The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY: WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 132. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside Chicago, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents OFFER UNEMPLOYMENT PROGRAM MILLIONS FOR MOBILIZATION DAY —s AS WE SEE [AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ENRY FORD, Thomas Edison and Harvey Firestone, three of the biggest industrial barons in the United States, stopped at Plymouth, Vt., to pay their respects to President Cal- vin Coolidge. Henry and Calvin are great friends ever since the latter promised to let the former have Mus- ole Shoals for a “flivver.” The deal did not go thru but that was not Coolidge’s fault. Henry was duly grateful and withdrew his candidacy for the presidency and came out for Calvin, * * ‘0 show his regard for Mr. Ford and also perhaps to induce the filvver king to throw some cash into the Republican treasury, Coolidge pre- sented the Detroit manufacturer with a family heirloom to be placed in the ‘Wayside Inn, a Massachusetts tavern made famous by Longfellow’s sagas and bot recently by Ford. It was a sap bucket that had been used in the Coolidge maple bush for 25 years. “I never have received anything since J was married that I appreciated so much” Ford replied. Coolidge has not yet been presented with a gavel by a New England labor faker, whicl is surprising, in view ofthe fact that he claims credit for breaking the po- licemens’ strike. Labor fakers usually appreciate such services. ae ae HILE Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts he was never @ popular figure. In fact the police strike saved him from the political dump heap. Ever since that incident a myth has been carefully cultivated until this puny, weasel-souled Puritan has become the Little Father of mil- Hons of empty-headed Americans who take their thinking from the headlines in the capitalist press. Coolidge is a very useful man to the capitalists. He hits on all six cylinders for them ro Gaelic American, organ of the i secret Irish political machine known as the Clan-na-Gael, is out for LaFollette, principally because of his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, The Clan-na-Gael, was organized osten- sibly to help free Ireland from British rule, but it has never been anything else than a capitalist policital ma- chine to place aspiring Irish politi- cians in office. The Gaelic American supported Al Smith for the Demo- cratic nomination for president. Had Smith succeeded, that paper would now be singing .the praises of the Democratic Party, What a crazy-quilt conglomeration? 2s © ‘HE French foreign office announced that no further evacuations of , German territory was planned by the | French until after the chamber rati- ‘fled the London agreement. The capi- talists know how to play the game in ‘order to enable the German delega- | tion to the London conference to show ‘something tangible in return for sign- ing a treaty turning the country over to a set of receivers, the French only at the instigation of the British, evacuated a few small and unimpor- tant towns in the Ruhr. Then to mol- lify the Poincare diehards Herriot on his arrival In France issued the above statement. oe @ RITISH troops killed three hun- dred Waharis tribesmen in Trans- Jordiana, The rest were driven from towns they had occupied. The British fleet is hurrying to Egypt to pump British democracy into the rebellious Sudanese. Ramsay MacDonald is a fine pacifist. He is also a Christian and attends religious services regu: larly. Killing is supposed to be against the tenets of pacifism and also against the law of the Christian God. But capit™'ism like Jehovah will have no other 4. .8 before it and pacifism simply means that the big capitalists should stop fighting each other. Kill- ing natives is perfectly all right, good sport and not so dangerous. se © AIVE optimists were of the opin- ion when Ramsay MacDonald as- sumed office that a new chapter would be opened in the history of the British ‘Empire. Perhaps a new chapter has been opened with the name of Ramsay MacDonald at the top, but the reading matter is of the same old pattern, MacDonald is running the empire for those who own it just the same as his predecessors have done. Mac Donald does not believe in the over: throw of the capitalist system. He is as much of a socialist as Morris Hill- quit or Victor Berger, The New York man, a liberal weekly, now de- ict, in its issue of March 5, this year, commenting on the advent of . (Continued on page 8) UNEMPLOYMENT | AND KLAN ARE ISSUES IN TLL. Daily Worker Series Is Read by Miners By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 20. —I met John Watt, secretary