The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1924, Page 2

REE bade ed SELL WORKERS TOWAR AGAIN CommunismWill Banish Wars, Manley Answers Sam Gompers’ eagerness to sell the workers again to the war lords is only further proof of the old labor faker’s adoring service to the capitalists of the United States, according to the statement issued by Joseph Manley, campaign manager of the Workers Party presidential fight. Manley answers the A. F, of L. endorsement of Mobili- zation Day with a stinging re- buke to Gompers and his ultra- yellow assistant, Matt Woll. | Manley’s statement follows: The statement given out by Matthew Woll, the right hand man of Samuel Gompers, in which he attempts to link the Communists with pacifist propaganda, is typical of the methods of Woll and his master, Gompers. Their wordy and high-falutin’ statement has but one meaning and that is: War in the interests of the capitalist elass is right and war in the interests of the working class is wrong. Deny Class War! Gompers and his spokesman Woll, have always denied the existence of the class war, or even the very exist- ence of classes themselves. When the World War was being fought, Gompers toured Europe in an attempt to drive thé European weak kneed socialist pa- cifists onto his war juggernaut that he assured us times without number would make the world safe for the democracy of his late friend Wilson— the same Wilsoh whom he induced to come to the Buffalo convention of the A. F. of L., so that even the mildest criticism of the World War could not be made. He tried to commit the trade unions to join in the terrible slaughter. Open Shop Reward. In return for the treacherous role played by Gompers during the war, when he hobngbbed with the militar- ists of the world, while the workers of America were either fighting abroad in the war of capitalism or at home on strike fighting the’ war of their class, Gompers’ policy and tac- tics were rewarded with the famous after-the-war open shop drive, which dealt a death blow to many of his unions. Gompers, now. in his old age by the shores of the Atlantic, frefuses to change because he has always fought for his capitalist masters, against those militant workers who were will- ing if necessary to give up their lib- erty and their lives, so that militarism and its parent, Capitalism, might be destroyed. Gompers has given a lefthanded en- dorsement to LaFollette. But on the question of Mobilization Day he faith- fully answers the call of his master Coolidge. Gompers knows that his friend Secretary Hughes is in Lon- don. Hughes, in company with Mor. gan, the finance capitalist of the world, representing all the forces of American imperialism. Gompers knows that a-new war may be necessary to collect the Eu- ropean debts of Imperialist America. True to the interests of his masters, and on the brink of the grave, he sits in his wheel chair ready again to hurl millions of young men to death and torture. Gompers knows that against such war the Communists will fight, Gompers and Woll condemn the Communists as the leading pacifists. Yes, they may well tremble at the Mame of Communism. Communism will ‘set the world free from all war when Gomperism is in ite grave. Send in that Subsoription Today. ‘be found on page five. OF AIR SERVICE QuIzZ GETS WHITEWASH READY WASHINGTON, August 7.— The Coolidge government has had its fill of investigation and those that it can- not avoid must be conducted in “a ladylike manner” judging from the statement issued by Representative Florian Lampert, from the LaFollette State of Wisconsin, chairman of the committee to investigate the govern- ment air service. This investiga- tion will not be finished until next March declared Lampert and has no political significance. If the publicity given out by this |committee is an indication of its state of mind, the verdict will not be unfav- Jorable to the air service. The “ex- perts” will have a nice time trotting around the country at government ex- pense, and the military leaders will tell them what is good for them to know. 12,000 CLOTHING WORKERS STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA Amalgamated Declares Sweatshops Must Go (Continued from page 1) mass meeting of Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ members: WHEREAS, intolerable conditions exist in the men’s clothing industry of Philadelphia, practically all con- cerns sending unfinished work into homes of poverty-stricken workers to be completed under miserable sweatshop conditions such as existed a@ decade ago in the industry: and WHEREAS, such conditions are not only a menace to the public health and welfare but also are un- dermining the protective standards for clothing workers that have been established in other clothing mar- kets after years of struggle and sacrifice on the part of the workers; nd WHEREAS, the émployers in this market are taking advantage of the present depression in the clothing industry to enforce wage reductions on workers who, by reason of the existing unstable seasonal condi- tions in the industry, already re- ceive an annual wage far below the minimum required to properly sup- port themselves and their