The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 2

| Page Two NEW STRUGGLE BRINGS |. W. W. INTO COURTS Judge Hurley PutsCase Off to Fi riday After six years members of the Industrial Workers of. the World are back in the courts of Cook County (Chicago) once more, but' under entirely dif- ferent conditions. During the summer of 1918, while the world war was raging over the battlefields of Europe, more than a hundred I. W. W. faced unflinchingly the 100 per cent ‘jingo, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, in the federal courts. Stood Solid Against Landis. Every conceivable charge that the kept prosecutors of the capitalist class, maddened at having their war Plans interfered with by workers op- posing capitalist wars, were hurled at the I. W. W. It was a class fight car- ried on in capitalism’s own courts, with one of the pet judicial poodles of big business, Landis, now the over- seer of baseball, as referee. But that was in 1918. Then the “wobblies” were united against their common class enemy. Today the “wobblies” are before Judge Timothy D. Hurley, in the county courts, fight- ing each other. Contending groups of officials came before the capitalist FOSTER TAKES SECOND PLACE IN TEST VOTE AMONG CALIFORNIANS LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 12.— William Z. Foster, presidential can- didate of the Workers Party, took second place In the test vote poll made here among the followers of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Wisconsin Moses, LaFollette, took first place. The Wall Street puppets, Coolidge and Davis, were not in the running, not obtaining a single vote. About as many as voted for Foster, indicated their in- tention to refrain from voting at all. The poll was taken by a show of hands. BANKERS READY TO FLOAT BIG GERMAN LOAN Stresemann and Herriot Tentatively Agree (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, Aug. 12.—Having elimi-* nated most of the obstacles in their way, the international bankers who are taking a first mortgage on Europe agreed to set the machinery in motion to raise the loan of $200,000,000 which the Dawes\plan needs in order to put it to work. The bankers are not doing so badly at that. The interest charged will be 7 per cent, if the bankers have -their way. Capitalist Leaders Chummy. M. Herriot of France and Herr Stresemann of Germany are getting judge, who could well afford to pe} Bong famously, the millions of Ger- friendly, as he was. The bosses and their lackeys are not afraid when the workers are divided. Must Wait For Cunnea. The proceedings were halted until Friday when the high-priced labor lawyer, William A. Cunnea, did not appear. He was reported out of town. Cunnea was among the defense law- yers in the trial of the members of the Communist-Labor Party, in 1921; in the trial of the five socialists be- fore Judge Landis, im 1918, and in the trial of Eugene V. Debs, at Cleveland. He is the legal caunsel for the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica, and his services come high. Evi- dently the “wobblies” are in for an era of heavy court expenditures. Judge Hurley instructed Tom Doyle and Joe Fisher, representing the ad- ministration in charge of the general {man and French workers who were killed and maimed in the great war being conveniently forgotten the cap- italist statesmen confining their di- plomatic activities to questions of trade and barter. The radicals who said during the war that the German and French capi- talists would sip wine and smoke cigars and barter away the lives and fiberties of their respectives peoples, after the war was over, -were looked upon as false prophets but their pre- ‘dictions are amply borne out today. Herriot, the radical socialist and Stresemann, the Kajgerite, are con- versing quite agreeably over trade. Unknown soldiers may rest in peace. Reach Tentative Agreement A tentative agreement has been reached between France and Germany or strictly speaking between Herriot and Stresemann. On the evacuation 001 W. di sof the Ruhr, Herriot is. willing to so — i goin acts Gian ne eliminate the time element and swap court Friday. Attorney Bigelow Explains. Attorney William F. Bigelow, coun- nis original proposal of eleven months for immediate evacuation, provided Germany gives France and all the other signatories to the Versailles