The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1924, Page 1

c=" ORDER YOUR BUNDLE OF THE DAILY WORKER’S FIRST SPECIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE—SEE PAGE SIX <= THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR ~A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 124. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CAR BUILDERS’ STRI THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1924 in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, MAC DONALD RAIDED COMMUNISTS _ FOR APPEAL 10 TROOPS NOT TO SHOOT DOWN STRIKING WORKER'S (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, August 5 (By Mail.)—The raid upon the head- quarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the arrest of John Ross Campbell, the editor of its official organ, “The Workers’ Weekly,” is disillusioning masses of British workers as to the alleged labor character of the Ma onald government. The excuse given for the arrest of the editor and the rafd on the party headquarters was the publication of articles ad- dressed to the armed forces of the empire, calling upon them to line up with the workers and to refuse to shoot at their un- uniformed brothers in the event of a strike or any other struggle between the workers and their masters. This is the crime for which the “Labor” regime began its AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O’FLAHERTY iggy path of the reactionary labor leader is not strewn with thorns. Banquets, junketing trips, large salar- " Ges, government honors—these are the rewards of fealty to capitalism. Jails jand persecution at the hands of the capitalist governments are reserved for radicals and those who fight the exactions of the exploiters of labor. Wt is pleasant to be a labor leader nowadays. Even when the Sahara desert is at-its worst the labor lead- ters have their oases. One of the tribe lis Peter Brady of New York, Super- ‘wisor of the City Record who was re- jcently selected by the American Fed- ‘eration of Labor as delegate to the ‘British Trade Union Congress in Lon- don. On the eve of Mr. Brady's de- parture to London, a dinner will be held in the Shelburne Hotel, Brighton Beach, at which several labor fakers will eat, drink and make speeches. Mr. Brady will leave for England on Sept. 1. The officialdom of the A. F. of L. will be fittingly represented by Mr. Brady at the British conferences, put the American workers will not. ** 8 OHN L. WALKER goes into ora- “Victor Berger is equally enthusiastic over the development of the radio. Express trains in Germany, Mr. Ber- ger tells us, will be fitted with radio equipment which will enable passen- gers to speak to any telephone sub- seriber in Germany. Our American railways will surely follow the Ger- man example, muses Berger. And then: “Evidently man seems to have gained mastery over the ether. What next?” To Berger the marvelous im- provement in radio equipment may be another argument in favor of ditching the class aGiaslé and overthrowing the capitalist class by means of ether waves. If we get sugar from the sun a la John Walker can’t we get rid ot the sugar trust? Until the workers gain mastery over the capitalists they will not be able to enjoy the blessings that new inventions and thg develop- “ment of machinery could.confer upon humanity under a system of society where things would be produced for ‘use and not for profit. eee ECRETARY OF WAR JOHN W. WEEKS does not obtrude himself very much on the public vision be- cause of such qualities as made Theo- adore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson or Billy Sunday, famons. Like the late Mr. Harding, the secretary of war breaks into print only when he is guilty of some unusual piece of stu- September 12 has been as- pidity. 1 (Continued on page 3) Postal Strikers’ Wage Cut Fought by Toronto Labor (Special to the Dally Worker.) TORONTO, Aug. 11-—A_ protest against the reduction in pay for the postal workers who went out on strike recently has been made by ibil- Have you. never noticed how, in torical oS at feng large strikes and lockouts, all the Sty of getting sus newspapers condemn the Strikers, persecution of the Communist movement in England, and showed itself to be a staunch defender of British capitalism. One of the articles, addressed as an open letter to “the fight- ing forces,” reads as follows: THE CRIME Comrades—You never joined the army or navy because you were in love with warfare, or because you were attracted by the glamour of the uniform. In nine cases out of ten you were compelled to join the services after a long fight against poverty and misery, caused by pro- longed unemployment, es he Once in the services, you are sw jected to a military discipline that bears down upon you in an ever- increasing manner. Repressive regulations and irk- some restrictions are intentionally imposed upon you. And when war is declared-you are supposed to be filled with a longing to “beat the enemy.” Thé enemy consists of workingmen like yourselves, living under the same slave conditions. But the government not only organ- izes the services for war, it always keeps them fully equipped to be able to crush their own workers when the need arises. ‘ and talk about maintaining the “essential services and the food supplies”? Have you forgotten that during the Tonypandy strike of railwaymen in 1911 the soldiers were used and workers were shot? That gunboats were used by Asquith to defeat the dockers in 1912? That troops were used at Liverpool against the