The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR _A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT W)Vol. II. No. 119. OSCOW, Aaucuie 5.—Leon Trotzky, head of the Russian Soviet a ism. Trotzky charged that Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes’ ‘“ SUBSCRIPTION RATES SEES U.S. IMP THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1924 ~ In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Qutside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. kanize Europe, making her dependent upon America.” “America wants to put Europe on rations,” continued the war commissar. is clear he bosses the show. America’s pretended Pacific policy is pregnant wit of humanity hangs. But we believe Americanized bolshevism will conquer ani Bis Ha’ MN Ne Sa i a a! aco tit etter hoo Workers Party An CAMPAIGN CALL-FOR-FOSTER =| AND GITLOW IS The workers and farmers al AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Three hundred guests assembled at the home of Edward L. Doheny in Los Angeles, among them several at- torneys and the honorable Albert B. Fall. They joked and laughed ove} the oil indictments against Doheny and his friends for their success in grabbing the California naval /oil re- serves from the government. Mr. Palt did not look-the least. bit.like,a, sick man. He was scheduled to de liver a speech but his activities were gastronomical, rather than oratorical. The way he put away a big dinner must be encouraging to his physi- cians considering how very ill the gen- tleman was when the public lands committee had the oil fields under in- vestigation. Capitalists do not stem to bother much over indictments. But in the very state where these law- breakers held the banquet, Tom Mooney and hundreds of other work- ers sat in jail not for robbing the gov- ernment but because they tried to or- ganize the workers to get a better standard of living. And yet we are told there is no class rule in the United States. The Chicago Daily News remarks |] that the socialist party was born in one jail and died in another. When Debs was jailed for his activities in the A. R. U. strike Victor Berger vis- ited him in jail and brot him a book on socialism. Thus the socialist party was born. When Debs went to jail for his anti-war Canton speech, the socialist party died, That is a rather naive explanation of its birth and death. But there is a general agree- ment that it is dead. se. 8 Another revolution has broken out in Honduras despite the pea Tree- ment recently negotiated thru the ef- forts of the United States, said a/dis- patch to the state department. Ameri- can experts are figuring more and more in the internal affairs of South America, The United States finan- ciers are not satisfied with dominating South America but stretch out their hands all over the world for more fields to conquer. This is the country that went to war with Germany in 1917 to save the world from imperial- ism. It was thot that hypocrisy was a British virtue but the latter do not seem to have a nopoly on it. a Arthur Brisbane says we should not get worried over the fear that the (Continued on page 3.) Americans Gobble Government Wire ‘ System of Mexico wy can Telegraph & Telephone Co., under government control for over 8 years past, is passing, into private Ameri- can hands. Boaz Long, representing the Intl, Telephone & Telegraph Co., is arranging the details. Republican CHALLENGE T0 DICTATORSHIP OF CAPITALISTS The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party today made public the platform on which the Workers Party will ask the support of the industtial workers, agricultural workers, and exploited farmers of this country. The platform declares that the fundamental evil of the exist- ing social system’is the fact that “the raw materials and indus- tries of the United States are owned by the Garys, Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords, McCormicks, and other great capitalists. ike pay tribute to these capital- ists. They are compelled to ac- cept a low standard of living in order that the capitalists may amass even greater fortunes for themselves.” This private ownership of industry and system of exploitation is main- tained thru the capitalists’ grip on the government of the United States, “The government of the United States .