The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1924, Page 1

Next Week Is Anti-War Week THE DAILY WORKER RAISES TFHE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 108. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. eg * Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd RALLY THE YOUNG WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNDER THE STANDARDS OF THE COMMUNIST WAR AGAINST WAR THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1924 Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. BANKERS DEMAND DICTATORSHIP Danes Bare World Plot Against Soviets WORKERS TOLD TO RALLY FOR FOSTER-GITLOW Ex-Socialist Secretary Repudiates LaF ollette A call for all class-conscious workers to rally to the support of Foster and Gitlow and to be- ware ofthe betraying Hillquits and Bergers who deliver the workingclass over to the petty ‘bourgeois LaFollette who is true to his own class and not sto the workers has come to the ‘DAILY WORKER from Walter ;Lanfersiek, ~former National ‘Executive Secretary of the ‘Socialist Party of America. It is a challenge to all the muddled and misguided, a call Against Socialism; For Fatherland HE “Hamburg, Germany, Echo” “Now we must carry the thing thru. is no time to debate and to try to for the terrible catastrophe lies. . land. for peace and understanding. swords will decide! defend themselves!” It *. French as Blind as Germans Bree. SYNDICALISTE,” 1914: German militarism, we must save the democratic and revolutionary tradition of France.” Let it never happen again! We are not responsible for the terrible event. Now might will decide! “From the power of the mailed fist, from the power of (Socialist), of August 4, 1914. War is here. Now discover/wherein the basic reason We must protect the Father- We worked has turned out otherwise. Now Germany's people must Trade Union, Paris, of August 4, YOUNG CARSHOP [BANKERS’ GIANT STRIKERS JOIN | GRAIN MERGER YOUTH LEAGUE) GROWS GREATER for all the straight~ “thinking, | Hegewisch He Heater Boys level-headed builders of the new world to join in the fight- ing ranks of the Workers Par- ‘ty, the one. workingclass or- ganization in America that is holding the battle line firm for the workers against the ranks * “of capitalists; big and ‘little. But read Lanfersiek’s own words: Springfield, Ohio, July 20, 1924. In these days of confusion, when even men like Debs are forsaking the working class position, it be- comes even more necessary than ever for everyone to find his bear- ings and declare himself. It must have become evident long ago to all thinking workers that the rullng class always have used and always will use every weapon of treachery, deceit and coercion against the workers. Even today, with reaétion in the saddle, we - -see the masters organizing and concen- trating their forces, in preparation for the coming inevitable conflict. In view of these facts, it Is idiocy to expect the LaFollet of any stripe, pink, yellow or black, to help» us. There is no use mincing words. LaFollette is no traitor. He stands for his class. But those of our kind who choose LaFollette, when there Is any other available choice at all, are traitors, conscious or uncon- scious. Until another and a better stand- ard is furnished’ us by the march of “events, the Russian Revolution must be our guide and hope. The Rus- sian Revolution raised no LaFol- lettes to power. Not even Hill- quits or Bergers. They may have jailed some. It is so reported. Very well. We have been taught in this country by hundreds of examples, the alternative of compliance with capitalism or the stinking peni- tentiary; and we have learned the lesson so well that perhaps we could teach the lesson to other non-con- formists, if need be. Comrades of the Revolution, be- ware your betrayers, your Hillquits, your Bergers, and the rest. Eyes left! Always left! March p nearer the Revolution with r and Gitlow. WALTER LANFERSIEK, Former Natiohal Executive Secretary, Socialist Party. Investigate Roumanian Evils. BUCHAREST, July 23.—A special committee for the purpose of investi- gating the last anti-Jewish atrocities committed in Transylvania, Bukowina and other parts of Roumania has been formed in Czernowitz, the principal city of Bukawina. It consists of rep- resentatives of all the Jewish parties in the country, and will make a thorough investigation to establish the number of the victims of the attacks, and the amount of damage caused, in Y. W. L. Now ‘Twenty-one young heater boys, out on strike against the Western Steel Car and Foundry Co., at Hegewisch, have joined the ranks of the fighting youth in the Young Workers League. Following a strike meeting of all the workers which was addressed by Jack McCarthy, of the DAILY’ WORKER, Joseph Kawalski, of the Polish Federa- tion, and Barney Mass and Max Shacht- man of the Young, Workers League, a separate meeting of all the young strikers present was held in another part of the hall. Mass and Shachtman explained the organization, its aims and purposes, and all the young lads raised their hands to show