The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1924, Page 2

ra Page Two BRITISH READY TO COMPROMISE WITH SOVIETS Signing of a Treaty Grows More Likely (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, August 6.—M. Ra- kovsky, Soviet representative at London, will not return to Moscow for the present. Ramsay MacDonald and A. A. W. H. Pononsby, who have been conducting the British side of the Anglo- Russian treaty negotiations, declare the case-is not closed and that they are hopeful of offering the ,Russians a compromise which they can accept. Late this afternoon the draft of a tentative treaty was said to be in the final*stages for submission to the re- spective governments. Russian rep- regentatives are holding fast to their stand against reeqgnizing any of the cpedits of the czar or Kerensky un- legs the British recognize their ob- Mgation to pay for damages caused by counterrevolutionary activities they supported. Likewise, the Russians flatly oppose any suggestion calling for the revocation of nationalization of land and industry. RAIN FAILS TO QUENCH STRIKE AT HEGEWISCH Hogan Will Speak at Big Meeting Today The strike against the Western Steel Car and Foundry company at Hegewisch is still going at full blast, the men reporting that the plant is completely tied up so far as produc- tion of cars is concerned. A meeting of the strikers, which could not be held yesterday because of the terrific rain, will be held this morning, at which Edmond Hogan, organizer for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, and others, will speak. The work of organizing the men in- to the union is proceeding system- atically and the drive is being spread thru the Calumet territory. The spir- it of the men remains unbroken, as was indicated by an incident in front of the shop yesterday. A few of the men who attempted to return to work on the grounds that they could no longer keep up their families, were Persuaded by the militant strikers to remain out until the employers had fulfilled the demands of the men for a living wage and human conditions. Edmond Hogan, who is in charge of the strike for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, maintains that the organizational results will soon be evi- dent. Outcast Russian Pauper “Prince” Picks Petty Prize LONDON, Aug. 6.—Miss Alice As- tor, 21 year old daughter of the late John Jacob Astor, and Prince Obolen: sky Neledinsky-Meletsky, dashing Rus- sian exile, were married today in a register’s office followed by a brilliant wedding in St. Phillip’s Russian church. Miss Astor recently came into a for- tune estimated between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. ‘The prince has been mar- ried before, securing a decree of di- Yorce from Princess Catherine Obolen- sky having been made absolute just a month ago. Send In that Subscription Today. CHARLES This fellow Democratic donkey in the presidential steeple chase. is harm- less when left [7 alone and would be com- pletely so but for his misfor- tune in being Bill J. Bryan's brother. ’ HERE'S WAY T0 SHOW YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR FOSTER-GIFLOW RACE (Special to The Daliv Worker) RURAL RIDGE, Pa., Aug. 6.—The workers of this vicinity sent $75 to the Workers Party campaign for Foster and Gitlow and $25 to the lo- cal office from the profits of a big picnic held here recently. The workers had anticipated having a good outside speaker come to the picnic but when none appeared they discussed the party’s political cam- paign and the industrial program among themselves. The picnic was a@ great success socially and financi- ally. LW. W. WON'T PERMIT SPLIT, STATES DOYLE Says Mealbership Will Check Disruption (By The Federated Press.) That no split in the ranks of the In- dustrial Workers of the World will fol- low the temporary disagreement be- tween ‘the two groups at the head- quarters is the statement of general secretary-treasurer Tom Doyle of the organization. “The members will not stand for the disruption of our un- ion,” Doyle said, “and if we are let alone the little flurry will soon blow over.” The flurry was the suspension and subsequent ejection from the head- quarters of five members of the gen- eral executive board on charges of disruption. The suspended five re- fused to appear to answer charges. There have been informal negotia- tions looking toward reconciliation. The ousted members will remain expelled until the 1926 convention un- less the rank and file call a special convention or peace is patched up otherwise. —eengpenceeneneiae Pullman Party The city central committee of the Pullman section of the Workers Party will meet tonight and every first and third Thursday night of the month at 8 p. m. at 10701 Stephason Ave. Send In that Subscription Today. BIG SILK IS SLATED FOR NEXT TUESDAY T.U.E.L. Calls for United Support (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 6.