The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1924, Page 3

SS. DISSENSION IS Friday, August 22, 1924 fd RIFE IN CAMP OF LAFDLLETTE Machinistsand Garment Workers Re ject Bob By MAX SHACHTMAN. News of the withdrawal of George L. Berry, president. of the International Pressman’s Union, from the LaFollette cureee ees of the dissatisfaction on the part of the treasurer for LaFollette’s labor end, Warren S. Stone, of the locomotive en- gineers; divisions in LaFollette's ranks in New York, and the withdrawal of another local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, mark the latest developments in the cam- paign of the Wisconsin senator. Berry, who had haunted the democratic national convention | in search for the vice-presiden- tial nomination on the basis of a strike-breaking record in his own union, has now come out for John W. Davis, in spite of a pledge to LaFollette made three weeks ago. Stone fs Sore. Warren 8. Stone, in spite of the over-persistent statements that he will stick, is obviously disgruntled. Because of a resolution passed at the last convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Dngineers, he had arro- gated to himself the power to dispense the funds of the organization as he saw fit. And he spent lavishly, to the tune of at least $50,000, to boost La Follette, but with one good eye al- ‘ways towards the vice-presidential nomination on Bob”s slate. LaFollette, always careful about giving any representation to labor that was not absolutely imperative, chose, instead, Wheeler. For this, Stone will probably never forgive him, his statements of allegiance to the contrary notwithstanding. But “Bob” is not worried. Even “Young Bob,” in touching up- on the rumored resignation of Stone, relegated him to unimportance by say- ing: “It would be ‘without signifi- cance even if it occurred insofar as it would indicate his being out of sym- pathy with the campaign.” New York Difficulties, -.In New York, the pernially hope- ful Socialist Party has managed to worm itself into a number of strate- gic positions in the local Conference for Progressive Political Action. In calling a local conference, they over- looked the Tammany Hall politicians who are in control of the New York portion of the American Federation of Labor. When the call for the conference was issued, the leaders of the Central Labor Council of New York sent out a circular letter in opposition to the meeting. And all of Abraham Tuvim’s declarations that “the incident is triv- ial” will not hide the fact that Tam- many Hgll leaders do not intend to join in with the 8. P. fakers who hope that the local conference of the oO. P. P. A. may possibly endorse Nor- man Thomas, socialist candidate, for governor. Tuvim is the manager of UNEMPLOYED WORKERS GET DELEGATES INTO FRISCO LABOR BODY (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.—A new departure was made by the San Francisco Labor council when it voted to accept two unemployed men as fraternal delegates at each meeting, to Rien at first hand the conditions, of the unemployed. The men will be Selected from the so- called “slave market”—the employ. ment office region on Howard 8t., where men out of a job congregate. ~ Board in endorsing the Wisconsin messiah. , * “The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, Local 86, Pittsburgh, Pa., condemns the attempt of the offi- cial labor leaders to lead the workers into the middle class LaFollette camp. And we emphatically protest against the action of the General Executive Board of the Amalgamated endorsing the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket in vio- lation. of the repeated expression of the membership through our national convention in favor of a class labor party.” The wave of resentment and con- demnation of the arbitrary action of the Hillman administration in flop- ping for petit bourgeois leadership is sweeping one local union after an- other, In Johnston’s Own Camp. In the camp of William H. John- ston, chairman of the Cleveland con- vention of the C. P. P. A., and presi- dent of the International Association of Machinists, protests are being heard. As a double wallop at the Johnston machine and the political chameleons of the Chicago Federation of Labor, Local Union 390, of the In- ternational Association of Machinists, at its last meeting, overwhelmingly voted down any endorsement of Reb- ert Marion and Burton Kendall. Merrily They Roll Along. In the meantime the campaign of LaFollette rolls along merrily. The slightest tinge of radicalism is being expunged from the records in an ef- fort to cleanse himself from the odium of his past and present affilia- tion with the Socialist Party. Labor, official organ of the railroad