The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 2

et = » Page Two HUGHES’ WORK BRINGING JOY TO FINANCIERS Raises F lag of Bankers Over National Banners By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 24.— Financial writers in the nation- al capitol are happy. Hughes has carried the message to Europe. French bayonets must come out of the Ruhr in order that the world may be made safe for investment. . If they go in again, it must be only to make the world still safer for investment. American bankers are ready to take Germany over as a bankrupt property, and work her until she pays off the bank- ers’ lien and any debt to France which may be found within her power to discharge. But the bankers’ terms are clear—their preliminary loan must not be endangered by any military raid by the French; the final power in the modern world must be banking and not mili- tary. If the French don’t like the terms, they may go to collapse in their own way. Announces Morgan Decision. Never has the secretary of state announced an epochal decision of the Morgan syndicate more suavely than in this speech which he delivered at the Pilgrims’ dinner in London. “You may count upon our inter- est and assistance in the neces- sary measures to assure the eco- nomic rehabilitation of Wurope,” he said. “It does not matter that this aid is not given by the govern- ment. Had we attempted to make America’s contribution to the re- cent plan of adjustment a govern- mental matter we should have been involved in a hopeless debate and « thera would have been no adequate action.” This was his way of say- ing that the Dawes-Morgan plan was an administration measure which was kept at from Con- gress because Congress would never have approved it. Investors Come First. “All disousstons will be futile un- less arrangements ultimately made shall satisty the investing public,” he warned his French and Belgian hearers. “We appreciate the difi- culties,, but we believe that the Dawes Plan opens the path of con- fidence and prosperity. For that reason we are deeply interested in its prompt execution. My’ confidence that a way will be fomnd to sur- mount existing difficulties”— which means the withdrawal of Frenoh troops from German soil— “Wigs in the factthat a failure would invite chaag. “There ig*no substitute for good will; and that is greatly promoted by making possible the economic satisfactions to: which industrious Peoples—and all the peoples con- cerned are industrious—are en- titled and by holding out promise of the release from the almost intol- erable burdens which the great war has placed upon bent shoulders.” There is no promise in this speech that the millions of German toilers will be protected in the possession of the eight-hour day, or that they will be enabled to gain anything near & living wage. All of the employing groups—German, French and British —are agreed that the conditions of German labor must be broken down as an example to labor in the other countries. But the bankers will in- sist that the sweating of the work- ers in German mines, mills, factories and transportation shall be divested of nationalistic bitterness. French bayonets must be withdrawn, and American banking rights must be con- ceded priority in the profits of the mew enslavement. So long as Ger- man police, rather than French sold- fers, keep the German workers at their tasks, the situation will be safe from revolutionary dangers. Spanish Dictator Jails Socialist and | Closes University BARCELONA, Spain, (By Mail).— Pablo Iglesias, founder of the Span- ish Socialist movement has been thrown into prison by the Spanish military directorate. Senor Iglesias old and infirm, was arrested for pub- lishing reports of debates in parlia- ment in his paper the “Socialist.” Since the paper is heavily censored it appears that Iglesias was arrested because of the carelessness of the censor. The editors of two other radical papers have also been thrown into jail. The University of Barcelona has been closed by order of dictator Ri- vera, and more than 10 professors fired. The military had discharged sev- eral savants without provoking resist- ance, but when they dismissed Pro- fessor Dewlshauwers, the distinguish- ed Belgian psychologist, and closed his laboratory, his colleagues pre- sented him with a testimonial. The military seized upon this as an act of insubordination, and all the signatories to the testimonial, num- bering about 10 tutors, professors, librarians, etc., have been dismissed and are on the streets. RAILWAY UNIONS "REFUSE RULINGS OF LABOR BOARD Disccver Chairman Is Not Impartial Charges