The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, August 19, 1924 STEEL WORKERS GIVE SUPPORT TO COMMUNISTS Thousands Enthused at Big Foster Meetings (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio., Aug. 18.—Enthusiasm for this year’s Communist campaign, and sup- port of its national ticket, was rampant, up and down Mahon- ing Valley today following the two big mass meetings ad- dressed by William Z. Foster, presidential candidate, here yes- terday. The drive for the Communist candidates, in this big steel dis- trict, is now under way and will know no let up until election day. “Those two meetings Sunday were the biggest and most enthusiastic turnouts of Mahoning valley steel workers in recent years,” was the manner in which Wallace T. Metcalfe spoke of the Foster gatherings, one in the afternoon at Avon Park, Girard, and the other at night in the Ukrain- ian Hall, Youngstown. Foster closed this speech with a ringing declaration that the Workers Party is the revolutionary vanguard of the working class. He appealed for members, and many applications were received. The largest collection ever taken in the Mahoning valley at any Barty gatheringwas taken. At Avon Park two thousand steel workers from Warren, East Liverpool, Girard, Youngstown and the various valley steel towns were present. Be- fore the speaking the crowd was enter- tained by a Bolsheviki band composed of Workers Party members. “Bill” ‘White, the “Red” steel worker of the valley, was chairman. The labor offi- cials of the Youngstown unions who have indorsed the candidacy of LaFol- lette were interested listeners to Fos- ter’s speech. Foster spoke for two hours, in the course of which he flayed both old par- ties. He spoke in detail of the part that LaFollette is playing to bolster up a dying faith in the decadent sys- tem of capitalism. He showed that the fake explanations given by Cool- idge and Davis for the recurring crises of the present system are no explana- tion at all, and that the explanation given by LaFollette tends to confuse the workers even still more. He stat- ed that all three ignore the basis of the class struggle, which is the factor out of which develops all real opposi- tion to the power of capitalism. The speech of the Communist candi- date brought out the fact that the high sounding phrases of LaFollette are meaningless when it comes to a struggle with capitalism. He pointed out that LaFollette will stand against the workers and with the failing sys- tem of the capitalists. In this connec- tion he characterized the capitalist ownership of the government and their use of this instrument for the continued exploitation of the workers as being “adaptable” to their every need. When government shows its corruptness to the naked gaze of the workers, then along come the LaFol lettes, MacDonlads and Scheide- manns to confuse the workers by indi- eating that it can be reformed. Fos- ter said: “The function of the LaFol- lettes is make capitalism livable for the workers—that is, to delude masses of them into supporting it because of some alleged tendency toward re- form.” He went on to show that when the workers are in a revolutionary mood the capitalists make use of a Musso- Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue MINERS URGE FIGHT FOR JOBLESS | (Continued from page 1) ployed in the mine of the Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Com- pany, which employs 560 men at nor- mal capacity. The mine has been completely shut down with the exception of less than a score of days, for the last three years. The Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Company is owned by the Webster and Shaw syndicate, located in Boston, which in turn could probably be traced to one of the large trusts or railroad combines. This company owns mines in South Wiimington, Thayer, two in Herrin, two in Benton, one in West Frank- fort, and two in Orient, among others. All except one in Orient and the South Wilmington mine have been completely closed down for many months. The two working, run only an average of a day and a half a week. Ex-Congressman on Easy Street, On the way to Thayer, we passed the mansion of Ex-Congressman Ben Caldwell, who was elected to con- gress on the strength of his ability to remember the name of every person he ever shook hands with. The Spring- field mining district presents the as- pect of one acute problem being tel- escoped into another. In spite of the boasted rise in wheat, prosperity is a long way from reaching the farmers of Sangamon county. They have been uilable to realize a cent in profit on this year’s crops. As we drove thru the heart of this poverty stricken mining and farming country, with the miners blighted with long continued unemployment and the farmers impoverished, we passed two homes whose inhabitants were de- cidedly not impoverished. Ex-Con- gressman Caldwell’s wags one of them. United Front in Sangamon. “Caldwell is a millionaire banker,” lini, while on the other hand they use a MacDonald or a LaFollette to con- fuse them. Foster drove home the fact that because the big capitalists opposé LaFollette it is no proof that he is for the workers’ interest. They opposed the German social-democrats, whose party at one time was under- ground, but it was éVentually