The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD ‘FOR A WORKERS AND ‘FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT. 1 Vol. Il. No. 121. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE / Entered as Second-class matter September 3] In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. wal BIG SILK his state? The vicious in demoer: ; tacks the Communists? More than that, against the courts. ists and the unorganized? series of articles beginning August 11th. make a thoro surve States. the first to the last. COURTS PERSECUTE WORKERS IN STATE LAFOLLETTE RULES; SEE JAY LOVESTONE'S SERIES AFOLLETTE’S high-sounding slogan for the coming campaign will be “Drive Special Privilege out of Con- trot of Government and Restore it to the People.” This has been the battle-cry of LaFollette and his followers in Congress and in Wisconsin for years. has “Battling Bob” done to fight the big business inter- ests? What has the Wisconsin senator done to disturb the-profits of the big open-shop corporations operating in entleman from Wisconsin has been rather is denunciation of the Communists as enemies of “democracy” and of law and order, is Mr. LaFollette talking about when he at- WHERE LaFOLLETTE IS\ BOSS. ‘Nhat. has this democracy brought the workers in the “Model Commonwealth” of Wisconsin where LaFollette is the unchallenged big political boss r. LaFollette has been raving Exactly what has this raving on the part of LaFollette meant to the workingmen when it was translated into action In Wisconsin? What have the , working men and women of this state been saying about ~ LaFollette’s courts in their treatment of the trade union- These and many other questions dealing with the policies and activities of LaFollette’s entire political life will be.answered in the most authoritative fashion in the MOSES GETS LOOKING OVER. Jay Lovestone, who will tell the story of LaFollettism sis to Revelation, has had an opportunity to of the activities and a first-hand study of the independent self-styled Moses now seeking to mislead the working and farming masses of the’ United Place your special order now. Get these stories into the hands of your shop mates and friends. that every member of your union reads these articles from 0 your bit for the Communist cam- paign. Get on the job and rush in your double order today. What What sort of in the DAILY WORKER of Make sure SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO CHINA RAPS HUGHES’ POLICY OF U. S. IMPERIALISTS RUNNING WORLD ‘(Resta News) PHKING.—(By, Mail.) —With reference to reports from Washington showing that the American government is dissatis- fied with China’s last note regarding the Chinese Hastern Rail- ‘way, the correspondent of the Rosta News Agency had an inter- view With Mr. L. M. Karakhan. ' “Mr. Hughes has evidently decided to punish China,”— remarked the Soviet plenipotentiary representative,—“so that he jis:now against a preliminary customs tariff conference, he ad- ;vises France not to raitfy the Washington agreements and, lastly, ne UNITED STAVES WILL GO AFTER ITS CREDITORS (Qpeolatrto The DAILY WORKER) IGTON, Aug. 7.—Aggressive debt collecting campaign will be launched by the United States as soon aga settlement has been in it was learned of- here today. object of the campaign will be the eollection or fi of the $6,000,- 000,000 still outstanding as a result of loans made by the United States to its Buropean allies during the war. Witt Demand Dough. The administration, officiale-declared will enter into no ne ons with 1 hanes a fect changes in présent ofytheir billions of seaevinigets. “to establish a with the British agreement as a precedent. has reached the State to make representations to itted States forthe cancellation part the $4,000,000,000 French There has been some talk in England concelling the French debt to Great tain, but MacDonald is said to feel that the United States should join him in this cancellation with a view to ef- . tecting a Peyote et hse debt agreement low up work of the Lowdon reparations conference, See Page —————*because of China taking such a liberty of conduct, he proposes to revise the entire Chinese policy of the U. 8. A. And, as all things evil in the world orig- inate with the Bolshevists, Mr. Hughes wishes at one and the same stroke to chastise the Soviet Government and, because of the evil influence it has on China, he has decided not to recog- nize it. Soviets Outlive Others, » the Soviet Government quite calmly the present (Continued on Page 4.) Germany Swallows Allied Penalties In Case of Default LONDON, Aug. 7.