The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT. Vol. II. No. 128. SONS OF TOIL CHORUS OF COOLIDGE, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: FOSTER OPENS COMMUNIST | RUHR DEADLOC | ENDANGERS THE DAVIS AND LaFOLLETTE:— “We must try to look like a turnip, to make the farmers think we are the sons of toil.” AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY EORGE L. BERRY, president of the Pressmen’s Union, was given a raw déal at the democratic con- vention, according’ to Chester M. Wright, chief publicity man for Sam- uel Gompers and former editor of the New York Call. It is unlikely that the A. F. of L. would see any more virtue in LaFollette than in Davis had the Jatter decided on Berry as his running mate rather than Charles W. Bryan, governor of Nebraska. John W. Davis was as reactionary when Berry was voted on for vice-president ag he was when the A. F. of L. endorsed La- Follette, yet it is evident that had Berry been given the nomination \Gompers would now be praising | Davis and denouncing LaFollette for jhis war record. j 7s ® 'HERE is no trouble in Spain, says King Alfonso, at a luncheon given jto an American. newspaper cérre- \spondent, in the presence of Alexan- jder B. Moore, American ambassador. |The King said the alleged crisis was -manufactured by the newspapers that _wish to see the old regime back again | because the government subsidies to the press were cut off by the present |dictatorship. ‘Primo de Rivera, the \King said, had a clean-up job on his jhands and would stay until the job 'was finished. There was no truth in the stories that Alfonso would leave the throne. ee IS MAJESTY expressed the great- est regard for the American am- basasdor, Mr. Moore. It apears that Moore and Alfonso are very chummy. The former calls the King “chief” and addresses the Duke of Abba, “Jimmy.” The Duke is heir to the throne, and is planning to attend the international polo contest in Long Island, which will also be honored by the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Prince of Norway. In spite of Alfonso’s pro- testations, there is trouble in his kingdom, and it would not surprise us to learn that he has decided to come a permanent guest of the British government. The British workers are already paying the laundry bills of half a score of titled gentlemen who have fallen from grace in their own countries, . Ors'@ 'VERYTHING is not running smoothly in the Socialist-LaFol- lette-Left wing Tammany Hall com- ' (Continued on page 3.) : Tokyo Ie Terrorized, TOKYO, Aug. 15—Fifteen heavy earthquake shocks rocked Tokyo early today. The tremblors were heaviest in the district north of here, CHARLIE HUGHES LEADS CHEER FOR SILENT COOLIDGE Bearded Baptist Gets Quite Excited WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — So pleased with himself was Charles Hughes, secretary of state, on the good work he has done for his master, J. P. Morgan, in putting across the Dawes plan at the London conference, that he actually unbended his beard- ed austerity long enough to lead in a cheer for the sphinx of the White House, “Silent Cal” Coolidge, at the notification ceremony here today. Rah! Rah! Rah! The two thousand morons who were present to hear Coolidge being in- formed that he was selected to run the race for the presidency on the back of the elephant, were almost knocked out of their clothes when the dignified secretary suddenly rose from his seat and yelled out like a college boy on a rampage: “Three cheers for. President Coolidge!” No sooner were they given than he stepped back into his shell, where he will probably remain until the heat strikes him again. Back to Papa. After the cermony he reported back to Coolidge on the work he had ac- complished for American” capitalism on his short trip abroad. WAR RUMBLINGS HEARD IN EGYPT AS BRITISH _ WARSHIP STARTS SCRAP ‘Special to The Daily Worke: LONDON: August 1 Pp caccsraing to a dispatch to the Daily Mail, a plot aiming at the seizure of the Egyptian government has been un- covered in Cairo. Elaborate police and military precautions are being taken, . oe * ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 15.—A Brit- tish war ship arrived here today, sent because of British unrest. Fighting has broken out at Port Sudan, upon the arrival of British troops. *e @ CAIRO, August 15.—Sever inter- tribal fighting with heavy casulties was reported today from Trans- Jordania. Warabie attacked -and burned villages of the The latter tribesmen, the British military al chasing the Warabis. in Ohicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Mntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post OMice at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924 <<» Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Il DAWES REPORT Ambassador Kellogg on French Side (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Aug. 15—It was learned from excellent authority that the German delegation. at London Is al- most certain to sign the French terms for Ruhr evacuation, unless there Is an eleventh hour hitch. President Ebert, it was learned, told the Ministerial Council that Germany’s rejéction of the London terms would mean the overthrow of Premier Herriot, which wauld be disastrous for Germany. s * 6 (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ~ LONDON, August 15.