The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1924, Page 2

ones oe = a —s 2 . POS TEE EL PTE nae. Sn NT ETE LIGETI CET ITI BEE BOE LM I ob its. SNR SORES j i ee ‘ & f Page Two BOSTON STRIKE OF CLOTHIERS. IS SUCCESSFUL Left-Wingers Rally to) day or two here and there to Workers’ Support By JAMES J. LACEY (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, August 19.—The situation here in the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America is com- pletely in the hands of the strikers. Shops previously un- organized since the lockout of 1920, at the peak of the open shop drive, have succumbed, and already favorable settle- ments affecting nearly half of the 4,500 strikers makes cer- tain that the successful termi- nation of the strike is only a matter of days. Called originally to enforce the agreement already in exist- ence that was not being lived up to, the strike spread to shops hitherto impervious to any or- ganization drive. The workers in Macullar Parker Co. and E. R. Smith Co. factories; both in Cambridge, walked out the second day of the strike. Strike 100 Per Cent Effective. They were followed the next day by the clothing workers employed in the shops of Sammett & Wasserman, Re- vere, and Peavey Bros., at Hast Bos- ton, 100 per cent. The background of this strike is interesting. For some time all has not been well with the bosses. Sam- mett & Wasserman in particular have had a tough time in enforcing a scab shop condition. Last winter they had to have recourse to the capitalist courts. An injunction was secured from a complaisant judge against in- terference by union workers, but this was not sufficient, the factory being moved to Revere in order to secure a non-union labor supply. These in- effective efforts to prevent organiza- tion have had but one result—organ- ization that includes the last man in the shop. (Continued from Page 1) because we aren’t used to any work besides mining. At that we were lucky to land a job on a farm. Most of the farmers around here pay three dollars a day to their help. You can only jpick out an odd job of a {help out during the few weeks of the threshing season.” Miner Must Stick to Mines. |The two “farmers” were plainly “all in” from their brief hay-pitching experience, They complained partic- ularly of the sun, altho the day was not unusually warm. “A miner is not |fitted or able to do farming work.” | was their verdict. The very fact that |the miners are seeking to enter other trades is proof of) their desperate |plight. A miner would go idle for months, if he could keep the wolf jtrom the door, rather than go thru |labor above ground, which is agony to him. Divernon is a deserted village. The Madison Coal Company mine, employ- ing in normal times 825 men, has worked 29 days in the last year. The MINERS FORCED ONTO FARMS imen here were laid off in a particu- jlarly vicious way. “We were told that we would be laid off for 60 days,” a miner told the DAILY WORKER. “We waited around town, tinkering with our lawns and resting up, believ- ing the mine would open when the company had promised. This was jover @ year ago. ‘At the end of that 60 days the company told us another 60 days, and this has kept up for over je year. Thus we were kept from \Seeking employment in the cities, and |mow no jobs can be found.” Find Chicago Just as Bad. Recently the men, driven to desper- jation, flocked away to the cities, hop- (ing to be “absorbed in other indus- |tries,” as Farrington naively put it. |But the men have already begun to |erawl back to town, further in debt and slightly more desperate. “They tell us to go out and grab a job at |some other work,” a Divernon miner, | who had sought work in Chicago, said, |“but we simply can’t do it. There are THE DAILY WORKER no jobs to be had.” Divernon is in the mood of a cow chewing its cud. Divernon, &nd thou- sands of other Illinois mining towns, are sullenly thinking it over. They know, as used as they are to weeks and sometimes months of unemploy- ment, that this is no ordinary lay-off. Apart from their unanimous and vi- olent condemnation of Frank Farring- ton, the miners react to the severe industrial depression in oddly varying ways. Some of them, not a few of whom have foreign names and whose ancestors learned mining in Huropean countries, claim there are too many foreigners in this country, “Ellis Island ought to be completely locked up for ten years.” Others claim there are too many miners, and the initia tion fee of the union ought to be raised. K. K. K. at $10 Per, The Ku Klu Klan has been taken up as an amusing fad, as a diversion to get their minds off their troubles, by some of the miners. The