—The allied coun- cil of fourteen of the reparations con- ference this afternoon reached an agreement with the Germans upoff the first clause of the report of the committee dealing with procedure to be taken in event Germany is charged with defaulting her obligations under the Dawes’ plan. No changes were made in the report of the committee as published, Rysela-Per: MOSCOW, Aug. if jet Socialist Republics. RIVERVIEW Press Picnic Day BOOST COMMUNIST PRES FRIDAY, A Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chiéago, IL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents ; ~ AND CLOTHING STRIKES The Daily Worker Outing Sunday THOUSANDS T0 GATHER AT BIG PRESS PICNIC Riverview Park the Place Next Sunday One hundred Workers Party members will be at the gates of Riverview Park selling tickets for the various attractions at the Press Picnic which will be held at Riverview Park this Sunday. These tickets not only admit the bearer to the park, but entitle him to a reduced rate on all the regular attrac- tions in Riverview Park. One of the most interesting attractions at the Press Picnic will be the “presidential come- dy,” where the supporters of the Workers Party press will be}_ given a chance to show what they think of the capitalist old party presidential candidates. Those who attend the picnic should be careful to patronize only the Work- as there will be other booths on the grounds which are). not connected with the party picnic. Signs will be posted on the Workers ers Party refreshment booths, Riverview Park Party booths. In addition to thes booths, food will be served in the ex- oa but no matter how they vote cellent dining room. Attractions have been arranged by the various language papers, of spe- cial interest to the foreign branche: A large modern dance floor, com- bined with a seven-piece ochestra, will furnish entertainment for patrons of the terpsichorean art. In addition, the satisfaction of hitting the presiden- tial candidates in the nose, the speech of C. E. Ruthenberg, executive sec- retary of the Workers Party, the re- freshments and concessions on the attractions, are expected to combine to make the Press Picnic the biggest Workers All profits go to the DAILY WORKER other Riverview Park Party get-together in years. and other party papers. Garvey Denies Charges. NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 7.—Mar- cus Garvey, President of the Univer- sal Negro Improvement Association, Federal Judge Mc- yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with perjury in having sworn falsely to his income tax return for 1921, He appeared before Clintic, was held in $2,500 bail. POLISH REACTIONARIES CONTINUE TO HARASS SOVIET RUSSIA ENVOYS (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, Aug. 7.—Considerable indignation is expressed in Moscow over the continued interference of the Polish government with Soviet consuls and trade agents. The Pol- ish secret police are daily discover- ing plots and conspiracies much af- ter the fashion of t American William J. Burns. Poland is carry- ing on this pin pricking policy for- tifled by the knowledge that she has the backing of the capitalist gov- ernments who, while outwardly Pressing a desire for friendly rela- tions with the Soviet Republic are secretly fostering conspiracies in the border states against the Work- ers Republic, Members of the Soviet legation have been arrested by Polish police charged with. distributing ‘Strike /lit. “erature. Of course all this is of the same pattern as the famous Berlin raid on the Soviet embassy which finally resulted in Germany eating crow. Poland will be obliged to swallow something more unpalat- able unless the rulers of that coun- try mend their ways. The Work- ers’ Republic will not forever toler- ate such unfriendly conduct. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. SILK WORKERS TO VOTE STRIKE IN PATERSON Big Meeting Tonight of All Workers (Special to the Daily Worker.) PATERSON, N. J., August 7. —Thousands of silk workers are expecting to met in Turn Hall tomorrow night and vote for a strike to give the silk workers of this city and vicinity a real union organization. The Associated Silk Workers’ Union lering the trouble union workers|has been most active in pre- had during the past years with/| paring for this strike and_will Haplss issued by Democratic and|¢onduct the meeting in Turn ICHOLAS Murray Butler, presi- M dent of the Columbia (goose- University; was once an ardent of Mussolini, who boasted of trampled over the putrid car- of democracy, is now on the war for democracy and expresses. the that unless her friends rally to d, Miss Democracy will die un- and perhaps not unhung. struggles are raising the devil } democracy says Butler, and whe- f democracy can survive the attack become one of the most supreme problems of the day. Democ- means the rule of the majority ther they be right or wrong Says ofessor, government for and by governed, and political equality peoples. So that is what democ- is. You would never realize it blican administrations in behalf Hall, corner of Allison and fa very small minority that runs this Gross Streets . But that kind of thing 3 us es Mr, Butler cold. The demands of the silk 33° se * workers are as follows: 1. Formation of a strong union. 