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THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES Vol. II. No. 123. SPRING NEW NEGROES TOLD HOW THEY ARE HELD IN SUBJECTIONBY U. S. AND BRITISH IMPERIALIST RULE 4 BY ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, August 10.—R. H. Bachelor, a Negro delegate In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per‘ year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. from the British-ruled island of Jamica to the international con- vention of the Negro peoples of the world, in session here, held the convention spell-bound in a remarkable speech on the prac- tices of British imperialism. “The Negro’s suffering in Jamica,” said Mr. Bachelor, “is the same as the suffering of the Negro in the British colonies of Af- rica, the game as the suffering of the-Negro in Australia, or else- where in the British Empire. Speaking of the manner in which the shrewd English rulers instil the spirit of slavery into the ideology of their black subjects, pcan tiaicr toes ati aa a en ETM Aaa AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. ‘HE usual line of campaign fodder carried by capitalist candidates is so foul that a Boston broadcasting. station stipulated that its service would not be placed at the disposal of any candidate who failed to ob- serve the ordinary ruk of decency in his electioneering speeches. There are skeptics who claim that the radio trust’s restrictions are not due to fear of using the ether to give obscenity a wider circulation, but to keep the un- desirable truth concerning the Cool- the homes of staid New Englanders im any other way except via the Bos- ton Transcript which adorns every Coolidge tale with a Puritan moral. The obscenity our capitalist moralists fear most is the truth. “When thieves fall out honest men get their due” is an old saying. But tho honest men may not always get what’s coming to them as the result of a split amongst the rogues, they get a lot of useful information. a Oe ‘HERE was a time when the social- ist party took Samuel Gompers to task severely for his treachery tothe workingclass movement and his Rock- of-Gibaraltar function as a barrier against the rising tide of radicalism in the trade unions. That was some time ago. But after the left wing re- volt the S. P. submitted itself to an examination and learned from the political doctor (Dr. Hillquit) that a (Continued on page 3) West Virginia Scab Coal Bosses Fatten on Navy Contracts WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 10.— Pocahontas coal operators who se- cured contracts to provide the U. 8. navy with coal at a fixed price stand to make mighty good profits at the expense of the government as the re- sult of a 33 per cent wage reduction all of which will go into profits. The consolidation of the bituminous coal industry into a small number of large combines is going steadily for- ward. The formation of mergers in ‘West Kentucky and Indiana has been followed by similar action in the case of 50 West Virginia companies. This means a $25,000,000 corporation with upwards of 200,000 acres of valuable coal lands. It “will center around the Main Creek Coal Co., one of the larg- est in West Virginia, with 21 mines in,¥eah county. | \ Bridge Blown Down. STERLING, Ill, Aug. 10.—A five hundred foot temporary bridge con- necting Rockfalls with a new bridge under construction over Rock river here was blown down Friday morning by a heavy wind. The gas line and tulephone cable also went into the river. Rockfalls will be cut off for several days. No one was on the pridge at the time. Send in that Subscription Today. See Page the delegate said: “Tt is a poison injected into the Negroes in the West Indies. The spirit of it is so deadly that you will find the Negro, no mat- ter if he is broken with toil, hungry, suffering and sick, get- ting up and singing: ‘God Save the King.’ Negroes Get Different Treatment “The British rulers handle the Negro in Jamaica in a little different fashion from that used by the American rulers. Here in America a Muiatto is classed as a Negro, But the situa- tion in Jamaica where the whites are a feeble minority, obliges the British to do otherwise. They teach the Mu- latto boy that the white blood in his veins is a-saered thing that makes. him better than the Negroes that are black. You Mulattoes here in Amer- ica, if you want to be flattered by a white man, if you want to be told that you are better than your black brothers, and to be used for the pur- poses of the white exploiter to hold your people down in misery—just run down to Haiti, Antigua or Jamaica, and go to the white men and let them know you have some. white blood— and some money! “The British rulers of Jamaica, by flattery and cajolery, practically use the Mulatto as the overseer for them over the black Negro masses. One Mulatto is trained so that hé can be used to dominate, or kill, or subdue 1,000 of his own people.” Get Six Pennies Per Day. M. Bachelor pointed out that the Negro under British rule is taught as tho by a religious principle that he must be happy to toil his life away for six pennies a day. “And where one Englishman dies of some disease of a locality, a thousand Negroes die of the same disease. The conditions of the Neegro’s life are such that he must be constantly sick, betause the Englishman knows that if he lets the Negroes have the same health condi- tions as the white tan they will soon be able to challenge the supposed white superiority.” “Teachers,” said the Jamaican, “are compelled to make