The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1924, Page 2

~ isa. gifted speaker, will tell of the Page Two WAR ON WAR WEEK BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY Workers Party Holding Big Street Meetings The tenth anniversary of the rattle of guns that started the World War will be celebrated by the Workers Party of Amer- ica with a fiery war against capitalist war. The protest will extend from Sunday, July 27 to August 3. The industrial cities of Amer- ica will be swept by a wave of Workers Party speakers who will assail the imperialistic Morgan that is now preparing another war more disastrous than the last and will urge the building up of the workingclass forces which will overthrow this system of bloodshed and oppression. Many N. Y. Meetings. New York City will be covered by an especially strong company of revo- lutionary speakers. Besides ‘Ben Git- low, Communist candidate for presi- dent, the speakers will include Lud- wig Lore, editor of the Volkszeitung | and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party; John §. Poyntz, Rebecca Grecht, Charles Krumbein, Ben Litchschutz, H. M. Wicks, Jack Jampoulsky, Wil- Ham Weinstone and others. They will carry the revolutionary | message thru Brooklyn, Manhattan | and the Bronx. They will speak on| the streets and in halls. In Many Cities. Street meetings will be held in| Chicago and many other cities as well, | and in the following cities fates have | already been arranged as follows (fur- ther details to be published later): Philadelphia, August 6; Baltimore, August 3, Gitlow, speak- ing; Buffalo, August 2, T. R. Sullivan; Duluth and Superior, August 3, Max | Bedacht; Detroit, August 1, Ludwig Lore, Tallentire’s Tour. tarting during Anti-War week Nofman Tallentire will begin his tour to the Pacific Coast. Tallentire, who “Ten His world revolutionary situation Years After the World: War.” dates are as follows: St. Louis, July 30th; Kansas City, July 31 Omaha, August ist; Denver, August 3rd; Salt Lake, August 5th; Los Angeles, August 7th; San Francisco & Bay District, Au- gust 9th, 10th and 11th. Portland, August 13th; ~ Tacoma, August 1th; Seattle, August 15th; Vancouver, August 17th. Idaho-Montana Fires Worse. MISSOULA, Mont., July 28.—Little improvement was indicated today in reports from the forest fire areas of western Montana and northern Idaho. Scores of the 1,000 fire fighters are investigating reports that some of + blazes are of incendiary origin. The worst fire is in the Kaniksu forest, where the blaze jumped the Pen D’Oreille river into virgin timber, driv- ing 200 fighters back. (Special to the Dally Worker.) RE “The Great Struggle of the Ruhr Mini $2.00 a year SOVINT RUSSIA PICTORIAL, 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. AUGUST ISSUE GN SALE! “From the Old Family to the New”... “Situation of Workers In Fascist italy”, - Features by Internationally Known Contributors FACTS AND PHOTOS ON RUSSIA Get it from your news-dealer or SUBSCRIBE! STEEL CAR FOUNDRY WORKERS ARE LEARNING STRENGTH IN ORGANIZING AGAINST POWER OF BOSSES’ TRUST By JACK M The position of the workers in the Western Steel Car Foundry Company at Hegewisc dustrial feudalism. Little investigation is needed to ‘realize this. The barefooted and poorly clad streets of this industrial barony condition of the workers. The “homes” CAR BUILDERS 10 CONTINUE STRIKE FOR MORE WAGES (Continued from preceding page.) strikers meet every morning at 7 a. m. Barney Mass spoke of the struggles of the miners to organize at the strike | meeting yesterday morning. Kowal- ski spoke again in Polish, urging the men to organize and fight. Max Schachtman told about the Young Workers League and later lined up twenty-one of/ the young men in the organization. Jack McCarthy, circulation man- ager of the DAILY WORKER, then spoke on why the Workers Party participates in the workers’ strug- gles, such as this strike. British Lords Pass Bill to Suppress Communist Schools (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 23.—The “seditious and blasphemous” teachings of Com- munist Sunday Schools has been con- | demned in Q bill passed by the House of Lords under the instigation of Lord Danesford, formerly Sir John Butcher, who waved a poster of the Young Communists bearing the inscription: “To Hell with Sir John Butcher.” The Lord Chancellor, in replying to the reading of the bill, said that such language as was on the poster was a commonplace of the streets. The penalties provided under the bill are three months’ imprisonment and a £60 fine for tedching children under 16 years of age such dreadful things as the Communists teach. The Lords. took care, however, to protect the “legitimate” Socialist Sunday Schools. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that he had “discovered” 35 of these schools: 18 in Scotland, 4 in South Wales, 11 in London, and the rest in English country towns, Sturdy New Branch Of Young Workers League Is Started By CHARLES ERICKSON After months of individual propa- ganda carried on among young work- ers in the vicinity of Division and Robey streets, a branch of the Chicago Young Workers League was organized at a meeting held at the Soviet Tech- nical School, 1902 W. Division Street. The effective propaganda and pu- blicity that proceeded this meeting resulted in an attendance of 35 young proletarians. Twenty-two of the at- tendants joined the league at this meeting and proceeded immediately to departmentalize and systematize their work. Regular meetings of this new branch will be held every Tuesday night at 1902 W. Division St. AD .