Klan, with its cowardly robes sweetly ptarched to give the impression of purity, is conducting an organization drive in the Springfield mining - dis- trict at $10 per “klectokon.” Hun- dreds of miners have been flocking to Klan picnics and demonstrations. But these confused manifestations are only gropings for the real solu- tion to the unemployment problem. And when the miners see the real so- lution, they fight for it like grim death. The DAILY WORKER is well liked by every miner I met who has seen it. The Workers Party solution to the unemployment problem, plac- ing the burden on the owners of in- dustry and the makers of profit, is daily gaining new converts in the Illi- nois coal fields. For Communist Program. “We are ready to form unemploy- ment councils,” a Divernon miner told the DAILY WORKER. “We are ready to accept the Communist slogan of workers’ control of industry. We are jready to demand the shortening of the work day instead of the restricting of the union, because we know the Com- munist program is the only true s0- lution to our vital problems.” AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) Can’t Divide Races. The enthusiasm and solidarity Pg batt gs a Penge ; aan va — ecg Lig be laonho a goregel ney contribution this bunch of re- the iiainalinnes i this pariouiar sige careening an oe ithe labor movement. ease. Kondazian, one of the wealth- ** yelp oy in the trade, has made FEW evenings ago, a member of “ sot gabe orécn os bushel the Hobo’s organization mounted oo ger Preaocltgentmmg ear a chair on Madison Street and deliv- Syrians, he has imported his labor di- ered a little speech advertising a de- 4 “ bate which was scheduled to be held rect—the raw material. This untu- * that evening in the Hobo College on tored labor importation had their first Washington Street. He had a good taste of American institutions in the sweatshop and from the police in the lee ae or haseg one “% Rig service of their countrymen. ence, while across the street . The story is told of Kondazian L. P. man was cursing the Hobo for ‘ encroaching on his territory. The 8. financing the local Syrian church. On L. P. man talked something like ae Monday following his donatiin of this: { “Them hoboes keep telling you $500 for the relief of the distress of Then they his nationals, he handed his nationals | 0*®* agg ipod : @ wage cut! pass the hat. They don’t believe in 3 amusement for the masses as a whole. Picketing Continues. They tell you jokes and go thru your Despite mass arrests of those car-| pockets. They are like the capital- rying on at the picket line, picketing] ists. They are exploiting the work- demonstrations continue with thelers. They tell you about religion. greatest enthusiasm and solidarity.) Who cares about religion?” And so Twenty were arrested on the second] on. day and 28 on the third. Despite the *“* @ large force of police on hand tonight, FTER the Hobo got thru arnounc- the largest demonstrations were held ing his meeting he quit and the and no arrests were made. This 0@8] crowd that surrounded him walked to show that the bosses are beginning] siong toward the Hobo hall and stop to realize that the workers on strike ped to listen to the S. L. P. man. Ar cannot be intimidated or their forces} .4on ag the crowd arrived,—a poorl: broken by any show of force or coer- dressed crowd of unemployed wor! ¢fon on the part of the police, ers, the orator took out the 8. L. P Communists in Forefront. classic on taxation. “Who pays thc Members of the Workers Party|taxes?” he shrieked. The socialists ‘were among those most active on the|say you pay the taxes. You don't picket lines, among the first arrested.| the capitalist pays the taxes. Foster The Armenian and Greek comrades might tell you who pays the taxes, along with the rest of the Communists | but who is Foster? I'll tell you who bore the brunt of the burden. At the| Foster is. He led a strike of,a half « mass meeting Joseph Schlossberg ad-| million steel workers and they got dressed the strikers amidst tlie great-|licked. Now, a leader who loses a est enthusiasm. At next day's meet-|strike must not amount to much ing John J. Ballam, district organizer | That's Foster. The Workers Party 1: of the Workers Party,/ spoke to the|controlled by two men, Foster and clothing workers. Ruthenberg. They are against La Great enthusiasm continues un-|Follette because LaFollette attacked abated and the work of the left wing-|them. LaFollette lined up with the ers is an inspiration and source of|labor leaders because the Communists strength. betrayed the workers. Now, any party that is controlled by two men cannot SICK IN COLORADO dered over his outer lips, while