\is and has been a government of, by and for the capitalists,” the platform declares. Strikebreaker, Morgan Lawyer. To maintain this capitalist dictator- ship, the platform says, the capitalists strike-breaker Coolidg: and the Morgan-Rockefeller Lawyer, Davis.” Dealing with the independent candidacy of LaFollette, the platform states, “LaFollette, who is running as an independent progressive Republi- can, is equally a supporter of the cap- italist system of exploitation.” The platform calls upon all workers and farmers to support the only work- ers’ candidates, Foster and Gitlow, against these representativesof the capitalist system. Rule of Workers. “In place of the capitalist dictator- ship there must be established the rule of the workers. The governmen- tal power must be used in the inter- ests of the workers and farmers as it is now used by the capitalist dictator- ship in the interests of the capitalist class. “The Russian workers and peasants have established their rule in the form of the Soviet Government and are us- ing their power against the capitalists and for themselves—to build a Com- munist social system which will give the workers and farmers the fruits of their toil.” This, the platform declares, must al- so be the goal of the workers and farmers of the United States. Millions of copies of the platform in leaflet form are to be printed imme- diately and to be distributed thruout the United States thru the Workers Party organization. The platform as a whole follows: Ge ae FORWARD TO THE WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT! Platform of the Workers Party 'E workers and exploited farmers of the United States face the question of how to organize and use their political power in the coming election, Before deciding this ques- tion every industrial worker, agricul- tural worker and exploited farmer should give fundamental consideration to the situation which exists in this country. In the Grip of the Exploiters, The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. We have nat- ural resources which supply us with raw materials and a great industrial organization which can turn these raw materials into the finished pro. ducts which satisfy human needs. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3.—-The Mexi-|'With the raw materials available and the tremendous machinery of produc- tion we have the means of giving a high standard of life—good food, good clothing, good homes, the opportunity for education and recreation—to every (Continued on page 6) rmy, crush imperialistic Americanism.” Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. RIALISM CRUSHED (Special to THE DAILY WORKER.) in a speech at a big demonstration of engineers today bitterly attacked American imperial- participation in the London conference and his visits to the European capitals is an attempt to Bal- Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW, Price 3 Cents _“America*seeks world hegemony. Altho Secretary Hughes came to Europe unofficially, it war. There is a struggle between Leninism and-American imperialism upon which the fate LENIN LIES LIFE-LIKE, SMILING, AFTER BEING PERFECTLY EMBALMED By A. L. PERRY. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Aug, 5.—Nicolai Lenin rests in his tomb as tho he were merely sleeping. The embalmers have done a perfect job of restoring the body of the Soviet premier to life-like state. The body rests on a revolutionary red velvet bier in a hermetically sealed glass covered coffin. Even the smile of the Russian proletarian leader is preserved. An armed Red Soldier stands at the head and another at the foot of the bier. Professor Sbarski, Moscow Insti- tute of Chemical Science, and Professor Vorobeff of Kharkov Uni- versity, are responsible for the four months’ embalming process, usif§ the first purely scientific chemical formula, based on patholegical re- search. A solution of glycerine and calcium replaces the water of the body. The professors claim this is a greater triumph than that of the Egyptian embalimers. They declare also that Lenin’s body should last forever if no great change ta’ place in the temper- ature of the mausoleum. The pre- renheit or 16 degrees Reaumur. The cost of the embalming was $7,500. 4 RUSSIA REFUSES SURRENDER ON DEBTS OF CZAR No British Treaty Is Coming Just Yet (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, August 5.—Soviet Russia's refusal to surrender to the creditors of Czar Nicholas and Kerensky has halted the negotiations between M. Ra- kovsky and Ramsay Mac- Donald. As the result there is no im- mediate prospect of an Anglo- Russian treaty, tho the recog- nition of the Soviet government still stands. Russian representatives informed the British diplomats that the Soviet republic could not consider alleged British obligations unless the British in turn admitted their debts to Russia. Billions of gold rubles worth of dam- age have been caused directly and in- directly by invading armies. Britain herself sent troops against Russia and she gave aid and comfort to imperial- istic forces from other nations. Premier MacDonald’s staunch sup- Port of the financiers who hold the Czar’s paper gives little surprise. The Labor Party has shown more sympa- they with Asquith liberalism than with parties. an’-Maria” General Dawes day Lovestone, Director of the of the employing class. fashion. series. today. article of the series. They facts. STRIKERS HAIL BiG CALUMET STEEL DRIVE Brother- The International his own party’s program since coming}hood of Railway Carmen is into office, Failure of the treaty parleys at this time is not regarded as highly critical holding a big mass meeting next Friday night at Ham- for Riyssian foreign trade. The treaty]Mond, Ind., as the first step in would have facilitated trade with Bri-|a serious campaign to organize tain but a considerable amount of trade with that country is going on un- der present conditions, Martial Law tn Roumania PARIS, Aug. 5.