The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, August 20, 1924 LW. W. COURT. FIGHT DRAGS UNTIL MONDAY Cunnea Still Unable to Appear ink Hearing The court fight of the con- tending factions of the Indus- trial Workers of the World con- tinues to drag. Another ‘postponement, this time until next Monday, was ordered by Judge A. J. Sabath, in the Superior Court, in the- hearing on the injunction de- manded by the Griffith-Rowan- Bowerman group against the officers representing the ad- ministration forces, Joe Fisher and Tom Doyle. The case was up again yesterday. ° Attorney John A. Ryan, represent- ing Attorney William A. Cunnea, in- formed Judge Sabath that illness pre- vented Cunnea from appearing in court. Sabath instructed Ryan to in- form Cunnea that he will be expect- ed to appear next Monday. In spite of the insistence of T. B. O'Connell, attorney representing {the injunctionites, that Judge Sabath ren- der a decision, the judge refused to handle the case until the appearance of Attorney Cunnea in court Monday. This means that the Industrial Workers of the World headquarters will remain securely locked, under court orders, until Monday. In the meantime the membership is rapidly being made acquainted with the situ- ation that has developed in their or- ganizatfon, and a genuine interest in the case was manifested in yester- day's court session. In the courtroom and in the corri- dors members of the I. W. W. crowd- ed about, edger to learn the develop- ments in the case. There was much indignation voiced with the Griffith group for handling an internal organ- izational matter thru the courts. A member of the I. W. W. for the last eight years, who wishes his name withheld, told the DAILY WORKER reporter that Griffith will not be up- held by the organization in bringing this matter into the capitalist courts, “Our members are against such procedure, and even the small follow- ing they had was lost to them thru vention in about 90 days, and our vention in about 09 days, and our membership will decide this case for themselves.” An effort was made to get an ex- pression of viewpoint from the repre- sentatives of the other side. They refused to express any opinion. Their attorney, T. B. O'Connell, said he didn’t know what the outcome would be, and expressed a hope that next Monday’s court session would render 8 decision. Mexican Workers Strike. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19.—Twelve thonsand textile workers in Mexico City are on a three-day strike to pro- test the lockout of 250 ‘workers. Lack of raw material was the reason given for the lockout, but the workers have proved that there is plenty of raw material to keep the factory running. INJUNCTIONS AGAINST STRIKING WORKERS IN LA FOLLETTE’S COURTS The sixth article on “The LaFol- lette Illusion” will appear in tomor- row’s DAILY WORKER. We will show how the bosses own the state assembly and senate in LaFollette’s “Model Common- wealth” and how the workers have not the slightes y in the manage- ment of the. state administrative machinery in Wisconsin. Labor legislation and the de- mands of the workers have met the same rough treatment at the hands of LaFollette’s forces in Wisconsin as they have in the other forty seven states and In Washington where the capitalist politicians make no pretense at so-called pro- gressivism. And in Wisconsin, despite LaFol- lette’s noise about the usurpation of the powers of government by the courts, the workers have been suf- fering from injunctions, costly Iitl- gation, and hostile Judges. These and other startling facts about LaFolletteism in _ practice will be revealed In Thursday's arti- cle. Dont’ miss it. LAST BIG MILL QUITS AS MEN JOIN STRIKERS Paterson Silk Workers Decline Arbitration * By H. M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 19.— The Daugherty Silk Mill, the last big mill that had not yet joined'‘the silk workers on strike here, was struck by its 400 workers, making the strike of the Associated Silk Workers one hundred per cent effective. At the same time, the strikers rejected the proposal of the United States department of labor representative, John A. Moffett to arbitrate the de- mands of the workers with the manufacturers. This offer was refused because the manufacturers have at no time shown any inclination to conciliate the work- ers, and it is most likely that their proposals would mean the abrogation of the principal demands of the strikers. Mexican City Aids Strikers. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, August 19.— Because the city authorities of Vera Cruz are helping the union bakers win their strike, the merchants as- sociations all over Mexico are theaten- ing to elose their shops, and the chambers of commerce are encourag- ing them. Vera Cruz permits the striking bakers to use the prison ovens. All others are shut down. Send in that Supscription Today. Distribute bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August 30. ® THE DAILY WORKER BUSINESS MEN OF NEGRO RACE MEETING TODAY League Has Reaction- ary Backing The National Negro Business league, which opens its. annual sessions in the Wendell Phillips high school today, is receiving fyom the capitalist press of the country a measure of ovation accorded no other Negro organ- ization in the country. When Negroes who have taken prominent part in the ses- sions of the Business league die, the local Chamber of Commerce invariably passes a resolution expressing its grief. The organ- ization yesterday ‘received a message from the Chamber of Commerce of Richmond, Va., expressing their regret at the death of Giles B. Jackson, several times a delegate to the conventions of the league. Negro Workers Should Examine Fact. These facts alone should make workers of the Negro race, who have Yooked to the business league as a help to the solution of the race prob- lem, stop to think. Here is the way in which Harry J. Barrymore of the Boston ‘Transcript, a paper notorious for the lang series of lies it published about the Mfchigan antf-red raids of 1922, wrote concern- ing the initial meeting of the league in 1899: “It pleased me to see how brave the Negro could be, and how patient. I waited for ottbreaks of protest against white oppression, and espe- cially against recent white cruelty. I heard none..... Regarding material advancement as a basis of every other sort of progress, the convention lis- tened eagerly to accounts of Negroes, once poor, who had now built houses, bought land, opened places of inde- pendent business and established solid bank accounts.” Interlocking Connections. There are the closest of connec- tions between the National Negro Business League, Tuskegee Institute and the Urban League. With a sin- gle exception—that of Dr. J. C. Napier of Nashville, Tenin., who served a term ag president of the business as- sociation—every president of the Na- tional Business League has atgsome time been president of Tuskegee In- stitute. T. Arnold Hall, executive secretary of the Urban League, has been prom- inent in the conventions of the busi- ness association. This year Jesse Thomas, head of the Urban League in Atlanta, Ga., is bringing a group of Negro business men from his city to address the convention. Who is behind Tuskegee Institute, and who is behind the Urban League? Behind Tuskegee. Most of the board of Tuskegee Insti- tute are white men who’ have grown enormously rich thru the operation of huge factories. Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears, Roebuck and Co., mail ‘order house, which pays its girl slaves at the rate of $17 a week, is on the board of Tuskegee. So is Seth Low, former mayor of New York, one of the most reactionary mayors that : a ———— “Trade-Mark” Registered 157417 * TAKE NO BUY THE CHANCES ORIGINAL THE GENUINE THE RELIABLE High Test ~ Malt Extract » If you want purity— If you want reliability— If you want results-- If you want to save time, worry and fuss— Insist on “No-Boil.” It is the original “No Boil” Malt Extract manufactured solely from the choicest Malted Barley, For Sale by Leading Dealers HIGH TEST MALT 20 East Eighth Street Phone Wabash 2580 1917 North Western Ayenue 6748 South Halsted Street 605 East 63rd Street EXTRACT COMPANY Ie Chicago, Ill. 1603 Roosevelt Road Lelter Store Basement that reactionary city has known. Behind the Urban League, a clear- ing house of Negro labor, are such concerns as the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, a militant open shop concern; Armour & Co., of Chicago’s slaughter hell, and Henry Ford. Reservoir of Scab Labor. Tie Urban League has for years been the great reservoir of black scab labor, from which Chicago and De- troit, especially, have drawn their strikebreakers. The outstanding achievement of the business league during the 25 years of its existence has been the forma- tion of a million-dollar finance corpo- ration, which makes loans to Negro business men. Of the capital at the disposal of the Negro Business League, $400,000 comes from capitalist open