The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 2

” % yh, Ks Page Two rman oe na MR mn AS ROR MR RS A I RR LABOR FIGHTS OPEN SHOPPERS IN BELLEVILE Organizing to Support Garment Strikers By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) BELLEVILLE, Ill., Aug. 24.— The Central Trades and Labor Council here has mobilized its strength, voting to fight ,the strike of the girl employes of the Meyers garment factory here to a finish, following the sentence of ninety days in jail and two hundred dollars fine plastered on William Christo- pher, business agent for the Trades council, by the labor- hating judge, George Crowe. Almost the entire Chamber of Commerce heard Judge Crowe sentence Christopher to the jail term and fourteen others, cited for defying the anti-picketing injunction, to fines of from 50 to 200 dollars each. The manu- facturers were heard to declare that “if the Meyers company puts over the open shop by means of the courts, we are going to do it too.” Fighting Organized Bosses. William Christopher, reporting on the strike to the meeting of the Trades Assembly last night, declared: “We are fighting not the Meyers Pants Company alone, but the organized Manufacturers Association of Belle- ville. It is the opening wedge in a drive to bréak organized labor in Belleville and foist the open shop on the town.” A meeting was arranged of all the Trades Asembly officers, together with the presidents and secretaries of every local union for Friday night, to organize the fight against the open shop drive of the garment shop. This meeting was ordered by the council to consider plans for a monster protest meeting of all trades union members in the Belleville district, to include St. Louis, East St. Louis, Collinsville, O'Fallon, and the surrounding towns. Insurance Co. Renigs. The Hoppe Insurance Company was placed on the unfair list because after the sentence they refused to go bond for the men after agreeing to do so. Pressure from the manufacturers of the town caused them to deny the strikers and labor leaders bail. Twelve of the girl strikers were » present at last night’s meeting and were assured all possible support by the Trades Assembly. Anita Reisser, one of the strikers, told the DAILY WORKER reporter that she has been working for the Meyers company for three years, and her salary at the beginning of the strike was $9.50 a week. Martin Sisk, Justice of the peace and delegate to the Federation of La- bor, called on the unions to grant financial support if the Amalgamated does not give the girls strike bene- fits. Dont Mind Fines. In spite of the fines yesterday, the girls were on the picket line at six- thirty this morning, doing effective work and turning every scab away. I was given the floor for ten minutes and promised that the DAILY WORK- ER will throw its columns open to news of the strike. I told of the acute and widespread unemployment, not only among the Illinois miners, but thruout the country in all lines of work. I declared, “The struggle here against the open shop in the Meyers pants factory is directly related to the bitter struggle all over the coun- try. The capitalists are taking ad- vantage of the industrial crisis to try to completely destroy the unions and to institute the open shop. “You are faced with the responsi- bility of aggressively combatting the open shop drive and the unemploy- ment crisis, especially at the state convention of the Federation of Labor in Peoria on September 8. In the past year the unions have dwindled in size and the craft system has proved in- effective. Calls For Militant Attitude. “There are two attitudes which you can take at the Peoria convention, You can either take the listless, pes- simistic attitude that ‘nothing can be done,’ or you can launch an aggres- sive fight on the anti-union employ- ers. Many things can be done, Reso- lutions can be introduced in the con- vention, demanding that the employ- ers pay wages during the unemploy- ment periods and that work day be shortened so as to ensure work for all. “Resolutions on the nationalization of the mines and other industries can be introduced which will institute an aggressive fight on the reactionary wave which would result from the pessimistic attitude of reactionary la- bor leaders. Amalgamation and or- ganization of the non-union workers must be pushed. Henry Reichling was let off yester- day by Judge Crow on the ground that “Reichling did not know there had been an injunction nted.” We Go Nae ‘ U. $. SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS IN CLASH IN HAWAIIAN ISLES (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULU, Aug. 24.