The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 12

Oe Tamar Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects candidate ;Who cares besides the war veterans? Hits MacDonald Treason. To the DAILY WORKER—I feel I must say.something about the attack by the British government upon the Communist Party of Great Britain, the raiding of its headquarters and the arrest of one of its officials for ad- vising soldiers not to shoot strikers. If my memory serves me, it. was in the year 1911 or 1912 that the I. L. P., along with other British organizations of labor, made a stand on this ques- tion, and the Labor Leader, the offi- cial organ of the I. L. P., together with the rest of the labor and social- ist press, published appeals to soldiers not to shoot strikers. The hubbub arose when a young member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Fred Crowsley, was arrested at Aldershot for distrib- uting copies of an article which he had had reprinted from the Syndical- ist, a paper published by Tom Mann and Guy Bowman. Subsequently these comrades were also arrested, and also the brothers Buck, printers of the paper. All served terms of im- prisonment, but the advanced think- ers unanimously defied the govern- ment, and every paper and every speaker made appeals of this kind. I do not remember particularly any utterance by. Ramsay MacDonald on the subject, but I remember being at Aldershot to report Crowsley’s case for the Syndicalist, and meeting Jo- siah Weligwood, then a Liberal mem- ber of parliament, and now a promi- nent labor man, whe provided bail for Crowsley, and we all three re- turned to London. Our policy at that time was to have so many people ut- ter this particular “sedttion” as to make it impossible for the govern- ment to send us all to prison and suppress all the papers. And we pur- sued this policy with the most com- plete success. In the midst of this situation, the Daily Herald first ap- peared under my editorial direction. The paper supported the agitation up to the hilt. 2 I await with great interest the mails which will bring me, I hope, some copies of the Herald for this week, to know how the Labor Party will justify its change of attitude. I prophesy, with the greatest confi- dence, that this action will lose for it an enormous amount of support. We knew it was leading the workers’ political movement to destruction, but I, for one, scarcely expected that it would do it in so spectacular a way. The present administration has done other things in India and else- where which are more important in reality, but which I can well imagine my former comrades, MacDonald, Snowden and others glossing over with a cloud of words, and getting away with it, so far as the less ad- vanced workers are concerned; but knowing England as I do, I could imagine no shrewder blow at the con- fidence of the workers in the Labor Party than that party has thus dealt itself—Andrew Shelly, Chicago, Ill. New York, Attention! 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After reciting pertinent facts and prin- ciples of the class-struggle, the appeal points to, and urges definite action upon the part of the men. . . tho I personally believe that even that ap- peal falls short of a concrete. and more elaborate program of immediate tasks along organizational lines, rank and file slogans, demands, suggestions for carrying out these tasks, etc. With “Mobiliation Day,” Sept. 12th coming, militarism running -amuck, new wars in the making, and the class- \struggle becoming ever sharper and intense, our party should be first to formulate and offer something definite and tangible affecting the men in uni- form. We ought to awaken and in- spire the men, and hold aloft the torch that shall blaze the path of action. Mass-meetings can be held in sea- port cities like Boston, New York, etc., at places wheré sailors and ma- rines hang around. For instance, I witnessed an anti-war meeting con- ducted by our party on Boston Com- mon. There were more than three thousand in the crowd of which es- timate, over four hundred were uni- formed men—sailors, marines, air- men, soldiers and some petty officers. At a meeting like this, one speaker should dwell only on subject matter as I refer to above—a special message in plain, definite language with a clear outline of action for the uniformed men. The uniformed men will think, and think hard after hearing such talk—such thots in their minds will some day lead to specific action. I would like to see the party start something along this line in the DAILY WORKER. Your for Communist agitation in the army and navy—H. Sidney Bloom- field, Worcester, Mass. Foster’s Youngstown Meet. To the DAILY WORKER: The op- ening of the Communist campaign amongst the steel workers by the huge Foster mass meeting at Avon Park when the first Communist presi- dential gun was fired off by W. Z. Foster has stirred up the steel barons and their poison slinging press in Mahoning valley. Steel workers were pictured driving to the meeting in Cadillacs and Pierce-Arrows and throwing handfuls of greenbacks into the contribution. As a matter of fact thousands of steel workers were compelled to re- main away from. the monster mass meeting because they lacked carfare, so well is prosperity affecting them. It stunned the 100 per cent plussers to find out that a few thousand reds were willing to turn out and give the first Communist candidate for presi- dent a fitting welcome at his first campaign meeting. All of the foreign nationalist socie- ties held picnics on the day that Fos- ter spoke, to attract their members away from the meeting. The capi- talist press carried big scare lines telling the folks that Foster and the Reds want a Soviet government for the U. S. So far there has been no denial on part of the steel workers that they oppose this form of gov- ernment. Finding fault with the Reading, Penna., Readers! Attend and Advertise Among Your Friends a MASS MEETING READING HOSE HALL, 612 FRANKLIN STREET TUESDAY, AUG. 26, 8 P. M. To Be Addressed by BENJAMIN GITLOW Communist Candidate for Vice- President of the United States. Your shopmates, if they know of it, will want to end. it’s your job to see to it that t pyre invited and that they come. Admission free. \ Communist presidential because he mounted the speakers’|—Waldo J. Wernicke. platform with holes in his shoes and a smile on his face, the steel trust organs even announced that Foster was getting bald, and didn’t have his trousers pressed, and was such a well mannered person off the platform but a bear cat in action, The steel work- ers are very much amused over the petty fault-finding of the steel trust mouthpieces. The Steelworkers’ Band organized and named in honor of the first Com- munist candidate for president will greet Ben Gitlow when he speaks in Warren. on Sept. 4. This band can play the International in such a way that it would make E. H. Gary and the Pope of the A. F. of L. have cold chills. About the most amusing incident connected With Foster’s first cam- Want Ministers to Read DAILY. WORKER. To the DAILY WORKER:—A war is being waged by the ministers in South Bend, Indiana, against dancing on Sunday. For the life of me, I cannot see the difference between dancing on Friday and Sunday. If dancing is immoral on Sunday, why is it alright on every other day? I would like to place into the hands of each of these ministers a copy of the DAILY. WORKER where they will find something of vital interest to humanity to put up a fight for. It’s high time these arch “hypocrites be- gan to have something to say about the workers’ struggles, about poor wages, about the miserable homes the workers live in and about the energy sapping long hours they must slave. paign speech amongst the steel work-|__Amogs E. Kirk. ers was press announcements that the steel mills would operate 100 per cent starting August 18th/ The Red Campaign is well under way and the Communists are ham- mering away in the strongholds of the steel barons all thrue the Mahon- ing and Shenango valley bringing to the steel workers a message of inter- national working class soldarity.— Wallace T. Metcalf. Thoughts for Defense Day. To the DAILY WORKER—In re the, September mobilization act: By orders of the war department, Major General Crowder issued, July 5, 1918, certain legalized land value orders in which gamblers, “real estate dealers,” their agents and clerks were specifically ex- empted from the 1918 work or fight ordinances. These privileged charac- ters received vast sums in rents from the United States treasury for land sites our government needed urgently. 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