the speaker sang the praise of the near past and hurled curses at near beer. ft thot the speaker was a booster for the Anti-saloon Leage but in a bundle which lay at the base of his soap box, I could see several I. W. W. pamph- lets. see ‘OUR persons are reported killed in clashes between Moslems and Hindus at Mandalay, India. This is the work of British agents who fear that unity between the members of both religions would mean the end of British rule in that rich country. Re- ligion has been used for generations to divide subject peoples and also to prevent workers of different creeds from presenting a united front to the enemy. “* PHOLDERS of religious supersti- tions have made much of the fact that Nathan Leopold, one of the slayers of the Franks boy is a pro- fessed atheist. Clergymen rushed into print trying to prove that lack of belief in God was responsible for his commission of the crime. Sinee then several murders have been commit- ted thruout the United States, mur ers just as cruel as the Franks mur- ler. That the publicity attending hese crimes was not so great, is not ‘ue to lack of revolting detail but to he comparative obscurity of the crim- nals. 3 66: ei ® ITH the single exception of Leo- pold all the other criminals are members of some religious denomina- tion, But no clergyman has rushed into print warning parents against sending their children to churoh or advising husbands to keep their wives sway from preachers, because the court records show that several hun- lred wives have been seduced by clergymen in the past few years, not to mention hundreds of choir girls. on the minds of millions of workers and the churches are strong bulwarks of the social order, when a# moron attributed to the devil's tricks. USE EMPLOYEES OF COMPANY T0 GET SIGNATURES Potter Offers Pedigreed Dog for Names By OWEN STIRLING (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 19.— Not long ago the Detroit Edison Co., a wealthy publio utility, refused to contribute to the United Spanish War Veterans’ $75,000 fund, the alleged pur- pose of which was to propa- gandize Michigan In the inter- est of law and order, in the fashion of militarist organiza- tions. The company gave as its reason that its rates and in- come were fixed by the Michi- gan public utilities commission and that any contribution it made would therefore be re- flected in its rates and would be oaid involuntarily by the con- sumers of current. The veterans, however, asked in a letter to a member of the public untilities commission if it was the commission’s practice to oppose work such as the United Spanish War Veterans hoped to carry on. A mem- ber of the commission replied that on the contrary the commission encour- aged contributions to funds such as the one in question. This letter, used as a club, obtained a large contribu- tion from the Detroit Edison Co. Potter Has Great Scheme. And now comes W. W. Potter, chair- man of the same public utility com- mission, as candidate for the Repub- lican nomination for governor of Michigan. He is opposing the present governor, Alex J. Groesbeck, who ap- pointed him to his post and who is seeking re-nomination. It is the public utilities commission which regulates the operations also But because religion has a strong grip preacher gets caught the misstep is Or slayers of the Frank boy, is a pro- of interurban bus lines as common carriers in this state. It is necessary for a candidate for governor to file petitions containing about 7,000 names. Chairman Potter mailed batches of his petitions to public utility concerns, believing he was in a strategic posi- tion to obtain their services in his campaign. One batch of petitions reached D. L. Dimmick, Detroit, manager Highway Motor Bus Co. Dimmick gave the pe- titions to about 35 drivers to obtain signatures. To stimulate the drivers’ activity among passengers in behalf of Potter, Dimmick offered a pedigreed dog as a prize to the driver obtain- ing the most names. Bus fare for a passenger on a bus was cash plus a signature on the dotted line, unless the passenger rebelled. And so year after year the public offices are filled. FRANCE IN DEAL WITH SPANIARDS AGAINST ALFONSO (Special to the Daily Worker.) PARIS, Aug. 19.