—The entire Personnel of Battery A, 55th U. S. artillery, was confined to their quar- ters as a result of a clash be- tween the soldiers and civilians of the Kalihi district. Four persons are in hospitals including one sol- dier who was in civilan clothes and was mistaken for a civilian. The clash is probably a result of the hostility between the populace and the American soldiery dating back to the strike of 15,000 Filipino suger workers this year, on planta- tions In which the American gov- ernor-general Ferguson has large stock holdings. The hostility has been greatly aggravated by the sen- tencing of 203 Filipino scouts to 5 year jail terms for having demand- ed pay equal to that of the white soldiers. STONE TO QUIT | AS TREASURER OF LAFOLLETTE FUND Engineer’s Head Said to be Disgruntled WASHINGTON, August 24—Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., son of the Wis- consin senator, confirmed the report already published in The DAILY WORKER that Warren 8. Stone, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and one of La Follette’s original backers would re- sign his post as treasurer of the La- Follette-Wheeler campaign fund. In a letter to William H. Johnston, Chairman of the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action, Stone gave as his reason for relinquishing the treasurership that it would be im- possible for him to handle the mass of detail connected with the task. Mr. Johnston urged Stone to recon- sider his decision, assuring him that he would have ample assistance in handling the details connected with the collection of a large fund. Stone’s Feelings Hurt. It appears that there is consider- able’ friction over the manner in which the campaign fund is being raised. Mr. Johnston is charged with the task of raising funds from those organizations affiliated with the C. P. P. A. Mr. Stone is treasurer of the Cc. P. P. A. and was named to assist Mr. Johnston as treasurer. Attorney General Elkern of Wiscon- sin, was given the job of raising funds from the general public with the man- ufacturer of patent medicines, W. T. Rawleigh, of Freeport, Ill, his trea- surer. Gompers also has his finger in the pie and so has the socialist party. This aggregation of labor fakers, capi- talists and renegade socialists are suspicious of each other with the re- sult that their unity is of the Don- nybrook Far variety. Only the politically unsophisticat- ed will give credence to Warren 8S. Stone’s excuse for resigning his po- sition as treasurer of the LaFollette committee. It is known that he had his heart set on the vice-presidential candidacy, which he did not get. Neither is he crazy about the pub- licity and prestige that has come the way of William H. Johnston as a re- sult of the latter’s chairmanship of the C. P. P. A. and the entrance of LaFollette into the presidential mara- thon. Washing the Stone Hands. At the time the St. Louis confer- ence of the C. P. P. A. took place, Stone was about to wash his hands of the whole business, as he knew that the labor fakers were then about to endorse William Gibbs McAdoo for the presidency on the Democratic ticket. But for the oil gusher which squirted on Mac, they would have done that. Stone is reported not to hold the abilities of Mr. Johnston in high esteem and was willing, at the time of the St. Louis conference, to attribute the C. P. P. A.’s failure un- til then, to his poor political skill. It is reported that Warren S. Stone, is supporting Herbert Baker, progres- sive republican, for the governorship on the republican ticket in Michigan. Baker is supporting the Coolidge- Dawes ticket for the presidency. BOB'S FORCES SPLIT APART IN MISSOURI Faker Quits Because of S. P. Support By MAX SHACHTMAN The campaign of “Fighting Bob” has received another wal- lop from the general direction of the state of Missouri with the news that Timothy O'Neil, self- appointed manager of the La- Follette drive there has skipped off because the socialist party was found among his col- leagues. O’Neil is a smooth article, the owner of a scab restaurant and quite slick in soliciting funds from labor fakers in various causes*that he has engaged in in the last few years. Walks Off With Dough. Last spring he attached himself to the Farmer-Labor party and in a few weeks dropped out, refusing to give an account for the sums of money he had collected. Then he appointed himself local champion of LaFollette, opéning of- fices in an expensive hotel and began to rally support to Bob among the la- bor fakers. It developed that John M. Nelson, manager of LaFollette’s campaign nationally, got suspicious of Timothy and transferred the con- trol of the campaign into