The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1924, Page 2

ELMS EAS AN PEERS NMOL OH ERNE RL NS Si cae ane COTE ‘Page Two THE DAILY WORKER DICK LAYS PLAN. | #.S7aTH mers VICTOR aT “DEM |IRACE PROBLEM CIRCUS; GIVES HIM THE GLAD MITT Priday, August 15, 1924 U.S. STANDS PAT “Maggie” Belmont Is ih i ia abestlt estieseesit creams ms i FOR ORGANIZING FASCISTIINU. S. Will Be Military Aid to “Law-and-Order” By LAURENCE TODD. WASHINGTON, Augus$ 14.— Remember old General Charles Dick, who was credited with being about the slipperiest sena- tor who ever came from Ohio to the national Dick, who cleaned up a fortune in copper, during the war, and bought the LaFayette “and Franklin Square hotels here, and is chief owner of bigger hotels in New York? Dick, of the Dick Military Act of years ago? Well, Dick has blossomed out as national president of the National Association of Federal Clubs, located in his own hotel here, with his partner, Col. Frederick C. Bryan, as national secretary. They propose to create an American fascist or- ganization, for which a distinc- tive uniform has already been designed, and with which they promise to help Cal Coolidge to another term. Thus far thefr public announce- ments have not specifically mentioned Coolidge; they claim they are organ- izing to “get out the vote,” and to pre- vent any change in the federal consti- tution, and “to eliminate, by publicity, so-called character assassination, may be continued in government service.” Their literature, which seems to emanate from one William Knop, ex- plains that they are establishing a college of political science, so that cit- izens may be trained in the practical administration of government. Then they are to “establish, by pledge and other means, a method of separating the suporters of our government from “the non-voters and thereby create a standard of citizenship by which loyal Americans may recognize one anoth- er.” Besides, they are to maintain a bureau of research. And most emphat- ieally they are “to oppose any amend- ment to the constitutién of the Unit ed States until such a time as the people of each state in the Union have, by direct vote, adopted the pro- posed amendment or its equivalent as & state law.” In other words, perpetual resistance to any amendment to the constitution, in a year when child la- bor is the subject of an amendment now in process of ratification. To Enlist Youth of Nation. The glib-tongued young man who explains this “loyal’ enterprise is en- thusiastic over its possibilities as a military safeguard to law and order. He says it will be to America what Fascismo is to Italy; it will enlist the boy scout forces, swallow up the ju- nior groups which fraternal lodges are now creating, and take the youth of the country by storm. The associa- tion is to have an elaborate depart- ment of recreation, which shall in- clude shooting clubs, and its “‘depart- ment of federal guards,” under the command of Col. Bryan, is to be “or- ganized for the maintenance of peace and in defense of the constitution of the U. S. A. A uniformed guard tak- ing part in civic demonstrations, espe- cially those in connection with suff- rage, competes with other military or- ganizations and works with the recre- ation department in the development of rifle teams and good marksman- ship.” F For fear this program may not re- Bult in sufficient donations from the Coolidge camapign chest, there is pro- vided a department of foreign trade and commerce, and’a department of suffrage, which is to get out the loyal vote and educate aliens “in American ideals.” Dick Thick With Dawes. ‘Whether Charley Dawes has granted a special license to Charley Dick to enter the American Fascisti game, in competition with Dawes’ Minute Men, can only be conjectured. Dick and Dawes have been close enough in poli- tics in years past, and it may be that Dick, the author of the first compul- sory military service law, was the real inventor of the Dawes-Dick version of wholesale bulldozing of the voters. In any event, your chance to join up and buy a uniform is here and now. The salesman claims they will have 100,000 or 1,000,000,000, or some such number, parading down Pennsyl- vania avenue “at inauguration time, or within four years.” $1,000 Per Shot! The biil of fare lists founder mem- berships at $1,000 each, life member- ships at $200 each, active at $10, as- sociate at only $1, and honorary mem- berships absolutely free! Which seems to point to a lump sum campaign endowment, on the strength of which the guards’ uniforms are to be