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Tuesday, August 5, 1924 GOMPERS MAKE PUBLIC OFFICIAL 0. K. ON “BOB” Suddenly Finds ‘Dems’ Are Bankrupt (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, August 4.— ‘The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor released the endorsement of the hybrid political ticket of La Follette-Wheeler according to lan. The plan was to make the document public in time for its appearance in the Monday papers. Sunday is generally a quiet day in newspaper offices ‘ond editors are grateful for wnything that may come along ‘even a repetition of the Gom- ee formula for § g friends and punish- ‘ng enemies.” " The council’s statement makes it quite clear that Gompers has not de- parted from his time-worn policy of pon-partisanship. It also takes a left Danded crack at the socialists who are supporting the combination republic- an-democrat ticket, when the report @tates that the endorsement of the aFollette candidacy does not mean ‘Phat the A. F. of L. has anything in common with the views held by other groups that may support the Badger etate senator. No matter how low the socialists sink Gompers will in- sist on humbling them still more. Suddenly Opens One Eye. The executive council of the A. F. of L. suddenly realizes that the re- publican and democfatic parties are in @ state of moral bankruptcy “which oonstitutes a menace and a peril to our country and its institutions.” But the “moral bankruptcy” of both par- ties consists of their willingness to serve thé big capitalists of this coun- try and not to any lack of mental vigor. The latter deficiency is easily more observable in the high places of the A. F. of L. and proof of this intellectual inertia and bankruptcy can be seen from the fact that when- ever the labor fakers are forced to change their political bearings it is as the result of pressure from the out- side, as was the case when Glenn S. Plumb roused the federation from its lethargy with his railroad program and now the republican politician La- Follette with his “back to'1776” plat- » form. The document states that the pre- sent non-partisan policy of thé A. F. of L. was inaugurated in 1906. It has ‘worked out so well, despite a heavy crop of injunctions whichits friends ‘were unable to block that the policy is good for ever. Leaves “Cal” Alone. Gompers does not attack Coolidge ‘but hands a couple wallops to Dawes and the Minute Men of the Constitu- tion, The general is not talking much about his strikebreakers these days. The democratic party is attacked because it platform is silent on the Mnjunction pledges itself to legislate to regulate hours and conditions of all labor and fails to recommend the ratification of the child labor law by the various states. Mr. Gompers does not say that Strikebreaker George L. Berry, with tthe support of Gompers was perfect- ly willing to run for the vice-presi- dency on this obnoxious ticket and that Gompers kept his mouth shut until Berry was dropped by the demo- cratic convention. After setiing the seal of approval on LaFollette and Wheeler, the Gom- pers document takes slam at the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which is the Federation’s foremost rival in the non-partisan field. This is the horseshoe in the g@love: “In the campaign to elect men to Congress, regardless of their political Broup or party affiliation and deserv- ing of labor's support, there must be unity of purpose and method, there- fore leadership must lie with the only organization having the right to speak for the entire labor movement. In this the American Federation of Labor yields to none, but will main- tain steadfast its leadership, guid- ance and directio: Part of Bargain. \ The LaFollette attack on the Com- munists and his refusal to consider the formation of a third party is looked upon as ‘part of his bargain with Gompers for the endorsement of the A. F. of L, What this endorse- ment may bring in votes cannot be appraised with any degree of ac- curacy. Gompers was not able to de- liver the labor vote to Cox in 1920 and but for the widespread antagon- ism against the two old parties among the working class it is not likely that Gompers’ approval would mean go much now. What Gompers, LaFollette and the other bourgeois elements who dom- inate the so-called independent ticket have accomplished at this time is to block the formation of a mass Farmer- Labor party which was the need of the hour and the brazen anti-labor conduct of the two capitalist parties presented a splendid opportunity to Jaunch sph a party. MICHIGAN MOVES TO BRING RUTHENBERG’S ~— GASE IN HIGH COURT (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LANSING, Mich., Aug. 4—Assist- ant Attorney General O. C. Smith, who prosecuted the case against C. E. Ruthenberg at St. Joseph, Mich., has finally moved to bring the case before the higher courts. Attorney I. E. Ferguson, for the defense, submitted to the prosecu- tion last November the record in the case which was to be O. K.’d by the prosecutor before the case could be brought into the higher court. Since that time nothing has been heard from the prosecution. Today O. C. Smith called Fergu- son by long distance asking him to meet