The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1924, Page 2

Page Two T LAFOLLETTE Hi BY RUTHENBERG AS FAKE LEADER Exposes Bob’s Silence on Unemployment Four thousand friends of the Workers Party, the largest crowd that ever gathered at a Workers Party picnic, spent Sunday at the Press Picnic in Riverview Park, which netted two thousand dollars to the DAILY WORKER, besides giv- ing aid to the other party publi- cations. The DAILY WORKER carried off the popularity contest, with 30,205 votes. The Lettish Work- ers Party paper, Strahdneek, won second place with 17,036 votes, and the Labor Herald, dye to the last minute elec- tioneering of the canny Jack Johnstone for the, Liberator, carried off the booby prize with 750 votes. Comrade Johnstone pleaded so eloquently that the Liber- ator received 1450 votes and was done out of the booby prize. “All Power to Workers.” C. EB, Ruthenberg, executive secre- tary of the Workers Party, speaking to three thousand people who magsed around the bandstand, declared, “The Communists will not rest until the mass power of the workers wrest the government out of the hands of the capitalists’ puppets and put it in the hands of the workers’ organs—the Soviets— under the leadership of the Workers Party.” “The day is coming when the work- ing class will stand on its own feet and say, ‘If we must have dictator- ship, let us have a dictatorship of the workers.’,” said Ruthenberg. He showed how the American gov- ernment as it is at present consti- tuted, with the Democratic and Re- publican politicians at the helm, is a dictatorship of the capitalist class, with Coolidge, the strike breaker, the figurehead with the Republicans, and Davis, the Morgan lawyer, the rep- resentative of the capitaliSts in the Democratic camp. Ruthenberg then paid his respects to LaFollette and the Socialist Party. Denounce LaFollette Dictatorship. “Germany has its Scheidemann; France its Herriot; England its Ram- say MacDonald,” said Ruthenberg, “And we have our Robert M. LaFol- lette.” Ruthenberg said that LaFol- lette, in spite of his statement that he is against dictatorship, is in favor of the individual dictatorship of Rob- ert LaFollette. He said the central point of LaFollette’s stated platform, is the antiquated trust-busting idea. LaFollette, he declared, wants to en- foree the 38-year-old Sherman anti- trust laws, which have proved so fu- tile in the past in stemming private monopoly. 6. P. Has Kicked Bucket. “The Socialist Party now takes its Place in the LaFollette camp,” Ru- thenberg added, “after for twenty years declaring for the principle that the workers should control the trusts which have already been built up. ‘The Socialist Party, by dissolving it- self in the LaFollette ‘back to 1776’ middle class iddology, demonstrates ite utter bankruptcy.” K Ruthenberg said that LaFollette maintains silence on the question of unemployment. “The workers want the opportunity to work_and produce wealth and earn a livings’ he stated. “But LaFollette says nothing about governmental action to create unem- ployment funds.” Ruthenberg de- manded that workers be paid their galarfés while unemployed. Reason for Deep Silence. Ruthenberg declared that LaFol- Jette,is maintaining silence on these vital questions because he stands (with Colonel Rudolph Spreckles, the California sugar king, and neither Radolph Spreckles nor the small busi- ness men backing LaFollette want to pay “vages to the unemployed. Bulgarian Buttermilk Fermenting. ATHENS, Greevte, Aug. 11— The Communist movement in Bulgaria is making great strides, according to ad- vices from the frontier today. The usual fake news about the Commun- iste being the leaders of border fo- rays 1s being peddled by the kept in- ternational press. BE SURE TO GET U. S. AUTO IMPERIALISTS “SELL” PAN-AMERICANS GOOD ROADS IDEA TO INCREASE BIG PROFITS HERE By OWEN STERLING (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) DETROIT, Aug. 11.