of the Springfield sub-district of the United Mine-Workers’ union in the sub-district office, 2211. South Fourth Street. He showed me clippings from the local papers announcing that the “Red” presidential can- didate, William Z. Foster, will speak in Springfield September 4 as a counteraction to the La follette, labor day speaking of the trade union officials. James Mariotti, who was expelled is district auditor of the Kansag miners because he is a Howat man, came in and compared Farrington’s Illinois activities with Howat's Kan; sas administration. Then John Wat- kins of Thayer came in and arranged to drive me over to Thayer. Reeve is Welcomed. ‘We drove thru the pretty Sangamon county farming and mining country, sixteen miles south to Thayer, on the road to St. Louis. Watkins introduced me to the miners as “The DAILY WORKER reporter who was put out of the Peoria convention by Frank Farrington.” This episode is well STEEL WAR munition? © ., MONEYBAG? U. bee Se - GW FEDERATED LRESS known to the Illinois miners. It was the best introduction I could possibly receive. I have not found one miner “(Continued on page 5) Drawn by Callaghan, GARY TO PERSHING Sept. 12 and they'll forget w ré we come in.” ~ LITA Federated Press Staff Cartoonist. e’llhave Cal give ’em a patriotic thrill Two Millions Out of Work LAFOLLETTE'S COMMONWEALT IS ANTE-LABOR |: Legislature and Courts Work Against Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. (Sixth Article.) In LaFollette’s “Model Com- monwealth,” Wisconsin, the state legislature, the senate and the courts are in the hands of the employing class. This own- ership of the abe gay by the bosses of Wisconsin is essen- tially the same as it is in the other forty-seven states of the union and in the national capital. ‘ The state assembly and sen- ate have voted down bills spon- sored by the organized workers. The courts have declared reme- dial legislation unconstitutional. The workingmen have suffered greatly at the hands of the courts thru long and costly |° litigation. Time and again the Wisconsin gov- ernors, elected thru the aid and sup- port of Senator LaFollette, have used their powers of appointment to pubs lic office against the workers. Who Owns Wisconsin? ap a survey of “Who is Who in ess?” recently made by us, we T. U. E. L. DEMANDS FIGHT AGAINST] UNEMPLOYMENT AND MISLEADERS WHO PLAY WITH CORRUPT POLITICIANS The Trade Union Educational League has issued the following state- ent on the growing unemployment crisis: Unemployment is growing worse and already grips some two millions of workers. Especially in the mining fields of Illinois has it been intense and bitter, and continues to grow worse each day. The employers are deliberately intensifying it/hoping there- by to cripple the Union. The “labor leaders” at the head of the State Federation of Labor and District 12, United Mine Workers of America, mad their time playing politics witht Len Small, the corrupt republic- an, instead of organizing the workers and helping fight for relief and improvement of con- ditions. The state government, feeling se- cure in their possession of the alle- giance of labor officials, calmly ig- nores the suffering of the workers and makes not even a gesture of sym- pathy. For the unemployed workers who are starving, and for the em- ployed workers whose conditions are threatened with destruction by the to governmental bodies. The unemployment program of ac- tion, to be effective, must include the | following points: Work or maintenance at union rates of wages, the funds to be ob- tained by taxation of the industries involved, and by graduated taxation on profits, relief to be administered | by bodies selected and controlled by the workers. Direct grants from the state gov- ernment for relief, to be administerd by the workers. ~; Action by the United Mine Workers GARY DELEGATES WILL BRING MILITANT PLAN TO STATE LABOR MEET (Special to the Daily Worker.) GARY, Ind., Aug. 20.—At the reg- ular meeting of the Central Labor Union, the delegates to the Indiana Federation of Labor convention were instructed to introduce and fight for the adoption of resolutions calling for amalgamation along in- dustrial lines, for the organization of the unorganized, and for the rec- ognition of Soviet Russia. A mo- tion carried also instructed the offi- cials of the C. L. U. to draw up a resolution in opposition to the mo- peiiseren project of Sent 12. to demand relief and\to organize re- lief actions of the miners themselves, thru the union machinery, with safe- guards of rank-and-file administration of funds. Demand the six-hour day and the! five-day week, without reduction in earnings. growing mass of unemployed ready to take their jobs, there is no recourse