The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1924, Page 3

' 1 | | | | i Wednesday, July 23, 1924 FIGHT PLOT T0 BREAK GERMAN RAIL STRIKES French “Dilution” Plan Arouses Workers (Special to the Dally Worker.) BERLIN, July 22—Gigantic demonstrations against the German government for its as- sent to the Dawes plan are be- ing prepared by militant trade union forces. The latest count in the in- dictment comes with the dis- patches from London saying that the French and Belgians twill probably have their way regarding their, proposed dilu- tion of the German railway per- sonell with several thousand picked Belgians and French- "men. The purpose of this daily labor di- lution will be to prevent strikes. The alien workers would be selected for their nationalistig and conservative bias and would be regarded as proof against any strike propaganda that might tie up the roads mortgaged to the international bankers. Dictation Over Industries. German Commufists are leading the opposition to the Dawes plan. They are denouncing it to the work- ers of every industry as a plot to put the German workers in slavery, at long hours, to the international bank- ers. The plan calls for mortgaging of the railroads to the tune of nearly * $3,000,000,000 and the virtual end of public ownership of this essential public service industry. The roads, in effect, will be turned over to a pri- vate corporation, the German Nation- al Railway company with seven out of fourteen directors chosen from the allied nations. Thru the Reichsbank money, the German _ industries are still further led. The allies control $1,250,- 0,000 of credit thru the Reichsbank, and can dictate what industries shall receive credit—thus giving them the power to put out of business any con- cern which is friendly to union labor. Agitation among the workers is get- ting so intense that an attempt to pass the necessary Dawes plan legislation may overturn the government. | Hughes’ Anti-Russ Trip | PARIS, July 21. — The real task Secretary of State Hughes will set himself to in Paris, according to ine formation given out from gover ment circles, is to swerve the Her- riot cabinet away from its sche Wr fo recognize Soviet Russia. The American’s visit to Paris, as the trip to London, is Jabeled “un- official.” However, in Londo he held a long conference with M. Clem- entel, minister of finance, in favor of the Dawes plan and he is said to have already made arrangements for meetings with leading French states- men to discuss the Russian situation. Hughes will have allies in his anti- plans with the larger French fovetes in old Russian bonds. On other hand he will be opposed by wmenufacturing interests who crave Ruseian markets. The labor move- ment of Frahce is officially on record for recognition of the Soviet Repub- Is. The American official’s strongest argument is a financial one. On this tvip he is the spokesman for the big American bankers whose help France needs. These big bankers are still holding fast to their opposition to recognition. Hughes can swing the credit club over the French, threat- eping them with a denial of future loans. Send in that Subscription Today. MOTHER JONES DENIES DONKEYS’ DAVIS EVER DEFENDED HER CASES (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 22— “Mother” Jones emphatically denies that John W. Davis, the democratic nominee, ever defended her in West Virginia. Mother Jones raises her voice with Debs in branding the donkey's political propaganda as a deliberate Iie. “No man who ever represented the House of Morgan ever defended me,” Mother Jones declared with her eyes flashing. “In all the 50 years or more of my activity | have never paid a dollar to a law- yor, but | have always conducted my own defense,” she repeated her proud boast. Mother explained that she was in jail in 1902 at Clarksburg, West Virginia, after she addressed 900 miners. She said that she went along to the jail at Parkersburg, 84 miles away, along with the others instead of accepting hotel accom- modations. “1 have been fighting a long time, but It has been a good fight,” COOLIDGE WILL CALL NAMES IF DAVIS AND BOB THREATEN PLACE | (Special to the Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, July 22.—Politics in the “good old-fashioned” manner is promised for the coming cam. palgn, according to President a idge’s manager, Willlam Morgan But The chairman of the repub- lican national committee, who is a New England cotton mill owner and has large interests in various electric rallway companies, storage com- panies and a law firm, announced to the democrats and to the inde- pendents that Coolidge was pre- pared to make the coming campaign one of “personalitie: He added “if necessary” un rily. Cool- idge’s “loud speaker” said that the little man In the white house would conduct his fight for continued resi- dence in that pleasant dwelling with any weapons his opponents chose— and probably a few of his own bosses’ devising. EXPECT GOMPERS TO LINE UP WITH PETTY BOURGEOIS A. F. of L. May Desert Big Boss “Friends” (Special.to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, July 22.