The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, August 12, 1924 CARMEN’S UNION DRIVE SPREADS INTO HAMMOND Plan to Organize Entire Calumet Region The strike of car makers ‘which has been in progress for the last four weeks against a 25 percent reduction in wages is assuming greater importance owing to the decision of E. K. Hogan, organizer of the Broth- erhood of Railway Carmen, to put on a drive to organize the car builders of the Calumet dis- trict. The campaign in Hammond, Indiana, started Friday night at an organization meeting held in Strobela’s Hall, corner of Mor- ton and Columbia avenues, held under the auspices of the car- mens’ union. The meeting was attended by about @ hundred car builders employed in} the Standard Steel Car plant. The company was represented by a man employed as a clerk to one of the offi- cials at the plant whose duty it is to see to it that the workers do not be- eome organized. The meeting was opened by the declaration of E. K. Hogan that the ‘only solution to the problems con- fronting the car builders of the dis- trict was to organize them \and pre- vent them scabbing on each other to the advantage of the bosses. Mass Addresses Strikers. Z The first speaker was Barney Mass, organizer for the Young Workers League, who made a powerful speech outlining the necessity of the work- ers organizing themselves so that they would be able to fight the wage reduc- tion and open shop campaign being carried on by the companies. He took as examples of how workers can bet- ter their conditions thru organization the clothing and mining industries. He was followed by Tom Bell of the ‘Workers Party, who showed the folly of the workers attempting to better their conditions by fighting in isolated setcions against the well-organized owners of the plants, who unite all their forces against the workers. “Union Will Stick,” Hogan. E. K. Hogan, in a fighting speech, declared that the carmen’s union was “in the district to stay until the car’ builders had been organized. Review- ing the 1919 organization drive, he de- clared that the bosses had only pre- wented the organization of the work- ‘ers of Hammond by the use of their thugs, who killed five workers at that time. But he urged the workers to recognize that a defeat in the past ‘was no reason for giving up the fight to establish a union. Regarding the present campaign, Hogan stated: “The union that I represent is in this fight to stay until the car makers of Hammond are organized into a solid union.” Low Wages Bring Child Death. Reviewing the conditons under which the workers labor, he pointed out that the company houses were the graveyards of working class children, and that the companies kept wages on a common low level because of the competition and scabbing that went on among the workers in the various plants, and that the present plan of the bosses was to lower their wages to @ still lower level. Many Join Union. The result of the meeting was that many of those present gave their names to the organizer as being will- ing to become members of the union. To the DAILY WORKER Hogan ex- pressed his satisfaction over the out- come of the meeting, saying: “The sentiment among the men for an or- ganization is better at the present time than it was two or three years ago, when we were in here before.” The organization campaign is to be spread to Pullman, Michigan City, be- sides Hegewisch and Hammond. Hegewisch Strike Still Solid. The fourth week of the car build- NE item on the Program of Work presented to’ the mem- bership by the Central Executive of the Workers Party is the drive in the combined campaign for new members and subscribers for the DAILY WORKER. Every member of the party has been called upon to secure one new application and a reader for the DAILY WORKER during this cam- Paign. This campaign offers our - party one of the greatest opportunities for constructive work In building up the Communist movement in this country that has been presented during the existence of the party. The Membership Drive, If we could add 15,0007 new mem- bers to our party during the next three months, “we would indeed make a great achievement for the Communist movement in the United States. A party of 40,000 would be a powerful force in the life of the labor movement and In the life of this country. All of the activities of the party would be strengthened and broadened thru such an increase in membership. We would have an increased number of party workers to call upon to carry out the party campaigns and increased financial support for our organization, The achievement of this goal is not Impossible. It Is not a vision- ary idea to expect that our party could in three months’ time add 15,000 members to its ranks. F Rather the reverse is true. The situation in which we find ourselves (Continued from page 1) signed by the military clique in Washington as “Mobilization Day.” The American people are very touchy about militarism. Only when their masters declare war do they go to war and get quite bloodthirsty. But nor- mally they prefer to see the fighting done elsewhere and by other people who like it better. Therefore deep was their wrath when “Mobilization Day” was sprung upon them. They did not like the name. ne @ T is quite true that the masses are not up in arms against this new militarist wrinkle that Washington is trying to carve into the