were made yesterday by the railroad brotherhoods that the U. 8. Railroad Labor Board is biased, un- fair, and not fit to act as arbitrator of railroad disputes. The brotherhoods have broken off negotiations being carried on by the board, declaring it a partial tribunal. The officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, with their at- torney, Donald Richberg, met in the Transportation building yesterday af- ternoon, to discuss the dispute which has arigen with the United States Railroad Labor Board. The Locomo- tive Engineers, thru their attorney, announced their refusal to further recognize the jurisdiction of the Rail- road Labor board. “Ben Hooper, chairman of the Board, is biased in favor of the em- ployers, and has repeatedly disquali- fied himself as an arbitrator,” says Richberg. “An inquiry which the board proposes, subpoenaing the of- ficials of the engineers union to ex- plain breaking off negotiations with the Western railroads, is illegal. Therefore we refuse to submit this controversy to it. “The Brotherhoods broke off nego- tiations with a committee representing ‘the roads in order to déal with the in- dividual roads direct. We do not con- sider the U. S. Railroad Labor board an impartial tribunal. Its chairman has repeatedly made attacks on repre- sentatives of the employes and onthe policies of their organizations.” Falling Pipe Kills Four. DETROIT, Mich., July 24.—Author- ities today opened an {investigation to place responsibility for the death of four people, who were killed when the ten ton steel and sheet iron smoke stack onthe Charlevoix building, broke off flush with the roof at 7 o'clock last night and plunged to the street in three sections. Two were injured and two automobiles were crushed beneath the wreckage. The pipe is said to have been built at least 15 years ago and there was ample visible evidence of its age as the police played their lights on its interior, soot laden, perforated with rust holes and seams torn apart by the fall. Norwegian Government Falls. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, July 24.— The Norwegian Government was out today because the prohibition repeal bill was defeated in the lagting yes- terday, 22 to 16. What of Workers’ Wages? MADRID, July 24.—A rise in the price of bread was announced today It will}as a means of inducing farmers to be described as peace and prosperity,]sow larger wheat crops. TROTZKY TELLS YOUNG JAPANESE REVOLUTIONISTS WHERE TO FIGHT (Rosta News.) MOSCOW, (By Mail.)—In a conversation with Mr. Tamiji Naito, presi- dent of the) Nichiro-Sofukai (Russa-Japanese Mutual Aid Association), r, in reply to a question whether the against their colonial oppressors would Trotzky, People’s War Comm struggle of the toilers of the Ea shape itself into a war, declared that it was, of course, difficult to pro- phesy exactly what shape the liberative struggle would assume in the East, but that history shows that never have oppre themselves from their yokes without Pointing out that the Japa 7@ youth was now faced with the nec id cl, or nations freed an energetic revolutionary fight. ity to determine its stand towards the coming revolution in Asia, M. Naito asked Trotzky’s advice in this matter, In the slogan of Japane reply, Trotzky showed the fallacy of imperialism: “Asia to the Asiatios’—which practical- ly means that the Asiatics, or, in the first place, the Japanese bourgeoisie— which is the most powerful in Asia—, has the exclusive right to exploit the tolling m of Asia. “The Japanese revolutionary Is a true friend of the tollers of the East” —concluded Trotzky—“who first of all fights his own country’s imperialism, thus helping the Oriental nations in deed to get rid of the rapacious agpira- tions of the Japanese bourgeoisie, as well as the bourgeoisie of all the other ” f DAILY WORKE LEADS ATTACK AGAINST WARS Anti-Capitalist War Special Issue The orders for the special anti-war “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” edition of the DAILY WORKER have already run into the tens of thousands and the last day’s rush for orders is expected to increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER~ tomorrow much more. New York leads the extra orders for the anti-war special so far, with an order for 1500 extra copies, for the patrons of Elmer Allinson’s Jimmie Hig- 3ins Book Shop. Street ‘meet- ngs all during anti-war week, extending from July 17 to Aug. 4, will be addressed by Benja- tain Gitlow in New York every night. At all street meetings thruout the country the “Fight the Wars of Cap- italism” edition of the DAILY WORK- ER will