2. Abolition of the 4 loom sys- tem and substitution of 2 loom sys. tem. . Butler does not consider it at variance with his definition of acy that a few bankers are now r in London hatching agreements ’ Europena governments, that are} 3+ Shour day. fi Pipetioned by ae Coolidge administra-| 4 Abolition of discrimination tion without the consent of the Amer-| @8@inst the union and its members. “people”. The bankers are the 5. Increase of 15 percent in ment today and Mr. Butler) Wages. is it. ‘The “people” don’t count 6. Recognition of the union. never did count. It is true that} 7. Right of any representative of four years they vote for a pres-| the uiion to enter factories con~ trolled by union to settle controver- who own the country and the) sies. "s wealth-producing machinery Tun the govérnment. That is as it should be according to capitalist ethics. -. Strike Well Planned, The Associated Silk Workers have been holding meetings for the purpose of planning the strike since July 31. It is trying to organize all the work- ers in the industry into a real fighting body. At first it was announced that the strike would be called for next Tues- day, Aug 12, but it is probably that the actual call will be given tomor- row night. se OFESSOR Butler does not object to this perversion of what has become known as democracy, which is really a fetish nurtured by’ the bourgeoisie in order to blind the masses to the not so obvious dictator- ship of capitalism. What dogs the heels of 7 ps ica oe oe 1913 Strike. beste Hig eaten kaw Lek the false} This is the first big struggle of the veil of the \harlot face of capitalist|silk weavers against their bosses democracy and ushered in the new| since the strike of 1913. That battle democracy, the rule of the workers|lasted for five and one-half months thru their advance guard, the Com-|and was the second only to the great munist Party. Mr. Butler tho a reac-| Lawrence textile strike in intensity. tionary is no fool and he sees thisform|The workers did not officially win of government becoming universal in|their demands largely because of out- the not far distant future. Therefore;side eonditions, but when they re- he beats the tom-tom for democracy,|turned to work wages were somewhat but industrial evolution is shoving | higher. even the semblance of democracy} Paterson is the most important silk aside and the social revolution will|textile center, altho there are large drop it into the discard all over the| mills thruout eastern Pennsylvania. world as it did in Russia. Mussolini’s|These mills, in many of which wives brand of dictatorship has become ajand daughters of the anthracite coal cropper. The world moves but not|miners work, were not on strike. The backward. year of 1913 was also a year of de- pression like 1924, which worked against the silk weavers. T. U, E. L. To Help. The Associated Silk Workers union has made a great effort to plan this strike well and get the workers to act as a fighting unit. The sentiment for the strike is splendid, partly be- cause there has been no fight recently and because conditions in the silk a UDGE Cohalan, a rather wise Irish- American politician, in announc- ing his support of the LaFollette can- didacy, stated that in the event of the independent ticket not being in a Position to secure a majority of the electoral votes, LaFollette would be able to make a satisfactory deal with Coolidge. Many of Bob's supporters will resent this suggestion, but Mr. Cohalan is an old and practical politi-|mills have been getting steadily cian and he usually knows what he is | worse. talking about. There is no bitterness} The Trade Union Educational League of the militant workers in every industry is backing the textile strike to the limit and urges all silf workers to be present at the meeting Friday night at 8 p. m., in Turn Hall to hear and help decide the course of the strike. The T. U. B. L. of New York also is arousing the silk workers near the city to co-operate with the Paterson workers in this big fight. among the higher-up LaFollites to- ward the silent little fellow in the White House. It may develop during the heat of the campaign but so far, no hints of wrong doing, nothing ex- cept general conservativeness has been charged against the present White House incumbent. Now “Bob's” son, and heir to his reputation, has assured Coolidge that his father's (Continued on page 3.) COST OF FOOD KEEPS GOING UP WHILE UNEMPLOYMENT IS GROWING (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The retail cost of food is on the up grade, fourteen cities reporting increases during July, while five cities noted a decline, the Department of Labor announced today, Indianapolis reported the largest increase, amounting to 3 per cent during the month. Milwaukee reported 3 per cent, while Peoria repo a1 per cent increase. SIOK SOLON SEES PERIL TO NATION I BRYAN CANDIDACY BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 7.— From Naghant, the summer home of the sacred codfish, a warning note was sounded against the possibility that the topsy-turvy political situation might send Charlies W. Bryan to the White House. The prophet of calamity was none other than Henry Cabot Lodge who is recover- ing from an operation. Lodge says it is possible (Coolidge may not re- ceive a majority of the electoral vote and the election may be thrown Into the congress. GUNMEN EVICT MINE. FAMILIES IN W. VA. WAR Miners Suffer While Davis Lies (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 7.