paraded and the country made safer for Coolidge in Benito Musso- lini’s most effective style. ‘ Send in that Subscription Today. ear 5 legislature? |- s0| that men of strength and good'records | haps he thinks “Ai” is giving him the did not say. AS WE (Continued from page 1) empire would gradually fall apart. That is just what is happening. Ire- land has been given diplomatic repre- sentation at Washington, limited to be sure, but yet representation. Can- lada refuses to accept the Turko-Brit- jain treaty as binding on Canada and the demand for direct diplomatic rep- | resentation ,at Washington becomes | more insistent. South Africa kicks lout the Pro-Empire Smuts’ govern- |ment, and an old enemy of the Em- pire is now premier of that country. India and Egypt are in a more or less jactive state of revolt. And at home the latest news is that the Labor Goy- ernment, the agent of the British cap- italists, was forced to withdraw its sedition charge against John Ross Campbell, Communist, owing to left | wing pressure. Good news. | Rey Heep | OOD news from Italy also. For the first time in three years the |red banner of Communism and revo- lution is proudly carried thru the streets of Rome. Women cry with joy at sight of the once familiar em- blem. The morale of the workers is rising as that of the black-shirted bandits is on the decrease. Mussolini has unquestionably seen his best days. A victory for the revolution in Italy would have far greater con sequence than the economic power of the country would warrant. It should not be forgotten that Rome is the headquarters of the Catholic Church, the most powerful bulwark of capi- talism in the world today. ae * G. WELLS ‘says Communism H. will die within twenty-five years. | As a fictionist the noted British writ- er can swing a wicked pén, but as an economic thinker, he is mentally not over 14 years. Communism cannot very well die before it is born and it has not been born yet. To make mat- ters worse, Arthur Brisbane takes is- sue with Wells, and while rightly say- ing that Communism never existed except in a very primitive form when primitive man skulked around, armed with a club waiting for a chance to grab his neighbor’s wife or steal his |breakfast. Brisbane does not believe we are ever going to have Commun- ism because people are too selfish. But necessity is the mother of inven- tion and old systems give way to new ones, not because the human race grows more virtuous, but be- cause the old system breaks down and fails to function. * * . HEN H. G. Wells talks of Com- munism, he undoubtedly has in mind Russia and the form of govern- ment established there. That Com- munism does not exist in Russia or did not exist when the Bolsheviks seized power or since then, has been stated and restated. What has tak- en place in Russia is, the establish- ment of the dictatorship of the pro- letariat thru the medium of the Com- munist Party, which is preparing the ground for Communism. This is no simple task. Communism cannot be John W. Davis seems to have a rather sheepish look on his face. CLOTHING WORKERS OF BOSTON TO STRIKE IF BOSSES DO NOT YIELD BOSTON, August 14.—Power to negotiate a settlement with Bos- ton employers or to order a strike is in the hands of a committee of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers. According to Joseph Salerno, general organizer, the strike “would || be a stoppage of work for the en- forcement of the present agree- ment, the terms of which many manufacturers have violated, and for the enfor it of unemploy- ment insurance and other better- ments now in force in New York and Chicago.” President Sidney Hillman assures the Boston mem- bers the full resources of the union if a strike is called. Per- “bird” as the Marquis of Queensbury However, Al Smith promised to partially disrobe (take his coat off) in order to help Morgan’s lawyer into the White House. SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. established by the issuing of a mani- festo. And we cannot ‘have a Com- munist colony in Russia and capital- ism in the rest of the world. eee RS ‘ORD has decided that he will not run for United States senator in the state of Michigan against Sena- tor Couzens, republican, who does not feel comfortable in the G. O. P. har- ness, yet hesitates to leave it. Ford would have the backing of the Ku Klux Klan whose industrial idol he is. * * * ‘HE British mint is striking off forty million gold rubles for the Soviet Government. The Soviet Gov- ernment provides the bullion and the British mint does the mechanical