sel for the group seeking control of|treaty most favored nations treatment. the I. W. W. headquarters, headed by| Herriot also demands the right of General Organizer J. A. Griffith and] Alsace and Lorraine to ship goods into Secretary-Treasurer J. J. Murphy, | Germany duty free for the next five tried to explain to the DAILY WORK- | years. ER the, reasons for bringing the in- It is rumored that England looks ternal struggle in the “wobbly” or-|with no loving gaze on the rapproach- ganization into court. Ment between Germany and France. “The I. W. W. has a general ex-|The possibility of a German-French ecutive board consisting of seven | alliance against the British is not out- members,” said Mr. Bigelow. “J. A.|side the bounds of possibility and it Griffith is the general organizer and|Wwould not be a metter of surprise to J. J. Murphy, general setretary-treas-|see MacDonald or some other British urer. Joe Fisher was ousted from the! diplomat trying to break the chain of organization and was to have come be-| conciliation which thé international fore the general executive beard with| bankers forged with a gold loan of his grievanceyat the meeting July 29. $200,000,000. Instead Fisher organized a gang of gunmen and they ran us out of the May Kill Conference. Information that the United States - .| would not be officially represented at gn aby ae he eee ae the proposed debt conference which us get our rights.” may be held sometime in Decem- ber. It is quite possible that refusal Many Attend Court. on the part of the United States to There were capitalist newspaper] participate officially may knock the reporters standing about, to whom proposal into a cocked hat. However Lawyer Bigelow said, “Now you fel-| in the event of Coolidge being elected, lows from the press have a way of|the administration may decide to send writing us I. W. W. up as gunmen|an official representative instead of and ruffians. All that we ask of the| an unofficial observer as is now plan- press is that we receive fair and just| ned. treatment.” There was a goodly sprinkling of Brazil Revolt Still On. “wobbles” in the court room. In- WASHINGTON, August 12.—Mora- terest In the case is spreading, and|toriums for 45 days has been estab- Judge Hurley is expected to hold] lished in the state of Sao Paulo, Bra- court Friday morning before a full] zil, where revolutionary movements house. are still in operation. Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue MAKE Monday, Sept. 1, a real “Labor Day” for the American Communist movement, by distributing a bundle of the First 1924 Campaign Issue of the DAILY WORKER. ‘ FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., isn Chicago, III. For the enclosed §... send mi copies of the First Special Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the special rate of 3/2 cents per copy, or $3.60 per hundred. | want to help ri the standards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party ticket—Foster and Gitlow. NAME ADDRESS .... nnensvaneneanvecansssaseseneeses . STATE.. PEACE IN DAVIS STABLE RAGES AS DONKEYS KICK Animals Not Recovered from Circus Spree (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLARKSBURG, Aug. 12.—Demo- cratic donkeys are kicking over the traces in the new political stable over which John W. Davis presides. This was learned when a battle royal took place on the national committee between the Smith followers and those who saw in the candidacy of William Gibbs MacAdoo the pillar of flame which would help the Nordic race lead America thru the wilderness which is infested with brigands and evil doers in the persons of countless Koons, Kikes and Katholics, Clem’s Wings Clipped. Clem L. Shaver, who trimmed the republicans in West Virginia and put across a democrat as governor had about as much luck with the Kath- olics on the national committee as silent Cal Coolidge had with the last republican congress. Clem appointed Bruce Kremmer, of Montana, a Mac- Adoo man to the running strings in his pajamas, vice-chairman, but it only took George Brennan and his cohorts a few minutes to ease Krem- mer out of his position and ease Frank L, Hague, of New Jersey, & healthy supporter of beer and heavy wines, into the vacancy. Didn't Want Another Tack. “After Kremmer was thus uncere- moniously booted in the posterior, George Brennan roge and smilingly