The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 3

| Thursday, duly 31, 1924 ~"FIGHTIN’ BOB’ BACKS CODFISH STATE DEMOCRAT Herbert Baker Deserts _to Coolidge (Special to the DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, July 30.— Senator David |. Walsh, of Mas- sachusetts, chairman of the democratic senatorial commit- tee was endorsed for re-elec- tion by the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action of that state. The ways are being greased for a maximum vote for the La Follette-Wheeler ticket. Walsh of Massachusetts is not listed as a reactionary. In fact he has been very much of a tionentity in Washington. One of the severest jolts received by the LaFollette crowd to date was the deflection of Herbert A. Baker, of Detroit, well-known and much touted Progressive, to the Coolidge camp. He figured very heavily in the cal- culations of the so-called progress- ives. Baker is a candidate for gov- ernor of Michigan on the Républican ticket and was present at the St. Louis meeting of the C. P. P. A. but not at the Cleveland convention. Roosevelt carried Michigan in 1912 and Baker was\expected to bring the cracked bell outfit to victory in 1924. Warren S. Stone, one of LaFollette’s most prominent backers is support- ing Baker. Hoss Trading. It is rumored that a deal is being made in Illinois whereby no opposi- tion will be offered to Len Small pro- vided the latter fails to support the Coolidge national ticket. Owing to the coolness that has developed be- tween Small and Thompson, the mat- ter is not easy of adjustment. Thomp- , Son is known to be favorable to La Follette, but if Small continues to support his rival, Lundin, it is pos- sible the former mayor may take time off from his tree-climbing fish expedition to hurl a few daggers around where they will-do most harm to his most recent enemies. If Small comes safely thru the pres- ent graft trial all will be well; if not, all will not be so well with Small, but the political situation would clear considerably for LaFollette who | Might be able to run a candidate for | governor who would receive the sup- port of Thompson and the labor fak- , ers who have already sold out to Small. The situation in New York is rath- er complicated. The left wing of the LaFollétte forces represented by Mor- , Tis Hillquit is at loggerheads with the right wing which is under the direc- tion of Tammany Hall. The latter fac- tion ejected the!socialist party from its last state conference and the next ' meeting may be the scene of another act of violence. The socialists are al- ready in the field with d candidate for ' governor in the person of the Rever- end Norman Thomas. Perhaps the so- cialists expect the Democrats might be more lenient to a parson. But the Tammanyites are no respectors of persons, or parsons either, and if they feel that the socialists or the | socialist leaders are liable to slip in- | to political prominence in New York | state thru the C, P. P. A. there may ‘be dirty work. Saving The Wreck. William H. Johnston and LaFol- lette are doing everything possible to dodge a split in New York,~ It is ru- moured that Hillquit has the ambi- tion to’be United States senator and that Berger has a similar ambition. What happens to the socialist party is of little consequence as long as the leaders have some place to go. Outside of Hillquit and Berger there are none in the socialist party that need be feared just ‘now. James Oneal might be given a job in the Department of Justice and the other lickspittles who helped Burns “ex- pose” the Communists could be given ‘similar employment. THE DAILY WORKER FOSTER IN PLAIN TALK TO DEBS (Continued from page 1) cording to a press dispatch, that he had been “double-crossed” by the Communists and that the net result of their duplicity and treachery would be a split in the ranks, if not the disruption of the Farmer- Labor party of Minnesota. You may be right in your criti- cism of my position and I may be wrong, as I have often been be- fore. Having no Vatican in Mos- cow to guide me I must follow the light I have, and this I have done in the present instance, as I always have in the past, and I have never yet feared, nor do I now, the conse- quences of my acts. The members of the Socialist Party, as far as I know, are entirely satisfied with the position I have taken and the statement I have is- sued felative to the Cleveland con- ventions, and I see no reason why I should explain or give an account of myself to the Communists, or why I should have any concern whatsoever about ‘their opinion of my actions. With all due courtesy to you per- sonally, I remain, Yours fraternally, (Signed) Eugene V. Debs. FOSTER TO DEBS Foster’s reply to Debs follows: July 30, 1924. Mr. Eugene V. Debs, Elmhurst, Ill. Dear Comrade Debs: In your let- ter of July 23rd to me you evade the main issue. You fail to tell the reason why Debs, the “revolution- ary” Socialist, endorses La Follette, the anti-Socialist. I can appreciate your difficulty in this matter. You content yourself simply with mak- ing a series of attacks against the Workers Party, as though that were to'blame. These I cannot permit to pass unchallenged. You speak of the “sorry and dis- crediting” figure which the Workers Party will cut in the coming elec- tion ‘campaign, as