of America on a national scale, both The Trade Union Educational League. left except to organize their own bat- tle, and lead it against employers, corrupt government officials and mis- leaders of the union, In this situation the Trade Union Educational League pledges its full whole-hearted efforts to the fight against unemployment, and calls upon HUGHES PEEVED AT SOVIETS FOR GETTING TREATY WITH CHINESE; U. S. DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IS HIT By LAURENCE TODD. ‘ABOLITION OF CAPITALISM IS ) AIM OF WORKERS PARTY, SAYS WM. FOSTER TO DAILY WORKER William Z. Foster, Communist nmunist candidate for president of the United States, who left last night om his western tour, was finally backed into a corner, just before his departure, by the reporter of the DAILY WORKER, and an interview demanded. Reluctant- ly turning from his desk, at which he had been busily answer- found that the employing class has (Continued on Page 6) “BIG BIZ” OWNS BOB’S LEGISLATURE 'HE Wisconsin Assembly and Senate are owned and controlled by the business and employing class interests of the state. In the 1921 senate there were two members. proposed by the Wisconsin Fe In the assembly there were, at that time, only seven” mechanics, In a body of 100 members, The State Legislature has made it a practice to kill many bills ation of Labor, In the courte the workers are treated with total disregard. fact, the State Federation of Labor has gone out of its way to condemn the hostility of the Wisconsin judiciary to organized labor. the workers generally to rally in a real battle for improvement of the terrible conditions now prevailing. Demand that the’ union officials take action in organizing deputations to governmental bodies to make de- mands, Organize local unions and rank-and- file workers into unemployed coun- cils to make demands thru demon- strations, meetings and deputations only four mechanics out of forty- WASHINGTON, August 20.—No wonder Secretary Hughes is calling Minister Schurman home from Peking. The biggest disaster that American dollar diplomacy has suffered in many years has. come to light in Schurman’s territory, and Charley more power, of the workers worsened in} every way. We’ use the election | campaign to educate and organize the workers, and to) break them away from capital- ist ideas in all their forms.” The Ultimate Goal. | “What is the ultimate goal of the Workers (Communist) Party?” “The complete abolition of the capi- talist system, destruction of the rule of the beorgeoisie, establish the rule of the workers in alliance with the} working farmersgexpressed in the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, organized into workers’ councils (soviets), and the reorganization of social and eco- nomic life on a communal basis.” Main Issues. “What are the main issues that confront the workers and farmers in this campaign?” “The one big issue before the work- ers and farmers is this: Shall the} capitalist class continue to use the machinery of government to suppress | and-exploit the workers and farmers! Or shall the workers and farmers, | thru their class organizations, take this power out of the hands of their | class enemies!” “How does the dictatorship of the} proletariat differ from the Fascist dic-| tatorship in Italy?” Two Dictatorships. “The proletarian dictatorship rests upon the broad masses of the workers and fights for their interests: the Fas- cist dictatorship is against the broad masses,.is exercised by a small class in the interests of the smallest class— the capitalists. They are opposites. They are deadly enemies and repre- sent fundamentally antagonistic classes.” “What is the intention of the Daw es | plan, and what effect will its opera-| tion have upon the German and upon the American workers?” “The intention of the Dawes plan is to definitely clinch Morgan’s present control of the capitalist world. Its operation will make the German workers slaves of the international bankers, while the products of their 10 and 12-hour day will be used to break down the living standards of British, French, and American work- ers. The intention is to convert the German working class into interna- tional strike breakers, and destroy the labor movement of the world.” International Leadership. “Does the Workers Party accept the leadership of the Communist Interna- tional?” “Yes. Every effective group in so- ciety has its own international center, for all social questions are interna- tional and can only be solved by in- térnational organization. This is es- pecially true of the problem, of the workers. The capitalists have their | ing a large stack of letters, Foster submitted. “What purpose have the Communists in participating election campaign?” was the first que “First and foremost, to rally that stand for the capitalist system, the wage earners can believe that any hope e: any party except a strictly proletarian organization, just so long the class struggle will be abortive, the employers will build up and the conditions + in the ion. the workers against all parties ” said Foster. “So long as s for them in BOSSES GATHER TO PERFECT PLOT AGAINST MINERS Herrin Scene of Meeting of “Open Shoppers” (Special to the Dally Worker.) HERRIN, Ill., Aug. 20.