The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ol. I. No. 130. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HANCELLOR MARX had a better reception in London, from the in- ternational bankers than he will have jon his return to Berlin, if the nation- list press is any criterion of German eéling. Marx is warned that the Lon- lon agreement would not receive the necessary two-thirds majority in the Reichstag. The nationalists of Ger- many, however, like their prototypes in France, having no aims except the interests of their particular capitalist group, can be purchased for a price and the bankers are so anxious to put ithe Dawes plan across that they are willing to mollify the tempers of the nationalists by favorable concessions. The only real opposition to the Dawes plan in Germany is coming from the Communists. *. * * ‘HE European Socialists are solidly lined up behind the Dawes plan. Dawes, the strikebreaker! Dawes, the organizer of the Minute Men of the Constitution! International soli- darity after all does not mean much to the Socialists. In America Berger is against the Dawes plan. Berger is supporting LaFollette. The New York Nation is for the Dawes plan. The Nation is supporting LaFollette. So far neither LaFollette nor Samuel Gompers have, to our knowledge, com- mented on the Dawes plan. Can the American Federation of Labor sup- port the Dawes plan and at the same time fight Dawes, candidate for vice- president on the Republican Party ticket? Can LaFollette remain silent on the Dawes plan while attacking Coolidge, who gave the Dawes plan SUBSCRIPTION RATES: TERSON Mi Demand Sta his blessing from the start? Not very likely, but the Wisconsin senator will attack it for purely electioneering purposes as Harding did the League of Nations. eA Tae ‘HERE is still an opportunity for wide-awake Americans to make money, provided they keep their eyes open. A former Irish-American saloon keeper in New York, walked down to Wall Street and bought 5 per cent Imperial German war bonds hoping in a vague sort of way that they would be worth real money some day. He invested $375 in 50,000,000 marks worth of those bonds. Today his bonds are worth $87,500. Others were equally forgunate or even more so. That is one of the ways money is made. If an ex-bartender was able to make~a profit on German bonds on a mere guess, how much did the bankers who were on the inside, make? . * * NE of the “profound” statements made by Calvin Coolidge in his speech accepting the nomination for president, is the following: “Very early in their search for a sound me- thod of self government the American people discovered that the only prac- tical way to secure responsible poli- tical action was by the formation of parties.” It seems to us that politi- cal parties existed in England when the fathers of this country were dis- cussing the Declaration of Indepen- dence, But that is a Coolidgeism. It will go down with the morons. WE Ne A REVOLUTION in Spain is con- sidered imminent. Regardless of what Alfonso tells the New York Times reporter in the presence of Mr. Moore, the American ambassador (who calls Alfonsé the “Chief” and his.son, the Duke of Alba, “Jimmy”) there is trouble brewing. “Morocco will be to to Alfonso, what Sedan was to Napoleon III” writes one of the Spanish politicians who was exiled by Primo de Rivera and afterwards escaped from his place of captivity. The Moroccan venture is becoming increasingly. unpopular and Spanish republicans are becéming more dar- (Continued on page 2) Damage Laid to Nationalists. CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 18.—Damage to the Sudan railway line, which was at first attributed to washouts, was said today to have been caused by anti- British agitators, What truth, if any, ere is in this report, has not yet ascertained. Mussolini Sneezed. SYRACUSE, Italy, Aug. 18.—Two earthquake shocks were felt here to- day. There was no danger. BA re Wt ar A Outside Chicago, SHUT-DOWN IS NEAR COMPLETE IN FIRST WEEK Ten Thousand Out and Ranks Grow Hourly (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 18.— The strike of the workers in the broad silk mills of this city now embraces 10,000 men and women, after a week’s struggle, and every hour more mills are closing down. It is estimated by strike lead- ers that the middle of this week will see the total shut-down of all broad silk mills in Paterson. Strike at Zero Hour. On Tuesday, Aug. 12, at the precise moment the hour-hand registered 10 o’clock in the morning, 5,000 weavers, in response to the strike call of the Associated Silk Weavers, brought their looms to a stop and walked out. Shop meetings were held in the vi- cinities of the various mills affected and organization of the far-flung picket line was under way. ¥ At 12 noon every unaffected shop was picketed by strikers and all after- noon additional shops came out. In the evening of Tuesday the pick- eting was continued, with more re- cruits, Wednesday the response