The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 1

This Week Is Anti-War Week THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | Vol. Il. No. 114. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago; by mail. $6.00 per year. EB 290 WORKERS! ON TO THE WICKER PARK HALL DEMONSTRATION TONIGHT! DOWN WITH WAR! THE DAILY WORKER. Entered'as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ILL This Week Is Anti-War Week Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents FOSTER IN PLAIN TALK TO DEBS COMMUNIST STANDARD BEARER Workers Bear Murder Trial Cost KILLER'S FATHER SWEATING GIRLS IN BOX FACTORY Leopold’s ~ Exploitation | of Toilers Is Bared By KARL REEVE. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MORRIS, Ill., July 30.—While high-priced alienists, backed by costly lawyers, were attempt- ing to save the neck of Nathan Leopold, junior, the money which is being poured out by Leopold, senior, is being ex- tracted from the blood of young workers here in the Morris Paper Box factory, owned by Nathan Leopold, "| senior, Young girls work at break- | neck speed for three and a half dollars a day, over dangerous, | huge machines. | The inside of the factory is heaped ; high with boxes for the Loosewiles Biscuit company, Mandel Brothers, Marshall Fields, Ingels Clothing com- pany, Swifts Meat company and other large scab concerns. | cana Prigon, Goods, ; A large order of shirt boxes |the Black Beauty Shirt company, | which is the Reliance prison manu- facturing trust, now awaits shipment. Family men make three dollars and | Seventy-five cents a day; young men jat the same work get much less and are speeded up to the limit. Ten days ago the entire candy de- partment of the Morris Paper Mills jcompany went on strike after two jreductions in pay. The first reduc- |tion was from thirty-five cents to jthirty cents per one thousand boxes. |The strike of the twenty men lasted jtwo days when they were forced to accept a further reduction. On return- ing they accepted the ruling that double rate would count only on all boxes above ten thousand instead of double rate for above nine thousand that previously prevailed. Slayer Visited Slave Pen. The five hundred young men and girls in the box department are forced to work ten hours a day with only a half hour for lunch and receiving only an average of eigtheen dollars per week. Many accidents occur, the girls smashing their fingers in the stitching and cutting machines. The paper factory where paper is made is dangerous and hot work. Leopold, senior, has been here on tours of inspection of plant, sometimes bring- ing Leopold junior. a a ae) Probe Crimes of Leopold, “Sr. Karl Reeve, staff writer for the DAILY WORKER, has been sent to Morris, Ill., to probe the conditions of (Continued on page 3.) a “Million Dollar Defense” WHO PAYS? That “million dollar” defense of Richard Loeb, now being staged in Judge Caverly's court! Who is paying for it? Karl R . n by day the DAILY WORKER crimes which most concern Don’t miss an issue! See Page Three for i eeve's investigation of the vicious. conditions in the open shop paper box factory at Morris, Ill., gives part of the answer. Our probe into Sears, Roebuck & Co., source of the Loeb fortune, will tell the rest of the story. Reeve's first expose article appears on this page. Day the parents of these two millionaire parasites are com- mitting in Morris, Ill. and in the Chicago mail order house. PARIS MUSSOLINI CAN DO NO WRONG, FASCISTS SHOUT RQME, July 30.—“Mussolini is above suspicion,” declared the newspaper Impero today, warning the parliamen- tary opposition against further efforts to implicate the Fascist chief in the murder of Matteoti. This warning follows the govern- ment’s act in closing down the oppo- sition newspapers in Milan. It is regarded as a threat that the premier will go the limit. Radicals are finding comparison be- tween the “above suspicion” declara- tions of Mussolini's follows with the attitude the reactionary American préss took towards Coolidge, the “principal” mentioned in the Teapot Dome telegrams. At that time Cool- idge’s defenders fought the probe by crying that he was above suspicion. The Impero’s parodying Julius Cae- sar’s cry that his wife must be “above suspicion” forgets that Caesar put away his wife when the finger of sus- Picion pointed to her. Nathan Leopold and will continue the story of the the workers, the crimes that BOOST COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL BOWS WAKE UP! Drawn especially for the Daily Worker by K. A. Suvanto. | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY There is a very interesting strike on in Seattle, Washington. The mem- bers of the Typographical Union em- ployed on the Post-Intelligencer, a Hearst publication have refused to accept’ a reduction in wages and a lengthening of hours. Thinking that his millions could smash one isolated local union, Hearst gave orders to his local agents to lock out the men. They are out but not down. Instead of laying down they are carrying on one of the most effective publicity campaigns in the history of American industrial strife. The strikers are is- suing a neat four-page paper which tells of the strike situation and helps to keep ‘up the morale of the strikers. s* 6 Owing to the strike and the solidar- ity of the workers behind the strikers, the P. I. is losing circulation. As a result the advertisers are cancelling their contracts. Capitalist newspa- pers