The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 1

ee | Vol. II. No. 135. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered os Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago; Il. i Communieteariditates” Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents LARGEST COAL MINE SHUT DOWN ““‘Hell an’ Maria’ Backs Klan [Republican Party Chief, Butler, Exposed as Stool-Pigeon Boss AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY., F there was ever any doubt in the minds of the workers as to where Hell an’ Maria Dawes stood on the Ku Klux Klan there should be doubt no longer. In a speech delivered last Saturday in Augusta, Maine, the Gen- @ral'in a reply to the belated state- ment of John W. Davis, on the hooded oftder, paid tribute to the Klan for its activities in enforcing law and order in Oklahoma and in Herrin. It is true Dawes did not say he was for the Klan but after reading the speech everybody who knows the Klan will not alone believe that he favors it but that he is also a member of the or- ganization. CCORDING to Dawes the main objection the Oklahoma Klan had against Walton was that he ap- Pointed a socialist president.of the University of Agriculture. Walton's other crimes paled into insignificance before this most -henious one. The al- leged socialist that Walton appointed would be likely to teach new fashion- ed doctrines which are not those of constitutional Americanism. There- fore the Klan was perfectly justified in its actions in Oklahoma. Dawes did not mention the number of men and women who were taken out of their homes at night, tarred and feath- ered and in some cases murdered by this Klan of his. NOTHER spot where the Ku Klux Klan covered itself with glory is Herrin, said Hell an’ Maria. After the Herrin riots in which several scabs who terrorized the county were killed, Dawes gives the Kluxers credit for marching up to the sheriff and telling him that they would insist on the law being enforced. Dawes did not say that behind these hooded knights was the Illinois Chamber of Commerce which called for the blood of the Herrin miners. He did not tell of the men who were killed. in Herrin by Glenn Young and his gang of Klan murderers. Law enforce- ment to Dawes means protecting the interests of the capitalists. The free speech provision in the constitution means nothing to him. He is a typi- cal American Mussolini, ‘HERE is a Collidge myth that has been assiduously fostered in the United States, since he took office. This myth “mythifies” Calvin as an honest, wise statesman, who can do no wrong. He could not see an oil scandal thru a telescope. So patriotic was he that while the cabinet was selling out the country, he was writ- - ing articles to the Old Ladies Home Journal (is that the name?) on the menace of radicalism. OW comes the Dawes myth dress- ed up in a topsy turvey pipe and flavored with obscenity. Dawes does not like publicity according to the myth. He is outspoken, says just what he means and nothing more or less. He hates demagogues. As a matter of fact this fellow Dowes is the greatest bunco artist in America. His objection to posing does not keep his photographs out of the papers. And he can keep silent on things that are not conducive to his popularity and to vote getting. HO has heard Mr. Dawes men- tion the Minute Men of the Con- stitution since he began his drive for the vice-presidency? Has Dawes mentioned his relations with the cor- rupt Republican boss Lorimer to whom he loaned $1,250,000 to deceive the government bank inspectors. Even the Supreme Court of Illinois (Continued on Page 6) AMALGAMATED OUT IN/ STRIKE IN MONTREAL AGAINST CONTRAGTORS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 22.—Amal- gamated Clothing Workers are no strike In Montreal, Quebec, says a wire just received by the union's general headquarters here. The strike was cal to force contract- ing and independent shops to live up to agreements. Success is looked for; unemploy- ment has not affected industry in Eastern Canada to the extent it ham hit the United States markets. IFASCISTI PAL OF “SILENT CAL’ FOR THE K.K. K. Predict Terrific Blow at Republican Chances The pro-Klan speech of Brig. Gen. Hell-an’-Maria Charles Gates Dawes, at Augusta, Me., was the most unqualified en- dorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, ever made by an American politician since the hooded | or- der became a political factor. What the effect of the speech will have on the fortunes of the republican party is a mat- ter of conjecture in republicar. circles. It is interesting to note that most republican papers featured his speech as an at- tack on the Klan, which gives the low down on what editors who have their ears to the ground think of it as campaign ammunition. The general must be given credit for speaking his mind. He will, no doubt, get the Klan vote as a result, he being the only candidate to come out and say a kind word for the night prowlers. But New England is thickly peopled with foreigners and natives whose ancéstors reached here long af- ter the Mayower had degenerated into dust.. That they will give the repub- lican ticket the cold shoulder is as- sumed. The Dawes speech will no doubt, be used extensively during the campaign 80 we give it here: Tried to Evade Issue. “I first desire to-speak as Mr. Da- vis did yesterday, relative to the Ku Klux Klan. I agree with him that it has no proper part