was surprising even to the strike leaders— many of them old-timers who have been thru the succession of struggles here since the great strike of 1913. Strike Gains Rapidly. On Thursday it was evident to even the most optimistic of mill owners that the strike was rapidly gaining and that something had to be done to stop it. In the afternoon picketing a scab attacked a striker, who defend- ed himself. The police arrested the striker, who was held under $1,000 bail for the grand jury on a charge of felonious assault. The police beat the arrested striker after he was taken to jail. The strike committee appointed a subcommittee to visit the mayor and protest against the police methods. The mayor an- nounced in the capitalist press that he would gladly welcome the strike committee, but when they called Fri- day morning the mayor's office boy announced that Hizzoner was out of town and not expected back until Monday. Strikers Are Enthusiastic. A number of enthusiastic mass meetings have been held, attended by thousands of strikers. Most of the addresses have been by local speak ers, who exhorted the strikers to spread the movement to every mill in the city. Adolph Lessig, who was ac- tive in the series of strikes that made Paterson famous in the history of la- bor struggles in this country, is the local leader and is ably assisted by a group of experienced rebels who know how to conduct an aggressive strike. As chairman of the daily mass meet- (Continued on page 3) in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1924 TWO “SOCIALISTS” IN THIS YEAR’S RACE FOR N. Y. GOVERNOR George R. Lunn, the present lieutenant-governor of New York state and former socialist mayor of Schenecdaty, N. Y., is acceptable to the democrats as candidate for governor to succeed “Al” Smith. There is very little difference be- tween the socialism of Lunn and that. of Norman” Thomas “Who! ‘Is running on the socialist ticket. INDICTMENT OF CAMPBELL HITS “LABOR” GOVT. By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 6. (By Mail.) —‘Well, just look at all those red flags,” said Michael Gold to me, when we went down to Trafalgar Square to see the great. anti-war demonstration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. “They'd never allow that in the States.” “Yes,” I replied, “there is a bit more leeway here, perhaps, than in America. But don’t count on it.too much. If you really start treading on the bosses’ toes, they’ll hit back quickly enough, in Britain as in any other place.” And now, behold, I have the oppor- tunity of saying, “I told you so.” For, within a week of that conven- tion, the police had raided the party (Continued on Page 6) EAST MEETS WEST AND THE NORTH _ MEETS SOUTH AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMUNIST WOMEN AMTER. By SADI (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 12.—(By Mail.)—The International Confer- ence of Commmunist Women met in Moscow, with 148 delegates from all over the world and hu and all Russia. Just as in the ndreds of visitors from Moscow Comintern Congress, here east meets west and north meets south and all colors and races are represented. A presidium was elected including Comrade Clara Zetkin, a Chinese delegate, a Turkish delegate, four Russian delegates, htt aden br teas adi «878i! and one each from several other countries, in addition to the honorary presidium consisting of Comrades Zinoviev, Krup-' skayia, Trosky, Tomsky, Bu- charin and Pepper. Women From All Parts of Globe. Here were delegates from all quar- ters of the globe: from China and Ko- x rea; from France and Belgium; from Poland and Norway, North and South America, England and Turkey, Rou- mania, Armenia and Turkestan. Here were women of all races and all. col- ors, come to discuss the problems of the proletarian women in all countries and to listen to reports to women of (Continued on page 5) ASSASSINATION OF MATTEOTH AROUSES LABOR Thousands in March to efy Fascisti (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Aug. 18.—Within an hour after the mutilated body of Giacomo ~Matteotti, the socialist deputy who was the victim of the Fascist terrorists he dared to denounce, had been found buried at Scrofano, twenty thousand workers, with a group of Communists at their head, were marching thru the streets of Rome, singing the “International” and “The Red Flag.” Everywhere in the ranks of the marching, singing workers were members of the Young Communist League. of Italy, carrying the emblem of the Communist International. “Down With Mussolini!” Froni “the dense “crowds” tat thronged the pavements, shouting ap- plause of the marchers, rose cries of “Down with Mussolini!” “Down with the murderers of the workmen!” To the little town of Scrofano, four- teen miles from Rome, where the body of the martyred deputy had been found with a long stiletto plunged thru the breast, workers and peasants brought tribute of flowers. But more signficant than the praise of the dead is the hatred of