The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1924, Page 1

This Week Is Anti-War Week THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. bd SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year, ALF. L MEET AT! ATLANTIC CITY Gompers Drools About Friends‘and Foes (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ATLANTIC CITY, July 31.— Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labér, arrived here today to preside over the meetings of the Executive Council. Gompers. made it quite clear in an advance statement issued to the press that the A. F. of L. would not depart from its moss- grown policy of “reward and punish” during the coming elec- “Not parties, but prin- is the Gompersian Attempts will be made by friends of LaFollette to place the seal of official approval on the candidacy of LaFollette, but if LaFollette is endorsed it will be merely as a person and not as the leader of a potential third party. Gompers is opposed to third parties. It is easier to sell the workers to two parties than to three, Gomipers stated, that in the last campaign, the ‘A. F. of L. supported “candidates on~ different tickets. He claimed eredit for a big victory but where the victory lies nobody can see unless it be the plenti- ful crop of injunctions that have appeared since the last elections. That the LaFollette attack on the St. Paul convention and on the Com- munists was at least partly dictated by the Wisconsin senator's desire to find favor in Gompers’ eyes was indi- cated by the aged labor faker’s out- spoken approval of the attack. LaFol- lette’s sterling Americanism saved him from falling into Foster's trap, declared Gamers, LaFollette in aa, haa State NEW YORK, July 31.—The August 16 meeting of the state conference for Progressive Political Action may at- tempt to endorse Governor Smith for governor to succeed himself. The socialists have tried to forestall this development by placing Dr. Thomas in the field but the Tammanyites who control the C. P. P. A. in New York, have no more use for Thomas than they have for the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The national leaders of the LaFol- lette movement are urging the New York followers to make strenuous ef- forts to put the Empire State behind the Badger senator. The feud be- tween Hylan and Hearst is a factor in the situation, The National Demo- cratic campaign committeg is urging Smith to run, hoping that his per- sonal popularity would place New York in the Davis column. If Smith runs it is considered likely that Hy- lan might be induced to show his love for the governor by running against him with the backing of: Hearst and LaFollette. Such a development might bring the yellow ‘publisher in- to the LaFollette camp. So far, Hearst has not openly endorsed “Bob” but he is giving him front page publicity. Paper Workers Flee Flames. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 31.— With a wall of flames on two sides and rapidly closing the gap on the third side, the town of Floriston, in the Truckee Canyon, was reported de- serteg today as its 250 inhabitants fled before the advancing forest fire with their portable belongings. Only a fortunate change of wind was ex- pected to save the sixty- five cottages making up the little paper mill town. Send in that Subscription Today. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY An acquaintance of mine who works on one of the local capitalist papers tells of the excitement caused among the circulation force of that organ of big business whenever something un- usual happens, something that will set the public agog with curiosity. Such an incident was the Franks mur- dgr. Circulation boosters rub their hands with glee as the circulation soars. The reporters are ordered to dig up every bit of filth that can be discovered or manufactured. Any- thing to get more readers no matter what kind. Running up circulation on a capitalist paper that is produced in order to make profit for its owners is a different proposition to increas- ing the circulation of The DAILY WORKER, which is published for the benefit of the working class only. ** © Capitalist newspaper owners pay their circulation managers tremen- dous salaries. Sometimes as high as $75,000 a year. That is only a little less than it cost to get the DAILY WORKER started. A reporter at the Indianapolis convention of the United Mine Workers of America expressed surprise when I informed him that we started the paper with $100,000 and had to purchase machinery, building and everything else needed to start a paper, out of that sum. “By gosh, you are liable to find the place shut up before the convention is over,” he said., “Nonsense,” I replied. “The DAILY WORKER is the official pub- lication of our party. Every dollar of the money raised to start it was con- tributed by the members of our party and comparatively few sympathizers. Should the paper be compelled to