willingness to join the league by organizing a shop nucleus branch. Complete organ- ization will be effected immediately. The following officers were immed- iately elected: Len Holland, secretary- treasurer; Fred Haines, organizer; Tom Economus, literature agent and George Dobda, industrial organizer. All the new members form the leading and must active spirits of the ‘present strike and are a valuable addition to the young communist movement in America. “Winchewsky Week.” MOSCOW, July 23—Morris Win- chewsky, popular writer ahd poet, who is now the guest of the Soviet Government, is being widely enter- tained by the Communists. In the last week so many banquets, parties and receptions have been arranged for him that it is popularly known as “Winchewsky week.” Young Workers Call 'HE National Office of the Young WORKERS League of America today issued a statement to its mem- bership thruout the country urging it to put all its energy behind the International AntiWar Demonstra- tions organized at the call.of the Communist and Young Communist Internationals, The anti-war dem- onstrations are being conducted in this country under the joint aus- pices of the Workers Party and‘the Young Workers League. The state- ment follows: To All Branches of the Young Workers League. Comrades — The revolutionary workers of the entire world will soon gather to demonstrate their in- ternational protest against capitalist imperialism and wars, against ‘the betrayal of the workers by the so- cialists in 1914, and for the victory of . Working class in its war against the exploitérs, Farmers the Goats if They Bite on This Thirty-six of the leating grain com- panies of the Northwest have made a bid to enter the monopoly of grain selling companies recently formed in Chicago. The merging of all the grain elevatoré” and grain Companies and sales corporations into one huge trust seems to be going along as scheduled without protest from the government. The five leading grain companies of ‘the United’ States, including the Ar- mour Grain Company and the Rosen- baum grain interests, merged in Chi- cago, at the prompting of the Chase Nationals Bank, and Barney Baruch and other Wall Street financiers. In order to escape the anti-trust law, it was made to appear that the grain companies haa altruistically sold out to the farmers co-opefatives. But the $26,000,000 merger was re-| tained in the control of the bankers, | thru their board of managers and their directors, picked not by the farmers but by the bankers. As a second step in the monopoly of the grain interests of the country, the 36 leading grain firms of the| Northwest offer to “sell the farmers” 1,062 country grain elevators, 22 Min- neapolis terminals and 12 Duluth ter- minals. In reality this move is part of the well laid scheme to get all the grain interests ‘in the country into the one mammoth trust, under the cloak of the Farm Bureau Federation, @ conservative organization with which Newton Jenkins, the LaFol- lette satellite, was connected for many years. FAKE “RUSSIAN | RELIEF” ALLIED TO BRITISH NAVY Secret Papers Show a Danish Hoover By Harald Landt Momberg (Special to the Daily Worker.) COPENHAGEN, July 23.—In connection with the revelations brought forward by the DAILY WORKER of Herbert Hoover's anti-Soviet plot by means of the “American Relief Adminis- tration” in 1919, it is important to throw a searching light upon the whole international con- spiracy against the first work- ers’ and farmers’ republic. Valuable material in this matter has been brought for- ward in Denmark. One of the greatest Danish banks, the Landmandsbaken was broken down as a consequence of a hard struggle between the dominating capitalist groups. The government was forced, tho several of its members were implicated, to appoint a com- mission. «That commission re- solved not to publish the. most com- promising documents. But the Dan- ish Communists secured these secret documents and immediately published them. These papers give, among other interesting capitalist secrets, a picture of 2 world crusade against the Russian Communist government. Gough Was to Do It. The DAILY WORKER mentioned a General Goff of the British army, who Captain Martin considers as acting for the American government in the: Baltic region. His name is rightly spelled Gough, and he was nominated | as high commissioner of the Baltic states and Finland with advice to study the military as well as the civil aspect for an English attack on Lenin- grad, helping General Yudenitch. Be- fore England determined effectively | WS for the purpose of destroying him. | to support such. action it wanted to} investigate the affairs near at hand. HERRIOT MAY HURRY BACK TO PARIS WITH BANKERS’ PROPOSAL (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 23—The Allied conference on the Dawes plan after a two hour session today in an effort to reach an agreement on the question of sanction and default ordered the con- ference committee No. 1, to reconsider its report and redraw it after confer- ences with representatives of the banking interests which will finance the 200,000,000 loan to Germany. Thegnature of the discussions in the conference was not learned, but it was understood the plenary session was unable to reach any agreement. Premier Herriot is considering re- turning to Paris tomorrow for confer- ences with his political associates and will return to London Tuesday. The particular matter the conference committee was directed to take up with tie bankers, it was said, was the security for a $200,000,000 loan, MINNESOTA SEES. FIGHT TO SAVE THE F,-L. PARTY Union Reactionaries in |War for Gompers Policy (Special to the DAILY WORKER) \ FARIBAULT, Minn., July 23.