in this or any oth- er campaign. “Let me say at once that I realize that the Klan in many localities and among many people represents only an instinctive groping for leadership, moving in the interest of law enforce- ment, which they do not find in many cowardly politicians and office hold- ers. His Americanism. “Let us consider for a minute what happened in the state of Oklahoma, Governor Walton was some time ago elected governor of the state. In his campaign he had not preached the doctrine—so it seemed to me at least -—which was the proper one to be preached under the American flag. When he was elected, one of his early acts was to remove the presi- dent of the university of agriculture of Oklahoma, a man/who believed in the old fashioned doctrines of the consti- tution, to establish which our fore- bears fought. He placed in that posi- tion a socialist who was likely to (Continued on page 6.) Farmer Expresses Views on: Market Reports in “Daily” In our issue of August 16, we car- ried a note to farmers, asking them to write us whether they want market reports be printed in the DAILY WORKER. We have had one reply which we print here in full and ‘we urge other farmers to join in the dis- cussion. To the DAILY WORKER:—Reply- ing to your inquiry of August 16, rela- tive to the carrying of market reports by the DAILY WORKER for farmers. A farmer, whether he has anything to sell or not, is always interested in’ the market reports. Since you are so advantageously situated, being on the grounds of a main distributing point, I think farmers will appreciate the information you can give them. I for one, shall look forward with in- terest to seeing this news in the DAILY WORKER. I would suggest a form. be adopted which will cover only main items for territory represented. I should like to see other farmers’ views on this subject.—Nels M. Nel- son, Rochester, Minn. MADISON, Wis., August 24.—Not- withstanding the opposition of Gov- ernor Blaine to Mobilization Day, the Reserve Officers Assn. will stage a celebration of the event, OOLIDGE, “The Strikebreaker,” and Dawes, the “open shop” Fascist, are not fhe only stars in the republican labor-hating sky. The chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee, William Morgan Butler, capitalist and owner of mil- lions of dollars worth of New Eng- land textile properties, has for years been spending tens of thousands of dollars to keep stool-pigeons and detectives working among his em- ployes to disrupt their unions, to de- liver the “undesirables” over to the Department of Justice, and to gen- erally act as “agents provocateur” against the workers. Revelations of the details of But- ler’s slimy work with the Sherman Agency, the most notorious indus- trial spy system now operating in the United States, are coming out. A special correspondent of the DAILY WORKER in New York City will tell the story from day to day as the investigations now being ' made bring the facts to light. The names of writer and informants are being withheld for the time being, | in order not to close any of the chan- | nels of information. If Mr! Butler feels himself aggrieved by the dis- closures, he is offered the columns of the DAILY WORKER to refute the charges that are made. In the meantime, the workers will be glad to know something of the man who pays Coolidge’s bills. Beginning tomorrow, read the ex- posures of William M. Butler, grand mogul of the republican party, in the fecadttinn. of the DAILY WORKER. WOBBLIES FAIL TO TAKE FIGHT OUT OF COURT Injunction Hearing Is Up for Third Time. Today for the third time the I. W. W. injunction case will come up in county court before Judge Hurley, who has been called upon by the “outs” to decide which group of officers “belong.” _. The case has now been hang- ing fire for two weeks, having been Sevtpeind once by Judge Hurley and the second time by Judge Sabath because of the absence from court of William A. Cunneal, attorney for the ad- ministration group. In the meantime a delegation has come on from Butte, Montana, to persuade both factions to give up the fight and let an impartial group come in. Tho Fisher and Doyle have con- sented, Griffith and McMurphy ‘could not be persuaded to give up the fight. So the injunction has not been dropped and will come up in court again this morning. Membership Wants Convention. The two different factions fighting for leadership in the I. W. W. have stirred up the membership to a realization that something must be done mighty soon to save the organ- ization, The membership is demanding that the two-year rule be waived and a convention be called at once. Rumor has spread that a convention will be called in three months, which the rank and file feels is too long to wait. Try to Prevent Split. “We must have a convention at once before both groups develop a faction- al spirit in the organization, obtain a following and cause a split,” was the opinion expressed to the DAILY WORKER reporter by -seamen, car- penters and agricultural workers, all members of the Wobbly organization for many years, and men who have faced long prison terms for their or- ganization. Editors Issue Statement. A statement signed by the editors of the various publications of the In- dustrial Workers of the World, is as follows: “We, the undersigned editors of all the |. W. W. publications in Chicago feel that inasmuch as we have been at headquarters during the entire con- troversy