moved that Kremmer be appointed Western campaign manager. This only set several Ku Koo democrats wag- ging their ears furiously. What John W. Davis needs is a police detail for his campaign commit- tee meetings and not a campaign manager. KATTERFELD I$ WELCOMED BACK INTO MOVEMENT “Glad to Get Back’”’ Is Communist’s Stand About two score comrades gathered n.a restaurant here in a welcome suncheon to L, E. Katterfeld, just paroled from the state prison at Joliet, Ill. After a few short addresses by Earl Browder, Jim Cannon, Rose Karsner, Max Bedacht, Jay Lovestone, George Maurer and Max Shachtman, Comrade Katterfeld spoke. “I am glad to get back into the par- ty and I want to say that prison puts iron into one’s heart. I am not yet a free man, it is true; merely paroled to New York. I will be supposed to keep respectable company and be home every night before 9 o’clock. “When I want to get into the fisti- cuffs against the man, you and I want to fight, the capitalist class, I find handcuffs still on me. When I want to get into the run of things, T have the disadvantage of a hobble- skirt. But so far as I am able, I shall join with my comrades in the com- mon cause for which we are organ- ized and united in the Communist movement.” Comrade Katterfel€ was a promi- nent leader in the fight against the right wing in the Socialist’Party and also in the movement to build up the Communist cause in America, He is out on parole for a year, after having served his sentence in the Communist Labor Party case for @1 Scouts was halted today because of year and two days. lowe BILL WILSON IS PICKED TO SELL DAVIS TO LABOR (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, August 12.— Dig- ging into the past to establish claim: for the purest “friendship for labor” has been made a favorite campaign exercise, since the democratic na- tional ‘committee discovered that “Uncle Billy” Wilson, former secre- tary of labor and long-ago general sec- retary of the United Mine Workers, would take a job in its publicity staff, Wilson has a nation-wide acquaint- ance among conservatye labor of- ficials and among mild progressive: and it will be his business to “sell Davis” to this element on the basis ot Davis’ record in congress before the war, When other arguments fail, Wilson will claim personal credit for the winning of the Seamen's Act, the postal workers’ anti-gag law and other legislative histories of the long ago, Nobody here is inclined to harshly criticise “Uncle Billy” for taking this job as defender of Morgan’s lawyer, Wilson has been too kindly and gen- erous in personal affairs to save a competence for his age, and his busi. ness ventures since he left the cabi- net have not been eminently success- full. Send in that Subsoription Today. THE DAILY WORKER Canadian Railroad Bosses Hardboiled at Wages’ Demand TORONTO, Aug. 12.—The Canadian Pacific and the Canadian National railways have refused the request of the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men for an increase of 5 per cent in pay, as granted by the eastern U. S. railways. The original request of the men’s organizations was that the re- duction of 1. per cent made a couple of years ago be rescinded, but after an, agreement on.5 per cent was reached im the United States, the Canadian demand was revised accord- ingly. The American’ employes got the 5 per cent in exchange for some of the working rules they had previ- ously gained. BUDDING KING OF BRITAIN TO DINE WITH CAL Flunkey Harvey Will Arrange Details (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, August 12.— The Prince of Wales is coming. This news should make the millions of unem- ployed forget their thin stomachs and the pangs of worry over the probabili- ty of a cold, lean winter. His Royal Highness will wear his famous smile, superinduced by good Scotch whiskey which is considered a necessary part of his spiritual equip- ment. The prohibition dicks will be warned to keep clear of the Prince’s wine preserves. The enthusiast who raided the cellar of William Howard Taft's relative lost his job. Will Be Himself. It is refreshing to learn that H. R. H. will not travel officially incognito, as Lord Renfrew. He will be the Prince of Wales. His father, in a lucid moment, decided that it would never do in those critical days for such a useful royal appendage to shed