The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1924, Page 2

: } t Page Two THE DAILY WORKER MILLIONAIRES’ MURDER TRIAL SEATS RESERVED Frank’s Case Staged as Exclusive Affair When the sons of millfonatres are being tried. for the murder of the son of anoth illionaire seats are at a premium. To get past the barriers of uniformed cemen into the Loeb- Leopold trial one must have credent- ials from the police or have unusual pull. The DAILY WORKER reporter watched the police turning away the rank and file from the portals of, the Cook County court house yesterday morning. Very few got past. State’s Attorney Crowe was giving his show to an exclusive audience. On the sixth floor another battery of officers winnowed out more of the curious so that by the time we were required to rise to honor the gentle- man in a black gown there were still seats to spare. Of all the millions who are reading about the case hardly a hundred persons are seeing the trial for themselves from day to day. Sclentist Seeks Vengeance. Ten o'clock, and in they come, the millionaire slayers. A ripple of excite- ment follows, which bailiffs quiet. The slayers take their seats with smiles to friends and counsel. They do not smile et the father of their victim. Robert Frank, the millionaire pawn-broker, looks at them with hate. He is a Christian Scientist but is moved just now by a primitive spirit of vengeance for which he is ready to spend his money, ; Plays to the Camera Robert H. Crowe, State’s Attorney, takes the witnesses in hand. He turns full on the audience and the shooting camera men as he asks his matter of fact questions. Crowe intends to make this trial his ladder of political safety and every bit of publicity counts. By catering to the public’s “hanging” temper he hopes to get by the voters once more, in spite of his blackcrow record of labor-framing and strike breaking. Millions Against Millions There is no class issue as between the Leopold and Loeb forces on the one side and Frank on the other seek- ing vengeance, with the aid of the state's attorney. The big open shop paper box factories of the Leopold, the rich Loeb fortune and the million- aire pawn broking business of Frank simply make possible a more sensa- tional trial and direct more spectacu- lar attention to the State's Attorney prosecuting it. “ Fortunate For Crowe The conduct of the prosecution at this stage involves little mental strain on the prosecutor’s part—fortunate for Crowe who is not a great lawyer. His witnesses are not cross examined by Defense Counsel Clarence Darrow. There is no sharp conflict of wits needed, no lightening intuition. The questions are of a formal character to put on the record certain facts which the opposing side does not dispute. The defense admits the murder, admits everything except that the murderers should be hanged. Will they hang? ‘They are not friendless workers or Negroes. Think over that and get your answer. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities Anti-Imperialist War Campaign. Workers Party members and sym- pathizers are requested to report at Workers Hall, 1347 Boston Road, | Bronx, July 28,to August 4th, any evening during the week and you will be assigned to work in connection with the anti-militarist and anti-war campaign conducted by the Commun- ist International thruout the world to mark the 10th anniversary of the com- mencement of the great World War.— B. Robins, Section Secretary, Work- ers Party, Bronx. Actors’ Union Leader Ill. NEW YORK, July 25.—Frank Gil- more, executive secretary of the Ac tors Equity Association was reported im a grave condition at a hospital here today suffering from a breakdown. Amalgamated ETTER from the stock-brokers cumstances to you, Inasmuch as wi operation of the socialists of the a’ with you to see that the conflict (From Plekhanov’s collection Railway Unions’ Officials Defy Board’s Power (Continued from page 1.) ern Railroad carriers invited a group negotiation between a Conference Committee of Managers of the roads, ! and the railroad unions, which the | brotherhoods accepted. tiations were under way, the railroad | unions found they were being hood- winked by the managers, as_ the “Committee was not a committee of the individual carriers authorized to confer and decide disputes, but was merely an advisory committee, with- | out authority to detide disputes and | enter into an agreement.” | After nego-| with th Stockbrokers and Socialists. of St, Petersburg to the socialist Minister Vandervelde of Belgium: . + » -Altho we may not be heeded, we are explaining these oir e are taking Into consideration the international significance of the European conflict, as the active co- forenamed countries, and we plead will be solved in the Interests of international Socialism, and to say that we In our work In Russia will not maneuver against the war.” “The War.”) Illinois Labor Leaders Fight “Bob” for Small (Continued from preceding page.) for Washington at one o'clock yester- day, refusing to talk to reporters as he picked up his grip and left for the train. It is thought he will confer ie LaFollette-Wheeler board of strategy there about the muddled Illi- nois situation. Won't Name Governor Yet. “The LaFollette candidate for gov- ernor will not be named at Sunday's |convention,” a well informed Illinois the DAILY “In view of the LaFollette leader told WORKER yesterday. “This joint conference, failing to |PPosition of labor leaders, it is doubt- agree even on what the termed ‘the establishment of ciples for the guidance of managers and representatives of the employes was terminated by the committee rep- resenting the carriers. The represent- tatives of the employes of the individ- | ual carriers then endeavored to re- sume legally required conferences | with the individual carriers which | had been interrupted by the interposi- | tion of the Conference Committee.’ The Conference Committee, which was without the power to decide the disputes over wage agreements, then wrote the Labor Board, conveying the idea that they did have such power, and requesting the Railroad Labor board to take jurisdiction’ of the dis- pute.” ‘ Board Usurps Power. | “Without further information or in-| vestigation concerning the propriety | of its action, the board on May 14,) 1924, assumed jurisdiction upon its own motion of the dispute.” The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers declare their right according to law to take up labor disputes with | the railroad carriers direct. They say the only authority the railroad labor | board has to take the matter up, or to order the Brotherhood officials to appear in such a hearing, is the au- carriers | ful whether a governor can be run in prin- | Opposition to Len Small. Newton Jen- kins will eventually be named the La- Follette candidate for United States Senator.” The political alliance between the labor officials of the state and Len Small has become increasingly em- barassing to both LaFollette and the Federation of Labor officials. With Gompers’ machine leaning strongly to- |ward LaFollette, and the New Major- ity, official organ of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, opening its columns. to furthering the LaFollette campaign, if Raymond Robbins runs as the La- Follette choice for governor, the Fed- eration of Labor officials will be placed in an untenable position. They will be indorsing LaFollette’s policies on a national scale, which include non-alli- ance with a regular Republican. At the same time they will be campaign- ing locally for the corrupt regular Re- publican, Len Small. Labor Has The Dough. At the present time the Federation \of Labor officials have the best of the contest with the LaFollette group. It |has been stated by an authoritative of- ficial of the Illinois Federation of La- bor that Len Small will be supported by the Federation in November at all therity arbitrarily taken unto itself. | cost. They have become too immersed They charge the labor board with be- ing partial to the carriers, and unfair | and ‘biased toward the railroad unions. Omaha Is Going After Farmers and Workers In Anti-War Meetings OMAHA, Neb., July 25.—The Com- munist world-wide Anti-War Week will be observed at Omaha by means of street meetings every evening dur- ing the “Week,” by distribution of the party leafilet on Militarism, and thru sale of the party literature and spe- cial editions of the DAILY WORKER dealing with the problems of War and Imperialism from a working class standpoint. The “Week” will be given a grand wind-up on Friday evening, August 1, at a “radical re-union” and banquet which will’ mark also the opening of the new party campaign headquarters at 206 Crounse Block. Norman Tal- lentire and J. E. Snyder will be the chief speakers on this occasion. lin the Small camp to withdraw their support, considering their promises to the Republican candidate for gov- ernor, and his hold upon them, even, if they desired to, LaFollette also has much to lose by opposing the Illinois labor leaders, The LaFollette-Wheeler campaign committee has just announced from Washington that much of the proposed $3,000,000 campaign fund will be raised within the labor move- ment. LaFollette is relying strongly on the support of the A. F. of L. ma- chine. The labor leaders are appar- ently holding the upper hand in their fight to keep a full state LaFollette ticket out of the field. Tomorrow’s convention, while endeavoring to as- sume the aspect of harmony, will in reality, be a line-up of LaFollette ver- sus the Len Small Federation of La- bor champions. No State C. P. P. A. Ticket. An announcement of the probability that no state ticket will be put in the field was virtually made yesterday afternoon by Charles J, MacGowan, chairman of the Illinois Conference for Progressive Political Action, In YOWLS DRIVING PESSIMISM FROM HEGEWISCH FIGHT. Youth Carry Whirlwind | Campaign into Strike By EARL R. BROWDER, All “tired revolutionists” who feel that, because the revolution was not found around the corner, the work- ers are a hopeless lot who must be left for the starvation cure, should take a trip out to Hegewisch, where the strike is going on in the car shops and there see what the Young Work- ers’ League is accomplishing. Boys and young men with the Y. W. L. red cards proudly showing in their shirt pockets, will gladden your eyes when you come up to the picket ne. The captain of the pickets is a member of the League. In fact, if you are not in the Yowls in Hege- wisch, you are not in the swim. Hege- wisch youth is a unit for the Y. W. L. It all came about in the midst of the strike that began three weeks ago, The DAILY WORKER entered into the battle for the strikers. The Young Workers’ League sent out Bar- ney Mass and Max Shachtmen to do their part fer the strike, they called for the organization of a branch of the Young Workers’ League. The first call resulted in 21 members. Since then the branch has continued to grow and flourish. Red cards are now the fashion in Hegewisch, and, as it is a working class community, the fashion extends to all inhabitants. The backbone of the ¥. W. L. is also the backbone of the strike. It consists of the heater boys in the shops. And that they are a live bunch is evident when you see the ac- tivities they carry on. Not content with making the strike effective in the shops, they are carrying it to the workers generally, with the ap- peal for solidarity. Extensive bene- fit entertainments are being organ- ized to raise money for the