The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS HEAR COMMUNISTS ON ANTI-WAR DAY New York Speakers Hold Large Crowd (Special to the Dally Worker.) NEW YORK, Aug. 12.— The tenth anniversary of the beginning of the World War was the occasion for a Square. Over 3,000 workers gathered monster openair meeting at Union to hear the message of communism. The meeting started at 5 p. m. as the workers were leaving the shops, many of whom have not heard a Workers Party speaker before. Long before the meeting started, hundreds of people were gathered to await the meeting. The police department aided in the getting of a crowd with their imposing display of force. About an hour before the meeting started, over 50 police not to mention the plain clothes men, gathered and percolated thru the crowd. About half of the uniformed cops were mounted, while others were in auto- mobiles. Uniformed shock troops gathered around the meeting, Judging from the great number of police, some of the people felt that after all, they really wanted to protect the speak- ers? After listening to a few of the speakers, some of the police left disappointed at the thought that there ‘was no work for them. Juliet Stuart Poyntz spoke on the role of the Workers Party in the Amer- ican Labor movement. She pointed out that only by supporting and American section of the Communist strengthening the Workers Party, the Interngtional, can the workers hope to emancipate themselves. Real Peace in Russia ‘Wm. Weinstone spoke on the pre- parations even now being made for new wars. Europe is sitting on a volcano. In the Balkans war may break out any moment which will un- doubtedly drag in France, Germany and England. He pointed out that this “round the world” flyers trip is just a symbol of preparations now being made by the United States for a future war which will be fought in the air. Only in Russia is there a keen attempt being made to put the vast country on a peace footing. Comrade H. M. Wicks spoke on the betrayal of the Workers by the So- cialist Parties of the World. Their voting for the war credits as well as their open support of the war is but @ concrete illustration of their atti- tude as agents of the bourgeoisie. He pointed out that in England with a Labor Government preparations for a war are going on just as previously. Every mention of the Communist In- ternational, the Workers Party and our candidates for president and vice- president was the occasion for deaf- ening applause. Get New Members Comrade Brahdy’s speech was well received by the audience. He pointed out that the candidates of the elephant and jackass parties in the 1924 pres- idential elections represent the class of finance and leisure. That LaFol- lette who nominated himself for pres- ident represents the small business interests. Only the candidates of the Workers Party are workers them-| selves. W. Z. Foster, the standard| ‘bearer of the W. P., has worked as a railroad carman, a member in good standing in(his union. In 1918 Foster ofganized over 100,000 packing-house ‘workers; later, he led 500,000 steel workers against the Gary Steel Trust. Ben Gitlow, candidate for vice-Pres- fdent, is a member of theA. C. W. who spent two years in jail on a charge of Criminal Anarchy. Brahdy appealed to the workers to support the further- ance of communist work in this country. The result was a collection of $38.80. Chas. Krumbein, District Organizer of the Workers Party, was the last speaker. He made a strong appeal to the audience to join the ‘Workers Party. After he concluded a number of workers made application for membership. Send In that. Subseription Today. WM. Z. FOSTER What do you know about him? ‘When speaking to your neighbors, friends and shopmates and urging them to support and vote for Wil- Mam Z. Foster, the working class candidate for president, at the coming election, you will have to tell them what Foster has done for the labor movement. For this we recommend Foster’s book: “THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS” The story of the steel workers it for organizetion and recog- nition, led by William Z, Foster. AN AUTHOGRAPHED COPY of this wonderful story sent to any address for $1.00 ce of this book is $1.75. onee, while the supply AN AUTHO- Orfer at Remember: iD COP Literature Department, Workers Party of America 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. WE WANT PLAYGROUNDS. Not very long ago the city offi- cers tried to tell our parents not to let us children play in the Some children wrote to The DAILY WORKER Children’s Column and said that they didn’t have any place but the streets to streets. playin. ¢ Now some of those city men are telling us that they will set aside certain streets for play in. when they play there. Of course we are glad to have even a street roped off for us to There are so many of us Almost every.room in our house has a play in. children on the block. family in it, children to play in the streets. there is no sign for autos to go an- other way, some of us get hurt when they come down the street we play on. But what we children want to know is why the city officers don’t We would like grass and trees and a pond to play in and maybe a sand box for our little brothers and