one whit of his value to British capi- talism while visiting the rich Uncle who has the money. The prince will attend the interna- tional polo matches on Long Island. Mrs. James A. Buden, of Suosset, Long Island, will entertain H. R. H. during his stay. She will be assisted by several hundred debutantes and post-debutantes. Lord Renfrew alias the Prince of Wales will have a private luncheon with the president. The prince’s itenerary will be in the hands of Col. George Harvey. bas U.S, ARSENAL IN PHILIPPINES IS DESTROYED Explosion Kills Injures Many MANILA, P. L, Aug. 12. — The Philippine government magazine, con- taining the entire, store of several hundred tons of explosives situated on Talim Island, was destroyed by, a terrific explosion, which killed “two constabulatory guards and injured several children that were playing in the vicinity. So far the United States govern- ment military authorities have not traced the disaster to propaganda from Moscow or from the Workers Party of America. No doubt that omission will soon be made good. The trial of 208 Philippine Boy Two; the exhaustion of the funds. to: pay the court stenographer, The trial is taking place before a military court. It is expected that 125 witnesses will be called. 2,000 Cheer Communist International in New York Anti-War Rally (By The Fe Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The Amer- ican round-the-world flyers’ trip “is just a symbol of preparations now be- ing made by the United States for a future war which will be fought in the air,” William Weinstone told an anti- war meeting in New York held on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the world war by the Workers Party. Al- tho a plentiful supply of police re- serves had been sent to the meeting, they did not interfere with the speak- rs. Over 2,000 workers cheered the lusions to the Communist Interna- tional as the one force which could prevent capitalist wars, . K. K. K. Denies Branding. DANVILLE, Il, Aug. 12,— The Rankjn Council of the Ku Klux Klan today offered $500 reward for informa- tion leading to the arrest and conyic- tion of assailants who branded the initials K, K. K. upon Ralph Aaron, young man of Rankin, IlL, ten days ago. The klansmen aver that it was done by Aaron's friends after learn- ing that he contemplated joining the Knightgowned Knuts. They aro pret ty sore that someone administered a dose of their own medicine to one of Lester Lapidus Lives; Martin Tabert Died; Present Day Contrast By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, Lester Lapidus, 17-year old son of an Omaha mil- lionaire, is back home again, after a week’s disappear- ance, and the yellow press breathes more easily than for several days. Both Chicago’s morning dailies, the “Tribune” and Hearst's “‘Herald-Examiner,” have already claimed credit for locating the lost Lester. No doubt the afternoon sheets will make similiar contentions. et i. a The DAILY WORKER has given just as much space to this case as the kept press gives to the disappearance of | thousands of unknown sons and daughters of the working class—NOT A LINE. ; : It is only giving this notice now to contrast the feverish excitement manifested by publications upholding things as they are, when some rich idler is in jeopardy, with the deep silence that prevails when a worker is in danger. Lester had been sent off to the citizens’ military training camp at Fort Des Moines, lowa. He was to learn the duties of an officer in capitalism’s military machine. Officers are the soldiers who stay far in the rear, out of danger, while the workers, taken out of the shops, the mines, mills and fac- tories, are sent into the front line trenches, to do the fight- ing and die. ‘ Lester tired of army life and started off for the bright lights of Chicago. The millionaire father offered a huge re- ward for his return. An airplane was put to work vi gz all the towns between Des Moines and Chicago. Pictures and stories appeared on the first pages of the kept press, done in the best hysteria style. When Lester made himself known in Chicago, his father came for him and he was taken home in a Pullman. If Lester had been some young worker, tired of the daily grind of the factory, and bent on seeing the country for himself, he would be picked up as a tramp, arrested for rancy, and put to work on a rock pile. If