The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 134. Nem wey ee, Wd Tra ml Y Every Day, in Every Way, NEGROES WON'T FIGHT KU-KLUX KLAN, GARVEY Communist — Proposals Declined by Meet By ROBERT MINOR (Saff Writer, Daily Worker) NEW YORK,, August 22.— The convention of the Uni- versal Negro Improvement As- sociation here on Monday after- noon heard the reading of the official communication of the Workers Party of America on the question of the Ku Klux Klan, refused to table it, and decided to regard it as “a friendly communication to be answered in the same spirit.” Then after a discussion that threw a strange light upon the vast chasm of misconceptions, dangers and potentialities that divides the field of labor in the United States on the race ques- tion, the convention sent an answer to the Workers Party refusing to change its attitude toward the Klan. Garvey Klan’s Defender. Notwithstanding any “friendly spir- it” that may gloss over the surface of his remarks referring to the Commu- nist Workers Party, the fact remains that Marcus Garvey thru this second act of restraining the Negro’s hand from striking at the Klan, has taken upon himself the role of chief de- fender of the Klan, which the Work- ers Party fights and will fight to ex- termination, Mr, Garvey admitted in his speech that the Klan kills and ter- (Continued on page 3) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: COMMUNISTS FIGHT DA MINERS SUFFER THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1998, at the Post Office at Chic: o, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. DAY, AUGUST 23, 1924 <<» UNTIL HE BURSTS =) Uh 7 Wyn, cy, PITTSBURGH A. C. W. A. CONDEMNS OFFICIALS FOR SUPPORTING BOB PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 22.— Protesting the action of the Gen- eral Executive Board, Local 86, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, passed the following re- solution at its last meeting: “The subservience of the repub- lican and democratic parties to the Wall Street plutocracy and their use of the governmental powerg to crush strikes and to suppress the the labor movement, has awakened the workers of America to a con- sciousness of the need of inde- pendent working class political ac- tion and created a widespread senti- ment in favor of a c Farmer- Labor party. But the C. P. P. A. betrayed the interests of the work- ing class and surrendered to the in- dependent LaFollette candidacy. La Follette represents the independent bankers, merchants and manufac- turers and the LaFollette movement may at best result in a new party which will be dominated and con- trolled by the middle class and will exploit the workers in the interests of the middle class. The LaFollette slogans, ‘Bust the Trusts’ and k to 1776’ offer a quack remedy which could bring no good to the working class. “In view of this, the Amalgamat- e@ Clothing Workers of America, Local 86, Pittsburgh, Pa., condenms the attempt of the official labor lead ers to lead the workers into the middle-class. Li tte camp. And ‘we emphatically protest against the action of the General Executive Board of the Amalgamated endors-, ing the LaFoll ir ticket In violation of the repeated expres- sion of the membership thru our national conventions in favor of a class Labor Party.” Resolution Committee: 4 Louis Cohen, Sam Shore, What fooal ie next? in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6. ( G 5 Ce \ west @ KC‘, ) \\ YY TIM 00 per year, = S\/* _ SATUR IN SHUT DOWNS OF COAL PIT Demanding Joint Action with Railroaders By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) O'FALLON, Ill., August 21.— The United Mine Workers’ Un- ion here has been unable to| cope with one tenth of the} cases of destitution demanding | immediate aid. Special relief funds of sub-districts and local unions have been exhausted. The miners’ co-operative stores have been forced to sus- pend, and the miners are able to exist only on the charity of their neighbors, their vegetable gardens, and by going heavily into debt. Sent To Poorhouse. One miner, Joe Sturts, was sent to| the County Poorhouse at Belleville, | and after being there a week was transferred to the St. Elizabeth Hos- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL WES PLAN Miners! Organize Your Fight Against Wage Cuts, Unemployment (Statement by the Trade Union Educational League.) HEN the Lions’ Club of operators and employers Herrin called a conference of coal to discuss ways and means of “restor- ing the mining industry