be advertised and sold. All street meetings during anti-war week will not only push the special edition of the DAILY WORKER, but will ex- pose the capitalist and imperialistic wars as the private concern of big business, bringing only suffering and death to the workers. Many Orders Orders have been received from Cleveland for 300 anti-war DAILY WORKERS; Rochester orders 300; Omaha, Nebraska, 200; Portland, Ore- gon, 100; Kansas City, Mo., 100; New Haven, Conn., 100; Toledo, Ohio, 100. Individuals are hurrying to send in their orders as well as the party organ- izations. William Dreyer of Detroit sent in the first individual order for 25 copies. These are only a few of the orders already received which will make tomorrow’s edition of the DAILY WORKER the biggest ever run off the presses, Chicago alone will dispose of thou- sands of extra copies of the anti-war special, at the numerous street meet- ings, and at the mass meeting a‘ Wicker Park Hall. Earl Browder, edi tor of the Labor Herald, and Max Schachtman, editor of the Young Worker, will be the speakers at the mass meeting at 2040 West North Ave- nue, Thursday, July 31. The subject is, “The Next War and the Presidential Elections.” Manuel Gomez will be the chairman. Watch Brazil Articles in the “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” edition of the DAILY WORKER tomorrow, include “How Wars Happen,” by Robert Minor, War and the Second International, by Alex- ander Bittleman; The American So- Louis Engdahl; Trade Unions as War Machines, by Earl Browder; The Cost of War, by Jay Lovestone; War Perse- cutions, by Harrison George and Amer- ican Capitalism preparing for new wars, by Manuel Gomez. The article by Gomez is especially timely in view of the present interference of the United States in the affairs of Brazil. Gomez is well informed on the South Amer- ican economic affairs. Hundreds of thousands of leaflets are being distributed by the Worke: Party thruout the country. The Chi- cago organization alone has arranged for the distribution of over fifty thou- sand pamphlets denouncing capitalist wars. The Tallentire tour, beginning in St. Louis and extending over the principal cities on the Pacific Coast, will bring to the attention of the workers in that section the injustice and futility of capitalist wars. MILITANT DAILY BRINGS MESSAGE TOU, S. WORKERS Getting Subscriptions is Each Communist’s Dutv (Continued from page 1.) of the election campaign, The DAILY WORKER is having these pictures printed for use only in connection with the subscription selling campaign, and those who want to secure the big new picture of Foster, of which the picture on this page is a copy, must sell a DAILY WORKER subscription in or- der to secure it. The special offer* and _ picture coupons appear on this page of the DAILY WORKER. There is work and plenty of it for everyone who calls himself a revolutionist. Let’s add thousands of new readers for the DAILY WORKER. Let's plaster the country with pictures Foster with the knowledge that every new reader of the DAILY WORKER means at least one additional vote for Foster for President. Let's make our slogan “Vote and Work for Foster for President” a living slogan, the em- jblem of real activity, ‘ Le TERA ROP EAE HE cinch THE DAILY WORKER Hiking Yous Worker Finds Country Eager for Party Literature A sturdy young bronzed comrade walked into the DAILY WORKER of- fice yesterday glowing with the sun of the plains across which he has been tramping and spreading Communist literature by the way. Norman Burs- ler of Wilmington, Delaware, told a great story of meeting friendly people from the east coast to the west. Bursler, who went west from St. Paul after the June 17 convention with P. B, Cowdery of Oakland, Calif., said that they had a great time distrib- uting literature of the Workers’ Party among farmers and workers thru the states. They followed the Yellow- stone Trail west and found farmers. eager for the Farmer-Labor Voice and Union Pacific maintenance gangs buy- ing out their stock of the DAILY WORKER, Subs to the Young Com- rade and to the Liberator were taken everywhere along the line the travel- ers found sympathetic hearers who were more or less disillusioned with the two old parties in the American political ring. Bursler is on his way back to Dela- ware, where he is employed at the DuPont Company. LEOPOLD FAMILY HAD FIVE AUTOS, EVIDENCE SHOWS Big Sums Passed in Gambling Bouts Five automobiles in the Leopold family; Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb used to gamble at bridge to- gether, several hundred Wollars pass- ing at