families; and WHEREAS, these intolerable con- ditions have been the subject of dis- cussion by the Joint Executive Boards of the various Locals af- filiated with the Philadelphia Joint Board and by the shop chairmen of the various branches of the in- dustry in meeting assembled; there- fore be it RESOLVED, that we, members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in mass meeting as- sembied, this 22nd day of July, 1924, authorize our officers and representatives to arrange a confer- ence with the employers in this market for the purpose of offering a peaceful adjustment, if possible, of existing grievances and unsatis- factory conditions and for securing proper assurances that there will be no wage cuts and that work will be sent to Union shops only and also that as soon as possible there ‘will be established a Board of Sani- tary Confrol composed of represent- atives of both employers and work- ers for the purpose of safeguard- ing public health thro proper sani- tary conditions, etc., in the shops where work is made up, minimum wage scales, regulation of produc- tion and a system of Unemployment Insurance; and be it further RESOLVED, that we hereby vote full power and authority to the of- ficers of the Organization to take any steps that they may deem neces- sary in order to effectively protect our interests. oe Rs Editor's Note—An early story of events leading up to the strike will &, CLEVELAND READERS, ATTENTION! CLEVELAND Daily Worker Picnic SUNDAY, AUGUST 10th Sports — Games — Dancing — Speaking At RUSSICK’S FARM Take West 25th St. car to end, then State Road car to end. COME OLD AND YOUNG. DON'T MISS THIS BIG EVENT. CARMEN’S UNION GAINS HEADWAY Hegewisch Strikers In Stronger Position By BARNEY MASS. “Work in promoting a local in Hegewisch of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Rail- way Carmen is_ progressing rapidly and we intend to do the same in every factory in this territory,” said Organizer E, K. Hogan yesterday after a suc- cessful meeting with the West- ern Steel Car Foundry com- pany employes. The position of the striking car men, has strengthened con- siderably and the prospects of the workers look brighter. Hogan opened the daily strike meet- ing and explained to the men that the steel interests are planning big de- velopments of the industry in the Cal- umet region, owing to the inducement of low wages and no’ organization. The only way the open shop interests can be beaten, said Hogan, will be thru organization offering higher pay for the car makers, and -controlling the speed up system. Hogan reprimanded the men who were accepting work in other shops for a scale and showed them the in- consistency of their acts. The strik- ers applauded Hogan enthusiastically. McCarthy, Mass Speak. Jack McCarthy of the Trade Union Educational League followed and stressed the importance of the men in confining all their discussion on the strike to the meetings. McCarthy said, nothing should be mentioned on the streets as many company stool pigeons are sneaking around looking for all information to be had. He al- so showed the role which the T. U. E. L. is playing in the strike. The writer speaking for the Young Workers’ League pointed out the ne- cessity oP getting the women folk in- to the fight as the miners have done in all their struggles. Hammond Meeting Saturday. An important meeting will be) held tomorrow at East Hammond at Stro ble’s Hall, Columbia and Morton Ave- nues, ta rally the workers of the Standard Company. We are now mak ing preparations to call a meeting at Pullman, in support of the fight tc unionize the whole Calumet district. FARMER-LABOR SECRETARY TRIED TO HALT SAM (Special to The DAILY WORKER) ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 7.—The en- treaties of William B. Wilson, former Secretary of Labor, were not success- ful in inducing the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to continue its allegiance to the Democratic Party, and throw its in- fluence to John W. Davis in the com- ing election. To Wait For Davis Speech. Mr. Wilson wrote to Mr. Gompers asking him not to make his decision until Davis had delivered his accept- ance speech but the organized work- ers are so disgusted with the Demo. cratic and Republican parties that had Gompers taken this advice a cy- clone would have hit him. The present attitude of the Demo- cratic Party toward labor is né™fit- ferent to what it was in the past and Sam always swallowed the ticket. What made Gompers switch his po- sition now, is not because Morgan placed his attorney at the head of the Democratic ticket, but because the C. P. P. A. stole a march on the fed- eration by stealing its non-partisan political policy, making its own of it and hanging out its shingle with as much as to say: “All those in the market for labor votes are cordially invited to come inside. The rival rm of Gompers and Co., has lost contact with its victims. We have adopted the most up-to-date methods of selling the workers, painlessly. This method is a proven success on the continent of Europe. All offers no matter how insignificant, will be courteously accepted. “(Signed) William H. Johnston.” Feared Loss