The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1924, Page 3

\ Saturday, August 23, 1924 eee FORCE CHICAGO LABOR TO LINE UP ON WAR DAY Anti-Workers’Concerns “Volunteer” Service The biggest® industrial and financial concerns in the loop district of Chicago will oblige their employes to participate in the line of march on Mobili- zation Day, Sept. 12, it was learned today. The proposal to instil patriotic and war spirit bunk into the craniums ofthe white collar slaves sounds good to the bosses who can exploit the feelings en- gendered in their workers by sweating them just that much harder. They “Volunteer.” Among the loop houses that have “volunteered”. are the Continental Commercial Bank, Illinois Merchants Trust Co., State Bank of Chicago, Bal- aban and Katz, the Commonwealth Edison Co., the. People’s Gas, Light & Coke Co., Carson Pirie Scott and a number of other anti-labor concerns. The plan for the exercises of the slaves includes a barbecue lunch for 10,000 men, bands that will wheeze out patriotic jazz, fireworks for the mentally subnormal, and 1,000 float- ing balloons that will bear the gran’ and glroi’s ’merican flag. Fe Doctor Will Throw Bull. To top the program, Lieut.-Col. Lee Alexander Stone will deliver a short— thank you—address for no particular reason whatsoever. In private life the gentleman is a physician. 4 The workers whose minds will be Poisoned by this capitalist militarism will enjoy the relief of a day off. Telephone Monroe 2284 Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN - 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor. Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice | TT eS (Continued from page 1) rorizes Negroes. Mr. Garvey has read to the convention long articles published by the Klan sneering at the Negro as similar to “baboons and monkeys.” Mr. Garvey admits from one cor- ner of his mouth that the Klan is a reactionary terror organization against the Negro, while with the other corner of his mouth he tells his followers that they cannot attack the Klan with even so much as words. Mr. Garvey says, “Don’t let the Com- munists trick you.” Who Tricks Negro? The Communists say, “War to ex. termination against the Klan,” and Mr. Garvey says, “Don’t fight the Klan.” Pray, Mr. Garvey, who is tricking the Negro—the Communists or Mr. Garvey? In announcing the receipt of the communication from the Workers Party, Mr. Garvey told the assembled thousand or more visitors and dele- gates that the association “has a very liberal platform” and has at alt times been open to addresses from demo- crats, republicans and socialists, and is now addressed by Communists. “At our last convention,” he said, “we were addressed by Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, a Communist, who sought to indoctrinate us with her views. We gave Mrs. Stokes a hearing. Some peoplé thought that we should not have done that’ because we are not interested in the philosophy of Com- munism. But I thought it was but right that we ehould have Mrs. Stokes present her views. Now we have a communication from the Workers Party criticising us for what we have done in the matter of the Ku Klux Klan and asking us to reconsider the resolutions that we passed. “Altho the communication is rather long, I shall ask the secretary to read it to us. ‘ Negroes Are Under Dogs. “Let me say, however, that while we belong to thé group of ‘under dogs,’ which includes the members of the Workers Party, still we are a group of peculiar ‘under dogs’ within that group. Even among ‘under dogs’ there is prejudice. Now you take no matter what group, gnd there is, thru- out, that eternal question of differ- ence. I say this irrespective of what class of people it may be. “I dare any white man, be he work- er, middle class or capitalist calss, to tell me that deép down in his heart he does not feel any different from the Negro. And if he tells me that he does not feel himself to be any dif- GOES WITH ° ferent from the Negro, I will tell him that he is a damn Har. I say so ir- respective of whether it is the right type or the wrong type of white man —he feels himself to be a little dif- ferent from the Negro. Now I ask this organization not to be tricked by the capitalist class, or by the working class, or by the democrat or the re- publican, or the socialist or the Com- munists. “Sympfathize” With Communists “We have sympathy for the Work- ers Party. But we belong