The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1924, Page 2

Page Two GOVERNOR ASKS INDIANA ROAD BOARD INQUIRY (Special to the DAILY WORKER) INDIANAPOLIS, July 27—An in- vestigation by the Marion County grand jury into affairs of the Division of Equipment of the Indiana Highway Commission was in more immediate prospect on receipt of a letter by Prosecuting Attorney William H.; Remy from Gov. Emmet F, Franch urging such an investigation. Remy at once moved to recall the county grand jury and declared that the entire range of affairs touched upon by the Board of Accounts would come under probe. The grand jury investigation is ex- pected to center on activities brought to light following the resignation of George Bartley, superintendent of motor transport. One of the principal points of in- quiry was directed on the repayment of $50,000 by O. F. Schlensker, Indian: apolis antomobile parts dealer, in al- leged overcharges. Another phase of the conduct of the highway commission business which has been under investigation by the BE d of Accounts involves the dis posal of Government surplus war materials. Examiners have about completed a check of the equipment sent to Indi- ana by the Federal Government from records in Washington. The fact that millionse of dollar¥ worth of war ma- terials not adaptable for use by the highway department were _ requisi- tioned and sold without bidding and without accurate records being kept by the highway department led to the investigation of+the Washington Gov- ernment records by the State Board of Accounts. England Alarmed Over Smuggling of Guns Into Russia LONDON, July 27. — Considerable interest in the mysterious machine guns smuggled out of Britain and into Russia early in the month con- tinues as the unknown purchaser re- mains still unknown. The Soviet trade delegation flatly denied that the guns transported on the Dutch steamer Helder were for the Soviet government and the master of the Helder when apprehended confirmed their statement. The captain said that the guns were consigned to a private firm in Leningrad. The capitalist press here has been Seregming that the Soviets were se- eretly arming. It now appears that counter revolutionary forces are guilty. Subscription price to “The Communist International” Reduced! Communist International a year or 12 issues. | ¥ Single copy It represents officially the views and reflections of the Communist International as the official organ of the Executive Committee, edited by the world renowned revolution- ary leaders: Gregory Zinoviev and Karl Radek. It surely is read by all who fear an educated revolutionary | working- class: by kings, emperors, capital- ists and labor fakers, and there is no reason in the world why you, as a reader of the DAILY WORKER, should not read it. The subscrip- tion price is within your reach. Do it for your own benefit. Send your subscription to the Literature Department, Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. | . | (Continued from page 1) stuttered a little, continuing, “That jis, I mean until 1912, when Taft was |nominated. Then I went along with | Roosevelt.” | At the mention of the leader of the break in the republican party, 12 |years ago, a startling burst of ap- plause broke forth, that surprised it- |self, as the burst of enthusiasm that had greeted mention of LaFollette | had shown no greater proportions. But this outburst helped- character- ize, as nothing else possibly could, the nature of the gathering. Altho representatives of labor dominate the conference, principally the delegates of the standard railroad erganiza- tions, nevertheless, the conference is under the spell of “little business” ideology. Where Was Latbor? The gathering got away with an outburst of oratorical pyrotechnics, in which no spokesman of labor played a part. The big guns also were not there. LaFollette still ling- ers in his tent in Washington, and Campaign Manager Nelson went off to join him. President William H. Johnston, Chairman of the Confer- ence for Progressive Political Action did not attend. No brothérhood chief was there. Charles J. MacGowan, a srotherhood man, was in charge of the steam roller as chairman. But the speakers were a judge from Rock Island, the congressman from Wisconsin, Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, who is pushing the campaign among- Illinois women, a Chicago banker, and an expert on private de- tective agencies. All this, with the opening prayer, kept the three or four hundred delegates wondering why they haa come to Chicago. At no time was there a breakaway from the program outlined. Mac- Gowan told the delegates there was zoing to be no third party talk. And he issue of the Farmer-Labor Party was kept far out in the street, or parked over, in Grant Park. The only undercurrent that indicated there might be an outburst before the gath- ering adjourns, was whether Len Sniall should be endorsed