the hands of R. T. Wood, president of the State Federation of Labor and an ex-anar- chist. O'Neill Double Crossed. It should be noted that O’Neil had been requested in Chicago, July 11, by Nelson to call a state convention of LaFollettites in Kansas City and later informed him to lay off since the national committee had decided to hand over the progressive drive to ‘Wood. Timothy then issued a statement releasing all his followers from their pledges and stating that the old “war- rior, ‘Fighting Bob’ has degenerated in his old age to a substitute for that picturesque but visionary character, Eugene V. Debs, and if that is his choice I predict for him about 2,000,- 000 votes, a hundred thousand of them from Missouri.” It is now to be seen that the Social- ist Party will soon find itself in a pretty fix. The denunciation of La- Follette by Hell an’ Maria Dawes for the former’s alliance with the Socfal- ists is an indication of the trend of thought in the minds of many of the opponents of LaFollette—and of many of his supporters, like Timothy O’Neil. The very same thing is seen in the refusal of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York re- fusing to attend and boycotting the convention of the local C. P. P. A. be- cause it included the socialists. May Drop Socialists. The only way for LaFollette to maintain the allegiance of many of the petit-bourgeois and labor fakers who are now on his warship will be to drop the Socialist Party pilot. LaFollette’s past record shows that he will not think twice about it if he considers it at all. He always was an anti-Socialist. Now that the Socialist Party has gone the way of all flesh, it cannot but expect to be treated as a time- worn damsel who has flung her af- fections into the none too receptive arms of LaFollette who is by no means over-tickled by the support of the 8. P. A few more incidents like the Mis- souri one and he may have to drop the adoring S. P. lady from his list of visitors, Cal Aids Farmers. PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 24.—Pres- ident Cal Collidge Friday thouth that he had completely eliminated the troubles of American farmers by help- ing Ed Blanchard, local farmer, to pitch hay while dressed in brand new dinky overalls and slouch hat. Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edition, dated Saturday, Aug. 30, BALTRUSAITIS, LAST FEDERAL PRISONER IN ESPIONAGE ACT, THREATENED BY DEPORTATION NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Joseph Baltrusaitis, last of the federal prisoners under the war-time espiona act, is leaving Leavenworth penitentiary after commutation of his sentence by President Coolidge. The persecution of Baltrusaitis was unique in the history of espionage act casés, the American Civil Liberties Union, which filled the brief for executive action, stat His arrest In St. Louis, November, 1920, did not occur until two years after the signing of the armistice. after the espionage act was suspen His trial did not take place until eight months ded by congr The quaint theory of the prosecution was that Baltrusaitis’ act in distributing a Communist leaflet, interferred with “military servic Charge Frame-up, * A “frame-up by a department of justice agent,” is the language used by the Liberties Union In describing the c: Lithuanian, faces deportation on a warrant i The Civil Liberties Union is oppos trusaitis is confined in the county jail at Leavenworth, Ka action. The political prisoner, a ued by the department of labor, ing this additional persecution. Bal- 8, pending ot THE DAILY WORKER Dawes Plan Thru the Banker, Young, Gets Fascisti Decoration GITLOW GETS GREAT OVATION AT STRIKE MEET IN PATERSON By H. M. WICKS. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) PATERSON, N. J., August 24.— Benjamin Glitlow, vice-presidential candidate of the Workers Party, re- celved a tremendous ovation here while speaking before the striking silk workers meeting. . The settlement committee has es- tablished its headquarters and is busy signing up mills on the two- loom basis which are estimated to affect one-half the total number of strikers who will return to work victorious on Monday. The manufacturers are desper. ately seeking to break the strike, but they have been unable thus far to achleve any concerted action. ‘Two strikers, however, were bru- tally. assaulted by police in outlying districts last night, for picketing, but otherwise the strike is the most peaceful ever staged in Paterson. The leaders of the strike have the situation well in hand. HILLQUIT-CAHAN CONFERENCE FOR NO-CLASS PARTY Central Labor Council Boycotts Powwow — (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—The