The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mall (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.50....3 montas 8S cil ANC tenia adelante aa EE Address all mail and make out ‘checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. $6.00 per year Chloago, IIlinols J. LOUIS ENGD. WILLIAM F. DU MORITZ J. LOEB. Editors Business Manager L E | | Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post: | Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. | The Press Picnic Sunday one of the most important Workers Party affairs of the season will be held in River- view Park. It is the Press Pienic. If we only had to consider the amusement which one always finds at our picnics perhaps we might not dignify the occasion with an editorial. But there is something more important. The press is the most powerful weapon in the hands of the revolutionary movement. Without it we could not reach the masses with the message of Communism. We would not be in a position to expose the capitalist system, for what it is, a s) tem of robbery, murder and corruption. We would not be in a position to show up the plots of the capitalists, their plans that lead to wars and other tragedies. We would not be able to organize the most class conscious workers into a revolutionary party that will lead the workers in their fight to overthrow capitalism and establish the Workers and Farmers Government. Therefore picnics and such affairs are of great importance to the revolutionary movement because the proceeds provide us with the sinews of war to keep our papers going. With the DAILY WORKER in the field next Sunday’s affair wi have added interest for the members of our part and those friends who, tho not members of th party, are yet willing to help the DAILY WORKER in every possible way. Every member of the party should. assist in making the Press Picnic a success. Be on the job next Sunday and between now and next Sunday sell as many tickets as possible and induce your acquaintances to help swell the crowd at Riverview Park. The money realized from the picnic will go to the DAILY WORKER, and our other papers. <a> 250 Terror in Finland In a recent issue we published an appeal from the workers incarcerated in Finland in the Tam- misaari prison. It reveals the continuation unto the present day of the horrible persecution begun in 1918 by the German butcher, General Manner- heim, and continued later under the protection of Entente imperialism. Thousands of the best pro- letarian elements are being slowly murdered by the vicious white-guard dictatorship that stands in the best of good graces of the ‘imperialists of Washington and London. Appeals to the humanity of the capitalistic gov- ernments of the world are as useless as an appeal to the Finnish white-guard government itself would be. But even while the labor movement of| western Europe and America is as helpless as it} is today, in the grip of agents of capitalism, it is} possible to bring pressure to bear upon the authors | of this disgraceful torture of workers in Finnish prisons. If the rank and file of the labor move- ment can be roused to understand what is going | on and to protest against it, the first step toward | effective action to put an end to it will have been| taken. “Boycott of white-guard Finland by the workers} | The despair of the British imperialists and their 1 | protectors of MacDonald’s Labor government are | of vital significance to our own working class and | poor farmers. ; | It is clearly evident that the strong assurances j}of support tendered the British imperialists by | Hughes, Mellon,.Logan, Lamont, Morgan and the j other unofficial observers have played their part | in making the English capitalists more bold, more aggressive. Very likely the raid was also staged | in order to discover “evidence” affording an excuse for the expected breaking up of the conference with | the Soviet Russian representatives, Then again, the British working men had®organized numerous gigantic demonstrations expressing sympathy with the demands of the Soviet delegates. Therefore, the Communists must be exposed and the militant workers must be terrorized. While the working 1 Ss swing to the Left, MacDonald must be swung and swing to the Right. | Labor lackeys is evident. The raid can only help the Communists. More and more MacDonald is dropping his 1 Political Bedfellows Fight All is not peace and harmony within the broad political bed of Robert Marion. Many and various are the squabbles, the hairpullings, the rough | mauli administered by one or another group AMSTERDAM LINED UP FOR DAWES PLAN Communists Offering All the Opposition (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, Aug. 8.