he happened to indulge his little adventure in the South, in Alabama, he would be sold as convict labor in the coal mines, in Florida, in the lumber camps, in the Carolinas, into the turpentine hells. ene Lester Lapidus goes back to Omaha to resume his job 4 rich idler. He may be heard from again in another “Franks ase.” It is’ well to remember, however, what happened to Martin Tabert, the young North Dakota farmer who went straying, thinking this was a “free country,” finally landing in Florida. : Nothing was ever said about young Tabert until he was reported as being dead, lashed to death—murdered in a lumber gap Tabert didn’t have the usual “visible means of support,” wi ich is a crime for a worker, and he was arrested, thrown into jail and finally farmed out to the Florida lumber camps. It is just as safe to lash a white man to death in these days, if the man happens to be a worker, as it was to murder Negro slaves before the Civil War. So Tabert was murdered, when he became sick and couldn't work, and the lash was laid across his back until he was dead by sadistic overseers, descendants of the Simon Legree of slavery days, who are rewarded according to the work that is turned out by the white slaves of today. e * * Hearst's sheet, carrying its usual sermon advises Amer- ica's rich youth not to run away from home, because it might worry their mothers. But Hearst's papers support the social system that daily drives thousands of the daughters of the working class into white slavery, where it does not destroy their lives on the wrack of wage slavery. Hearst's yellows support the capitalist system that crushes working class youth in its prime and makes recruits for the wandering armies of homeless, aimless, hopeless men tramping the nation’s highways; casual workers fighting each other for the few jobs that occasionally present themselves. * * * * The yellow press is seeking to make the nation safe for young parasites who must have their adventures to idle away a surplus of leisure time. The DAILY WORKER is fighting to make this nation safe for the working class. That can only be done thru labor taking over all power and building a new social order where the lot of the workers will’be given all consideration. The manage 1 apa that weeps over the pin pricks of petty parasites, while it helps grind the hundred million of American oppressed still deeper into the mire of misery and want, will then become an antique hems ‘ Workers! Help hasten the day when this capitalism will be retired to the museum of history. “BABE” SNICKERS AT CROWE ANTICS IN BORING TRIAL Alienist Flustered by Cross- ination The notorious anti-labor specialist, Robert, H, Crowe, who is leading the state's forces in the prosecution of the Loeb-Leopold trial, yesterday threw “Babe” Leopold into convulsions of laughter by his cross-examination of Dr, Harold S. Hulbert, defense alienist. The “million dollar defense” being conducted by the families of Loeb and Leopold is atfording much amusement to the spectators and worry to the de- fense, who are beginning to feel that their claims that the youths on trial are demented-may not save them from the gallows, pineal glands or not. The entire day of the trial was taken up with the cross-examination of H bert by Crowe. The State's” Attorne; was intent upon confusing the honor- able specialist into admitting that the tests of Loeb and Leopold were inac- curate and that the stories they told him about dreams may coctions of the imagination, made up to fool the doctor, ~ The doctor, being an honest man, is easily led into damaging admissions for the State by the wily interroga- tions of the prosecutor. The defense rests its case today, Washington Branches Plan Excursion for Daily Worker Drive WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The two branches of the Workers Party in Washington have joined hands in ar- ranging an excursion to be held Sun- day, August 24, The excursion will held at Marshall Hall, the boat for which leaves the city at 10:00 a. 2:30 p.m.; and 6:30 p.m. Not only are the amusements enjoyable, and the dancing free but the boat ride is down the beaut! Potomac river. Tickets are 60 cents, 25 cents for chil- dren under 12 years of age. — Two-thirds of the proceeds go to the DAILY WORKER and the rest will be kept by the local to keep on its work, ‘ For tickets, communicate with Dr. 8S. R. Pearlman, 702 Pennsylvania Ave, Northwest, Washington, D. ©, Send in that Subscription Today, /a vein, ” Wednesday, August 13, 1924 FORGET WALL ST, BLAST; DANGER. OF SUITS PAST Burns Bluffed for Years to Cheat Victims CLEVELAND, Aug. 12.