transport workers in 1912? Have you forgotten how the labor government threatened to use naval men during the dorkers’ strike this year? How in the tram- way strike the government threat- ened to introduce BH. P. A., which would have forced many of you to have shot your own brothers and fathers? Have you forgottea the miners’ lockout in 1921, when the reserves were called out, Soldiers, sailors, airmen, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, the Communist Party calls upon you to begin the task of not only organiz- ing passive resistance when war is declared, or when an industrial dis- pute involves you, but to definitely and categorically let it be known that, neither in the class war nor a military war, will you turn your guns on your fellow workers, but in- stead will line up with your fellow workers in an attack upon the ex- ploiters and capitalists, and will use your arms on the side of your own class. Form committees in every bar- racks, aerodrome and ship. Let this be the nucleus of an organiza- tion that will prepare the whole of the soldiers, sailors and airmen not merely to refuse to go to war, or to refuse to shoot strikers during in- dustrial conflicts, but will make it possible for the wotkers, peasants and soldiers, sailors and airmen to go forward in a common attack upon the capitalists and smash capi- talism forever, and institute the reign of the whole working class. Refuse to shoot down your fellow workers. LOVESTONE’S ARTICLE TO SHOW LA FOLLETTE BACKS BUSINESS MAN The second article on Senator LaFollette will appear in tomor- row’s issue. What the banking circles and some of the leading political. ob- servers think of LaFollette’s radi. callsm and how many of the so- called progressive planks have been accepted by the big capitalist par- ties will be told In the next story, Tomorrow’s installment will show that what LaFollette is really after is to make business safe and stable and that the net effect of the “Wis- consin plan” has been to increase the profits of the railroad owners and public utility magnates. JOBLESS FLOCK TO GARY MILLS SEEKING WORK Two-Thirds of Steel Employes Laid Off By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) Gary, Indiana, Aug. 12.—Over two-thirds of the force of the eel Corporation have been laid off and those kept on the payroll are only allowed to work two and three days a week. The town is overrun with unem- ployed who have migrated from Chicago and other cities looking for work. Residents of Gary who haye been laid off are ex- tending their credit to the limit and vainly searching for work. It was admitted even at the office of Mayor R. O. Johnson that unemployment in Gary is widespread. The business men and petty officials of the town .jare hoping against hope that work will soon pick up. The Post-Tribune, the only paper in Gary and practically a house organ of the steel corporation, is running front page stories almost daily attempting to fool the public as to conditions in the steel mills. : The only authority the Steel Trust paper could find to create the impres- sion that unemployment is diminish- ing isthe street car company, which declares that the number of passen- gers is increasing. The Post-Tribune, which the steel workers have nick- named the “Daily Cesspool,” inter- prets the street car companies in- reased traffic to mean that unem- joyment is decreasing. The unem- loyed riding out to the mills looking ‘or work, however, form a large part of the street car traffic. On July 31, the unfilled orders of the United States Steel Corporation amounted to 3,187,072 tons, against 3,262,505 tons on June 30, showing a decline in unfilled orders of 75,433 tons during July, Further decreases in production of steel are expected in financial circles. In May the unfilled orders of the United States Steel Corporation fell off 580,400 tons, and in June a further decrease of 365,434 tons was recorded. The Duluth Works of the United States Steel Corporation, which are even larger than the Gary works, have completely shut down, ag 290 —————$————————— RICH NEGROES LIKE WEALTHY AMONG WHITES Black Capitalists Hit as Race Exploiters By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—De- claring that “the Negro masses are suffering from the same capitalist system that the white people are suffering from,” and admonishing his hearers not to forget that they have that sys- tem to fight, Marcus Garvey, president general of the Univer- sal Negro Improvement Asso- ciation, at that. organization's convention here, scathingly at- tacked “the capitalist class of Negroes whose only concern is to rob and exploit the unfor- tunate of their own race.” Deseribing the manner in which he said the unfortunate Negro on migrating to the large cities falls into the hands of “the privileged Negro” who de- spoils him of what he may have and then leaves him without r friends, Mr. Garvey that such le are typical of the capitalist sys- tem under which we live. “The Negro is suffering from the oppression of the same capitalist bunch as the white people are suffer- ing from and are fighting now. Don’t forget that we have that bunch to fight. Negro Victim of Oppression. “The Negro people are suffering un- der exploitation by a privileged class of Negroes, business men and profes- ional men who have no more consid- eration for their own unfortunate peo- ple than the white capitalist has. I have no more use for this kind of Ne- gro than I have for the white ex- ploiter. Their selfishness is their only motive, their