The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 3

| | % i i } od a we cen EG AEE \ Thursday, August 14, 1924 JOBLESS GET SPEEDY RESULTS BY RADICAL STEP Scare Australian Gov't Into Relief Act By W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. 13. —"Give us rooms! Charge it to the government!” Clerks in the swellest hotels of Sydney looked at the invad- ing hosts of the city’s unem- ployed and didn’t know what to do. The jobless men then marched from the richly car- peted lobbies into the exquisite dining halls where Sydney’s most fastidious profiteers and their women were consuming lavish delicacies. Charge It Up. “Give us the same and charge it to the government,” the unemployed told the mincing waiters. Then things happened in the gov- ernment offices. Relief was on the way, both for the unemployed and for the shocked and contaminated profiteers. Because the New South Wales anti- Labor government refused to find * food, shelter and work for the unem- Ployed, they organized committees and arranged route. marches to the leading hotels at Sydney demanding food and accommodation and ordering the cost to be charged to the govern- ment. After several invasions of the swell hotels, the business interests of Syd- mney approached the government and ordered that something be done for the unemployed to keep them from in-| vading the hotels and mixing with so- ciety guests. The government made a grant of money for food and set about | Providing work. Appeal to MacDonald. A large number of the unemployed and starving are immigrants from Britain and on behalf of these the following cable was dispatched to Ramsay MacDonald, Labor prime minister of Great Britain: “Mass meet- ings unemployed decided cable you furnish funds thousands British emi- grants destitute in New South Wales. dangal help; position desperate.” The federal government also de- cided to take some action to aileviate unemployment and destitution. A grant of $2,500,000 has been made for work on national roads. And the unemployed know how to get results. Last Chance for Evolution. SACRAMENTO, Cal. Aug. 13.— At the close of the hearing for and aganist removing from the public schools of California text-books teach- ing evolution, the state board of edu- cation dodged the issue by referring the matter to a committee made up of the presidents of nine colleges in California. A majority vote of this committee is to determine the ques- tion. Five of the nine colleges are under denominational or other relig- fous control. H.C. L, FALLS ONLY ONE- HALF PER CENT IN YEAR; JOBLESSNESS GROWS (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, August 13.—The cost of a wage earner’s budget is down less than % of 1 per cent since June, 1923, according to the latest cost of living survey of the United States department of labor which shows the cost still 69.1 per cent above 1913. The report shows wide variation in extent of changes in the cost of living in the chief cities. The cost of living in De- troit is 82.4 per cent above 1915 while in Savannah it is 52.7 per cent above the pre-war level. The per cent increase in other cities over 1913 is: Baltimore, 71.9 per cent; Boston. 63.2 per cent; Buf- falo, 73.9 per cent; Chicago, 726 per cent; Cleveland, 75.9 per cent; Los Angeles, 75.1 per cent; New York, 72.5 per cent; Portland, Ore., 52.8 per cent; San Francisco, 57.3 j per cent; Seattle, 66.7 per cent, and Washington, 59.2 per cent. 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THE DAILY WORKER, — | (Continued from page 1) against the brutalities and atroci- ties alleged to be perpetrated upon the members of the Negro Race by the Ku Klux Klan or by any other | organization.” Before passing tne roregoing reso- |lutions, you defeated a substitute pro- | posed by Mr. Wallace, which provided |“that the brutalities and atrocities | perpetrated upon the members of the |Negro Race by the Klan be con- |demned.” The debate indicated that |this substitute was defeated partly because it stated plainly that brutali- ties and atrocities are perpetrated by the Klan, while the second resolution passed speaks only of such brutalities and atrocities “alleged to be perpe- trated” by the Klan. | From the foreging facts it is evi- | dent: First—That the Universal Negro Improvement Association offers the Negro people no program for meeting the atrocities of the Klan in the Unit- ed States, except the plan for secur- ing a government in Africa. Second—That the Universal Negro Improvement Association refuses to | say that the Ku Klux Klan is guilty of | crimes against Negroes. | The Workers Party of America, | composed of Negro and white workers jalike, fraternally requests you to re- jconsider the above action. We be- lieve that if this convention fails to |make an outright attack upon the | Klan, boldly accusing it of its crimes | against the Negro people and laying down a concrete plan for combatting it, that such a failure will work untold | injury to the Negro people and to the | working class