national gran- ite of the United States. But Com- munists and pacifists are bringing the scheme to the attention of the work- ers. There are also politicians Who want to nab the anti-war vote. So Mr. John W. Weeks is obliged to re- ply to militant letters from angry pa- cifists. To one of these letters Mr. Weeks replied saying that the war de- partment in iff “Mobilization Day” was only obeying the law of the land. It seems that an act was passed in 1792 prescribing that all males be- tween the ages of eighteen and forty- five years should be eligible for mili- tary service. So it seems that it took Weeks to obey a law which slumbered peacefully for 132 years. Weeks was unlucky in the selection of “Mobiliza- tion Day” for his warlike exercises. There is a good deal in a nam@ Had he been endowed with braiks he would have called it by some name that would sound better. : Fly Be ‘HE wealth of Mexico has a strong appeal to the imagination of the Chicago Tribune, An alienist would no doubt prove that some gland in the capitalist system which the Tribune upholds, is responsible for this tend- ency. However, the World’s Greatest Liar is impatient to get down into our neighbor's territory and avenge the lives of alleged Americans even if it takes the death of twenty young men is such as to favor our success in putting thru this campaign. The Workers Party is today the only revolutionary party standing upon a working class program which has any life or appeal to the masses of this country. Thru our work in the past two years we have built up a large circle of sympathizers around our party, but we did not, during this period, carry on organ- ized work to bring these sympathiz. ers into the party. What the Central Executive Com- mittee of the party is proposing to the membership is that we cash in in organizational strength on the work which we have done during the past year. The plan of work is simple. Every member of the party is asked to secure one applicant for member- ship during the next three months. Special combined DAILY WORKER and membership application cards have been printed and all material for the drive has been sent to the party branches; The first step to be taken by each party branch is to organize a Mem- bership Campaign and DAILY WORKER Subscription Committee. This committee should supervise and direct the work in the branch. It should see to the distribution of the special literature already sent to the branches. It should keep the record of the work of each member. It should carry on agita- tion in the branch for active work by every member of the branch. There is only one reason which will prevent us from attaining our goal in this campaign. That is the AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. get into Mexico for reasons similar to those which animated the patriotic jingo William Randolph Hearst before he made his peace with Obregon. There is untold wealth in Mexico, and some of our American millionaires would like nothing better than éxploit that wealth with cheap peon labor the United States. Rosalie Evans died in vain. Had she not been married to a hated Saxon, perhaps the patriotic fury of the Ku Klux Klanned popula- tion could be aroused. As it is the pen—just now. Some day, unless a miracle, happens, an excuse will be found and the Stars and Stripes will be carried into Mexico to stay there lieve the time is ripe. ee VERY interesting case in which William Randolph Hearst was involved has just passed thru the New York courts. William J. Fallon, a criminal lawyer, was charged with bribing a juror in a mail fraud case. Fallon, the day after his indictment issued a statement charging Hearst’s New York American with framing him, and with hiding a witness who was alleged to have been bribed by Victor Watson, editor of the New York Am- erican, to testify against Fallon. Ac- cording to Fallon, the reason for Hearst's animosity toward him was, knowledge that Fallon had in his pos- session the birth certificates of three ee of a prominent movie ac- Tess, ee EARST is also alleged to have formation was locked in the manly breast of Mr. Fallon but Mr. Hearst had visions of blackmail, therefore he sicked his man Watson on to Fallon. But Fallon proved everything but an easy mark. He turned the tables on Hearst and emerged victorious, _* * 'HE incident shows the power ot under the protection of the guns of Tribune may curse, fume and turn out rotten editorials but nothing will hap- when the rulers of this country be- ent detectives to Florida to get evideftce against Mrs. Hearst. This in- fact that we are unable to mobilize our present membership for the work in hand. If every branch of the party will proceed at once with the work of organization and every member give support to this cam- paign, we will be able to make this achievement for our party and for the Communist movement in this country. ‘The Daily Worker Subscription Campaign. Last year our party mobilized its / strength and raised close to, $100,- 000 for the establishment of the DAILY WORKER. This was an achievement to be proud of, Thru the efforts of our member- ship, we are able to create our daily paper, to establish its own printing plant and to secure a buliding to house the DAILY WORKER and the National Organization of the party. Too many members of the party, however, have concluded that the task was done with the