The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1924, Page 2

i . . Page Two LA FOLLETTE'S LABOR RECORD HIT BY GITLOW Pittadelphians Applaud W. P. Candidate By ABRAM: JAKIRA (Special to the Dally Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, July 21.—Ben- Jamin Gitlow, Workers Party candi- date for Vice-President, was given an enthusiastic reception at a mass meet- ing held in this city last Friday, July 18. The meeting was called by the Philadelphia Farmer-Labor Party in order to enable the delegates to the St. Paul Convention to report and for the purpose of discussing the latest political developments. Gitlow was one of the speait#ts. The hall was packed to the doors. A thunder of applause and cheer- ing rocked the hall when comrade Gitlow was introduced as the Work- ers Party candidate for Vice-presi- dent, All those present rose on their feet and continued to cheer. and ap- plaud for several minutes. His elo- quent and vigorous speech was like- wise met with continuous applause and cheering. Hits LaFollette Labor Réoord. In his speech comrade Gitlow gave @ splendid review of the antilabor record of Coolidge and Davis and of the petty bourgeois character of the LaFollette movement. One cannot re- call a single megaure introduced by LaBollette in the interesjs of the working class during his fourty years of public sérvice. He has never even put up a serious fight against injunc- tions, despite of the fact that he claims to be opposed to injunctions. LaFollette’s own state where he is in complete control over the political machine, is well known as an Open Shop stronghold. He spent a good deal of his time in order to get a cot- rect railroad valuation, which to the working class means absolutely noth- MeClurg and Jakira Speak. Other speakers who addressed the meeting were H. O. McClurg, secre- tary of the Philadelphia Farmer-Le- bor Party, who gave a detailed report on the work of the St. Paul Conven- tion, and comrade A. Jakira, who spoke on the role of the Commun- ists at that convention and on the socialist party betrayal. The latter in its officigl appeal to its membership states—“We are stepping back a pace or two to meet the main army of la bor, then to march forward together.” The same argument was given by the socialist parties of various coun- tries ten years. ago when the world war broke out. They then retreated “to the main army of labor” and to the camp of the capitalist brigands, but instead of marching “forward to- gether” they have since been seen in continuoug retreat. The Commun- ists are the only ones doing the for- ward marching. The Philadelphia Farmer- Labor Party is calling a special conference for July 31st at the Machinists’ Tem- ple for the purpose of taking final action on the coming presidential elec- tions. An Explanation. In yesterday’s story on the Farmer- Labor Conference of Cook County, it was stated that the candidates of the Workers Party and its state and coun- ty program were indorsed. The con- ference followed the actjon of the Na- tional Farmer-Labor Party and in- dorsed Foster and Gitlow of the ‘Workers Party, as well as the state and county candidates. The program of the Workers Party printed therein {e but an outline of the Workers Par- ty program of Cook county. ————— Send in that Subscription Today. THE DAILY WORKER | SIGMAN SURRENDER IS DENOUNCED | (Continued from preceding page.) render in the struggle for the de- mands which the membership de- cided to fight for and are pursuing a completely irresponsible policy, They called you out on strike presumably in order to fight for a program of ten demands which would have brought some definite improvement in the present miserable conditjons in the cloak industry. As a matter of fact they called you out on strike for nothing. They accepted two weeks ago the recommendations of the Governors’ Committee and the of- ficials are bargaining behind your backs over an agreement that they intend to sign without your know- ledge and consent. The officials are talking a great deal in the strike halls about) a vic- tory for the cloakmakers in this strike. In reality you have won no victory at all but a severe defeat. The union leaders would have you believe that the concessions of the sanitary label to be controlled by the Joint Board of Sanitary Control is a great victory. On the contrary it is a matter of little or no interest to the workers in the industry so long as the union itself does not have the right to investigate the shops and the books of the manufacturers and jobbers. The union officials are making much (too) of the un-employment insurance fund which they would like to have you think is a great victory for you, although they: them- selves know very well that this fund is of practically no value for the qoakmakers as long as the general conditions of the industry remain in their present chaotic state. Then, there