him in Lansing on next Mon- tay for the purpose of agreeing up- on the record. This will likely mean that the case will come before the Michigan Supreme Court during the fall of this year. MILLIONS MADE BOYS SEEK ONLY OWN PLEASURES Workers’ Blood Money Spent by. Parasites Neither Richard Loeb nor Nathan Leopold, Jr., allow anything to inter- fere with their personal pleasures. This is the testtmony of Dr. William Healy, one of the best-known psychi- atrists in the United States, who is the second defense witness. The “millions-for-defense” have al- ready secured the services of Dr. William A, White of St. Eliabeth’s hospital, Washington, who was first witness. The millions will bring at least ten more expensive medical wit- nesses to the stand in the attempt to save the young murders from hanging. Cheat Sensation-Seekers. Dr. Healy whispered testimony of the sexual aberrations of the young gentlemen of too much leisure and then continued aloud: “Loeb has told me that he has never found anything in himself that would act as a deterrent, anything that would deter him from doing what he wanted to do, or that would deter him from doing anything he desired. | “On the part of Leopold, I have a statement from him that he would continue also in this form of associa- tion, and these acts, that the gratifi- cation of his personal desires would be enough to compensate him for any intellectual dislike he might have for. them.” “Crimes of the Fathers.” In the whispered testimony Dr. Healy told of the “childish compact” which bound the two young wealthy men together in criminal activities. The “millions-for-defense” are at- tempting to prove that the boys who had so much money and time used that time and money for their own perverted pleasures and ‘criminal deeds culminating in the killing of Bobby Franks and are now using (thru their parents) their money to save their lives. The boys felt no necessity of work- ing and took no heed of the injustice of the capitalistic system which gave them so much and deprived the thou- sands of workers in their fathers’ factories and shops of the ordinary good things of life. Philadelphia Holds Big Outdoor Meeting PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4.—Local Philadelphia held a very successful open air meeting at the corner of Girard and Marshall Street on Tuesday evening, July 29th, 1924. This was the first meeting held in this section for 10 years and the meeting was a success in every sense of the word. A crowd of over 800 people attended the meeting and the main speaker of the evening, was Comrade Harry M. Winitsky from New York, The audience wa sa very enthu- siastic one and applauded every men- tion of the Soviet Republic and of the Workers Party of Anierica. Although the meeting was called to protest against the U. S. Court decision grant- ing to Kerensky and his represent- ative $1,5000,000 belinging to the So- viet Russia, the speakers dealt with the political situation in this country and spoke on the anti-war campaign now being conducted by the Workers Party the American section of the Communist International, eee PHILADELPHIA, August 4. — The workers of this city will participate in a huge anti-war demonstration on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 8 p. m. in the Machinists’ Temple, 13th and Spring Garden. Ludwig Lore, editor of the New York “Volkszeitung” will be the chief speaker. He and others will point out the imperialists’ conspira- cies for the next world war. Admis- sion is free. The meeting is under the auspices of the Workers Party, Local Philadelphia, Girl Tarred, Feathered. MEYERSVILLE, Mo., Aug. 4,—Miss Dorothy Grandon, 20 years old, wai tarred and feathered by an angry mob near here late last night. One woman participated in the attack upon the girl, whose home is in Martins- burg, West Virginia. TH CARMEN'S UNION FORMING LOCAL AT HEGEWISCH Steel Car Strikers Or- ganizing Today The organization of a local of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen in Hegewisch, where the Western Steel, Car and Foundry company is no strike, is progressing rapidly. More than twenty-five new applica- tions for membership were received by E. Hogan, organizer for the union at the strike meeting yesterday. It is expected that many more. of the strikers will join at the meeting which has been arranged for this morning at 8 o'clock. Brother Hogan spoke on the neces- sity for organization. He pointed out to the men that unless they could car- ry on the fight in an organized, man- ner their strikes were not likely to be successful. “You are compelled to strike frequently”, he! said. “The bosses are preparing to cut the wages of the workers this fall and unless you are organized into a union you can- not prevent this cut.” He went on further and told the men that any victery they might win in the strike could easily be taken away from them if they were left without organization. Max Salzman of the Young Workers League also spoke and emphasized the necessity of joining the union. The bosses cannot get men to re- return to work at the wages they of- fer. Their orders are still waiting to be filled. The workers are staunch in their demands. When it was suggested that a con- ciliator