sis- give us real playgrounds. ters. We want more room than just the street to play in. ball. The street is dirty and some- times we get sick from playing There is never any water except in the gutter when the fire hydrant has been turned on. Then there. it is only muddy water. We have heard that in Soviet Russia the children go to the country: every summer. Lots of them go and the city pays the way for them. Even when the children children to}OW2 They will not let autos and wagons go down those streets so that the children won’t get hurt so that makes lots of | seer ge deggie Te | their children. They are glad to We need a big place so we can play live in the city they have parks and playgrounds and gardens. We asked the boy who helps our Junior Group why the city here didnt take us all out in the coun- try and let us play in the woods and wade in the streams during the summer. He said that in America the men who run the country are just like the men who {run the shops and factories and the mines: They want ,to make a lot of money for them- selves and they dont want to give the workers or their children any- thing. The Young Worker toid us that in Soviet Russia the cities and shops and factories and mines are run by the workers themselves. /Everyone has part of all there is. |And the workers think. first of |give them playgrounds and the | gardens where rich people used to \live so that the children can play safely. The Russian workers, because they run the government them- selves, send their children out to the country in the summer. They send lots of other children whose fathers and mothers were killed in the revolution by the enemies to the country also. The boy from the Young Work- ers League said we ought to get more children to join our Junior Groups and tell our older broth- ers and sisters to come into the League and tell our parents to join the Workers “Party. Then some day we will have a workers’ government like Soviet Russia’s in America and all the children would have plenty of fine places to play. ELSA AND DICK. PARTY MEMBERS, ATTENTION! T HAS recently been brought to the attentjon of the Central Ex. ecutive Committee of the party that in certain party branches the prac- tice is in vogue of writing a receipt In the member’s dues book for dues payments in place of affixing the regular party dues stamp. This practice is also being followed in some branches in relation to defense stamps. The Central Executive Committee of the party hereby informs all par- ty members that the party constitu- tion requires that when dues are paid the dues stamps be affixed to the membership book of the member making payment and that there is a decision of the Central Executive Committee to the effect that any party member who permits a secre- tary to write a receipt in his dues book in place of affixing a stamp is thereby automatically expelled from the party. In other words, all party members who have in their possession dues books which have receipts written therein in place of stamps affixed, thereby sacrifice their membership in tne Workers Party. The practice of writing receipts in dues cards cannot otherwise be characterized than as a method of cheating the City Central Commit- tee, the District Organizations, the Language Sections and the National Organization, respectively, of their proportion of the dues paid by the, party units. Certainly we cannot tolerate a practice of this kind in our organization. The National Organization has for some time been wrestling with the problem of why it was that with from twenty-five to thirty-five thou. sand members on our party rolls, as indicated by reports of member. ship received by the branches, the dues payments of the party reach only twenty thousand. The above is evidently the explanation of this sit- uation. Such a situation cannot continue for a single moment. Those mem- bers who now have cards in their possession with receipts written therein must immediately secure stamps in order to protect them- selves from expulsion. Fraternally yours, Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, Workers Party of America. Res. 1632 8.'Trumbull Ave, Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Bullding 19 8, La Sallo Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 ANY KIND ror INSURANCE or CARL BRODSKY 1123 Broadway, New York City Tel, Watkina 8626, RED HAIR ALMOST BASE FOR CHARGES AGAINST SPEAKER Cockroach Capitalists Cause Reds’ Arrest Admittipg that they acted on the instigation of the local business men, the Englewood police broke up yes- terday’s open air meeting of the Young Workers’ League at 62nd and Halsted, and arrested the speakers, comrades George Maurer and -Clar- ence Miller. A large crowd which had gathered to hear the message of the Workers Party, expressed indig- nation at the action of the police, and greeted with loud approval Com- rade Maurer’s announcement that the Workers Party would fight out the is- sue of free speech and that the meet- ings would be continued every Thurs- day on the same corner. Cops in Quandry. On bringing the comrades to the station, the police found themselves in a quandry as to what charges to prefer. After a futile search thru voluminous penal registrars and documents, and