is the demand for a minimum of fourteen operators in the shop. This is being represented to you as a great victory for the union although the union officials know full well that this condition can never be realized in the shops as long as the practice of sending out work to submanufacturers con- tinmes and there is no guaranteed yearly minimum period of work for the workers in the shops. The union leaders state that the union will now beable to investigate’ the books of all manufacturers and jobbers. But this is nothing new. Now as before the union will be able to examine only certain books of the manufacturers and jobbers and only upon a definite complaint. So that upon this point too, nothing has been won in the present strike. These are the statements that the union officials have the effrontery to make to the cloakmakers as if they did not understand full well the conditions in their own indus- try, the conditions under which they have been working during the last few years and the ten demands which formed the basis and the issue of the present strike. Brothers and Sisters: Do not let slip this opportunity to raise your voices against the be- trayal which is being perpetrated upon the workers in this present strike. Now while you are still in the strike halls, pow is your chance. When you have gone back to the shops it will be too late. Then you will be forced to work again under the same old wretched conditions as before without even the opportunity of raising your voices collectively‘ against this treason to your’ inter- ests. Now you can still insist on your right to prevent the officials from signing an agreement without your knowledge and consent. “THEN YOU WILL BE VOICE- LESS AND POWERLESS!” The union officials are using all sorts of arguments to keep you from discussing the agreement. You don’t need to discuss it, they say, because it is only the old agreement with certain modifications. You must answer them that the old agreement has expired and that no new agree- ment has yet been made or will be DO IT TODAY FrRipay will be too late, unless you send in your order by six o'clock that night. Today is the right time for sending in that order for the “Anti-War Special” edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated this Saturday, July 26th. 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Remind them that you voted for a series of new demands, that you went on strike for these demands and that you intend to continue the fight for these demands, Tell the officials that even if this agreement is, as they say, only the old agree- ment with certain changes, the mem- bership must’ nevertheless be con- sulted with regard to these changes. Don’t let the leaders persuade you that their reason for not wanting you to discuss the agreement is be- cause they are afraid to have the bosses see how well satisfied you are with it. This is sheer hypocrisy. The leaders themselves are suppress- ing every meniber who lifts his voice against this agreement. It wag the leaders themselves and not the mem- bership who first rushed in to sign the agreement. The leaders don’t want the membership fo discuss the agreement because they know that it brings no improvement whatever in the conditions of the industry, that it offers no better chance than before to the workers to jake a living. And they know there are still enough cloakmakers acquainted with the conditions of the trade to make this fact clear to the member- ship; this is the reason why they do not want to bring the agreement be- fore you for discussion. They are sure you would reject it. Fellow Workerg:—lInsist on your right as workers to discuss the con- ditions under which you must work for the coming year. Do not let yourself be misled and betrayed by your officials. Demand your rights. Act with determination to meet your own needs and protect your own interests as workers, With fraternal greetings, Needle Trades section T. U.E.L. MISSOURI F.-L, BACKS FIGHT OF FOSTER-GITLOW Endorse State Ticket of Workers Party (Continued from preceding page.) the farmer-labor political move- ment. Holding sacred, as the Farmer-La- bor Party of Missouri does, the prin- ciple of independent working class Political action, we are yet com- pelled to.face the fact that we have not the necessary or€anization to go thru with the electoral campaign this fall. It is the purpose of the Missouri Farmer-Labor Party to continue in the , fleld, striving in every way possible to advance the cause of working class political ac- tion, independent of the exploiters, One Thing to Do. Under the conditions mentioned, there is but one thing for the Mis- souri Farmer-Labor Party to do. Since we cannot ourselves carry on an extensive campaign against the two old parties and LaFollette’s in- dependent-manufacturer party, we indorse the candidates of the only working: class party which has not united