The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 1

Next Week Is Anti-War Week THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 109. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DOWN WITH WAR AND IMPERIALISM! LONG LIVE THE RULE OF THE WORKERS AND FARMERS! 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. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1924 reien 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Next Week Is Anti-War Week Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents U. S. BRAZENLY BACKS MORGAN Daily Worker Is Foster Campaign Weapon MILITANT DAIL BRINGS MESSAGE TOU. S. WORKERS Getting Subscriptions is Each Communist’s Duty “Work and Vote for Foster | for President.” With such a | slogan workers who have a consciousness of their class In- terests are going forward to ac- tivity in what promises to be the most interesting and profit- able few months ever exper- ienced by the radical movement in America. For the first time a Commun- ist ticket will contest the na- tional elections against the capitalist parties, the demo- cratic and republicans of big business dnd the LaFolletteites of little business. With William Z. Foster, the outstanding leader of the American working class, as the standard bearer, and behind him the vanguard of the working class, the first national Communist election campaign is destined to make “Mistery here. Daily Worker a Big Weapon. The chief instrument with which the Workers Party will wage its cam- paign of publicity in favor of Foster’s candidacy will,, of course, be the DAILY WORKER. Thru the columns of the only militant American labor daily the Workers Party will gather together those voters who once and for all have broken with the old polit- ical parties, and who will refuse to go along with the class collaborationists of the LaFollette camp. Workers who are in rebellion against the capitalist system, and who know what they want, and how to go about to get it, sooner or later find them- selves members of the Workers Party, and, of course, readers of the DAILY WORKER. For the great mass of workers who are dissatisfied with the conditions of life offered to them by the capitalist .class, but who do not know what they want to take the place of capitalism. LaFollette seems to offer a glimmer of hope, a sem- blance of leadership. It is among just | these masses that the Foster cam- paign must gain its strength. For the ‘education of these masses, to break them away from the illusions of La | Folletteism, to make them conscious rebels, and to lead them in the de finite direction of working class revo- lution, the DAILY WORKER must be- come the principle weapon of propa- ganda. FOUR MONTHS’ SPECIAL ELEC. TION CAMPAIGN SUBS $2.00 The next few months offer to willing militants the best possible opportun- ity for making the DAILY WORKER known. Even the masses of the work- ‘ing class are now thinking about po- litics, many of independent working ‘class politics, To bring the greatest pos- sible number of these workers into ac- quaintanceship with the DAILY WORKER is a task which must appeal to those who want to “Vote and work for Foster for President.” As a spe- \elal offer to make it still easier to sell DAILY WORKER subscriptions during the months of the presidential jeampaign, the DAILY WORKER is offering to new subscribers special four months’ election campaign sub- scriptions for $2.00. Pictures of Foster. To those who sell these special elec- tion campaign subs handsome pie- ures of William Z. Foster will be given, one for each new subscription id, Every Communist will want to ave at least one of these Foster pic- tures for framing, and several more for posting in his window in support (Continued on page 2,) Do Your Part Next Week; Communist Anti-War Week BOSSES DON’T WANT (Federated Press | law aims to solve. lation and the exhaustion of fre dependent upon an imported labor supply. From now on America can produce its own working class properly edu- cated to accept the dictatorship of big business. The first attempt at restriction established 357,803 as the limit exclus- jive of immigration from Canada and Mexico which are treated as portions of the domain of United States capi- tal. This appeared a very consider- able reduction compared with a yearly average immigration of 1,134,961 dur- ing the 7 years 1908 to 1914 inclusive. But it produced a net immigration of ‘more than 542,000 during the year just ended. Altogether in 1923 population grew at an unprecedented rate. In fact the average annual