—Martial law has the steel car builders in the great Calumet district at the foot of Lake Michigan. Hammond is the heart of the been proclaimed throughout Rou-|C2¢My country where seven mania, following receipt of informa-|Steel workers were butchered tion by the government that a high}by thugs in the great organiza- detat, according to a report from Bu- charest this afternoon, army officer was planning a coup|tion campaign inary of 1919, Prelim! organization. work among the Standard Steel Foundry DAILY WORKER TRAINS GUNS ON CAPITALIST CANDIDATES; ~—TAPOLLETTE FIRST TARGET "FRE DAILY WORKER will soon begin a series of articles on the leading presidential candidates of the capitalist “Silent” Cal Coolidge, the Morgan-Rockefeller attor- ney, John W. Davis, the “independent” LaFollette, ‘“Hell- analyzed and examined in their true light. The records of the standard bearers of capitalism, in and out of office, will be carefully scrutinized and dis- sected. From Coolidge to LaFollette, all of these defend- ers of the present system of exploitation of the city and rural workers and the growing army of dispossessed farm- ing masses will be called upon to tell by word of their own mouths or by their own deeds where they stand on the most pressing needs of the working class. LOVESTONE WILL FIRE GUNS. lorkers Party, and author of “The Government— Strikebreaker,” “American Imperialism,” etc., will fire the DAILY WORKER'S guns against the presidential aspirants middle, and small bankers and manufacturers. Tio. iai the DAIL s he natant @ LY. the most | itty hn outstandin and activities of these champions of the various sections Y WORKER will be based on The opening shot will be fired by us in the issue of Monday, August 11. In view of LaFollette’s pretensions to . being a champion of the working and farming masses, in view of the great volume of noise the Wisconsin senator is now making about his enmity to the big business inter- ests, we will begin our series with an examination of the record of this newly self-appointed friend of the workers. LaFollette’s labor record, his war record, his general behavior in the senate, his evolution from a henchman of Mark Hanna's puppet, McKinley, to the present day, his political machine, the class he represents, the conditions of the working men in LaFollette’s ‘Model Common- wealth” of Wisconsin and the meaning and dangers of LaFollettism will be treated ina thorogoing fashion. * CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS IT. The other candidates will be analyzed in a similar No worker can afford to miss this important These articles are essential to an understanding of the present political conflicts, the class struggles of No Workers Party member, : \ speaker, agitator, and organizer should miss a single campaign. These articles will be an arsenal of irrefutable Make sure to get the whole series. Get them for your friends and workers in the shop and mill and on the farm. Order a special supply of the DAILY WORKER containing these exposures. Send in your bundle order today. and the others will all be of the Research Department facts of the lives no Communist will be indispensable to the company employes at Hammond has evoked such a response that a big turn out of workers anxious for or- ganization against the open shop steel forces is expected when the doors swing open at the hall at Col- umbia and Morton streets, Hani- mond. Cheers greeted Organizer Edmond K. Hogan of the carmen’s union when he announced the Calumet drive to the strike meeting at the Western Steel Car Foundry at Hege- wisch yesterday. Telling the strik- ers that success was not possible without united action Hogan pledged his union to a determined movement thruout the entire Calumet district. Hogan was followed by Jack Mc- Carthy, Tom Bell of Canada and Barney Mass, representing the Work- ers Party and the Trade Union Educa- tional League and the Young Work- ers League respectively. The Hegewisch strike is now in its fourth week and production is para- lyzed in the big plant. The morale of the strikers was evidenced by the enthusiasm they displayed at the meeting and their endorsement of an attack im made on several pro- company who have been whis- pering defeatist propaganda, nounces 1924 Platform RESCUERS TRYING 10 RECOVER BODIES OF GARY EXPLOSION VICTIMS GARY, Ind., Aug. 5—Rescuers were working feverishly late today trying to recover bodies from a mass of twisted steel in the Gary works of the Illinois Steel Company plant, in which three workers are known to have been killed and a half dozen others injured. The explosision occurred late last night and completely wrecked the newly repaired number 5 blast fur- nace. The badly burned and horribly mangled body of Walter R. Nystrom, 35, foreman who returned to work last night from his vacation, was recovered early today after the workers had combed the ruins thru the night. Altho it is known that two more bodies are lying under the many tons of twisted steel, fire brick and debris, it is believed the final toll may reach a higher figure. The accident occurred when gas which had been turned into the fur- nace ignited. The blast was ter- rific, hurling steel and brick for two blocks. The Lake county coroner is now investigating the blast but he has 80 far been able to gather little in- |formation, LEOPOLD FIRES ANYONE TALKING ABOUT UNIONISM Makes Them Get Out, Secretary Boasts By KARL REEVE. presi to The Daily Worker) M RRIS, Ill., August 5.