The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ‘Vol. Il. No. 120. — SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, HEADQUARTERS OF THE BRITISH — COMMUNIST PARTY RAIDED BY ' | SOCIALIST-LABOR GOVERNMENT By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. | ‘(Special Cable to The Daily. Worker.) | LONDON, August 6.—Scotland Yard's Police have just ||raided and searched the Communist Party headquarters. For three hours truckloads of documents were hauled out of the |natlonal office. John Ross Campbell, acting editor of the “Workers Weekly,” \the official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and |fermerly editor of the “Glasgow Worker’ was arrested. 1| A charge of sedition has been filed against Campbell because iz the articles appearing in the eas tle Sever oR Sn RN Pha? AS WE SEE IT By T. J. FLAHERTY | If honesty is the best policy, Harry |Binolair does not know it and need |mot oare. He is ving on his pres- jemt policy whi as not conceived (by the same mind that concocted the \{Golden Rule. Only a few months ago iuclair was roundly denounced as a Pobber and briber because he man- ‘aged to get the Teapot Dome naval oil \peserve by the judicious use of a few |thousand dollar bills, a ranch, cattle jand sundry other gifts to the honor- \jable Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the \Gnterior in the Harding cabinet. To- \Way, the financial sections of the daily \press carry the tale that The Sinclair ‘Consolidated Oil Corporation, had a |met income of over nine million dol- jars during the first six months of the present year, almost two millions ‘more than during the corresponding Period of last year. course Sin- AGS rier called respectable capitalist. | “2 || Not once during the orgy of investi- ting did the capitalist investigators w where the oif magnates got their ‘millions from or who were the real || sufferers in the campaign of robbery. The viotims of the Dohenys and the ®Binolairs, the Rockefellers and the '|other oil thieves are the workers who ||toll for low wages under the unhealthy ‘|conditions surrgunding the oil indus- try. Out of the poorly paid labor of the oil workers, the magnates are able to roll up the millions that enable them to purchase governments and practically use the administration, ywhether Democratic or Republican, as \their private agency. The oil thieves d afi the other capitalist thieves ll continue to rob, bribe and cor- watil the oil industry is national- ised and the government is in the of the workers. **. © A headline announces that “Hogs -will figure heavily in the coming elec- ‘tions.” They always do. The few who have “hogged” the wealth of the na- will be very important factors in ‘the coming campaign. They have a {good deal to gain by having the right ‘icind of people in Washington, so they themselves around election In fact they are actively inter- in politics all the year around. The great mass of workers ignore politics only when) the capitalist politicians stir them up. Needless to jsay the capitalist headline artist was not writing of human hogs but of the four-footed kind who are good to the farmers when. the price of pork goes iif § eth ee | Arthur Brisbane and Frank Harris, two senile egotists have followed the |great Lenin to the grave with their ineulting comment. The former in his column of drivel in the Hearst pa- pers never misses an opportunity to take a left-handed slam at the Russian revolution. Commenting on the Mos- cow dispatches which told of the em- process that keeps Lenin’s a remarkable state of preser- this Hearst piffle expert says ‘8 body! will not be left un- that a Ozar will come back Lenin’s head will adorn a pike as the of Oliver Cromwell after of the Stuarts. Then it would be abomin- spend centuries with an grin in death. How silly 7? As if a dead body cared it was on the top of a moun- or buried thousands of feet under (Continued on page 2) il : HEL ge E “Weekly Worker” issues of July 25th and August ist, appealing to the British soldiers to refuse to serve in_strikes against workingmen. Appeal to World’s Workers. The’ Communist Party of Great Britain is issuing an appeal to the Communist and working class organ- izations of the world protesting ve- hemently against the terrorism of the MacDonald Labor government. It will be recalled that Premier MacDonald, Minister of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden, and other prominent mem- bers of the present British Labor government are also among the lead- ing figures of the Second Interna. tional. This attack on the Communist Party headquarters is looked upon by militant spokesmen of labor here as a very grave incident. MacDonald and his aides have for some time closely associated themselves with Messrs. Scheidemann ‘and Noske who have committed numerous unutterable out- Tages against the German _ working class. The raid occurs at an es} ally sig- Labor government. In the presence of the American Secretary of State, Hughes, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States Andrew W. Mellon, Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Company, and a swarm of other powerful Wall Street bankers, the so- called socialist government of Eng- land has completely knuckled under the pressure of the American financial interests demanding the adoption of the Dawes plan as a whole. Comes at Peculiar Time. This attack on the Communists, who have been waging an energetic campaign against the high-handed de- mands made by the British bankers in conference with the representatives ef the Soviet government, is coinci- dent with the formal breaking off of parleys between the spokesmen of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the British government. It is the concensus of opinion among well informed observers here that the above events are significant straws pointing the direction in which the MacDonald government is rapidly traveling. It is said that the influence of the American bankers and govern- ment officials has done much to stiffen the backbone of the British imperial- ists in their attitude towards the labor party and that MacDonald and his aides are giving way still further, The Communist Party is organizing to fight back and is taking steps to thwart these reactionary policies of the so-called socialist government. Beat Negro to Death. MARSHALL, Ia., Aug. 5.