strikers and their families, and the league is the force directing and performing the work. Young boys, 7 to 10 years of age, cover the town selling copies of the Young Worker. Last night a mass meeting for the workers of the plant was held with Barney Mass, organizer,of the Young Workers’ League, as the principal speaker, and it was a “yowling” suc- cess, Again I say, all you sour-faced and pessimistic old grouches in the movement, if you want to get a touch of high life, go out and join the Yowls in their work in Hegewisch. It will do your tired souls good. Arouse the World Against the Wars of the Imperialists (Continued from page 1.) in encouragement from American war lords. American gunboats are hover- ing about the coast of Brazil, protect- ing Wall Street capital. Germany, France and Belgium are dominated by J. P. Morgan, backed up as he is by the American army and navy. Japan is squirming under the anti-Japanese laws which Coolidge allowed the Amer- ican bankers to pass without objection. While the American capitalists are “following the flag” with their army and navy to protect their millions, the Social-Democrats of the Second Inter- national, unashamed at their betrayal of the workers in 1914 when they voted for war credits, weekly claim to Tallentire, who is on a western tour | telling of the meeting to be held Sat-}\ especially for the Anti-Military cam-jurday, between the executive commit-}. paign of the party, will speak on the|tee and the representatives of the so- topic “Ten Years After the World|cialist party and various liberal or- GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y, THIS IS OUR EMBLEM An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry War.” ‘ Snyder is mapping out the plans for the Foster-Gitlow campaign which it is hoped will familiarize the great masses of backward farmers, and the equally backward industrial workers in the states of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas with the aims of the Com- munist movement. Revolution Rumored. LONDON, July 25.—Dispatches from Bucharest today contained rumors of a revolutionary movement in Rou- mania. There were unconfirmed re- ports General Avarecu had entered the capital with irregular troops. ee aa ae ee Food Workers _ ganizations he said: “It is presumed ‘that the program will deal only with the national aspect of the campaign and that no position—either for nor against—will be taken in respect to state or cotin- ty candidates.” That matter, he added, would be left solely to the local organizations. Business Men Too. At the coming state gathering of the Conference for Progressive Politi- cal Action, MacGown said that pro- fessional and business groups would be represented with the railroad, min- ing, building “trades and general la- bor groups and farm and co-operative organizations, Electrical Workers Strike. BOSTON, July 25,—Over 300 elec- trical workers of the Stone and Web- ster Construction Company are on strike in various parts of the state de- manding union conditions at the Mon- tauk electrical plant in Fall River. The General Electric in Lynn, a powerhouse job in Brockton, opera- tions on the $12,000,000 Hdison plant in Weymouth, the Beaver Country School for Boys in Brookline, and the Montauk plant are tied up. The city workers here are not affected. Charles Kaveney, New England representa» tive of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, is conducting the strike. Smuggling Plot. NEW YORK, July 25.—In the seizure today of a rum-laden adventurer off Long Island, evidence came to light of what is said to be a widespread con- spiracy to smuggle into the United States not only liquor, but Chinese, other aliens and large quantities of drugs. Proof of the plot was found in a let- ter taken off one of the prisoners, be powerless to avert a war if the capitalists really want it. 4 Not Pacifists @ Communist Intemational ‘during the coming week, raises the slogan of “Down with capitalist wars.” Capitalist wars with their accompany- ing graft, bringing millions in profit to the war profiteers, bring only misery, poverty, desolation and death to the working classes of the world. The Communists recognize only one war, the class war to liberate forever the workers from the rule of the financiers. The Communists are not pacifists but they will resist with all their power the wars of capital, which are perpetrated in the name of high ideals, merely to extend the markets of the nationalist capitalists and plunge the workers revolts into chaos. The special anti-war edition of the DAILY WORKER is being distributed by the thousands of copies during the coming week. Hundreds and hundreds of street meetings are being held in every city of the land, telling the workers the position of the munists on capitalist wars. Change Tallentire Dates Norman Tallentire, well known munist speaker, begins his tour of th West in St. Louis on July 31. Tallen- tire will speak thruout the Pacific coast. Omaha, Nebraska, Kansas City, Missouri, Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco, California, have already written the National Office of the Workers Party that huge Tallentire meetings have been arranged, Tallentire will speak in Los Angeles on August 8, and in San Francisco and the Bay district on August 9 and 10, these three dates having been changed. Steel Workers’ Convention. MONTREAL, Canada, July 26.—The coppersmiths and sheet metal work- ers’ unions are to merge, according to the decision of the convention of the Amalgamated Steel Workers’ Interna- tional Alliance in ion here, Sup- port to the child labor amendment to the constitution was passed and the Railroad Labor Board was at- tacked as unfair to the workers. > Socialists Make Sure Suicide Is Successful eo. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ODAY, the socialists have made doubly sure that the sui- cide of their party will be completely successful at this year's elections. They left no possible escape from sure death when the party's national executive committee issued the official con- gressional policy stating that: “When the candidate of another party has the official endorsement and approval of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, and the socialist party has no chance of election, it may be best, in the campaign of 1924, to abstain from making a rival nomination.” * ® * * Bi-chloride of mercury or potassium cyanide are not more deadly to human life than this policy will be upon the flickering political life of what remains of the socialist party. In only one congressional district in the land, that now represented by Victor L. Berger in congress, can the social- ists be said to possess that ephemeral thing called, “The chance of election.” Everywhere else over the land one finds only the graveyards of the socialist political hopes of years gone by. * * * * This is true even in New York City. There LaGuardia, the republican, who has been trailing the LaFollette band wagon, is already in congress in the strongest socialist dis- trict. Under their own policy the socialists will be compelled to swallow LaGuardia as they have swallowed the “LaFol- lette’ and Wheeler” ticket. Under their own policy the socialists will everywhere be compelled to work for the election of old partyites. This is shown to be doubly true since it is working out in practice that the LaFollette forces are everywhere declaring war on the Farmer-Labor Party moyermaot | / * This was shown in the attack of the LaFollette follow- ing, at the Minnesota Federation of Labor Convention, against the idea of independent political action. It was shown in the refusal of the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action, in Montana, to endorse Farmer- Labor Party officials,. already in office, for re-election. It was even slapped into the face of Morris Hillquit, himself, when Thomas E. Ryan, the New York state legis- lative agent of the railroad brotherhoods, sent out the call for the meeting of the New York Conference for Progressive Political Action, to be held in Albany, August 16, without even inviting Hillquit and his fellow socialists to attend. The fact that the national office of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, at Washington, appointed Mor- ris Hillquit, Gilbert E. Rowe and Thomas E. Ryan as a com- mittee to call a full convention, does not change the situa- tion. Even suicides are given the last chance of a hurry-up rush to the hospital. * * * Class conscious workers and farmers everywhere are called upon to fight this year under the Corfmunist stan- dards of the Workers Party. Only in the fight for the Com- munist candidates, William Z. Foster, for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, for vice-president, will the class interests _ of the workers and farmers be safeguarded in this year’s political struggle. Only thru the refusal of militant labor to take the socialist bait held out by the LaFollette “little. busi- ness” ticket, thus refusing to betray its own class interests, will it be possible to continue building for the great class party of workers and farmers. * * * The socialist party may commit suicide, as it is doing. The reactionary officialdom of labor may run after LaFol- lette and Wheeler in the two old parties of Wall Street. But greater and greater masses of workers and farm- ers, confronted daily with their own problems, will realize their class interests, enter more vigorously than ever into the growing class struggle, and march onward, ever more confident, to the final victory. N.Y. APPLAUDS FOSTER'S STORY be held today. Sulcide Arranges for His Funeral. MADRID, July 25.—Senor Roque, a merchant, deciding on suicide, visited his relatives and invited them to at- tend his funeral which he said would Then he purchased Saturday, July 26, 1924 Krasnaya Dacha is the site selected for the Commune Herald Situated between Odessa, Kherson and Nikolaev. It forms an ideal place for dairy and poultry industry. Qualified wofkers interested in such an enterprise must join now before full quota has . been reached. For more information write or call to secretary Ss MILLER, 1243 N. CLAREMONT AVENUE, Chicago, Ill, Tel. Armitage 5776 Furnishings ‘\ LADIES’ \ MEN'S f INFANTS’ ‘\ Trade Where Your’ Money % Buys the Most, AO Martin’s 723 West North Avenue East of Halsted St, George E. Pashas _ COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall CHICAGO MAC’S BOOK STORE 27 JOHN R STREET DETROIT Full line of Sociological and Labor Literature. Periodicals and Newspapers Res. 1632 8. 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Foster, chairman of the Workers party and its presidential candidate, declared to a cheering mass meeting of New Yorkers, Fos- ter, who has recently returned from a six weeks’ visit to Russia, described the improvement of conditions there today as contrasted to the situation as he saw it in that country in 1921, As a result of the Russian success he predicted victory for the world r volution: “The Russian working class . have smashed a great breach in the wall of international capitalism. The exploiters can never patch it up again, It will widen and widen until finally the great proletarian flood . pours thru and overwhelms the capi- talist class all over the world.” He said he lost 25 pounds in Rus- sia in 1921, and the workers were hun- gry, thin and haggard. Now in Rus- sia the workers have food, control over their jobs, and are happy and contented. 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