the living Fascist murderers, now rising to a fierce flame among the Italian work- ers. Workers Ready for Action. For three years the Italian prole- tariat have been restlessly discon- tented with the petty army officials intrenched in the seats of the govern- ment, With the murder of a member of parliament for his threat to expose the infamous crimes of the Fascist leaders, this discontent crystalized into loathing. The discovery of the brutal methods used by the official murderers of state, and the final fas- tening of responsibility for the crime on the leaders. of the government, brings the Italian workers to the point where they are ready for action. “Prepare to strike!” is the watch- word which the Communists are pass- ing among the laborers. Fascisti for Terror Reign. With the end of the dictatorship a matter of only a few months at most, Mussolini is putting forth every effort to bolster up the government. Fascist organs such as the Impero of Rome are crying for a return of the death penalty for active political opponents and the installation of firing squads in public squares and in the busiest streets to quell outbreaks of disorder. Mussolini, at a grand council of the party a few days ago, definitely allied himself with the right wing of the Fas- cisti, who have been quarreling among themselves over the degree of reac- tion in which the party could indulge and yet maintain its supremacy. Right wing leaders have long insisted that another St, Bartholomew's eve is necessary before order can be restored in Italy. Catholics Join Blackshirts. The united approval of the pope and the Fascist leaders attends the forma- tion of the new political association called the “Italian National Center,” formed at Bologna a few days ago. ‘The organization attempts to unite all Catholics favorable to the Fascisti. With this party if is hoped to deal a death blow to the Popular Party, an anti-Fascist organization led by thé (Continued on page 3) gz ORDER YOUR BUNDLE OF THE DAILY WORKER'S FIRST SPECIAL CAMPAI DENNIS BATT. JOINS THE REPUBLICANS; HE IS ONLY RED IN FACE NOW (Special to the Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Aug. 18.—Dennis E. Batt, former national leader in the Prole- tarian Party, present editor of the De- troit Labor News and professed “rev- olutionist,” has abandoned all his for- mer pretensions by entering the elec- tions on the republican party ticket in Michigan. At the last meeting of the machin- ists’ union, of which he is a member, Batt announced: “I am a candidate of the Detroit Federation of Labor for the state legislature.” “From what party?” came a ques- tion from the floor. “Well, you see—er—hum—er,” stam- mered Batt, red in the face, “there is no other “party than the republican, and—er—hum—So I—hem — ha —ac- cording to the decision of the Detroit Federation—er—gave my consent to run on the republican party ticket.” KANSAS LABOR SKATES FORM Civil War Fostered: in Carpenters’ Union (Special to the DAILY WORKER) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 18. —Building contractors, Build- ing Trades Council, and the Central Labor Union of Kansas | City have united their forces | against the carpenters. They have organized a scab union of |carpenters, the result being that the labor movement of this city is being torn aSunder in what is shaping up to be the most disastrous jurisdictional quarrel in the history of the building trades. The carpenters have been on #trike since the middle of June. It is a stupid, ruinous, jurisdic- tional-strike. No wages, work- ing conditions, or new ‘agree- ment, are involved, just a sui- cidal battle between the car- penters and the sheet metal workers for control over the hanging of sheet metal doors, window sashes, and trim. “Get (Contiued on page 5) Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ILL L STRIKE GAINS te-Wide Drive for Unemplo WILL SMALL WAIT ON DAWES? SCAB COUNCIL, + LABOR ‘FRIEND’ MAY HELP CAL’S PAL CELEBRATE Governor Is Silent at His Kankakee Home Will Governor Len Small, in- dorsed for re-election by the Illinois State Federation of Labor and the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, attend the repub- lican vice-presidential notifica- tion ceremony . for General “Hell-an’-Maria” Charles Gates Dawes to be held tonight in Evanston? Will Governor Len Small, whose virtuous labor record was extolled at Sunday’s meet- ing of the Chicago Federation of Labor, join hands with notorious reactionaries in pay- ing homage to the arch-labor hater in America, General Dawes? These are questions that are being asked by the workers of Illinois, who have just been informed that among those who will be present at the no- tification tonight,, together with “Uncle Joe” Cannon, “Blackjack” John J. Pershing, Major James G. in the reactionary old guard of the republican party, is to be the indorsee of the official labor movement of Illi- nois, Len Small. All Evade Question. This is the question that is being evaded