— Four white men, Starr, Charles and Rob- ert Green and Jim Holmes, are held under $5,100 bend at Marshall for the death of Isaiah Sanders, a Negro, who died ay a result of a flogging a week ago. The men charge that Sanders used abusive language to Charles Green, DICKS CAN'T SEE WHAT MINERS SEE IN MORGAN ANTHRACITE MONOPOLY Special to The Daily Worker) . WASHINGTON, Aug. @2-An. In- vestigation of the anthracite coal in- dustry by the Department of Justice has disclosed no grounds for crimin- al or civil prosecutions, Representa- tive John Jacob Rodgers of Massa- chusetts announced. The anthracite fields are controlled by the railroads which in turn are owned by the Mor- gan banking Interests and the In. dustry is Practleally a monopoly. a ( THE DAILY WORKER. Entered es Second-cless matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1924 BS °°", SEE THE DIFFERENCE? Ears ETTE OR,—You Bet There Is No Difference Between Them. HE British Labor government is showing itself in true colors. The news from London of the raid on the Communist Party headquar- ters and the arrest for sedition oft John Ross Campbell, acting editor of the Workers Weekly, shows that the MacDonald government is ready to follow in the footsteps of Schei- demann and Noske in Germany in shooting down the workers in or- der to protect capitalism. Scheidemann and Noske, who to- day are members of the Second In- ternational together with Ramsay MacDonald, answered the German work with machine guns, hand grenades and poison gas when these workers made their effort to estab- lish the workers’ rule and end the oppression of the capitalists. Schei- Scheidemann! MacDonald! LaFollette! Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party demann and Noske, the murderers of Liebknecht and Luxemburg, pre- tending to represent the workers, actually used the power given them by the workers to put down their aspirations, Ramsay MacDonald’s labor gov- ernment has been hailed as a new victory for labor by the supporters of the Second International. Now this government turns upon labor and fights for the capitalists—even as Scheidemann and Noske. For what is the “crime” of which the British Communists, whose offices are raided and their editor jailed, are accused of? The Workers Weekly, the British Communist or- gan, called upon soldiers not to serve against strikers! That is a crime in the eyes of this govern- CALVIN COOLIDGE OR “KAUTIOUS KAL” “Cal” is in- clined to si- lence and as you may see he can see very little with the left eye. He will be at the DAILY WORKER Picnic next Sunday in Riverview Park—by proxy. One ‘of the favorite out door sports will be estab- lishing friend- ly relations with “Cal's” right eye. The means of con- tact will be fast moving spheroids re- sembling those used by base- ball players, but not #0 hard that they may not injure the wood. ment of the Second International! That is sedition in the eyes of Ram- Say MacDonald and his labor gov- ernment! There is no doubt that calling upon soldiers not to shoot down strikers is a crime and sedition. Crime and sedition against capi- talism and the capitalist class. Mac- Donald, the leader of the Second International, MacDonald, the head of the labor government, rushes to the rescue of capitalism against the seditious Communist who don’t want soldiers to shoot down strik- ers. MacDonald thereby shows the labor government, and the Second International in its true tolors— the bulwark of capitalism against the revolutionary workers. For American labor this event is @ warning. The followers of La- Follette hail him as the Ramsay MacDonald of the United States. Let the workers of this country take warning from the German and Brit- ish example showing the role of the Scheidemanns, the Ramsay Mac- Donalds, the Labor party, the Social- ists, the supporters of the Second International, Do we need our Ram- say MacDonald in office to prove that he, too, will call the workers’ struggle against capitalism a “orime” and “sedition.” The Communists fought with the workers against the Noske-Schel« demann defenders of the capital- ists. The Communists are espous- ing the c: of the British strikers against Ramsay MacDonald's sol- diers. The\Communists of the Unit- ed States are fighting the struggle of the workers against its American betrayer—LaFollette. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, William Z. Foster, Chairman. C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive jeretary. RIVERVIEW RAIN OR SHINE August 10th --- Sunday Press Picnic Day Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL COMMUNIST TICKET IN 1 Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents 0 STATES PUTTING THE WORKERS PARTY TICKET ON BALLOT IN SEVERAL IMPORTANT STATES HAS BEGUN By C. E. RUTHENBERG Exécutive Secretary, Workers Party. The National and District organizations of the Workers Party are learning thru concrete experiences how the world- famous American “democracy” works. This experience is being gained in the effort to place the Workers Party candidates on the ballot in the various states, so that the workers who support the revolutionary views of the Communists may have thé opportunity to demonstrate that sup- for any other but the ruling capitalist parties to put their candidates on the ballot. All sorts of ostacles, in the form of legal requirements are part of the election