shop concerns. This money passes thru the hands of Mayor R. R. Moton, budget manager of the league, who is also head of Tuskegee Insti- tute, Munroe N. Work, a regular attend. ant at the sessions of the business league, is working in the research de- partment of Tuskegee, and is compiler of the Negro Year Book. Forrester B, Washington, formerly professor of Howard University, was, at one time head of the Urban League of Detroit. Can Be Militant. Just how militant presidents of Tus- kegee Institute can be when, as pre- siding officers of the businéss league, they take charge of the sessions of the conventions of Negro business men, can be shown by the fact that the appointment last year of jor William Ward, Negro doctor,/ in charge of the veterans’ hospital on the grounds of Tuskegee Institute, was cedure unusual enough to arouse the wrath of the local Ku Klux Klan, who raided the hospital and paraded thru the grounds of the institute. There is a story which goes the rounds of the militant Negroes who \ know something 6f the workings of the Business Men’s League. There is no way in which the truth of it can be determined. But it is significant that the tale is heard again and again, and that it is always told with the same details, This is the story: Beginning of League. ‘When 25 years ago Negro business men began coming to banks for the purpose of borrowing capital, white bankers, anxious to learn what they could about the financial backing of thelr borrowers, asked Booker T. Washington to form a league of busi- ness men—a centralized organization thru which they could discover the exact volume of Negro business in the country. Booker TT, Washington called upon Negro business men in all cities to form local business leagues, to compile statistics and to send dele- gates to a central body. This was the beginning of the National Negro Busi- ness League, which is celebrating its silver jubilee today. MINERS WAGE STIFF BATTLE ON OPEN SHOP (Continued from Page 1.) non-union. This appears to be the usual attempt to prevent picketing. One of the arguments used by the companies to obtain the injunction was that a non-union miner had been assaulted by the wives of strikers. At the Arnettville plant of the Whyle Coal & Coke Co., 27 miners went on strike and joined the unfon, insisting upon the full union scale. This plant nes been operating on a non-union basis for the past year. Try Evictions, In Kanawha territory where opera- tors recently announced a non-union basis with a lower wage scale, the chief activity of the companies ap- pears to te securing eviction orders from the courts to turn union min- ers who refuso to work on & rou-union basis, out of the company houses. The Coalburg-Kanawha Cval Co. employed the Smith Detective agency of Charleston to secure possession of two houses of miners who refused to work at the reduced scale. The de- tectives set the household goods of these families out on the road. Operators Fail to Open. Similarly the West Kentucky Coal Co. is reported as progressing very slowly in its efforts to get the former union mines of the St. Bernard com- pany going on its company union plan. At its Providence district mines about 100 miners are working while over 1,000 union men are on strike. Five or six efficers of the Kentucky national guard have been sent by the governor to keep an eye on the situation. Dawes Spouts Against All G. O. P. Enemies (Continued from Page 1.) Communists for their effort to estab- ish a Farmer-Labor Party. The general is against the League of Nations and upbraids the demo- cratic party for its invitation to the people of this country to again enter “that fog of debate” which ended with Harding’s victory in the 1920 elec- tions. Some“people thought debates have a tendency to dispel fogs. Having learned the views of the citizens of the United States on the League of Nations, which was a thumbs down verdict, the republican administration coolly proceeded to run Europe in behalf of the bankers, and this policy Mr. Dawes refers to as an “act of courage.” Act of Courage. “If the president and the secretary of state had evaded this duty and pre- cipitated the question of official rep- resentation for debate, delay and non- action, into the United States senéite, the United States would have had no part in the last desperate but success- ful effort to find a common ground of agreement for a new peace in the world, if indeed but for their action there would be any peace at all.” The general favored the world