work, for which it receives compen- sation. The Communist International urges the British Communist Party to establish a daily.paper. Lord Rother- mers, British Fascist leader, put two and two together and appropriates several million dollars of Soviet rubles for the proposed daily. J . . ‘HE Austrian police aided by the Chicago Tribune correspondent in Vienna, have proved to their own sat- isfaction that Vienna is the center of Communist activities in the Bal- kans. According to the police, the Communists have $20,000,000 to do their work with. What the Bolshe- vists want is another world war, we are told, and as the last war started in the Balkans and it turned out to be a fairly respectable piece of car- nage, it is the logical place to start the next. The Bulgarian Fascist gov- ernment has also learned that on a certain day, all the banks in Bulgaria would be looted by the Communists. So troops were placed on guard over the financial institutions. The mur- derous crew now in control of Bul- garia have an uneasy conscience. ee ae NOTHER plot, directed against the French colonies, has been un- earthed by one of the Paris papers. It is directed against the French col- onies. Everything is a plot that aims at freeing the workers from capital- ism or subject peoples from the yoke’ of foreign exploiters. Of course, it is a Communist plot. Who else would bother about the emancipation of the workers? Home of Union liw - Head Damaged by Bomb Explosion A bomb early yesterday wrecked the front porch of the home of James C. Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, 5459 Bere- nice avenue, : Petrillo had ust called a general strike of Chicago musicians for Labor Day, Sept. 1, as the latest move in a wage controversy with the Chicago Theater Managers’ Association, which refused to grant the union demands of a ten per cent wage increase. A series of anonymous letters ad- dressed to Petrillo, and threatening that his home would be wrecked if he did not resign from his position as head of the Musicians’ Federation, was received last October. The let- ters gave no indication of the motive for the outrage. Police suspect that these letters were written by the same man, or by an accomplice of the man, who last week called Mrs. Petrillo on the tele- phone, demanding that she persuade her husband to give up his job in the union, and threatening harm to the entire family. “There were no internal troubles in the union,” said Petrillo today. “I strongly suspect agencies outside of the union of the crime.” Magazine Explosion Kills Many, BRESCIA, Italy, Aug. 14.— Many persons were killed and wounded at Roccaanfa Fortress today when the explosion of a nitro-glycerine maga- zine was followed by fire, ri A ANSWER CANT SATISFY ALL Negro Conclave Hears Communist Delegate By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—The question of “The Adjustment of the Race Problems of the Southern States to the Satisfac- tion of All Concerned” has aroused keen interest and lively debate at the fourth annual in- ternational convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, now in_ session here. Mrs. Olivia Whitemen, a dele- gate of the Workers Party to this international Race con- gress, addressed the conven- tion asking whether anyone|, seriously believed that the race problems of the Southern states would ever be solved “to the satisfaction of all concerned.” Can't Satisfy All. Answering her own question, the Communist woman delegate assured the gathering that the race question in the South will be solved all right, “but the solution will not be to the Satisfaction of all concerned.” She undertook to show that there is no chance in the world that the self- respecting Negroes would ever accept any adjustment of the race problem that would be satisfactory to the white ruling class. Mrs. Whiteman insisted that the Negroes in Ameri¢a must stand firm for the redemption of Africa from the imperialists who are oppressing it, but that in doing so they must not let themselves become a weak and sub- missive people here in this country. She continued: “Need Backbone in Fight.” “I cannot see how men, millions strong, who will permit their rights to be deprivéd them and their initia- tive crushed, will ever survive long enough to protect the great wealth of Africa, whose wealth any country will put up a strong battle to hold. Don't ever think that Negro liberty can be reedemed by a ive spirit, It is going to take with experience and training in courage and backbone to claim their own.” Men who do not stand