laws—obstacles which are in- tended to prevent minorities from ex- pressing their will and to prevent them from fighting for the support of the voters during election campaigns. $10,000 Democracy in New York In New York State the lawmakers have expressed their views of “demo- cracy” in an election law which re quires that a new party wishing to put candidates on the ballot must se- cure 12,000 signature, 50 of which must come from each county in the state. Obliging businessmen who are engaged in the business of helping along “de- mocracy” offer to secure these neces- sary signatures for the sum of $10,000. In other words, in order to enjoy the democratic right of participating in the elections in New York State a minority party also needs $10,000. more than 20,000 signatures for a new party to place its candidates on the ballot, Another, expression of the un- excelled American “democracy.” Fifteen States to Go Over, In spite of all the difficulties put in fight against the parties of the capital- ist dictatorship, the Workers Party will be able to place its candidates on the ballot in a large number of states. Work is now underway in Mass- achussetts and Rhode Island in the New. England group of states and Foster apd Gitlow, as well as the state tickets will go on the ballot in these states. In New York state, in spite of the almost insuperable obstacles, the party is throwing itself into the work and there is a good chance of winning out. In Connecticut and New Jersey the party candidates will be on the ballot. Special Work in Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania the Steel Trust is making an effort to drive the Workers Party underground through prosecu- tions under the sedition laws for mem- bership in the party. To meet this situation an extraordinary effort will be made to put the party on the ballot in that state. Some 5,600 signatures are required to accomplish. Petitions are in circulation and both the eastern and western party district organiza- tion in the state are putting their energies into the work. West Virginia makes it easy for a new party to nominate, requiring only a convention and the W. P. will go on in that reactionary state. The Ohio comrades have their petition out and are working hard for the 20,000 sig- natures in that state. Nominations in Michigan are assured, as the only re- quirement is a state convention. In Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin conventions have been held or are in process of organization and petitions will soon be in the field. In the State of Minnesota the party is nominating presidential electors only, supporting the Farmer-Labor Party so far as the state and local ticket is concerned and the 2,000 sig- natures required will be secured, The Party will also have its state and national ticket in the field in North Dakota, Another agricultural state in which there will be a Communist cohimn is Iowa where work has begun with good prospects of success, In the Rocky Mountain territory the W. P. will endeavor, to be on the ballot in Colorado apd on the Pacific slope in Washington and California, Altogether the prospects are bright for the Workers Party ticket going over, 80 far as representation on the ballot is coricerned in fifteen of the most important states of the union, which will. be no mean achievement for a first effort to place a national ticket in the field, In the state of Ohio the law requires | the way of a new party entering the | port by voting for Communist candidates. It seems that the lawmakers in the various their utmost to make it difficult * = ates have done ANGLO-SOVIET PACT REACHED BY CONFERENCE Britain Surrendered to Moscow (Special to the Daily Worker.) LONDON, August 6.—M. Ra- kovsky, head of the Soviet Rus- sian delegation to the Anglo- Russian conference, informed the DAILY WORKER’S news service this afternoon that an agreement between Russia and England has been signed. Formal “arinowncenient had been made Tuesday that the |Anglo-Russian conference had |broken down and that the Rus- sians were returning to Mos- |cow immediately. This afternoon, in the House of Commons, John Robert Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, and leader -of the House of Commons, made an announcement which seemed to indicate that an agreement had been reached between the Russians and British and that a treaty had been signed. Foreign office officials were then consulted, but they denied that a treaty had been signed. Later, M. Rakovsky admitted that an agreement had been reached and signed. eee Editor’s Note:—The above news y Was received at press time. Earlier news of the Anglo-Soviet negotia- tions on Page two. An editorial written after the apparent break yesterday, on Page six. ATTORNEY GENERAL PLAYS MORGAN GAME IN ANTHRACITE PROBE (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Attorney General Stone, identified as a Mor- gan lawyer when he took charge of the department of justice last spring, has shown his hand in the anthracite coal situation. He has notified Congressman John J. Rog- ers of Massachusetts that, after a careful examination, he finds no evidence that the anthracite coal industry is being conducted in viola- tion of the anti-trust or other fed- eral laws. Massachusetts republicans have protested the price gouge and arti- ficial shortage of anthracite which has been handed to New England, winter after winter, by the Morgan combine which controls this indus- try. Investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and by commit- tees of the Senate have shown that from $3 to $5 per ton in excess of a reasonable price is taken from the pockets of the consumers. Ih a pinch, the Morgan companies take much more than this. Now Stone says they are within the law, and there’s nothing Massachusetts can do about it. Send in that Subscription Today. See Page Three