establish- ment of the DAILY WORKER. The contrary is true. The establishment of the DAILY WORKER and the printing plant is only the beginning in making of the DAILY WORKER @ powerful weapon for the Commun- ist movement in the United States. We now have the daily with a circulation of approximately 15,000. That is something, but it means that we are not making full use of the potential strength which our daily gives us. The DAILY WORKER should have a subscription list of 50,000 in place of 15,000. It is the task of our party to secure the additional readers for the dally. We must NEW HAVEN IS ENTHUSIASTIC AGAINST WARS Hundreds Hear Gitlow, Simons Expose Morgan (Special to The DAILY WORKER) held here for many years. president candidate, and by Organizer, William Simons. The myei- ing was held at the Central Green Rendstand. es of war, going into detail into the causes of the World War ten years ago. He showed the finger of Mor- gan in every move, showed how the war sentiment was artificially created, and the workers hurled slaughter, ‘He foretold the greater waste in lives and wealth of the com- ing war. Gitlow explained the role of unemployment in the present sys- tem, and showed how the race for brought on the clash. He pointed to the possibility of war in the Japan- United States controversy over who was to exploit the undeveloped eco- nomic resources of China. Jobless Workere Hear. Turning to this country, Gitlow dency, General Dawes, branding him as the agent of the House of Morgan. He paid similar respects to Davis. The New Haven, death scattering muni- tion plants, were seized upon by the speaker to prove the ever-increasing productive capacity of capitalism, which brings on unemployment soon- er, and makes necessary the quest for foreign markets. The unemployment present, many of whom were without jobs. William Simons, organizer of the Connecticut District, recalled to the NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 11.—New Haven held an open air meeting Sat- urday night, which comrades call the Over 700 700 workers heard war denounced by Benjamin Gitlow, Workers Party vice- District Gitlow discussed the economic caus- into the markets, and spheres of investment saiued into his rival for the vice presi- THE DAILY WORKER Build the Party and the Daily Worker Combined Membership and Daily Worker Drive Presents Great-Opportunity for Constructive Work ~~ By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, Workers Party mobilize the whole party to build up the subscription list of the daily. The attitude of most comrades has been that the job was done when the DAILY WORKER was estab- lished. What the Central Executive Com- mittee is now asking of the party is that it put into the drive to increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER the same enthusiasm, the same hard work which was put into the campaign to secure the funds for the establishment of the DAILY WORKER. We must double and treble our circle of readers. if we treble our |. circle of readers we will thereby treble the influence of the Commun. ist Party in the United States, We will be creating new circles of sym- pathizers around our party, whom in turn we wil be able to win for the party and thus continue the work of building our organization. As part of the campaign for in- crease of the subscription list of the DAILY ‘WORKER every branch is asked to appoint a DAILY WORK- ER subscription agent as a member of the committee having this cam- paign in charge. This is one of the important points of the campaign. The building of such an organiza- tion for the DAILY WORKER means building for the future as well as carrying on the work of the present campaign. All Together to Build Our Move- ment. Comrades of the party! The com. bined DAILY WORKER and Mem- bership Drive has not as its goal something to be achieved in the far distant future. Thru this work we can secure immediate results. We can complete a task which will make us proud of our organization. The Central Executive Committee expects that every branch of the party, no matter what language sec- tion it is part of, will participate in this campaign. Our campaign for the DAILY WORKER will build the central English organ of our party. The membership drive will strength- en every section of the party. Let us all together put our shoul. ders to the wheel. and give our party a big push forward. The re- alization of the slogan, “Every mem- ber get a member—every member get a subscriber for the DAILY WORKER,” means a great drive for- ward. No party meeting can be per. mitted to pass without the member ship and DAILY WORKER drive coming before it. No public meet- ing of the party should be held with- out an appeal for new members and an appeal for readers for the DAILY WORKER, Our party constitution prescribes that only “those persons who. are willing to participate actively in the party work can be members of our party. It is the proud boast of the Communist Parties of every country and the Communist International that the Communist Parties are made up of the advance guard of the working class—the active, militant workers. LET US PROVE THIS IN THIS UNITED CAMPAIGN TO BUILD OUR PARTY AND THE DAILY WORKER. NEGROES URGED TO SUPPORT ONLY PAPER WHICH GIVES ALL WORKERS SQUARE DEAL: THE DAILY WORKER By GORDON OWENS All news or rumors, detrimental to or placing a Negro or Negroes in an unfavorable light, always appears on the front page of the capitalist owned and controlled newspapers. 