are published in order to make profit for their owners. The sale price of the paper barely pays for the ink. The profit comes from the advertising. If the paper continues to lose circula- tion and consequently advertising, Mr. Hearst will fire the manager who declared the lock-out, and come to terms with the union members. It the scab manager succeeds the pub- lisher will increase his salary and try the same stunt on his other papers, ee The strikers are trying to break the Hearst blockade by means of a boy- cott. It is not a bad fighting wea- pon. But there are better weapons, While the workers thruout the State of Washington are showing commend- able spirit in supporting the strikers, union pressmen are scabbing. These men are only partly to blame. They have the misfortune to be members of a unlon of which Major George (Continued on page 6.) RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY TO MORGAN ANTI-WAR MASS DEMONSTRATION COMES TONIGHT Featuring a week of Communist ‘spti-war demonstrations, thousands of workers are expected to crowd into Wioker Park Hall, 2040 West North avenue, TONIGHT (Thursday), to hear Earl R. Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, and Max Schactman, editor of the Young Worker, speak on “The Next War and the Presidential \Elections.” Manuel Gomez will be chairman. This will be the first time that Browder has spoken at a Chicago mass meeting in some time. As a member of the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers Party he is in @ position to give clear, militant ex- pression to the Communist opposition to capitalist war. cept. The United States is nearer today tu war than it seemed to be in August, 1914, at the outbreak of the World ‘War, and American capitalism is at this very moment planning to slaugh- ter millions of workers in the interests af super-profits, Browder served a term in Leaven- worth Penitentiary for his uncompro- \1afsing opposition to the recent mas- cre on the flelds of Europe. Tonight's meeting in Wicker Park ‘Wsll will be no milk and water, pacifist affair.- The speakers are expected to show that the working clags has only one effective weapon against, capitalist war— revolution. The meeting will be under the aus- plees of Workers Party and Young Workers League Local, Chicago. Ad- mission is free, More Coal Found. IRKUTSK, July 30,.—A fairly large layer of coal has been found ata small depth underground in the vicinity of Irkutsk, along the Kulendga river, Sand gold has-been uncovered in about the same locality. FRENCH OFFER COMPROMISE TO BANKERS Morgan’s Arrival in London Is Awaited (Special. to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 30.—That the French will come to an agree- ment. with England and Amer- ica on the Dawes plan seemed more probable than ever when the word came that the repara- tions commission left Paris to- day for London. , Tomorrow the _ inter-allied conference will meet jointly with the reparations commis- sion with the intention of working out a compromise that the international bankers and the French nationalists will ac- Herriot’s Compromise. France controls the reparations commission and ts determined that the right to take “sanctions’— en- force penalties — against Germany |shall rest in the hands of this com- mission or a body controlled by it. The latest Herriot compromise ¢alls for a tribunal of three to which all questions arising out of the enforce- ment of the Dawes plan shall be re- ferred, if the commission's decision is not umanimous. This tribunal would be appointed by the repara- tions’ commission in agreement with the Hague court. Waiting For Morgan. No definite decision is likely to be arrived at by the combined confer- ences here until J. Pierpont Morgan reaches Britain. His arrival is ex pected by the end of the week. French delegates refuse to believe that the terms Thomas W. Lamont submitted to them are the last word but it is expected that they will re- gard whatever Morgan himself says as final, to accepf or reject. e708 * Communists Arousing Masses. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) BERLIN, July 30.— Supporters of the Marx-Stressmann government in the Reichstagy are becoming restive at London’s delay in inviting German delegates over to discuss the details of the Dawes plan. Each day the is- sue is left suspended in the air is playing into the hands of the Com- munist opposition, they say. Communists are conducting big de- monstrations in the industrial cities of Germany against the Dawes plan, and are denouncing the Social-Demo- crats as traitors to the workingclass in assenting to the international bankers’ program for exploitation of the industries of Germany. Canadian Capitalist Murderers Whacked By, Wage Reduction WINNIPEG, Canada, July 30.