—One of the most elaborately planned maneuvers looking toward the exploitation of South and Central America by United States capitalists, was the recently completed tour of 10 states in this country by the so-called Pan-American highway commission, The tour had all the earmarks of a gov- ernmentally financed survey but it was paid for to the last nickel by automobile companies, rubber companies, road machinery companies and American banks. “DAILY WORKER” MAGAZINE SECTION SATURDAY, AUQUST 16th, 1924 On Factory Nuclei (A German Experiment)... Nothing like it on so grand a scale has ever been attempted. Thru the Pan-American union and the U. S. highway educa- tion board, each one of 20 South and Central American repub- lics was induced to send from one to three highway engineers to this coun- try. The party, numbering about 50 technologists, studied highway \ sys- tems in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, the District of Colum- bia, and Illinois. They visited the highway engineering laboratories at the University of Wisconsin and Michigan to learn how highway en- gineers are trained in this country. To Sell More Autos, The reason for the costly survey was the over-production of automo- biles in the United States. The Ford Motor Co. today is working only three to five days a week. The automotive industry of the United States wants new markets. But before there is a large market in South and Central America there must be pavements there. At present goat paths are more common, The capitalists decided to sell Lat- in-America the idea of good roads. The magnitude of the sale is indicated * HERRIOT OFFERS TO QUIT RUHR IN ELEVEN MONTHS French Seek Another Confab on Debts LONDON, Aug. 11.—There is grow- ing optimism here over Herriot’s suc- cess with the French cabinet, in secur- ing an endorsement of what trans- pired in London with reference to putting the Dawes plan into opera- tion. © But counting the chickens before they are hatched is a hazardous tho popular political pastime and there are elements in France that have not yet made manifest their views on the the agreement reached in London. The crux of the situation so far as the French and Germans are con- cerned, is the evacuation of the Ruhr. Premier Herriot made a new proposi- tion, that the evacuation of the Rubr be completed within eleven months by an Argentine representative who{ Provided the Germans carry out their said that in his country $350,000,000 would be necessary at once if the highways were even moderately mod- ernized. Argentina is the best equip- ped of the 20 republics. Official, Puppets Greet Them. The visiting representatives were led first to the white house where President Coolidge and Herbert Hoover welcomed them. Government officials accompanied the party thru the states visited. But financial in- terests paid the bills. The majordomo of the tour was Roy D. Chaplin, chair- man, Hudson Motor Co., and vice president of the U. 8S. automobile chamber of commerce. The visiting engineers were aware that corporations were financing the tour. But they did not see thru most of the tricks of the resourceful sales- men of the north. One of the sales- men, perhaps Chapin himself, was shrew enough to suspect the Latin- Americans would enjoy music,—a kind of sales-talk that would not, of course, be given to an Americap en- gineer. Arrangements were made for Spanish church services. Ford Cordial Salesman. Henry Ford, his son Edsel, and the most glib of his executives were hosts to the party at a luncheon in the Ford Motor Co. private dining room in Detroit. The sale was be- lieved important enough to justify Henry Ford himself playing salesman awhile. The South and Central Am- erican engineers are expected to prop- agandize at home for better roads, Next spring in Buneos Aires a Pan- American highway conference will be held, The engineers who made the study in this country are to be the official program committee of the con- ference. Many manufacturers and fi- nanciers from the United States will therefore be on the program, Deporting Wobblies. SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Aug. 11—Jack Gaveel, political prisoner of Califor- nia, has been deported to Holland, He was the oldest criminal syndical- ism prisoner in San Quentin in yearg of service, having been convicted May 26,1921, in Los Angeles. He has been for many years active in the I. W. W. movement in California. British Bury Mrs. Evans. MEXICO CITY, Mex., Aug. 11.— The body of Mrs. Rosalie Evans, Brit- ish subject, over whose death the Chicago Tribune is still raving, will be buried in the British cemetery to- morrow along side of the body of her husband. Wales to Visit Cal. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — The Prince of Wales, champion interna- tional horse-flopper, will visit Silent Cal Coolidge while here to attend the International Polo matches. THE NEXT ISSUE By W. Ulbriche part of the plan. The Germans coun- tered with a proposition that evacu- ation be completed within six months The dickering still continues, Where League Comes In. It is expected that disarmament of Germany and military control will be invested in the League of Nations. What will happen to the Coolidge government in the next election, be- cause of its unauthorized participation in the London conference and its com- mitting the United States to future Buropean political and financial en- tanglements, will be an interesting subject for speculation, in view of the fate of Woodrow Wilson’s failure with a similar plan. Whether the bankers are now sufficiently powerful to do what they failed to do in 1920 is the question. To Drop Debts. The French are now demanding a conference to deal with Allied war debts. The suggestion is made that this conference be held in November after the American elections, so that in the event of Coolidge being elect- ed, the United States coula officially participate. In fact, official partici- pation of tne United Sates woud be assured. No matter which of the two Wall Street boys is elected, both be- ing perfectly in harmony with the international bankers on tae question of European policy, HARD-BOILED PINEAL GLAND MAY SAVE “BABE” Nathan Leopold’s pineal gland ossi- fied when the slayer was 19 years old, Dr. Harold Hulbert testified Saturday, and therefore Leopold should not be hanged. “Leopold’s pineal gland was calsified at 19,” he said, “when nor- mally this should not occur until about 30.” rian The X-ray also showed some pecu- liar looking grease spots on Leopold's skull, but the alienist explained: “These have no medical significance ~—they are merely the traces of the preparation Leopold uses on fis hair to keep it in order.” The defense is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers and witnesses, and the state is spending hundreds of thousnads of dollars in rebuttal. About the most important conclusion so far brought out is that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold are a couple of fresh and unrepentant kids who freely squandered the money squeezed by their fathers out of poor- ly paid young workers, Glandly speaking, ahead of his time, Leopold was Send in that Subscription Today. ROCKFORD, ILL., WANTS COMMUNIST—LAFOLLETTE DEBATE FOR CAMPAIGN for a debate between a Communist and some representative of LaFol- HE DAILY WORKER DAVIS ACCEPTS NOMINATION IN FORMAL SPEECH Promises to Turn Hose on Washington (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Aug. 11.— Addressing a huge throng of townfolk, neighbors, political henchmen and job- seekers, John W. Davis, the demo- cratic nominee for president, made his speech of acceptance tonight. After paying the ordinary compli- mentary remarks to his birthplace, Mr. Davis got down to what the dem- ocrats propose to call the issues of the campaign. The promised progressiv- ism of the Morgan-Rockefeller lawyer didn’t materialize in the speech, Deplares Blocs. Mr. Davis early in his talk sailed into the tendency toward a sharpening of class divisions in the United States by declaring that: “The solidarity of the great war has given way to a chaos of blocs and sections and classes and interests, each striving for its own advantage, careless of the wel- fare of the whole government itself, to which the humblest citizen has the right to turn with confident reliance in its even-handed justice, has fallen under the prevalent distrust. There is abroad in the land a feeling too gen- eral to be ignored, too deep seated for any trifling, that men in office can no longer be trusted to keep faith with those who sent them there. A situa- tion so threatening to the very foun- dations of the social order demands boldness in facing the causes which have brought it about, and tireless ex- ertion in the effort to remove them.” In the main, the speech was a re- hash of Senator Pat Harrison’s key- note address at the democratic con- vention. It dripped oil and mud in its recitation of the repablican scandals. Republican Confidence Men. The republican party was charged with “having shaken public confidence to its very foundations.” The demo- cratic platform’s abstract generalities regarding the world court were fully indorsed by Mr. Davis, In a half-heater attempt to paint himself progressive, the democratic standard bearer dabbled in generali- ties to the effect that: “All that goes to make better and happier and freer men and women is progress; all else is reaction. Progressives of this sort, tho they may not care to use the name, nevertheless in their hearts are democrats.” There was nothing new or startling in the much advertised labor planks |’ that were to be presented by Mr. Davis in his speech of acceptance. It will be remembered that Mr. Davis re- quested Gompers to withhold the A. F. of L. indorsement of WaFollette, until the executive council would have the opportunity to