—The Minnesota State Federation of Labor, opening its sessions here yesterday, was thrown into a fight by the re- actionaries, in an attempt to destroy the Farmer-Labor Party of this state. The conservative elements that have been fighting for the Gompers’ policy of non-partisan political action LOOSING TRO (Special to The The bankers have unblush have been ‘dwarfed to the size garcons. . STRIKERS SEEK CAR UNION AID IN ORGANIZING Hegewisch W orkers Ask Holmgren A direct appeal for organiza- tional help was made yesterday by the striking workers of the Western. Steel Car Foundry Company ‘when they sent a special strike committee to John Holmgren, organizer and general vice-president of the jlatnched a fight against the June 17th ‘convention for this purpose. + William Mahoney was given the floor of the convention, after a fight | whieh resulted in a vote of 82 against |78, for allowing him to speak. Mahon- jey took a stand in defence of the | Farmer-Labor Party., He charged that the reason for bringing in the resolu- tion against the June 17th Convention j intlusios of the railroads against the| A resolution introduced under the} International. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, for assistance in forming a union. Holmgren was one of the strong Pullman car shop strike which began as spontaneously as this fight against wage reductions at Hegewisch. The striking workers of the West- ern Steel Car Foundry Company at | continue .with the strike when the com-| General Gough relied on designs) US motor transportation, was fought | proceed with the strike when the com- worked out in the meantime hy the! great Danish commercial firm, the ‘Transatlantisk company, a firm which had great financial interests in Rus-| (Continued on Page 5.) Dirigible Cross Country. WASHINGTON, July 23.—A cros continent flight for the giant navy | Shenandoah, to be undertaken late Send in that Subscription Today. During the week of July 27-August 4, the pian movement in this country will rally to its banner the workers in a huge demonstration against imperialism and the danger ofsnew wars. In these demonstra- tions the Young Workers League must take a prominent part. As rep- resentatives of the class conscious revolutionary young workers of this country, it is our duty to engage all of our strength in the drive to make these demonstrations the largest yet seen in the United\ Sti It is the young workers who are the first victims of imperialist wars for profit of the capitalist cla; It is the youth ‘that is first dragged into war to sacrifice itself on the al- tar of capitalist greed. It therg- fore becomes our task to draw the young workers of this country to the standards of international Com- munism as a sign of their protest jughters of the work- —~s in the fall, was announced by the Navy Department. he international Communist isa alone ig giving leadership to the workers’ hatred of capitalist war. The socialists of all shades have repeatedly betrayed even mouth support to the struggle against imperialist wars by their actual bolstering up of capitalism. The last war will have been ended when the war of the workers against the capitalist system has been won. The end of capitalism is the end of capitalist wars. Intensify the struggle for the dic- tatorship of the proletariat and the workers’ society as the only means of preventing wars. Away with the socialist illusions that pacifism will halt the wave of new imperialist murders! It is only by turning the wars of imperialism into the war of the workers against their masters, that freedom from mass murder of the workers can be prevented. To the wars of imperialism and the treason of the socialists and paci- by the progressives, | | Candidate for U. S. Senator on the |Farmer-Labor ticket, Thomas Schall, | requested the floor of the convention, but was refused by a vote of 86 to 42. President Hall, of the State, Federa- tion, made a speech in which he charged that the amalgamationists, the one big unionists, and the Com- munists, were to blame for the condi- |tion of the labor movement. Send in that Subscription Today. fists, we reply with the war of the workers against capitalism! In every city of the country demonstrations have already béen arranged for by the Workeré Par- ty. The members and branches of the Young Workers League must . give their complete co-operation to the party and conduct these meet- ings jointly. All