The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 1

Next Week Is Anti-War Week 7 ® THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 107. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WAR ON WAR WEANS FOR US THE SETTING UP AND MAINTENANCE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION 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. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1924 <<" Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ll. Next Week Is Anti-War Week Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents MORGAN RUSHING TO EUROPE CONSPIRACY 10 SHIELD SLAYER OF COMMUNIST Only Witness, Justice Crim, “Didn’t See” (Special to the Daily Worker.) WEST FRANKFORT, _IIl., July 22,—Further facts regard- ing the murder of Boris Po- povsky, union miner and Work- ers Party member, in the court room of Justice of the Peace A. M. Crim came ‘out at the in- quest held here before Magis- trate J. C. Randolph. These facts came out in spite of the evident desire of Justice Crim and police officers of this Ku Klux town to protect policeman Bozarth as much as possible. Crim was the only other per- son in the court room at éime of the murder and he tried to Say as little as possible. He was the magistrate before whem the policeman and his victim were appearing and pre- sumably knew what was going on in front of him but he tried to persuade the coroner’s jury that he was too busy at his desk to know what was hap- pening—when the murder oc- curred. He admitted, however, that he heard the officer charge Popovsky with speeding and that Popovsky in- dignantly replied. Then he heard a commotion and the miner struck the floor. Bozarth was standing in the door, “I've Killed Him.” “My God, I’ve killed him!” the jus- tice quoted the policeman as saying. “Did you see any weapon?” Crim was asked. “I SAW BOZARTH PUT HIS GUN INTO HIS SCABBARD.” Neither the justice nor the police- man attempted to bring first aid to the lad as he picked himself up. Crim brought a bucket to scrub off the blood, but Popovsky had to wash his bleeding head unaided. |. Dr. Albert S. Albert of West Frank- fort came in on a call from another policeman and looked the lad over. He made no examination for fracture, not thinking him hurt\so severely. He heard Popovsky gasp to Bozarth: Slayer Did Not Deny. “This is a hell of a note to hit a man like this.” Bozarth did not deny the act, but excused himself by saying that the boy had called him a liar, Not until the young miner got to the United Mine Workers’ hospital did he get real attention, and then it was too late. There he went into convul- sion after convulsion. ‘The skull was trepanned by surgeons. The terrible effect of the blow from Bozarth’s gun is told as follows by Dr. Black of the hospital: Smashed Like Eggshell. “We opened the scalp and found a crack from the middle of the head ex- tending downward toward the ear to the margin of the frontal bone on the right side. . “About midway of the linear crack was also a circular crack, both ends joining the crack above and below. A piece about the size of:a dollar was broken out. The blood was flowing freely.” | A big clot of blood between the brain covering and the skull was re- moved, also a piece of bone an inch and a half by two inches and a half, but it was too late. The boy died. Still on Police Force. v The jury's verdict was that Boris Popovsky died as the result of a blow ‘rom some unknown instrument. Po- iceman Bozarth, the slayer, awaits srand jury action. He waived prelim- nary examination. He is out on $10,- )00 bafl, believed to have been fur- aished by Ku Klux Klansmen, and is 3TILL ON THE POLICE FORCE, — 0° RUSH IN YOUR ORDER FOR SATURDAY'S “ANTLWAR SPECIAL” j | No Famine Threatens Us---Rykov By WILLIAM RESWICK. (Special to The MOSGOW, July 22.—“Our enemies paint the situation in its darkest colors,” said Alexiev Ivanovich Rykov, soviet premier, today in discussing Daily Worker) the reports of famine conditions thruout Soviet Russia. “Drawing a Parallel with the horrors of 1921 let us look at the facts. In 1921, sixty-nine millions of acres were sown or a third of the entire agrl- cultural area; this year, seventy-seven million acres were sown. The crop shortage in 1921 covered twenty-four million acres. only five and a half million acres, affecting 6,000,000 persons, or only about This year it will cove eight percent of the total agricultural area. “The only comparison with 1921 is the fact that the stricken areas are the same this year, and are due to the same cause—drought. “This is true in Samara. areas have enough for export. less than last year. ir} the needed areas, and still export. way. The danger of panic is past. Entire counties are barren. did not reap anything must be helped with seed. Others must be fed, With- out a systematic relief, the population of these areas cannot carry on. Some The total production is only 100,000,000 poods “If we stop exports we will have a reserve more than last year. there is no reason for stopping exports. “We will not need any foreign help. The peasant who We can even feed the hungry in THE UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE WORKERS AND FARMERS FASCIST RUFFIAN STARTS BATTLE; WORKERS END IT (Special to the Daily Worker.) MAPLES, July 22.