the so- cial-democracy that saved the same capitalists and their system. It is the function of the MacDonalds, Eberts and LaFollettes to prote¢t the capital- ist system after the conservative poli- ticians have been discredited. Foster outlined the program of the Workers Party. He showed the ne- cessity for the dictatorship of the pro- letariat and the organization of So- viets. He advised his audience why they should vote for the Workers Par- ty ticket, indicating that it was not be- cause we believe that it is possible t accomplish reforms thru the capitalist governmental machinery, but rather so that our representatives could raise their voices in behalf of the workers and appeal to the workers over the heads of the capitalist legiglators. He urged them to go to the polls and pro- test against the capitalist system, for, he said, “we look upon this as a fa- vorable time to build up the Workers Party. Because the masses are now thinking of the various political prob- lems and are inclined to listen to Com- munist principles.” We are not tell- ing the workers that they can buy out the capitalist industries. We know this cannot be done. The capitalists would never give by niere sale the industries which are yielding them their golden profits. Neither are we telling the workers that we can legis- late the industries out of the hands of the capitalists. We are not so fool- ish as to believe that just because the majority of the people might vote for socialism that thereupon the capital- ists would give up their control. On the contrary, we know that they will never relinquish their grasp, majority or no majority, short of the most des- perate struggle.” ILLIAM Z. FOSTER, the candidate of the Workers Party \ for resident of the United States, o ined the Com- munist drive for the White House, in an enthusiastic rally of | steel workers, yesterday, at Youngstown, Ohio. That is only the inning. first ecial Gommuniett Campaign Edition of the T DAILY WORKER will be dated Saturday, August 30, out lust in time for Labor Day, istribute a bundle of this speci today on this blank! DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. For closed ticket—Foster and Gitlow. FOR THE COMMUN First Special Communist Campaign edition WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug, 30, at the 8Y4 cents per copy, or $3.50 pér hundred. | want to hi standards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party EADIE snssdaihonsoihipiitedloneuncenesinssanltilensnotennsenteleb ieee eesttlan BERR OO iiidpeisinciincrsisscnpipiiiicnplaitinaiesctlectnreisatettiemitlistnasics ream nataesremctst Oey 7 MMe eam 1. Get into the campaign! issue. Send in your Ho IST CAMPAIGN ind me... of the DAILY jal rate of Watkins told me. “He boasted when he ran for election that he was a ‘dirt farmer.’ He made his money, hdw- ever, farming the farmer‘s in politics and in business.” The other home we passed, which is still able to provide the family with a good chicken dinner every night, is the home of Frank Farrington. “Farrington has another home in Indianapolis,” Watkins said. His Springfield home, nestling prettily in the suburbs, is merely an added con- venience for him when he ts out of Indianapolis. Caldwell milks the farmers, and Farrington gouges the miners. The United Front of Sanga: mon county! \ Fake Labor “Friend” May Help Cal’s Pal (Continued from page 1) mit herself, in reply to a similar ques- tion, ‘ , Maybe Case for Sheriff. Oscar Nelson didn’t care to make any comment, and Johin Fitzpatrick answered: Governor Small is an Ameri- can citizen. He can come and go as he sees fit. “And if he does anything wrong, the sheriff can get after him,” and he laughed at his own facetiousness. Small Leads the Evaders. But Small himself led the evaders, crudely and ineffectively. Questioned over the long distance ’phone for con- firmation of the report that he would attend the ceremony, he answered by saying: “I have been laid up with bad eyes for the past two weeks and I don’t think I will be able to go.” “Have you received an invitation?” he was asked. “Yes.” “Will you go to the ceremony if you are physically able?” , The Governor Hangs Up. Snap! and the receiver was hung up. He simply refused to reply. After persistent ringing, his secretary re- plied and would not make a single statement one way or the other. Small was telephoned to at his home in Kankakee, his home town, where the Central Labor Union, affiliated to the American Federation of Labor, has placed him on the unfair list to laVor! E With whom will Small, the candi- date of “labor” and the Socialist Party in the state of Illinois, hobnob when Dawes is notified? As notorious a gang of labor haters and reactionaries as were ever gath- ered will rub shoulders with Len Small from the platform. There be the arch-militarist, John J. Per- }|ing; Major General James E. Har- bord, president of the Radio Corpora- tion of America, a Morgan-controlled firm, which is even now being sued by the Federal Trade Commission for vio- lating the anti-trust law; “Uncle Joe” Cannon, hoary, dyed-in-the-wool reac- tionary leader of the house of repre- sentatives for many years, will come up especially from his home in Dan- ville, as will Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, leading