—Not only does Nathan Leopold, strikebreaking head of the Morris Paper Mills here, not tolerate a union, but any em- ploye caught talking unionism is immediately discharged. No one suspected of favoring the organization of labor into un- ions is hired at the plant. Clarence Darrow, in his de- fense of Nathan Leopold, jr., degenrate son of a labor-hating and ruthless father, said, “Every human being is the heir of all the past.” Certainly that is a good’ defense of Nathan Leopold, jr., who from. the earliest childhood has taken it for granted to pile up the pro- fits necessary to supply deli- cacies and dainties to his su- perior ego. Leopold’s Hunting Trips. Nathan Leopold, Jr., has taken many hunting trips in and around Morris. He never had anything to do with the employes in his father’s factory, content to look upon them merely as a source of his father’s wealth, “What do you think of the Leopold family?” the DAILY WORKER asked the secretary of W. E. Beckwith, manager of’ the Morris Paper Mills. “We think they are all right,” an- swered the girl, evidently afraid to say anything that wasn’t “kosher.” “Sam Leopold has been in the plant more than his younger brother, Na- than, Jr. And he’s so nice to the girls. He talks to. us just like a pal. We all like the Leopolds.” “What do you think of Babe? Do you thing it was a very nice thing he did to the Franks boy?” Sorry for “Babe”; Scorns Workers. “I feel sorry for him. I don’t be- (Continued on page 2.) AMALGAMATED URGED TOERASE STAIN OF “BOB” Workers Party Puts Issue to Members The Workers Party addresses the following communication to the rank and file of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union urging them to repudiate the endorsement of the Wiscon- sin republican senator by their General Executive Board and to back the working class cam- paign of Foster and Gitlow: To the Locals of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of America: Brothers:—The press dis- patches from Rochester an- nounce that the General Ex- ecutive Board of your organ- ziation has endorsed the can- didacy of Senator LaFollette for the presidency and called upon your organization toé- give your support to the La- Follette ticket. This action by your General Ex- ecutive Board is a repudiation of what the members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have stood for in |the past and also of the action of your last national convention. Amalgamated’s Record. The members of your organization jhave in the past been in the forefront of the labor movement in this coun- try. It has been generally recognized that the members of the Amalgamat- ed were conscious of the character of the struggle going on in industry un- der the capitalist system. The fact that this was a class struggle in which the workers have definite and distinct interests separte and apart from any group has been recognized in many actions of your union. The endorsement of Senator LaFol- lette by your General Executive Board nullifies the past record of the Amal- gamated. This action proposes to lead back the members of your organ- ization to the position of those back- ward groups among the workers who do not accept the fact of the class struggle and who believe that the gov- ernment is an institution which serves all the people alike and that the workers should not attempt to se cure political power for themselves, This is the position of Senator La- Follette. It is the position he ex- pressed in reply to the Gompers en- dorsement, calling upon organized la- bor and business men to unite on the basis of “good citizenship.” j LaFollette Not For Workers. Senator LaFollette is not a repre- sentative of the workers. His pro- gram is not a program in the inter. ests of the workers. The LaFollette program everywhere is making com- Promises with Republicans and Dem- ocrats and will support Republicans and Democrats in the election cam- (Continued on page 2) MOBILIZATION DAY, JAPANESE EXCLUSION DEPLORED BY QUAKERS (Special to the DAILY WORKER! RICHMOND, Ind, August wa group of 300 young friends in gen- eral conference here has sent a message to President Coolidge protesting against national defense test day and at the same time for- warded a message to Japan deplor- ing the policy of the United States in excluding Japanese immigration. See Page Three