of Business. The fear that the profitable busi- ness of peddling the labor vote would go to the rival house, compelled Gompers to drop his allegiance to the Democratic Party, at least for the time being. In every statement is- sued from his sick bed since LaFol- lette was endorsed, can be seen the challenge and the warning to John- ston and Company to keep off the re- servation. The A, F. of L. will in- sist on leading the workers into the LaFollette party it led them into the Democratic Party and into the World War. There was a report that the execu- tive council was divided over the question of endorsing LaFollette. RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESB PICNIC DAY, =} THE DAILY WORKER GOMPERS WILL | |omoue swan exo] |STEEL DRIVE BY CALIFORNIA WOMEN FISH GANNERS WORK FOR 75 GENTS A DAY LONG BEACH, Cal., Aug. 7.— Fish canneries of the Curtis, Half- hill and other companies at Long Beach are paying .thelr , women workers 60¢ to 75c a day at plece rates, preparing fish for canning. The conditions are reported to the Long Beach Central Labor Council as outrageous and revolting. The floors, benches and tables of the cannery are strewn with rotting and ill-emelling fish entrails and the filth smears the women and young- sters employed in filling the cans. A minister’s daughter working at the cannery was fired \for refusing to volunteer for Sunday work. When she told her fellow employes about it she was told ¢o go out im- mediately instead of working out her week and was cursed as an agitator, SOVIET TREATY VICTORY ANGERS! LLOVD GEORGE Cries Russia Won't Have to Pay © (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, August 7.—Soviet Russia’s success in the treat: negotiations. with the Briti government has aroused the wrath of David Lloyd George. The late premier of Great Bri ain, who sent invading armies into Russia in the early days of the Bolshevik regime, made an attack in the House of Com- mons on Arthur Ponsonby, British negotiator, for surren- dering to the Soviet diplomats on the issue of Czarist debts. He emphasized the fact that Russia is not obligated to pay any specific sum in return for the advantages which the treaty will secure her. Further details of the proposed treaty on which M. Rakovsky for Rus- sia and Arthur Pononsby for Great Britain have agreed, show that the sean against Russia are to 6 @ ined by a commssion on bh Russia ‘shall be represented. Russian claims against Britain are also to be scrutinized and after accord has been reached the British government ik to suarantee a substantial loan to the Russian government. Britain concedes the Soviet admin- istration the right to monopolize for- eign trade and will not press for the return of industries, nationalized dur- ing the revolution, to former British private owners. The Bolshevik rep- resentatives were adamant on this point. The fruits of the revolution could not be sacrificed for foreign loans. Before the treaty goes into effect it must be ratified by the British Par- liament and by the Moscow author- ities. Further amendments are ex- pected. FEMALE FOE OF BALLOWSHUSTLED TO NUT HOUSE Mrs. Anna Lourie of Houston, Tex., is under observation by the city psy- chopathic hospital today because she tried to intervene with Judge John R. Caverly on behalf of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, junior, slayers of the Franks boy. Mrs, Lourie ad- vised the Judge that it would be more fair and just to try the boys before a jury of Jewish rabbis. She intimated that perhaps race prejudice might in- SMALL’S GRANT PARK BANK JOINS SPRINGFIELD, ilson, Stool-Pigeon for Morgan Lawyer, Repudiated at Last By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, another so-called labor “leader” of yesterday has had the can tied to him. He is completely discredited, even in the eyes of the most reactionary “leaders” who still remain in the labor movement, chief among them Samuel Gompers himself. He is an out-cast. : His name is William B. Wilson, and he rose to promi- nence because the organized coal miners are a power in the land. From pit boy to coal miner, then from organizer to in- ternational secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, Wilson went up the ladder very rapidly. Altho jailed in Maryland, and elsewhere, because of his union activities, Wilson became respectable, was accepted into the inner circles of the democratic party, was sent to congress and then made secretary of labor in the cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson has gone the way of all other labor “leaders” who drop to the rear in the class struggle, and then seek careers.in the old political parties, if not actually in the service of the bosses. Wilson is in politics what Tom L. Lewis, former president of the United Mine Workers’ Union, is in industry. Instead of going into politics, when he was retired as president of the miners’ union, Lewis accepted a position in the service of the West Virginia mine owners, in the non-union New River fields. He has been active in fighting the growth, of the miners’ union in West Virginia, and glories in a picture he had taken of himself standing in the midst of a