themselves instruments of the rulers. Each one is made to accept the priciple that his duty is to teach his fellow-Negroes to worship the doctrine of the Brit- ish Empire. The books that are in- troduced into the schools for the de- gradation of the Negro children, are filled with pictures of supposed Ne- gro ‘types’ that are horrible and beastly creatures.” Mr. Bachelor said that he went the rounds of the homes of his pupils, getting permission of their parents to tear out all af the pictures intended to destroy the colored children’s selt- respect. “Then, when I find a child who has been horrified and depressed by the school book propaganda, I talk to him and show him pictures of the white man ‘in his primitive state.” Negro Boys in Church Strike. He told of a woman who appeared to be “an American lady,” who seemed to get morbid pleasure in forcing a colored boy of exceptional brightness to read to his fellow pupils in a church these stories of the Negro’s inferiority. The colored boy refused to do it, and walked out of the church, (Continued on page 2) YOUNG WORKERS WILL HOLD LOCAL LEAGUE CONFERENCE AUG, 14, The first conference of all the branch officials of the Chicago Young Workers League will be held Thursday evening, 8 @. m., August 14th, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. This conference will discuss all the major problems confronting the local in Chicago. The various de- partment heads will lead in the dis- cussion in their specific fields, among them, shop nuclei, trade union work, factory campaigns, election campaigns literature dis- tribution, etc. The purpose of these conferences is to stimulate and direct the mem- bership of the Chicago Young Workers ‘League into activities which will result in making the League a strong organiation. AL. SCHAAP, ORGANIZER, YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE LOCAL CHICAGO. SOVIET OIL TRUST HEAD REACHES N.Y. Serebrousky Will Study NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The Azerbeijan Oil Trust, the larg- est oil concern in Russia, oper- ating in the rich Baku fields, is at present represented in this country by its president, Mr. A. P. Serebrovsky, who arrived here on the S. S. Olympic and established his headquarters with the Amtorg Ural | Cor- poration at 135 Liberty Street. The majn object of Mr. Sere- brovsky’s visit to this country is to familiarize himself with the organization and technical attainments of the oil industry in America, as well as to super- vise the execution of orders placed by the Azerbeijan Oil Trust (Azneft) in this country thru the Amtorg Trading Cor- poration. Mr. Serebrovsky is planning to make an exhaustive personal study of the industry and supply plants in America with a view toward introducing higher effict- ency methods in the production of oil in the is acting here not only for his trust but for other Soviet oil trusts as well, Soviet Oil Gains. It was pointed out by Mr. Serebrov- sky that the Soviet Oil industry has made great strides in the last year toward complete restoration and that it now entered an era of intensified reconstruction with the introduction of improved efficient and scientific methods of drilling, pumping, explora- tion, and oil refining. In this connec- (Continued on page 5.) Whale-of-an Operation. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10.—One of the world’s strangest operations was on record here today. By using heavy knives, axesand saws, Captain A. B. Hoonshall performed a caesari- an operation on’a dead whale and a baby whale weighing 25 pounds was born. \The mother whale was har- pooned off Santa Barbara Islands, ‘Drowns at Birth. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10—In one of the most unusuaf cases in local medical annals, a was born to Mrs. hi Presdege, 30, while she was taking a bath, and was drowned in the tub here today. Send In that Subscription Today. ' Entered as Second-class matter September 24, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1924 Published GEE Bao 290 FOOD WORKER'S ORGAN URGES SUPPORT FOR FOSTER AND GITLOW NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—The Free Voice, organ of the Amalgamated Food Workers, an industrial union, indorses William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow, Workers party candidates for president and vice president. “They will gather round them all those of the working class whose heads have not been muddled and confused by would-be radical and high-sounding phrases,” the Free Voice asserts. FIFTY YEARS OF | FAILURE BASIS OF BOB'S DREAM Wisconsin Senator Not Against Capitalism (Introductory Article.) By JAY LOVESTONE. After nearly fifty years of failure, Senator, Robert Marion LaFollette has decided to at- PUBLISHING CO.,.1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL NTI-FILIPING PLOT Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents LEONARD WOOD, U.S. MILITARY DICTATOR INPHILIPPINES, IS RAISING SINISTER “RED SCARE” _ MANILA, Aug. 10—Governor General Wood stated to the press today that the insular authorities have received copies of a manifesto issued by the Workers Party calling for a massacre of foreign workers in the Philippines. He Said he had rumors to the effect that a list of the intended victims had been issued hers. “The movement may be serious,” said Gov. Wood, “but fs success here is most doubtful because the condition of the Filipe laboring class is different from those of Russia. The struggle for existence among the proletariat here is far less acute than in Burope or the United