that is now causing the or- * (Continued on Page 4.) STATES THAT THERE IS ATHMOSPHERE ON THE MARTIAN PLANET SAN JOSE, Calif., August 24— Photographs of Mars, taken by one of the staff astronomers at the Lick observatory at Mount Hamilton here, Dr. W. H. Wright, indicated the existence of atmos eon the planet, according to the statement Just issued by the astronomer. If this is conclusively proved it forms the basis for the theory that life is possible, tho by no means cer- tain, on the Martian body. i A N. Y. LABOR FAKERS ENDORSE BOB; JAB LOCAL S. P. TICKET (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 22—What ap- ears to be a slick piece of political horse trading was accomplished here today in the Central Trades and Labor Council when the latter body endorsed the national LaFol- lette-Wheeler ticket after the weak Socialist Party-Farmer-Labor Party carefuly avoided a fight on the ques- tion of a local ticket. The officials of the labor body had urged their affiliated unions not to send delegates to the C. P. P. A., in order to wash Tammany’s hands from any endorsement of the Social- ist candidates. However, in return for the endorsement of LaFol- lette nationally, the “radical” fak- ers in the local A. F. of L. did not even raise the issue of an indepen- dent political party or independent local action. The Socialist Party has laid down even before Tam- many. Abraham Lefkowitz, representing the sole remaining member of the Farmer-Labor \Party in New York, and delegate to the Central council from the Teachers’ Union, denounc- ed Dawes for calling LaFollette a radical. But Bult the S..P dow S. P. doesn’t mind. MOSCOW URGES: NO SPLIT_IN MINERS’ RANKS MéLachlan Is Warned Against 0. B.U. — (By Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 24.—A cable was sent to Jim McLachlan, leader of the Nova Scotia min- ers, by the Red International of Labor Unions, warning against the efforts of the dual unionists to persuade the miners of Dis- trict No. 26, to secede from the ra Mine Workers of Amer- ica. The Red International is posi- tively opposed to withdrawal from the U..M. W. of A., as it has often demonstrated. More than a year ago, when the miners of Nova Scotia. were threat- ened with expulsion for voting to af- filiate with the R, I. L,.U,, the latter approyed of the withdrawal of the af- filiation, in” order that’ District~-26 might not. be severed from the main|_ body of the miners. The R. LL. U. #8 just as positive on this “point today as it ever was. It advises the- Nova Scotia miners to stigk with the U. M. W. of A, and to continue the struggle for revolution- ary policies in co-operation with the militants of the United States. ‘ ’ Goose Step in Bavaria. MUNICH, Bavaria, Aug. 24.—Stu- dents attending Bavarian universities must refrain from all political ac- tivity, according to an edict just is- sued by the ministry of education, The edict specifically states that the stu- dents must “not take part in political agitation, and not distribute placards and sample ballots.” DAWES KU KLUX M ussolini Is Favorite of Cussing Candidate (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, August 24.— William Z. Foster dropped | off the train here this morning, pleased with the large meetings from which he had just come, in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Superior. Before he went to address the great crowd in Tippecanoe Park, he was asked to comment upon the endorsement given the Ku Klux Klan by Brigadier- General Charles G. Dawes, in his Augusta, Maine, speech. “Quite natural,” said Foster. “The K. K. K. is an attempt to establish Fascism in the United States. Dawes praised Mussolini and the Fascisti very highly, more than a year ago, and tried to set up a small imitation himself, in the Minute Men of the Constitution. He may regard the K. K. K. with a little jealousy, as a ri- val of his own pet organization, but it is the rivalry of two business men whose fundamental interests are the same. Of course, he would endorse the K. K. K.” Against Class’ Issue. nor Davis denounced the anti-labor acts of the K. K. K.?” Foster was | asked. “LaFollette and Davis are united ‘fon this point, as on many others, that neither wants to raise the fundamen- tal class issues in the United States,” replied Foster. “They both avoid any issue except those calculated to ap- peal to miscellaneous ‘citizenry’ and not the working class as such. They refuse to recognize the interests of the working class as opposed to the capitalist class, as separate from the other groups in society. That is be- cause both fundamentally agree with the capitalist system. Neither wants to change it. Therefore, they handle the Klan gingerly; and with much re- gard for its feelings, and therefore, they ignore the labor movement.” Communist Attitude. “What attitude does the Workers Party take toward the Ktant” “Long before the election campaign the Workers Party. denounced the Klan as an instrument of the capi- talist class for illegally suppressing the militant forces of labor,” said Foster. LOVESTONE ARTICLE AND THE MANIFESTO ON DAWES PLAN TOMORROW The eighth article by Jay Love- stone on the political record of Robert Marian LaFollette, candidate for president, and the manifesto of the Communist International on the Dawes Plan will appear in Tues- day morning's issue, They had to be omitted from this i due to the mass of material demanding an im- mediate place in our columns, Look for these important features in to- morrows issue of the DAILY WORKER, SPEECH FASCIST 0. K-FOSTER “Do you think that it was merely | an oversight that neither LaFollette /10,000 FRANKLIN CO COUNTY COAL MINERS IDLE; NO: WORK SINCE LAST YEAR; FIGHTING FOR PAY By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer of T CHRISTOPHER, IIl., he Dajly Worker) * August 24.