consider his own labor attitude. Davis on Labor. Mr. Davis merely dodged the vital issues confronting the workingmen. He said: 44 “Concerning our sentiments to- ward labor, there is room for neither doubt nor cavil in the light of our past history. The right of labor to an adequate wage earned under healthful conditions, the right to or- ganize in order to obtain it, and the right to bargain for it collectively thru agents and representatives of its own choosing, have been established after many years of weary struggle. These rights are conceded now by all fair-minded men. They must not be impaired either by injunction or by any other device. The democratic party, however, goes a step beyond this. Its tude has been well de- scribed as one inspired neither by det- erence on the one hand nor by patron- age on the other, but by a sincere desire to make labor part of the grand council of the nation, to concede its patriotism and to recognize that its knowledge of its own needs gives it a right to a voice in all matters of government that directly or peculiarly affect its own rights. This attitude has not changed; it will not change, Democracy in government and democ- racy in industry alike demand the free recogniton of the right of all those who work, in whatever rank or place, to share in all decisions that their welfare. Nothing But Phrases. To the farmers Mr. Davis had noth- ing tangible to offer. He merely mouthed the meaningless phrases of Harrison in this fashion: “To the farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage, but such laws and such administra- tion of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. They are not mendicants and, fortunately to a government genuinely interested in their problems and keenly desirous| metal work These Are Unhappy Vacation Days for Morgan in Europe By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY; the Russian Soviet Republic stands more firm than ever. This is shown by the two facts: FIRST.—The signing of the Anglo-Rusisan treaty. SECOND.—The announcement that Soviet Rule has planned to take care of its own in the drought stricken areas, * * * * An official communication, issued in Moscow, announ- cing the signature of the Anglo-Russian treaty, says: “This treaty brings us nearer the realization *of an agreement recognizing the Soviet as a new form of political, social and eco- nomic regime, and constitutes one of the principal events in the | foreign polley of the Soviets, and consequently in the history of international relations of our times.” ! In other words, the mighty British Empire, on which it is claimed the sun never sets, bends before the indisputable fact that Workers’ Rule has come to stay in Russia. It was Lloyd George, while premier, who claimed that British Rule would never shake hands with the “bloody Bolsheviks.” But that was a long time ago. Lloyd George, who helped send tens of millions to early graves in the world war is no longer premier. He is just an ordinary member of the House of Commons. The enemies of Soviet Rule are being driven into the little places. * * Complete recognition of Soviet Rule by the British means that the trip of Morgan, Lamont, Mellon and Hughes, to Europe, has been pretty much of a failure. Loans to Ger- man workers, who must coin their sweat, blood and agony into gold for Morgan, can look to the East and win inspira- tion for new struggles from the vision of the brightly shining Red Star of victorious Workers’ Rule in Russia. * * ” * “Down with Poincaré! Down with the Ruhr!” shouted the masses in the streets of Paris, when Premier Herriot re- turned to the French capitol, over the week end, to discuss pd developments in London in the battle over the Dawes plan, But Morgan has told Premier Herriot that he must carry out Poincaré’s promises, and only the Communists have pro- claimed, the French with the German Communists, “Away with capitalist rule in the Ruhr!” Herriot, as well as Poincaré, must support the capitalist rule of Morgan, the financial Caesar of the world. It was a Roman Caesar who once heard the warning from the crowd, “Beware of the Ides of March!” Recognition of Soviet Rule, forced from the British Empire, and the French masses in the streets demanding “Down with Poincaré!” must carry meaning to the Caesar's ear of J. Pierpont Morgan. * * And the Soviet Republic has announced that it will feed its own hungry in the agricultural districts hit by this year’s drought. That is bad news for Morgan’s newspapers. These papers have been predicting dire things for Soviet Rule be- cause of partial famine in isolated