up for their rights here, she said, when they start off for Africa will find it “a little late for training.” She continued, “In or- der to have an army of men worth while, it is necessary to have a first- class training camp. Train them here,” she demanded, “in contending for their rights here. When such men go to Africa,” she said, “they will be able to stand their own whatever the storm may be.” Refering to a tendency of some of the delegates to address their appeals to preachers instead of to the masses of Negro people, Mrs. Whiteman said: Slams Preachers. “The preachers are a group of per- sons who have always known the op- pressed condition of the Negro, and to my mind they have always given their official blessing to slavery and have always supported the govern- ment which oppresses my people.” In regard to the deplorable condi- tion of mistreatment. which colored women are compelled to suffer, Mrs. Whiteman exclaimed, “Whether we be in Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois or New York, we must take a definite and independent stand against per- mitting Negro women to be deprived of their rights and proper respect.” Because of the threatened impris- onment of Marcus Garvey, which is in- terpreted as an effort of the federal government to deprive the Negro movement of an able leader, ‘many speechs are devoted to the matter of his leadership. 8. S. Wheat, a Chicago officer of the organization, described the hopeless condition the American Negroes found themselves in just after the end of the world war, a period in which” they were unorganized and helpless while their rights were more and more dis- apearing. “And at last,” he said, “out of the is- lands of the sea we heard the cry of Marcus Garvey. Hopes were gone, hopes were lost, when this giant came on the scene,” Charges Jealousy. Claiming that Negro leaders who have themselves been unable to or- ganize the Negro masses were jealous of the new leader, Mr. Wheat said, “But the old reactionary Negro, that old ‘Uncle Tom’ Negro, is a back num- ber now.” The jealousy of such men, he said, has caused them to encour age the federal officials to frame up indictments against Garvey. “But we have got to. make enemies on the day that we step into this organization,” said the speaker, ‘ Mrs. Ada Hoguos of Chicago told of the manner in which she had been stirred by the propaganda of the Gar- vey movement and her appreciation of | its leader. Bie Chairman William Sherrill, describ. Getting Her Publicity While Getting’s Good |A>zicw Go2-man By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toba: several millions of workers went hunting jobs again over the land—men, women, boys, girls, children. It will be the same tomorrow. And the day after, for some time to come. In these great waves of humanity, lashing at the gates of factories, mills and mines, the individual seeking work is lost sight of. In the flood of statistics issued on the unem- ployment situation he finds himself classified, according to a headline in Wednesday’s New York Times, as follows: “Mills Go Slowly Thruout the State (New York); Labor Depart- ment Shows Unemployment in Some Industries, and Output Curtailed; Metal Cities Report Slumps.” * @ Trades Operations Are Low—Buffalo, Rochester and Other That report is tucked away on the financial pages, with the reports of fluctuations in prices on the stock exchanges and the boards of trade. The lone worker ets about as much attention as a share of stock in Rockefeller’s Stand- ard Oil, a foreign bond offered for sale by the House of Mor- Cudahy, or Morris. But the importance of Mrs. Mor; gan, or a bushel of wheat, a hog, a steer, or a lamb to be bought and sold by one of the big packers, Armour, Swift, * * an Belmont, touted as “a member of New York’s smart set,” who is going to work; that is a different matter. She is above the ions. She gets on the first page when she states, according to reports that she will become an employe in charge of the personal shopping bureau of a Fifth Avenue (New York) department store on Sept. 10. There is an event for the yellow press to conjure with. There will be columns and columns of space devoted to her —AND PICTURES. It is an event so uncommon, even for a member of the idle rich class to promise to go to work, that it must be given extraordinary attention. The event happens so seldom It's news. that it even startles the blase editors, who sit in attendance’ upon the matter that goes into the “Brass Check” press. are goaded into action. * * Even their dulled sensibilities