with the small business men and the disgruntled politicians of the old parties, in support of LaFol- lette’s personal candidacy. The Missouri Farmer-Labor Par- ty does hereby indorse the national and state ticket of the one party which has consistently and valiant- ly striven for the realization of a mass party of the wage workers and exploited farmers—the Workers Party of America. We pledge our support in this campaign to the candidates of the Workers Party and will carry on an active cam- paign to advance the cause of inde- pendent working class political ac- tion. Back. These Candidates, The candidates of the Workers Party of America are: For presi- dent, William Z. Foster; for vice President, Benjamih Gitlow. In the state of Missouri: For governor, John Mihelic of Kansas City; for Heutenant governor, Elmer EB. Me- Millin of St. Louis; for secretary of state, Carl Mink of St. Louis; for congress, Tenth district, John Braun of St. Louis; Eleventh district, Har- Ty Stoltz of St. Louis. Presidential electors, Fifth district, Eleanor Massey of Kansas City; Tenth Dis- trict, John Sturm of St. Louis; Eleventh district, John Burnis of Bt. Louis. THE STATE EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE OF THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY OF MISSOURI. W. M. ADAMS, State Chairman, STANLEY J. CLARK, State Secretary. — Bavaria Has Vicious Bill. MUNICH, July 21-—The Ludendorft YOUNG SLAYERS PLEAD GUILTY; TO TEST SANITY Crowe Calls Loudly for Leopold-Loeb Blood State’s attorney Robert». Crowe is out for at least two hangings: Na- than F. Leopold nd Richard a. Loeb, confessed slayers of the school boy Robert Franks. Crowe wants to wear bloody feathers in his cap. He an- nounced when the boys pleaded guilty Davidow, Socialist, Joins Republicans By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, Lazarus L. Davidow, a young lawyer, is a candi- date for congress in the republican primaries. in the Third Michigan District (Detroit). Davidow is important only as a sample of one of many young Americans who have drifted out of the revolutionary movement into the old political parties, joining up with the harlots of Wall Street. in court yesterday morning that the change of plea made no difference to the state’s case. “They should be hanged,” he said. Crowe Would Crush Others. State's attorney Crowe would like to be as harsh to the two Polish lads, Louis Derus and his companion, both under 18, who attempted to ape the Leopold-Loeb demand for ransom. These two poor boys are held in the jail for their threat to Robert Franks’. sister. Their counsel has said that he could prove his young clients “in- sane” or at least “incompetent,” if he had the millions of the Leopolds and Loebs to back him. Crowe says that these two Polish lads are doomed. clear case,” is Mr. Crowe's cocky phrasing. And the sentence may be twenty years’ imprisonment for the misguided young men who never had been able to get an education except from the streets and who have not found the profits system of capitalist society any profit to them. The pro- fits have gone to the Leopolds and the Loebs, and their sons, who had so little to do that they plotted mur- ders for thrills, set the example which incited the unschooled Polish lads to try their luck in the same way. Court Hangers Miss Out. Tomorrow morning the hearings on the sanity of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb will be opened. At- torney Bachrach, who ,is assisting Glarence Darrow, chief defense coun- sel, argued that the alienists of the de- fense and of the state should consult together to avoid making science a laughing stock by having utter dis- agreement among the doctors. Bach- rach also pointed out that such action would keep most of the unfortunate details of the case out of the reach of the public and would avoid dis- astrous effects of other mislead young people attempting to “find out for themselves” the thrills that Nathan Leopold and Dick Loeb sought. Darrow’s move to have the young men plead guilty puts the burden of the case upon the state. The defense will only offer mitigating circum- stances and will make its greatest ef- fort in ‘the attempt to prove the wealthy young men deranged men- tally. Darrow Retiring. Darrow, who has been a noted fig- ure in courts of law for many years and has defended mny labor cases, such as that of the McNamara broth- ers, and that of Bill Haywood, an- nounced that this will be his last be- fore retirement. HERE THEY ARE! _ Special Combination ! Offer Take them along on your vacation. f OFFER GOOD TILL AUGUST 15TH f No. 1. Deportations Delirium of 1920, by Louis F. Post..... 