to the Ne- gro party, first, last and all the time. We will support every party that sup- ports us, and we appreciate the at- tention the Workers Party has given us in sending this friendly communi- cation. But the Communists have a long time ahead of them before they can do. anything for themselves in this country. When they get there we will be for them. But meantime we are for ourselves, “We, as a group that is crushed, have sympathy for the working man of the white race. But, brother, lis- ‘en to me—he is crushed by his own brother, the capitalist of nis ##n-race. He is suffering from a different kind of crush from the kind we are getting. “It is all right to have sympathy, but when anything happens, watch your step! You will find that the socialist white man is a cousin to the republican white man, and the repub- lican is a brother to the democrat. And I think you will find that the white Communist is a brother to them if anything happens. They will none of them stand by and see their own brother perish and die. “You Are Negroes.” “But the white Communists claim that they have an interest in common with the Negro people. Very well, we are glad to see they ara looking for the interest in common, but when the time comes and somebody has to get out of the way—Negroes, watch your step! “You are Negroes, and I want you to remember that at all times.” After the reading of the Workers Party communication, which was lis- tened to with breathless attention, Dr. Jay J. Peters of Chicago hastened to get the floor. He said that ever since his entrance into the organiza- tion he had been fighting first the philosophy of the socialists and then that of the Communists. He contend- ed that neither one of these under- stood the psychology of the Negro, and that this communication of the Workers Party was “the same long- winded talk that has been handed out by all of them.” Peters added that i ne THE DAILY WORKER. FOSTER AND GITLOW TO YOUR CITY! The DAILY, WORKER WILL UPON REQUEST PRINT A SPECIAL LOCAL EDI- TION FOR YOU! Tue entire front page (as in the adjoining miniature) will be covered with local news, a local headline and a large streamer ad of your meeting — AT A COST LOWER THAN YOUR ADVERTISING. Tus is part of the plan of the National Workers Party Campaign Committee. The Daily will help build your local—y Daily—We can build the Workers Party. > [52 How many thousand will your local order? WRITE OR WIRE FOR FULL DETAILS. _. THE DAILY WORKER. 1113 W. Washington St. , To assist the campaign managers and committees at the Foster, Gitlow and all campaign mass meetings of the Workers Party—as a part of the first Communist political campaign. THE DAILY WORKER “now and then we find a white man who seems to have a different way of considering the Negro, but on the whole thruout the white race we find the self-same condition and point of view.” * Motion to Table Lost. A motion was then made to table the communication from the Workers Party. President Garvey immediately objected, saying: “Now this is a communication that was sent to us, and it needs a cau- tious reply: It is a very important question that is dealt with here. I think we ought to consider it as a communication sent to us in a friend- ly manner. I think we must discuss it in a concrete and friendly manner and give it a reply in the same spirit in which it has been sent to us. I think we have to deal with it in that way.” The motion to table the communi- cation having been withdrawn, Gar- vey proceeded: “If I understand the communication correctly the people of the Workers Party want us to be more emphatic and positive in dealing with the Ku Klux Klan. They want us to con- demn the Klan for the crimes it com- mits on the Negro. Now I want to say that the mobs that kill and burn Negroes are members of the working class,” The speaker continued: Workers In Mobs. “When you add up the total of kill- ings of Negroes by the Ku Klux Klan in a whole year in Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, | you will find that the total number | pales into insignificance when com- pared to the killings committed by the working class right in Omaha and Chicago and Tulsa and Wast St. Louis. Now we know that! the people who are lynching in the South be- long to the working class. “We know that the, lynching and the beating up and the running out of town everywhere is done, not by cap- | italists, but by people of the working | class. Now we have to be careful what we do about this. We agree! with the white workers that they are crushed and exploited and oppressed | by the capitalists, but that is only the work of their own brothers, | “When the republicans go out of! power and the democrats go in, we| find that the two agree all the same | on what to do to the, Negro. And when the socialists succeed in de- stroying the democrats” and the re- publicans we find that they are of the same blood, of the same flesh, of the our local can build the same race, and that their attitude y Balks at Fighting the Ku Klux Klan toward the black man is the same. And when the Communists shall have come into power and destroyed the democrats and republicans and the so- cialists, I think their attitude will be the same toward the black man. So we must be very careful how we handle this thing. Everybody Is Okay. “We are with everybody,” said the speaker with a smile and gesture of irony that brought laughter. Then, sobering the crowd’s mood with a grave expression, he added: “We can’t afford to be against everybody in this whole country.| That's the situation that we are in in| regard to this Ku Klux Klan busi-| ness. Let the Communists go to the Jew and the Catholic with their pro- posal to fight the Ku Klux Klan. The Jew can fight the Klan because the Jew can stand by himself, and nobody | can cut off his meal ticket, because| he has his own economic strength. The Jews and the Catholics have their own resources of employment, but the Negro has not. “When you Negroes fight the Ku Klux Klan and then you go back, you find that you are cut off, and you can lie down and die and perish. That is why you don’t fight the Klan. Let the Jew and the Catholic fight the Klan. “I think it is all right to let the white groups fight among themselves. The more rogues fall out, the more the other people can get their dues. And therefore I would advise the Workers Party to send their communication to the Jews and the Catholics, and ad- vise them to fight on, and fight on, and fight on.” Offers Resolution. Freeman UL, Martin, an attorney of St. Louis, then offered the resolution addressed to the Workers Party of America, as follows: “Resolved, that we.appreciate your proffer of counsel.in-this..mat- ter and your offer of co-operation in what you term a common fight, but we beg to adyise that the~ position taken by this convention represents the point of yiew best-caleulated to serve our interests.” Spéaking on, the resolution, William A. Wallace of Chicago said that afew months ago the Communist Interna- tional had sent instructions to the Workers Party of America “to inten- sify the work among the Universal Negro Improvement Association,” and jwith me ‘Oregon. It supported the three coun- that .the communication from the Workers. Party should be appreciated in thelight of that alleged incident. He indivated that he did not find the attitude of the Workers Party objec- CEU Workers Party back upon a ree: class had a lea from, in continued de EA tireless worker the American la) movement hea the ticket of Workers Party coming tions is proof hundred-fold th the only party labor will enter ly and with all energy the tho of independe ties can comma: Foster’s speak: tour of the coun day new hundr of workin and women in the fold of Par Workers worki ) didate to f labor cal ticket. head of ph ideas; demonstrated COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAS LONG RECORD OF SERVICE TO LABOR William_Z. Foster, candidate on the the United States, needs no introduction © thagseaas lnrteteescacker moaned ge this. has aay American | Unemployed Hail been able to look so full of earnest and able service to the working - class. Never has the Am- erican working- whom more could be expected tion and able lead- ership in its im-| thousands of work- mediate and: f ers. They ane oe ture struggle coming convince ganizer and most campaign militant- ands of adherents working-class poli- has brought eaci f th class, Fos- ter is an ideal can- A party politi- Be ta no mere formulator rases and Foster has Admidsion 26 cents Page Three tionable on the question of the-Ne- groes generally, but that. the.Party was carrying out instructions to “look for numbers. He then cited one of the ‘riunfefous high-pow- er propaganda slanders against Soviet Russia which appeared recently in the capitalist press in the form of a fake news report of a “Jewish