This Belmont person is the wife of Morgan Belmont, the youngest son of August Belmont, the multi-millionaire banker and traction magnate. She was formerly Margaret Andrews. But Miss Andews mont” in order to beak into had to become a “Mrs. Bel- the metropolitan press. As “Miss Adams” she would have been unknown. Margaret is a rather mediocre person. Wealth didn't give her brains. She tried to break into the limelight once before by “going to work.” It was In 1920 that she an- nounced she was simply tired of the monotony of society life and entered motion pictures, playing a minor role. She must have been get with her millions. No calling her “Maggie,” bh for “work.” retty rotten if that is as far as she could doubt the rest of the help began ng the damper on her enthusiasm Now she is going to make another try, this time as a “come-on” for a fashionable department store, in an effort to catch the trade of her * rich friends. “Maggie” Belmont is lucky in a way. She is getting at least a little ‘experience against the day when an American Workers’ Government in power will put all the idlers and the parasites to work, without giving them any newspaper publicity. ‘Maggie’ is good. is getting her publicity now, while the getting ing the hardships and dangers of at- tempting any sort of organization of the Negroes in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, then introduced 8S. B. Rob- inson, commissioner of the Universal Negro Improvement Association for Mississippi and Louisiana, who he said had done heroic work in “prizing up the southern part of the country.” Mr. Robinson told of the work “in the Southland, among men who have no regard for human life.” He said the lethargy had been so great that “the only thing the Negroes wanted was Jesus—and let the white man have all the rest.” He declared that the organizing work and propaganda of the U. N. I. A. were causing the Negroes of the most backward regions of the South to stop singing that old song. Fred BH. Johnson of Detroit said that yesterday the Negro was slumbering, but that such a time had passed away for the black man. He attributed the awakening in large measure to the work of the leader Garvey. He de- clared that the incarceration of Gar- vey would not.succeed in stopping the organization. He referred to several Negro intellectual leaders as having had a hand in the indictment affair and ed his hearers to tell th men “to make this their last attack on Marcus Garvey. And tell Coolidge that, too!” he said. Pausing a mo- ment, he then shouted, “And tell the Ku Klux Klan that, too!” May Reconsider K, K. K. ‘The latter remark, coming after the evasive action that was taken on the Klan question, seemed to be meant as a hint that all that was to. be said about the Klan question was not con; tained in the official resolutions, Later Johnson said, “If you have a gun in my ‘ll buy you an ice- cream soda. ‘Yes, I'll smile and talk pleasant. But you had better not lay that gun down and turn your back on me. Marcus Garvey can’t afford to say some things because of the posi- tion he is in.” The resolutions on the subject of the Ku Klux Klan passed by the con- vention a tow days ago appear in their official form as follows: ' “Resolved that the fourth interna- tional convention of the Negro Peo- attitude of the)Ku Klux Klan to the Negro as fairly representative of the feelings of the majority of the white race towards us and places on record its conviction that the only solution of the crucial situation is that of the Universal Negro Improvement Assoc- jation, namely, the securing for our- ON JUST DEMANDS OF NICARAGUANS “ee Game Laid Open (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Former Minister Weitzel, who represented the State Department in Nicaragua when the American bankers gained possession of the national railroad of that republic, is returning from Lon- don with Secretary Hughes. Weitzel has been abroad some time, and while he has been absent an attempt to recover” $100,000 in taxes, paid by the Nicaraguan government on its 49 per cent of the shares of the railroad company created by the American bankers in New York; has dor- mant. It is expected case will now come up vc ag According to the Nicaraguans, they permitted the bankers to incorporate the rdilroad company in the United States,not knowing that they must pay war taxes. When they protested their share of a. tax-of $200,000 col- lected in five years, they were turned down. But Weitzel had returned to Washington from Nicaragua, and he offered to secure the