gang of West Virginia Cossacks, sometimes called State Constabulary. Where is the difference? Lewis serves the non-union mine owners openly. Wilson is a democratic politician. He is supporting the office boy of Wall Street, John W. Davis, democratic can- didate for president. Lewis and Wilson are both in the service of capitalism. ° * * ° Wilson had almost been forgotten. Altho prominent in the Madison Square Garden meeting of the democrats, his name did not get into the papers. Today he is on the front pages again because he wrote Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, asking him to postpone deci- sion on the A. F. of L.'s political policy until after Davis’ speech of acceptance at Clarksburg, Aug. 11th. Wilson, ex-labor “leader,” now the political stool pigeon of Wall Street, was handing out the hope that Davis, the private lawyer of James Pierpont Morgan, might have some- thing to offer to the organized labor. movement of America. Gompers had himself been in communication with Mr. Davis. At the Atlantic City meeting of the A. F. of L. ex-/ secutive council, Gompers made public the fact that he had exchanged letters and bie arg with the democratic pres- idential candidate, in the best style of the National Civic Federation. It was all in the hope that there might be a meeting between these two worthies to discuss the relations between the democratic party this year and Gompers’ A. F. of L. regime. There was to be a meeting as late as July 29th. But Davis failed to keep the rendezvous, And he wrote no more letters. But Wilson, the renegade, was thrown into the breach with a request that the Gompers officialdom withhold their campaign declaration until the Morgan lawyer, can- didate of the democrats, had spoken from his home in the midst of West Virginia's coal ezardom. ' * Howevér much he would like to do this, Gompers no doubt felt it would appear as too much of a sell-out to his Civic Federation friends. So he was kicked into his half-. hearted support of La Follette’s candidacy. The incident is important as it marks the final break of the old party politician, William B. Wilson, even with the Gompers regime. Wilson; the go-between for Morgan’s lawyer is repudiated, just as much as Tom Lewis, the agent of the scab coal barons of Davis’ home state. The day will come when all labor “leaders” who stand outside of the class party of the workers and farmers will be just as completely discarded and forgotten. In that day Gompers, and those like him, way of Wilson. will go the The Cyclone Alibi. But he has an alibi. He claimed the bank was operated in a grain shed and that a cyclone hit the building and blew away the traces of the fin- ancial institution. Leave it to Lem It is not necessary to remind the read- ers of the DAILY ‘WORKER that Small is being panned for the collec- tion of interest illegally held from the state while he acted as treasurer. It | Ble MYSTERIES. UL, August 7.— fluence Caverley’s verdict. Judge Caverly waved Mrs, Lourie away with extreme annoyance and she was tak- en to the psychopathic hospital. Mrs. Loeb, who ii id to be a Christian Scientist, has planted many Christian Science practitioners in the courtroom to “hold the right thot,” in an effort to free her son, according to reporters. Now comes a woman from the cow country trying to call in a squad of Jewish Rabbis to save the boys from the gallows. 4 Meanwhile, Loeb and Leopold, con- tinue to wink at the newspaper men, talk philosophy, enjoy the extensive publicity they are reaping, and scorn the workers. Leopold says he cares nothing for the dirty Hebrews. The slayers are too busy enjoying their notoriety to bother with economics, Max Schrayer, a class-mate of Rich- ard Loeb at the University of Michi- gan, testified day that Loeb was often drunk, as were many of his fra- ternity members. ( Seodelnrhidiiaticlornidlns Small Town Tradition, GALENA, IIL, Aug. 7.—Galena was crowded today with visitors will attend tonight the big pageant in which 3,000 people will|of their birth wer Scenes showing develop-|the great fire, but they can at least take part. Banks are usually pretentious build. ings and rarely invisible. Sometimes the depositors find that this rule does not apply to their money, which mysteriously makes itself scarce leav- ing them holding their pass books. There are exceptions to every rule and now the prosecuting attorney of Illinois and Governor Small are con- ducting an interesting debate on whether or not Grant Park bank, where state funds were deposited while Small was surer, Was a re- ality or merely a figment of the Small imagination, Mystery Deepens, So far the testimony has not brought out any facts to prove the bank ever existed. Small was on the witness stand before Master in Chancery Briggles, but not alone did the gov- ernor fail to produce concelled checks, check book stubs or even|’ cigar butts to show that he ever had any business dealings with the alleged bank but he could not show a post card picture of the building where the mystery was supposed to be house Some people dodge giving their correct age by saying they were born in San Francisco and that the records a during ment of Galena