-by Leon Trotzky (Russia) ere,” by Peter Maslovsky (Germany) ..by Andreas Nin (Spain) $1.00 six months in which most of the workers dwell are wooden shacks of the cheapest possible construction, for the most part. overcrowded with cCARTHY. h is that of workers under in- children of the workers on the of the steel trust reflects the several families living in each Shack, often a family of five or six confined to one room, Most of the workers are foreign born, chiefly of southeastern Europ- ean nationalities, Polish, South Slavs, Italians, Russians, ete. This condi- tion lends itself favorably tothe com- pany and its efficiency experts who exploit the workers to the limit of endurance, always using one nation- ality against the other, No: Justice in Court. There is little justice in capitalist courts for the workers anywhere, but in Hegewisch, the barons whd own the steel car shops do not even give SPH EL BRIN Re eR THE DAILY WORKER ROBERT CROWE, DISPENSOR OF MORBID THRILLS Beater of “Girl Strikers Staging Franks’ Trial State’s Attorney Robert HB. Crowe did a thriving business yesterday in Judge Caverly’s court room dispens- ing morbid thrills as the first sessions of the notorious Nathan Leopold- Richard Loeb murder trial took place. Swarms of persons milled about the court room steps seeking entertain- ment at the sensation-feast and all un- conscious that they were motivated by the similar cravings to those that influenced the murderers themselves. The difference being that the million- aire youths went and got their thrills direct and these get theirs by proxy. Crowe could not conceal his own relish as he put the Frank parents on the stand and heard their testimony of grief spread before the public and the records. He attempted to hide his pleasure under a show of righteous DO st NEL SR OM ARE RD ME 8 NGAI NE sims The Growing that Grows Greater By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ToDay, Dwight F. Davis, Assistant Secretary of War, goes among the summer school students at the George Washington University, and urges upon them, the necessity of military duty. The war makers in Washington and Wall Street are frightened at the success of the attack on Mobilization Day, Sept. 12. The hirelings of those who urge mutual human slaughter as a cure for international problems must there- fore get busy. * * * * Davis throws up the usual smoke screen. He dons the camouflage that has always been used by the war makers, that the young “should be willing to accept military duty in war time along with the enjoyment of the privileges of citizenship during peace.” A With a straight face, the result of long practice, Davis declares that, “The people, thru their legislators, declare war.” Everyone who reads and thinks nowadays knows that a legislator has as little to do with the making of war as a wrecked bridge has in producing the flood that sweeps it wrath but the attempc was transpar- the workers the formality of a trial.) During a recent strike at the West ern Steel Car Foundry company, three strikers were arrested and thrown in jail for six months with- out a hearing. Several times durifig the frequent strikes the militant strikers were arrestetl, taken to the South Chicago Police Station with- out a cWl@rge, held over night or for a few days, relieved of $25 or $50 and threatened with deportation for a second offense. All this takes, place without the victim knowing wifat the charge against him is. He only knows he was on strike, perhaps a little more active than his fellow strikers and was therefore guilty of inter- fering with the profit grinding effici- ency of the company. Accidents Often. Accidents among car builders .are frequent and serious. At least twen- ty per cent of the workers. have lost one or more fingers and bear nu- merous heavy gashes on their arms. These injurics result from the severe slave-driving pace set by the com- pany plus the danger of handling the heavy steel plates without the neces- sary mechanical devices for shifting these plates. When one of these workers loses a finger he is given a small compen- sation during the time: he is in the hospital. When the company doctor pronounces him fit for work, he is given a document to sign and duc to the fact that he is unable to reac English he signs away any further claims on the company for his loss without knowing what he is doing. . “On the job, if one of these foreign- ers is cheated on the number of ri- vets he has driven and tries to get what is coming to him by reporting’ the matter to the “straw boss,” he is told to learn to speak English and if he is still persistent he {s per- haps fired,” said one of the striking heater boys, a young American. Linked to MoKees Rocks. Such are the conditions of tHe workers in this non-union car shop. The Pressed