— The Associated Silk Workers’ Union is calling all broad silk workers on strike beginning Tuesday, August 12, at 10 a. m. At a meeting of the ‘union membership two weeks ago a strike committee of 30 was elected. This committee has been very active in preparing for the strike. At the first mass meeting on July 31, arranged to bring out the silk workers of New York City and, environs, an enthusiastic crowd of over 1,500 work- ers cheered the speakers who put up a strong argument for organization and a fight against the manufacturers. Many were unabl¢ to get into the hall, so closely was it packed with workers from the mills. Big Meeting Friday Night. The next big meeting at which every silk worker, organized or unor- ganized, is urged to attend, will be held at 8 p. m. Friday, August 8, at strike headquarters in Turn Hall, at the corner of Allison and Gross sts. The Associated Silk Workers’ Union is making great efforts to or- ganize all broad, silk weavers into a compact fighting body to battle the employers on several issues. Among these are: The abolition of the three and four loom system and the enforcement of the two loom system, the enforcement of the eight-hour day, an increase of fifteen per cent in wages over the old schedule, recognition of the union, the right of the union representative to enter shops to take up grievances of the workers, a one-year agreement with either individual or associated employers. T. U. E. L. Backs Strikers. | In this fight against the silk bosses in the New York district the left AS WE By T. J. 0" ‘ (Continued from page 1) the sea. And if a Czar is fectly good head gone bad. see Frank Harris is writing rubbish against Soviet Russia for Hajdemann- “somewhere in Harris {s a disappointed egotist whose undoubted literary abil- ity did not bring him the desired re- ward either in honor or money. He When the Bol- shevists seized power Harris in 1917 regretted that there were no men of ability among them like Woodrow Wilson; that Lenin and Trotsky were judg- ment was poor has been proven by time. Wilson is today looked upon as a traitor to his principles, such as they were, and as a failure even in his chosen field of treachery. Lenin on the other hand is looked upon as the greatest revolutionary leader in history by millions of exploited and subject peoples throut the world and an inspiration to the working class in their fight to free the workers from slavery. Harris is only concerned with his own fortunes, his pleasures and the satisfaction of his epicurean Julius’ weekly from Europe.” liked both very well. mediocre. That Mr. Harris’ desires. ** A few years ago, Harris thot he made a great discovery when some W. BRYAN The Demo cratic vice presidential candidate will appear at the Dich 3%; % WORKER picnic next Sunday, when the comrades will have the opportunity in casting bullets tor him, crazy enough to risk his head in a counter- revolution it will mean another per- SEE IT FLAHERTY. wag informed him that Lenin, was really a man with luxurious physi- cal tastes and actually wore silk pa- jamas. “A man after my own heart” thot Harris. But Max Eastman had a little fun at Harris’ expense in the Liberator, and the editor of Pearson’s expressed chagrin that another editor should reply to his silly article with- out first consulting him. It is said that the principal reason for Harris’ wrath against the Soviet government was Tchitcherin’s coldness to him at Genoa. The Soviet diplomat was tod busy with important matters to bother with the befuddled wine bibbler. Bris- bane and Harris are suffering from a severe case of “sour grapes.” re William (Pussyfoot) Johnson is on his way abroad again. He sailed on the Leviathan a few days ago with such celebrities as William J. Burns, ousted head of the bureau of investi- gation of the department of justice, Countess Von Bernstoff, the American daughter-in-law of the former German ambassador to this country, and many other men and women of wealth. Pussyfoot will try to convert the Mos- lems from their prediliction to whis- key. While the “Pussyfooter” was sailing over the ocean on his dry er- rand, the prohibition agents in “dry” America were raiding the home of a relative by marriage, of William How- ard Taft. The agents found whiskey galore, but they made the mistake of their lives and the man who led the raid lost his job over it. Had he broken into the house of a working- man and captured some moonshine, he would be in line for promotion, but think of bringing discredit on one of our best families! “Another instance of class rule” do you say? en Another story of violence connected with the Ku Klux Klan comes from Niles, Ohio. The night shirt knights are very brave when they are alone But in this case they were met by an equal nim- ber of Knights of the Flaming Circle, another secret society organized to combat the Klan and give them their own medicine. It is unfortunate that workingmen should be arrayed against each other in these rival or- ganizations. It‘is also significant that while the labor fakers, the govern- ment and the socialist traitors babble about force and violence and