figure of the fake “farm bloc.” | There will also be Frank w.! Stearns, financial angel of Calvin Cool- idge and owner of department stores in Boston where girls are driven like coolies, And together with them will be the finest collection of American Legion- naires, members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Loyal Legioniteg, bank- ers, manufacturers and miscellaneous anti-labor figures that ever met at one time. Is this the gathering that will be at- tended by the “labor” candidate for governor? Is this how far the united front against the Communists extends? Debs stands by the socialist party. The socialist party indorses LaFol- lette for president. So does the ex- ecutive council of the American Fed- eration of Labor, Gompers included. So also does the Chicago Federation of Labor, led by the man who only yesterday, it seems, said that both old parties were rotten to the core, John Fitzpatrick. The same John Fitzpat- rick leads in the indorsement of Len Small as labor's candidate for gov- ernor of Illinois. Len Small stands cheek by jowl to the author of the in- famous Dawes plan, head of the Cen- tral Trust Company of Illinois—Mor- gan’s bank—and leader of America’s potential Fascisti, the Minute Men of the Constitution, “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes, Dawes is the running mate of Calvin Coolidge on the ticket of the republican party. Debs, Hillquit, Gompers, LaFollette, Walker, Fitzpatrick, Small, Dawes, Coolidge: all united against the can- didates of the Workers Party of America. | The symbol of this betrayal of the workers into the camp of the capital- ist parties is the attendance of Small at the notification iy of Dawes, What do the wor! ? Still Shooting Skyward. WASHINGTON, Aug. »Te- tail cost ¢ food in the increased three-fourths of one por cent in July, as compared with June, while there was also an upward trend in wholesale prices during the month, it Was announced from the depart- ment of labor today, J. A. Griffiths, leading figure in the group of the Industrial | osgpeete of iti World which My as split off from the regular Celebrate Tonight] organization, replied to the THE DAILY WORKER (enema ace URE ERENT a RNa omc naan Page Three INJUNCTION IN LW. W. CASE UP IN COURT TODAY Seceding Group Won't Make Statement “Tl want it clearly understood that neither | nor any other in- dividual or body will make any statement ‘concerning the con- troversy in the organization,” DAILY WORKER reporter_ in answer to a request for a state- ment. “I absolutely refuse to be quoted on anything at al!.” Not a Word. Not only do Griffiths and the others associated with him re- fuse to make any official state- ment of their case, but they re- fuse even to say if they have issued credentials to delegates, issued dues or initiation stamps, prepared to issue an official organ, or done any of the other matters that .a regular organ- ization, does. Tom Doyle, head of the “regular” organization of the I. W. W., could add nothing to Griffith’s refusal to speak. The seceding group keeps its activity secret from outsiders and none but they has any inkling as to what work is being carried on or what plans have been made to carry on such work. {Injunction Comes Up Today. Thé.suit for injunction, in which the Griffiths-Rowan-Bowerman group re- quest the court to prevent the Doyle- Fisher group from continuing in office as the official administration of the In- dustrial Workers of the World, comes up this morning in the court of Judge David. Both sides will appear with counsel and the injunction will either be denied or made effective. Italian Workers March in Defi to Mussolini’s Fascisti (Continued from page 1) syndiéalist, Don Sturzo, editor of 1 Popolo. Because Don Sturzo had been a priest, the Popular Party at- tracted large numbers of liberal Cath- olics, and it has for that reason been the object of special attack from the Vatican, in open alliance with the Fas- cisti. - The leading spirit in the Italian Na- tional Center is Mattei Gentile, for- mer minister of education, whose pol- icy of compulsory religious training in the schools last year led hundreds of students to strike. Benito’s Plan Fails. An attempt on the part of Mussolini to legalize the blackshirts—which is an army outside of an army—by unit- ing it with the regular army has been frustrated by the open refusal of the regulars to have anything to do with the Fascist militia, which is composed largely of criminals, The seaport workers of Genoa, up to now a stronghold of Fascism, have struck to show their sympathy with the strike of the miners in the Val- darno district, center of the ‘militant workers of Italy. Red Flag Reappearing. The Fascist emblem is disappearing from the streets. For the first time in three years, the red flag big « out without fear. u . Cicero Comrades Attend Open Air * : Meeting Tonight Notwithstanding the fact that four speakers of the Workers Party and Young Workers League were arrested in Cicero for speaking on street cor: nrs without permit by the Cicero au. thorities, who wink an eye at the real law breakers, gamblers and moonshin- ers, the Workers Party membership in Cicero has decided that open air meet- ings shall go on as usual. The arrest of our comrades by the Cicero authorities has drawn a at deal of sympathy and support from the workers in Cicero to the Workers Par- ty. Therefore, seeing the gain made ‘in membership by these open air meetings, they will go on. There will be an open air meeting tonight at 7:30 at West 14th St. and 49th Ct. and every succeeding Tues- day after that. Every Thursday night we will hold open air meetings at West 14th St. and bist Ave. Cicero comrades make a note of these dates and be on tho spdt to help make these protests a success, British Empire Shakes. MALTA, Aug. 18—A light earth- quake shock was felt here today. Malta is the seat of the British naval base in the Mediterranean sea. Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S firet Spocial Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August $0. (Continued from Page 1.) ings, he reports the progress of the strike, naming. mill after mill that falls into line, amid great enthusiasm. H. M. Wicks of New York city ad- dressed a number of mass meetings. He first spoke on Friday evening be- fote the strike and made such an,im- pression that the strike committee re- quested him to come hete and remain dyring the struggle in order to assist in thé work. The local reptile press, particularly the Paterson Evening News, which professes to speak in the interests of labor, has consistently misrepresent: éd the strikers’ position, and in report- ing the speech of Wicks referred to “foreigh agitators.” At a tremendous mass meeting held Friday morning Wicks excoriated the local press and told the strikers, many of whom ate foreign-born workers, that it’ was s0- called foreigners who built the indus- tries in this country. ‘He referred to the various waves of immigrants that have been swept upon the shores of the eastern industrial states. First the Scotch-Lrish, then the Germans, then the Scandinavians, all of whom, in times of depression, were able to escape from the industrial hells by mi- grating to the unsettled west. But the later immigrants were not able to escape in that way, so they were com- pelled to remain and fight, as they are fighting at this time in Paterson. Wicks then read a list of names of proprietors of silk mills, showing that there were as many foreign names among them as among the strikers, but the capitalist press never refers to them as “undesirable foreigners.” His remarks were received with pro- longed cheering. Workers Party Members Active. A number of members of the Work- ers Party are on the strike committee and are proving in action that Com- munists can be relied upon to conduct a genuine, militant struggle in the in- terests of the demands of the work- ers. They are also active on the picket line, where mass picketing is the order of the day and is proving most effective, This is in marked contrast to the small remnant of the I. W. W. that remains disgruntled because of the success of the Associated Silk Work- ers’ Union. This group, calling itself Textile Workers’ Industrial Union No. 10, issued a silly leaflet admonishing the strikers to “have no faith in lead- ers” and boasting that ff the leaders try “their usual tricks” they (the I. W. W.) will denounce them at the proper time. This strike is unique in that there are no outstanding leaders, the work being carried on by the small group of rank ahd filers, under the leader- ship of the weaver, Lessig, himself one who works on the job along with the other slaves. And it ¢omes with poor grace from the I. W. W. to en- deavor to cast suspicion upon these men, considering the record in Pater- son of the notorious Frederick Blos- som, for years one of the local émi- nences of the I. W. W. The strike is definitely on the of- fensive and advancing from one vic- tory to another. Many of the other trade unionists, even of the conserva- tive type, are taking an active inter- est in the struggle, knowing that Pat- erson, because of the unspeakable conditions in the silk mills, is one of the black spots in the American labor movement, and are anxious for victory for the silk workers in order to get i everywhere to read your friends, THE DAILY WORKER, If you believe we are doin, PATERSON SILK STRIKE GAINS some semblance of unionism in Pat- erson, U. &. Labor Department on Job, One John A. Moffett, representing the United States department of, la- bor, former reactionary president of the United Hatters, has been in town BRANCH SHOWING ‘EM HOW TO GET THE SIGNATURES Douglas Park Builds Up is being waged. At a meeting of the strike commit- tee Friday night a reply was sent to the representative of the department of labor to the effect: “The organiza- tion is willing to meet employers, but canhot accept any proposition that would cause the strikers to return to work before their demandg are met.” This move on the part of the flun- key of the notorious Coolidge scab- hefding government will be used to the best advantage by the capitalist press, and charges of disloyalty made against the strikers, but to counteract this a series of strike bulletins is to be issued and distributed all over) town, impressing upon the workers| that there is no disloyalty except dis-| |loyalty to the working class. For Communists this offers a splen-| did opportunity to expose the govern-| ment of the United States as the en- emy of the working