compared with the role of the Socialist Party. Let us see. Faced by the great petty bourgeois movement headed by La- Follette, which is engulfing whole sections of the labor movement, the Workers Party has dared to stand ‘true to its revolutionary mission and to denounce this false leader and his class collaboration program. It ventures to defend the slogans of the class struggle and to make the election fight upon a revolutionary basis. As against this uncompromis- ing attitude, the Socialist Party has’ abandoned even the last remnants of its lip-service to revolutionary principles and is unreservedly sup- porting the ridiculous and reaction- ary trust-busting program of La- Follette; it has betrayed the farmer- labor movement and, adopting the Cc. P. P. A. plan, it will either ac- cept openly or wink at the endorse- ment of “friends” of labor on the two old party tickets in the ap- proved Gompers manner. You may blind yourself to the significance of this pitiful surrender to LaFollette and Gompers, but the revolutionary elements in the working class will not. Without difficulty they will dis- cern that in the present situation\it is not the W. P. but the S. P. which is cutting a “sorry and discrediting” figure. The recent letter of Land- fersiek, former National Secretary of the S. P., condemning La Follette and endorsing the Workers Party candidates, voices the true senti- ments of the few proletarian ele- ments still remaining in the S. P. In one respect your letter is cor- rect—I have an exceedingly poor opinion of the Socialist Party. I have learned something of the treachery of its sister parties in Europe, of how they have.betrayed the revolution time and again, Abundant experience shows that the American.Socialist Party is cut from the same cloth. The ‘Hill- quits and Bergers are only Scheide- manns and Noskes lacking opportu- nity. Consequently, I, for one, ex- pected little else from the Socialist Party in Cleveland than the com- AUGUST ISSUE ON SALE! Including “From the Old Family to the New" By Leon Trotsky — Articles on Italy and Germany and facts and photos on the latest RUSSIA For reliable information on the world’s first workers’ government, developments in $2.00 a your SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL, 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, IM, Name: Street and No, SUBSCRIBE! $1.00 six months essnvocsanenenevennvensnenensenses ssedonrine SIEM EOS ssssnsessesoreessiageconssocososesserce plete surrender that it made to La- Follette. It was to be expected, however, that you, at least, would sound a revolutionary note of op- position against the opportunistic debacle. In the past couple of years you have winked at the op- position of the S, P. to the amal- gamation of the trade unions, its calumniation of Soviet Russia, its refusal to form a united front on the political field, and its enforce- ment of many reactionary policies which run counter to the principles you have so often enunciated from the platform. This failure to fight for these principles in the 8. P. was bad enough, but now when you not only acquiesce in the surrender to La Follette but actually defend it, you by that action definitely leave the camp of revolutionaries and go over to the opportunists and petty bourgeois reformists. But you contend that we Commu- nists have no right to condemn your endorsement of La Follette, because you say we proposed to endorse him ourselves. This is an unpardonable misstatement. Never at any time did the Workers Party propose to endorse La Follette or his program. On the contrary, the W. P. has long been keenly awake to the menace of La Folletteism and has been fight- ing it on all fronts. This is proved by a hundred articles and state- ments in our party‘ press. For the Workers Party a leading tactical consideration has been how best to fight La Folletteism.. The Workers Party realized the influence which La Follette had on the farmer-la- bor ranks. In order to prevent the absorption of the farmer-labor movement by La Follette and to prevent the isolation of the Work- ers Party from the Farmer-Labor Party forces, the Workers Party considered the adoption of the fol- lowing policy, which, however, was not supported by the Communist In- ternational: If the St. Paul Far- mer-Labor Party Convention nom- inated La Follette over the opposi- tion of the Workers Party, we would not split away from it on that issue, but would accept, under pro- test, an alliance of the Farmer-La- bor Party anda third party in sup- port of La Follette’s candidacy and would endeavor to organize the Farmer-Labor »Party during the campaign as a class party in opposi- tion to the La Follette third party. Under any circumstances, the Workers Party would have carried on a campaign of strong opposition against La Follette and his program. It was later proposed to accept him as a candidate at the St. Paul convention of the Farmer-Labor Par- ty, but only upon the condition that he subscribe to the radical program of the Farmer-Labor Party, run as that party’s candidate, and accept its control over his electoral campaign and campaign funds. In other words, LaFollette would have had to cut loose from all his capitalist party con- nections, accept a real proletarian program, and head a genuine Farmer- Labor