some sittings. These facts brought out at yester- day’s testimony in Judge Caverly’s courtroom have little direct bearing on the murder Of 14-year-old Robert Franks, but they serve to show the leisure class background of the two young murderers who slew for sport. Nathan Leopold, sr., who is supply- ing the money for his son’s defense, attends court daily. He is not needed in the direction of his prosperous pa- per box business during the trial; that is looked after by expert subor- dinates. And out at Morris, Ill., efficiency ex- perts are speeding up the regiment of open shop workers who made it pos- sible for young Leopold to lead the eisure class life that led to the crime and who are now pos- siblesthis costly legal defense’ At the same time the exploited em- ployes of the world’s second biggest mail order house are rushing their daily grind which is helping to make possible the defense of Richard Loeb. Mayor Thrusts Car Deal Into Council’s Face for Settlement Mayor Dever, after receiving the ultimatum from Samuel Insull, chair- man of the board of the Chicago Ra- cialist Party in the Last War, by J.jpid Transit lines, that he will not sell the lines to the city for less than $142,500,000 decided to pass the buck to the city council. Instead of exercising the city’s right to call into power the law of eminent domain, which has been used against the workers’ small properties so often, Dever declared, “I have gone as far as my powers permit me, If the council cannot make a deal, the city is faced with a proposition of either having to organize an inde- pendent system or undertake fresh negotiations. WARNING TO MINERS! GALLOWAY, W. Va. July 24— The Brown Coal Company near here in the Flemington field, Brownton, is operating a scab mine now and is trying to run under the 1917 wage scale by using private gunmen and upholding the guard system. Sao Paulo Plane Down. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 24.—A rebel plane was brought down at Sao Paulo and two enemy pilots killed, accord- ing to the federal commique. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities WILLIAMSBURG, There will be general distribution of the anti-War leaflet Sunday morning, July 27th at 10 a, m., at the “Laisve” Hall, 46 Ten Eyck et, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, N. ¥., HARLEM, Distribution will take place Sunday morning July 27th at 10 a, m, at 143 E. 108rd street. Comrades in the above sections are urged to come to their respective head- quarters for the house-to-house distri- bution. Your respective teritory will be assigned to you. The Communist International has ordered the Communist Parties of the world to hold large protest demonstra- tions beginning July 27th and ending August 4th, Besides the demonstrations a special leaflet has been gotten up, It is the duty of all comrades to see that this —_ ct eA A BEERS ARES BERETS AEE NTT IRE " nwa James. Wall Street. % for Morgan. Workers’ Rule Is Only Morgan Fear ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: James Plerpont Morgan, of Walt Street, is packing his grips for a hurry-up trip to London and Paris. He leaves Saturday. In London, one of the office boys to Mr. Morgan will be Frank B. Kellogg, American ambassador to the court of St. All American ambassadors and consuls abroad are the office boys of Morgan. They are the dollar diplomats of But it is especially significarit that the St. Paul cor- poration lawyer, Kellogg, should run the errands of Morgan in London, on the other side of the Atlantic. * * * Kellogg has been promoted. He was formerly only the hireling pf the bankers, grain gamblers, railroad interests and the great landlords of the northwest. Now he works Kellogg was promoted when he lost his seat in the United States senate thru the election of the Farmer-Labor candidate, Magnus Johnson. Big business takes care of its own, It is taking care of Kellogg. ° * * dust as soon as they had elected Magnus Johnson, with his fellow senator, Hendrik Shipstead, they turned against the Farmer-Labor Party idea. They opposed the class party, The grand old party of Wall Street, the republican party, was good enough for them, and they are backing a republi- can, LaFollette, for the presidency. * * * Johnson and Shipstead dodged the St, Paul convention of the National Farmer-Labor Party because, they claimed, it was controlled by the Communists, and the Communists had their orders from Moscow. They wanted to hold their petty political jobs by playing in their own little barnyard. They said they must have no connections that would give the subsidized an opportunity