contempt for the masses of their people is great, and their only mission is to rob and exploit the unfortunate brothers of their own race. The Negro real-estate man in New York is the greatest devil we have to ¢ombat.” Garvey described a sort of combina tion of the Negro real estate specu- lators with white speculators who he said were of the Jewish race, the two conspiring to fleece Negro tenants who are at their mercy because compelled to live within a segregated district. “The white and the black real-estate agents get together, and they drive the white tenants out of a building, and they let Negro tenants in on con- dition that they pay double the rent. These skinflints make the Negroes pay 100 per cent more than the white tenants paid.” Yet, the speaker said, the Negro race considered as a whole did not even then accumulate wealth by this process, because “within one year after, the Negro speculator’s lit- tle five or ten thousand dollars goes back into the pocket of his Jewish fel- low-speculator.” Negro Preacher Curse to His Race, “And the Negro preacher,” said Mr. Garvey, “is the curse of his race. And I trust that you will take that into consideration.” He declared that he absolutely refused to conceal his real 'thots on this question. “We have not only to fight the white capitalist,” said he, “but we also have to fight the capitalistic Negro. He (Continued on page 5.) FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO FOLLOW GREAT BRITAIN IN CONFERENCE TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET REGIME (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘ RIGA, Aug. 11.—Soviet Russia will shortly make rep- resentations to the French government for a treaty confer- ence similar to the A\ ussian conference just concluded known thet the Herfot regime has beon making overtures oki ards de jure recognition of the Soviet Republic DEFENSE*DAY STUN HEAVY ON REPUBLICAN MIND; SIR PERSHING TO GET CREDIT By OWEN STIRLING. (Special to The DETROIT, August 11.—It may be an evasion of a bad issue by the Coolidgeian Sect of Rep credit, so-called, where credit is However it may be, the Defense Day idea is now being attri- buted to the Dandy of the army, glories in the title “Blackjack.” SS The White House was embar- rassed by the widespread objec- tion to the war department’s order for mobilization on De- fense Day. Attributing the plan to “Blackjack,” who wore his uni- form better than any other soldier in the American Expeditionary Force, will not embarras “Blackjack.” On the contrary, news of it will probably increase the enjoyment of his travels, which recently consisted of journey- ing in luxury with the American monument commission thru European cemeteries. The thing that would probably make him happiest would be a deci- sion by the commission to recom- mend a monument to him. Defense Day Had Virgin Birth. The Michigan committee in charge of the program for Defense Day has been told that “Blackjack” first thought of the Defense Day mobiliza- tion plan at a meeting of army officers in 1922, when the officers’ reserve corps was being organized. And members of the committee have broad- east this explanation, detrying at the same time that the program is a polit- ical move. It sounds reasonable, Sept...12. being ““Blackjack’s” sixty- birthday. A soft pedal is being put on all swashbuckling maneuvers in Detroit. But units of the regular army, the na- PEE 8 2h EAC el A An OY eae er cn mt ee eee Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il T WEIGHS Daily Worker) ublicans. due. Or it may be giving General John J. Pershing, who tional guard and the reserve corps will be mustered. They will muster at their armories. Workers to Hear Piffle. The spellbinders will be mobilized, too. The organized employers of the state will open their factory doors to the propagandists for militarism and herd the workers into crowds to hear them. This is partly because produc- tion is slumping. And it is partly be- cause the factory owners desire large armies and navies, both for use in strike injunctions and in protecting the foreign investments of American capital. Goslings to Be Gab Goats. School teachers, also, looked upon as the parrots of the 100 per cent pa- triots, are to be asked to read patri- otic, jingoistic speeches to the chil- dren which the law forces under their care, Sept. 12, designated as Defense Day, is the sixth anniversary of the battle of St. Mihiel. That battle was the beginning of the allies’ final victori- ous offensive, which cleared the Euro- pean economic slate of previous for- mulaes and made possible the brand- ing of the Dawes plan on the forehead of the German working class. ‘Fertilizing Morgan’s Tree. The bodies of drafted soldiers that fell at St. Mihiel are fertilizing the family tree of the House of Morgan. KATTERFELD TO BE FREED ON PAROLE Will Be Released from - Joliet Today L. E. Katterfeld, one of Com- nunist Labor Party members wrested during the Palmer ‘red” raids in January, 1920, and later convicted and sen- tenced to a term of imprison- ment in Joliet state prison will be paroled today to New York state. Comrade Katterfeld was out of the country when the other convicted Communists were called to begin serving their sentences. They were pardoned after serving ten days by Gov- ernor Small. On Katterfield’s return from abroad, he presented himself at the state prison and contrary to expectations Governor Small did not follow the same procedure as in the case of William Bross Lloyd, Ludwig Lore, Jack