growth from 1920 to 1924 was 1,778,750 compared | with 1,418,100 a year during the pre- ceding decade and 1,745,000 a year in the 7 years preceding the war. The new law effective July 1, 1924 marks the next attempt and reduces the annual quotas to a total of 172,323 ‘exculsive of Canada and Mexico which if they send as many as last year may very easily raise the number of immi- grants to 425,000. The change in the balance of immi- gration from south and east Europe to north and west Europe, the most dis- |cussed feature of the new policy, is shown in the following table which shows immigration in 1913 compared ANY RED IMMIGRANTS WHILE THERE ARE SUCH GOOD HOME GROWN SLAVES By LELAND OLDS ndustrial Editor) How to assure a surplus of labor sufficient to keep wages down without running into such an over-supply as to promote radicalism among the partially employed workers of the country appears to have been the problem which the new immigration With the increased natural growth of popu- e land employers are no longer \VJ\A BOB AND BURTON TRY TO SCUTTLE MONTANA FL, P C. P. P. A. Endorses Old Partyites (Special to the Daily Worker.) GREAT FALLS, Mont., July 24.— Twelve individuals calling themselves the Montana Conference for Progres- |sive Political Action met in “Helena on Sunday, and endorsed the LaFollette- Wheeler candidacy on an “indepen- dent progressive ticket.” Although oustanding progressives like Anderson, Taylor, and Edwards are candidates on the Farmer-Labor ticket, they were ignored ‘aloug with the entire F.-L. P. ticket, and reaction- aries on both old party tickets jwere endorsed. $ * Some of the candidates endorsed |have the blackest kind of labor re- cords. Major Foote, endorsed for At- torney General, was one of the most notorious captains of militia sent to Butte to suppress: the miners in 1914 with the quotas for last year and the coming year. Last year New 1913 quotas quotas Austria 254,825 7,342 785 Hungary . 5,747 437 Czechoslovakia 14,357 8,073 Poland .. .. 30,977 5,982 Russia .. 291,040 24,405 2,348 Germany .. . 34,329 67,607 51,227 France .. 9,675 5,729 3,954 Italy . 265,542 42,542 3,845 United Kinkdom 88,204 77,342 62,574 Scandinavia ...... 32,267 37,863 18,803 Other north Europe .........- 18,411 9,089 4,441 Other south Europe - 61,561 39,086 5,846 Other ... - 56,939 2,000 9,545 The 1913 figure for Austria is for the old empire which included Hun- gary, Czechslovakia and part of Po- land. Russia and Germany in 1913 also included parts of what Poland is tq: day. Polish immigration given by the |and to overthrow the workers’ mayor lat the behest of the Anaconda.Copper Co. il State Auditor Porter, endorsed for his present position by this bunch of “progressiyes” calling themselves the C. P. P. A,, is a’ well-known lackey of Anaconda Copper at the State House. Senator Harmon, another endorsee, voted against a minimum-hour work day for women and against the pro- ‘hibition of child labor in Montana. Senator Walsh, one of the old-guard in the Democratic Party, chairman of the Democratic convention and sup- porter of the Morgan lawyer for the presidency, was also endorsed. Dewey Dorman, organizer of this hand-picked “progressive” conference of 12 men, has been campaigning the State for some time in the interest of Walsh, supposedly at the direction of Wheeler. It is anticipated that if an indepen- dent LaFollette-Wheeler ticket is put in the field against the Farmer-Labor Party, that LaFollette will not carry immigration bureau on a racial basis amounted to 174,365 in 1913. Home Grown Unskilled Labor Canada sent 14¢,780 immigrants dur- ing the first 9 months of the last im- migration year as compared with 73,802 in the entire year 1913. Mexico sent 66,104 compared with 11,296 in 1913. Mexico, when necessary, will revidently afford employers a recruit- (ing ground for common labor which will in part balance the elimination of Italy, Austria-Hungary, Poland and sia, But unskilled labor will bs more and more home grown drawn from the shifting Negro population, from the children of immigrants and from rural communities which are sending a steady stream of workers to the industrial centers. Viewing the situation as a whole the outstanding fact is that with European immigration severely restricted the ‘growth of population will be more than adequate to provide employers with the-human resources which they de mand, ’ Philippine Leader Tells Islanders to Keep Up the Fight MANILA, July 24.—Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House of Re- presentatives, who arrived in Manila today from the United States, assured a mass meeting that gathered to wel- come his return that independence is certain to come if the aspirations of The Filipino peop’ the State of Montana. Resentment against the C. P. P. A. endorsements is spreading in railroad union ranks, and thruout the State. It is pointed out that what the Commun- ists declared at St. Paul, namely, that LaFollette would destroy. the State Farmer-Labor Parties if allowed to run without party control, is being brought to pass. Ku Klux Kriminals Break Into Miner’s Home Like Vandals DOWELL, Illinois, July 24.—Ku Klux Klan lawbreakers, again broke into activity against thé members of the miners’ union here when they broke into the house of Charles/Su- dano, a progressive miner, and wrecked the interior. Sudano's life was saved by the fact that he hap- pened to be out of town visiting rela- ‘tives when the Klan murderers called. The Ku Kluxers came to Sudano's house at 1:30 in the morning, broke down the door, and destroyed the fur- niture. They hacked in the walls, ruined the floors, broke the dishes and smashed the preserves in the cellar. The Klan held a mass meeting on the second of July at the Benton, Illi- nois fairgrounds, dressed in robes and masks. It is thot the activity of the Klan in Southern Illinois is an at- tempt of the coal operators to break up the progressive miners’ strength in for national exist-|the United Mine Workers of America and hence -union, teas $$$ +__ SUGAR KING IS LAFOLLETIE’S - COMMITTEEMAN Organized Labor Gets 2 Places Out of 10 (Special to the DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, July 24,— Rudolph Spreckels, millionaire sugar magnate of Hawaii and California bankers is the out- standing figure on the LaFol- lette campaign committee, ten members of whom have just been appointed. This reformer, whose money comes from Asiatic plantation labor, is ex- pected to be the chief financial angel for the campaign. Another generous donor to reform causes who has been taken into the circle ig Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans, a rich leisure class woman of Boston, Organized labor receives compara- tively little direct recognition on the committee. To be exact, two out of the ten members, or one-fifth, are from the ranks of the organized labor moyemen{, These are William H. Jobnstopy president of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, and D. B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Morris Hillquit, who helped to swing the fragments of the socialist party into line behind the Wisconsin reformer, is also on the committee. It is possiblé that the vacant place yet to be filled will be given to a representative of the American Fed- eration of Labor, should the executive council indorse LaFollette in its Au- gust meeting. The list of members is as follows: John M. Nelson, chairman; Rudolph Spreckles of California, Mrs. Mabel C. Costigan, of Washington, D. C., William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machin- ists, Morris Hillquit, of New York, Senator Frazier, republican of North Dakota, Basil Manley, of Washington, Mrs. Elizabeth G. Evans, Boston, D. B. Robertson, president of the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Robert LaFollette, Jr. COLORADO LABOR PARTY BACK OF FOSTER-GITLOW DENVER, Colo., July 24.—At a spe- cial meeting today the Independept Labor Party’of Colorado endorsed the candidacy of William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow, for president and vice- president on the Workers Party tick- et, and pledged its full support in the coming campaign. It also called up- on the Workers Party to put a state ticket into the field, and pledged its support. Nominating convention of the Workers Party for the state campaign will be held on August 3, and a full ticket will then be named. Much interest is being shown by the socialists of Colorado, who repu- diate the action of their national of- ficials in surrendering the principle of independent working class politi- cal action of the LaFollette middle- class movement. sf WIRE IN YOUR ORDERS TODAY FOR “ANTI-WAR” DAILY WORKER SPECIA Tonight, at six o'clock, is the dead line on all orders for the Com- munist Anti-War Special of the DAILY WORKER. No orders can be filled after that time. This will be one of the best spe- cial editions that the DAILY WORKER has ever issued. Bet- ter rush in your order by wire at a Maa ere |, to the DAILY Ww * ‘est Washington Blvd., Chicago, | “4 —__—_—¢ Italian Murderers Of Matteotti Admit