to charge them with being “internationalists,” of being contaminated with a world- viewpoint on the problems confronting the workers and farmers. But Morgan has no such qualms. He considers the whole world his backyard. His whole capitalist press gives him an ovation whenever he goes abroad to enslave new nations to Wall Street rule. He didn’t want it known that he was sailing Saturday, on the Minnewaska, because, in his own words, spoken to a New York Times reporter, “If | do, I'll be met by a hundred photographers.” But Morgan changed his mind. He knows that his own brass check press likes to flaunt his picture before its deluded readers, still enslaved to the great man idea. * * * Morgan goes to Europe absolutely assured that he leaves the United States in safe hands. Coolidge, Davis or LaFollette—it is all the same. None of these threaten Mor- gan’s system of rob and have. agents are in daily contact with suc! Morgan knows, because his men as Premier Mac- Donald, of Great Britain, and Premier Herriot, of France, men much more radical than LaFollette. _ But none of these—MacDonald, Herriot or LaFollette, stand for'the only thing that Morgan fears, the substitution of Workers’ Rule for Bosses’ Rule. The financial budget of MacDonald's regime in Great Britain Was labelled the best budget that British capitalism has ever had. filling Poincare’s boots to perfection. disturb, let alone overthrow capitalism. Herriot is LaFollette would not the equilibrium of American f the workers and farmers of the United States want an argument why they should not vote for LaFollette and his “left wing of Wall Street” tiéket, let them watch Morgan twist MacDonald and Herriot about his little finger, and get all that Wall Street wants. Morgan rules in Paris. until his dollar dictatorship is Soviet Power of the workers and farmers countries. ondon and He will continue to rule there, as in Washington, swept aside by the rise of the in all these ” The victory of the workers and farmers is not in the gift of MacDonald, Herriot and LaFollette. It certainly does not lie the way that the Magnus John- sons and the endrik Shipsteads seek to mislead those on whose backs they have been lifted into prominence. Morgan goes to London to join the international bank- ers to plan their war against the workers of all lands. American. workers and farmers can only combat Mor- ee rule by throwing in their destinies with the World ommunist Movement. That means in America, right now, voting for and working for the Communist candidates for president and vice-president, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. * * Against the Rule of Morgan the Rule of the Workers and Farmers. Against the Dollar Flag Commun That i Day for the oppress of Morgan the Red Flag of the only way that leads to victory and the New DON’T BE DECEIVED WHEN LITTLE BUSINESS FIGHTS THE STEEL TRUST (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 24.—The United States Steel Corporation will be given sixty days in which to carry out the federal trade commissions decree, ordering abandonment of the “Pittsburgh-Plus” system of determining the price of steel, If at the end of two months, the steel corporation has failed to change its price arrangements, the commi. court to enforce its degree. ion will ask the United States circuit The steel concern, in the meantime, has the right to appeal to the same court for relief from the commission's order, and very likely get it, In its decision, the commission held that the “Pittsburgh-Plus” system was an “unfair method -of competi- tion.” The system involved the sa of steel at Pittsburgh cost price, plus the amount of freight charges to the delivery point. Farmers of eleven western states, the commission said, were forced to pay $30,000,000 more a year for their steel than if the system were not ex- isting. Attorneys for thirty-two inde- pendent steel companies in the mid- die west denied the trust’s claim that the ‘system was not price-fixing and Papa Ford Sets Up As Own Prohibition Enforcement Agent NEW YORK, July 24.