—Officials of the American Federation of Labor, most of them the ornamental vice presidents, have been denying re- porters’ claims that the A. F. of L. would approve the campaign of La- Follette and Wheeler. The labor fakers are waiting for their official ex- ecutive council meeting this poming Saturday in, Atlantic City, at which some decision will undoubtedly be made. Gompers is expected to pre- side. In view of Gompers’ denunciation of the platforms of both democrats and republicans, LaFollette backers think they have the federation cinched. The A. F. of L. officials, doubtless with the thought of the juicy plums they might enjoy next spring, were quite willing to discuss how many votes they thought the A. F. of L, could ‘swing to the ifidépend- ent ticket. The labor fakers were stretching the figures considerably when they promised 3,000,000 more votes if the A. F. of L. indorsed Bob. The A. F. of L. has been losing members at a great rate, and its offi- cial report at the Portland conven- tion showed the paid up membership under three million, and that included some of the unions which have al- ready indorsed the Wisconsin senator! Besides, in this year of depression, membership has gone down further. There is no indication that the mere declaration of the A. F. of L. officials’ approval of LaFollette that the mem- bership will follow with votes. Too many labor fakers are still tied up with the old political machines and will influence their following accord- ingly. And of course there is a strong body of militants, a growing army of class conscious workers, who will see thru the buncombe of the old gangs, from Coolidge to LaFollette and will cast their votes for the only really working class candidates, Foster and Gitlow. Car Builders Ask Wage Increase _ (Continued from page 1.) before they had their wages cut and went on strike. * Three hundred workers in the con- struction department were sent home from work yesterday, the company claiming that it was too hot to work. But the men knew the real cause of ‘the lay-off was that the strike has completely tied up the shops. The company sent word to the strikers at yesterday's meeting, asking for a con- ference with the strike committee, proving that victory is within the grasp of the strikers. No Scabs. The door-men, who work on the steel and freight car doors, were sent home yesterday morning because the strike has tied up production to such an extent that there was no work for them to do. Those who are working do nothing but loaf around and make @ pretense of work. So far the strik- ers have been able, thru their effective Picketing, to keep scabs away from the struck foundry, Officials are considering shutting down the entire plant until the strike is settled, and the workers in the other departments are considering joining the strike. The DAILY WORKER is being eagerly bought by the worke thruout Hegewisch, Consider Traffic Accidents. WASHINGTON, July 22.—Ten states were represented in a conference of highway and engineering experts at the department of commerce today. Factors responsible for the heavy death toll annually in traffic accidents were cohsidered. , / Mother. concluded: te the reporter. ei Aeon otha hinndl (Se FARMER LABOR PARTY OF OHI SUPPORTS W. P. Rejects LaFollette and Middle-class Following CLEVELAND, July 22.—The Ohio Farmer-Labor Party has joined the list of state organi- zations which are backing the candidacy of William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow and the state]. tickets of the Workers Party. Support for the clear cut revolutionary tickets of the Workers Party was pledged by the state executive committee of the Ohio Farmer-Labor Party at a meeting here. The committee states the impossi- bility of endorsing the middle class movement fathered by the C. P. P. A. and LaFollette and declares that in view of the action taken by the Na- tional Farmer-Labor Party executive committee in withdrawing McDonald and Bouck there is nothing else to do than to support the Workers Party ticket. Scott Wilkins for Governor. Scott Wilkins for governor, Lotta Burke for lieutenant governor: these Workers Party state candidates, with the rest of the ticket, will have the whole-hearted support of the Farmer- Labor Party. A vigorous campaign will be conducted thru the state. Speakers will hold many meetings in Cleveland, Cincinnati and other in- dustrial “ cities and the DAILY WORKER and other party literature will be circulated by the thousands. The campaign is expected to gain thousands of fecruits to the militant class movement. The executive committee’s state- ment follows: The indorsement of Robert M. LaFollette by the Conference for Progressive Political Action and its refusal to organize a national in- dependent political party devoted to the interests of the workers and exploited farmers, forces upon us the realization that the immediate formation of a national Farmer- Labor Party is an impossibility. We responded to the eall sent out for the Farmer-Labor conven- tion at St. Paul on June 17th. In support of this