout upon employes in three of the mechanical departments of that paper; and “Whereas, Introduction of gun- men occurred after said employes had endeavored for six months to negotiate a\contract which manag- ers and owners of the three other dailies of the city signed, and was intended to intimidate employes and _ compel them to work three hours longer and for $3 less each week than employes of the other pa- pers; and “Whereas, The acts and words of the manager and owner since the strike and walkout have not squared up with their acts and words, or with the printed words of their pa- per, as expressed when they posed as friends of workers and produc- ers, but have given the lie direct to their former words and acts; and “Whereas, The Central Labor council of Seattle, at the request of the Allied Printing Trades, has placed said) paper on the unfair list; and “Whereas, The Newsboys’ Union of Everett, whose members have been humiliated by the oft-repeat- ed charge that they are scabs be- cause they continue to sell that pa- per, and have voted it unfair and have requested the Everett Central Labor council to concur in their ac- tion; therefore be it “Resolved, That we hereby con- cur in their action, and that dele- gates call special attention of their locals to the matter.” UNFAIR IN BREMERTON, BREMERTON, Wash.,—The Seattle Post-lntelligencer, Hearst's non-union {morning daily, is on the unfair list of the Bremerton Trades & Labor coun- cil, It went there by unanimous vote of the delegates when they heard how Hearst was paying his men less than the unteascale, which is observed by all other Seattle dailies, and how he wanted to work his force longer than the union hours, Newsboys’ Union No. 17,519 which re-_. were ome