The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1924, Page 1

Next Week Is Anti-War Week Next Week Is Anti-War Week HAIL THE REVOLUTIONARY CLASS WAR OF WORKERS AND FARMERS AGAINST CAPITALIST WARS! THE DAILY WORKER. 5 SPECIAL © CENTS COMMUNIST intuing ANTI-WAR Pacury nas i On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. EDITION Vol. Il. No. 110. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JULY 26,1924 ~<a» In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ILL Price 5 Cents SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOWN WITH IMPERIALIST WARS! (Statement of the Central: Executive Committee, realize the nearness of the next war. They are increasing their armies and navies, training the youth, preparing the workers in every way for Workers Party.) the coming slaughter-fest! Their international conferences are of no e % __ TEN years ago the great war broke upon the world, Today another the last war. But in spite of their opposition they were led unresistingly avail! Their Dawes’ plans are leading them right into further complica- world’ war is an imminent prospect. The workers were opposed to to the slaughter, and for four years t Ft killed and maimed one another il tions and war will be the result! lions of workers lost their lives, of the workers to the imperialist demands of the capitalist masters. Only the revolutionary Communists took a firm and uncompromising stand against the imperialist slaughter. It was the Communist movement that brought home the other lessons to be gained from the experiences of the workers in the last war. They pointed out that wars are an inevitable result of the system of society whereby the many toil for the profit of the few. They pointed out that the only way to bring an end to wars, is to overthrow the system of society which cause them, Today the workers of Soviet Russia, led by the Communists, have Facing this situation, the workers must exert all their strength, must build up their forces, and be prepared to turn the next attempt to plunge the workers into the bloody shambles of imperialist war into a revolutionary struggle against the war-breeding capitalist system. at the orders of their capitalist rulers. more millions. were crippled, while women and children suffered un- recorded misery. Wealth, of such extent that the imagination falters before the vast sums, was destroyed in the mad struggle for rulership of the world’s markets, Standing before the prospects of the new world war, what have the workers learned from their bitter experience in the last one? The first ‘lesson of the world. war is the shameless betrayal of the labor leaders, the socialists and The first lesson that the workers have to learn from the world war is that the socialists, who, took an anti-war position In the resolutions of the various international congresses before the war, shameless! trayed the trust that had been placed in them by the masses o In most treasonable fashion they sold out the lives and hopes workers. union officials. for new markets. be- the gotten wealth. succeeded in establishing their rule and thus taken the first steps toward the end of all wars. Today the Communists all over the world call upon the workers to unite all their energy and power in a demonstration of protest against the war that approaches. The last war did not end the struggle of the capitalists of the world The struggle to safeguard and increase the returns on investments in foreign countries over the dead bodies of the flower of the working class, becomes sharper every day. The world’s oil, coal, railroads, and other fields of investment and profit, hold a bait for the greedy imperialist rulers of the world. Their hands itch and their mouths water at the sight and thought of the opportunities to increase their ill- The imperialists of America, as well as of the rest of the world, demands ism! of the Communists! The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon the workers to demon- strate against the coming imperialist war, to unite their forces for the Down with Militarism and Imperialist Wars! Down with Capitalism which sacrifices the workers for profits] Down with the Dawes plan! Down with American Imperialism in Central and South Americal Forward to the Workers’ Rule—the Soviet Republic and Commun- CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Chairman, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF dana Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. RUMORS OF FRANCO-BRITISH WAR | 500 Filipino Scouts Face Mutiny Charge UNCLE SAM'S BROWN SOLDIERS IN ORIENT FORM UNION AND ASK EQUAL PAY. WITH WHITES ; ' (Special to The MANILA, P. «, with white soldiers, and because Dally Worker) July 25.—Because they demanded equal pay they organized a soldiers’ union to enforce their demands, 500 Philippine scouts are to be placed on trial here charged with mutiny. ‘ This trial, which is scheduled to begin on July 29, marks the latest effort of American imperialism to subjugate discontent among the colonial troops of the growing empire of the United States. The demands of the Philippine scouts have already ‘been NORTH DAKOTA MEMBERS WILL CONFER AUG, 3 By ALFRED KNUTSON WILTON, N. Dak., July 25.—A con- ference of the Workers’ Party mem- bers in North Dakota will be held at Wilton, Burleigh county, Sunday, August 3, 1 p. m. All members are strongly urged to be present at this conference because matters of great importance to the party in North Da- kota will be taken up. 4 The agenda, as outlined by the Dis- trict Executive Committee will con- tain the following: 1, Report by the district organ- izer on the party work in North | Dakota. 2, How best to carry out Program of Action adopted by the C. E. C. 8. Our national election campaign as related to North Dakota. 