—Ten thousand miners in Franklin County, the heart of the Illinois coal mining district, are out of work. The mines surrounding Christopher are among the largest coal mines in the wo average One mine in Benton alone emplo rid, many of them producing an 6,000 tons a day when working at normal capacity. yes at ordinary times over 1,000 miners. This mine, owned by the Old Ben Coal company, is com- pletely shut down. In Pinckneyville, Perry County, and Wren City, Franklin County, which I visited today, an d in fact in all the mining towns where the mines show no disposition to reopen, the miners are losing hope in their union officials. There has been no work of last December, when one of the+ mines worked a month. This was the Southern Gem Coal company, which unfortunately did not pay the men for their December work, refusing to pay 250,000 dollars in wages. Rich and Wilson Dry Goods Co., Dreimanns Grocery Store, and Saw- yers Grocery Store in Pinckneyville, closed their doors last week—bank- rupt. Over six hundred miners worked for the Southern Gem Coal company, and all are now in debt and idle. I jumped off the Illinois Central train on the way from Belleville to Christopher and the first man I bumped into gave his name as Sam Hawkins. “Is this a mining town?” I asked. “kK was,” Hawkins replied. Hawkins said that one store could easily handle all the business done in the entire town. No Work Now. When I asked him if mining is the only occupation, Hawkins answered, any kind in Pinckneyville since WRITE YOUR STORY OF IDLE EVIL AND MAIL IT TO DAILY WORKER Here is another article from our staff writer, Kari Reeve, about un- employment conditions as they exist today among the idle-coal miners of Southern Illinois. Similar condi- tions exist everywhere thruout the mine fields of the nation. The DAILY WORKER is unable to send its correspondents into all the mine fields. It, therefore, asks the coal miners everywhere to write their own stories of the condi- tions they face. These stories will be published. They will have con- siderable- weight, we are sure, in forcing tardy action on this vital problem of how to meet the crisis confronting the nation’s jobless. (Continued on page 6.) KLAN TRIES TO FREE MURDERER IN DOWELL, ILL. Miners Stop Kluxers in Jail. Delivery By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) DOWELL, Ill, August 24.— The war between the Ku Klux Klan and the loyal members of the United Mine Workers broke out twice this week, in Ziegler and here, the Klan both times being beaten. Armed auto loads of Kians- men were rushed into Dowell in an attempt to free Thomas Reese, who cold-bloodedly mur- dered a Mexican, Louis Gomez. The Klansmen Beat It. The Mayor of Dowell, a miner, swore in the entire town as deputies and captured a dozen Klansmen and put them in jail. The rest, when they saw they had a fight on their hands, turned tail and sped away ‘without saying goodbye. One of the men who was most boastful about getting the murderer out of jail was a Klansman named Eldridge, who drove over with a car- load of machine guns and rifles to show the damned Dowell miners how it is done.in Herrin. He was lucky to get back to Herrin alive. It Runs In Family. Gomez, who left a pregnant wife and two children, had been raided by the Klansmen charged with selling bootleg liquor. The “100 per cent American” Reese warned Gomez if he told the Dowell authorities, he would kill Gomez, and he carried out his threat. Gomez was not, of course, given a fighting chance for his life, being shot down in cold blood, from the back, by the patriotic Klansman. Thomas Reese is the son of Ed Reese, who shot and killed “Fatty” Knight, at Dowell last month. They are both Klansmen. One hundred Tell your stories to the DAILY Worker. It is fighting your battles. It is standing by you, side. by side, in helping you wage your fight for your class Interests. Address all correspondence to the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. Building Trades Head Hits Fake Stories in the Chicago Tribune James J. Conroy, secretary of the Chicago Building Trades Councfl, re- pudiates the statement of the Tribune that the council, which met all of last week at.the Roosevelt building, was considering the calling of a general strike of the building mechanics and laborers for a uniform scale of $1.50 an hour, “There is not one word of truth in that statement,” said Conroy, “nothing of that nature was taken up at our conference. It is a cooked up story without any foundation.” Labor Bank Discussed.’ When asked whether it was true that they were considering unionizing the Landis award contractors’ jobs, he said that there was no such thing as Landis’ award any longer, but that the Tribune continually persists in dragging it in when referring to the Building Trades Council. He said the meeting discussed the establishing of a labor bank in the loop, in conjunction with other labor unions, but nothing definite had been decided upon. 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