by the national campaign man- ager of tle Socialist Party, J. Mahlon THE DAILY WORKER General ; Harbord and other figures ; Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents yed MINERS URGING JOBLESS FIGHT ON ILL. LABOR Contrast Rich Mansions with Workers’ Hovels (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Aug. 18. —The unemployment in the Illinois mine fields will be the paramount issue on the floor of the Peoria convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor on September 8. Tom Parry, of Divernon, elected as a delegate from Local Union No. 146, of the United Mine Workers, told the DAILY WORKER today. “Dozens of local unions will present resolutions demanding that class col- laboration cease and that labor union officials immediately take steps to shorten the work day and demand that the mine operators take over the burden of caring for their unemployed workers,” Parry said. Must Start Unemployed Drive. Freeman Thompson, president of Sub-District Four, also a delegate to the Peoria convention, said: “The unemployment, both among the miners and industrial workers of the cities, has become so acute that the state convention of the Federation of Labor must take drastic action to solve this problem. “The unemployed must organize in- to unemployment councils, and must be kept in the trade unions if organ- ized labor is to meet the crisis. “The organization of the unorgan- {ized workers will help solve upem- ployment, and an organization drive musg be started by the Illinois con- vention.” Farmers In Same Boat. The entire Springfield mining dis- trict is stricken with severe and long continued shut-downs, a one hundred mile auto trip thru Thayer, Divernon, Barnes, by the national executive sec- retary of the same organization, Mrs. Bertha Hale White; by Oscar Nelson, the Chicago labor faker and by John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The question is being evaded by Len Small himself! When Mahlon Barnes was asked by the DAILY WORKER if he didn’t think the Socialist Party had been placed in a peculiar position by Small’s probable presence at the noti- fication of the would-be Fascist leader in America, Dawes, in view of the fact that Small was now its guberna- torial candidate, he replied that he hadn’t thought about that. Mrs. White, executive head of the party which Debs calléd upon to keep the red banner high, refused to com- (Continued on page 3) (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ROME, Aug. 18—Two members of the Fascisti were killed and ten caribiniers were wounded during a pitched battle here today between black shirted forces and workers. The discovery of Matteotti’s dead body has aroused the Ita’ work- ers to a pitch of fury that has never before been equalled in Italy. Mussolini is afrafd to risk a ma- jor engagement just now. He Is hoping that the soc! s will help him in staving off a revolution, as they saved the Italian capitalists in 1921, But the Communists are very active, and their success in organiz- ing demo: tions has even surprised themselves. The caribiniers In many instanc- es, where the Fascisti clash with the workers, show a tendency to sympathize with the workers. A nation-wide upheaval against Mus- solini is expected at any moment. ITALIAN FASCISTI KILLED IN CLASH WITH WORKERS OVER THE SLAYING OF DEPUTY MATTEOTTI Miners! series of articles on the reporter, is on the ground other industries. fronting you? Your Stories! ens DAILY WORKER publishes today the second of a especially among the coal miners. Virden, Girard, Auburn and Chatham revealed, These towns are owned by the coal companies and the miners, unable to pay rents, are tied to their employers thru heavy debts. A few mines have been dismantled and sealed up, and the others have worked only a score of days in the last year. The farmers, burdened by poor market prices and high freight |rates, are almost as badly off as the miners. The miners, seeking in vain for work in the cities, are returning to their homes in despair. They wel- |come the Workers Party program as the only solution to the unemploy- ment crisis. The Farrington machine |has sold out to class collaboration and \the Ku Klux Klan is attempting to |divide and disrupt their organization. | Only One-Industry Towns. The towns around Springfield are purely one-industry towns, mining be- ing the sole occupation outside of farming. Thayer has a population of 1,242, Every man in town is em- (Continued on page 3) Send in jobless problem in Illinois, Karl Reeve, our labor gettirig the first hand facts. This material will appear daily in these columns, But the DAILY WORKER wants to get letters direct from the coal miners themselves; and from workers in What are the jobless conditions con- How do you get along? immediate problems that you face? Write your stories to the Unemployment Editor, the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. SEND IN YOUR LETTERS! What are the ISSUE—SEE PAGE THREE <<<y ———_