we issued a call for a convention at Columbus on June 7-8, and organized a State Farmer- Labor party to be linked up with the national movement. Nothwithstanding the unwar- ranted attack upon the St. Paul Convention by Senator LaFollette, we attended that great gathering. The basis was laid there for an independent political party of pro- ducers, and high hopes were enter- tained for the possibility of unity between the workers and exploited farmers, getting together on a com- mon program in the coming cam- paign. Because of its desire for unity the St. Paul convention in- structed its Executive Committee to negotiate with other groups who favored a Farmer-Labor political campaign. No Farmers at C. P. P. A. The convention held at Cleveland on July 4th, by the Conference for Progressive Political Action shut the door in the face of all sincere Farmer-Labor elements. Not a single farmer delegate was present and the bulk of the delegates were officials of the international unions, some of whom were formerly de- nouncing. LaFollette as he now de- nounces a section of the workers who do not agree with his anti- quated views of trust regulation. The C..P. P. A. accepted the dic- tatorship of LaFollette and be- trayed the Farmer-Labor movement into the, hands of. what Chairman W. J. Johnston, called: “Indepen- dent bankers, manufacturers and business men.” ‘Thus the C. P. P. A. destroyed. the possibility of a great united front of the workers and exploited farmers in the com- ing campaign. Political Thinking Confused. The action of the C. P. P. A. at Cleveland has started a wave of hysteria that is influencing masses of farmers and workers, whose po- litical thinking is confused, and re- sults in following without thinking the middle class hero LaFollette. In this political crisis of the American working class we note the action of the Workers Party of America, in nominating its own candidates for president and vice- president in the coming national elections. This action of the Work- ers Party is the only guarantee that a militant struggle against American capitalism and the men- ace of LaFollettism will be waged, and in addition that the idea of a great Farmer-Labor party will not be destroyed. The National. Executive Commit- tee of the National Farmer-Labor Party, has withdrawn the candi- dacy of Duncan McDonald and Wil- liam Bouck, its candidates nomi, nated at St. Paul and has endorsed o THE DAILY WORKE General Plutaricio E. Calles is the official winner of the Mexican presidential He had the support of the Mexican petty bourgeoisie and of the majority Calles made his campaign on a human rights and land to the people majority of 1,309,947 votes. trade union organizations. R Page Three Te election by a platform While his opponent, General Angel Flores took a conservative position. Party, William Z. Foster and Ben- jamin Gitlow. Back Workers Party. In view of the above facts we, the state Executive Committee of the Ohio State Farmer-Labor Party have consented to allow our candi- dates to withdraw and we indorse the state and national candidates of the Workers Party of America. The state Executive Committee of the Ohio State Farmer-Labor Party pledges itself to support in every way possible the campaign and candidates of the Workers Party and we call upon the work- ers of the state to do likewise. Ohio Farmer-Labor Party: Max Lerner, Chairman, Scott Wilkins, Secretary. Ohio W. P. Conference | By JOSEPH MANLEY. The State Conference of District 6, Workers Party at Cleveland, O., July 19, nominated candidates and electors to run in the coming elections. Every section of the district was representéd, among them being To- ledo, Youngstown, Akron, Canton, Warren, Ashtabula, Dillonvale, etc., and the District Executive Commit, tee. Joseph Manley was present as the reporter for the Central Execu- tive Committee. The conference opened at 8 p. m. and lasted almost until 2 a.m. Due to the fact that the district representa- tives were present at the conference of district organizers held at Chicago recently, some misunderstanding had arisen regarding the new party policy relating to the election cam- paign. Discussed Election Policy. The reporter for the C. E. C. cov- ered in detail the causes which led the C. E. C. to adopt the present elec- tion policy. Questions and answers occupied some tim®, and finally a gen- eral discussion took place. The dis- cussion proved interesting, as it in- dicated the general attitude of mind of the party membership in sone to the new policy. The acceptance of the need Nese the policy on a national scale was unani- mous. the method of its application to the local situation. One comrade trav- eled so far afiéld as to show sympathy for the viewpoint of Radek in the re- cent Russian party discussions. An- other comrade said: “We can sigh with relief” because of the adoption of the new policy, evidently, express- ing the thought that the new policy would be easier. This comrade was later disillusioned as to the apparent simplicity and ‘easiness of its appli- cation. i tm Agreement. The reporter for the C. E. C. closed the discussion and tho no vote was taken it was plainly apparent that not only were the majority in agreement with the new policy, but there was a distinct spirit’ of enthusiasm for its application, not alone nationally, but in District 6. . Following the discussion the con- ference proceeded to nominate 24 Ohio electors and the following com- rades were entered as the candidates of District 6, Workers Party: For governor, Scott Wilkins, Lieutenant governor, Lotta Burke. State secretary, HB. W. Sell. Treasurer, Bruce T. Smith, Auditor, Max Lerner, Attorney general, W. J. White. Judge of supreme court, Edwin Blank. Germans Push Out. WASHINGTON, July 22.