4, The present political situation in North Dakota and our policy in the coming election campaign. 5. State campaign slogans and | Farmers’ program. The decision of the party to par- cipate vigorously in the election paign, both state and national, ould be a clarion call to all mem- rs to rally to the support of the y policy. A, political campaign, in which we are active part’cipants, ill give us a great opportunity to jucate the farmer to realize that the ‘orkers’ Party is the only party in @ country that has a solution for is problems. We want to show him at communism is his best friend. We expect full attendance by the mrades at Fargo, Bismarck, Man- Wilton, Wing, Garrison, Doug- as, Belden, Williston, Bonetraill and ish, Let’s meet up in force at 'ilton on August 3rd. See Page Three “labelled as “Bolshevist,” and the trial proceedings have been broadened to take in at least 500 men stationed at Fort Mc- Kinley. The work of investigation connect- ed with the trials has been completed and the accused divided into three groups. The trials, instead of beginning July 25, as announced, will begin July 29. Three courts are to. be set up for the Hearings instead of two, as had been planned. These will be: A court to try the fifteen alleged ringleaders in the movement, which included besides refusal to perform duty, the formation of a secret sol- diers’ union, intended to seek equali- zation of pay with white soldiers. Brig. Gen. Douglas MacArthur al- ready has been named to head this court. The principal charge against these men is inciting a mutiny. For Noble Prize. BERLIN, July 25.—Chaim Nachman Bialik is being seriously considered for the Noble Prize for Literature this year. CORRECTION The dropping of a line from page three, DAILY WORKER for Thursday, July 24, in the “Thesis for Agitators,” made a paragraph read as follows: ‘ “In the Union of Soviet Re- publics there is one soldier to every 100 persons of the popula- tion.” This is, of course, ridiculous- ly untrue. And it was never written that way. What the original by ‘¢ the printer dropped rT thi “In Poland, Which has armed with the aid of French money against the Union of Soviet Re- publics, there is one soldier to every 100 persons of the popu- lation.” AMERICAN MINISTER IN CHINA “MEDIATOR” OF PEKIN, July 25.—American Min- ister Schurman has been in confer- appointed Soviet ambassador to Chi- na. Schurman is acting as media- tor In the dispute between the Sov- lets, the Chinese government and the diplomatic corps relative to the refusal of the latter.to hand over control of the former Russian lega- tlon. The Chinese government had sought to have the property placed in its custody to be turned over to Karakhan. The new ambassador— the first to be named to China by any nation—will present his creden- tials to President Tsao, July 31. AROUSE WORLD AGAINST WARS OF CAPITALISM Communists of World Demonstrate this Week This special “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” edition of the DAILY WORKER ushers in Anti-Capitalist . War Week, which every Communist Party the world over is conducting from July 27 to August 4. De- nouncing the Morgan inter- ference with the lives of the workers of Germany, France and other countries; exposing the traitorous socialist betrayal of the workers in 1914; ex- plaining the economic causes of war; this issue of the DAILY WORKER forms the shock troop in the Workers Party _|campaign of anti-capitalist war education. The “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” week comes at a time when American capitalists, with the home markets flooded and an industrial crisis ap- proaching, are reaching out their bloody fists to squeeze more profits out of the bodies of the workers on foreign soil. “Imperial” Navy The Philippines, oypressed under the blood and iron rule of Major General Leonard Wood, are crying out for in- dependence, The Philippine’s delega- ion now in America has received scant (Continued on page 2.) soweT LEsATION WAR | OFFICIALS DEFY RAILWAY UNION Leave Rail Labor Hear- ing Until Court Calls Charges made by the Broth- erhood of Locomotive En- gineers that the United States Railroad Labor Board is violat- ing the law and exceeding its jurisdiction in trying to take over a dispute between the rail- road brotherhoods and the Western railroads were again made yesterday at a hearing in the Transportation Building. The railroad labor board ruled that it is right in claim- ing jurisdiction over the dis- pute and threatened recourse to the courts in an effort to make the railroad brotherhood of- ficials testify. The brotherhood officials left the room im- mediately after hearing chair- man. Ben Hooper’s autocratic ruling, intimating they will not return unless ordered by the courts. “Since May 14 the Labor Board has insisted upon retaining jurisdiction of these disputes,” said Donald Richberg, attorney for the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers, “which action has been utilized by the individual carriers concerned as a basis for refusing to fulfill their obligations under the Transportation Act, to meet with re- presentatives of the employes, and to consider, and if possible to decide in conference such disputes.” Board Ignores Workers, “It is only disputes between indi- vidual carriers and their employes which may be subsequently submitted to the board, or of which the board may take jurisdiction. The board has studiously and imexcusably ignored contentions made in behalf of the em- ployes regarding jurisdiction of the board.” The proceeding now being carried on by the board under docket 4055, is not a lawful exercise on the part of the Board, but is an unlawful usurpation of authority operating in the aid of the wrongful actions of the carriers concerned, and their direct violations of the provisions of the Transportation Act,” Unions Trapped. The attorney for the Brotherhood of Engineers declared that the West- (Continued on Page, 2.) ~~" JAPANESE CABINET HAS AGREED ON BASIS FOR RUSSIAN NEGOTIATIONS TOKIO, July 25.