refund on a 33 per cent contingent-fee basis. Former President Emiliano Chamorro was at that time minister in Washington, while his uncle was president. Then Weitzel was called to Burope. President Martinez, progressive, now proposes to appeal the case with- out the help of Weitzel, and to turn the entire $100,000 into the national treasury—if he is able to get it from Mr .Mellon. He has been warned, however, that Weitzel is very close to the State Department, and that he is taking dangerous chances. Thirty-One Join Up In Hammond Branch Of Red Youth League A large branch of the Young Work- ers’ League was organized in Ham- mond, Tuesday night, after an ad- dress by Barney Mass, who spoke to two hundred young workers of Ham- mond, most of them employes of the Standard Steel Car company, and se- cured 31 applications for membership in the league. Hammond is typical of many indué- trial towns in the Chicago district, and the enthusiastic reception given to Mass’ organization speech, togeth- er with the large number of appli- cants, is a significant indication of organizational possibilities around Chicago. Mass appealed to the young work- ers to have an organization of their own, separate and distinct from the rich boys’ fraternities and clubs. He explained the class struggle, and gave examples of the injustices heaped up- on the young workers by the capital- ist system. Karl Reeve acted as chairman. Legion Convention Heretic of Pacifist Tendency (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) SANTA CRUZ, Cal., Aug. 14— A selves as speedily as possible a gov-/near-riot was precipitated in the Cali- ernment of our own, on African soil, “Moved, that it shall be the policy of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to protest against the bru- talities and atrocities alleged to be perpetrated upon members of the Negro race by the Ku Klux Klan or by any other organization.’ A passage of the original resolu- tion, describing the Negro organiza- tion’s posifion as being a “neutral” to- ward the Klan was stricken out by amendment on the suggestion of Presi- dent Garvey, who said that the Negro convention could not afford to be “neu- fornia convention of the American Legion when the call of the Friends of Peace for a day’of mourning to re- place Mobilization Day was present- ed by a San Diego delegate. The reading was booed and hissed and greeted with cries of, “Down With the Pacifists!” Finally the notice was referred to the resolutions com- mittee with recommendation that such matters be barred from Ameri- can Legion conventions and that a resolution be prepared heartily en- dorsing Mobilization Day. tral” on so vital a question. This is a. Communist Move to : fact which was overlooked in my first dispatch on the subject. Jobless Ino e in Germany. BERLIN, Aug. 14.— Labor condi- tions in Berlin are getting worse. The number of unemployed registered with the labor office is 92,576, an in- crease of 6,000 in one week. Bank- ruptcies are likewise on the Increase, HUGHES BLUFF FAILED TO SCARE CHINA, SAYS SOVIET RUSSIA HEAD MOSCOW, Aug. 14. — The two chief events of the past month as far as Russia's international posi- tion is concerned, said Premier Ry- ckov yesterday, are the French elections, which gave us a favor- able government, and the resump- tion of full relations with China, in spite of the threatening note which Secretary Hughes addressed to that country. . . . To an American observer, the prestige of our country has fallen off notice- ably thru Russia and Asia due to the unwarranted bluff issued by Hughes and its failure to influence even Ching Get Kids’ Vacation Blocked in Germany, BERLIN, Aug. 14.—Willy Munzen- — berg, secretary International Work- _ ers’ Aid, and a Communist member | of the Reichstag, wants the govern- ment to issue permits to 800 German school children from workers’ fami- lies to leave the country on a vaca- tion in foreign workers’ homes. The German People’s party delegation ob- jected to immediate consideration. In — Previous summers, Scandinavian and _ Swiss and Dutch homes were opened to the German children, Medical Colleges Hard Up; Won’t Buy’ A Corpse in OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 14.— Have you ever thought when times get too hard, that you might sell your body in advance to a medical college? Well, you can’t. Robert Frazee, a prison- — er in the Alameda County jail, tried | to raise some money that way from ‘* the University of California to help his destitute family, and was told there were no funds for such a pur- | |