—German emigration in 1923 was the heaviest in 30 years, totaling 115,416, the depart- ment of commerce was informed to- day by Vice Consul John A, Scott of Dresden. The United States got 93,000 of the 1923 emigrants, practically all of the vemainder having gone to Brazil, Ar- gentine and other South American the, sehaliates of the Workere sonnttian ; a+ net at ll le ns sl ataminnt Just two comrades questioned | |DARROW’S RICH MURDER CLIENTS Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, with the millions behind them from their parents’ open | shop industries are staging the most widely advertised show this morning that Chicago has seen in years. They are stag- ing this show with the aid of State’s Attorney Crowe, De- fense Attorney Clarence Dar- row and Judge Claverly. Pages of newspaper display | are being given over to the mil- backed off the high type on the eve of “Babe” and “Dickie’s” trial at 10 a. m. today. Kind to “Babe” and “Dickie “Babe” and “Dickie”! Two scions of the plutocratic class gone a little wrong but to be treated in an intimate, companionable way for all that. One and all the big daily newspapers of Chicago and vicinity are according the most generous treatment to the millionaire youths who have pleaded guilty to one of the most brutal mur- ders in the history of criminology. They are bringing into high light the aman side of their characters, making no effort to incite the public to a hang- ing mood. In fact Arthur Brisbane commended the lads for the defense tactics. | How Different at Boise It must bring a silent ironical smile to that old labor lawyer, Clarence Darrow ap he reads the Tribune, Hearst papers and News with their lionaire murderers’ efforts to | evade the noose. The Dawes | plan, Cal, Bob and John are KINDLY TREATED BY PRESS THAT CRIED FOR HANGING OF WORKERS vivid presentation of the rival attor- jney’s statements and policies. As he jsees his argumentd against the death |penalty for the lads quoted in full on |the front pagé his mind must hark back to the famous trial of Haywood, Moyer and Pettibéne which he went thru in Boise sixteen years ago. Headlines of Class Hate There must leap across his memory the eight-column slogans of hate which the newsboys were shouting as they jsold the papers calling for the slaugh- ter of the leaders of the militant \ Westen Federation of Miners. He must remember how his statements were garbled in the press he plead- led for fair play to these workingmen whom President Roosevelt was brand- jing as “undesirable citize There at Boise, and later at the Mc- Namara trial which Darrow also con- ducted, the capitalist newspapers were fighting the “battle of the millionaire class against the organized workers. They were out to hang their class enemies and their pages dripped with their class hate. Contrast the Herrin Trial Class hate showed again in the cap- italist press publicity on the trial of the Communist Labor Party leaders where Darrow was counsel. It showed even more fiercely in the Herrin trial two years ago when the union miners fought for liberty to the accompani- ment, of the misrepresentations of the press and editorial outcries for their strangling. Not so with the news about “Babe” and “Dickie,” two members of the dominant millionaire class, gone a little wrong, that's all, but not to be cast out, Southern Ilinois Gets Hysterical As Negro Slayers Flee (Special to The DAILY WORKER) CAIRO, Ill, July 22.—Pursued by tearing automobiles filled with angry citizens bent on taking the law into their own hands, Sheriff I. J. John- son ‘early today started on a speed- ing run in his automobile to Metro- polis, Ill, with two Negroes arrested as suspects in the murder of 16-year- old Daisy Wilson, who was shot down at Villa Ridge, near here this morn- ing. More than 400 automobiles were declared to be in’the vengeance cars, Sheriff Hudson is, accompanied by a handful of picked deputies. Whe girl's father, J. C. Wilson, who was beaten insensible by the negroes who robbed his store, was unable to identify the two suspects positively. The feeling thruout Pulaski county is intense. Many Negroes of Cairo left town, fearing rough treatment at the hands of the hysterical whites. Bloodhounds were brought up from Kentucky to help the sheriff track down the Negroes who killed the girl. pene RMI” Kern Send in that Subscription Today. Jacob Dolla, Freed Steel Trust Captive, Goes to Philadelphia LEBANON, Pa., July 22.