districts. But the Moscow government has appropriated 138,000,- 000 gold rubles (about $69,000,000) to aid the peasants in the districts where the crops have failed. No one has ever heard of the Fil le Me at Was' er proposing plans for the relief of American farmers who have suffered from crop failures. Instead, these farmers, by the millions are forced to go into the cities and compete for jobs with industrial workers. * * ae * But only 58,000,000 of those gold rubles will be needed to provide grain and meat for the drought stricken farmers. The other 80,000,000 rubles will be used to build giant irri- gation works, to store up the waters of winter and spring against the dry days of future summers. * * Thus does Soviet Rule make progress on every front. Capitalist nations are being forced “to recognize the Soviet as a new form of political, social and economic regime.” That means that on the heels of recognition must come the acceptance, by the workers and farmers of the world, ps Raed Soviet as their own political, social and economic order. The Soviet idea spreads. These must be unhappy “vaca- tion” days for Morgan in Europe. RED ARMY MAN WOOS GIRL WITH BOLSHIE WISDOM IN NEW FILM (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug.‘11.—Life in the Réd Army and the isolated country villages of Russia is shown in a five- reel film, “Beauty and the Bolshe- vik,” shortly to be released by the Friends of Soviet Russia for exhibi- tion thruout the United States, Red soldiers are shown in their schools and at play, as well as helping the Peasants with their crops, The story is that of a battalion com- mandant who woos the village peas. ant girl with Bucharin’s A B C of Communism and marries her after convincing her that a civil cere- mony is more desirable than the incantations of an orthodox priest. A three-reel scenic film is to be shown with this romance, Philadelphia Party. phia meets Tuesday, Aug. 12, at .|D. m., at 621 York Ave. two weeks. August 17, at the Flaxman’s Farm, Rovnost Ludu (Equality of People country. go, Ill. Tallentire in Portland. Building Wages in Tam 80c; plumbers and sheet committee, Farm: $1.12%4; painters, $1; United States, PHILADELPHIA, August 11. — The Central English branch of Philadel- Ten new members have joined during the last The South Slavic branch is mak- ing elaborate preparations for a pic- nic which will be held on Sunday, This is the only revolutionary pa- per in the Slovak language in this If the fellow worker by your beach in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere cannot read English, write us for a sample copy of Rov- nost Ludu, 1510 W. 18th St., Chica- PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 11— Nor- man Tallentire speaks here August 13, at 8 p. my at the Workers Party hall, 227 Yamhill street. A large crowd is expected to hear Tallentire’s attack on militarism and capitalism, ‘Labor Party of the contradicts claims Tuesday, August 12, 1924 COLORED WOMEN PREVENT PROTEST AT SEGREGATION Patriotic Song Drowns Question to Official Three thousand falsetto voices, shrieking “The Star-Spangled Ban- ner” at the command of President Hal- lie Q. Brown at the final session of the convention of the National Associa- tion of Colored Women, at the Wen- dell Phillips high school, effectively drowned out the voice of a Negro man in the audience who attempted to take to task Acting Secretary of Labor Theodore G, Risley for the policy of segregation which is rigidly applied to all employes of government depart- ments in Washington. Risley—short, bow-legged and bald —who had been sent from Washing- ton to address the convention in place of Secretary of Labor Davis, had just blown the last bugle call of a mili- tant war speech, when a tall Negro man arose in the audience, shouting, “Let me ask the secretary of labor one question.” Miss Hallie Q. Brown—stately in a black and silver gown and glittering with jewelry—brought her gavel down on the table with a determined rap. “No questions may be put to the sec- retary of labor,” she ruled. Again came the voice of the tall Negro: “I want to ask the secretary of labor one fair question.” The splendid lady on the platform waved a delicate hand to the pianist; the pianist struck up “The Star-Span- gled Banner,” and the audience rose to its feet and howled in unison. But not before the black man ‘had shouted a last) word: “You're afraid! You're afraid to ask a white man for your rights-” The militant Negro was Mr, J. J. Napier of Nashville, Tenn. Back in 1912, Mr. Napier told the DAILY WORKER, he held a minor position in the treasury department in