brotherhoods, and authoritative mouthpiece for LaFollette, reports that preparations are being made to meet the charge of LaFollette’s sup- posed anti-war stand. Since it is based largely on the speech made by him at St. Paul in 1917, the LaFol- lette camp is reminding the elector- ate that this speech was proved to have been, purposely misquoted and that LaFollette was not a pro-Ger- man or an anti-war man, This does away with another of the excuses being given by alleged radi- cals for their support of LaFollette. Ignores Labor Organ. The latest stunt of the “progres- sives” is the announcement that they will support Senator Thomas Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana, for re-election. This is the newest blow to the budding independent Farmer-Labor party movement. The Farmer-Labor party of Montana has its own candidate for U. S. Senator, but that means nothing to the Wis- consinite. Nor does he take into account for a single moment the fact\ that the Montana State Federation of Labor in its convention during the first part of July, 1924, drew up a resdlution condemning this same Senator Walsh as an enemy of labor and author of the labor division of LaFollette in New York. “We want to endorse as many friends of labor as possible and the candidates most popular among the members of the unions,” said John Coughlin, secretary of the Central La- bor Council of New York. This the continued endorsement of mmany Hall or G. 0. P. takers with LeFollette carying off the presidential endorsement laurels. Amaigamated Local Protests. Best of all comes the news that Lo- cal 86, Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of Pittsburgh passed a resolution a careful discussion, condemning action of the General Executive the infamous criminal syndicalism law of the state. But labor’s opinion doesn’t count very much with LafFollette. Only Robert Marion LaFollette counts with him, Act to Boycott Italy. . MBXICO CITY, Aug. 21.—The red transport workers of Vera Cruz and Tampico will boycott the Italian exhi- bition vessel, Italia, which is expected soon. They are doing this because of the fact that Mussolini's government is universally considered by the workers as an enemy of the working class. A Challenge! T Harlem Branch of New York City challenges every Workers Party Branch in the nation to send in an order for at ledst 100 copies of the first campaign issue. This branch has order 200 copies Act at once! ‘ake this up for distribution. at your next branch meeting. branoh will be glad to send for at least 100 copies. Jet us roll up a big circulation for the First 1924 Com- pa Campaign issue of the DAILY WORKER, 1418 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, II. For the enclosed §............ WORKER, to be dated Saturday, tleket—Foster and Gitlow, FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN send me .. First Special Communist Campaign 81 conte per copy, or $8.50 per hundred. | want to help raise the etandards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party Pe Sed SN nn eR NOM ie We ORR A YN DAILY WORKER. Use this se COples of the ition of the DAILY Aug. 30, at the speaia! rate of THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS CLASH WITH FASCISTI ON MATTEOTTI Thousands Rallying to Attend Funeral (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Aug. 21.—The pour- ing of workers and peasants in- to the city continues. Spectators here recall the Fascist march on Rome of al- most two years ago, which thrust Mussolini into the dic- tatorship after he had been out- lawed by decree of the liberal government. Workers Rally. Between that demonstration and the uprising of today there is this difference—that the men and women now storming Rome to take part in the public burial of Giacomo Matte- otti in defiance of the government decree are not petty army cers, but delegates of labor unions, Trepres- entatives of student bodies, Commun- ist leaders, boys and girls carrying the emblem of the Third International. Mussolini has called to the city 40,000 of the national militia—the blackshirts. The Fascisti of Lazio, a government stronghold, are mobilizing to come to Rome for a counter-demo: stration. The force of armed guards stationed about the jail in which are imprisoned the Fascisti convicted of finplicity in the murder has been doubled. Denounce Fascist Rule. The right hand of the body of Mat- teotti was missing when the corpse was discovered. Government officials answer that worms ate it away. The workers know that worms do not eat bones. Hatred of the blackshirt regime has reached fever heat. Demonstrations against the dictatorship flare up all over Italy. In Milan, fifteen Fascisti were wounded when they attempted to