call “again, they would be 4 with the cash.” Lae se ¢ Now that The DAILY WORKER, and the Workers Party are partners in a big subscription-membership drive it is a good time to remind our readers that The DAILY WORKER is the first labor paper ever published in the United States to exist seven months without having to ask its readers for direct assistance. Think of that. But it does not take a mental wizard to realize that such a blissful condition is not liable to be perma- nent unless our readers and party members get new subscribers, The DAILY WORKER carries no adver- tising to speak of. You know why. Big business, which subsidizes the capitalist papers by advertising, will not advertise in The DAILY WORKER. eee Therefore we must find ways and means of raising the money to con- tinue The DAILY WORKER as a tack on the chair of big business and spear in the hands of labor. Our circulation manager does not get $75,000 a year. And he does not spend his time play- ing golf or reviewing Uncle Sam’s navy. He. is generally standing in front of some factory gate at half past six in the morning, bringing The DAILY WORKER to the attention of the workers, Or addressing strike meetings. That is one of our meth- ods of increasing circulation. More circulation means a bigger punch be- hind our propaganda. It means more influence and it means more support. New readers will become contributors, friends. They in turn will bring in more readers, and so on. 7 *¢ © The DAILY WORKER has not sent out an S, O. S. for money since it came into existence. How many times did you receive a letter from some labor paper saying something like this: “Do you wish to see the Weakly Pipple pass away into etern- ity, thus losing the organ of the stal- wart, class conscious, etc. Send us a donation or we perish!” The DAILY WORKER has been very decent you must admit. That does not mean that the Business Manager has no wrink- (Continued on next page.) RIVERVIEW RAIN OR SHINE August 10th --- Sunday Press Picnic Day NEGRO CONGRESS MEETS 0 DEAL WITH BIG ISSUES Garvey Storm Center as Convention Opens (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 31.—With a grand opening at Carnegie Hall here tomorrow evening will begin what is described as the “biggest Negro convention in the history of the world,” lasting thruout the entire month of August, under the auspices of the Universal Negro Improvement Associaticn. The convention is officially known as the fourth annual in- ternational convention of the Negro peoples of the world. Its further sessions will be at Lib- erty Hall, 120 West 138th St. It is announced that Negroes from all parts of the world will participate in forming a Negro political union on an international scale, which might play an important rofe in opposing imperialist rule over colonial peo- ples. Plan Negro Political Union The purposes of the proposed union, as announced, are: “This union will consolidate the Political forces of the Negro’ thru which the race will express it politi- cal onde in. America, in the Aginaee of the ‘end in all com- x 8 there ie Negro forms a — _— The ‘Political Union shall repre- sent the political hopes and aspira- tions of the fifteen million Negroes of the United States of America on American questions, domestic to America, and shall represent the in- terests of the millions of Negroes of the West Indies in their different and respective islands affecting do- mestic political questions, and so also in the scattered communities of Africa. The union shall have a sym- pathetic relationship _ politically, with Negroes all over the world, but each country or community will have its domestic program for the betterment of the race, in that country or community. World Solidarity Is Aim But the strength of the union shall be given to any community or country to politically assist it in putting over its political program. As, for instance, if the Negroes of America were politically agitating or. working for the passage of any special measure for the benefit of the race, the entire strength of the union would be placed at the dis- posal ~f the American section. If the Negroes of Trinidad desired to carry out any political measure for the benefit of that community, the union would use its streiigth in as- sisting them, and so, with any com- munity where the Negroes live throughout the world. “No longér, therefore, will individ- ual politicians represent the inter- ests of the Negroes, but the Negroes (Continued on next page.) BIG GRAIN MARKETING PLAN MAY BE PROBED BY FEDERAL QUIZZERS The $26,000,000 Grain Marketing company, newly organized here thru merger of three old line Chicago grain marketing concerns will be subjected to a sweeping investiga- tion by the Illinois Agricultural As- sociation, and perhaps by the Fed- eral Grain Trade Commission, it was announced. here today. Decision of the Grain Marketing Company to be- gin a campaign of selling stock to farmers, particularly members of the Illinois Farin Bureau, soon de- cided the Illinois association to start the probe, they said EB 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., HATE LEOPOLD NAME IN MORRIS GRAND DUKES OF | TO ALL WORKERS! DOWN WITH CAPITALISM! DOWN WITH INTERNATIONAL REFORMISM! DOWN WITH FASCISM! THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September. 31, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. bans AUGUST 1, 1924 Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, “Never Worked”, Boasts Slayer MILLIONAIRE KILLER PROUD HE NEVER TOILED LIKE OTHER FOLKS SCAB PAPER BOX MILLIONAIRE BREAKS STRIKE AS HE PLANS DEFENSE FOR HIS SLAYER SON By KARL REEVE (Staff Correspondent of The Daily Worker) MORRIS, Iil., July 31.—The name Leopold has always had a sinister meaning here, long before the perverted scion of the Leopold family ran amuck. The Morris Paper Mills company of which Nathan Leopold, senior, father of the slayer of the Franks boy is president and controlling stockholder, shapes the lives of many of the youth of the town and has just broken a strike of its workers. Five hundred citizens of Morris, mostly sons and daughters of retired farmers now residing in the countyseat of Morris county, are employed in the Leopold paper box mills. Few of these workers do not know that the money ground out of them by the sweat shop piece-work system employed in the plant is being used to free the perverted *&— going over his father’s factory with which he used to visit. The only opin- ion expressed by the people here is that of contempt. A local banker, who NATHAN LEOPOLD, Jr. RIGHAR LOEB Nathan Leopold, Jr., confessed co-slayer of 14-year-old Robert Franks, boasted yesterday that he had never worked in his life and never had to work. “Why should I work?” the son of millionaire Nathan Laonoiys Sry calmly asked. This young murderer is the spoiled son of the open shop paper box manufacturer, whose crimes against the workers of Morris, IIl., you will read about in other columns of the DAILY WORKER. So jong as capi- talism continues such parasites as young Leopold will continue to Chadd up. 1 te generaay-on:the-fruite/ of workers! tolls: ( i a Untii Communism comes the ‘Leopolds and Loebs can well ask: “Why should we work?” LEOPOLD’S OPEN SHOP HELL IN ILLINOIS TOWN INSPECTED BY YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUER By BARNEY MASS. (Special to The Daily Worker) MORRIS, Ill., July 31.—This is a town with a population of some five thousand and located sixty-one miles from Chicago on uic Rock Island road. It is interested in the Leopold-Loeb mur- der case for special reasons. This town consists largely of re- tired farmers, and approximately 2,000 are industrial workers. The Morris Paper Mills commands the attention of the whole population. Of course there is a cannery and a few other fac- tories but they are not to be compared with the Paper Mills. This factory, located near a stream with a bridge crossing over it and with a long windy road in front of the entrance, impresses one strangely as something secluded and yet hideous. No Sympathy In Morris. Nathail Leopold, facing the noose for the murder of Franks, is well known in Morris, Ill. His father owns and controls the destiny of the Morris Paper Mills. Leopold, Jr., had made many visits to this small town when Mexican Ambassador Quits. WASHINGTON, July 31.—Charles Beecher Warren, United States Am- bassador to Mexico, will arrive here tomorrow to formally submit his re- signation from the diplomatic serv- ice. Warren will be President Cool- idge’s guest at the executive mansion while he is in Washington. LABOR LEADER DIES CALDWELL, N. J., July 31.—James J. Freel, for 25 years president of the International Union of Stereotypers and Photo-Engravers, died at his home here today of heart disease, He was 5 years old. him. There is no sympathy for Leo- pold in this burg nor in the factory (Continued on next page.) Bare Sensational Crimes of LEOPOLD, SENIOR EOPOLD, the father, is a strikebreaker and vicious exploiter of youthful labor. The facts are bared in this issue of the DAILY WORKER. Leopold, the son, now striving for his life with the ald of the “million dollar” defense made possible by the father’s robbery of the workers of Morris, Il|., boasts that he never worked in his life. Read about it on this of the DAILY WORKER. The mayor of Morris, political lickspittle for the father of this murderous degenerate, says that work In the Leopold plant is good for the youth of the town—he does not suggest it would have been good for the million: 's darling who killed Bobby Franks. Read the interview with the mayor in this issue of the DAILY WORKER. Read every issue of the DAILY WORKER. counts for the working class. It has the news that ° and cynical lounge lizard, Nathan Leopold, junior, one- time pet of the idle rich. Ground Joy Out of Youth But the