Steel company at Mc- Kees Rocks, Pa., of which the West- ern Steel Car Foundry at Hegewisch is a branch, has a long and bloody union smashing record. It was against the slave-driving methods of this de- partment of the steel trust that some 15,000 workers struck in 1909 at Mc- Kees Rocks, Pa. During that strike some thirty workers were killed when the Pennsylvania State Cossdcks fired on the defenseless workers. Af- terwards, during this same ke, the workers acting on the theory of “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” retaliated with equal ef- fectiveness on the Cossacks. i At the present time there is wide~ spread discontent among the worke in Hegewisch. But in their disorgan- ized position they are powerless to fight this great corporation. That there is good union material among them is very evident; the fact that they strike against the company in spite of its black list an Stool pige- on system is proof of this. It is unfortunate that the union grganizations with jurisdiction over this industry don’t pay more attention to the organizing of these workers. <The bosses treat us with contempt because we are. not organized. This is one) of the best conducted s: we have had in years in Hegewisch,” said one of the strikers, an ex-coal digger. Stereotypers Meet. ATLANTA, July 23.—The Interna- tional Stereotypers and Electrotypers’ union opened its convention here to- da; of the Trade Union ent, even to one who had seen his in difference to suffering when his plainclothesmen were beating up gar. ment girls during the strike last win- ter. A tilt between Crowe and Counsel Clarence Darrow for the defense oc- curred when Darrow took exception to Crowe’s statement that this was “one of the most dastardly crimes in Am- erican history.” “Dastardly,” retorted Darrow; “these are the hack phrases of the profession.” Crowe leaped to his feet with “I ob- ject, your honor, it makes no differ- ence what kind of a crime this is.” “It made enough difference so that you took occasion to refer to it,” said Darrow. Sessions will continue daily. Editor, Pardoned by Governor, Still in Jail for Contempt SANTA FE, N. M., July 23.—Carl McGee, Albuquerque editor, was still in jail this morning despite the noti- fication of Governor Hinkle to Sheriff Delgado of the issuance of a pardon for the imprisoned editor. McGee was held in contempt of court after publication in a Albu- querque paper attacking the court as being corrupt and charging the court with being subject to,pglitical dicta- tion. Sheriff Delgado’s refusal to release McGee was made on the ground that the governor had no power to pardon in a case of direct contempt. PHILADELPHIA PARTY ACTIVITIES Local Patlaseishia Workers Party is making reparat ign. ‘he enthusiasm shown at the itloy meeting on July 18 proves that Eetiedoipais workers are lining up strong behind our program and the candidates. The Political Committee with comrade A. Rosenberg as its chalfman has laid out plans for the campaign that promises to double the Party membership by November. The Party Headquarters are buzzing with activity and our member- ship is aware of the great possibilities for the growth of the Party during the Presidential er ag The Open Air eetins have been very successful and will soon be in- creased in number. Open Air Meetings. Saturday, & p. Front and ions for a vigorous cam- Eve! August 6, ments. The Industrial Department is_show- ing energetic activity in many Unions, and especially busy in a campaign to Watch for further announce- Attention! Amalgamated Group Members organize two new local Unions. CLEVELAND MEMBERS NCTICE! CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 23.— The membership meeting which William Z. Foster and C. E. Ru- thenberg will address is this Sat- urday, July 26, at? 7:30 p. m. in the Labor Temple, 2536 Euclid Ave. Admission is by card only. Every member of the Workers Party is Supposed to attend and members of the Young Workers’ League as well. It Is extremely important that every party member attend and be thoroly familiar with the program of action which the Workers Party has undertaken for the present poll- tical campaign and in the industrial field during the impending crisis. Educational League 'O the Amalgamated Group Members, T. U. E, L. Dear Somrade: 29th, 8 p. m., at 3322 Douglas Blvd. There will be a meeting Tuesday evening, July. The Amalgamated meetings have been increasing in attendance and good results are forthcoming. Important Iseu aware are ‘now coming up dally in the Amalgama as every comrade. is Especially im- portant is the question of readjustment in the clothing industry which is vitally affecting every member in the union. Every member in the union is concerned with the question of how his wage and working conditions are being affected by the readjust- mente and is wondering how thie ‘ ' acute problem can be met ‘ from its moorings. Capitalist lawmakers are merely told about a war declaration as an after thought. The bridge does not know of the flood until it gets hit by it. The secrecy loving diplomats, in league with the money kings, plot wars in the dark places. It is only years afterwards, after the war is over, that the light