intimidate soldiers of the regular ar- my who had hung the picture of Mat- teotti in the city armory. Naples, where two years ago the Fascist march on Rome was organized, is witnessing parades of the workers, who shout denunciation of Fascist rule. At Salerno Mussolini was burn- ed in effigy. The government made a gesture of impartiality by the imprisonment of fifty of the national militia for dis- turbing a protest meeting. All of the fifty were released next. day. Strike For a Day. Work will be abandoned for the day in every town thru which the body of Matteotti passes when, after the funeral at Rome on Sunday, it is car- ried to Badia Polesine, the birth place of the murdered deputy. Workers will gather at the railway stations to pay tribute of praise to the dead, and tribute of hatred to the living crim- inals intrenched in the seats of the government. Birth Controllers Create OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 21.—Mrs. Anne Kennedy, secretary American Birth Control League, has organized a branch of the national body in Oak- land. Branch. Better Rooms for Labor. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—The Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Assn. has moved into new San Francisco headquarters, including an office, lounge, card room and billiard rooms. * (Special to The LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. ——————————————— Eee AMERICA SABOTAGED RUHR EVACUATION IS CHARGE OF GERMANS (Special to the Dally Worker.) BERLIN, Aug. 21.—Charging that America ‘sabotaged the chances for the Immediate evacuation of the Ruhr by supporting France, Ger- mania, Changellor Marx's organ, to- day printed a leading article, which added: “Crusader Wilson was turned out by a servant of Mammon, Apostle Dawes preached a new bible, but the salvation work serves only busi- ness; Europe is under the heels of American capital, it is a pity the great American nation lacks the making of a great humane gesture.” Foreign Secretary Stresemann to- day made a detailed report on the London reparations conference to the reichstag foreign relations com- mittee. FRENCH RILED ATMACDONALD'S DOUBLE DEALING Jekyll-Hyde Role is Revealed in Letters PARIS, Aug. 21—That James Ram- say MacDonald, socialist-pacifist pre- mier of Great Britain, and the rest ty of His Majesty's realm, played a Dr. Jekyll-Hyde role at the London con- ference is revealed thru a létter ad- dressed to France and Belgium, made public immediately after the confer- ence terminated, urging the imme- The French nationalists are'in a terrible rage and even Herriot’s sup- porters are compelled to admit that it is a piece of sharp practice which British diplomacy excels in. Was With France. While MacDonald thru the weight of his influence, .openly on the side of France during the German-French conversations over the evacuation of the Ruhr and agreed to fhe year’s term within_ which the last of the French troops should be off German territory, secretly he tried to put France in a position where she would be obliged to evacuate immediately or else bring down on her head the wrath of international bankers. The British capitalists see in the French Ruhr occupation a tremen- dous danger to their commercial po- sition. It threatens their coal and iron industry. Therefore, to get the French out of the Ruhr at the earli- est possible moment is a matter of the utmost importance for the British government. Was Pi id Then. What angers the French most is the fact that the letter tho dated last Saturday was written prior to Mac- Donald’s speech at the close of the conference’ at .which he expressed gratification at the happy solution of the Ruhr exacuation question. Most of the Paris papers express furious resentment against MacDon- ald’s trickery. pers point out that déspite the peace protestations of the statesmen rep- resenting the rival capitalist na- tions, that they are at each other's throats and that another war would result unless the workers joined hands across the international front- iers, kick the capitalist governments into the discard and establish Soviet Republics in Europe. It is reported that Leon Blum, so- cialist deputy, will be rewarded for his collaboration with Herriot with the post of ambassador to London. CALIFORNIA FREE SPEECH CASE JURY OUT ONLY FIVE MINUTES; RENDERS VERDICT “NOT GUILTY” i Dally Worker) 21.—E. G. Moffitt, who was ar- diate evacuation of the Ruhr. 4 The Communist pa-/ ONE BIG UNION SEEKS SPLIT IN NOVA SCOTIA Big Danger to Militant District Seen (Special to the DAILY WORKER) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, Aug. 21.