The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND Vol. II. No. 106. FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. mail, $8.00 per year. Bs 290 Published Daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., (32 _ RUSH IN YOUR ORDER FOR SATURDAY’S “ANTI-WAR SPECIAL”~ORDER BLANK ON PAGE TWO “<1 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1924- by THE DA Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. ILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS TOLD OF RUHR STRIKERS KEEP CAR SHOP SHUT; WON'T GIVE IN Hegewisch Workers Meet this Morning Workmen in the departments of the Western Steel Car Foundry company not on strike were sent home yesterday, be- cause the five hundred striking heaters, riveters, reamers, fit- ters and steel workers have completely tied up production in the plant. _ The strikers held a mass meeting in Ginosky’s Hall, 32059 Houston Avenue, where plans were laid to present the demands of the strikers to the company today. A co ittee of the striking heater boys re- jected offers of the company for a compromise settlement yesterday. Jack McCarthy, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER, spoke to the strikers yesterday morning. He urged them to get the other departments out on strike and promised the sup- port of the DAILY WORKER. Mc- Carthy urged the men to join the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, de- claring the union would strengthen the strikers, The strikers held a noon-time shop meeting in front of the gates of the steel company, at which Jack McCar- thy and Frank Buckley, industrial or- ganizer of the Young League, were the speakers, A strikers’ mass méeting will be held this morning at which the strike committee will be instructed what de- mands to make of thé company offi- cials when the committee meets with them today. a 50 per cent reduction of wages. They declare they will not return to work at a cent less than the old rate of pay. FARMERS WARNED TO KEEP OUT OF BANKERS’ TRUST “Co-operative” Grain Company a Fake The warning of C. F. Osborne, presi- dent of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union, that farmers should not purchase stock in the “co-operative” grain com- pany forme in Chicago at a cap'tal ization of $26,000,000, adds another bit of evidence that the merger of five big rain companies will aid only the bankers. The Armour Grain Company, one of he biggest companies to “sell out to he farmers,” was practically a bank- ‘upt corporation before the merger. jeden Armour had sold his property nd mast of his securities, which were ong the most valiable in Chicago. packing interests he relinquished the bankers long ago. Thru grain peculation Armour recently lost $20,- 100,000. This grain company, tho still aring his name, had already been aken oyer by the Chase National jank group of creditors who com- leted the merger. And now comes another reason why he bankers so altruistically, under he guidance of the Wall Street ulture, Bernard Baruch, “turned over o the farmers” most of the grain levators of the country, The farmers ho buy stock in the combine are PUTTING IT OVER FOR WALL STREET Workers The men are striking because the company tried to put over ot only purchasing holdings at repro- uction cost minus depreciation, or at he sellers price. They are also buy- into a trust controlled by Wall treet bankers, Thru dummy directors and thru the aws of the corporation which they oncocted the bankers have retained ntrol of the grain companies. They ave simply taken advantage of the ‘p-operative marketing laws to evade titpyst laws and set up another j Drawn by Wilfred Canan for The Federated Press and The Daily Worker.) $2,000,000,000 CAL SPENT FOR WAR LAST YEAR WOULD HAVE DONE WONDERS FOR WORKERS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) What could a genuine Labor government in the United States have accomplished with lute free disposal? over $2,000,000,000 at its abso- The Coolidge administration had this chance last year and wasted on peacetime war expenditures. employment for at least 1,800, Funds to provide 000 jobless workers at current wages, or a 20 percent wage increase all around to the 9,000,000 workers in industry, or complete restoration of the farmers’ pur- time contribution to war could year ending June 30, 1924, the administration reveals that they absorbed $2,357,000,418 out of total ordinary expend- itures of about $3,350,000,000. This waste of national income in providing for past and future wars (Continued on next page.) To All War OMRADES! Proletariang! In a few weeks we shall be cel- ebrating the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the war. On the 4th of August ten years will have elapsed since the commencement of the slaughter of the peoples. Four years of war, six years of after-war time lie behind us. Yet the wounds caused by the war are not yet healed. The results of the war are not yet overtome. There are almost ten million in- jured, mutilated, sick and invalided. There are fourteen million widows, orphans and mothers who have lost their breadwinners and who are now exposed to hunger and misery. Whole armies of unemployed, battallions of people without shelter, have been created by the war of the capitalist chasing power would be available if the country’s annual peace- be saved. In boasting of an in- |finitesimal reduction in these war expenditures for the fiscal + Do Your Part Next Week; Communist Anti-War Week SIGMAN SURRENDER DENOUNCED BY RANK AND FILE WORKERS T. U. E. L. Statement Hits Betrayal of New "York loakmakers NEW YORK, July 21.