—News that the International Federation of Trade Un- ions, with headquarters at Amster- dam, has received the endorsement of the Dawes plan with great satisfac- tion establishes the fact that the Com- munist International is the only pow- erful movement which is line up in opposition to the policies of the inter- national bankers. The Amsterdam officials gloss (with mild criticism), over the part the bankers are playing and make much of the supposition that the Ruhr will be evacuated. They hail the Ruhr | promises as indicative of a waning of the militaristic spirit but fail to point | out that the mortgaging of the Ger- man industries to foreign capital is leading to another capitalist war. German representatives are expect- ed to reach London late today to ap- pear before the inter-allied conference to allies who have joined the “great cruasde’ but don’t agree how the march into the void is to be -| conducted. Particularly interesting is the denunci- ation of the socialists by Matthew Woll for the American Federation of Labor Executive Council. “The socialist philosophy will never become the jintellectual or political guide of American labor,” said Mr. Woll, and characterized the S. P. as “a continuously diminishing and completely dis- credited” organization. Of course, this point of view expressed by Mr. | Woll, which places itself in absolute opposition |to even the suggestion that labor shall some day jrule society, is nothing new nor is it surprising. \It, is the ruling attitude in the LaFollette move- ment, which stands four-square for the capitalist em in all its essentials. It is much closer to the view of LaFollette himself than the position of |those, like Debs, who piously hope for the future |formation of a Labor party and justify their sur- render to LaFollette by their own impotent desires. Such little scraps, resulting in black eyes and injured political feelings, will continue to occur under the political blanket of LaFollette. But we jventure to predict that none of them will cause any of the “leaders” to fall out of the bed. The | Possibilities of office, the joys of “responsibility,” |and the comfort of having a “great leader” like LaFollette to take responsibilities from their | shoulders, are rewards that will hold them all to- jgether behind the leadership of Spreckels, Vander- lip and Co. A Vital Struggle Of national importance to the clothing workers is the strike now in progress in Philadelphia con- ducted by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. It is one of the important sectors in the-battle line that stretches into every clothing market in America. Thruout the United States the em- | ployers have been pressing for reductions in wages, lowering of working conditions, and general worsening of the status of the clothing workers. All too successful have been these efforts, and noth- ing could have stopped the retreat of the workers except a real struggle, a real battle against all cuts and unfavorable “readjustments.” A beginning was made to call the employers to order in the New York strike. Unfortunately the bosses were allowed to get away with something in the Chicago market. But the union is realizing that yielding to the employers’ demand is suicide, is inviting the bosses to new demands, and the strike now on in Philadelphia is a proof that the tomorrow morning. The understand- ing is that they will be consulted re- garding the administration of railway and Reichbank affairs in which they will have a fifty-fifty directors’ con- trol. Reports from Berlin are worrying the allied delegates) Communist agi- tation is gaining strength daily. With the German Nationalist Party.assum- ing an attitude of more hostile neu- trality, in place of its firmer action opposition to the Dawes plan, the Communists have the field to them- selves in attacking the program. Bankers and British and French representatives believe that the diffi- cult labor problems that will face the expleiters of Germany can only be handled, if at all, thru the medium of the German bourgeoisie themselves. Ohio Workers Will Picnic This Sunday (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LIVERPOOL, O., Aug. 8.—Workers from Liverpool, East Liverpool, Toron- to and Steubenville, Ohio, and Chester, W. Va., and Midland, Pa. will enjoy coming to the pienic arranged for Sun- day, Aug. 10, by the Workers Party branch. The place is Pritchard’s in Westfield: take the Y. and O. car. There will be special attractions on the program of entertainment and two or more splendid speakers, in English and in. Russian, Everyone is invited to come and bring all his friends. RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) national bankers, it would not do for such a prominent tool of high finance as Hughes to ruffle the social-demo- cratic. temper by paying a visit to the murderer of one of their gang, That and other reasons should be taken into consideration. Naat, Meo HEN the story broke that the Anglo-Russian conference had definitely fizzled, the capitalist edi- tors took out their speediest typewrit- ers and hastened to tell the world that it was imposisble to reach an agreement with Soviet Russia and if Britain, the classic land of diplo- macy could not deal with the Bolshe- viki, how could the United States, a diplomatic virgin, be expected to Have any official dealings with then. The break up of the London confer- ence, they said, justified the policy of our secretary of state and his wor- thy ally, Samuel Gompers. But alas, nothing stays put these days. No sooner had tiese editorfals hit the street than the wires carried another story, to the effect that Britain and Soviet Russia thru their respective official representatives signed treat- ies, subject to ratification in London and Moscow. This is bad news for Abe Cahan, Sam Gompers and Charles Evans Hughes. The capitalist edi- tors of course, will find a way out of the dilemma. * . . F a revolution breaks out in the Balkans, it will not be due to the desperate gonditions forced upon the masses by the bandit governments in- stalled by the allies there after the war for democracy ended, but owing to the activities of Communist agents “undér the orders