—The ‘Japanese cabinet has agreed on a basis of negotiations with Scviet Russia for the recognition of that government. Deplomatic “conversations” have been in progress for some time be- tween Japan’s representative, M. Yoshikawa, and the Soviet envoy, now ambassador, to Peking, M. Karakhan. The Japanese representative re- turnéd here several weeks ago and it was then assumed that Japan would proceed with official negotia- tions to reach an agreement and treaty with the Soviet government. The outstanding obstacle between the two nations was northern Sak- Jalin Island, which has valuable oil resources. The Japanese occupied this territory after the Nicolaievsk affair, altho it is claimed by the Soviets, who have granted Harry Sinclair, the Ameican oil capitalist, concessions there, ILLINOIS LABOR LEADERS FIGHT ‘BOB’ FOR SMALL Oppose LaFollette Man for Governor A deadlock between Senator} LaFollette, who, the DAILY) WORKER is __ informed, has| picked Raymond Robbins as) his candidate for governor of| illinois, and the officials of the) illinois and Chicago Federa- tions of Labor, make it practic- ally certain® that tomorrow's state Conference for Progress- ive Political Action will not name a full Illinois state LaFol- lette ticket. LaFollette insists that a can- didate for Governor be run in} Illinois, preferring Raymond Robbins. The American Fed- eration of Labor officials, in- cluding Walker, Olander and Fitzpatrick, stubbornly refuse to desert the Len Small regular republican camp, which Lalol- lette has declined to indorse. ‘Congressman Nelson hurriedly left FRANCE, CROWDED TO WALL BY BANKERS, IS THREATENING AN INTERNATIONAL RUPTURE. ¢ LONDON, July 25—War r matic chambers where premiers arguing over’the Dawes plan to Special to The Daily Worker) umors grated out of the diplo- and international bankers were day. The specter of world con- flagration rose out of the discussions on the Ruhr coal mines and industrial plants over which entente are now wrestling. France and the Anglo-American, Morgan and the international bankers following his lead are insisting that France take her troops out of the Ruhr region which the Dawes plan mortgagees intend to control. Premier Herriot, on the other hand, is fighting at the con- ference for the right of France to occupy Germany whenever she thinks necessary. The coal mines of the Ruhr Valley, united with the ore of Lorraine, are meant to give France the pig iron and steel supremacy over Europe and make Great Britain a secondary industrial power. Bankers Crowding France. France .is being crowded to the! wall by the bankers. Herriot’s home papers are snarling across the chan- nel at the rapacity of the Wall Street- Washin&ton-London combine repre- sented by Lamont, Young, Hughes, Mellon, Kellogg, Ramsay MacDonald and the governor of the Bank of Eng- land. The situation is tense. Never since the British French alliance has the conflict of interests between England and France come to such a head and led to such bitterness. Hughes Lunches with Herriot. Secretary Hughes met Premier Her- riot at luncheon today in the effort to swing the Frenchman into line, but at the close the deadlock was still officially unbroken. Reports of a pending compromise emanate from American sources but they are con- tradicted in French circles. French say that if Herriot assents to the bankers’ present demands that French industrialists will force him out of office. France is fighting to retain the teadership of Europe which the Anglo- American group demands. Her lead ership depends on her control of the Ruhr, she believes. But it also de- pends on the stability of her franc— and there is the weakness of the ex- treme French nationalist position. Desperate as she is France has one big card—her military power. And the pressure which is now being exerted against her by the rival capitalists of England and America is rousing the jingo spirit and war talk is be- coming distinctly audible in the en- (Continued on next page.) tourage of the French delegation, BOOST COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY GETTING NEW SUBS FOR “THE DAILY WORKER” The| FIRE INQUEST SHOWS KANSAS CITY LAWLESS |Negroes Died in Coop | Burned for Insurance?, | KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 25.—The coroner’s investigation into the col- |lapse here of a Negro rooming house |has revealed a criminal contempt for | safety. | The house caught fire and collapsed following an unexplained explosion. It was very heavily insured both against fire and explosion—$70,000 in all. There were twenty-five large cans of gasoline in the basement. Fifteen dead bodies were recovered and it is hoped that this is the total death roll, The house was built less than a year ago, there were no fire escapes, only one entrance and half the thirty-six rooms were those hor- rible unsanitary coops to which the poor are sentenced—fooms without windows, lighted by gas day and night. There was no fire wall and the joists were not anchored to the walls. Housing conditions in the Black Belt are typically American. Its popu- lation has grown from 23,000 to 38,000 in a decade but no extension of the Belt is tolerated. Hardy men who move out are bombed, their families endangered, Seventeen familles have already been bombed this year—some several times. A grisly feature—the rescue work was delayed while the police and fire departments squabbled over whose |duty it was to extricate the wounded. Send in that Subscription Today. See Page Three