Carney and the other C. L, P. prisoners, More Workers Starved! BERLIN, Aug. 11—No sooner did the government permit exportation of German grain, {fan bread prices be- gan to rise. COOLIDGE CAMPAIGN BOSS THANKS LAFOLLETTE, JR., ~ FOR PAPA'S COURTESY WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Wil- liam M. Butler, chairman of the re. publican national committee, today sent a letter to Robert M, LaFol- lette, Jr. chairman of the republic an jommi of Wisconsin, thanking Senator LaFollette for his promise that only Coolidge electors would be placed on the republican ballots In that state. “Whatever brawls disturb the street,” must be peace between “Cal “Bo” ie * \ —— $e eee OUSTED |. W. W. ASK COURT FOR LAW'S SUPPORT Seek Injunction Against Administration The five members of the Gen- eral Executive Board of the I. W. W. which were ejected from the general headquarters of that organization on July 29, after being suspended from the organization by the remainder of the board and the secretary- treasurer, Tom Doyle, upon charges of disruption, yesterday signed an application for injunc- tion in the Chicago court of Judge Timothy D.* Hurley, County Court building. This injunction immediately issued by the court was served upon Secretary-Treasurer Tom Doyle and General Organizer Joe Fisher yesterday afternoon: It orders them to appear in court at 10 a. m. today to show cause why they should’ not be ordered to vacate the general headquarters of the I. W. W., to nfo. all property and funds 4 on hand jto J. A. Griffith, who was elected last year as the alternate of General Organizer Fisher, and to J. J. Murphy, who was the alternate of Secretary Doyle. The injunction petition is signed by James Rowan, P. D, Ryan, Charles Anderson, Harry Trotter and Fred Bowerman. These deposed officials have established a headquarters rival to the administration against which the injunction is now aimed. Their attorneys are W. F. Bigelow and T. B. O'Connell. Cutting Reichstag. BERLIN, Aug. 11—There are too many parliamentarians running around loose in Berlin, many people think, The announcement of the goy- ernment, that a bill is to be intro- duced by which the representation in the reichstag is to be one for every 75,000 votes cast instead of one for every 50,000 is finding favor. The next reichstag would then have 399 mem- bers inst of 471 as at present, a | Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents KE SPREADS STRIKERS ARE WINNING FIGHT IN HEGEWISCH Even Small Business Men Back Workers The carbuilders in the Ryan Car company, of Hegewisch, adjoining the struck Western Steel Car company, went on strike yesterday, closing down the Ryan shops completely. The men walked out, when the company discharged some of the force and tried to get the carbuilders to do double work. The Ryan strikers will be invited to attend the strike meeting of the Western Steel Car company this morning. Foremen Join Strikers. Some of the bosses in the Western car shop joined /the strikers today when the company officials ordered them to get out in the yards and drive rivets. They refused and walked out. Production is completely stopped in the Western company. Over 700,000 dollars worths of material has been prepared by the production depart- ment for assembling, and is now rust- ing in the yards. Everyone observing the strike makes the same statement that was made during the recent Pullman strike—“This is the ‘mosc~ effective strike conducted in Hegewisch for many years.” The reason is admit- edly the activity of the Trade Union Educational League and the influence of the DAILY WORKER, which is the only Chicago paper writing up the Hegewisch strike. Small Business Alds. Many of the small busines’ men of Hegewisch got behind the strikers yesterday, sending meat and grocer- ies to the strikers and contributing money to tide them over. Sympathe- tic foremen told some of the strikers yesterday that the employment mian- ager has been ordered to settle with the men this week, as hundreds of thousands of dollars are being iost in cancellation of orders and deteriora- tion of material. (NOTE: Early Hammond story on page three.) strike Anglo-Soviet Treaty Success Peeves U. S. Diplomatic Prophets (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.— Admin- istration officials who had prepared to make political capital of the re- ported failure of Russo-British nego- tiations are angry at the sudden change of front in London and the decision of Ramsay MacDonald to sign two treaties with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. These treaties admit the Soviet Union into the credit arrangements by which the British government is building up foreign trade and thereby relieving unemployment at home. What alarms Washington Tories still. more, the Moscow trade delegation will receive diplomatic immunity in England. Mr. Hughes’ advice has fallen on deat ears. JACKASS PARTY MAY BE TORN APART BY WALTON CANDIDACY IN OKLAHOMA (Special to the Daily Worker.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 11.—The Democratic party of this state faces a wide open split in its ranks over the question of support- ing former Governor “Jack” Wal- ton, victor in the primary its nominee for Unite Senator. After wrangling over the prob- lem for an hour, the committee of the jacka Journed for three ho “pi ns might be coole party saved from a split, Walton was impeached for al- leged bribery after a spectacular campaign out of which he became governor. Send in that Subscription Today, ‘ a