exclu- sion act” passed by the Russian gov- ernment. Mr. Wallace swallowed this propaganda lie as tho it had been the truth, and reasoned from it that when the Communists get control of Ameri- ca, “they can say also to the black man, ‘you can get out.’” He estimat- ed that “the workers of today are the capitalists of tomorrow, and they are all white, and they all say to the Ne- gro, ‘you stay in your place.” Wallace Confused, Mr. Wallace later in conversation said that he formerly thought that the Russian government was largely made up of Jews, but that the item in the newspapers saying that an exclusion act against the Jews had been passed by the Russian gov- ernment convinced him that it was all a mistake about Jews having any power there, There was no Communist delegate présent when the Workers Party com- munication was brought up. Oregon Kluxers To Show Faces In Big Parade VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 22.—In this suburb of Portland, Oregon, the K. K. K. plans a demonstration on Aug. 23, in which 10,000 members will parade. As they do, not plan to in- dulge in any tar and feather, flogging or lynching parties that evening, they will leave their masks at home. The K. K. K, is on the decline in ty commissioners who were recently recalled in Portland as the result of a graft and bribery scandal in which they were involved. And it lost out. Its candidate for the senatorial nomination on the republican ticket Tan a very poor fifth, while Baker, the anti-labor mayor of Portland, was a poor fourth. Baker, loves the K. K. K. and the power trust as much as he hates the workers. MY COMPLIMENTS To THE DAILY WORKER DR. M. WISHNER DENTIST 800 W. North Ave., Cor. Halsted St, Lincoln 9010 SPECIAL NEW YORK EDITION ticket for president of Workers Party ord. Program. Severe unemploy- ment, constantly growing in every part of the country as the season prog- resses, is proving to be a bitter but a valuable lesson to der vo= that the Workers Party has the only solution for the un- employment prob- lem. Among them Foster and Gitlow and the rest of the orkers Party ticket is finding some of its great- est strength. Miners Hard Hit Miners in the soft coal districts are said to be almost 100 per cent strong for Foster, in the steel towns of Indi- ana, hio and Pennsylvania where Foster is in bor ds the in a at of the the us- nt nd. ing tr} on best known. Perey ae yore es the New Yor men Normtinnad pane ni State elections in to the ty Young Workers|oomplete “tieot League Takes Leading Part in Campaign While it is true that the greater proportion of its membership is as yet unable to vote, the Young Work- ers League is nev- ertheless taking a e tion. curing organization by Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Communist Candidate for President PLACING FULL TICKET IN FIELD IN NEW YORK The Workers being placed in the field and petitions have been printed and put in circula- Party mem- bers and’ sympa- thizers are now hard at work in se- signatures to these petitions. A com prehensive has been worked out THE DAILY WORKER. FOSTER SPEAKS IN N, MASS MEETING HERE IN SUPPORT OF WORKER. a en In what is exp ever held by Labor officially its electio: Trade Unionists to deliver rank and file move- velopin; rapi diy Gitlow camp. of the election and militant lett will result. among the garment workers and the metal trades work- ers is the Foster- Gitlow sentiment in this work should | manifesting itself. apply for their sup- plies at once at one of the following A| Places, is WORKERS PARTY LOCAL OFFICE: 208 EH. Twelfth St. ‘reiheit: 47 Chrystie Street. Campaigns for Ne embers. If you are porter of F E * Restauran 439 East 110th Jimmie Higgins’ | You beloni WORKERS PARTY ELECTION CAMPAIGN MASS MEETING ‘ MADISON SQUARE GARDENS FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, AT 8 P. M. and W. H. Johnson may have pledged thelaborvote to LaFollette but they are going to have a hard time if the sentiment among thetrades unionists of many trades in this city indicates anything. A strong ment has been de- which is swinging hundreds of work- ers into the Foster- Out campaign a strong wing movement Rank and File For Fost oster Particularly Workers Party e and Gitlow, if you believe in the class other words, if you are a revolutionary in the OIL STRIKE IN MEXICO GROWS PLANT CLOSES 1,500 Sympathizers in Aid to Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 22. —tThe