—At a conference here between members of the French governmnt and on of the factions of the Spanish opposition, an attempt to force the abdication of King Alfonso and to allow the queen mother to rule Spain until the heir to the throne is of age, was decided upon. Fear Workers’ Anger. ' The effort is an attempt to throw dust in the eyes of tne discontented workers of Spain by removing only King Alfonso, whose signing of the decree of Primo de Rivera, abolishing constitutional rights, has infuriated the workers and endangered the se- curity of the monarchy. The French are interested in pre- ‘serving the monarchy because they fear that the workers, once aroused, may not stop with the establishment of a bourgeois republic, but might set up Soviet rule. ‘ ReaSon for French Support. It is understood that if the new lib- eral faction comes into power in Spain, it will reward its friends in France by giving the French conces- sions in that part of Morocco which is under Spanish rule. SWELL THE COMMUNIST. | |“wit in ny the Werkare Pur CAMPAIGN TREASURY Thru Comrade Ella Reeves Bloor, who Is carrying on party work In Colorado, the National Office of the Workers Party is In receipt of a remittance of $10.75 collected for the Communist campaign fund by the inmates of the Jewish Con- sumption Relief Society Sanitarium at Denver, Colorado. Comrade Bloor writes that the Inmates of the sanatorium are In- terested in the campaign of the Workers Party and when a sub- soription list reached one of their mombere it wae immodiately placed In olréulation and the sum men- tloned above was ‘collected to show the support of the revolutionary meni “will be led by the Workers Party into reformism. Beware!” “*e ‘AL LITTLE distance down the street was another man on & soap box giving a talk on prohibition. He held that the curse of prohibition de- scended on us boeause the American workers abused their rights, They drank too much. Now they have to chase bootleggers around for a shot of moonshine. “Do you remember the day,” said the speaker, while he looked around with a playful smile on his Ups, “when you went to work with that big Iimburger cheese sandwich under your arm and you went Into the saloon and got that big schooner of beer?” A person apparently of Teu- tonic origin developed a phantasy over this. As if seized with a sudden attack of tonsillectomy of the inguinal adenopathy, , his tongue gently wan-/ carth. took the Old Testament too seriously. Or Bi 'O thousand Hopi Indians in Hote- villa, Arizona, are finishing their nine day snake dance ceremonial, which is expected to bring rain to the drought ridden Indian country. In New York, Marcus Garvey parades, dressed in multi-colored garments and guarded ‘by troops of his fictitious Ethiopian Empire with drawn sabres, The Hopi Indians may hop until doomsday and no rain will come until the clouds are ready. And the snake dance of the Indians is not more ridic- ulous than the buffonery of Marcus Garvey and his “Back to Africa” movement. Negro workers who are conscious of their class as well as of racial oppression have 4 job on their | Japan taking over the Philippines the hands in bringing the movement led|moment the United States grants her by the mountebank Garvey back to} independence is aboslutely ground- less, ; Arabs in Morocco who have been fighting Spanish domination are sub- sidied by France, who hopes to gain possession of the whole of the prov- ince. Morocco is one of the richest ‘agricultural districts in the world, Japan Not Out for Philippines. MANILA, Aug. 18.—Reproesentative Inouye of Japan, who is visiting Ma- nila, made a statement, according to the Philippine Press Bureau, in that “Japan has no intention grabbing the Philippines even if the United States turns her loose. As a member of the Parliament of Japan, I know that my country has never entertained the thought of adding the Philippines among her colonies. All talk about Wednesday, August 20, 1924 Overfed Dowagers of Chicago Would Gloat Their Eyes on Prince By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, TODAY: the flabby, be-jeweled dowagers of the great rich in Chicago are worrying whether the Prince of Wales will pass this way on his approaching journey to his ranch in Canada. Extraordinary advances to the gambler-drunkard heir to the British throne, now being bulwarked by the Mac- Donald “labor” government, are being made by hone other than William R. Dawes, president of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. Altho this is supposed to be a republic, altho the United States is supposed to have freed itself from the British king, 150 years ago, the worship of a royal title is as deep- rooted as ever in this country’s ruling class. The workers of Chicago may soon see their open shop oppressors donning silken knee breeches and silk stockings, and, in company with their overfed wives, crawling on their bellies before the prince at some blow-out of the local “400” along the Gold Coast. This will no doubt be heralded in the yellow press as an indication of the “upstanding democracy” of the prince. : * * * * They have