—The German delegation met this afternoon at 2:30 to consider an important communication just received from Berlin. Copies of Germany's reply to France’s Ruhr evacuation pro- posals ‘were handed to the French and Belgians at 3 o'clock this afternoon. ‘The Germans did not finally accept the French proposals on evacuation of the Ruhr yester- day evening as reported. In- stead they got in touch with Berlin and while President Ebert was conferring with lead- vers of the various political par- ties, except the Communist Party of course, Chancellor Marx, was attending services at the. Church, of the Immaculate Conception and praying for divine guidance while Herriot was soothing his atheistic soul by taking a walk in the park. Premier MacDonald conferred with the Roumanians regarding the claim to German indemnity. The small na- tions of Europe who were on the side of the allies in the war are hovering around the London conference, wait- ing for whatever scraps the big fel- lows may throw at them. Due to the deadlock in the allied reparations conference, President Cal- vin Coolidge’s speech received scant attention in the London press today. While ‘the message received by Chancellor Marx from Berlin has not yet been made public, it is rumored that Germany will make further con- cessions on the issue of Ruhr evacu- ation, meanwhile reaching a tacit un- derstanding with Herriot that the ac- tual evacuation shall begin sooner than the formal protocol calls for. Daily Worker to Tell Facts About Jobless Blight HE DAILY WORKER is going to tell the truth about the blight of unemployment that is gripping the state of Illinois, especially the coal mining districts. And what is true of the coal Ilinois, is also true of the nation as a whole. This campaign will be carried gn in co-operation with the drive against unemployment being waged by the national organization of the Workers Party. Karl Reeve, ers just as he finds them. Fifty thousand coal miners have been out of work for months in Reeve will go to Springfield, the headquarters of the Iilinois Mine Workers’ Union, and will give intimate pictures of what the long continued unemployment means to the miners. “Bloody Williamson” County, the heart of the Illinois coal fields, where the Ku Klux Klan has been operating around Herrin and Marion, to perpetuate the bloody name of the county, will be visited. The Middlefort Mines, of Benton, owned by the United States Steel Corporation, and the Mason, Illinois, mine, Illinois. ters bu! the DAILY WORKER'S labor reporter, will go into the various Illinois coal fields, and report the conditions of the work- WORKERS GAINING IN AMALGAMATED BOSTON STRIKE; 20 ARRESTED (Special to the DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, Aug. 15—Twenty work- ers were arrested In the clothing bythe being carried on here by th® Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. It is an in- dication of the feélings of the boss- es at the success of the strike that they are obliged to resort to the usual brutal police tactics. |. W.W. OFFICES LOCKED UP BY COURT ORDER Judge Takes Possession inF, action Fight Offices of the Industrial Workers of the World were locked up Friday with great big padlocks on the doors, and deputy’s from the county court in charge. The application for an in- junction against Tom Doyle and Joe Fisher, secretary and general organizer of the Indus- trial Workers of the World, filed in the ¢ourt of Judge Hurley by James Rowan, Bowerman, and others, in the factional struggle for possession of the general headquarters, was put over un- til next Tuesday. In the meantime an order was is- sued by the court that the headquar- & Should be locked until the application is heard and a ruling made on the injunction application. Everything Quiet Until Tuesday. Judge Hurley left the city yesterday for? a week-end at South Bend, Ind., and will not return to the city until Monday. Attorney William A. Cunnea’s office knew nothing about the case except JACKSONVILLE PACT SCUTTLES NINERS’ UNION Unemployment Coun- cils Should Be Formed The widespread unemploy- ment, which has impoverished at least 100,000 working class families in Southern IIlinois bituminous coal fields, makes it imperative that Unemployment Councils be immediately formed among the miners, and that the Illinois Miners’ Union demand the payment of unemployment funds by the coal operators. Frank Fatrington, president of dis- j trict 12 of the Miners Union, put his stamp of approval on the selling out | of the membership when he refused to take a definite stand for the payment of unemployment funds