for re- election, as governor of Illinois, or some LaFollette gubernatorial candi- date placed in the field. These issues were being fought out in committees as this issue went to press. Hate Proletarian Dictatorship. | The judge from Rock Island, Judge Charles J. Searles, got in the first attack on the Communists in read- ing.the “statement and platform” of LaFollette to the gathering. He em- phasized that section that reads: “We are unalterably opposed to any class government, whether it be the existing dictatorship of pluto- cracy or the dictatorship of the pro- letariat.” No response came from the gather- ing. Most of the delegates, no doubt, didn’t know what it was all about. And Chairman MacGowan got in his little dig when he declared that, “Even the Communists have thrown aside the last shred of their cloak of righteousness and have come out into the open to gnaw at our flanks while we face forward to meet our common enemy.” They Must Protect Capital. Just who the common enemy is be- came somewhat doubtful when Mat- Gowan proclaimed that, “We hold that capital prudently invested is en- titled to protection. It is entitled to consideration. But, at the same time, capital must not make slaves of man- kind.” The only remedy offered is the ringing of the craeked Liberty Bell, of 1776, but MacGowan and the other ‘speakers failed to right it at all dur- ing the opening sessions. But MacGowan did take the LaFol- lette “bob cat” by the ears at one point, and really discussed the Dawes plan for a couple of sentences. What LaFollette, who dodges internation- al issues, will say, remains to be seen. It was in discussing the repub- lican ticket that MacGowan said, af- ter mentioning Coolidge: “Next on the same ticket is the blasphemous gentleman, Mr. Dawes, whose nomination by the republican convention was not an act of fate, as many would have us believe, but was a carefully laid ‘plan of the group of international financiers who are in- terested in involving the United States in their questionable schemes to bring, about the enslavement of Western Europe and the subsequent enslavement of the United States.” This will, no doubt, sound like WAR! HE AR Earl R. Browder, Editor ‘The Labor Herald’ Max Shachtman, Editor ‘“The Young Worker” Manuel Gomez, Chairman THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924, at 8 P. M. speak on “THE NEXT WAR. AND THE ~ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS” WICKER PARK HAL 8 L, 2040 W. North Ave. ADMISSION FREE. Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago “NO THIRD PARTY,” SAYS C. P. P. A. ‘ THE DAILY WORKER “Bolshevism” in the ears of Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of “The Na- tion,” and his whole “Committee of 100” in support of LaFollette, not tol mention all the liberal groupings’ that are out for the Wisconsin sen- ator, but who also contend that the Dawes plan is a step toward “peace and democracy.” Must Fight Dawes Here. But organized labor, following La vollette’s bandwagon in Illinois, would be in a pretty fix if it endorsed the Morgan’ plan sponsored by the Illinois “open shop” banker, “Hell ’n Maria Dawes. Congressman Brown hailed Pre- mier Herriot, of France, and Pre- mier MacDonald, of Great Britain, as great “democrats,” forgetting that both of these are boosting for the Dawes plan. But Brown satisfied his German backing in Wisconsin by de- nouncing the 40-mile display of Brit- ish battleships, in the British Chan- nel, Saturday, “the greatest display since the war.” He Supported Harding. Brown also apologized for support- ing Harding, in 1920. He thot Hard- ing was “the goods” before election, but he has since found out that Hard- ing was worse than Taft, that the Harding administration was saturat- ed with “graft and corruption.” MacGowan hailed the banker, Rich- ard W. Wolfe, “who is a director in several banks,” as a constructive business man. % Mr. Wolfe came back and declared that, “As a conservative business man and tax paying citizen, I am in favor of the candidacy of Robert M. LaFollette as president of the United States.” He said he had been in busi- ness in Chicago for. 30 years, but failed to pass around his card adver- tizing his place of business. He was in favor of wise business, declaring that: “Had the czar of Russia listened to the counsels of wise and patriot- ic men, he and his family would not have suffered the horrors of the murderous firing squad.” What the banker, Wolfe, hopes to do for the czars of America we do not know, but Stephen A. Doyle, the next speaker declared that these same czars, at the present time, in this country, support 940 private de- tective agencies. He charged that there were 500,000 private detectives in the United States at the present time. Miners Are Absent. In the report of the credentials committee the noticeable features was the absence of any .delegates representing the 100,000 organized coal miners