much _ telephoning, the entire station force held a whis- pered consultation during | which there was much scratching of heads and puckering of brows. Finally, thg comrades were apologetically in- formed that they were being booked on charges of “disturbing the peace.” “collecting in a body,” and “attradt- ing other people.” One comrade com- miserating with the police in their perplexity, suggested to the desk sergeant that Miller be booked on a charge of having red hair. The good sergeant was about to gratefully accept the suggestion, but his fellow policemen, after much argumenta- tion, finally persuaded him that it was not exactly a lawful charge. Judging from the glances which their fellows (especially the desk ser- geant) cast at the two police who made the arrests, their zeal was looked upon with considerable disfa- vor. Probably in the future, the po- lice of the Englewood district will not act so hastily upon the promptings of their business men. After being detained for an hour, Comrade Miller was told to appear at the Juvenile Court for a hearing, on Friday and released. Comrade Maur- er was released on bonds of $25. At the court next morning, the judge dismissed the case, after tell- ing them that they would be pulled in again if they attempted to speak in that neighborhood. If they want- ed to speak there without being ar- rested, they would have to get per- mission from the Chief of Police. Musicians Threaten Strike. Seven hundred union musicians will strike on Labor Day, unless their demand for a ten per cent increase in wages is met by the theatre owners in Chicago, The theatre owners, con- trolling 85 Chicago theatres, have mado a counter offer of 5 per cent in- crease, but it will not be accepted, cording to the union theatre musicians, PEPPY PROGRAM PUT UP BY N.Y. YOUNG WORKERS Campaign Actively in Many Ways (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 12.—The latest city in the district to be lined up for the revolutionary youth move- ment with an English branch of the Y. W. L, is Elizabeth, where a branch was organized July 25. This makes | the fourth English branch organized in the last two months, the other three being Perth Amboy, West New York, and, Hartford. This is not in-| clusive of the new branches organized in New York City there being at the present time a total of 25 branches functioning, with good prospects for the organization of more branches, in spite of the fact that we are now at the height of the hot season when there is a tendency for the activities to slacken. In New York City the open-air cam- paign, while being carried on since the beginning of spring, will open nn THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON Wants LaFollette Leaflet. To the DAILY WORKBPR—Enclosed find my check for $10, for which please renew my sub for one Year and use the balance for printing your leaf- lets, etc. I have been watching for some time to find something in the DAILY WORKER analyzing and criticizing LaFollette’s scheme. that he has made himself the most vulnerable of all the three capitalist candidates. I think an article by some one of your best writers, put in the form of a short crisp leaflet would do more than any other leaflet that can be gotten up to take away his fol- lowing. He has corralled the treach- erous leaders of the, workers, but I do not think the rank and file very generally support their leaders in this treachery. By showing them the rank treach- ery and hypocrisy of the so-called “progressive movement” a large mass of the workers would abandon the thing and come over to the Commun- ist party. officially on August 11 with twenty five meetings held during that week These meetings will be constantly in. creased until we will have every branch of the league hold at least two open-air meetings a week mak- ing a total of 50 meetings a week. We are going to participate actively in the Workers Party campaign in ad- dition to fighting for the youth pro- gram, N. B. C. Campaign There. The campaign against the National Biscuit Company which is being con- ducted by the National Office will be carried on by the league in New York against the New York factory of the N. B. C. The campaign will in this city be extended against the Sun- shine Biscuit company of Long Is- land where conditions are perhaps worse. Young girls in these factories are making as little as $7 to $10 per week. The New York League will soon publish in the Young Worker the findings of an investigation that is now on in both of these factories. Efforts will be made to organize these workers into a branch of the Food Workers’ Union. The league is now conducting a campaign to make every member a member of a union. Fractions are be- ing organized of all of our comrades in the various unions to fight for the youth demands -while at the same time, taking their place side by side with the members of the T. U. E. L. in the fight to make the present un- ions more effective weapons of the workers in their struggle against the employers of tne country. In the in- dustries where there are no unions} attempts will be made to organize the unorganized youth. Attend Classes. Nor is the educational work of the league being neglected. Arrange- ments have been made with