ticket. Even then the Work- ers Party would have accepted him only’ under protest. It would have continued its ceaseless criticism of his petty bourgeois notions and its Wopagation of revolutionary princi- ples among the masses in the Farm- er-Labor Party. It is absurd to com- pare this revolutionary policy with the S. P. surrender to LaFollette. Hillquit, without a word of protest in the convention. humbly swallowed La Foliette’s program of petty bourgeois; | reform, his anti-labor party attitude, his “reward you friends and punish your enemies” political policy, and his insulting and dictatorial control. And now you endorse this proceed- ing. As for the W. P., when it saw that because of the surrender of re- actionary trade union leaders and pseudo-revolutionaries to LaFollette it would be impossible to organize sufficient masses in the new Farmer- Labor Party to make a successful united front fight against LaFollette, it ‘raised its own banner and will make the fight in the open field. -In times past you have stated re- peatedly 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 affilia tion with the institution that incor- porates the very soul of Leninism, the Third. International. Tastes in Internationals vary. You, altho claiming to be a left wing revolution- ary, calmly content yourself to ac- cept the leadership of the Second In- ternational, the organization of Schel- demann, Noske, and other butchers and betrayers of the revolution. As for us, we repudiate such traitors and all association with them. We deem it not only absolutely vital to the re- volutionary movement in this coun- try, but also an honor to be associa- || ted internationally with the men who |i carried thru the Russian revolution and with those whoare making the re- volutionary fight in all other coun- |} We make no apology for ac- i tries, cepting the guidance of the. Third International. On the contrary, we glory in it. a section of the revolutionary world organization, the Communist Interna: || tional, Fraternally yours, WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY © BRESS PICNIC DAY Sond aed Monee: Our party is proud to be || KILLER'S FATHER SWEATING GIRLS IN BOX FACTORY Leopold’s ~ Exploitation of Toilers Is Bared (Continued from page 1) men, women and children employed in the open shop paper box factory owned by Nathan Leopold, the father. The DAILY WORKER dispatched Reeve to the scene where the Leopold millions are sweated out of the work- ers because it wants the facts con- cerning the crimes against the work- ing class which are being committed there in Morris. The DAILY WORKER is champion- ing the cause of the people of its class. Therefore it is far more con- cerned with the hideous exploitation of the workers of Morris and with the alliance between the Leopold factory and the prison labor trust than it is with the trial now going on in Judge Caverly’s court room. Thorough Expose Coming. Nathan Leopold, the sweater of la- bor, piled up the millions which made his son a degenerate and a murderer. He got these millions and is getting more, by ruthless robbery of the work- ers of Morris, Ill. The DAILY WORKER will conduct a thorough expose of his open shop methods of exploitation. It will also probe the source of the Loeb fortune which has likewise been filched from the working class. PITTSBURGH WORKERS WILL HOLD ANTI-WAR MEETING THIS SUNDAY PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 30.—An anti-war and anti-imperialist mass meeting will be held at the Interna- tional Socialist Lyceum, 805 James street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa., on Sunday, August 3rd, 8 p. m. The meeting is under the auspices of Local Pittsburgh of the Workers Party. Good speakers will address the meeting in English, South Slav and other languages. Admission will be free. Send in that Subscription Today. VOTE Page Thréé | SEE FREEDOM ONLY BY FIGHTING | (Continued from page 1) rica, and have failed to place the Blacks in a position where they can retain their self respect and rule themselves. I have just the reverse of affection for any race or nation which does not protect its subjects in time of need. The Whites have gone too far. The Black race hax been lynched, Jim Crowed and burned. “This is a materialistic age, When you have the force, everyone will love and respect your race. Religion as it has been practiced among ‘the Ne- groes is a potential menace. No mat- ter how much the Negro prays he will get no more than he has ever had un- less he has an organization with force behind him. If you know -the labor question you know that the Negro in America is not far from starvation.” “Labor unions do not recognize the value of a solid Black labor organ- ization together with organized White labor. The Negtoes are dis- criminated against everywhere.” Not By Prayers. “Africa will not be made free by mere prayer, but we are goingrto, free Africa at any cost. If we fail we will die failing.” Peters defended’ himself for being nationalistic on the ground that it was the most aggressive thing to do. Boise Hale, president of the Mil- waukee division stated that “I used to think the Negro preachers were try- ing to bring the Negroes together, but we have learned from Garvey that the preachers are dividing the Negroes. They