class. (oo Party Activities Of Local Chicago CHICAGO STREET MEETINGS. The. Workers Party and the Young Workers League are now running their street meetings in the seven congression- al districts where our comrades are now getting signatures. to p and Englewood we are having trouble with the police amd intend to fight it out. Notices of all our street, meetings will appear in the DAILY WORKER every few days. tions. In Cicero Tuesday, August 19. W. 14th St. and 49th Ct—Augpices, Cicero Workers Party and Young Work* ers League branches. Roosevelt and Ogden—West Side Y. W. L.; Péter Herd, speaker: Wednesday, August 20. Belmont and Wilton Ave—Auspices, North Side English Branch. Max Salzman and Tom Bell will address a meeting of the workers at the National Biscuit company, at Marquette Hall, 1910 W. Roosevelt Road, tonight. Young workers are asked to support this meeting. TONIGHT, 8 P. M. CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. important matters to be taken up. (1) Our Election Campaign. + (2) Daily Worker Membership Drive. (3) Industrial Activities. ~ (4) Other work of Local Chicago. elegates of all party branches, sec- retaries of T. U. £. L. groups and District Election Campaign managers must attend. Visitors are invited. Making History have an energetic and fearless daily newspaper devoting extensive space to the conflict--- THE DAILY WORKER” —From “The Nation,” May 14th. Nothing that has happened in labor history in many years has meant so much to the workers everywhere as the establish THE DAILY WORKER America’s Great Labor Daily The Daily Worker Every Day Order a bundle of sample copies to give away in your shop, Get a supply of Subscription Blanks g a big work help by getting the workers factory or office and among _ « @ week interviewing the mill owners, Election Machinery and on Friday sent a communication ables to the officers of the union submitting Below ‘Bee thé | {istructiony. and a proposition that the strikers accept methods being used by the Douglas the principle of a “neutral” arbitra-) 5214 mnglish Branch in carrying out tion, and that a committee for the/ 4, Elections Campaign work, espe- purpose of arbitration be formed, con- cially in the’ matter of obtaining sign- sisting of three representatives of the] atures to the petitons to get Workers strikers, three from the mill owners! party members on the ballot in Illi- and a man to be selected by the Unit-| nofs As can be noted, every member ed States department of labor. of the branch is enlisted actively in This is viewed as an effort on the |the work. This branch is under the part of the strike breaking govern-| direction’ of comrade Rose Karsner ment to come to the rei of the | who also has chafgé of the Work in the mill owners in their pre plight.| Sixth Congressional district. Other If the workers should accept such a| Branches, we believe, can profit by proposition they would have to imme-| following this method, or a sifiilar diately return to work while the ar-| one, in getting the Party and Y. W. L, bitration committee indulged in| members on the job in the Workers months of procrastination, until the] Party Election Campaign, gand we fine militant spirit of the strikers is| therefore reprint the Douglas Park dissipated, and then render a decision |iinstructions for that purpose. making permanent the hated multiple This Branch has 30 members. loom system, against which the strike] Its Campaign Committee, consists of 5 members. The 30 members were divided ifito groups of 6, according to where they live. The Secretary. of the Branch made out 5 cards, each containing & names and addresses. The 5 members of the Campaign Committee constituted themselves into Group Captain. Each Group Captain got a card with 6 names and addresses on it, and each Captain immediately became respons- ible for those 6 comrades, The Secretary of the Branch Cam<- paign Committee divided his ward, in which there are 56 precincts to be covered, into groups of 2 precincts, The map was then cut apart and each Group Captain got a piece of map with 12 precincts on it. Each Captain then divided his 12 precincts among his six members, giving each member about 2 precincts to cover. Each Captain then made out Assign- ment Cards for each member. On this eard he put down exactly which pre- cincts the member is to cover, giving each street by name and from where to where. It was agreed that each Captain is to personally visit those members who were not present at the meeting and give them the agsignment card as well as the platform, the Daily and the Petition Blanks. Each Captain is also to follow up each one of his six members and see that he does his work. The Captains will, report to their Secretary regularly, and the Secretary in turn will report to the Manager. This Branch pledged itself to 400 signatures, making about 13 signatures for each member. Too Much for Cops. To the DAILY WORKER—The com- rades of Dillonville, Ohio, had a very successful picnic, with an attendance of over 400 people. There were games, dancing and other features of entertainment. The comrades had such a good time that it aroused the ire of the cops around here, and they: simply had to pinch some of our fel- lows and fine them. 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