generally. We believe, | furthermore, that your failure official- |ly to declare your enmity to and your determination to fight against that | organization will result in weakening the struggle of the colored peoples thruout the world against their op- pressors. The Redemption of Africa. ‘We, the Workers Party of America, stand for the right of self-determina- tion of the peoples of Africa. We stand for driving all of the European imperialists out of Africa, forever | breaking their colonial rule, and for the right of the peoples of Africa to | build whatever nation they may choose to establish of their own free will. We stand also for the right of the Negro people of America and of all other countries to come and go where they please and to migrate to Africa or to any other country they may choose, in a free world of complete equality of all races. We, the Workers Party of America, as the American section of the Com- munist International, with branches in all countries of the world, including Africa and the countries of the dark- er races of Asia, are engaged no less than you in the struggle against the imperialism which is enslaving Africa. > Our Position. At our Fourth International Con- gress. held in the city of Moscow, Russia, in 1922, we declared in part: “It is with intense pride that the Communist International sees the exploited Negro workers resist the attacks of the exploiter, for the enemy of his Race and the enemy of the white workers is one and the same—capitalism and imperialism. The international struggle of the Negro Race is a struggle against capitalism and imperialism. It is on the:basis of this struggle that the world Negro movement must be organized. In America, the center of Negro culture and the crystalliza- tion of Negro protest; in Africa, the reservoir of human labor for further devlopment of capitalism; in Central America (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia and Nicaragua and other ‘independent’ republics), where American imperialism domi- nates; in Porto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domingo and other islands washed by the waters of the Caribbean, where the brutal treatment of our black -fellow-men by the American occupation has aroused the protest of the conscious Negro and the rev- olutionary white workers every- where; in South Africa and the Con- go, where the growing industrializa- tion of the Negro population has re- sulted in various forms of upris- ings; in East Africa, where the re- cent penetration of world capital is stirring the native populations into an active opposition to capitalism, in all these centers the Negro move- ment must be organized. “It is the task of the Communist International to point out to the Chicago, Illinois Negro people that they are not*the only people suffering from oppres- sion of capitalism and imperialism; that the workers and peasants of Europe and of the Americas are also the victims of imperialism; that the struggle against imperialism is not, the struggle of any one people, but of all the peoples of the world; that in India and China, in Persia and Turkey, in Egypt and Morocco, the oppressed colored colonial peoples are struggling heroically against their imperialist exploiters; that thees peoples are rising against the same evils that the Negroes are rising against—racial oppression and discrimination, and intensified industrial exploitation; that these people strive for political, industrial and social liberation and equality. “The Communist International, which represemts the revolutionary workers and peasants of the whole world in the struggle to break the power of imperialism, is not simply the organization of the enslaved white workers of Europe and Ameri- ca, but equally the organization of the oppressed colored peoples of the world, and feels it to be its duty to encourage and support the in- ternational organization of the col- ored people in their struggle against the common eiemy.” © An International Struggle. The ‘Workers Party of America calls your attention to the fact that the struggle against the Ku Klux Klan which murders and tortures the Negro} in this country, is a part of this world- wide fight. The terrorizing of the Negro in America is not simply a local matter, |to be dealt with opportunistically, but it is a part of the world-wide effort to degrade the Negro and to establish the “principle” that he is “inferior.” Any surrender to or conciliation with the Klan here will only serve to de- moralize and discourage the fight jagainst race and class oppression thruout the world. In faraway, India, the dark-skinned | |man who has been touched with thé jaspiration for freedom will learn with |sorrow of your concession to the en- emy of all colored races and op- pressed classes. In the colonies of Africa, where the beaten and tortured | black laborer has begun at last to dare to look the white man in the face and jto say, “I am your equal,” the news \that an important Negro organization |has agreed not to contend