been debating for quite some time in the British Labor Party as to whether a stand should be taken for the abolition of the king. The militants demand a fight against king and capitalism. The MacDonalds take the stand that “The king can do no wrong.” So the king is al- lowed to remain. The Russians settled this question for themselves when they got rid of the czar and all his retinue. Most of the Russian ex-princes and ex-dukes are now work- ing for a living; not playing chemin de fer with the painted ladies at the Casino gaming tables, at Deauville, France, los- ing at the rate of $1,000 per clip. : * * * * The so-called “labor premier, MacDonald, is working overtime in an effort to keep the British Empire intact, serv- ing repeated ultimatums on the Egyptians for instance, and proclaiming martial law in the Sudan, in order to hold the natives in leash to the British throne, just as much as they were ever enslaved to a blood-lusting Pharaoh. All this while the heir to the throne remains at the tables until six o'clock in the morning, losing $10,000 to an unknown Stephen Lynch, of Atlanta, Ga.; while a Jules Mastbaum, Philadelphia movie magnate, wins $4,000 from the prince. But MacDonald will see to it that the prince doesn’t go broke. More important is the news that the prince spends his sleeping hours, until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, at the villa of Ralph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, which has built its circulation on the subscriptions of New York’s working class population. Getting up at five o'clock in the afternoon, the prince sees a polo game, the sport of the rich, and then returns to the gambling tables, while workers are crawling early to bed to store up energy for the next day’s grinding toil. * * * * But Pulitzer isn’t alone in his kow-towing. Hearst is not to be outdone. Hearst’s expert in the doings of the idle rich, who writes under the name of “The Dowager,” has nearly a column in the local Herald-Examiner, telling of the efforts to bring the crown prince to Chicago, and putting pep into the drive for inviting—nay, urging—his highness to come on, if only for a day, on his way to Canada. This stinking mess should turn the stomach of Amer- ica’s workers. Thru their stomachs, if not thru their brains, the workers. will learn the real nature and make-up of the capitalist class that they carry upon their shoulders, bent beneath the heavy load. * * . “Towards Communism!” is the cry of British labor, fed up on a fake labor premier, MacDonald, and gorged to the full on a useless royal aristocracy. Let the workers of America join their British comrades in the struggle to wipe out this ulcerous capitalist social order. Rally the masses under the slogan, “Forward to Communism!” FORD FOR SENATOR BOOMLET FLOPS; WORKERS PARTY TO NOMINATE A STATE TICKET By OWEN STIRLING (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich., August 19.—Henry Ford’s sharp notifica- tion to the secretary of the state of Michigan that he will not permit his name on the primary ballots September 9 for the Republican nomination for U. S. senator opens widespread guess- | +-—_—_—_—_-- ing on who paid petition cir- culators $1,600, at 4c a name, to fill the Ford petition. Backers Kept Secret. Peter Fagan, secretary, Michigan public utilities commission, ordered the petitions printed. He is the only backer of the brief boom known by name. The R. L. Polk Co. of Detroit, which supplied canvassers, said it was sworn to keep secret the names of the financial backers. Ford said he had no idea of their identity. It 1s generally conceded that the Ford movement was intended to start a landslide against Senator James Couzens and others. If Ford could have been maneuvered to defeat Couz ens, it was believed that John W. Smith, who has resigned as postmas- ter in Detroit to try to be mayor, could have defeated Joseph A. Mar- tin, who resigned as acting mayor of Detroit to conduct his campaign, Workers Out to Get Mayor. Detroit workers are vitally interest- ed in the defeat of Martin for mayor. Martin got his political start as com- missioner of the department of pub-| peasant. The court found the accused le works when Couzens was mayor.