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He may be yet, under the socialist alliance with LaFollette. sk * * It is said that Davidow carries a scar, the result of an assault by the agents of the white terror, when he sought to defend the victims of the Palmer “red raids” against the terrorists in January, 1920. It was in Detroit that these raids were carried out in their most brutal form, thousands being herded into custody, “for examination,” being “under suspicion.” Perhaps that scar mocks at Davidow in his more honest moments. Davidow remained with the socialist party in 1919, when the revolutionary exodus: from the socialist ranks began. Davidow made the arrangements for the national socialist convention, held in Detroit, Mich., in 1921. Altho sympathetic to the “Committee for the Communist International” he still remained in the socialist party when this element broke away that year. ee ek It is significant that it was at Detroit that the socialist party launched the policy that has this year delivered it into the ranks of LaFollette, the old party politician. The youth of the socialist party were given two alter- natives. They could either join the ranks of the Communist movement and continue their revolutionary activities in the world struggle of labor. Or they could remain with the socialist party, gradually dilute all pretenses to a | revolu- tionists, and finally fade out as the counter-revolutionar allies of what has become known as “the left wing of Wail Street.” + *. * *£ & Davidow turned his back on the Communist movement. He has seen the socialist remnants in Detroit, and thruout the state of Michigan, as of the nation, gradually dissolve. Davidow saw the socialist party endorse the republican, LaFollette, for the presidency. He has seen many socialists ge over to the old parties, from William H. Johnston, presi- lent of the International Association of Machinists, and chairman of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, down the list. Then why shouldn't he, also, take the same step? He did. He is now a republican candidate for con- gress, in the state where Newberry, the millionaire republi- can, bought a seat in the United States senate for $750,000. * * * Davidow is no isolated example. The socialist party lost nea! the tendency. He megely indicates ty all of its younger members to the revolutionary Communist move- ment. The remainder have gone the way of Davidow. And an organization without youth dies. Such are the results of the teachings of the socialist party of Morris Hillquit and Victor L. Berger. And it still calls itself socialist. WOULD DO WONDERS FOR WORKERS (Continued from preceding page.) can be measured by the following comparisons: 1. This annual war expenditure would have paid more than 85 per cent of the 1923 railroad wage bill. Less than one-third of jt would have made good all the railroad wage re- ductions since 1920. Less than one- tenth of it, turned into railroad wages, would have made unnecessary the 1922 wage cuts which precipitated the general shopmen’s strike. 2. This peacetime war budget would have provided ample funds to purchase the entire 1923 corn crop, with more than $100,000,000 to spare. It would have bought the entire wheat ciop plus the entire cotton crop. The money required to carry out the pro- »'posals of the farmers’ representatives to save the wheat farmers from bank- ruptcy would have been a mere drop in this war bucket. 3. It would have provided for build- ing as many homes again as were put up in 1928 and in addition would have paid the entire coal mine wage bill. 4, It would have paid the country’s school bill twice over. Bonus to War Profiteers. The biggest factor in this annual war burden is the $1,236,590,262 which the people pony up for the benefit of the ‘rich bondholders. This annual contribution of over a billion dollars is the bonus to war profiteers for their willingness to sell the government supplies at exorbitant prices. The magnitude of this annual war interest and sinking fund charge can also be best shown by comparisons. It -would have paid the entire 1923 wage bill of the coal ihdustry with a generous margin to spare. It would have paid the entire annual earnings of wage earners in the industries pro- ducing textiles and textile products, including clothing of every descrip- tion. It would have more than dotibled the price received by the NOTICE TO PHILADELPHIA PARTY MEMBERS. C. £. Ruthenberg and William Z. Foster will address a meeting of Workers Party members on Thurs day, July 24, at 8 p. m., at the Breth Sholem hall, 606 Pine St, Young Workers League members Invited. Admission by membership cards only. : Sympathizers will not be ad: mitted. wheat farmer. Effect of War Debt. In short, if the country could -free itself of this peace-time war charge foisted on it by the ambitions of its financial oligarchy every one would have more money to spend, demand would increase, there would be more regular employment and a more ade- quate return to all producers. All competent economists recognize tha the uncertainty in the business worl is due in considerable measure to the staggering war burden that is cutting down the spending power of all peo- ples. A recent report of the Barkers Trust company of New York shows that the four chief “victors” in the world war owe $179,221,000,000, “or nearly as much as the entire pre-war wealth of the United States. This means that the peoples of the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy were in no real sense victors. The war made them tributary to the money power. Russia to Spend Big Sum to Rehabilitate Run-down Leningrad LENINGRAD, July 21.