—Cloakmakers in this city are demanding that the officials explain the surrender of all the famous “ten demands” without a fight. In all meetings the officials are being faced by an angry membership, which feels that it has been betrayed. The Trade Union Educational League, needle trades section of New York, has issued a statement on the settlement, which is becoming the center of the crystallizing revolt against the sur- render. The statement of the League reads: TO ALL CLOAKMAKERS: Brothers and Sisters: The officials of our union haye taken it upon themselves to sur- (Continued on next page.) MISSOURI FL BACKS FIGHT OF FOSTER-GITLOW Endorse State Ticket of Workers Party (Special to the Daily Worker.) ST. LOUIS, July 21.—No compromise with LaFollette and the bankers and manufact- urers behind him! This was the spirit of the executive com- mittee of the Missouri Farmer- Labor Party meeting here when they decided to get behind the national and state tickets of the Workers Party. The action is in line with that of the SOVIET PRESS SEES U. S. SECRETARIES SHYLOCKS AFTER EUROPE’S FLESH (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, July 21.—The Soviet press sets no good for Europe in the presence of two secretaries from the United States at one time. The lzvestia carries a cartoon of Hughes comfortably. smoking a huge cigar. A steamer trunk la- belled “European debts” occuples the center of the conference coun- cil table and upsets the ink and pa- pers., Herriot and MacDonald look glumly on while Hughes remarks: “Il hope, gentlemen, | don’t dis- turb you.” The Pravda’s editorial “Atherican Imperialism Puts Forth a Hand,” re- iterates that the Dawes plan and the presence of the two American secre- taries, Hughes and Mellon, at the time of the London conference, means that American capitalists are stepping forward toward economic domination of Europe. The Ameri- majority of the national execu- tive committee of the Farmer- Labor Party. The Cleveland convention that endorsed the Wisconsin re- publican senator and refused to organize a party was de- nounced as a “calculated be- trayal of the Farmer-Labor po- litical movement,” in a state- ment issued by the Missouri executive committee after the meeting. Mehelic for Governor. Foster and Gitlow are indorsed for the presidency and vice presidency, John Mehelic of Kansas City for gov- ernor, with Elmer E. McMillan of St. Louis for lieutenant governor. The committee’s statement holds fast to the necessity for a Farmer-Labor Party, and says that the Missouri or- ganization will keep its machinery to- gether for that end, meanwhile back, ing the Workers Party. The state committee’s statement follows: Missouri Statement In state convention assembled the Farmer-Labor Party of Missouri declared in favor of independent political action on the part of the industrial workers and -exploited farmers by unanimous vote. The Farmer-Labor Party of Missouri de- clared on June 8 that a mass-class Farmer-Labor Party was the all- | important matter before the work- ers. It still believes in and stands | upon that declaration. | Since the state convention there have been two national conventions —one at St. Paul and the other at Cleveland. At St. Paul action was taken favorable to the building of a mass political party of the workers and farmers. At Cleveland the ques- tion of a political party of the work- ers and farmers was not even con- sidered. “Calculated Betrayal.” The Cleveland convention adopted a program which represents the in- terests of “the independent banker and manufacturer,” and which does not even recognize some of the most pressing needs of the produc- 7 can gold surplus has become un- wieldy and the serious unemployment situation and position of the farmers have forced the American financiers to settle the affairs of Europe to their advantage. se Pravda continues that the visit of these “Shylocks” puts a “new bur- den on the backs of the European working masses.” YOUNG WORKERS JOIN ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATIONS League Fights Against Capitalists’ Wars The Workers Party and the Young Workers League will devote their chief energies to demonstrations and meetings against militarism during the week of July 7 to August 4, which has been set aside by the Communist Parties of all countries as anti-capi- talist war week. All street meetings of the party and the leagué during this period will set forth to the workers the issues in- bvolved in capitalistic wars. Street speakers have been instructed to pre- sent the issue of war and imperialism and the Communist program against capitalist wars at these meetings. The Young Workers League has is- sued a manifesto to all its members directing co-operation with the Work- ers Party in all activities of anti-war week. The Young Workers League has issued a call to all young workers to join the league in the fight against unjust wars which are brought about by the capitalists to open up new mar- kets. A special edition of the Young Worker, besides containing special ar- ticles, explaining the corruption and profiteering in the manipulation of the last war, will contain some new facts not yet published on the activities of the United States government in war time. A special issue of the DAILY WORKER comes out Saturday. Seventy meetings against capitalist war and imperialism will be held in ing masses. On the whole the ac- tions of the Cleveland convention represent a calculated betrayal of (Continued on next page.) Chicago by the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. Send in that Subscription Today. Victims and Ex-Service Men of The World War War Victims, Ex-Service Men, Proletarians! Why