against the \organization which denies the equality of the Negro in America will come as a shock that cannot be offset by any hope that the same Negro organiza- tion will successfully fight the com- bined British, French, Italian, Spanish, Belgian and American armies and.na- vies for equality or supremacy in Africa. The pride and courage of the brave black people now struggling for liber- ation in Haiti and the other island re: publics and° colonies will not be in- creased by learning that the Universal Negro Improvement Association has decided not to fight for the equality of the Negro in the United States against the degraded and criminal Klan organ- ization. The hundreds of millions of Chinese and other yellow and brown peoples of Asia are struggling now to destroy the huge lie of “white superiority” over darkér peoples. Their courage will not be improved by learning that you will not openly contest the claim of “white supremacy” in this country ot twelve million Negroes. | This is an international fight. The Ku Klux Klan is the American phase of an international issue. Any failure to combat the Ku Klux Klan in Ameri- ca is a surrender of one sector of a world-wide battle front, bringing in- jury to all concerned in the struggle for liberation. Don’t Demoralize the Fight. We are fully, aware that the best members of your organization know perfectly well that the Klan is no friend of the Negro, but that it burns, hangs, tortures and terrorizes Negro men, women and children. In the de- bate Mr, Sherrill, even in supporting the’ resolutions, pointed out that the Klan is no friend of the Negro, and that to state otherwise would be both untrue and cowardly. ‘We know furthermore that no mat- ter what position this convention may take on the subject, the American Ne- gro will have to fight the Klan. The members of your organization, espe- cially, who are almost entirely of the working class, will have to fight the Klan, which is not only against Ne- groes, but also against the working cli Our objection is not that your members will not fight the Klan, but that your failure to declare a program for fighting it will tend to demoralize the fight against the Klan. As evidence of this tendency to de- moralize the fight, we point out that some of your delegates in the debate expressed the belief that your organ- ization will gain certain toleration, if not actual help, from the Klan in re- turn for your pacific attitude toward it. On behalf of the Negro workers and white workers who are our mem- bers, we issue the solemn warning that any friendly toleration that may be promised by or expected of the Klan will be delivered in the form of the rope and the torch. The more the Negro weakens himself before the Klan, by giving up the fight for his the more the cowardly Klan political and social rights in America, | THE DAILY WORKER will be-to torture and burn his weak- ened victim. What Does the Klan Want of the Negto? There are some who think that be- cause the Klan hates the Negro, the Klan will be glad to get rid of the Ne- gro by encouraging a large migration to Africa, To any who may think this way, will say that the Klan hates the Ne- gro, not to get rid of him, but to keep him working in the cotton fields and the work shops, and to suppress any aspiration the Negro may have to es- cape exploitation. ‘We warn you that the Klan’s hatred of the Negro has an economic basis. The Klan is an expression of the American capitalist class, or at least of the petty capitalist class, and it is utterly unable to act in any way that is not in the interest of capitalism. The interest of capitalism is to cre- ate hatred of the Negro; and the Klan hates accordingly. The interest of capitalism is.to rob the Negro of po- litical, social and economic equality, so as to make him easier to exploit; and therefore the Klan becomes a tool for this purpose. The interest of capi- talism is to maintain a caste system, as an aid to the class division of so- ciety; and the Klan makes the preser- vation of the caste system ifs most joyful task. The interest of capital- ism is to divide the working class into “air-tight compartments” by means of race hatreds—gentile hating Jew, “hundred per cent Americans” hating foreign-born workers, white worker hating Negro worker, one religious sect hating another—thus preventing the working class coming together in a solidarity which would endanger.) capitalism; and so the Ku Klux Klan distils the poison which robs the work- ing people of their sanity and their ability to understand each other, mak- ing them as the people of Babel. Thus the Ku Klux Klan, as a class instrument of capitalist society, does everything in the service of the capi-| talist system of exploitation. It does| nothing and oan do nothing of any sort that is opposed to the interests of capitalist exploitation. What is the supreme interest of the capitalist class in regard to the Ne-| gro? To exploit the Negro is the first ob- ject of the capitalist class. All other purposes are