—The Broth- erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s magaine calls editorial attention once more to the fishy char. acter_of the attempts to solve the Wall Street. explosion which cost many lives in the fall of 1920. "Tho William J. Burns announced half a dozen times that he had caught the alleged bolshevik plotter it always turned out a case of mistaken iden- tity. Now when the legal limitations for civil damage suits is in force the hunt for the criminal seems’ to have been dropped. The Firemen’s maga- zine comments: “It appears that at the time of the explosion this load of nitro-glycerine, or whatever it was, was being trans- ferred for use in excavation work be- ing conducted as a preliminary to the erection of a building by certain Wall Street interests, and this notwith- standing that the transportation of explosives in the city by daylight was ‘prohibited by a city ordinance. Some- thing, it seems, bumped the wagon as it turned the corner and caused the explosion. “Then a very well known prince of finance called in the detective above referred to and they agreed that prob- ably millions of dollars of damage suits would result if the facts be- came known and the said detective started out with the ‘cry of ‘red bomb plot.’ “This same detective was employed at the time extensively by other bank- ing interests and as a result of this ‘smooth’ work, no damage awards have had to be paid, and as the time prescribed by law within which suits can be filed has expired, said prince of finance and all of his subsidiary interests are entirely safe from any such consequences.” Party Activities Of Local Chicago © OPEN AIR MEETINGS. Wednesday, August 13. Lincoln and Berry Ave., North—A. Henderson and D. E. Earley. Auspices, North Side Workers Party Branch. Thursday, August. 14. Halsted and Orchard Streets—Max. Shachtman and Ida Dalles, speakers. Auspices, | Hungarian and German gragehes, Pheer nf Party and Liebknecht * . Branch. 14th Street and 5ist Court, Cicero— Speaker, D. E. Early. Auspices, Cicero cc. ¢. Friday, August 15. St, Louis and Roosevelt: Road—D. E. Earley, speaker. Auspices, Rykov Branch North Ave. and Rockwell St.—Aupsices, . W. L. ee xe C. Miller. Maplewood Y. W.'L. branch. Lawrence and Sawyer Aves., North— Speaker, Peter Herd.” Auspices’ of Irving Park W. P. and Y. W. L.-branches. “Saturday, August 16. Milwaukee and Dixon—Speaker, D. E. Earley and Polish speaker. Auspices, Polish W. P. Section. Halsted and Sherman (near Halsted and Blue Island)— Speaker, Manuel Gomez and_a Greek speaker. 'Auspices, Greek W. Branch. Division and Washtenaw—Speakers, Max Salzman. Auspices, Northwest Jew- ish W. P. Branch, 112th and ete Ave., Pullman— Auspices, Pullman W. C. C.'C. C, BRANCH MEETINGS. Mid-City Branch M: he The Mid-City English, branch of the Workers Party will hold a very im- portant special meeting tonight at Emmet Memorial Hall, Ogden and Taylor. Every member is urged to be present, since very important matters will be taken np, discussed and de- cided upon, . Wednesday, August 13, Roumanian Branch—2254 Clybourn Ave. Thursday, August 14. Lithuanian No, 2—1900 S$. Union Ave. Cz.-Slov., North Berwyn—Sokol ‘Oak velt and Union Av Blvd. ‘k, Roose’ e. ith Ward Italian—2439 8, Oakle; Scandinavian, Lake View—3206 Wilton St. Scandinavian, West Side—Zeich’s Hall, cor. Cicero and Superior Sts. spgenainavien Karl Marx—2738 Hirsch vd, Friday, August 15. ecepenee n, So, Chicago—641 East Speakers’ Class—1902 W. Division St. zecho~ rl ro a Rovnost, 61 hemian ed, CITY EXECUTIVE COM EE, EGEa0 thigace ee NEW YORK CITY Party Activities OPEN AIR MEETINGS, f A peng August, o account of generat mee ers] iy Saturday, 16 Section 1—Oliver Speakers: SE * { August nd Madison Sts.— peal and others, action ra Btre Ex! jon "e' tel 8) ors Wttling . rian, tess Sf AND atin Ven— | s) y ear oa a hata GR shin and others, ing Jay * Man of God Needs Doctor, BRUSSELS, Aug, 12.—Cardinal Mer. cler is seriously ill of inflammation of} - i i Lanrangily uk i off mesting: | a St. and. So. Bivd— | ra) ay and Louis Baan. 3 t nsion— 8. Pele) 1@