be asked for from the depart- ment of Labor, in order to get the company to reach an agreement with the men, it was pointed out that the Department of Labor is controlled by the same groups that own the fac- tories in which the workers of Hege- wisch and other places are employed. It was also brought to the attention of the strikers, that in Pullman strike, the Department of Labor conciliator settled the strike, the bosses getting the best of the bargain. At the meeting to be held today the men will again take up their demands and send their committee to meet with the officials and try to get them to agree to the woirkers demands. CARELESS COPS PICK UP CAL'S CAMPAIGN MAN G. O. P. Boss Caught with Wet Goods Judge John O'Donnell was blinded by the rag of “justice” and couldn’t see how the coppers “got that way” when they arrested-J. Mercer Vernon, assistant to’ William M. Butler; Calvin Coolidge’s campaign manager, for vio- lation of the federal prohibition law. The Republican politician sat in the Gold Coast House of Correction sip- ping from his flask when the ser-| | geants descended upon the place and seized his political “highness.” The more Vernon protested in the wagon what harm the publicity of his arrest would do to “a lot of big people in this country,” the more the bulls were convinced that he was drunk. U. S, Senator George Ff. Moses of New Hampshire, another ardent “Cal- vinite” rushed to the jail from the Congress Hotel and stripped off one of his $1,000 bills to pay bond for Ver- non, ‘Vernon’s office is with the Repub- lican national headquarters. in the Wrigley building. Little Coolidge’s “dear friend” Butler won't thank the careless coppers but maybe Judge O’Donnell will be kindly ‘remembered.’ Illinois Farmers to ‘Investigate Bankers’ Grain Elevator Plan The Illinois Agricultural Association has entered into a “sweeping investi- gation” of the new Grain Marketing combine of five big elevator com- panies who are trying to get the farm- ers of the mid-west to support them. Detailed reports for the past five years, made by a public auditor, will be demanded of the bankers’ and big packers’ new grain monopoly, The farmers who were supposed to bite on the bankers’ to be fooled altho some of the reac- tionary “gentlemen farmers’” organ- izations have endorsed the new com- bine. Jewish De! gai Leave ‘NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Delegates of ' the American Jewish congress have left New York for the Carlsbad World Jewish Relief conference August 12, which is to deal With po- groms, racial discrimination, and other problems affecting the rights of Jews. RIV A Picnic Day E DAILY WORKER rage Three FIVE SHOT IN BATTLE WITH KU KLUX ARMY Haverhill Klansmen Mobilize in Force (Special to The DAILY WORKER) HAVERHILL, Mass., Aug. 4.—Five thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan clashed with hostile masses in the neighborhood of Groveland, early today. The casualties are: five men suffering from gunshot wounds and scores injured by sticks and stones. The battles began! as the white hoods were concluding spectacular initiation ceremonies on a high hill and the fighting continued as the kluxers started homeward in a thou- sand automobiles. James Connelly, Francis Cotter, Edmund Lucey and a man named Buckley, four of the injured persons, say the klansmen opened fire on them from a large truck. Twenty-three arrests were made, most of them residents of Haverhill and the vicin- ity. Growth of the Ku Klux Klan in this vicinity is felt to be a menace to thé large foreign-born population and es- pecially to the organized workers jn the shoe industry, Klansmen Bombers? LAPARTE, Ind., Aug. 3.—Identity of persons who hurled a dynamite bomb into the residence of Rev. Father Vanrie, pastor of the Catholic church at North Judson, Ind., is sought. Father Vanrie has been ac- tive against the Ku Klux Klan. Furnture Movers Win. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 4—Since union furniture movers ,van drivers and helpets won an increase of 10 cents an hour in wages after a strike lasting two weeks, the moving van owners’ association announces an increase of 50 cents an hour in moving rates, Treat Her Well! MOSCOW, (By Mail)—The London papers have published an official com- munique of the British Admiralty, announcing the pending visit to Eng- lish ports of the Soviet war-vessel Vorovsky and instructing that she be accorded the usual facilities and priv- ileges. Send in that Subscription Today. (Continued from page 1.) states are in the. hands of re- ceivers and their a s in notes are being collected with vigor. This will account for some of the (farm) income in such localities. Store accounts, farm equip- ment, motor car payments have been delayed and must be met, mortgage indebtedness has incr companies generally having been lenient with defaulted interest until the crop could be gathered. This money will go east.” The product of the farmer’s toil does not belong to himself but to his créditors, the financiers, who will leave him just enough to keep going and produce next yes crop for them. ns Admit Banks Get It. Officials of the U. S. treasury con- firm this view of the situation. The high prices of wheat, they , have placed the financial institutions in many states on their feet again. Mil- lions of dollars in credit extended to farmers will be liquidated or the loans reduced this fall and paper some of the banks had been forced to charge off as uncollectable will now become obligations upon which the banks will realize. €-s One of the groups of creditors who will suck the profits out of the farm- ers’ apparent good fortunes are the so-called seed pool men. According to advices from Topeka, these men gambled on thi ar’s crop, provid- ing the farmers with seed and other working capital. They now have a right to their share of the produce. 