in the state. The arrangements committee had planned for meetings of the different divisions of the gatherings. Chair- man MacGowan had announced the caucuses of the railroad delegates, the building trades delegates, the needle trades delegates, even the so- cialists, thé women, the progressive democrats, the progressive republi- cans, etc., etc. But when he called out the miners, there was a dead si- lence.. Secretary Dennis McCarthy leaned over and whispered something in MacGowan’s ear, and the chair- man passed on rapidly to the “busi- ness and professional men's division.” There was also a call for the meet- ing of the “Negro division.” But there was only one Negro in the hall and he announced he was not a dele- gate. . The half dozen socialists in the conference were under tlie leadership of W. R. Snow, state secretary for Illinois, who opposed the LaFollette endorsement at the Cleveland con- vention of the Socialtst party. Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, was present, but took no part in the proceedings. Sam Leven, of Chicago, represented the needle trades. ‘ Dreadnaughts Show Teeth to ~, French Premier (Continued from page 1.) did not add that France has a slighter but more deadly display, of thousands of war airplanes, which can strike with a lightening rapidity that the heavy ironsides are incapable of: U. S. Bankers In Pivotal Place. Reports that the allicod premiers may get together independently of the American bankers are not taken seriously. The Eyropean banking group that Premier Theunis of Bel- gium has been talking about is not able to sustain the loans that will be needed following the Dawes plan. Should this group of bankers be able to float the first loan of $200,000,000 their possibilities will have been ex- hausted, The $200,000,000 loan is only @ start of bigger loans to come. Only the Americin banking interests can undertake the job in a big way. Await Morgan, \ J. Pierpont Morgan's afrival is eagerly awaited. Before leaving New York on the S. 8. Minnewas} e admitted that His advice would be at the disposal of the conference, As the leader of the American banking combination he will be in a position to accept or reject any compromises the French and Belgians may offer. Germany will be invited to send de- legates in a few days if a settlement approaches, Communists Fight Plan BERLIN, \July 27.— Communists Presented an unbroken front in the Reichstag against the Dawes plan. wikia & FOSTER REPORTS TOUR THRU EAST IS BIG SUCCESS Members Enthusiastic About New Policies William Z. Fosteg returned yester- day from his trip through all the principal centers of the Workers’ Party with C. E. Ruthenberg, and re- ported that the membership meetings had greeted the new election policy and the program of action with great enthusiasm, y “If the spirit of the meetings we addressed can be taken as ‘an indica- tion,” said Foster, “the membership of the Workers’ Party is going to set a new high standard of achievement in this campaign. In gpite of the hottest kind of weather, enough to discourage anyone from sweltering in a hall for several hours, the members turned out in great numbers and enthusiasm. “Especially did’ the new election campaign policy receive a great re- sponse, In every case it was greeted by rounds of applause. When it was adopted some comrades had ques- tioned as to whether it would meet the approval of the membership. After these meetings there can be no question. The members are for it almost 100 per cent. “The outstanding facts of this trip,” said Foster, “are these: The meetings were the biggest membership gather- ings the party has ever held. In point of numbers the New York meeting led, with about a thousand in attend- ance., New Haven turned ‘out the greatest percentage of the total mem- bership. most impressive finaneial contribu- tions to carry out the new campaign. All meetings responded well in every way. “The entire program of action aroused the greatest interest. Many questions were asked by the member- ship, which, however, showed quite a complete conception of the problems that the party faces. The item which brought the most questions was the election campaign. Almost every- where some member asked: ‘Does the new election campaign mean that we have abandoned the united frent pol- icy?’ although Comrade Ruthenberg had answered it briefly in his report. The members insisted that we explain in detail to every meeting that the united front policy is not abandoned;” that it remains the fundamental policy of the party. The other item of the program that aroused the most inter- est was that bf reorganization of the party along the lines of shop nuclei.” No votes were taken on the policies presented to the party meetings, as they were obviously unnecessary. A record vote would have shown at least 95 per cent of the membership solidly with the program of action and elec- tion policy. “A feature of the trip, perhaps the most important,” said Foster, “was the complete liquidation of factionalism in the party that was disclosed. The new program was presented as the unanimous decision of the Central Executive Committee, and it was re- ceived in the same spirit by the mem- bership. There is no question in my mind that the pregent enthusiasm within the party will continue and grow with the development of the campaign. We are now entering a period of growing strength and ¢on- solidation of the Workers’ Party.” Union Miners Pull Scabs Out of Open Shop Coal Diggings McALESTER, Okla., July 27.