street? meetings during the week must be devoted to this anti-militarist campaign! The struggle against capitalist militar- ism is of prime importance to us, the revolutionary youth, ‘as well as to the entire Communist move- ment, If you have not already done 86, elect your committees to work to- gether with the party, Have a speaker from the Xoung Workers League on the platform together with the speakers of \the party. Spread the special anti-militarist issue of the Young Worker, together with the spectal issue of the DAILY j mittee which met the company offl- cials reported that the bosses would not grant the strikers’ demands for increased wages. The striking car builders elected pickets and decided to call a huge mass meeting for Friday night to get the workers in other departments to join their strike. The meeting wil} be at 7:30 p. m., Friday, in Ginalski’s Hall, 13259 Houston Ave., where the (Continued on’ next page.) For War Against Imperialist War WORKER. Get the co-operation of sympathetic youth organizations for support of our campaign. Rally the young workers and stu- dents of this country to the banner of Communism! Unite, for the demands of the Communists! Unite for labor's control of the mi- litia and the national guard! Down with military training of the youth in the schools and the col- leges! No appropriations for the capital- ist army and navy! Down with imperialist wars! The workers’ war against the im- perialist wars of capitalism! Long live the Communist ari Young Communist Internationals, With Communist greetings, NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT. TEE, YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERICA. MARTIN ABERN, Executive Secretary. leaders in the recent: jORDER POLITICAL RULERS TO GET FINANCIERS’ 0. K. BEFORE OPS ON GERMANS Daily Worker) LONDON, July 23.—The International bankers, headed Thomas W. Lamont, of the House of Morgan, and Andrew Me! lon, secretary of the U. S. Treasury and one of the five richest \ men in America, have openly taken control of thé inter-allied ‘ conference called for the purpose of putting thru the Dawes plan. , ingly proclaimed the leadership that the Communists said they have, possessed secretly since the | conference began and as a result British and French premiers { of diminutive butlers and cafe ' Take Power from Politicians. ? In their first statement given out thru U. S. Ambassador Kellogg, the bankers declare that control of the reparations *organization for the collection of German payments must be in their hands. They announce that they, and they only, shall have the power to sanction forcible seizures in case Ger- many ,»defaults. This they will do thru a committee of five appointed from the original” Dawes committee which the bankers control. This committee’s advice must be followed by the reparations’ commission before any action is taken against Germany. Hold Leash on Troops. In other words, the bankers hold the leash upow the military hounds. No troops may be loosed upon Germany except at the will of the international financiers. Furthermore, all the allied nations are told to pledge themselves to avoid “sanctiops” such as the French occu- pation of the Rhur which would, in the opinion of the bankers, impair the ef- ficiency of the loan. Herriot May Yield. It is confidently asserted in British and money circles that Premier Her- riot will accept this proposal. It is believed to be the only terms the bankers will offer. His face is supposed to be saved slightly by the |clause that the reparations commis- sion, which France cantrols, shall still function, tho the real power will lie in the hands of the committee of financial experts controlled by the bankers. In French groups it was said thet Herriot would be risking his post by falling in line but it was expected that he would take that risk. The alterna- tive of resisting the American inter- ests who have great influence in France, would be even more danger- ous. The bankers’ ultimatum was set forth by U. S. Ambassador Frank R. Kellogg after Kellogg had gotten his instructions at a conference of Lamont, Mellon and Owen D. Young. French Hit Wall Street. PARIS, July 23.—The high handed tactics of the American bankers are denounced in jingo French newspa- pers. The Liberte says: “The peace of the world is suspended at the command of two or three Wall Street financiers.” Obey the Bankers, Is Advice Ambassador Kellogg Gives Allies LONDON, July! 23—America and Belgium stood shoulder to shoulder this afternoon in an effort to bring the allied conference on the Dawes plan back to the road of success by meeting objections of international bankers to the agreement reached on the question of sanctions and de fault. Frank B. Kellogg, American am- bassador to England, and premier Theunis of Belgium, offered the pro- posal that the reparations commis- sion, which would declare Germany at default, consult the bankers be- fore taking such a step which the banker group holds would Jeopard- ize the $200,000,000 loan it pro- poses to raise largely in the United