subordinate to that su- preme object: to extort wealth out of the tofl of the Negro as well as out of his white fellow-worker. To gather wealth out of the toil of the black la- borer; to have the Negro pick its cot- ton, plow its cornfields, dig its ditches and slave in its steel mills and stock- yards, is the interest of the white ruling class. And this interest alone will the Ku Klux Klan serve. Capitalist Klan Wants Negro to Labor, The capitalist class of America gathers its wealth solely out of the labor which it exploits, To have la- borers under its domination is its su- preme interest. In centuries gone by the white ruling. class brought black labor from Africa in slave ships, in order to have these laborers here to exploit. In later years it brought mil- lions of wage laborers from Europe for exactly the same purpose. During and after the world war, when the European labor supply was shut off, the northern industrialist capitalists Workers Party Calls for Fight on Klan began to draw their “immigrant” la- bor supply from the agricultural south—Negro labor. Fearing to bring more European laborers who ‘are now infected with revolutionary ideals, the capitalist class is more dependent to- day upon holding Negro labor under exploitation than at any other time in seventy-five years. Is it to the interst of the Ameri- can capitalist labor exploiters to per- mit many, many thousands of Negro workers to leave this country? No, it is the interest of the capitalist class to keep the Negro digging its ditches and working in its steel mills for a starvation wage, so as to create the wealth for the ease and comfort of the ruling class. It is to the interest of the capitalist class to rob the Ne- gro of his political rights, his eco- nomic freedom, his self-respect and his will to freedom and social equal. ity; but it is not to the interest of the capitalist class to send the Negro back to Africa. The Ku Klux Klan, as an instru- ment of the capitalist system, will not do anything to help the Negro to es- cape from capitalist exploitation. Has not the southern capitalist class al- ready used violence against northern labor agents who attempted to entice a few hundred Negroes away from the south for northern factories? Have not several southern states ‘under Klan domination passed laws to pun- ish with heavy fines any labor agents who may entice even a handful of la- borers away? What, then, would be their attitude in case of any serious danger of losing millions df black la- borers whose toil furnishes the wealth and luxury of the capitalist class? It is entirely possible that the Klan anti-Negro organization may make promises of friendliness to the emigra- tion of Negroes from America, But if the Klan does so it will be only to induce the Negro to give up the fight for his political, economic and social equality. ‘Negroes, beware of your enemies bearing gifts! Beware of the prom- ises of an organization which consid- ers you as similar to “baboons and monkeys” and which publicly ex- presses regret that you are not still in chattel slavery! Regardless of any assurances that the chief Negro burners of the Klan may make in consideration of your giving up your political and social rights in America, when the time comes to deliver, you will find your- selves all the more hopelessly exploit- ed, degraded, tortured and terrorized, a people without a home either in America or in Africa or anywhere else. The Workers Party of America and the Communist International stand for the right of the Negro to migrate where he will—freely to Africa or any- where else it may please him to go— or to stay where he will, and to enjoy full, free political, industrial and so- cial equality wherever he may be, in any country on earth. But without your contesting for these rights here and now where you are, these rights cannot be won anywhere, What of Africa? The rights of the Negro in Africa are not free for the taking. They have to be fought for, no less than the rights of the Negro in America, The African continent is now under the brutal domination of the most powerful capitalist governments on earth, Its gold, diamonds, rubber and other products, and the power to ex- ploit African labor, are among the most precious possessions of these for- eign aggressors, who will fight to the last with the strongest armies and na- vies in the world before they will sur- render an inch of ‘Africa’s soil, Even the supposedly “independant” African Negro states are being irrésistibly en- croached upon by these greedy Huro- pean capitalist states, with the Ameri- can capitalist government also forcing its way in, to have a share of the spoils for American capitalists. , Is it, then, possible that these pred- atory governments would permit or encourage a migration into Africa of a large number of Negroes going there for the purpose of winning their own nationhood and freeing the millions of African people from the exploitation of these very powers? Will the capi- talist powers who are seizing