—The coal baron backers of John W. Davis, who will for- mally “accept” his nomination for president by the Democrats on Monday at his home here, are cracking up another reign of terror in the West Virginia mine fields. Hundreds of pri- vate gunmen have been hired to evict miners and their fam- ilies forcibly from company houses. Meanwhile Davis allows the false pretense of his “friendli- ness” to labor to be widely published altho it is based on the black lie that he “defended” Mother Jones and Eugene V. Debs in a previous mine war in West Virginia. | Feeling of the workers is running high against the forced evacuation of their homes along Campbell creek, in the Kanawa coal fields, in Wini- frede, Coalsburg, Perryville, Hanley, and other towns. The miners refuse to work under the modified 1917 agree- ment which has been posted as the new wage scale. Raid Winifrede. Percy Tetlow, president of district 17, United Mine Workers of America, told of the raid on Winifrede, saying that “a band of armed men recruited | by a detective agency in Charleston| and employed by coal operators ap-| peared in the village—heavily armed with high-powered rifles pistols, and} had several bloodhounds in their pos-| session. They swept into this peace- ful village in high-powered motor cars and proceeded by force to empty the household effects of two miners and their families into the streets.’ The employment of private gunmen in West Virginia is forbidden. Only state commissioned “guards” may be used by the coal operators, according to the law. However, the state is usually willing to deputize such agents as the coal barons hire, Scores Suffer. Bors have come from numerous other towns of scores of miners’ families who have been forcibly eject- ed from company houses on one pre- text or another. Thirty-three families were bodily thrust into the street with all their possessions in Hanley. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, conferred with Governor E. F. Morgan of West Vir- ginia, but apparently his conversa- tion did not stop the raids upon the miners’ homes. Norman Thomas and Charles Solo- mon, socialist candidates for governor and lieutenant governor of New York, wired protests to Governor Morgan and to John W. Davis, democratic 12,000 CLOTHING WORKERS STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA Amalgamated Declares Sweatshops Must Go (Special to The Daily Worker} PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 7. —The unorganized tailors on men's suits have joined the members of the Amalgamated ; Clothing “Workers in their strike against the wage cuts which the bosses have ordered. ' The strike of the Amalgamated began with great enthusiasm yesterday morning when 12,000 workers walked out of the shops at 9 a. m. A tremendous meeting was held in Fund Music Hall after the strikers had marched out of the shops and down the streets encouraging other non- union workers to follow them. Strikers’ Demands. President Sidney Hillman addressed the meeting of the strikers The demands of the strikers were re- stated amid great applause. The workers ask for the closed shop; in- creases of 15 to 20 per cent in wages; elimination of home work; more sani- tary conditions in the shops; an un- employment fund such\as was won in New York and Chicago; co-ordination of production; no discrimination against union members; freedom of union cOmmittee to meet the employ- ers’ committee to discuss conditions and settle disputes as well as to inspect the shops. Many of the workers on strike are Italians and are closely following the left wing point of view as expressed in “IL Lavoratore,” the Communist Italian daily published in Chicago. The Trade Union Educational League members and sympathizers are active in the organization and support of the strike, while the DAILY WORK- ER is being widely sold among the workers who are out. Workers Party members in the strike are excused from all other par- ty activities while the struggle con- tinues. te Strike Logical Step. The Philadelphia strike is the logical step following the adoption of the following resolution at » previous (Continued on page 2) WEALTHY KILLERS ARE STILL RICH; WORKERS PAY BILLS OF TRIAL The “millions for the defense” of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb have not been spent yet, but the parents are getting worried about the “ostentatious display of “high priced medical testimony.” Three alienists at $250 per day have al- ready testified of the rich youths’ peculiarities to save them from hanging. A dozen expert psychiatrists have been employed by the defense to make their case of mental dis- ease for the boys. The trial has non for twelve days; the alien- ists examined the boys for a period of almost twelve days apiece. At $250 a day that means about $72,000 has already been spent for the alienists. The DAILY WORKER predicted that much more than the paltry $15,000 which Harry K. Thaw spent on alienists would be spent by these who got their money from the slaving workers in Sears-Roe. nominee for president and “resident” of West Virgipia. Clem Shaver, also “resident” of West Virginia and now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, would not comment on the situation nor on the messages. DENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY GETTING NEW SUBS FOR “THE DAILY WORKER” buck and the Morris Paper Box Company. What the lawyers will get is an- other story, but they have never beer known to fail to get all they See Page Three f