More Violent Deeds (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 24—Suspects arrested in the murder of the Socialist deputy Matteotti several weeks ago have be- gun to confess participation in other political outrages, the poliee an- nounced today. The “suspects” are almost all of them men who held high |* offices in the fascist government prior to the crisis caused by the kidnap- ping and murder of the deputy who was about to expose the crimes of the fascisti. Until Mussolini forced his censor- ship decree, the opposition papers all over Italy were telling of the crimes not only “political” in which Rossi, Dumini, Fillippelli, and the rest of the “suspects” had been active. HITB. & 0. PLAN AS DESERTION OF HUGHES AND MELLON INSIST EUROPE SUBMIT TO BANKERS’ PLAN TO MORTGAGE GERMANY (Special to The Daily Worker) r LONDON, July 24.—The American government Is support- ing Morgan's demand for a bankers’ dictatorship over German affairs with every ounce of official pressure at the inter-allied conference. The pressure is not applied in the regular sessions of the conference, which have become mere formalities, but in the private meetings which Secretary of State Hughes and Secretary, of the Treasury Mellon are holding with British and French officials. Mellon is supposed to be vacationing and Hughes to be merely on an unofficial friendly tour of European cgpitals but ( —$—$ both are functioning up to the hilt as representatives of the powerful American govern- ment which is backing the Dawes program. Hughes Working On Herriot Hughes is putting his energies into swinging Premier Herriot of France away from the French stand for separ- ate action against Germany. In a long jtalk with Herriot, Hughes declared | that the American government would regard French stubborness as an un- jfriendly act. The American govern- }ment, Hughes showed, stands behind \the banker’s ultimatum that no action | may be taken against Germany which As a substitute for the reso-|does not have the permission of the TRADE UNIONISM Amal. Committee Flays Johnston’s Policy : : inciple | Proposed committee of five, to be se- lution endorsing the principle lected from the committee of Dawes plan experts. MacDonald was also closeted with Hughes but Mellon has been handling more of the negotiations with the British premier. Getting Orders At Breakfast Part of the duties of Ramsay Mac- Donald, nominal head of the British government, consist of breakfasting with American multimillionaires and getting his instructions for the inter- allied conference where the bankers are attempting to internationalize western capitalism. After a long breakfast at 10 Down- ing street with Andrew Mellon, direct- or of more than 20 big American banks and corporations, and appropriately, secretary of the treasury in Coolidge’s cabinet, MacDonald showed no abate- ment of his position that the bankers’ program must be carried thru. Belgium Veering to Bankers Premier Theunis of Belgium has shown a conciliatory attitude towards the bankers’ proposals. American re- presentatives are doing effective work with him and the other delegates from his nation. It is believed, that with France's ally veering over to the fi- nanciers’ policy that the winning of the French themselves will be made prob- able, of Amalgamation passed at the, last convention of the Interna-| tional Association of Machin- ists in Rochester, William John-| ston is doing his best to ruin) unionism altogether by _his| class collaboration plan of aid-| ing the bosses thru the “B. and) O. plan.” This scheme of Johnston’s is} nothing more nor less than a promise made to the bosses by the union that the union men will turn out more work than the non-union men. It is plac- ing the union machinists in the | position of doing, not only their former work, but of going out} and securing trade for their bosses. Johnston’s wonderful scheme makes the union an auxiliary department used by the boss to increase production. The International Committee for the Amalgamation of the Metal Trades Industries, in a statement given out by the chairman, Andrew Overgaard, declares that the only solution tothe problems facing the machinists at their coming national convention in Detroit, Sept. 15, is the adoption of the entire Left Wing program, includ- ing amalgamation. The statement follows in part: | B. & O. Plan Must Go | The unions of the railroad shop- men will, if schemes recently dis- closed are successful, soon become adjuncts of the administrations of the various roads and their days as militant organizations of the work- (Continued on page 5.) East Pittsburgh _ Anti-War Program On Wednesday Night WILKINSBURG, Pa., July 24.