to full operation,” every union man In Illinois knew that this was but the opening gun in a campaign to slash the wages of the miners, reduce th to destroy the miners’ union, war against our union. em to a non-union basis; and actually The Herrin meecting was a council of The miners must mobilize thelr own strength against this attack, and must work out PLANS FO MENT and against the “open R FIGHTING AGAINST UNEMPLOY- shoppers.” Our recent convention at Peoria failed in this, beoause Farring- ton made similar proposals—that we work cheaper and produce cheaper coal, and compete with non-union mines In West Virginia. Farrington has no other program to offer, and he did not want the delegates to develop a program. ruinous proposal, but instead” or else be defeated by the wa The miners will not accept such a must work out a program of action, ge-cutters, It is necessary that the miners have a conference WITH ONLY ONE ORDER OF BUSINESS—THE FIGHT AGAINST UNEMPLOY- MENT AND AGAINST THE WAGE SLASHING CAMPAIGN. Demand such a conference from the officials of the union! Send as many delegates a is possible to the State Federation of Labor Convention, Peoria, September 8, and demand that the State Federation also act in the matter. YOU MOST ORGANIZE YOUR FIGHT AGAINST UN- MINERS! Send your delegates to Peoria. EMPLOYMENT AND AGAINST WAGE CUTS! es is ) fe Sf QE) pf L, He is Growing Bigger and Bigger pital in Belleville. He is dying and his mind has been deranged thru his sufferings. : Even Davis, now 86 years old, the oldest resident of O’Fallon, who had to quit mining coal six years ago, is completely destitute and the local union has no funds to carry him. The local union here took up a col- lection for Davis at a recent meeting, but the miners were so penniless that only $1.50 was raised for the aged veteran of the union. oO with broad spreading trees, located in rich farm territory, is typical of the mining towns of the Belleville sub-district. O'Fallon lies between Belleville to the south and Collins- ville to the north. All three towns are an hour’s trolley ride from St. Louis. Altho suffering is acute in O'Fallon, Belleville is just as badly off and Collinsville is in worse shape. 800 Out of 1,000 Idle. There are 1,000 miners in O'Fallon, and over eight hundred of them are completely idle. The hundred and fifty who are working work less than three days per week. Phillip Hosier, recording secretary of local union No. 705, the O'Fallon miners’ local, said to the DAILY WORKER, “Our local union borrowed five hundred dollars from the sick benefit to be used as a special unem- Ployment relief fund, but it was all quickly used up.” “Our co-operative store has a rule that one hundred dollars is the limit of credit. We were forced to give up the store because many of the miners used up this credit and some of them we allowed to go beyond it.” Find Work Nowhere. As in all other mining towns visited the miners who went to other towns looking for work are returning un- successful. Fred Gill, his father, Geo. ee LAFOLLETTE IS BUSTING. LP. OF MINNESOTA E en Mahoney Now Sees Bob’s Disruption _. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party which has been created at the cost of so much work and sacrifice by the workers and farmers of that state is in dan- ger of disruption. Not by Com- munists, who are so often charged with being disrupters, but by LaFollette and his fol- lowers. The Workers Party, because it is in earnest in its desire to create a great mass farmer- labor party in the United States, has refrained from mak- ing nominations in opposition to the farmer-labor party in those political divisions in which real farmer-labor parties exist, as in Minnesota, Washington, South Dakota and a number of smaller political divisions. It is supporting the farmer-labor parties in these places. In contrast to this let those work- ers who are suffering from the illus- ion that the LaFollette movement will create a Farmer-Labor Party read what is happening in the state of Minnesota. Wm. Mahoney tells this story in an editorial in the Minne- sota Union Advocate: THE LA FOLLETTE COMMITTEE AND THE FARMER-LABOR PARTY. The LaFollette state committee for Minnesota has been organized, and while it is composed mostly of (Continued on page 2.) few weeks ago in a flivver to seek work in the west. written home to his wife that he is on the way back, unable to find work after travelling all over the Western Coast. Ed Creed has returned from De- troit where he had a bitter