assail Communists on that charge, that the Ku Klux Klan follows 6 violent tenor of its ways practically untouched by law and unawed by governmental force. Perhaps the big fellows feel that some day they may be able to find use for the morons of the Ku Klux Klan on a national scale as the ind of Italy found for Mus- fHE DAILY WORKER STRIKE | | Baitist LaBon PARTY Hylan Shows August READY TO CRUSH THE COMING HIINDO REVOLT CALCUTTA, Aug. 6—A warning against an impending revolution in India was sounded today by the Earl of Lytton, Governor ef Bengal, in a public speech, “An exceptionally difficult and anxious time is ahead,” sald the governor, “But we are quite strong enough to deal with the revolution- ary movement. We shall not shrink from using fearlessly and unhesitat- ingly all the weapons necessary for its defeat.” The Earl stated. he was speaking officially for the British Socialist government. ee, wing workers and members of the Trade Union Educational League are standing 100 per cent behind the strikers. The T. U. EB. L. asks that every silk worker respond to the call of the strike committee next Tues- day at 10 o'clock, and stand solid thru the fight until every demand is won, N.Y, SOCIALISTS AT SWORD POINTS WITH LAFOLLITES Special to The Daily Work: NEW YORK, Ragust’ 6-“The rela- tions between the LaFollette regulars here and the socialist party are not as regular as could be desired. The latter nomiated Dr. Norman Thomas for governor of New York State. This difference has reached the point where the socialists have an- nounced that they will remove them- selves from the LaFollette-Wheeler headquarters at 25 West 43rd Street and find a plac#, Where their presence will be more “pone Will Tak heir Dough. LaFollette is Parfectly willing to be the heir to whatever voting strength the renegade socialist party can muster. He is also willing to be the beneficiary of the collections that may be raised by the Schlesingers and Cahans and the other yellow leaders of the needle trades unjons. But when it comes to a question of allowing his candidacy to be “pol- luted” with the suggestion of “social- ism,” the Wisconsin senator draws Pe ee Tae) eT i the line pretty hard. His friends in New York are not willing to allow the socialists to get away with a clear road for the governorship in that state. sath l 2 ; Mido Re eaters Charged With Trickery. The Tammany crowd in the New York C. P. P. A. are charging the so- cialists with doing the very thing they accused the Communists of try- ing to do, that is, run the whole show. Qt course, the Tammanyites are jus- tified in their criticism. The New Leader, weekly organ of the social- ists, fequently boasted that, with their superior machinery and propaganda ability the, socialists would capture the C. P. P. A. and control it just as the Independent Labor Party in Eng- land secured control of the British Labor Party. Tammany’s labor leaders will not tolerate any such sharp practice on the part of the socialist hucksters in New York. Thinking that having a candidate for governor in the field would compel the C. P. P. A. to en- dorse their man, the socialists were jubilant and thought they had put one over on their friends, but they reck- oned without their host or counted the chickens before they were hatch- ed. They were warned that the so- cialists would not be allowed to speak for the C. P. P. A. in New York and get all the publicity, and as a first. installment of the medicine is coming to them before this campaign is over, they were summari: ly kicked out of the LaFollette- Wheeler headquarters as they were bounced from the C. P. P. A. confer- ence of New York last fall. i Worst Yet to Come, The Gompers endorsement of La- Follette does not Improve matters for the socialists. Gompers hates the very name of “socialism” and even tho the thing is now scarcely recognisable due to the punishment it has received at the hands of the socialist party, nothing short of its decapitation will satisfy the irreconcilable Sammy. ” Rumors of bad feeling between the socialists and the Tammany labor chiefs became so widespread that Hillquit got Norman Thomas to is- sue @ public statement, which shows that the apple of discord is doing its fell work. The Reverend gentleman 'o set at rest unfounded rumors, I desire to state with all emphasis that no single group is trying to ‘run the whole LaFollette campaign’ nationally or in this state, Still less are any of the elements seeking un- fair advantage over any other group in the progressive rank. We are all co-operating enthusiastically in the campaign to elect LaFollette and Wheeler... .. “It {8 the general policy of the Prog- ressive National Committee not to ex- tend its endorsement to state tickets. It has enough to do in federal mat- ters.” i Such is the position the rty finds itself in after workers in order to win gain, But it seems about the it has gocompliahed is to wa Days of Political Lapdogs Are Here By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. i Liskedehe