strike of the oil workers of the Mexican Petroleum com- pany is spreading rapidly. The entire plant at Tampico is now shut down. All shipping has been suspended. Fifteen hundred sympathizers are help- ing the strikers and are on ac- tive picket duty. Prevent ReSumption of Work, So far the request for miltary pro- tection has been turned down, on the basis that there is no need for it. Strikers succeeded in preventing Roy Silent, the general superintendent of the Pan-American Petroleum and Transit Co., from entering his plant in order to arrange for the resump- tion of operations with strikebreak- ers. There is every likelihood that the strike will spread to other ofl corpo- rations. LaCorona (La Royal Dutch subsidiary) has been presented with the oil workers’ union demands. Un- less these are granted without delay the strike will be extended to this company within a few days. Solidarity Is Magnificent. The spirit of solidarity shown by the striking workers and the sympa- thizers in other industries is magni- ficent, i Distribute a bundie of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi. tion, dated Saturday, August 30. ror INSURANCE or ANY KIND (CARL BRODSKY 1123 Broadway, New York City Tel. Watkins 3626, Yet. Monree 7281 Ne We Serve Nothing But the Best VICTORY Restaurant and Lunch Room Pronos Brothers 1054 West Madison Sst. Chicage MINIATURE LAYOUT OF SPECIAL EDITIONS .OF THE DAILY WORKER FOR FOSTER AND GITLOW MEETINGS Communist Candidates For President; WILLIAM Z. FOSTER For Vice-Presl BENJAMIN aitLow Y. FRIDAY S PARTY CAMPAIGN GREAT CROWD EXPECTED AT OPENING MEETING OF COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE ected to be one of the great, in this city, the Workers Party wit cpa yn campaign here with a mass mee in the big ison 8 Party Campaign |Win * Wines ane Up for Fund Mounts but Foster as Me Pe: om cipal spea Usageadid Mien 4 dey’ © |the: evening and ‘a flam Gompers ie score of other lead- ing labor men and Women on the pro- gram, the cpening of = Copmeiee: campa: in York will make tl records of the ca talist candida fade into insignifi- cance. Plan Parade Great prepara- tions are being made to make this meeting a striking example and begin- Wage workers who|ning for the entire have a head for|campaign. Enthu- thought and alsiastic militants heart for fighting | have pared to are digging deep to | meet Pronounced suc- cess has been met in the efforts made both locally and nationally to ance the poe low _ campaign. While Big all Street is producing the coin for Cool- {dge and Davis and Little Wall Street is forking over the necessary funds for La Follette, the make the Commu- |railroad station up- nist cam SFE on his arrival here possible. ‘oolidge|from Boston. A campaign manag- ers are wore) a cheap campaign this year an parade has been arranged from the station to the hall. ex- pect to spend less vortre than $10,000,000.00. lemand for Davis will have to seats, the commit- struggle along with |tee in charge has even less than| found it necessary u while LaFol-|to permit admit+ Tette spokesmen |tance by ticket believe they can only. Tekets have swing the country | heen printed in i g paltry $5,000, |sumicient number to provide for each seat in the hall. No more will be issued. Those who wish to Agetagt these Workers Party is war chests the swinging into the : struggle and are|field nothing but 15 srazcltung: | willing to fight on| its nerve to bein Workers’ Tiome, {the side of the|on “and with the 4th working ss-—in} hopes that mili- | vance. 'y, tants will produce the huge amount of $100,000 to convince 1 ey ma: be obtained at any’ of the fol places: irty of tl ‘evo-| the workers of this| Worker years of actual ex-|leadin §, part in |for every | district | 147 Paok | Stare, PI pticaary working country ito the ‘Office: the| putting the cam-|with captains in ¥ Pl \ class, the Workers’ | party program. 208 E. Twelfth gt. le, that | paign of the Work- | charge. All Workers|Party. During Au-|————————— |" Jimmie Higgins’ y, able tolers Party before| More solleitors, Party branch ust, September | bers, and militants Book Store, porat ove tg a4 MY ueleee ne however, are Reo: | have also suppileg na Getover, thelwho can ualify | 197 nivernit * cosary. jose Who t ‘or state an art is campaign-jare welcome: in! ‘e! (Continued page 8)| (Cont. on page 2) lare willing to help! district petitions. | ing he new nem the ranks, 47 Chrys Doors open at 6:30