breaks in. * * * * It is good that the war makers fear for their jingo Mobilization Day. It is an indication that they are begin- ning to realize that the workers are no longer hypnotized by threadbare nationalistic ee to passion. They stand hast at the tremendous and growing response to the call ‘of Communist Anti-War Week, July 27-August 4, As they prepare for the letting of new rivers of human blood, they tremble lest Communist exposures recall too vividly to mind the underlying facts and horrors of the great slaughter that began just ten years ago, and endured thru four years of the most bitter agony the masses of the world have ever known. An oppressed class had again been suc- cessfully chained to the war charlote of its masters, Everywhere, the cries are heard in the factories, the shops, the mines, the mills and on the farms, “Shall it be again?” The reply, of course, must come from those who toil, in the cities and on the land. They must decide their own destiny. « It is the workers and farmers who must war against threatening war in the days of peace—mere breathing spells between wars. It is the workers and farmers who must raise the sword of the social-revolution against the beast of capitalism, thirsting for human blood. = It is the workers and farmers who must raise the stand- ards of civil war against their masters, rather than be chained as galley slaves to the capitalist wars of the money changers. * * * * Dwight F. Davis, the assistant seoretary of war, and his masters who sent him to address the students of George Washington University, see the drift of sentiment away from their wars in support of the war of the workers and the farmers for their own emancipation. They see and they are afraid. What they fear the workers and farmers should embrace as their only hope of freeing themselves from the galling chains of wage slavery. Let the workers and farmers greet with joy every new op- portunity to struggle for the creation of the Soviet rule that will open the way for the ushering in of a Communist order of society, when the World Republic of Labor will sweep aside all national boundary lines and all human beings will live peacefully and happily in a cOmmon brotherhood. ple baslalto Rh. rccatath te Ubon a LIBERTIES UNION CATCHES LEGION Party Activities Of Local Chicago BRANCH MEETINGS * Jat Washington.” IN ANOTHER LIE Dauphin Streets, 92h ae SO, 27 —South Slavie No. 2, Friday, July 26, 8 p. m., N. EB. Corner Polish No. 28, 4630 S. Gross Ave. Kensington and Ori Bt. (By The Federated Press) Monday, July 28—Northwest Jewish, Tuesday, July 29" 8p. wee New; Cor-| NEW YORK, July 28—The Amer-|/##, Lemoyne 103.8. Loomis Ave. ner Girard Ave. and Marshall St. Harry |ican Civil Liberties Union has called| itallan Cicero, 8. 50th Ct. Winitsky of New York. A. Feinstone : 7 Tuesday) July rty and Y, W. 1. of Philadelphia. the American Legion’s bluff. The le- Merabers | hoe . W. A, 3322 Douglas ROTEST AGAINST U. 8. COURT ° 4 DHCISION GRANTING $1,500, 600 ‘to the |%ion is shown to have misrepresented Bk i Be p= Roumanian Preparations are beng wereneey regime. the backing for its latest anti-red Thursday, July 31—Antl-Militarist Mase Anti-War Demonstration. to. be held Meeting, icker Park Hall, 2040 W. crusade, A letter from the union to|North Ave. legion officials in Washington and In- —_— Karl Marx, 2733 Hirsch vd. dianapolis demands an explanation to| 9439'S Uaioe Bia et Ward Italian, rida it i—Ukranian No. 2, fe -pabite. Pullman’ 1070! ‘Stophenson Ave. N°” called All-American conference held in} Greek ‘Branch, 742’ Blue isiand Ave. Washington in May to launch the anti-radical campaign, claimed that the proposed campajgn was supported by 62 national organizations. The un- fon states in its letter that the fol- lowing organizations claimed by the Legion propaganda have sent denial to the Liberties union; Young Men's Christian Assn., National Catholic Welfare Council, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Hebrew Stelter: |sotn and State, South Side English W. P. ing and Immigrant Aid Society, Na-|112th and Michigan, Pullman Sub-City tional League of Women Voters, and| ‘Central Committee, ‘ the National Education Assn. of the Sunday, July 27 United States. After quoting from Marehfield and Roosevelt, Marshfield Y. these denials, the Liberties union let-|| Saturday, July 26—Riverview Press ter concludes: Picnic Committee meeting, at Room 307, ; 166 W. Washington St. Pp. m. “Their replies make it clear that prises Pilg We tip eran Class, 1902 they do not endorse the program, that", , tha ai dispatches as S hale par- (Additional party. news on page 4.) ticipation to that effect were mis- leading and that the whole affair gives an impression of strength which it does not posi We are glad to note that this is we re- gard such movements as violative of the rights of freedom of opinion and discussion on which any democracy STREET MEETINGS Thursday July 24 62nd and Halsted, Englewood Y. W. L. Friday, July 26 North Ave. and Rockwell, N. W. English Division and Washtenaw, Hersh Lekert YW. lL. Saturday, July 26 Roosevelt and Central Park, Douglas Park Jewish. Picket New Bridge. CLEVELAND, 0. July 28.