have you made this enormous sacrifice? Has it served to bring you emancipation from bondage, slavery and oppression?” Has it served, to realize your aims and ideals? Has it served to bring world peace to human- ity? Not in the least! These sacrifices have only served the ends of your capitalist masters. These have en- riched themselves in the war period and have amassed capital in the post- war period. And you, the victims of this society, for which you have created all this wealth in time of peace and in war have shed your blood, which, now you are invalids, should have provided you with proper care and preserved you from hunger? You know that in this respect you have been deceived and bétrayed. You know the international lie regard- ing a grateful country. Your capitalist masters know only one command; make profits, concentrate more capi- tal. So as in peace they squeeze sur- plus value out of your labor power, so in the war they have minted gold} out of the blood of millions of prole- tarians in uniform and out of the tears of their relatives. Now the most in- tense exploitation is being carried on, | It is not only the ex-service men who have returned home uninjured, who have been robbed of the eight- FARMERS! EXPOSE PROSPERITY TALE OF PLUTE PRESS THE capitalist press is making a tremendous furore about the rise in the price of wheat and came supposed prosperity of the American farmer. The DAILY WORKER would like to have ¥ from its agricultural readers exposi | our letter at onoe addressed ing this twaddle of the lying money sheets. Send in hour day, along with them also are the seriously injured, the mutilated; even those who possess but a leg and an arm must toil in the factories of their capitalist masters for ten to twelve hours, Miserable pensions and increased exploitation, that is the thanks you get for the bloody work on the battle fields. In addition to this you are glso jrobbed and cheated of your pensidns. |But it is not only a case of robbery jot pensions, abolition of all social institutions and increased exploitation |by prolongation of the working day, we are also faced with the danger of |new wars. And again, just as ten years ago, the |millions of proletarians are confronted with the question: What shall we do (Continued on page 3.) Farm ditor, DAILY WRORRER, 1113 W. j ashington Blydy jon the outbreak of this new, and yet By — WAR EXPOSES DAWES PLAN TO WORLD REVOLUTIONISTS Varga Unfolds Plot of British and Bankers By ANISE. ‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 1.—(By Mail) —One of the most suggestive discussion that has taken place at the congress of the Commun- ist International, now meeting in Moscow, has been the survey of world economic conditions by Comrade Varga. In his discus- sion of the Ruhr war of the past year, he’ is especially illuminat- ing, as he handles the situation keenly and without any nation- alist prejudices, pointing out the interests which each nation had in the Ruhr war, and how it was that, on the whole, England won. “The plan of the heavy indus- trial and militaristic circles in France,” he says, “was to unite the territories of the left bank of the Rhine and Ruhr economi- cally and politically with France; to separate North Ger- many from South Germany; to bring Germany, thus dismem- bered, into the. French hege- mony, to secure for French heavy industry the necessary coal and coke and at the same time to secure a market for German iron. What France Wanted. “This solution would in fact have made Germany a French colony. The military predominance of France over England, which consists at present in her better equipment with sub- marines, aeroplanes, these most de- cisive classes of weapons, could be made secure by the incorporation of the Ruhr and its great chemical works.” Most radical and even liberal opin- ion thruout the world saw this pur- pose of France. But not many of them have seen behind the purposes of England. “The momentary mijji- tary predominance of France,” says Comrade Varga, “made it impossible for England to oppose these military Plans by force. She contented her- self with supporting Germany open- ly and secretly, in her passive resist- ance, in the hope that both sides would be so weakened in the struggle that they would have in the end to submit to the demands of England.” England's Game Is Germany. And what were England's plans? “She fears an economic reconstruc tion of Germany just as much as she fears the military predominance of France. If reparations are reduced to the amount that the German bour- geoisie can bear, then that bour- geoisie, freed from debt thru inflation, which has shifted their burdens to the workers and submerged middle classes; will begin a most devastating competition with English industry, which staggers under a national debt of seven and a half billion pounds. England’s most formidable rival of (Continued on page 5.) —_ Still Bleed Movie Public for Taxes U. S. Has Repealed NEW YORK, July 21,—Owners of movie theaters in New York City have taken advantage of the public. by pocketing from 2c to 5e excess charge upon each ticket. It is estimated that about half of the motion picture the. aters are retaining the old price, al- tho the government no longer col lects a tax. | Mississippi Lynches Again. MERIDIAN, Miss., July 21.—Harry Shelton, a Negro, was dragged from the Scooba jail by a gang o1 35 white men and hung from a tree, four miles toward Dekalb. The Negro’s body was shot full of holes while he was hanging. The flimsy and over-worked charge of “attempting to assault a white woman” was held over him, He had been held im jail a. * ae