—The City Central Committee of the Work- ers Party of East Pittsburgh, Pa., will hold an Anti-War meeting on Wednes- day, Juily 30, at Sangerbund Hall, Electric Ave., East Pittsburgh, Pa., be- ginning at 8 p.m. There will be speak- ers in different languages, good music and recitations. You are cordially in. vited to attend and bring your friends. Admission will be free. Russian Explorers Sail, LENINGRAD, July 24.—The Novoya Zemlya exploration expedition of sei- entists, explorers, geographers and their assistants left here for their Arctic ocean trip. More than 200 peo- ple are in the expedition, which is supported | rene Teoninaras Aen denny The French premier is personally desirious of effecting an agreement with the bankers: his concern is about his own political security. His opponent Raymond Poincaré has taken a stronger hold on the French senate in consequence of the move Herriot has already made towards the Anglo- Yankee entente. That Weak Franc The premier’s seat is shaky. But, he is understood to feel, his political position will be even worse if he turns down the international bankers and they take reprisals against the credit of France. A falling franc would be more disasterous to the premier than an abandonment of Ruhr occupation. The rich ‘peasants and small traders who helped to put Herriot into office care more about the validity of the franc than about the banks of the Rhine, Communists Tell of Vile Conditions of Prussia’s Prisons BERLIN, July 24.—Grave charges that conditions in Prussian prisons are inhuman were voiced in the Prussian legislature by the Communist delega- tion recently. The Communists fur- ther charged that prison officials, war- dens, physicians, etc, are so under- paid that they cannot look out for the welfare of the prisoners, A mutiny occurred in the prison at Hanover be- cause of conditions there. In Cologne, it was charged, prisoners of the Eng- lish ‘and French occupation were treated better than those in German Jaile, , | All Hegewisch Workers Invited to Hear The strike of the cafbuflders in the Western Steel Car and Foundry com- pany spread further today when ithe roofers joined the striking heaters, riveters, reamers, buckers and fitters. The strikers approved the demands formulated by the strike committee which will be presented to the com- pany officials today. The demands ap- proved at yesterday's strike meeting at Ginalski’s Hall, are 45 cents per car for the riveters and buckers. The strikers originally walked out be- cause of a fifty per cent decrease in wages. Their strike has been so ef- fective however, that they are now demanding a higher rate than form- erly received. Production in the plant is completely tied up. The heaters demand 85 per cent of the riveters’ wage rate and the fitters and reamers demand 92 per cent of the riveters’ wage. The strike meeting yesterday made final preparations for tonight’s mass meeting, under the auspices of the strikers, at which able English and Polish speakers will explain the strike situation and the grievances of the strikers. The meeting will be held in Ginalski’s Hall, 13259 Houston Avenue. Workers in the other depart- ments of the Western Steel Car and Foundry company, and all other Hege- wisch workers are invited to attend. Barney Mass of the Young Work- ers’ League and Jack McCarthy, cir- culation manager of the DAILY WORKER, and Martin Abern, of the Workers Party, addressed yesterday's strike meeting. The strikers have organized the picketing into squads, and are regu- larly on the job in front of the com- pany gates. Russo-Jap Mutual Aid. MOSCOW, July 24.—Mr. Trotzky, People’s War Commissary of the Ussr, has accepted to be honorary member of the Nichiro Sofukai-Russo-Japanese Mutual Aid Aassociation. A branch office of the Association has been in- stalled in Moscow. FARMERS REPUDIATE GRAIN TRADE TRUST IN ELEVATOR COMBINE The merger of the five largest grain e tors in the United States was repudiated as a grain trust by representatives of farmers, co-oper- atives and of wheat pools from the wheat growing states here yester- day. The farmers’ representatives class the combine, which was formed un- der the cloak of a farmers’ organiza. tion to dodge the anti-trust la as a combination of grain trade, Ike ests and not in any of the word a co-operative marketing as- sociation of farmers. “The confer. ence ane represented by farmers from Oklahoma, Texas, Indiana,