by the coal operators and by the government. Farrington admitted his failure to aid the miners on May 13, in his report to the convention of the mine workers of Illinois in Peoria. “One hundred and fifty Illinois mines were completely closed on the first day of May,” Far- rington admitted. “And there is no immediate prospect of resuming oper- ations. There is every indication that as time advances more mines will suspend. Fully 30,000 of our men are now idle. Very few of the mines that are now open are working more than half time and the great majority of them are,not working that much.” Instead of advocating unemployment benefits Farrington wanted the miners to speed up their work and aid the operators by cheapening benefits. John L. Lewis and the officials of the mine workers union sold out the miners by signing the Jacksonville agreement, on Tuesday, February 19, 1923. The capitalist papers immediately ocmplimented the mine officials for being “sensible” by aiding the coal operators to bring on unemployment. “The Jacksonville agreement was a moye to deflate the mine industry,” said the New York World. “The result will be the closing down of the mines, that Cunnea is expected to return from Rooseyelt, Wis., on Tuesday to appear in court. the officials of the United Mine Work- ers admit, and the releasing for other industries of perhaps 200,000 men.” WORKERS PARTY SETS QUOTA OF MILLION LEAFLETS TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY MEMBERSHIP (%:, 2vscx. sempiorment to, cut The first million leaflets of the platform upon which William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow | organization. the Workers Party containing have been nominated are now on the printing press. “This leaflet is to be distrib uted by the party units between the first and tenth of September,” said Joseph Manley, campaign fields and the big industries of manager, “in the shops, in un- ion meetings, house to house in working class sections and everywhere the workers can be reached. “Every party branch must help distribute these leaflets. We must in- crease the number of leaflets from the quarter of a million we have been distributing to at least a million. We must mobilize the whole membership for this work, so that we can reach the workers with our message.” The leaflets, which contain Robert Minor’s powerful cartoon on present- day American institutions, will be seld to the branches at $1.75 per thousand in lots of 10,000 and $1.50 per thousand in larger quatitities. Remittance must be made with the orders so that the printing can be financed. In those cities where th@e are City Central Committees, the dis- tribution should be organized thry the Citiy CentralCommittees and branches should place their orders with the City Central Committee, It is expected that every single member of the Workers Party will get into this campaign for literature distribution with all energy and help across at least the quota set by the party, a million leaflets. It is pointed out that it is relatively easy to dis- id to be the largest bituminous coal mine in the world, are on the list. Reeve will write about the everyday lives of the workers, their home life and their economic conditions, affected by the widespread unemployment. ing’s issue. Orde a bundle now. We hope to have the first article for Monday morn- Address: The Dally Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ilinois, tribute leaflets during election cam- paign time, The Workers Party has the big task this year of work for its Communist candidates and against the Coolidge- Davis-LaFollette bunch, In this work it expects and will receive the full active support of its membership. MOROCCANS IN FIGHT AGAINST SPANISH AND FRENCH IMPERIALISM (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MADRID, Aug. 15.—Adbel Krim, who formerly led the rebels against the Spanish, is now leading a revolt against the imperi- alism of France and Spain com- bined, advices from Tangier today confirmed. Additional forces today left for Morocco where a new out- break of fighting with the rebel tribesmen has extended over a large section of the battle front. Premier Primo de Rivera is meet- Ing with his cabinet In an effort to find ways and means of sup- pressing this new struggle against imperialism. STRIKE THREAT Morocoan GROWS LOUDER IN SOUTH BEND Studebaker Men Rebel Against Wage Cut | (Special to the DAILY WORKER) SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 15./ —Possibility that a strike of} the men employed at the Stude- baker automobile plant here would take place was seen to- day by the groups of workers that gathered grumbling about the new situation that has developed in the factory. } Huge numbers of men are unemployed in South Bend, having been laid off from the big factories like the Stude- baker, the Singer Sewing Ma- jchine Go., and the Oliver Chil- led Plow concern. Wages Are Cut. | To make matters worse, new ma- chinery has been installed