999 word “Negro The always appears in large letters in the headline when a Negro is accused of some crime. All news favorable to or placing a Negro or Negroes in a good light always appears on* the last pages of the capital- ist owned and controlled news- papers, in case same happened to appear at all. The Chicago Daily News carrieda small write-up of The Negro San- hedrin last February on page 16. Likewise on page 18 appeared a tiny article reporting the convention of The National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People in June. At this writing, The Daily News and Tribune have both ignored the con- vention of The Universal Negro Im- provement Association, now being held in New York. This is the larg- est Negro mass organization in tae world. Lie and Mislead. The Chicago Daily News of July 30, page 1, column 1, carries a gambling expose article headlined, “Police Drive Closes Negro Gambling Dens.” Same was featured on front page for three consecutive days. The Chicago Tribune of Sunday, Aug. 3, in reporting a fight between two Negro youths and some whites on a Wentworth Ave. car, headlined same war industries of Bridgeport and argument appealed to the workers on its first page that a mob attempted to lynch the Negroes. This is a yvi- cious lie. Two weeks ago the lying and filthy Tribune in reporting a fight between a light and dark skinned Ne- gro, stated that a white man shot a Negro in the leg because the Negro married the sister of the white man, Defaming for Bosses. All sorts of crimes are committed every day by members of other races, but their racial identity, such as Jew, Trish, German or English never ap- pears in the headline nor in the arti- cle telling of the crime. Why the dit- ference? workers. The DAILY WORKER fights the battle of both black and white workers. The white workers are badly in need of the kind of information about the Negro, which The DAILY WORKER contains. Boost DAILY WORKER. Let the Negro and white workers support The DAILY WORKER, which seeks to unite them, and cease sup- porting their bosses’ organs, the capi- ‘talist newspapers which seeks to di- vide Negro and white workers and keep them hating and fighting each other for the bosses special interest. Berkeley Chief of Police May Be Head Of San Quentin Pen BERKELEY, Cal., Aug. 11.—The real reason for the return of August Vollmer, Berkeley's chief of police, who was lent to Los Angeles for a year, but ran home after the San Pe- dro klan riot, may be revealed in a statement of Governor Richardson that he has selected Vollmer as war- den of San Quentin, to succeed James A. Johnston. Richardson*has been trying for a long time to get rid of Johnston, a Hiram Johnson follower. Johnston says he is still in San Quentin and expects to remain there. Vollmer is on his honeymoon. In view of the hundred political prisoners in San Quentin, the attitude of the war- den toward labor is of vital impor- tance, Vollmer did not shine in San Pedro, his avowed neutral attitude working out practically in assistance for the rioters. Page ‘Three «; vi 3 LEN SMALL GANG | HOOKING UNIONS FOR LAFOLLETTE: S. P. Lines Up With Walker and Olander The American Federation of Labor officials definitely entered the LaFob lette campaign in Illinois today with the announcement that these officials | “have established headquarters at the Morrison Hotel in conjunction with the national campaign headquarters.” The same reactionary officials of the Illinois Federation of Labor, directed by John Walker and Victor Olander,! who are campaigning for the regular’) Republican Len Len Small, have taken over rooms in the luxurious and spacious LaFollette suite which coy-| ers most of the fourth floor of the! Morrison Hotel. Hi-Jacking the Negroes. | At the same time it was announcetf4 that G. Victor Cools, of the Co-opera-{ tive League of America, has been ap-| ;Dointed National Manager of the Ind: pendent Colored Voters LaFollette for’ President Club, to cash in on DaFol-4 lette’s reluctant anti-Klan statement} and round\up the Negro vote. Statements have been sent to the! local unions of the Chicago Federa-| tion of Labor asking that a LaFollette4 campaign committee of five be ap- pointed, and funds donated to LaFol,’ lette. The Len Small Federation ma-{ chine, which knifed the class Farmer-' Labor Party in the back, claiming that organized labor should keep out of active participation in politics, is! now busy rounding the union mem- bers to work for LaFollette. Socialist Gets Democratic. At the last meeting of tool and die makers lodge No. 113, of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, busi- ness agent Dillon, member of the So- cialist Party, who six weeks ago de- nounced the Farmer Labor Party ad- votates for “injecting politics into the union,” appealed for the organization to get behind LaFollette. When a member of the union moved to vote down LaFollette’S appeal for aid, the president of the lodge denied } him the floor on the ground that he* “was lying when he said LaFollette was a representative of the middle class.” This lodge member appealed from the decision of the chair, and mustered almost half of the members to vote against the gag rule of the La- Follette advocates. The LaFollette aid was rushed thru by the