Abys- sinia’s seaports extend a welcome to tens of thousands of Negroes come to strengthen Abyssiania’s independ- ence? Is it not clear that the sup- posedly “independent” republic of Li- beria is completely ufider the control of the great powers that are stealing her land on all bordéts, when the American, French and British minis- ters, and not the Liberian government, decide the policy of that couptry? In refusing the recent request of your organization for permission to locate 3,000 immigrants, did not the presi- dent of Liberia state as one reason for the refusal “that he is keeping his mind on the obligation of Liberia to the great powers”? Does this not mean that Negre independence in Africa is a farce, and that a fight against capitalism and capitalist gov- ernments in Africa, in America, in Europe and thruout the world is a necessity to any plan for Negro free: dom? Can you afford, then, to abstain from fighting against a petty and con- temptible Negro-baiting society in any one of these countries, on the theory that such a society will tolerate your efforts for liberation? The Ku Klux Klan will not help you to destroy its father and mother, capitalism and im- perialism. It will fight you. You must fight it. Is it not better for you to issue your defiance to the Ku Klux Klan and the capitalism "and the caste system which it supports, and to join hands with the great world movement which is fighting your enemies in all cour tries? On behalf of the Negro workers and white workers and workers of all races who are members of our party, we most earnestly request the con- vention of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association to reconsider the resolutions which were passed on the subject of the Ku Klux Klan. We ask you, for the sake of not betraying the Negro Race and the class to which you and we belong, to declare your undying antagonism to the Ku. Klux Klan and all that it stands for, and to join us in the determination not to rest until the last filthy trace of it is etxerminated from this country. Fraternally yours, THE WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, National Chairman. Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, National Executive Secretary. WANTS IRELAND TO BREAK WITH GREAT BRITAIN England Charged with Treaty Violation (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Aug. 13.~-Deputy Thomas Johnson, Englishman and leader of the Irish Labor Party, charges that England, his native land, violated the treaty which created the Irish Free State and the Northern government, while President W. Cosgrove, Irishman, nationalist and former professional English-hater, defends the British government against charges of violating the treaty and has reached an agreement with the British Labor Government to intro- duce legislation establishing a boun- dary commission. Some mixup! NON-UNION MINERS GET LEAD BREAKFAST IN WILBURTON, OKLA. WILBERTON, Okla., August 13,.— Five non-union miners were shot, one being seriously wounded, In an ambush attack at Hughes, 10 miles east of heré late yesterday, accord- ing to word from S$ Austin Park today. PRES, HARRIS IN PICKLE AT WEST VA. LABOR MEET Failed to Push Farmer- Labor Party (Special to The Daily Worker) After a somewhat heated debate! wHmrELING, W. V. Aug. 13.—The Cosgrove's compromise was accepted |west Virginia State Federation of La- by the Dail, only ten members of the | hor convention which opens in Wheel- Labor Party voting in opposition. ° ing earl yin September, will iron out Thomas Johnson, the labor leader, |the internal strife of the past year. urged that the time had arrived for|rocal unions that protested against Ireland to go her own way. Kevin |ajeged irregular and unconstitutional O'Higgins, Minister for Home Affairs, ine tel rg President Harris and denounced Mr. Johnson for wanting 'tnat were dropped from the federa- to separate Ireland from a nation of 40,000,000 people, Ireland's best cus- tomer, Oil Exports from Tampied. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 13.-Over 71,- 000,000 barrels of oll were exported from Tampico during the first six months of 1924. This shows an in- crease of 806,000 barrels over the first six months of last year, in spite of prolonged strike of the Bl Aguila company, The largest export com- pany this year is the Transcontinental (Standard Oil), tion will be given representation at the convention. The executive coun- cil, American Federation of Labor, which heard the grievances of the local unions and city central bodies at its Atlantic City meeting early in August, promises that everybody will have a-fair show at the state conven- tion. Financial Kicks Coming. i Altho financial complaints loom large in the opposition to Harris, other grievances include his failure to push the Farmer-Labor movement indorsed by the previous convention, WARRING 6. 