experience looking for work for three weeks. “I had to line up along the fronts of the auto-factories with two or three hun- (Continued on page 2) O'FLAHERTY’S COLUMN APPEARS ON PAGE 4 OF THE MAGAZINE TODAY Thomas J, O'Fial daily col- umn, “As We See It,” appears to- day in Page Four of the Saturday Magazine Section. Look for it. to its wide streets shaded REPTILE PRESS ASSAILS STRIKE AT PATERSON Last Resort of Defeated Silk Mill Owners (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 22. —The necessity for a strong working class press is being forced upon the minds of the ten thousand silk strikers of this city by the vicious hostility of the local kept press, par- Gill, and George Greenall departed a George Gill has ticularly the Paterson Evening News. During the strikes of 1913, 1919 and 1920 the News pro- fessed to be “fair” to the strik- ers and published many of their declarations without distortion. But from the very beginning of the agitation for the present strike it has been the outspoken champion of the manufacturers and the local Chamber of Commerce. It has been a sort of replica of the notorious Hearst pub- lications, professing liberalism and friendliness for the workers in order to get a circulation, then selling its support to the first high bidder. Evi- dently,the News has gained sufficient prestige to be valuable to the manu- facturers; the manufacturers have paid the price and the prostitute edit- ors debase themselves to order. Enemy Demoralized. The success of the strike has thrown the manufacturers into a panic and completely demoralized their forces, until their only means of defense is recourse to the press. Every day the newspapers, the Cham- ber of Commerce, certain city officials and other prominent individuals have constantly harped about the ranks of the strikers breaking, only to have to admit their predictions wrong, At a tremendous mass meeting held What Is Dawes Plan? wr does the Dawes Plan mean to the workers of Germany and the, workers of the world? The DAILY WORKER will publish In ite Monday morning issue an official statement by the Communist International on this atrocious scheme of the international bankers lave the German workers, and use the misery of these workers as an entering wedge to break down the conditions already secured by the workers of all countries. Do not miss next Monday's every day in Turn Hall the strike leaders keep the spirit of the strikers at a high pitch and dispel the lies of the enemy so effectively that the press tried to incite the mayor of the city and Chief of Police Tracey to in- tervene on their behalf and suppress the “out of town agitators,” | The Trade Union Educational League. FOSTER HANDS WALLOP TO LABOR FAKERS AND LA FOLLETTE IN DULUTH (Special to the DAILY WORKER) DULUTH, Minn,, Aug. 22.—Will- iam Z. Foster, presidential candi- date on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket arrived here today from Minneapolis, where he ad- dressed a large open alr meeting last night. Foster will speak to. night in Woodman’s Hall, Duluth. “While great numbers of work- ers and exploited fatmers are led astray by the LaFollette* small business propaganda, there is a rap- idly developing Communist senti- ment among the masses,” said Comrade Foster. “The nostrums of LaFollette and the conglomération of bankers, brokers, real estate sharks, labor fakers and renegade socialists that support him offer no solution for the issues that confront the workers. Only the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers and Farmers govern- ment will pave the way for a real solution of their problems.” When shown a copy of the DAILY WORKER containing the story of the big Paterson silk strike Comrade Foster said: “Good. It looks as if the workers were devel- oping a more militant spirit. And have you noticed” he said to the re- porter, “that in all these important strikes the labor bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor is as silent as the tomb. They are too busy hobnobbing with the capital- ists or enjoying the balmy breezes of Atlantic City.” Comrade Foster will speak tomor- row in St. Paul and in Milwaukee on the following evening. West Frankfort Coal Loaders May Strike For Cutters’ Wages (Special to the Daily Worker.) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Aug. 22. —Altho the 400 striking cutters in the Orient Mine No. 2, near here, were granted their demands and went back to work last week, it is thought here that the trouble is not yet permanent- ly settled. ; The coal cutters struck for 13 cents a ton and won their demands. This mine, which is now the largest in the world, has installed new machinery which loads and cuts the coal, replac- ing hand labor. The loading men are now dissatis- fled, as they are making a flat rate of $10 per day, whereas the cutters, under the new scale, average more. It is not unlikely that the loaders will soon strike for an increased wage. _———— Cicero Cop Held for Topsy. Policeman Benjamin Delaney of Cicero, charged with assault with in- tent to kill Rosetta (Topsy) Duncan, was today ordered held for the grand jury by Justice Henry Williams. Send in that Supscription Today. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. d Price 5 Cents MORGAN PLOT IMPERILLED IN REICHSTAG ROW Famous Report May End Days in Museum (Speclal to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, August 22.—Her- riot's speech helped to put the; Dawes Plan over in the French chamber of deputies but it may be the cause of its demise in the German reichstag. That the United States fs obligated, owing to its ¢om- mitments. at the London con- ference, to use armed force on Germany to’ compel the latter to pay the $625,000,000 yearly, ; indemnity under the Dawes Plan, was the remarkable state- ment made by the Frene*. pre- mier, in seeking endorsement of the London agreement. The French chamber of deputies supported Herriot, despite the vigor- ous opposition of the Communists. The socialists true to their role of be- trayers, supported the errand boy of |the international bankers. Chancellor Threatens. The decisive battle in the Reich- stag opened today over ratification of the Dawes reparation plan agreement. The government threatens the coun- try with dissolution and a plebiscite unless the necessary two-thirds ma- jority is given to the agreement. On the opening of the Reichstag the Communists took the lead in fighting the scheme to reduce the German workers to industrial peonage. So great was the turmoil that the sitting was adjourned until 5 o’clock. Ruhr Surrender. The nationalists have decided una- nimously to reject the London agree- ment on the Dawes plan. The surrender of the government on the evacuation of the Ruhr render- ed possibility of a Reichstag victory doubtful. On this issue the national- ists claim that the German delegates broke their promises before they left Berlin for London. The German dele- gates, however, were not the first to change their minds after imbibing the atmosphere of Buckingham Palace. Wise heads point out what happened to the great American prophet of de- mocracy, Woodrow Wilson, once he passed inside its portals. Without the endorsement of the German Reichstag, the Dawes plan is like something all dressed up and no place to go. Until the German work- ers begin to dig for it, it is as useless as a brand new fur coat in the torrid zone. French Communists Attack Plan, (Special to the DAILY WORKER) PARIS, Aug. 22.— Marcel Cachin, leader of the French Communist frac- tion in the chamber of deputies, de- livered a bitter attack on the Dawes plan and on American imperialism at this morning’s session. He said that Dawes represents American im- perialism ‘in a most direct personal and concrete fashion.” “The new American policy is not very disinterested,” M. Cachin contin- ued. “It has strictly an economic basis. The Americans hope to find an enfeebled European market where they can impos® their conditions. They must have healthy markets to which they can export, hence the Dawes plan. They have no sympathy for Europe or for the working class of this or any other country including their own.” A Hits Hostility of Hughes. Comrade Cachin declared that the speech delivered by Charles Evans Hughes at the Pilgrim Club was hos- tile to Soviet Russia. “American statesmen are hostile to Red Russia,” continued Cachin, “both from a class spirit and because they do not wish to see Russian wheat flooding the world’s market.” He also exposed the hypocrisy of American claims to pacifism and pointed to the great United States navy as proof that America is com- mitted to dreams of world domina- tion, Poincare Does Not Attack. Owen D. Young, Wall Street bank- er, and James A. Logan, Jr., Ameri- can observer with the reparations commission are all set to start the Dawes plan working. Herriot’s victory in the chamber of deputies was not won by as wide a margin as his friends expected. As was predicted, Poincare did not at- tack him, which probably saved him from defeat,