States.” tempt to get together into a loose political alliance all the “honest” business men, the nor- mally well-to-do farmers, the highly skilled laborers, and great sections of the working class and the dispossessed farm- ing masses for one grand offen- sive, a final rush, as it were, against the moster of “Special Privilege.” What Is LaFollette After? What is LaFollette driving at? What does he want? Is he de- serving of the leadership, of the confidence and the trust of the working and poor farming masses of the country? Is his program worthy of support by the eed worker and the dispossessed farmers. can candidate, does not hide his in- tents and purposes. “Cautious Cal” is out to strengthen and perpetuate the capitalist system of the exploita- tion of the workers and the poorest farmers. Davis, the democratic standard bearer, proclaims his allegiance to the present économic order with equal devotion and as intense fervor. LaFollette, at the head of the third party movement, does not demand or seek the abolition of the capitalist system of production and exchange. Mr. LaFollette, the champion of the little capitalist, differs with Coolidge and Davis, the spokesmen of the big- gest employing interests, primarily as to the best method of perpetuating the wage system. Coolidge and Davis would maintain the present class sys- tem by concentrating even more the political and economic power in the hands of the most powerful financial and industrial overlords. La¥Follette, on the other hand, would maintain the same political and economic power amongst the various social layers of the property owning class. But of the three candidates LaFol- lette is the one who asserts his pro- Soviet Union. Mr. Serebroysky | let gressivism with the greatest force and goes out of his way to lay claim to the undivided political support of the working and farming masses in| the coming campaign. It is our task} to see whether Senator LaFollette’s| claim to the confidence and trust of the city and rural workers and tha expropriated farmers is warranted by) the record of his achievements in his political career of nearly fifty years. » Turning the Searchlight on LaFollette. We will scrutinize his record from the time he became District Attorney (Continued on page 6) Send in that Subscription Today. Thousands of readers of the Workers Party publications gath- ered at the Workers Party Press Picnic at Riverview Park yester- day to hear the speech of C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, to enjoy the Communist events, and to contribute their mite to the party press. Excellent weather as- sured a financial as well B0- cial success. The full story of the Press Picnic will be told in tomorrow morning’s issue of the DAILY WORKER. : NO PROBE OF FATAL BLAST IN STEEL CITY Conspiracy to Suppress Facts is Charged By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) GARY, Indiana, Aug. 10.— Mayor R. OG. Johnson, of this town, refused to take any ac- .tion on the charge of hundreds of workers in the steel mills here that there is a conspiracy press the extent of the disastrous explosion which de- molished an entire blast fur- nace. The city officials of Gary and the Post-Tribune, the only local newspaper, are in league with the United States Steel Corpor- ation to keep the true condi- tions ofthe steel workers from the public. The Post-Tribune prints almost daily front page articles attempting to show that the mills are booming, Daily. It was reported the manifes- to originated with the Third Communist International and called for Philippine indepen- dence, overthrow of the present ruling class and that all capi- talists be expelled. Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. The above disaptch from Manila is a fair example of,the kinds of news which the capitalist press feeds to the people of this country. The Workers Party has not issued any manifesto “calling for the massacre of foreign workers in the Philippines.” It has is- sued a statement of its position in re- lation to Philippine independence and suggested a program of struggle against the American and Philippine exploiters of the Filipino workers and Unionists Appeal Sentences Dealt by Injunction Judge ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Aug. 10. — Ap- peals from jail sentences for contempt of antipicketing injunctions are being made for two girls and two men in- volved in the strike against the Dan- iel Boone clothing factory in Rock Island. The four employes, who are members of the Am&lgamated Cloth- ing Workers, received 30 t8&60 days. They are out on $1,000 bail each. Bet- ter working ~ conditions, increased wages and collective bargaining are the demands in the strike which is in its second month. farmers. The dispatch from the Philippines, based upon a purported admission of General Wood, is‘ an attempt thru charges of blood-curdling- massacres, to head off the organization of the Fili- pino workers and farmers to carry on a struggle for their freedom from ex- ploitation of every kind. The Work. ers Party will continue its co-opera- tion with the Filipino workers and farmers in this struggle in spite of the Provocative, untruthful statements emanating from General Wood. Following is the Workers Party |Program for freedom for the Philip- |pines, which was published in the Worker on June 2: when in reality only one-third of the force is working two and three days Freedom for the Philippines. a week. The newspaper and the city, disastrous explosion which killed sey- eral men, claiming only one man had been killed. Steel Czar’s “Private Flunkeys.” Mayor Johnson, however, refuses to get excited about these conditions. The police force, and all the public officials of the town, including the newspaper editors, are described by the workers as “private flunkeys” of the Steel Corporation. When asked what he was going to do about it Mayor Johnson said: Mayor Won't Investigate. “If it transpires that more men] Point out continually that the Amer- were killed in the recent blast than the one the company mentions, we are not going to investigate the connec- tion of the Post Tribune and the Gary Works. We are certainly not going to close down the plant when they keep back the news of accidents, People get hurt in train and auto ac- cidents. Why shouldn’t they get hurt in the industries!”