—The one big union of Winnipeg is active in this dis- trict among the coal miners in an attempt to split the miners’ union and form an O. B. U. or- ganization here ir” place of the United Mine Workers to which the miners belong. The O. B. U. representative is Ben Legere, one-time vaudeville ctor, whose splitting activity in the labor movement is known in Western Canada, among the textile workers of Lawrence, and now in Nova Scotia. The, ). B. U. hopes that the disgust £ the rank and file of the min- ors with the reactionary ma-| shine of John L. Lewis will nable them to split the district | ind bring the miners into the 1. B. 0. Militants Must Remain in U. M. W. Since Lewis cancelled the charter and deposed the officers of the district | the O. B. U. has been speculating on| the possibilities of utilizing the re-} sentment of the miners against these | actions for a split. The first appear-| ance of the O. B. U. in the district) was after the rank and file conven- tion held last May. But the hopes of the O. B. U. that the convention would split from the U. M. W. were disap- pointed because the rank and file del- egates decided that the correct course of action to pursue was to stay inside the U. M. W. and fight along with the militants of the other dis- tricts to defeat the Lewis machine. Communists Oppose Split. The latest move of the O. B. U. is to advocate the calling of a rank and file convention for the. purpose of breaking with the U. M. W. and trans- fering the local unions into “units” of the O. B. U. This plan was outlined in a recent number of the O. B. U. Bulletin. Some miners who have not recovered from their infatuation with | the O. B. U. scheme in 1919 have given a willing ear to this propa- ganda. The consequences of a split on the part of the miners would be terrible. Lewis has been unable to crush the militant spirit of the miners in spite of his strike-breaking tactics, and the blacklist applied by his friends the| rested while speaking at an open air meeting held in San Pedro on July 6 under the auspices of the American Civil Liberties Union was found not guilty of disturbing the peace by a Los Angeles jury. This meeting was held for the purpose of pro- testing the inactivity of the police department and the district attorney‘s office in investigating the raid on the I. W. W. hall in which women and children had been scalded and seven men IMM ~ Printed on a fine wide +f 18 i igh. framing or operators. If the O. B. U, succeeds in splitting the ranks of the miners it will accomplish just what Lewis and his gang want: the destruction of the solidarity of the miners. The condi- tions prevailing in the district at the present time threaten-the crushing of the miners if they attempt to split. The vast majority of the miners are working only half time, and many of them get only ten days’ work a month. In this situation it is quite easy for Lewis to arrange for the operators to shut the mines for a while and then open them to only those miners who are willing to abide with the decisions of Lewis. The check-off collection of union dues will be used as a weapon by Lewis in this method of weeding out the militants of the rank and file. 5 Lewis Anxious for Split. ‘The history of the miners of Dis- trict 18 should be sufficient to pre- vent the miners of Nova Scotia em- barking on an O. B. U. adventure. In spite of the fact that the overwhelm- ing majority of the miners of District | Page Threé LABOR NEWS GARBLED IN KEPT PRESS Contractors’ Statement Given Prominence Edward Harris, secretary of the Painters’ Union, Local No. |184, asks the DAILY WORKER to correct an erroneous state- |ment made by the yellow press about his union. These papers gave promi- nence to a statement by Fred, W. Armstrong, manager of the | 18 went with the O. B. U. in 1919, the |Citizens’ Committee, that 53 per U. M. W. officialdom was able to| crush them in co-operation with the operators and the Canadian govern- ment. The net result of the split in District 18 was the blacklisting of the militant leaders, and a weakening of the solidarity of the miners. ' After three years the miners found that they had to again take up the fight inside the U. M. W. It would be much easier for Lewis to crush the miners of Nova Scotia in the event of a split. They have gone thru a series of struggles, and periods of unemployment, since 1922 cent of the painters in Chicago would not come under the new scale of wages. | They are the painters working for the Landis award contractors who-will | remain working under their old scale of 95¢ an hour. The statement was worded in such | @ way as to give the impression that} the union permitted two different | scales of wages for its membership, This is not true. | For two years \the Painters’ Union | has been fighting the Landis award contractors and no union man is‘em- that