—Infuriated by repeated attempts of Fascist officials to tear down and mutilate a picture of Giocomo Matteotti, murdered Social- ist deputy, which hung in a union hall, Italian railroad workers in Zari, a town of South Italy, opened fire on the blackshirts. One Fascisti official is reported to have been killed as a result. Revolt against the Mussolini dic- tatorship is rising among Italian work- ers. The discontent ef the soldiers with the Fascist rule has long been known, and the brand which sets the flames of revolution burning among the workmen and peasants will also send the soldiers to the armed aid of the proletariat. A moment's delay in saluting a Fas-| cist official nearly cost a Milan sold- ier his life yesterday. The officer an- swered the soldier's neglect with a blow in the face. When the soldier tried to strike back, five blackshirts appeared who seized him and prepared| Authors met today to consider “the to kill the man, Only the fury of a/alarming state of the theater indus- crowd of workers and peasants saved | try.” the soldier's life, AUTO CLUB OFFICIALS DENOUNCE SLAYING OF WEST FRANKFORT YOUTH The Illinois Auto club yesterday denounced the West Frankfort po- liceoman who brutally clubbed to death Boris Popovsky, 21.year-old lad slain in the courtroom while ar- re d on a charge of speeding. “Such practices have got to stop,” Hugo Mayer, manager of the Illinois Auto club told the DAILY WORKER yesterday. “If the lad needed help we would supply a lawyer. We went to bat on the Topsy ca in Cicero, and we will go to bat on this case if necessary. The small town police have got to realize that a man ar- rested for speeding is not a crook, a cut-throa a criminal. This 21- year-old lad was not a holdup man, He was taken te court for speeding, and the law says that all the officer is to do In a speeding case is to take the accused to the courtroom and place him in the custody of the court.” What’s Wrong With Plays, MADRID, July 22.—The Soctety o! lack of patronage. Many theaters have closed for |STRIKING CAR BUILDERS ASK WAGE INCREASE The striking car builders of the Western Steel Foundry company at Hegewisch, encouraged by the spread of the strike to other departments and the complete stoppage of production, went on the offensive against their bosses yesterday and demanded an in- crease in wages of 5 cents an hour, A strike committee was elected at yesterday’s enthusiastic strike meet- ing, which was addressed by Jack McCarthy, circulation-manager of the DAILY WORKER, and Joe Kowalski of the Polish Federation of the Work- ers Party. The officials of the Western Steel Car Foundry ¢ompany were furious at the DAILY WORKER for! exposing their blood-sucking speed-up system, and for actively supporting the strike. Other Workers Out. The riveters, ream: heaters, buck- ers and fitters originally went on strike because of a 50 per cent reduc- tion in wages. Yesterday, however, t/the strikers, at their meeting in Ginal- ski's hall, 13269 Houston Ave., voted to demand a piece work rate of 45 cents, as compared to the 40-cent rate (Continued on page 3.) Drawn’ Specially for the DAILY WORKER by K. A. Suvanto. herniations ENGLAND'S LABORITES TAKE ANOTHER “FALL;” DON'T GET THE COUNT (Special to the Dally Worker.) LONDON, July 22.—For the tenth time Ramsay MacDonald's “labor” in the house of commons today. The vote was on a minor amendment to the housing bill and involved no nec sity for resignation. On various government was defeated other sections of this bill the gov- ernment has been defeated as well as on certain parts of the unemploy- ment program. But MacDonald and b it” and doesn’t iny drastic move to help the workers, for he thinks he would then be altogether “on the outside looking in.” Orphan Dies at Picnic, BENTON HARBOR, Mich., July 22. ~—Funeral arrangements were being made today for Henry Lung, 4, who was instantly killed when he stepped from the “caterpiller” at Silver Beach pavillion, St. Joseph, Mich., late yes- terday. He with sixty other children, were here on a@ picnic from the Orphans’ Home at Mishawaka, Ind. Send in that Subscription Today, a lay a Rae But Our relief program already is under The population Is quiet.” (Special to The Europe Saturday on the S. S. Morgan yacht, the Corsair. pleasure trip and intends to do he admits that his advice will be failed to whip the French thoroly into line on the bank- ers’ program. And it is pointed out that when Morgan goes vacationing he uses his yacht rather than a regular pas- senger liner. Be ee | ALLIES AWAIT MORGA (Special to the Dally Worker.) LONDON, July 22.