—The Buflding Trades Council is actively picketing the Hilliard Bridge job which is being done by the Walsh Construction Company with, all non- union workers. The non-union men, must rest. We suggest that you owe|numbering about 160, are housed in it'to the public to make some state-|a camp near the job and being mont in regard to the charaoter and|paid the lowest ‘possible wages, from backing of this movement, which seems to have been so thoroughly mis- represented in statements given out 25 to 47% cents an hour instead of the union of 81% cents. Send In that Subscription Today. \ 4 Thursday, July 24, 1924 FACE PROBLEMS IN CONVENTION Left Wing Will Fight to Save Union The International Associa- tion of Machinists faces the gravest orisis in the history of the organization at the coming national convention in Detroit on September 15. Due to the reaction and backward outlook of the Grand Lowe officers, headed by William H. Johnston, the union has steadily lost in membership and effectiveness. At the same time the left wing in the machinists’ union is strong and aggressive. If the militant left wing pro- gram is adopted at the ma- chinists convention, the great- est opportunity for organiza- tion of the unorganized, for de- veloping shop councils, for amalgamation, and for other tank and file measures, awaits the machinists union. If the Johnston thachine triumphs, reaction will practically dissolve the machin- ists’ organization before another con- vention rolls around. This is the opin- ion of Andrew Overgaard, chairman of the International Committee for Amalgamation of the Metal Trades. Johnson Looks Backward “The membership in the Internation- al Association of Machinists has stead- ily dwindled under the Johnston machine until now it is little more than 75,000,” said Overgaard. “At a time when the machinists are facing @ grave industrial crisis, Johnston looks backward, in trade union matters and politically, when the only thing that will save the machinjsts union is an aggressive policy.” “Unemployment is rife in the metal trades, especially in the heavy indus- tries. Along with the unemployment is the accompanying open shop plan and the workers in these industries are unorganized. Most of the shops that are organized are the small con- tract shops which don’t amount to any- thing in the industry, with the excep- tion of a few in Chicago and New York. Strikes and Lay-offs “In New York the machinists in the ‘Hoe manufacturing company have been on strike for a year and the Grand Lodge officials have done nothing to help win this strike. The machinists in the Overland factory, and most of the automobile factories of the country have been laid off by the thousands. In Detroit and Toledo and other auto- mobile cities the factories are threaten- ing to close down completely August 1. And Johnston and his appointees have done nothing to meet this crisis in the industry, “Johnston has been faced with the problem of stemming the backward drift of the Machinists’ organization by carrying on a national campaign to organize the unorganized metal trades workers. Instead he has succumbed to the bosses wishes by championing the B. and O. plan of class collaboration, and by deserting the workers on the political fleld in the interests of the La Follette middle el Too Many Open Shops “Most of the shops are run on an open shop ba: At the present time competition is so keen that the con- tractors cannot pay union wages, and send their work to the scab shops. The unorganized shops must be organized, and the “oper shops” abolished in favor of the unionized shops. Johnston, on the other hand,,seems content to let the union shops sink to the level of the ‘open shops.’” “At the present time in the union Johnston pays much attention to the so called life insurance, which the Grand Lodge officers think is so very important. They boast about the life insurance given by the union. The rank and file, however, is interested in getting some benefits out of the union while they are living. If the average union man cannot get higher wages from the union, instead of a death benefit, he takes the attitude that he might as well drop his card, The logical insurance at this time of de pression, is unemployment insurance instead of life insurance. What the worker fears most is that he might lose his job, and his family be caused to suffer, * £ Left Wing To Fight “The left wing at the machinists convention will fight for a national campaign to organize the unorganized workers. To this end they will advo- cate that Johnston be stripped of his appointive power, the amalgamation of the metal trades, formation of a class farmer-labor party, and will oppose the B and O plan of class collaboration.’ Tomorrow Overgaard tells the “Daily Worker!’ about the B, and O. plan of class collaboration, and will give the position of the committee for amal; mation of the metal trades on this im- portant issue which will be argued out on the floor of the Detroit convention. Steel King’s Friend Dies. SPARTANBURG, 8S. C., July 23.— John Henry Cremer, 81, senior mem- ber of the Cremer-Case Company of Cleveland, Ohio, analytical chemist, who was once a business associate of * Andrew Carnegie, is dead, .