Mayor Hylan, of New York City, offers the star- tling information that the United States government will hot guarantee the proposed loan to Germany under the Morgan-Dawes plan. “Hardly,” says Mr. Hylan. a * * » But then we remember that these are the dog days of August, and the political dogs of capitalism are running wild everywhere. They are irresponsible. It is not what they say now, but what they do after election day in November. Morgan knows that, and he knows that every old party politician, in the next war as.in the last, will be out barking for the protection of Morgan’s loans. . cg * * * Hylan is one of Hearst's political lapdogs, and Hearst is one of America's prize jingoes. Hearst wants the United States to keep out of Europe, to avoid entangling alliances, but is always ready for war upon Mexico, or Japan, from the safe retreat of his own editorial sanctums. Hearst fought , the last war in Europe, thru his papers, and he will be side by side with Morgan in the next European war, strings of flags waving on the first pages of all his sheets. Considering all these facts, we cannot but conclude that Mr. Hylan must have the political rabies, or he wouldn't froth at the mouth and emit nonsense to the following effect: “The plan of the international bankers appears to shift the burden of German teparation collection to the shoulders of American investors. “Is the United States government to guarantee such repayment? HARDLY. Therefore, would it not be,advisable to publicly advise American investors that loans advanced thru the international bankers under the proposed Dawes-Morgan plan will not have the army and navy of the United States to insure the collection of such loans.” * = * * J Such innocence is unbecoming in one who lives as close to Wall Street as does Mr. Hylan. But we do not believe that Mr. Hylan still has a knee-pants brain. He knows what he is saying. He thinks it is good dope to poison the minds of the voters who want to be duped into maintaining their allegiance to the political parties of capitalism, and to vote for them in November. * * * * Mr. Hylan is a democrat. The national democratic con- vention in Madison Square Garden endorsed the League of Nations and the Dawes plan. Morgan's attorney, Mr. Davis, is the democratic candidate for president. _ PENT: The League of Nations plank in the democratic plat- form was written by Owen D. Young, co-partner with “Hell ’n Maria” Dawes, republican vice-presidential candidate, in drawing up the Dawes plan. Mr. Young is to be general reparations agent, that is, go-between for Germany in handing over the loot demanded of her by France and the other “victorious” nations in the _last war. And Young is Morgan's man. a ca * * Coolidge is openly in favor of the Morgan-Dawes plan. Doesn't Mr. Hylan even read the daily papers? Coolidge is openly in favor of Mr. Morgan selling seve- ral hundred million dollars worth of German bonds to Amer- ican investors, at a good commission, and Coolidge knows that the main purpose of the U. S. army and navy is to make good on those Morgan loans. Be aes Hylan spills the beans completely and makes himself look as ridiculous as one of Hearst's craziest comics when he says: “If | remember correctly President Wilson, during the early part of his first term, notified certain international bankers that if a loan of some $60,000,000 were made to one of the foreign governments, the employment of the army and navy of the United States would not be permitted under any circumstances to enforce ultima’ ollection.” But, if Mr. Hylan will take the trouble to récall, it was in the early = of his second administration that President Wilson led the U. S. army and navy, under Morgan's dollar flag, across the Atlantic Ocean to fight for the loans of Wall Street, especially those made to the British and French gov- ernments. * * * * There was one loan, however, that Morgan has never been able to collect. That was Morgan's loan made to the last Russian czar. Morgan will not collect that loan because a Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic rules over all the Russias. We take this opportunity of informing Mr. Hylan, and all the political fakers allied with him, if they do not know it already, that only a Red Army and a Red Navy of an American Workers’ Republic will refuse to advance against a foreign nation in order to collect the loans of J. Pierpont Morgan and other Wall Street financiers, ' dust as long as capitalism lasts in the United States, and a capitalist government sits enthroned in Washingto! just so long will the army and navy of the United Sta government, of which the president is the commander-in- chief, be used to uphold the pillars of capitalism. These illars stand on pretty weak foundations right now thru the fability of Western European capitalism to pay its debts to American capitalism. J The Dawes plan means that American millionaire in- vestors, not the workers, are to make possible a loan of several hundred millions of dollars to Germany, so