court for the League of Nations, which is a difference in name only. He then proceeded to calm the fears of the nationalistic .jimgoes whose interests and those of the international bankers do not jibe, that the United States was under no necessity to appeal to the world court unless it found it profit- able to do so, Hot Air Merchant. The Dawes speech was a typical piece of demagoguery, only to be ex- pected from that much touted blather- skite. He did not attempt to discuss the real issues affecting the country. He ranted against “demagoguery,” an art of which he is master. He de- nounced the, democrats for favoring the League of Nations, while he fa- vors the world court. This is not a difference, but merely a distinction, but it is practically all the difference there is between the democratic and republican parties. \ Albert W. Jeffries of Omaha notified Dawes of his nomination, in a speech which was a mixture of bible pound- ing, spread eagle and childish inani- ties that would disgrace a Salvation Army street corner orator. No more than Dawes, Jeffries, did not mention the oil scandals or the general orgy of graft in Washington. ——— Send in that Supscription Today, PAN-AMERICAN LABOR BODY MEETS DEC, 5 Gompers Losing Strangle Hold on Latins (Special to the Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The fourth congress of the Pan-American Federation of Labor will be held in Mexico City on Dec. 3, according to an announcement made today by Ca- nuto Avargas, Spanish language sec- retary of the federafion. Why Convention City Changed. At first the convention was sched- uled to be held in Guatemala at the close of December. Disturbed eco- nomic and political conditions in this Central American republic make im- possible the holding of this gathering there as previously arranged. The committee in charge of all ar- rangements for the conference is also anxious to attach as much signifi- cance to it as possible by holding the conclave simultaneously with the in- auguration of the Mexican President Calles, who is himself a member of the Pan-American Federation of La- bor. Samuel Gompers, who is chairman of the executive committee charged with organizing this gathering, is plan- ning to utilize this occasion of holding the convention at the same time with ithe inauguration of Calles, toward in- creasing his hold on the varidus Latin- American unions affiliated with the Pan-American Federation of Labor. Revolt Against Gompers Hegemony. Recent months have seen a growth in the opposition to Samuel Gompers’ domination of this Pan-American body. The failure of Mr. Gompers to help the Mexican ofl workers striking against the British corporation, “El Aguila,” has especially been instru- mental in producing dissatisfaction with him amongst the Mexican trade unionists. Duluth, Minn.» Comrad Attention! William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for President of the United States, who has recently returned from a trip to Soviet Russia, Ger- many, England and France where he studied labor conditions, will speak at Woodman Hall, 21st Avenue West and First Street, at 8 o'clock, Friday. At these Foster meetings the com- rades are given an opportunity to hear about the workers’ movements in European countries from a comrade who has visited them recently and studied their labor problems. Grand Rapids, Mich. On Sunday, August 24, at 10 a. m., at Richmond Park, the Grand Rapids City Central Committee of the Work- ers Party will hold a picnic and enter- tainment. All comrades are invited to attend and bring their friends. VETERAN SOCIALIST BELIEVES DEBS WAS PLAYED FOR SUCKER Another old admirer of Eugene V. Debs gives LaFollette’s distin- gulshed fugleman the cold mitt be- cause of his betrayal of the prinol- ples for which he battled bravely for years In lining up with Gompers, LaFollette, Spreckels & Co, In a letter to the DAILY WORKER, D. D. Harper of Huntingdon, W. Va. writes as follows: “Comrades—There has not been an election for 15 yearS that | haven't had Debs’ portrait in my window. | have loved him for years, and | have looked forward to the day when he would assist In the overthrow of this system, but when | read that he had endorsed LaFol- that a man that had been punished as he has by this rotten system would get down on his knees and say, ‘Master, please give me a few crumbs.’ That put the crimp in me. 1 don’t think that he sold out, but I think that they gave him an all-day sucker, and that soothed his mind. The poor eld man, In his second childhood, bowed to the rotten sy8- tem.” CHINA IN TREATY WITH SOVIETS IN SPITE OF HUGHES (By The Federated Press) ter Schurman is coming home from Pekin to report to Secretary Hughes on the failure of Hughes’ attack on the the Cinese Eastern railway. claim of $4,000,000 for running and lied intervention in Siberfa. Koo re- plied that all claims affecting the rail- and China jointly. It is reported | Chinese agreement provides that the |Russian government and the Chinese government shall run the railway, which formerly was run by a com- pany owned by Russia and operated by a mixed board. president of the road and three-fifths Moscow. Whiskers Don’t Scare China, the Chinese government toward close alliance with Russta. Send in that Subscription Today. lette, my blood ran cold to think | WASHINGTON, August 19.—Minis- Russo-Chinese treaty affecting | | maintenance of the railroad during al- } |road would be discussed with Russia | Fatherhood, that the Russop Henceforth the of the management will be named by Schurman is to explain how {t hap- pened that Hughes’ displeasure was not sufficient to stop this advance of Fuge inive FEARS NEW WAR ' ‘COMING BETWEEN U.S. AND JAPAN Preacher Trembles Lest Christ Get in Bad (By The Federated Press) CHAUTAUQUA, N. ¥., Aug. 191s a new war coming, between the white and yellow races? New evidence that Japanese nation al pride has been deeply injured and that war against the United States may be brought about, in consequence of the exdlusion of Japanese immigra- tion from this country on grounds of color, was laid. before the Federal Council of @hurches’ institute on ins; | ternational relations, here, by Dr. Wm,¢ Axling, for 23 years a missionary of the Northen Baptist church to Japane! Race Issue Complication “Men and worken, not only off Japan, but all up and down thet Orient”, he said, “are wondering iff the hour has struckt wher the yellow! race must organize itself under ma yellow flag and fight\for its place in) the sun. They are asking if the way) in which the recent exdlusion act wads passed by Congress is the white man'g) challenge to the yellow... Hi “The baring of Japan’s heart reveal the sobering fact that her reaction to! America’s exclusion move is not much resentment as it is @ appointment and poignant grief tha’ a friend feels when a friend has e to play fair. Discrimination agains’ her on racial grounds goe#to-dy heart like steel. “Japan is not thinking. of hersel! alone. She is thinking of Japanese relations through the years; yet unborn. She in considering they future of the Pacific. Her vision ig¢ scanning the future relationship of the | Hughes | Orient and Occident, of the yellow#hd warned foreign minister Koo, at Pe- kin, that the [nited States would hold China résponsible for the American | white races. Sky Pllotry Hit Hard “This legislation has in tragid: |fashion put Christianity on trial in| |Japan. It has raised in many minds great question-marks against such {central Christian truths as a divine a world brotherhood,; | justice, fair play and good will toward men of every race. It has struck the |Christian movement in the Japanese |empire a staggering blow, and plunged |the evangels of the Gospel into a dark Gethsemane.” ¢ Two Corpse Dispatchers Agree. Hearing that Kid McCoy had called him an upstart and callow youth, Dickie Loeb replied, “I’m afraid I will have to plead guilty to being a young upstart, because I certainly have not been mellowed by nine ma- trimonial experiences.” The capitalist press is all excited. Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August 30. A = Ee a =i g} Printed on a fine grade of p: 404 wing “yBIy Sayou! framing or posting in your wi THE DAILY WORKER Chicago, Ill. picture of Foster. Names. Street ee City THE DAILY WORKER. will be the best, the most incessant worker for Foster For President The only way you can secure this special PICTURE OF FOSTER 1113 W. Washington Bivd., I have sold a Special 4-Month Plection Campaign sub. Please send me FREE the Should be —because 12 inches epim Is by getting some of the 4 MONTH SPECIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS (For new subscribers only) Get a New Reader for the DAILY WORKER, a Big Picture of Foster for Yourself and One for the New Subscriber. USE THE COUPON -——-- ew -——e eee State ... FOSTER’S PICTURE a every worker in America . Presidential Candidate representing the class con- scious workers. New Subscriber's in the home of he is the only, we 92.00 eee ee He oe ee