the Workers’ Schools for our comrades to attend all classes given. Our com- rades are taking full opportunity of these classes particularly of the class in Public Speaking. In the fieid of Junior work, great progress is also noticeable. New groups are being organized steadily. A class for group leaders is being conducted with marked success. The Juniors are very active, being pres- ent at all mass meetings of the par- ty league, etc., selling literature; get- ting in new members to the party, Y. W. L., as’ well as-to their own groups. At the present time they are busily engaged in the distribution of the anti-war leaflets, four of them having been arrested in Brooklyn last Sunday as a direct result of this ac- tivity. Death Comes to «Tron Worker On Open Shop Job (By The Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 12—Another iron worker has been killed and more may die because of a falling crane on an open shop job. So many men have been killed on open shop jobs in New York city due to strikebreakers em- ployed by the iron league, that other trades have called their members off the buildings as a measure of protec- tion from accidents, The iron league, a part of the steel trust’s combine against labor unions, has lost the first round in its legal fight to kill the In- ternational Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers’ union, in the decision of Judge Lyon denying an anti-picketing injunction. : St. Louis Carpentiies Spurn Jurisdictional Award Board Plan ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12.—The carpen- ters of St. Louis, largest building craft in the city refuse to have any- thing to do with a board for jurisdic- tion awards, to minimize local juris- dictional strikes, The board was pro- posed by the Associated Building Inw terests, recently formed one big un- lon of building employers, Any dis- pute which the local group could not adjust would be referred to the na tional A, F, of L, award board, ac- cording to the plan, Some unions are sald to have indorsed the proposition, St, Louis has about 18,000 union building tradesmen, hy > I think the whole thing is just a collosal fraud, intended solely to head off the workers from consolidating in a true workers’ party. “Divide and conquer” has always been the greatest weapon that the ruling classes have used to keep the masses in subjec- tion, and fraud is now the principal means of effecting this purpose. Mr. LaFollette has been a member of the Republican party ever since he has been in public life and all the of- fices he has ever had have been thru that party and he has always sup- ported that party and is still a mem- ber of it. All thru this long era of public corruption he has been a mem- ber of the government and has been cognizant of all this terrible corrup- tion, What has he done fo stop it? Prac- tically nothing. He speaks of being “unalterably op- posed to any class dictatorship” but he has assumed the role of an absolute autocrat. He sent the convention an ironclad ultimatum that they must ob- serve or he would not condescend to become their leader. He insisted on being the whole thing and had every- thing cut and dried more absolutely than either of the old parties ever had it. There are a large number of mat- ters in LaFollette’s statements, his platform and his political history that I have not had space to write here, but which will occur to your writers to be used in a leaflet that would open the eyes of the workers to the way they are being misled and startethem to thinking. Fraternally yours, A Veteran. Soldiers Home, Calif. Negro Worker Asks of God. To the DAILY WORKER: I have been reading your paper for the last week or two. Everything I find is true, all but one thing. But I am not disputing that. I would like for you to enlighten me in*that: Why do you say there is no God? Will you kindly oblige me by letting me know? Re- maining yours, J. W. Rollins, 1126 West 13th St., Chicago. P. S—And why I am interested is because I am a working man myself and a colored man and I want to know everything that gill help a working man. Thank you for a reply. (Editor’s Note: It would take more time and space than we can give just now to answer our friend, Mr. Rol- lins, but we suggest that he attend the southside English branch meet- ings of the Workers Party on the first and third Thursdays of every month at 3201 South Wabash Ave. There are other Negro and white workers there who will be glad to tell him more about the Workers Party and why we do not believe in God and why we want all workers to join together and overthrow the boss- es, Also, Mr. Rollins, keep on read ing the DAILY WORKER and tell your fellow workers about it if you like it.) MITCHALL’S INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA Union Music Furnished For All Occassions Write for appointments to M. MITCHALL, (Teacher of Saxophone) 1640 W. Congress St. Chicago, Ill. iye Murine Co., Dept. H. 8.9 B. Ohio St., Chicago JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT, Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Chicago Tel. Monroe 2241 i —t LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS It seems to me’ From Centralla Victim. To the DAILY WORKER: Since the ad. you published