—Union miners invaded the Kali Inia mine at Cambria and brought the non-union mine crew out to leave the job. The mine had tecently reopened after a long suspension but on.the 1917 wage scale, Othe coal pits at Lutie, Deg- nan, and Caledonia have also recently begun operations again on thé old wage basis of 1917. District 21 of the United Mine Workers is bitterly fight-|' ing this tendency toward open shop and the losing of all the workers have gained from organizing. British Communists “Adopt” Part of Red Army of the Soviets MOSCOW, July 27.—The British Communist delegates to the fifth con- gress of the Third International, Douglas and Robertson, brought a letter from their party signifying its desire to be patron to a unit of the Red Army of Russia, The letter was read at Minsk, capital of White Rus- sia, and was received with great re- joicing. The British Communists will now see that their unit is well sup- plied with all it needs in the way of clothing, literature and food. eel —— Nationalists were neutral. The issue came to a vote on the resolution of confidence in the Marx-Stresemann government. The result sustained the government by 172 to 62, the latter number corresponding to the number of Communist deputies in the cham- ber. The neutrality of the Nationalists shows that the international bankers’ | Program is gradually winning over all political forces in Germany except the Communists who are flercely fighting it In Chicago we received the | Capitalist Justice Will Not Put these Two Loebs on Trial By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: the biggest news story spread over the pages of the American daily press is the account of the Franks murder trial. . | sat thru last Saturday's session of the effort of the state’s attorney of Cook County (Chicago) to send two young Jews, Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, to the gallows. * * * * These two young Jews murdered a Jewish boy, 14-year- old Robert Franks. And there are Jews backing State's At- torney Robert E. Crowe; principally Jacob Franks, ° father, and “Sammy” Ettleson, the republican pol friend of the Franks family. | met Kate Richards O'Hare, editor of “The Vanguard,” who served her “time” in the Missouri State Penitentiary, at Jefferson City, Mo., at the trial. Mrs. O'Hare went to prison because her state of mind refused to permit her to support America’s entry in the war. : She thinks that this trial will offer an excellent oppor- tunity to study the mental twist that caused these two young men to commit murder. She doesn’t believe: that their necks ought to be put into a noose until they are dead. She thinks they ought to be permitted to live as laboratory subjects for experiment and study. ** * * * It doesn’t make much difference to me what becomes of these two young men, central figures in the latest news- paper sensation. The DAILY WORKER has published very little about this trial, because it was felt the space was needed for other matter.. The parasite sons of multi-mil- lionaires have been up for murder before. They usually win their freedom. Sometimes liberty comes after a long fight, as in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw, but usually the dollar wins a speedy victory. Everyone remembers the unpunished murder of a young sailor by Walter Ward, the dissolute son of the “Bread Trust” magnate. * * * * But two figures at the trial that interested me were Jacob Loeb, uncle of the young confessed murderer, Richard koeb, and Albert H, Loeb. : | thought that Jacob Loeb and Albert H. Loeb should have been on trial, with a broad spread of publicity, instead of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Richard and Nathan have not yet grown old enough to do more than help spend their father’s money. They are in a position to become idle parasites for ‘the rest of their deve * * * * But what are the crimes of Jacob Loeb and Albert H. Loeb? ‘ “Jake” Loeb is best known as one of the blackest reactionaries who ever held public office in the city of Chi- cago. As president of the Chicago Board of Education he did his utmost to serve big business, po gg 5 in the effort to smagh the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, the labor union of the public school teachers. Albert H. Loeb is the vice-president and treasurer of ‘the openshop