reaction- ary machine, however. ORGANIZE YOUTH OFHAMMONDIN LEAGUE BRANCH Following the organization meetin, held last Friday under the auspices of | the Carmen’s union at Hammond, In. diana, a meeting was called of the. young workers by Barney Mass of the} Young Workers League and Tom Bell’ of the Workers Party. Forty-tw: young workers attentively listened to the speeches delivered and signified” their willingness to become members! of the League and enlist as active fighters against the rotten conditions of American capitalism, which is ex-, ploiting the youth of the country ta! swell the profits of the bosses. | The majority of those attending thé# meeting are employed in the Stan- dard Steel Car company and know the necessity of the young workers organ: izing to fight against the rotten cons ditions and low wages under which they work. The message of the com- munist fight against capitalism was listened to attentively and with a: preciatfon, 4 Complete Organization Tonight. y An organization meeting was de-4 cided on, to be fheld on Tuesday, August 12, at 7:30 p. m. in Strobel: Hall, corner of Morton and Columbi Aves., East Hammond, to complete | the organization of the branch. ‘The | new members of the League will pro- vide an orchestra for the dance which will take place at the close of the organization meeting. to balance the loss of every so-called ers’ strike in Hegewisch finds the ranks of the strikers still unbroken, wera’ handy beg ins irri bom A new development in the conduct of | very American who heige ip et the strike is the collection of funds|+,, hands of ® Mexican roe ps from the shopkeepers of the town for | reyicans were killed in the stee! mills the support of the strikers and thelr| 56 tne United States, ‘The ba i families. Friday was the first timely, a puny Mexican slesiayy pale that his was taken up, and it will bel arg in the bucket Basal byte bade yen canta Fat oh ag flows from the sewers, of the hell sadly vy, the |"oles where American legalized ban- support of the strikers: Joo Yalo.| “its make their millions. The Trib- rm , {une is now quite excited over the death of Rosalie Evans, the female the capitalist press and the un- scrupulousness with which this power is used to crush the enemies of their owners, Hearst is reputed to be the most unscrupulous of the unserupu- lous. His name has been linked with that of a movie actress and so has the name of the late attorney general, Harry Daugherty. In the struggle be- tween the two the publisher was the victor and Daugherty went to the mat but a friendly relationship was estab- lished between the two which lasted even thru the investigation of the De- partment of Justice which brot about Daugherty's downfall. The story did not appear in the Sunday supplements of the Hearst papers but Tf Mr. Fallon is brapeed the truth it may appear in t some other papers before long. Not ceastug a policy of fsolntion was r peer Logi lead shown to be ludicrous, in the Nght of i The c our leading statesmen, who were “va- " . cationing” in Burope, attending to Mergan’s affsirs. Simons advised the workers to see to it that when the neat war started that it should be into a war against capt- tal, a to establish a Soviet Gov- The employing or ruling class de- sire that all Negroes be placed in an inferior position to all whites in order to flatter the white workers and have hem to believe themselves superior to and better than Negroes. Natur- ally the exploited white workers who are under this illusion will not join hands or unite with nor fight in com: mon with Negro workers to better conditions in general lest the criminal Negroes may become the equals of the duped and exploited “sciésorbill” white workers. To Keep Workers Divided, This anti-Negro propaganda of the bosses and employers, carried on thru their newspapers, is their best wea- pon to divide Negro and white work- ers, and to keep alive prejudice against Negroes. ‘Awakened and class conscious Ne- gro and white workers must make hereulean efforts to induce workers of both races to read and subscribe to the working class newspaper, the DAILY WORKER. u One Paper Fair, The DAILY WORKER prints on its a i cot placing Negroes in Govern- and truthful news of th ( ia and handicaps of | minds of the audience the flying ban- ners, the blowing trumpets, accom- panying the draft call. Once more the workers will be compelled to give up standards of work, won by years of hard struggle. After the next war, again they would be faced by the open op drive, And the capitalists, the jingoes, would use the war to enrigh themsel and would not suffer pro- secution. The workers would again be called upon to fight their masters’ bat- tles for them. The situation in all countries of the Western Hemisphere, especially Mexico and Central am ica, was pictured, revealing the lovee of Morgan, making and unmaking gov- ernments, “Down With Warl” That war could be prevented by Send In that Subscription Today. a é SAN FRANCISCO I. W. A. Monster Day and Moonlight | PICNIC For the Relief of the Struggling Workers of Germany af Ellen Rose's Kiddy Revue — Bay District Singing Societies |; Aeroplane Rides — Bathing — Dancing — Whip Riding , » at the eS NEPTUNE BEACH, ALAMEDA, CAL, Sunday, August 17th, 1924 8 A. M. to 12 P. M, fi The United States has lost its pres- tige. Ramsay MacDonald would send warships to shoot up some Mexi-