in your paper for my Souvenir booklets brot a num- ber of orders I thought maybe those who bought them would like to know why a class- war prisoner chose na- ture subjects for pictures instead of the class-struggle. I am appending the agreement I had in regards to the publishing of the books, to this letter. It explains fully why there are no radical plc- tures in them. I had quite a time get- ting the picture that is on the last page. My wife still has two or three hundred books on hand so anyone wanting one can get it from her for 25 cents. The “Introduction” written by Elmer Smith, “The fighting lawyér from Centralia” was printed in the books outside the prison walls. I thank you for the good display you gave the ad. and with best wishes I remain, Yours for the workers, Eugene Barnett, No. 9414, Walla Walla, Wash. “ee Agreement. I have received permission from Mr. Race to allow the printers and the photographer to prepare and publish a 25 page booklet of cartoons drawn by Eugene Barnett with the understand- ing that the cartons shall not contain any radical or political matter what- soever, . . : J. H. Larkin. eee To the DAILY WORKER: I want to thank you for the ad. I received several orders for the booklet from the ad. Thanking you very very much for the same, Mrs. Eugene Barnett, Route 2—12 St., Clarkston, Wash. Fa ais Scab Herder. To the DAILY WORKER: I am writing you to tell you about a scab herder named Fred Hurst, who did a 2-year stretch in Stillwater peniten- tiary for slugging a professor during the printers’ strike in St. Paul, two and a half years ago. Hurst was let out on June 1 and had to get out of the state of Minnesota. Now he is in Chicago‘and is with a man named Bill Zeigler, a New York fink who worked for the Bergoff fink agents in the street car strike. Hurst and Zeigler are now with a man named Adams and are handling the chicken pullers’ strike. They have a fink with them named Pat Moran who passed a lot of bad checks and has a police record in Weaugecham, Mlinois. Tiurst has been run out of a number of cities for strike ‘breaking. Hurst and Zeigler with Adams have taken steps to run a “co-operative” com- pany and do the hauling for all com- mission men. This will make union drivers lose the jobs. —A Friend, Need Noah’s Ark. ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 12.—Heavy damage was inflicted at Stockton, IIL, by the cyclone which prostrated wires in illinois and Iowa Saturday, accord- ing to a fragmentary report received here. Early reports stated that Stock- ton, a town of 1,500 inhabitants, as nearly wiped out by the storm. Send in that Subscription Today. TAKE NO BUY THE Wednesday, August 13, 1924 LABOR CONDEMNS DEFENSE SCHEME IN MINNEAPOLIS Gompers’ Stand Ignored’ by Labor Assembly (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 12-—~ In direct contradistinction to the re- actionary stand taken by Samuel Gompers and his official family of mossbacks at the recent meeting of the executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of ‘Labor in Atlantic City, the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly, the~ local central body of the A. F. of L., unanimously denounced the proposed “Defense Day Test” as a demonstration of the war- spirit intended to propagatidize the youth of this country. The resolution adopted by the as sembly is as follows: Whereas, Secretary Weeks has issued a call to all the states in the Union to celebrate “Mobolization,” or “Defense Test Day,” September 12, 1924, and Whereas, The army, state ‘mill- tlas and reserve officers are to be mobilized to parade on said day, and Whereas, The school children of the nation are to be invited to participate in these War-propaganda demonstrations; Therefore Be It Resolved, That this Mobilization Day be considered contrary to the spirit of Trade Unionism, contrary to ideals of the American Federation of Labor to propagandize the youth of the United States; ‘ Therefore Be It Further Resolved, That the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly protest against this demonstration of the war-spirit, and Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to Calvin Coolidge, the president of the United States, and to Secretary Weeks, to the Board of Education of this city, and that a fourth copy be spread on the minutes of this Assembly. What Germany Is Credited With. PARIS, Aug. 12.—Germany is cre- dited with cash payments of 291,000 gold marks indemnity during the six months ending June 30, 1924, in an official Communique {issued today in behalf of the Inter-allicd reparations commission. Germany’s total reparations im kind, cash and ceded property since the armistice is put at 8,405,932,000 gold marks. . The cost of the armies of occupa- tion and the control commission up to June 30, was 2,365,409,000 gold marks. COKOS BROTHERS Groceries Cigars Cigarettes ~ Tobacco and Candies 1111 W. WASHINGTON ST. CHANCES ORIGINAL THE GENUINE THE RELIABLE High Test Malt Extract It you want purity— If you want rellability— If you want results— If you want to save time, worry and fuss— Insist on “No-Boil.” It is the original “No Boil” Malt Extract manufactured solely from the choicest Malted Barley. 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