in the| | Studebaker plant, which has displaced still more men. And the condition has been considerably aggravated by the fact that not only have men been |driven out of jobs, but even those who were taken back have been put on a piece work allotment basis and have had their wages cut. The workers are angry because the employers have taken advantage of | wages. |about striking, and the only difficulty |in the way is their total lack of any Communists to Take Action. The City Central Committee of the Workers Party, which meets tonight, will take up the entire situation and consider ways and means of directing the discontent of the workers into) profitable channels. The activity of the Workers Party and the Young) Workers League in the strikes at Pullman and Hegewisch has set the| mark for the Communist units in all| other parts of the country, and not | only have they learned the value of} such tactics, but they are ready to| take advantage of the experience gained in participating in the strug- gles of the workers. Shoe Workers Reject Cut. HAVERHILL, Mass., Aug. 15.—The sole leather workers rejected a prop- osition of the cut sole manufacturers’ asking a wage reduction of 15 per cent and the restoration of teh five and one- half day week Aug. 23, when the pres- ent agreement expires. SUPPRESSION OF ing class and a free hand to the capit platform adopted at Cleveland and to ploite however, the merit of being frank. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5c d DRIVE SPEAKS TWICE ON SUNDAY IN YOUNGSTOWN Steel Workers Rally to Our Party Standards (Special to the DAILY WORK®SR) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 15—With the rousing battle: cry of “Communism insti Capitalism!”, William Z. Foster opens the campaign of the Workers Party of America In the very heart of capitalism's stronghold, Mahoning Valley, on August 17. Foster, the candidate of the Communists for the presidency, will rally to the red standards the thousands of steel workers whom he led against the octo- pus of the Steel Trust in 1919, © WIIL Expose Labor Fakers. The complete collapse of the so- called organization drive of the steel workers with the money left over from the. 1919 strike, which showed so clearly the bankruptcy and betrayal of the workers by the labor fakers who }are now trying to drag the workers, bound hand and foot, into the camp of LaFolletteism, will receive their due at the hands of Foster. _ LaFollette Discredited. The steel workers, who still remem- ber LaFollette as the man who kept his mouth carefully shut while they were being terrorized for striking against Gary, will attend the two Fos- ter meetings by the thousands, it is announced. Arrangements have been made to accommodate both the night and day shifts. Foster will speak Aug. 17 at Avon Park, Girard, Ohio, 2 p. m,, and agaip in the evening at Ukrainian Hall, 525% West Rayen Ave., Youngs. town, Ohio, 8 p. m. Fear to Debate Foster. Wallace T. Metcalfe, leading the party drive in this district, has chal- lenged, on behalf of Foster, the fake labor leaders here who have indorsed LaFollette, to debate with the Com- munist candidate the issues of the campaign, but not one of them has dared to take up the challenge. The LaFollette forces here are the curious mixture of labor fakers, pseudo-so- ciglists, business men and the reac- tionary Scripps paper. Foster will appeal for support solely to the workers on the basis of the platform of the Workers Party of America. Revolts in Brazil Outcome of a Naval Mission Sent by U. S. (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., August 15.— The whole South American press is pointing to the United States govern. ment’s sending a delegation of naval officers to superintend the upbuilding of Brazil’s fighting fleet as the cause of the Sao Paulo uprising. The gov- ernment of Brazil is expressing its in- dignation in no small terms at Wash- ington’s action. Refuse to Pay Oil Taxes. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 15.—The oil companies are refusing to pay the Mexican government the oil taxes on exports for the last quarter. They say since these taxes were destined for payment on the debt to American bankers and since payment has been suspended, that they, too, will not pay. COOLIDGE SPEECH PROGRAM FOR WORKING CLASS IS WILLIAM Z. FOSTER’S COMMENT NEW YORK CITY, August 15.—“A program of suppression of the work- alists, a fitting accompaniment to the the record of the republican party.” This was William Z. Foster's summarization of Coolidge’s speech of accept- ance. “As LaFollette is the representative of little business and more! or less unconsciously a tool of Wall Street, as Davis is the liveried servant of Morgan, so is Coolidge the very embodiment of the dictatorship of the ex- His every word is an arrogant insult to the working class. It has, No one can make a mistake about Cool- idge; to support him means to support domestic exploitation and foreign imperialism.”