—Ow- ing to a wage cut by the authorities at Ottawa, the forces at Tuxedo Bar- racks are to be depleted by whole- sale resignations. Local military men express the conviction that there will be no trouble in recruiting, owing to unemployment. “To the large num- ber of men in Winnipeg who have been idle several months,” says the press, “the opportunity to obtain a permanent position will come as a ‘god-send’.” TELLS SOCIALISTS’ CHAIRMAN POSITION OF WORKERS PARTY Demolishing all the petty arguments that Eugene V. Debs, chairman of the socialist party has advanced as an excuse for his endorsement of the LaFollette presidential ambitions, William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, clearly sets forth the position of the Workers Party in this campaign. Foster’s declarations are made in a letter addressed to Debs at the Lindlahr Sanitarium, at Elmhurst, Ill., where the socialist spokesman is now regaining his health. It is in reply to a pre- vious letter received by Foster from Debs. In his letter Debs joins LaFollette in his attack on the Work~ ers Party, in this country, and on the Communist International. Debs goes out of his way to misrepresent the position of the Workers Party at the St. Paul, * June 17th, conference of the National Farmer-Labor Party. In fact, Debs joins up with the worst Communist baiters in the land. DebseAvoids the Issue. In his reply, Foster declares that Debs has again avoided the main is- sue, “why Debs, the ‘revolutionary’ socialist, endorses LaFollette, the anti-socialist.” Foster then analyzes the treason of the socialist party pointing out that, “The Hillquits and Bergers are only Scheidemanns and Noskes lacking opportunity.” In conclusion, Foster states in re- Plying to Debs, that: In times past you have stated repeatedly from the platform that you admire Lenin as the greatest figure produced by the world war, Yet, in your letter you sneer in orthodox yellow-socialist fashion, at our affiliation with the institu- tion that incorporates the very soul of Leninism, the Communist International. “ We make no apology for accepting the guidance of the Third Internation- al. On the contrary, we glory in it. Our party is proud to be a section of the revolutionary world organization, the Communist International.” The correspondence, first the Debs and then the Foster letter, is as fol- lows: | DEBS TO FOSTER | Elmhurst, Illinois, July 23, 1924. Wm. Z. Foster, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrade Foster: Your fa- vor of the 15th inst. was duly re- ceived and has been carefully read and considered. Answering I have to say that I am unable to under- stand why you should regard the statement of my attitude toward the recent conventions at Cleveland as an “astounding document,” or why you should conclude that it “will come as a shock to thousands of workers.” I know, of course, that you have a very poor opinion of the Socialist Party—quite as poor as my opinion of the ‘Communist Party— and I can readily understand why it would have suited you far better had the Socialist Party ended its career at Cleveland and disappeared from the scene,-or remained dissev- ered to cut as sorry and discredit- ing a figure as the Communist Party will in the campaign this year. That my endorsement of LaFollette under the circumstances seemed “astounding” and “shocking” to you appears not a little strange to me in the light of the fact that the St. Paul Convention, dominated absolutely by the Communists, in- tended, according to some ofits chief spokesmen, including Mahoney and Ruthenberg, to do that very thing, that is to say, endorse the nomin- ation of La Follette for the Presi- dency, (the nomination of Duncan McDonald being made “conditional” with that end in view) and it would no doubt have done so had not La- Follette, knowing the record of the Communists and understanding their game, publicly denounced them and positively refused their en- dorsement. Mahoney has since declared, ac- (Continued on page 3.) CAMPAIGN BY GETTING NEW SUBS FOR “THE DAILY WORKER” FREEDOM ONLY BY FIGHTING, IS NEGRO KEYNOTE U. N. I. A. Delegates Ring Challenge By KARL REEVE. The challenge of the new Negro to the world is the recog- nition of the value of a militant organization, J. J. Peters, presi- dent of the Chicago division No. 23 of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, told an audience of two thousand Negroes Tuesday night. Peters’ speech sounded the key-note which will govern the delegates who left for New York this morning to attend the Fourth International Con- vention of the Association. The mass meeting of the followers of Marcus Garvey at 47th and Dear- iceee Streets., got the message by the delegates that the time has gone by when the Negro can hope for any re- lief from oppression by mere religious rites. The speakers. denounced French and German domination of the Negroes in the African colonies, and American race discrimination and lynch law. Force Brings Justice. “The Whites give justice only under pressure of a powerful organization,” said Peters. “When the militant or- ganization starts to crush these im- pediments which stand in the way of justice for the Negro, the white op- pressors will be afraid and they will have to compromise by doling out a small amount of justice, “My Communist white friends who jare sitting on my left disagree with |the nationalism of our association. I {have argued this point with them for several years, frequently coming to theoretical sword-points with them; |but still we are the best of friends. Blacks Must Fight “Since 1468,” Peters continued, “the Whites have ruled the Blacks in Af- (Continued on page 3.) GET CANNON SPEECH IN DAILY WORKER SATURDAY OUR AIMS AND TACTICS IN THE TRADE UNIONS is the title of the lecture delivered by James Cannon, assistant national secre- tary of the Workers Party, at a party conferencée of coal miners in St. Louis, on Sunday, July 27, This speech will be published in full in the magazine section of the DAILY WORKER on Saturday, August 2, Be sure to get the DAILY WORKER Saturday and read this very interesting and important ar- ticle. See Page Three