of Moscow.” This much we gather from a story with a Sofia date line, sent by a jour- nalist with the Hibernian name of Collins. It is not difficult to imagine how Mr. Collins gets the dope. The publicity agent of the Bulgarian Fas- cist government fills him up with fake news and. probably with some- thing else that helps stimulate his imagination and we have a perfectly good yarn. The only trouble with the yarn is that there is not a word of truth in it, But who expects truth from the capitalist press? As far as we are concerned, if the stories are snappy samples of prevarication, and not vulgar and witless lies, we are satisfied. Watch out for that Bul- garian revolution! * * ‘HERE are two very interesting trials on now, in the State of Illi- nois. One is receiving much pub- licity, the other is barely noticed. One has a sex and emotional inter- est, the other has political signifi- cance. One is the Loeb-Leopold trial before Judge Caverly in the city of Chicago and the other, the hearings before Master in Chancery Briggle, at Springfield, to find out whether or not the governor got away with a large sum of money belonging to IIli- nois while he was state treasurer. It does not seem to be easy to estab- lish whether Loeb, the murderer of the young Franks boy, was sane, semi-insane, or plain “bug-house.” So far, several alienists paid by the de- fense, have proved to their own satis- faction that emotionally, he was not up to snuff. Other alienists paid by the prosecution will prove that he is sane enough to enjoy his own hang- ing, which is the future Attorney Crowe has mapped out for him, Loeb does not seem td be making any ef- fort to escape punishment, Perhaps that is a method to prove that he is an emotional “nut.” ts . OVERNOR Small 1s not suspect- ed of insanity, but the testimony in the Loeb-Leopold case is a model of normalcy compared .to what was dragged out of Small by Master in Chancery Briggles. Small is charged with taking liberties with state funds. It appears that he loaned money to the packers at a high rate of inter- est and pocketed the difference in in- terest between what the state gets from the banks for its deposits and what the packers shelled out. For instance, if the packers paid 8 per cent for the money loaned to them by Small, and the banks only paid 2 per cent on state deposits, Small put 6 per cent in his pocket, turned 2 per cent into the state treasury along with the principal. Of course, Small denies all this, saying that his political enemies are tying to cruci- fy him on a cross of gold. . * ° ‘HE financial jugglery is said to have been performed thru the me- dium of the Grant Park bank, owned by Senator Edward ~ Curtis. Small says he put the state’s money in Cur- tis’ bank and returned it with the in- terest. Now, the only part of this story that can be nailed down is what relates to Curtis. It is agreed by both sides to the legal dispute that Curtis existed but there is no record of the Grant Park bank. Where was this mysterious bank? This is where Small has the alienists buffaloed. Without showing any more indica- tions of emotion than “Dickie” did when making a speech to his Teddy Bear, the governor informed the court that this bank was located in a grain shed, and when pressed for the location of the shed, cooly’ in- formed them, that it was hit by acy- clone. Undoubtedly, the governor is a serious rival to Munchausen. But he is a capitalist and under the capi- talist system, a man who “gets away with it,” is honored. ‘The great crime is in getting caught. Millions of Copies of Platform Now Being Printed! How Many Will You Distribute? all Saturday, August 9, 1924 NEGROES EAGER FOR WORKERS PARTY MESSAGE: Comrade Suggests Red Army of Newsies To the DAILY WORKER:—In to- day’s issue of the DAILY WORKER you carried the open letter of the Workers Party to the convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. While I was riding in the street car reading this article, a Negro woman dooked over my shoulder and, asked if she could buy a copy of the paper. I gave her mine. She looked over the story and said to me: “Can you get apy more of these papers?” I told her that I could. She then gave me the address of a place where a Negro organization was meeting and told. me to bring a bundle of the DAILY WORKER ‘and some subscrip- tion blanks to the meeting. “Any Ne- gro worker would buy this paper,” she told me. This brought one thing to my mind. It showed why the DAILY WORKER is such a strong factor in the class struggle. The DAILY WORKER took up the struggle of the Negro andcon- nected it with the general class strug- gle. It made the workers think. It showed that the problem of the Ne- gro worker is the problem of the working class. I notice that since its existence the DAILY WORKER has. done this with every problem. Therein lies the secret of its future success. More power to you. You deserve the untiring sup- port of all workers of all races. One who reads and works for the success of the DAILY WORKER. er P. S.—Don’t you think that it would be a good idea to form a Red Army of Newsboys to go into the Negro sec- tion of the city and sell this issue of the DAILY WORKER to the Negroes? This could be made a permanent army which could go anywhere to sell the paper whenever a story, which in- terests a particular group 0? workers, is published. Klan. Picnic Overruns Racine. RACINE, Wis., Aug. 8.