—In line with the reported action of Henry Ford in posting his factories with warnings that employes will be summarily dis- charged if liquor is smelled on their breath or if liquor is kept in their homes, clerks at prohibition head- quarters here tod were busy pre paring letters to b nt to large em- ployers in New York and New Jersey urging them to follow Ford's example.tpany union, : x . perenne Friday, July 25, 1924 BLACK REACTION WINS VICTORY IN MINN, F. OF L LaFollette Forces Knife Farmer-Labor Party (Special to The DAILY WORKER) FARIBAULT, Minn., July 24,—-A vicious assault against the Farmer- Labor movement was successful in the State Federation of Labor convention, in session here, coming from the most reactionary elements in the labor movement and acting with the assist- ance of the La Follette forces. The predictions of the Communists that La Follette, if allowed to run “independently” would destroy the or- ganized political movement of the workers and farmers, was justified in every detail. Each session of the convention has been featured by a struggle between the reactionaries, on the one hand, and the left-wing on the other. The reactionary forces are led by Frank Starkey, of St. Paul, and Jean Spiel- man, of Minneapolis, ably assisted by President Hall and Secretary Lawson of the Federation. The left wing is led by the Communists. Fight Progressive Measures The reactionary elements are bent upon destroying all of the progressive measures that have been established in previous conventions. To this gath- ering they have brought not a single constructive measure. The Communists, on the contrary, have waged a clear-cut fight for mea- sures that would strengthen the work- ing class of Minnesota in their strug- gle against organized capital. Resolu- tions were offered demanding the im- mediate launching of an organizing campaign, demanding relief for the un- employed, equal wages for women workers and their organization into the labor movement, equal rights for colored workers, the amalgamation of the craft unions into industrial unions, and, finally, a resolution in opposition to American imperialism and against capitalist wars, Reactionaries Follow Usual Tactics, The reactionaries have followed the usual tactics of the betrayers of labor. Instead of fighting against these measures openly upon the floor of the convention, they have referred them to interim committees, and to the Ex- ecutive Committee, in order to knife them quietly while no one is looking on, while they hide their reactionary faces as much as possible in the open. A resolution, supposedly for the pur- pose of endorsing the candidacy of Senator La Follette, was introduced by the reactionaries. But in reality’ this resolution placed the convention on record as opposed to independent working-class political action, and en- dorsed the non-partisan policy of Gompers. . Communist Put, Up Fight A bitter fight against the resolution was made by the Communist delegates. Emme, Hathaway, Johnson, Miner, Frank and others, fought for a real working-class political movement. Delegates Wiggins, of Minneapolis, and others in the convention, tried to amend the resolution so that they could vote for La Follette without re- pudiating the Farmer-Labor movement. They failed in this effort and then, like good boys, voted with the reaction- aries. The names of Foster and Gitlow were presented to the Convention as substitutes for La Follette and Whee- ler. La Follette and the repudiation of the Farmer-Labor movement were finally endorsed by the convention, but not before five Communist speakers had an opportunity to set forth their opposition to this rank betrayal of the workers and farmers, Victory for Black Reaction Judged by the measures adopted the convention was a victory for the black- set reaction. But this is only the im- mediate result. Actually it was a vic- tory for the left wing, because of the standing gained as the only construct- ive element in the convention. The rank and file have been brought closer to the Workers Party because of its clean-cut stand for the bagic interests of the workers both in its political and industrial program. Minister Gets Sore When Workers Won’t Vote Company Union (Peseta! to the DAILY WORKER) NN, Mass., July 24.— The Rev, Chester J. Underhill has given up in a rage his attempt to pacify the shoe workers of Lynn, and by a referendum fasten the company union scheme on them. The pastor has been trying to reconcile the shoe workers with the bosses by preaching sermons on brotherly love for some months past. Then he conceived the idea of ballot- ing, and had ballots printed in the Lynn newspapers, giving the shoe workers the opportunity to express their choice between the Amalgamat- ed Shoe Workers of America and the Shoe Workers Protective League, a company union, \ Out of 28,000 workers only two hun- _ dred, according to the pastor, voted. i! Underhill took the bundle of ballots to his church and burned them in disgust, His disgust is prompted not by the fact that so few voted, work. ® men here say, but because almost! every vote was cast for the Amalgah, mated Shoe workers against the