Wash- ington. Because of the stringent Jim Crow regulations which permeated every department of the government he quit. He had assumed that the democratic administration was respon- sible for the policy of segregation. He found that the republican admin- istration took no steps to remedy it. Mr, J. J. Napier had wanted to ask Secretary of Labor Risley why Hard- ing and Coolidge hadn’t thought it worth while to give Negro employes of the dgpartments the right to use the same stairways, the same elevat- ors, the same washrooms used by the white employes. The last day of the convention of colored women witnessed no such burst of spontaneous enthusiasm as had greeted Robert W. Bagnall’s de- nunciation of the Klan and the re- publican party. The leaders, it is true, couldn't prevent Mrs. Rose Haynes, who works among Negro girls in industry, from demanding that Risley install a Negro woman in a responsible position in the depart- ment of labor. But the audience of three thousand women was fairly do- cile while Risley, six years after the close of the world war, shot off anti- German popguns and howled for mili- tary preparations. They swallowed without blinking his assertion that one of the-reasons for the passage of the Johnson immigration bill is that Ne- gro girls can work most factory ma- chines as well as men of foreign birth. They endured an hour’s eulogy of the republican convention by Mrs, George S. Williams, who praised the party for “having in its ranks most of the country’s multi-milionaires,” And Miss Hallie Q. Brown, retiring from the presidency in favor of her successor, Mrs. Mary Bethune, re- ceived from Roscoe Simmons, repub- lican organizer among Negroes, the gift of a very satisfactory job in the ranks of the republican party, Frisco Will Hold eel Picnic for Relief Of German Workers (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 11.— A day and moonlight picnic, under the auspices of the San Francisco com- mittee for International Workers Aid, will be held Sunday, August 17, at the Neptune Beach. Aside from the numerous enjoyments and sports, a unique review will be given by Ellen ‘; whom are only 2 years old. Herman Nudin, leader of the Ju- gend Movement in Germany, recently arrived here, will speak on conditions in Germany as observed at first He is a stirring speaker and has a large fund of knowledge. The recent Communist victory in Germany indicates the necessity of The Tactical Significance of the Election Pollcy..By James P. Cannon for all of us, are wiling to take the] TAMPA, Fia., Aug. 11, ding Fitzpatrick Out. class ome workers giving their L Arrive in America—A 8torysmenenenes By John Losser |]| (Spection to the DAILY WORKER) |"!8ks that attend their all-important in Tampa are: Carpen-| John Fitzpatrick disclaims any con-|"tmogt support to the relief of the . They are en i German proletariat at this time. 2,000 Mana thonaid: Siene a. Treats. i" deat launietinah ROCKFORD, Ill, Aug. 11—Plans | °#lling ey titled in return 80c to $1 an hour; electrical|nection with the national executive 2, tickets are to sold in advance, price 25 cents. i Rose's gifted youpg pupils, some of . ; to serve them to the limit of its|bricklayers and plasterers, $1.50; la- power.” borers, 40c to 50c an hour. This is The Morgan-Rockefeller attorney|the union scale. Nonunion wages are wound up his speech of acceptance|still lower and the unemployment is with more sweet phrases, evading the|about 25 percent of the union mem- Klan, prohibition, League of Nations,|/berships. Tho shop crafts of the Sea- campaign funds and similar important|board and Atlantic Coast Line roads “issues.” _ jalso report 25 percent —eeeeemaatniieenate Esthonia’s Interest in Russia, MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—It is reported ton of tho t candidacy are being mad It of enthu im aroused by the address of J. Louis Engdahi, Workers Party candidate for U, 8. senator, at the annual pionlo of the Furniture Workers’ Union, at Iill- Park here, It is also hoped to establish an English language branch of the Workers Party here in the near future, + The Geneva Labor Conference. On the Foster-Nearing Debate. VERSE PICTURES —_———————-ORDER NOW!. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, ; Chicago, Illinois «By A. Enderle ly Joseph Brahdy ILLUSTRATIONS of the new Denver national headquar- ters of the party that Fitzpatrick rep- committee. oe ae ps Photo-Eng! Meet. Aug. 18, LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.—The con- in that city bas been. @ steat suocéas,’ vention of the Intl. Photo-Bngray local business circles have been