—The terrific crisis that grips southern Illinois, with more than 200 mines shut down completely, and almost all working lone or two days a week only, throw- ing 40,000 to 50,000 miners out of work, has forced the employers to call a conference to consider the proposition. The coal companies and the large |consumers of coal in the state have representatives meeting here today to \ discuss the. problems. arising out of the situation. It is expected that the purpose of the conference will be disclosed in |the shape of a demand for a state- wide “open shop” drive against the miners, to reduce them to the status |of the exploited and suppressed non- union miners of the south. Watch Case Workers Strike. SAG HARBOR, N. Y., Aug. 20.—Six hundred employes of Joseph Fahys & Co., manufacturers of watch cases, went out on strike today for mainte- nance of the old scale of wages, which had been cut from 8 to 10 per cent. All the men are skilled. LaSalle Is Scab University. Textbooks. and other printed mat- ter of the LaSalle Extension Univer- sity in Chicago are done almost en- tirely by non-union shops. BOSS’ JUDGE HANDS OUT SENTENCES 10 STRIKING WORKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLEVILLE, Ill., Aug. 20.—Wil- liam Christopher, business agent of the Trades and Labor Assembly of Belleville, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and fined $200, and 14 other strikers. and labor leaders .were fined from $50 to $200 by Judge George Crow today for defying his anti-picketing injunction against the striking members of the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers of America here. The Trades and Labor Assembly met here last night and organized League of Nations, their International Conferences, their Second Interna- tional of socialists and their Amster- (Continued on page 2) for the purpose of fighting the man- ufacturers’ association, which is at- tempting to force the open shop on Belleville. SHERMAN SPY AGENCY BACKS refund of the Russian share of the lice force after the return of Soviet control to Vladivostok. wants his minister to, explain. There has reached America the text, given out in China, of the series of special agreements reached between the Chinese foreign minister, Dr. Wellington+- Koo, and the ambassador of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Leo Karakhan, in pursuance of the Russo-Chi- nese treaty of May 21. ‘These agreements cover the control of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Boxer indemnity, and the fate of the Russian White Guard troops who were taken into the Chinese army and po- Diplomatic Washington discovers that China has recelyed back from Russia many valie able concessions extorted from her by the czars, but she has yielded in re- turn the ‘effective control of the. rail- way across Manchuria, This railway is the key to power in the Far East. | The Soviet Union gets it. Text of the Treaty Here. Some weeks ago there was pub- lished the text of the treaty of Pe- king, which set forth that the Soviet Union “agrees to the redemption by the government of China, with Chinese capital, of the Chinese East. ern Railway, as well as all appur- tenant properties, and to the transfer to China of all shares and bonds of (Continued on Page 4.) DOWN IN CHALLENGE ON ITS ESPIONAGE FOR EMPLOYERS (By The Federated Press) BABSON PARK, Mass., August 20.—Business men lolling in the $10 a day Babson clubhouse spent several hours discussing an unexpected thrill developed by the exposure of the Sherman Service, inc., as a full fledged industrial espionage concern of the familiar gunman-dick-provocateur type. The exposure which was rammed home when the trapped Sherman manager defaulted on his comeback, came at the lith annual business conference*——————— RERIRREAIVE [EF &) . conducted by Roger Babson’s {moral tone and quotations from serip- statistical organization at Bab-|tures, but referring only vaguely to son Park near Boston. the specific “service” performed by Dick Spreads the Gravy. Sherman. S. F. Fannon, director of public) When Fannon finished, Henry Den- service of the Sherman Service, had |nison, owner of the big Dennison pa- delivered an address full of high (Continued on page 3) \