—The State Planning Commission has approved the $13,000,000 outlay which the Len- ingrad Soviet showed was imperative to save the city from ruin. The ca- nals will be reconstructed, streets, repaved, empty buildings remodeled and old ones renovated. it will tale five years to complete the work. Send In that Subscription Today. You are invited to visit the NEW YORK READERS, ATTENTION! Three Days—July 24, 25 and 26th—Con siderable Discount on All Books Tuesday, July 22, 1924 FREE MOONEY! IS DEMAND OF BOOKBINDERS Convention Praises His Loyalty to Workers A resolution demanding the release from prison of Thomas Mooney was passed by the International Brother- hood of SBookbinders’ convention, which has completed its work at the Hotel Morrison. The resolution de- manding freedom of expression in the Bookbinders’ Journal was voted down after a heated discussion. The resolution declared: ‘Whereas, Thomas Mooney was convicted on perjured evidence; and Whereas, His imprisonment, we believe, is the result of misunder- standing and miscarriage of justice, which is shattering the confidence of the common people in the courts administering same; and ‘Whereas, Mooney is being perse- cuted because he was loyal to the ° organized workers; and Whereas, the incarceration of Mooney is a direct challenge to the labor movement, as well as a danger to every man or woman active in the labor movement; be it _ Resolved, That this convention of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders; assembled July 14, hereby goes on record instructing our delegates to the convention of the American Federation of Labor to use its good offices as well as all their means within their power for the immediate retrial and release of Thomas Mooney. « Speaking for the resolution, which demanded that censorship of the union’s journal by international off- cers be eliminated, Mr. Haggerty de- clared: “Local Union No. 18 vigor- ously protests the elimination of free speech from the journal. There are some political machines in some labor unions that don’t do right. The elim- ination of freedom of speech in the journal strikes at the first amend- ment to the constitution. I hold with Thomas Jefferson that liberty of expression is essential to freedom and that suppression doesn’t suppress, but drives underground, and it is my sin- cere hope that the delegates to this convention will at least go on record as confirming what the rank and file did by a referendum vote some months ago to give the right of expres- sion thru the journal.” Spanish Dictator is Planning Retreat in Mofoccan Campaigns (Special to the Daily Worker.) CEUTA, Morocco, July 21.—General Primo Rivera is planning to make a great military offensive demonstration against the rebellious tribesmen who have been attacking the Spanish out- posts in the ,Moroccan mountains. There are 70,000 peninsular troops, in- cluding infantry, cavalry, artillery, en- gineers, supply and ambulance corps, a few auxiliary units and 20,000 native troops. In addition there is a foreign legion of adventurers numbered at 6,000. The Spanish dictator, who has been going over the situation here, claims that he has decided to withdraw reg- ular peninsular troops from the fight- ing front after the demonstration, which is supposed to put the fear of jthe lord into the hearts of the Mo- roccan tribesmen. Rivera claims that he will use only volunteers for the flying columns and ip punitive expedi- tions. The small outposts will be abolished. MEXICO CITY, July 21.—That thou sands of Mexicans are starving in the beet fields of Montana is the repor' received by the minister of foreign re lations. These unskilled workers ar¢ employed during the beet season a’ low wages and under miserable hous. ing conditidns. The season lasts si: months. The other six months they ar: expected to live on their savings. They have organized a group that is appeal ing to the Mexican government for ai against the American companies why lure them north under false promises newly opened and enlarged NOVY MIR BOOK STORE, Inc. The sole representative of the State Publishing Department ’ of Soviet Russia, Just received a large consignment of new books and latest magazines . DIRECTLY from MOSCOW and LENINGRAD. All out of town orders bisa’? bare oe three days will be given 6 oun 231 East 14th Street (Near 2nd Ave.) . NEW YORK CITY .