—Arrival of J. Pierpont Morgan. is.eagerly, awaited by Ramsay MacDonald, London bank- ers and other proponents of the Dawes plan which is being imperiled by French delegates to the inter- \allied conference. ‘Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan’s part-| ner, has come to an impasse in his dealings with Premier ,Herriot and M. Clementel, French financial minis- |ter. The Frenchmen agreed to the broad principle that the international bankers’ investments should have pri- ority in German payments, but they refuse to promise unequivocally to get out of the Ruhr and to forego the right of separate national action against Germany. Ultimatum on Ruhr. Speaking in behalf of his chief, La- mont has laid down the ultimatum that the Ruhr must be evacuated ere the bankers pay any good money into |German loans. His ultimatum was de- livered after a long conference with Sir Montague Norman, governor of the Bank of England and with the leading financial experts of other na- tions attending the inter-allied con- ference, Premier Herriot pleaded with La- mont to compromise, but Lamont is said to have told him that his com- pany stood pat in its demand that France pool its repressive measures with those of the other allies. The bankers’ attitude is that safety to thein investments requires international control of Germany. Separate na- tional reprisals against Germany will. affect her industrial and financial or- ganism and disrupt well considered plans for exploitation. Herriot Fears Poincare. Herriot is declared to have replied that he could not yield France’s Ruhr | privileges. To do so would play into | the hands of his Poincare opponent, | and probably result in the fall of his cabine: As matters stood there was a dead- lock. The Dawes plan requires French ‘co-operation. The French re- fused to give this co-operation on terms which satisfied the international bankers, who are the keystone of the whole program. Morgan Will Settle Deadlock, Morgan's’ arrival will settle the |deadlock one way or the other. The ruler of Wall Street is a man of few words. But a threat from his own lips to cut off credits to France, it is be- lieved, will force the recalcitrants into line. If not, then internationalization of capitalism is put off a little longer. | It is probable, however, that the mere apnouncement that Morgan is coming will speed negotiations. Politics and Speculation. LONDON, July 22.—American poli- tics was seen today by the British) press in the sharp rise in the price of flour and bread thruout England. Mer-| chants have charged that the rise was due to the manipulations of| WALL STREET'S RULER SPEEDS OVER SEAS T0 SAVE PROGRAM ‘OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 22.—J. Plerpont Morgan Is —— a) Minnewaska. The finanol | haste is shown by his taking a transatlantic liner instead.ofthe The international banker asserts that he is going on wt some shooting in 8 6x) on sought by Huropean the German loans proposed under the Dawes plan. In New York banking circles it is agreed that Morgante! visit has great financial and political significance. cele seeeeee. TP study, Thomas W. Lamont, has DISCUSS STRIKE TACTICS AT RED LABOR CONGRESS Industrial War Plans Hammered Out (Special te the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, July 9 (By Mail). —The Third Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) opened Tuesday, July 8, in the Hall of the Columns, House of the Trade Unions. The Congress will last about ten days. The following is a prelimi- nary agenda for the Congress as proposed by the Executive Bureau of the Profintern. Losovsky Reports. 1, Report of the Executive Com- mittee. 2. The Immediate Tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Union Move- ment; reporter, Losovsky. 3. The International Working Class Struggle for the Maintenance of the Bight-Hour Day; reporter, Heckert. 4. Trades Union and Factory Committees; reporter, Grote. 5. The Revolutionary Tradg Unions, International Propaganda Committees, and Industrial Interna- tionals; reporters, Semar and Yuset- ovets. Dunne on Strike Strategy. 6. Strike Strategy} reporters, Dunne and Monmousseau. 7. Organizational Structure; port by Special Commission. 8. The Tasks of the Profintermfn England; reporters, Tom Mann and Kalnin. 9. The Tasks of the Profintern in ” the Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries; reporters, Heller and © Semuan. Agrioultural Workers. 10. The Peasants’ International and Unions of Agricultural Work- ers; reporters, Smirnov and Roy. 11. Trade Union Movement and Co-operatives; reporters, a German Comrade and Comrade Rokamon. 12. The Situation in the Russian Trade Unions; reporter, a Russian Comrade. 13. Elections. Americans in. Presidium, The Congress elected a presidium of 21, including the following coun- tries: Russia, 4; Germany, 2; France, 2; America and Canada, 2; England, 2; Czecho-Slovakia, 1; Italy, 1; Po- land, 1; the Balkans, 1; Scandinavian countries, 1; Ireland, 1; Near and Far East, 2; Spain and South America, 1. Persia Apologizes. WASHINGTON, July 22.—The Per- sian government today presented its formal regrets to the American state department over the slaying of Ma- jor Robert Imbrie, American vice con- sul, by a fanatical group at Teheran, American speculators, ~ORDER BLANK ON PAGE THREE “=u Persia. rat Pate