|guilty of unconsciously discrediting He was a strike-breaking commission-|the Soviet government which pro- er. As acting mayor. he has given his|claimed full religious freedom. He support solidly to the Detroit street|was put on probation for 18 months. railway co! in its efforts to|The trial was conducted in the Rus- smash the t on the municipal|sian and Tartar languages. oe at ag ‘ ’ street railway lines. No mayor in De- troit’s history has been so bitterly hated by trade unionists as Martin, It Henry Ford had become a candi- date for senator, it would have had a noticeable’ bearing on the fight for mayor. Ford’s defeat for senator by Newberry in 1918 may have shattered his political nerve. Senator LaFollette for president and Herb Baker for governor are cer- tain to poll heavily in spite of the fact that Baker is supporting Cool- idge. W. P. to Choose Slate. The Workers Party wil have a state convention in Detroit Sept. 20 and name a slate for the ballot in Novem- ber. In Defense of Religious Freedom. BEE-ORLUK— (Krimea)—The Kri- mea Military Tribunal held court in this small Tartar village. Captain of the border guard, Nazukin, was ac- cused of confiscating and burning up the Koran (holy book of the Moham- medans), the property of a Tartar WITH RAKE AND MOVIE ‘CAL’ HITS THE FARMER VOTE Straw Vote Shows He Will Carry Plymouth PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 19.—Photo- graphers were busy here today “shoot- ing” Silent Cal Coolidge, as armed with hand-made wooden rake, he pro- weeded to gather in the farmer vote via the movies. Like everything Calvin does, his farming was real. As if accustomed to dirt he became a “dirt” farmer just as soon as he hit his father’s farm. Some say that a perfectly good farmer was spoiled when Mr. Harding died. But for that stomach-full of crabs, Calvin would now be spending his evenings whittling away on pieces of a stick in fhe village drug and general merchan- Pise store. Like a thotful father, Colonel John Coolidge, he got the title like Dawes got his, left a little patch of hay for the president to gather. The Coolidges believe in making their hay while the sun shines, The hand made rake was presented to the President by Representative Treadway of Massachusetts. While Coolidge is not a rake to any great extent, the farming implement is con- sidered quite typical of the man who went from the oil lamp of his father’s humble home to the oily atmosphere of Washington. The rake is made of ‘wood. President Coolidge hailed the aco ceptance of the Dawes Plan with joy. He quietly remarked: “Now there is a good chance for us to collect the siz billion dollars Burope owes us.” A perfectly short and crisp businesslike phrase, And just like “Cal.” There is no doubt but Coolidge will carry this village. GOMPERS STUDIES UNITY MOVES OF WORLD'S TOILERS Moscow and Amsterdam Negotiating (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Amertcan |Federation of Labor officials are keep- fng an eye on the efforts now being made to secure a merger of the Mos- cow, or Red, International Federati of Labor Unions, with the In national Federation of Trade Unions developments, view, is the proposal that the British labor movement shall act as the go- between for the Moscow and Amster- Conclusion of the Russo- British treaties has quickened British hopes that the respective labor bodies tay likewise come to terms of and cooperation. , Irish Stand Aloof But in Ireland these hopes are,not yet entertained, according to a state- ment made at the Irish Labor and Trades Union Congress at Aug. 5. Thomas Johnson, the congress and leader of Party group in the Free ment, declared, in tion as to why the Irish body no fraternal delegate to th jot the Amsterdam ‘in Vienna, that the rivalry the “red” and “yellow” internationals in Burope had split bottom. The policy of the executives of Irish labor, he said, was of the controversy. If sent delegates to the meetings of the one, then they had best send delegates to HUGHES BACK; I$ PROUD OF ‘DAWES PLAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Secretary Hughes, returned from his negotia- tions in London, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, refuses to make any further predictions as to the success of the Dawes scheme. He stands on his New York statement that the economic plan will be carried through regardless of the military evacuation of the Ruhr. Hughes Will Speak Coolidge campaign strategy includes a series of speeches by the bewhiskered secretary of state, it is reported here. These speeches would be made in the middie west and would be devoted to claiming credit for Coolidge and Dawes for the peace they claim Europe will have this summer. Not even the take efforts of Ramsay MacDonald and Herriot will be recognized as having contributed towards putting the shack- les of the Dawes plan on the body of the international working class, Still Chasing the Sun. RANGOON, India, August 15—Ma- jor Zanni, Argentine world fiter, hop- ped off at 7:60 o'clock for Bangkok, capital of Stam. Weather conditions were excellent. Send in that Supscription Today. ‘ B sf ih 1 tenn