have robbed them of any funds] |to conduct a struggle against a black-| list. The British Empire Steel Cor- poration owns 90 per cent of the mines} in the district. and it can be relied | upon to co-operate with Lewis to} smash the miners. The Provincial and Federal governments will aid the corporation in this as they have in| the past sent troops against the min- ers when asked to do so by the cor- poration. The split will simply t80-| late the militants from the rest of the} miners, because the mniajority of the! miners in the western part of the} district will stick with Lewis, The| net result of the split adventure will! be the smashing of the militant lead-| ers of the rank and file. They will be blacklisted and driven from the union and the district leaving the backward miners at the mercy of the Lewis ma- chine. Miners Learn by Experience, The lessons of District 18, of the| bitter period of 1909 when the min- ers were split into two factions and crushed by the operators as a conse- quence, and the fact that the 0. B. U. could not maintain the organization of 40,000 workers that it had follow- ing the Winnipeg strike of 1919, shows that if the miners follow the O. B. U. in this adventure they will simply be courting disaster. The only force that can prevent this-is the militants organized in the Miners’ Progressive movement, and the rank and file lead- ership of the Communist Party, Dloyed by them. j All the members of our union, about | 12,000 in all, work under the regular union scale of wages which will be; $1.50 an hour beginning Monday. ‘acted al, at | Wage Cuts of Ten to”? Forty Per Cent Bring f Out Watch Workers WALTHAM, Mass., Aug. 21-—All the employes of the Waltham Watch | Co. except the machinists who are! waiting international sanction are on strike against wage reductions rang- ing as high as 40 per cent. The strikg began August 10 and involves approyi- mately 2,000. of the 2,950 employes of the company. The wage cut ranges from 10 per | cent to 40 per cent with an ‘average of 25 per cent. The company claims that wages have been out of line with | prices and the Waltham chamber of commerce is supporting the company, | condemning the strike as entailing! waste of revenue to the company, the strikers and the city. { Repeat Charges Against Hughes. MOSCOW, Aug. 21-—A high Soviet Official today charged ‘hat Charles EF. Hughes and Premier Herriot agreed upon a concrete anti-Soviet policy by both countries during the former's European trip. Send in that Supscription Today. a nun ? FOSTER’S PICTURE Should be in the home of every worker in America —because he is the only Presidential Candidate representing the class con- scious workers, - grade of paper, 12 inches inches hi Suitable for posting In your window. THE DAILY WORKER. will be the best, the most incessant worker for Foster For President tarred and feathered by a mob. Mr. Moffitt was arrested on the 6th of July and nine days pt abe Git ane aaa lnans MaaRae ae later, after. he had procured a writ of habeas corpus, the charge of “maliciously, unlaw- fully, ete., disturbing the peace” was preferred against him. The prosecution charged Mr. Moffitt ‘with having alluded to the Police De- partment as “skunks, degenerates,” etc., language unfit to be used at a public meeting. It was also charged that he had called Jack Diamond of the District Attorney’ Office tool pigeon employed by the police” and “unfit to be a father or a husband.” The police officers stated from the stand that loud and boisterous lan- guage had been employed, altho when Mr. Moffitt questioned one of the of- ficers, it was replied that he spoke no louder thaw the other speakers and there was no disturbance at the meet- ing. Wheh asked to demonstrate Mr, Moffitt’s demeanor, the officer waved. his arms somewhat. | Reverend Robert Whitaker, Profes- sor Gallagher of Southwestern Uni- versity, Marta Divers of the I. W. W., inne ae, Anna Cornblath of the Workers Party were among the witnesses called for the defense. They all testified posi- tively that the term “stool pigeon” was prefixed with “al ” and that this was the only one of the terms that were charged by the officers that was used. They. said that no bois- terous or loud language was employed. The jury was out no longer than five minutes when they came back with the verdict of “Not Guilty.” Sev- eral members of the jury inquired where the meetings were held. The only trouble with these case, accord- ing to one of the witnesses, is that all this propaganda is spread only among twelve people. The War Is Over. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The Grand Army of the Republic doesn’t know the Civil War is over. 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