are fighting Garvey because Gar- vey is showing that while claiming to be Christians they are nothing but hypocrites. The Negro preachers are dividing up our Race with their sel- fish little religious sects.” No More Dying For Old Glory A wild bust of applause greeted S. R. Wheat, president of division No. 318 Chicago, when he denounced treat- ment of the Negroes who fought un- der the American flag in the world war. “The next time the Negro dies under the white man’s flag he will at least demand to know what he is dy- ing about. We are tired of protect- ing old glory. We are going to march on to the battlefields of Africa. We are going to marshal our forces and we are going to ask Germany and France to get out.” A prolonged de- monstration followed this statement. Other speakers were: Mrs. Maude E. Lawson, vice-president of the women’s department, Chicago divis- “] Printed on a fine grade of paper. 12 Inches wide by 18 inches high. Suitable for framing or posting in your window. fon; Vice-President Benjamin Sumlin, vice-president of Chicago district No. 2; W. A Wallace, commissioner 0: Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michiga and Minnesota; Alexander Nickson and Latham W. Wortham, president of the Robbins Illinois division. A feature of the meeting was the parade into the hall of the uniformed Black Cross nurses and Association Legions. They carried the colors of the Negro republic, black, red and green. Klan Hates Negroes Most The Ku Klux Klan. we s only briefly mentioned by Peters. He said that although the Klan claims to be fight- ing the Jews and Catholics as well as the Negroes, the sentiment of the Klan can be crystalized overnight, and concentrated eee the Negro. Fruit Thrown ‘Ewes While Workers Are Jobless and Hungry MACON, Ga., July 30.—The ruthless destruction of perishable foodstuffs that goes on every year in some part of the country because of high freight rates and too low prices is going on now near here, The streams and fields of Georgia are odoriferous from the fermenting peaches that: have been dumped to rot. In California it is often tomatoes or potatoes or berries, in Florida melons or oranges or somewhere else it is something else. But the producer is the one hit by the middlemen and the railroads and the workers who are unemployed go on starving in the v cious circle produced under this pro- duction-for-profit society: oa" a Too Old to Work. OAKLAND, Calif, July 30.—‘Too old to work,” long unemployed and broke, Henry J. Halstead, went to an Oakland park and shot himself with a revelver purchased with his last money. too Militarists Flying. TOKIO, July 30.— A. Stuart Mac- Laren, British round\the world flyer and his three companions have ar- rived at Petropavlosk, capital of the! Russian Province of Kamchatka, a peninsula north of the Kuriles Islands, | and almost directly across the Pacific | from Prince Rupert, Canada. Send in that Subscription Today. FOR FOSTER for PRESIDENT Get a photographic repr of this new picture of Foster free. - Every Reader of THE DAILY WORKER will be a worker for FOSTER FOR PRESIDENT FED BAIL FOR 2 IMPRISONED FARRELL MEN Fight on Steel Trust Re- quires Funds 0., Wo of F iN YOUNGSTOWN, the July 30 members of two other workers b ing held under the Cr lism law of the state ¢ - a on account of membership in the Workers Party. Cases against two of these workers, Tony and Andy Kova- covich, have been tried and both have been found guilty, but the cases are pending in the courts during the ap- peal for a new trial. Bond in these cases has been fixed at $2,000 cash or $2,500 property. Five of the indicted men are out on bail, but two of them, John Radias and Andy Dugan, are being held in the Mercer County prison. Both these workers had been re- ed on bond, but pressure was ought upon their bondsmen by the s in Mercer County and_ these en surrendered them {6 the { compelling them to go | back to prison. The prosecutions at Farrell, Pa., are part of the efforts of the Steel Trust to destroy the Workers Party organ- ion in the steel district. While everywhere else Workers Party mem- bers are conducting their work un- molested, in Western Pennsylvania an |effort is being made to make it a crime to belong to the Workers Party. Be- fore this can be done, however, these jcases will be brought to the highest courts of the state. Meanwhile it is important that John Radias and Andy Dugan be freed frém |prison during the time the cases are |pending. Individuals and labor organ- |izations which are ready to assist in this case, particularly in securing bail for these men, are urged to loan liberty bonds or cash thru the Labor Defense and Free Speech Council of Western | Ohio, P. O. Box 883, Youngstown, Ohio. This organization is conducting the fight for freedom of the seven men in- dicted at Farrell, “Sassiety” Objects! ROME, July 30.—The church cam- paign against immodesty in women’s |clothes has resulted in a falling off in attendance at some of the smaller churches. UVVEENOGQQGUONGUVEOEOGGEOGAGONGOGGOUOUUNOONNGGOGOOQAUQUQQOUU REE and WORK oduction THE DAILY WORKER. vill be the best, the most incessant worker for FOSTER FOR PRESIDENT “ YOU!! ‘THE DAILY WORKER USE THE 11113 W. Washington suites Chicago, Ill. sub. 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