8 * * Gross Faking. The $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000 in- crease in the value of farm products | about which the capitalist doing so much talking is, a matter of fact, a gross exaggeration. Statis- ticians of the Sears Roebuck Agri- cultural foundation in a careful study found that the increase in prices up to July 19 had not increased the farm- ers’ possible receipts by more than $400,000,000 and pointed out that “most of the increases in prices of farm products represent paper pro- fits” so far as the farmer is con- cerned. press is oe wee Farmers Aren't Getting It. This raises another © interesting point. Wheat reached $1.42% a bushel July 26. But reports from the south- SIVHNTAOIAVUUOEGUGOOEUENEOLOUGEOGERO AEE OREO EEAEE GEE ROUTE VOTE FOSTER Se] FAT BANKERS GET GRAIN PROFITS which | and packers’) § bait have shown decided reluctance |‘ ginning RVIEW | t 10th ~ Sunday || Printed on a fine grade of paper. 12 Inches wide by 18 inches high. Suitable for framing or posting in your window, : THE FOSTER FOR YOU!! 4 MONTH SPECIAL ELECTION USE THE ‘THE DAILY WORKER 11113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. - T have sold a Special 4-Month Election Campaign Isub. 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Schoen of the crops is marketed depends / fold, sent a formal protest note to th upon the correctness of market estim-| yexican Government for the British forecast a of decrea: ates which Government on account of the death some 286,000,000 bushels inythe world| of Mrs, Rosalie Evans. wheat crop alone.” The major part| rg, Evans, a wealthy widow hac |of that decrease is in Canada. ‘Thatlenga owner who has made a pesca these fore: ‘ 8 are open ‘to. serio! al of trouble for Mexican authori- question is indicated by the assertion| ties, was shot late Saturday. night, fficials that She disregarded all the laws of the been | country concerning the hours of work dollar! for her employes and never heeded infor-| provisions for the welfare of the | pe whom she treated almost as be geen | slav s. She hired gunmen to “pro- Russia Will Export tect” her. More Grain This Year; British Agent shiny ri Her. | Her husband was a British subject, Sown Area Increased | once president of the London Bank in |Mexico City. She was from Téxas. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) [it was largely due to his efforts tode- MOSCOW, Aug. 4.—It is learned of-| fame the Mexican government’s pos: ficially that in spite of a partial fail-|ition in regard to Mrs. Bvane that the ure of the crops in the Trans-Volga/British agent and supposed “archi. and the South-Kastern ar where | vist” H. A. C. Cummins, was recently some 60 million poods of grain have|forced to leave Mexico. Mrs, Elvana | perished, the current ye |refused to accept thé price the Meri vest will be somewhat large tican government offered for her land. year’s (it is imated that the corps| Secretary of state Colugna stated will yield million poods as|that the Mexican government much of Canadian government either the wheat e rigged or e their million Statistical tem of obtaining mation is valuel m has e 6 against 2748 millions poods last year),|deplored the shooting and would mainly due to an increase of the sown|make every effort to arrest the guilty area, persons, ye. ‘ Official computations estimate the Oil Troubles. a marketable surplus of the crops 700 milliong poods, |possibility fof inc’ | at| Relations between Britain and Me#h which affords the! have not been friendly for some asing the expor' time. Britain has never recognized of grain in comparison with last year’s | the Obregon government and Mexicd figures. |has been subjected to much abuse by PR RAE |the El Aguilar Oil Company, a British Russian Grain Beats American, |concern, which has not honored thd LENINGRAD, Aug. 4—The discon-| Mexican constitution. } tinuance of commer intercour Premier MacDonald, the Labor ang with Germany has not affected Soviet | Socialist-of-the-tuture Britisher, will grain exports, which have been car-|trumpet the sentiments of the #mper: ried on without interruption. From ial British capitalists to Mexico over {Leningrad these products have been |the killing of this woman, British-by- |shipped to Finland—where it may be |law only. j noted that Russian grain, owing to its good quality, has ousted its American competitor, then to England, Holland, and other countri Fe RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY, PRESS PICNIC DAY. Send in that Subscription Today. 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