that Germany can meet her reparations i. to France, so that French capitalism can be stabilized, and perhaps pay some of the billions of dollars of debt the French owe to the U. S, treasury at Washington, and to the House of Morgan. It is capitalism's last chance. It is a vicious circle of crazy diplomats and financiers now meeting in London and trying to save capitalism from the chaos of the last war. It is inconceivable that the workers of Western Europe will much longer endure their agonies under this insane scheme of madmen. Western European labor will lift itself out of its despair and thru its own strength establish its own ‘rule. In that hour America’s workers must not allow the cle lings fee avy to be used in an effort to keep the wo | Europe longer enslaved to the House rgane Thursday, August 7, 1924 MILLIONAIRE BOY MURDERERS SCORN WORKERS Selfish Slayers’ Only Interest Is Ego Nathan Leopoid, Jr., and Richard Loeb, slayers of the Franks boy, have never worked for a wage, and are not inter- ested in “social uplift,” as Leo- pold termed Communism, they told the DAILY WORKER re- porter yesterday in an exclusive interview in the Cook county jail. Leopold believes in the Sa- murai philosophy, which com- bines a disdain for women with a hedonistic pleasure-seeking, he told the DAILY WORKER. “Socialism: is in conflict with my philosophy,” Leopold said, “and I am not interested in it. Economics ‘is not in my-line. I took one minor course in eco- nomics: at the University, but am not at all interested in it.” No Interest In Workers. When asked if he did not think it unfair that his father’s employes are working under trying conditions for $12 and $15 a week in the Leopold Paper mill in Morris, Illinois, while the Leopold family is squandering the Wealth piled up by these employes, Leopold replied, “I refuse to answer on advice of counsel, but I assure you I am not at all interested in social uplift. I believe that each in- dividual should take care of himself.” Leopold took great pleasure in talk- ing about his own education and in- tellectual attainments, but when the conversation shifted to the economic structure of society Leopold invari- ably answered, m not intérested, that’s not my line.” Never Worked, Richard Loeb admitted that “I may have done a little work occasionally, but I never had a regular job. I never worked for wages. Loeb and Leopold meet the report- ers in the morning in the “bull pen” or exercise yard. This is an inner room with a cement floor. The pris- oners walk around in a small circle, double file, getting their morning ex- usual jail attire with a sleeveless undershirt. Leopold wore no coat and wore a cap with the peak turned to the back. The air of both boys is one of flippant bravado. Despite their freakish attire Loeb aid Leo- pold appear much less forlorn than the regular prisoners, The reporters for the Chicago cap- italistic papers were afraid that the DAILY WORKER reporter would “crab” the morning interview. They insisted that he see Leopold first. “We are just after feature stuff,” one capitalist reporter said. “Leopold probab! I has a grudge against the DAILY WORKER and if we go in with you Leopold may get sore and refuse to talk. We just want to kid with the boys.” The slayers are highly pleased at all the attention they are getting. Their cells are littered with newspa- pers. “The DAILY WORKER is that radical newspaper, isn’t it?” Leopold asked. “Do they say anything about us?” “New Angle.” Leopold asked what the DAILY WORKER thot of him. When told that it considered him as a represen- tative of the idle rich, born into a fam- ily of labor exploiters, he said, “Well, that’s all right, that’s a new angle on the case. Send me some of the pa- pers, will you. The other papers have |not touched on that phase yet.” — Loeb and Leopold seemed so taken up with themselves—glorying in their childish philosophies and the glamour of the publicity accorded them, that they could not consider the case ex- cept as it feeds their selfish egoes. “The individual is the most import- ant thing in the world to himself,” said Leopold. Then, evidently anx- ious to create a favorable impression for his case, he added, “Of course there are certain laws of society which the individual must obey or society will decay.” Leopold smiled as he said this, seeming to take a de- light in his absurd inconsistency. _ He spoke of a book by Wasserman which described the capitalist class. “You ought to be interested in that,” Leopold said. “But what's your point. What: mor- al do you draw from the story of the class nature of society?” he was asked, Leopold again avoided dis- cussion of economics by smilingly an- swering, “Am I the one to draw a moral? I never draw morals.” Leo- pold said this with the same gran- diose air of the meretricious soldier in Shaw's play “Arms and the Man.” He considers his “superior” intellect above all inconsistencies, moralities and laws of evolution and revolution, RIVERVIEW RAIN OR SHINE August 10th -- Sunday | ' f i