0. P, FACTIONS IN HARMONY CONFAB “Friends” and Enemies of Labor Unite The warring republican factions of Illinois held a harmony conference a few days ago with the object of set- tling the differences that have prac- tically wrecked their machine, con- fronting them with the danger of see- ing the democrats romping away with the political bacon in the coming cam- paign. The Crowe, Deneen and Small fac- tions were represented, but no high hopes are held out as to the result of the confab. The scrap over who will handle the funds was postponed. That is the most coveted position as each group wants to get the lion’s share of the dough, Former Mayor Thompson seems to be losing prestige. While he was represented equally with Small, the delegates were taking their orders from Small not from Thompson. What will become of the LaFollette policy to support Small in view of the hostility of labor to State's Attorney Page Three CHALLENGE CAL ON KLAN ISSUE. Evasions of Silent One Won’t Work (Special to The Dally Worker) ~* WASHINGTON, August 13.— Cautious Cal has found a way; to squirm around the Ku Klux; Klan issue, in the opinion of his: advisers here. His letter de- claring that a Negro is as much entitled to run for a congres- sional nomination as is a white man was designed to overcom: the loss he sustained when La Follette publicly denounced the, Klan and its racial and religious! discrimination. : i Coolidge does not repudiate the help he is receiving from the Klan in In-! diana, Oklahoma, Maine and else- where, but he makes a ‘bid for the colored vote, i The bid comes too late however, td prevent a serious revolt among the intelligent Negroes. That a great number of the Negroes are not fooled{ even by the beautiful phrases of Laj Follette is indicated by the statement} of the National Association for the/ Advancement of Colored People, im which they repudiate the alleged sup-{ port they are said to have given the Wisconsin Senator on the grounds that; he refused to organize a labor party; at Cleveland on July 4, sal Negroes Will Challenge Calvin "| Influential Negroes in this city staté that they will challenge Coolidge to} denounce the Klan directly, in view! of the Klan’s espousal of his cause} in Indiana and Oklahoma. Does hej repudiate Senator Jim Watson’s deal/ with the Indiana Klan, or does he} tacitly. approve that treaty? Can! Coolidge be pro-Klan in Indiana andj anti-Klan in New York? we | ial CICERO POLICE “@ ARREST COUPLE | OF SOAPBOXERS Western Electric S$ Sore at Workers Party, Clarence Miller of the Young Work ers League and Frank Zalpis of thei Workers Party were arrested yester~ day and released on a bail of $102! each for speaking on the corner of{ West 14th St. and 49th Ct., in Cicero, on the usual flimsy charge of “disor- derly conduct” and “speaking without a permit.” is 4 When Miller, who has already beert pinched once for soapboxing becaui the cops did not like his red hai asked the Cicero defender of law an order if there was free speech in the United States, the blue-coated worthy replied: “Of course, but it depends what you speak about.” As Good as Duncan Sisters. After having made this profound and philosophical remark, he haled [the two comrades to the bailiwick of Captain of Police Svoboda, who promptly relegated the awful reds to the same cell as had previously been occupied by such respectable persons as the Duncan sisters. « -Just before being releaséd on bail, the captain inquired as to whether or not Miller had made a political * speech. When assured that he had, and told that the comrade had spoken for the candidacy of William Z. Foster for the Workers Party, the brilliant chief of the police inquired if Foster was connected with “this guy LaFol- lette.” Captain Knows His Stuff. This question, which shows an amazing keenness and observation, should fit Captain Svoboda immedi- ately for the candidacy of mayor of, Cicero, The hearing of the two arrested, ~ comrades will come up on Monday ~~ morning, 10:00 a. m. EVACUATION IS HELD AS CLUB. “OVER GERMANS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 13.—Premier Herriot » of France, Premier Theunis of Bel- gium, and Chancellor Marx of Ger- * Crowe, is now an interesting ques-|many, met today_in a supreme effort \ tion. The labor takers will support Small anyhow and LaFollette cannot afford to antagonize them. . Now It Serva’ Many. MOSCOW, Aug. 12.—The Inst con- tens gomaining in the city he ween shanged into a factory for the manu tecture ot ortificial limbs The elakty nvw, mostly old women, Ww! oely dwelt in the Convent of the ‘uly Virek are peing caro’ for hy nenwauts in t aaighborhood. Send in that @ubsoription Today. ° to work out a plan for evacuation:of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian troops. Premier Herriot insisted upon coupling evacuation with a commercial ment, including treatment for Alsatian factories, %7N Both the French and Belgians in- sisted upon a detailed settlement with » Germany regarding their future com- mercial relations before submitting to a definite Ruhr evacuation plan. The © French are especially anxious piety guard Alsace-Lorrain ind es hac” oe Se .