—Racine, a city of 60,000, was host to approxi- mately 100,000 Klan people when the second annual mid-West Ku Klux Klan picnic, barbeque and ceremonial was held. at Klan Park. Delegates from almost every city in Wisconsin, Ohio, Tilinois, Indiana and Michigan attend- ed. Men marched unmasked in a mammoth parade. Sénd in that Subscription Today. . The Platform of the Workers Party of America, upon which its candidates William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, will run, is an analytical yet popular Communist document. In its interpretation of the causes of the economic and political crisis which faces the workers and farmers it is a gem. It Slashes into the use of the Government by the capitalists against the workers. The platform in the name of the Workers Party of America calls upon the workers and exploited farmers to: “join it in the struggle to establish the Workers and Farmers Government of the United States.” The immediate program contained in the platform declares for the formation of a mass Farmer-Labor Party; nationalization of the industries, and workers control; government and industry to pay wages of unemployed workers; abolition of injunctions, use of police power in labor disputes; release of political and all class war prisoners; land for its users, and the nationalization of farmers’ marketing organizations; freedom for the Phillipines, and the recognition of Soviet Russia. The graphic picture below is reproduced on the first page of the platform. Millions of copies of this two page document are now being Feo Orders for thousands of copies to cover every locality should be placed im- mediately. Every local union, fraternal organization or other workers organizations should be induced to secure a supply. See that a copy of this Communist platform is in the hands of millions of workers and farmers. Distribute of the world” is the slogan sent out by the prison- ers in Finland. That is the first effective step to- ward removing this disgrace. When the work- ers become fully advised of the horrible tortures inflicted upon Finnish workers for daring to or- ganize, such a boycott can be made immediately effective. Finland depends, in its economic life, upon the services of workers from many lands, especially the seamen and transportation workers. A “workers’ blockade” of the terrorist government of reactionary Fascisti is called for by the suffering of the Finnish working class. membership, and even those workers as yet unor- ganized, are ready to follow enthusiastically when the union gives them a militant lead. The retreat can easily be stopped in every market, if suéh: a lead is given, and the workers can begin to ad- vance agfin. Complete support and co-operation for the Phila- delphia strike must and will be forthcoming from all eleménts in the union. It is a vital struggle that will affect the welfare of every worker in the clothing industry. It must be won. It must be made the basis for organizing the Philadelphia market, for stopping the wage cuts, and for launch MacDonald Raids the Communists|i¢ * 22tion-wide demand for a new forward- march of the men’s clothing workers. The British Black Hundreds are still completely sensi ae in the hands of the employifg class, and are still} Workers who wonder if their jobs will last over being used unfailingly against the workers. At] the next pay day, or how to make their wages buy best MacDonald is only a fig leaf for the ugly capi-| the bare minimum of food, shelter and clothing, talist dictatorship that is today dominating Great|should regard with suspicion the “divine right” Britain. At worst MacDonald, like Noske and|of their exploiters whose deepest worries are over ‘scheidemann, becomes the open and uncamou-|the Yale-Harvard boat race, or if the lawn party flaged servant of the exploiters. will be spoiled by rain. “Vacation” means nothing Herein lies the fundamental and decisive reason|to the workers except those of Soviet Rusgia. for the raid that the notorious international strike aaa breaking agency, the British official ScotlandYards,| It is not enough that the socialist party repu- has just made on the office of the Communist Party}diated its principles in order to please the labor of Great Britain. The labor party may nominally | fakers and the petty bourgeoisie. It is not enough have one of its members Prime Minister; but the] that it joined the Department of Justice in making capitalists are as secure as ever in their tyranny] war on the Communists and reviling Soviet Russia. and exploitation, with the MacDonalds and tie] It still exists on paper and so long as it sticks to Snowdens at the official helm. the once honorable name of “socialist” it will be But beneath the disgraceful incident culminat-| obnoxious to Sammy Gompers. ing in the arrest of one of the best fighters of the —_ English working class, John Ross Campbell, the| If the co-ed whose snoring routed a burglar could Communist editor, are to be found several other} be induced to use an amplifier she might be able immediate reasons which are of considerable im-]to abolish crime all by her lonesome and calm the port at this moment. The influences precipitating|nerves of the “Hanging Editor” of the Chicago the holdup of the Communist bureau by the paid| Tribune. on eenstns teeta apreermenenaenrs nora 1 FAS Is ahaa it in the shop, mine, mill and factory. ORDER NOW! ORDER NOW! - $1.75 per thousand in lots up to ten thousand, $1.50 per thousand in lots of ten thousand or more.