citizens of Morris are bitter! against Nathan Leopold, not because he is the father of a brutal slayer, but} becauge he has ground the joy out of| youth, the energy, the fresh and inno-| cent girlhood out of 500 of the town’s) young people. | “I have been working here three} years,” one pretty young girl who im-| pressed one as having been taken out} of high school at an early age, said to the DAILY WORKER, “and after three Learn just as much-ayb did when I started; and that is 18 dollars a week.” This girl told of the break- neck speed réquired, of*the long ten hour day with only a few minutes for lunch, of the extremely poor pay and the absolute certainty that the scale| will not be increased. At the Whim of Leopold. For years the profits ground out of | these young workers have been hand-| ed over to the whims of the thrill) seeking family of Leopold. The girls| are refined looking, bright and young, but they have been absorbed into the damnable open shop, anti-union fac- tory system of the Leopolds. “There have been many accidents here,” one girl told the DAILY WORK- | ER. “We must be continually on our guard to see that our fingers are not crushed in the stitching and cutting machines. The girls get a day work rate of twan‘y cents an hoi, and the men wne do exactly ths-same kind of work get % Cay rate of fi cents an hour mor:.” Profits For Degenerates The Leopold machines, huge and re- lentless, grind on, extracting the life blood from thé citizens of Morris, and rolling up the profits for a degenerate and spendthrift family. Family men, working in the paper making foundry undergo ten hot and trying hours a day. The heat comes out of the massive boilers and cylin- ders of the foundry, scorching and dwarfing the very souls of the men. And for this, the men who have to support a family, get only three dol- lars, and the most skilled trades only four dolars a day. Strikers Starved Back. A union is not to be tolerated by the blood-sucking Leopold. There was a strike of the caddy department ten days ago, but the men were starved out and had to return to work at a re- duced wage. In the paper box factory, girls work high up near the ceiling at the press machines, feeding, cutting, sorting, folding, tending the merciless mon- sters, Along the center of the factory are the piece work folders, who, work- ing at a most terrific speed, make less than 18 and often only 15 dollars a week. The plant runs on five and a half days a week with a ten hour day. The management has been asked by the employes many times to pay over- time—but Leopold, no doubt thinking that his son was in need of a new Red Racer, refused the union conditions. The long warehouse and shipping room is stacked high with boxes ready (Gontinued on Page 2.) BOOST COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY GETTING NEW SUBS FOR “THE DAILY WORKER” \Daily Worker LEOPOLD BOSSES FEAR VISITORS WILL GET FACTS Putting Issue Up to Mayor (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MORRIS, Ill, July 31.—William H. Beckwith, manager ofthe § Mor- Paper Mills Company, Tefuse te visitors pass thru the factory 0) by Nathan Leopold, senior, father « the Franks’ slayer. Two Chicago job-— bers asked Beckwith to show them thru the factory today but he refused claiming he did not want to divulge secret processes there. It is under- stood that the reason why the Morris Company is so suspicious appears to |be that the family of the degenerate killer is afraid to let the newspaperg know under what slave driving, very monotonous, and ill paid work the | Leopold employes suffer as the price of the luxuries enjoyed by the per- verted son. The DAILY WORKER has an ap- @ |pointment with Mayor Fessler Thurs- day morning and will ask him to take a stand on the bad conditions found in the Leopold factory. Nathan Leopold, junior, has visited Morris with his father and Leopold junior’s elder brother, who was an idle roustabout, was made to “work” in the factory by his father to cure his wild money spending ways. The elder son had a good time flirting with the girls but got tired of the grind in three weeks and bid his father’s slaves good-bye so he could spend the profits made from the low paid em- ployes. Seek North Passage. MOSCOW, July 31.—The Geographi- cal Society, Leningrad, is organizing, jointly with the Institute of Hydrology, which is also in Leningrad, an expedi- tion to explore the condition of ice in the Karsk Sea and the possibilities of navigation in the direction of the estuary of the Ob river, North coast of Siberia. GET CANNON SPEECH IN DAILY WORKER SATURDAY OUR AIMS AND TACTICS IN THE TRADE UNIONS is the title delivered by J. s tant national secre- tary of the Workers Party, at a party conference 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 Setenay August 2. Be sure to get the DAILY WORKER Saturday and read this very interesting and important ar ticle. See Page Three Dien, , of