—After two weeks’ vacation in Lebanon, his old home town, Jacob Dolla will settle in Philadelphia. Dolla was an able union organizer of foreign steel work- ers in the Pittsburgh district during the great steel strike of 1919, His success made him a markéd man for the steel trust which railroaded him to the Pennsylvania penitentiary on ¢ framed dynamiting charge. Persist: ent agitation by progresbive and radi cal labor organizations resulted ir Dolla’s release by order of Gov. Pir chot July 5, Send in that Subscription Today. South Slavs Welcome Vigorous Youngster Into Fighting Ranks The membership of the South Slavic Federation was increased by one yesterday, with the addition of a lusty | lunged baby boy to the family of Matt | Goreta, secretary of the South Slavic Federation of the Workers Party. Max Salzman, on receipt of the news, application for admittance to the Junior group of the Young Workers | League to be filled out by Goreta’s off- spring. Comrade Goreta doesn’t know whether to select Karl Marx or Nicoli Lenin as a cognomen for his young son. Send in that Subscription Today. DO IT RIDAY will be too late, six o'clock that night. Today is the right time immediately gave Comrade Goreta an | ANTI-CAPITALIST WAR WEEK PLANS OF PARTY GROW Organizer Tine to Tour for Party Every Workers Party branch in the country is getting behind the Com- munist anti-war demonstrations which are being held the world over under the direction of the Communist Inter- |national. James Cannon, assistant secretary of the Workers Party, says |the entire party is responding to the call to mobilize all of its energies during the anti-capitalist war week, |July 27 to Aug. 4, to explain to the | workers the capitalist murderers’ war | propaganda. The Young Workers League has in- |structed speakers to co-operate with |the Workers Party in carrying the -| Communist anti-capitalist war message |to the masses. Special editions of the DAILY WORKER and the Young Worker are now being ordered by par- ty branches thruout the country. Speaker Touring West. “As part of our party’s work in the world-wide campaign of the Commun- ist International against imperialist wars,” declared Comrade Cannon, “the national office is sending Norman H. Tallentire, national organizer, on a tour to the Pacific coast. “Opening his tour in St. Louis on July 30, Comrade Tallentire will ad- dress meetings at all points where the Workers Party is organized in the West, winding up at Seattle on Aug. 15. Thru this arrangement all the party organizations in the west will have the opportunity to conduct an anti-war demonstration with a nation- ally known speaker.” Gitlow Speaks in New York. Every street meeting held thruout the country during thé Communist anti-war demonstration week, will be devoted to exposing the murderous, blood-sucking methods of capitalists during wars. In New York, Benja- min Gitlow, candidate for vice presi- dent of the Workers Party, will speak every night at huge street meeting demonstrations. In issuing his call for the Workers Party to redouble its interest and en- ergy during the anti-war week, Com- rade Cannon declared that the demon- strations are directed not only against the capitalists, but also against the treason of the socialist and social- democratic parties of the world, who ten years ago, by supporting the cap- italist governments, betrayed the workers they were supposed to repre- sent. In the war crisis in 1914 the social-democrats betrayed the workers and revealed their bourgeois, national- istic leanings. Socialist War Mongers. “The social-democrats demonstrated by supporting the capitalistic world war that it is futile for the workers to put any confidence in them or their leaders,” declared Comrade Cannon. “The German social-democrats are an example of this treason to the work- ing class, most of them even voting in the reichstag for the war budgets.” Speaking of the Tallentire tour, Cannon said: “Comrade Tallentire is a forceful and eloquent speaker and is well qualified to expose the murder system as an inherent part of the cap italist regime, and to draw the neces- sary lessons from the standpoint of the working class. The subject of Comrade Tallentire’s speech, on his tour, will be ‘Ten Years After the World War.’ All party organizations are urged to do their utmost to get |the largest possible crowds of work- ers to hear the Communist message against imperialist war from Comrade Tallentire.” : Tallentire’s Dates, Comrade Tallentire’s list of dates follows: wyQUISTuly, 20th, ITY—July sist. SAHTAS August ist, R—August 3rd. T LAKES August 5th, erg ere | SAN FR, AY Disrrict NCISCO & August 9th, 10th and llth. FOR’ ‘LAND—August 13th. A aneuss 14th, August 15th. VANCOUVER August 17th, TODAY unless you send in your order by for sending in that order for the “Anti-War Special” edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated this Saturday, July DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lil. For the enclosed §..... Name: ADDRESS: . CITY: . 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