from olden days te the| point to pictures of the wreckage. . [il ( is charged that he loaned several mil- lions of dollars to the packers at 8 per cent, turned two per cent into the treasury and turned the balance into his own bank in Kankakee credited to the account of Len Small. That's what the story says, Small throws a big fit over this charge. Is Small Normal? If the goverpor could not show any Proof besides an elusive cyclone, that Grant Park was nota “phantasy” such as “Dickie” Loeb might nurture, he had witnesses who testified that senator Edward ©. Curtis, who is al- leged to have managed the bank. exist- ed in the flesh. They said he was a banker but had no sign on his door. It might have been a junk shop or a crap-shooting den for all the onlooked might know from looking at ‘it. The quizzing of Small continues but nothing tangible results. An al- jenist might be more successful than the states attorney. Gompers is consiwerably irritated over the reports that Hillquit is run- ning the LaFollette campaign in New York, While Hillquit has done ey- erything in his power to cater to Sam's vagaries, the old reactionary cannot forget that Hillquit once pro- fessed a belief in Socialism. Friday, August 8, 1924 MACHINERY FOR ELECTION FIGHT IS PERFECTED Left Wing Conferences Being Organized The election campaign of the Chicago district of the Workers Party has been organized with complete campaign machinery in each Congressional district, Arne Swabeck, district organ- izer of district 8, announced yesterday. Each Cook County Congressional district has its own Workers Party campaign committee, with the work directed by a district campaign manager. The campaign committees of each Congressional district will meet next Monday night at the places announced, all branches having been notified to have their full campaign committee meet with: the other branch campaign committees included in the district. The street meetings will be an aid to the fall election cam- paign, speakers being instructed to make the first widespread election campaign to be con- ducted by the Workers Party their main topic of discussion. In Full Swing. The campaign in Indiana, Wiscon- sin and Missouri is in full swing. At a Workers Party nominating confer- ence held in Milwaukee on August 2, Comrade Allane of Superior was nom- inated for Governor of Wisconsin and Charles Kuzdas, a painter, was nominated for lieutenant governor. Allane is well known thruout Wiscon- sin for his long activity in the co- operative movements. Several large Foster meetings have been scheduled for district 8. Foster will speak in St. Louis on Sept. 2, Ziegler, Ill, Sept. 3, and Springfield, Il, Sept. 4. Petitions to have Com- munist presidential electors on the ballot in the district 8 territory are now being circulated. Foster opens the Wisconsin campaign in a mass meeting in Milwaukee on August 24, No state candidates will be placed in the field in Indiana, but a-nominat- ing conference to select Workers Par- ty candidates for presidential electors will be held in Gary, Ind., on Aug. 10. Big Left Wing Conferences. Much support for the Communist ticket will come out of the Left Wing conferences which are to be called in the near future thruout district 8, Comrade Swabeck stated. Many for- eign associations composed of work- ing class elements will be called to- gether in these Left Wing confer- ences. The DAILY WORKER has been made a definite part of the campaign. The party members who are now circulating the elctoral petitions have been instructed to take along copies of the DAILY WORKER and secure subscriptions. Thus Communist edu- cation, the membership and DAILY WORKER drives are being combined with the district eight election cam- paign. EXPECT CHICAGO FEDERATION 10 FOLLOW “BOB” An intimation that the Federation of Labor will soon offictal- ly indorse LaFollette, was given at the headquarters of the Illinois Con- ference for Progressive Political Ao- tion in the Morrison Hotel yesterday, by William Gailihg, aid to Congress- man John Nelson. “John Walker and Victor Olander have delegated Albert Towers to take charge of the LaFollette campaign matter for the American and Illinole Federations of Labor,” Gailing told the DAILY WORKER. “Towers is also in charge of the LaFollette cam. paign for the Chicago Federation of Labor.” A meeting of the Cook County ex ecutive committee of the C. P. P. A. will be held next, week, Gailing de clared, which will act upon the in dorsing ct men for the state legisla. ture, for Congress and for state’s at- torney. The decisions reached at this’ meeting will have an important bear- ing on the indorsement of state can. didates by the LaFollatte party, it : y announced. Some of the candidates indors will be independent !.aFollette candi. dates, officers of the C. P. P. A. an-_ nounce, but it is possible that of them will be connected with old parties. The basis of ind: ments, according to the LaFollette officers, will be the eleven acid tests) \ for candidates prepared by C. B. Brown of the eighth Wisconsin con- | Sressional district. Some of those not indorsed will not be in any way / opposed, it was admitted. : ——$— i Mat CREN