Sears, Roebuck & Co., probably the world’s greatest mail order house, that loots the farmers out of mil- lions in profits each year. * * * me Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb committed their criminal deed upon one of their own class. Jacob Franks, the father of the murdered boy insists he ,will have his “revenge.” ' : But what of the “revenge” that is due the tens and hundreds of thousands who have suffered thru the crimes of “Jake” Loeb, uncle of Richard, and Albert H. Loeb. The Chicago Teachers’ Federation was a bulwark in defense of the interests of Chicago's school children, by far the greater part of them the children of the workers. “Jake” “Loeb crippled its effectiveness. “Jake” Loeb was the friend of the tax dodgers, the multi-millionaire tax dodgers, who escaped millions in taxes that should have gone toward the education of Chicago’s workingclass school children. The result: children stunted in mind, unable to fight the uneven struggle for existence under capitalism; children growing up ignorant and helpless to aid in fighting the battles of their class, servile slaves under the lash of the capitalist masters. Chicago's school children point the finger of guilt at “Jake” Loeb, charging him. with bein one among many, under the present big business rule 0’ Chicago's school system, guilty of helping to continue the existence of Chicago's firetrap, unsanitary, disease-breeding schools. But “Jake” Loeb is called before no court to answer for these crim inst the tender bodies and im- mature minds of workingclass children. They are only the wage slaves of tomorrow under Gapitalism. Albert H.: Loeb no doubt prides himself upon the “system” established by Sears, Roebuck & Co. The work- ers at “Sears” are mostly boys and girls, young men and women. They are drawn into the “Sears” sweatshop early. These workers have no union. They take the pitiable wages offered them. If the girls are lucky and live at home, and have a father to help support them, they get along. Other- wise they go the usual road of the girl whose wages will not cover her expenses; how many, at “Sears” each year, no- body knows. The grinding, ceaseless routine at “Sears” stunts minds early, — youthful workers upon the scrap heap of industry before they are very far along in years. » Human flesh is only so much fodder for the that the big capitalists behind Sears, Roebuc built up to win profits for its stockholders, ‘eat machine & Co. have No grand hag has ever sought to measure the orinee of “Jake” Loeb and Albert H, Loeb against the working class. The labor-baiting state’s attorney, Robert E. Crowe, will never bring thei? crimes before a grand jury or into court. ’ Only the workers and farmers, in the day that the: establish their Soviet Rule, will consider these crimes worthy of judicial attention. 4 | am not so much interested in the verdict that will be rendered by Chief Justice John R. Caverly, inthis silly black robes, dispensing capitalist justice upon the heads of two youthful victims of the social order which he s all his power to uphold. ‘ But | am interested in the fate that the workers and farmers will mete out to the social order of Judge con and State's Attorney Crowe, and the condemnation that will fall upon the heads of its chief upholders like Jacob” Loeb and Albert H. Loeb. ih fa 4 . a “ Monday, July 28, 1924 ENLARGED 6.6.6, MEETING MONDAY AT PARTY OFFICE Election Campaign Plan to Be Worked Out To All Language CCC Secretaries and D. 0.’s, Secretaries of TUEL Groups and Menibers of the City Executive Committee: Dear Comrades: There will be a special meeting of the enlarged City Executive Commit: tee on Mondgy evening, August 4, 1924, at 8 p. m. at 166 West Wash- ington street, room 303. This meeting will be in place of the regular meeting. of the enlarged City Executive Committee, which meets on the second Wednesday of every month. Because of the elections cam- paign which the Workers’ Party, na: tionally and locally, has entered into; it is necessary that~ we hold this special meeting on August 4th ip order to get all the party branches fully aware of their duties in the coming campaign. If you are not able to attend this meeting, make sure that you send someone in your place. We are de- Pending upon the language units to do their share in the campaign. At this meeting we shall have a definite Program of action for the campaign outlined for the branches in the city. The preliminary work is already proteeding. ‘ You are receiving this notice’ in plenty of time to make, arrangements for attendance at this meeting. We are also expecting you to see that the language branches get on the job at once. See to it that they (1) Elect a branch campaign commit- tee of five (or whateyer may be needed according to the size of ‘the branch. f Have this branch campaign com- mittee select a chairman of the committee. 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