. The workers in the Gary Mills, how- ever, tell a different story. One Ne- gro steel worker declared he saw the body of a colored man being carried to his home the night of the accident. The large Negro population in Gary is humming with the story that at least two Negro laborers were killed in the explosion, who were not re- ported by the company. Officials Could Check. “The officials could definitely tell us how many are missing,” another steel worker declared. “They could check up the time cards and see who is missing, But the public will never know just how many were Killed in the explosion. The Post Tribune is playing hand in glove with the bteel mills as it is practically owned by the Gary company.” Dozens of steel workers were questioned by the DAILY WORKER and every one (Continued on page 2) gram adopted by. the Central | officials surpressed the news of the | Executive Committee of the Workers |and | Party. The Central Executive Committee |of the Workers Party adopted the fol- lowing program for work in support of Philippine independence and for the struggle in the . Philippines against both the American and native exploiters of the workers and farmers jof that country. | Philippine Program: 1. That we foster an intense nation-| alist spirit and a hatred of American | imperialism in the Philippine Islands. In this propaganda it is our task to ican workers and farmers are the only | friends,.the Filipino people have in the | United States and that it is only the American capitalists who are the ene- mies of the Filipino people. | 2. That we endorse the Philippine | boycott against goods of American | capitalists and that we recommend to | the Filipinos to organize their boycott | in such a fashion us to hit American business interests where it hurts them most and is most effective, instead of @ general boycott which might tend to dissipate the usefulness of this weapon. 3. That we encourage the support of the popular freedom loan to aid the independence movement. 4, That we encourage ‘the participa- tion by the workers and tenant farm- ers in the movement for national free- dom as members of the working classes, Here we must. point out that the workers participating in this | struggle are engaged in the conflict in order to enhance their own class in-| terests and not for the sake of promot- ing the welfare of their native bour-| geosie as against the foreign Ameri- can capitalists. 5. That we encourage the spread and the strengthening of all mass or- “UNITY,” SLOGAN OF RED CONGRESS: OF LABOR UNIONS International Unity is | Proposed to Amsterdam (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 22.—(By Mail.)— The Mandate commission, in report-~ } ing to the congress of the Red Inter- |national of Labor Unions (Profin- tern) showed that 39 coutries were represented. Of these, Europe has 5; Asia, 6; Africa, 1; America, 6; Australia, 1, represented by a |total delegation of 311, 120 of them |with decisive and 183 with advisory | votes. Losovsky then proposed the com- mission’s resolution on the report of Tomski on the struggle for unity, of |the international trade union move- ment. The resolution reaffirms thé previous decisions of the Comintern’s con- gress for unity in the interest of the common struggle against capitalism and Fascism and towards the estab- lishment of unity in the international trade union movement, The campaign to be undertaken must moblilize the masses, and the creation of a united international trade union front must be put forth. After the preparation of the masses, the nextestep that can be taken is the calling of an international unity congress of the trade unions with proportional representation for both trade union internationals for the pur- pose of working out the statutes and the creation of executive organs of the new united trade union interna- tional. The congress believes that only in this manner will the simultaneous fusion of the parallel organizations be completely successful. The congress holds that it is time- ly to establish contact thru its rep- resentatives, with the Amsterdam In- ternational and with the Greek trade unions which have lately come out for this unification. National organ- izations, too, may negotiate with the Amsterdam International or with its affiliated organizations, under the guidance and with the approval of the Profintern. The congress hopes that thru the preparation of the masses the neces- sary preliminaries for the unification ganiations of labor such as the three (Continued on page 2.) BOOST COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BY GETTING NEW SUBS FOR “THE DAILY WORKER” will be achieved, The decision of the (Continued on page 5) See Page Three e oe

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