machine of the Hillquit-Abe Cahan needle trades unions bureaucrats combina- tion today jammed thru the endorse- ment of the LaFollette-Wheeler tick- et at the convention of the local “con- ference for progressive political ac- tion.” It was worthy of note to hear the old Socialist Party politicians raving loud and long about the service to the people that had been performed by the two fakers who are running on the “progressive” ticket. Tuvim Moans. Abraham Tuvim, chairman of the convention, and old guard Socialist partyite, deprecated the action of the Central Trades and Labor Council in advising its affiliated organizations not to have anything to do with the local progressive political actionists. William H. Johnston, chief labor faker in the C. P. P. A., spoke to the convention and made the following pleasing statement to the revolution- ary Hillquiters: “This movement is not for any class but it is for honesty and good sense in government.” He did not even as much as mention a word about a labor party. Herman Eckern, campaign mana- ger for LaFollette in the east and counsel for the Farmefs’ Mutual Insur- ance Company, appealed for LaFol- lette as “a good investment.” Hillquit Gets Claque Ovation. When the theoretician of the re- mainder of the S. P., Morris Hillquit, arose to speak, the clacquers in the audience gave him an ovation. He repeated the same renegade speech that he delivered at the Cleveland conference, endorsing LaFollette and Wheeler and saying, “The two can- didates have record of noble serv- ices in their whole official life.” The labor bureaucrats and social- ists pledged the financial support nec- essary to carry on a campaign, PROTEST HOLDING UP OF ANTI-WAR DAY LITERATURE NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—Neither the postmaster general nor his assistants have offered any explanation for their action in holding up literature oppos- ing the “Defense Day” program of President Coolidge. * The protest and demand for an ex- planation made by the American Civil Liberties Union concerning the Post Office’s action in stopping circulars sent out by “Friends of Peace,” a San Francisco organization, has been met by a brief acknowledgement from Acting Solicitor R. J. Donnelly, that the protest was received. Pacifist Literature Nabbed. The Liberties’ Union's protest re- fers specifically to the action of, Post- master F, K. Hahn of Cedar Rapids, Ia., who went to the length of confis- eating the literature. Attorneys for the Union have examined copies of the circulars and “found nothing in them which violates any federal stat- ute,” the protest declared. If the Post Office Department does not rescind Hahn's act the Union will take the case into the courts and will charge the administration with using public departments to suppress con- stitutional criticism of its policies. Called for Crepe. One of the circulars confiscated by Postmaster Hahn carries a heavy black border and reads follows: “A Day of Mourning—Black Friday, September 12th—For the Victims of the War—It Must not Happen Again.” Another circular urges that ‘eryone wear a mourning band on the arm” on Defense Day, and that “every flag be’ half-masted and draped with crepe.” By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "Fopay: Owen D. Young, member of the Dawes Repara- tions Commission, at present European ambassador of the House of Morgan, wears the decoration of the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy. Owen|D. Young, prince of the House of Morgan, is now a Commendatore of King Victor Emanuel, of Italy, in recog- nition of his part in putting over the Morgan-Dawes scheme. * ok * * 9 The decoration of the Italian monarchy was conferred upon the American banker at the ea request of the a of Italy’s bloody Fascist dictatorship—Benito Musso- ini. This is the same decoration that was conferred on Gen- eral Leonard Wood while acting on a‘reception committee to General Diaz, the Italian militarist, while on a visit to this country, shortly after General Wood had served the steel trust so well_in the Gary strike zone, where many workers, including three Italians were murdered by the lackeys of the Mussolini, himself, wears one of these decorations, heavy gold-corded band hung over the head, with a, big jewelled medallion resting upon the breast. He has given the same decoration to the biggest of his Fascisti chiefs. Let the workers of the United States take careful note that this Fascist decoration now hangs from the neck, not only of the butcher of the workers, General Wood, but also from the neck of the Wall Street banker, the Dawes’ expert, Young. Let the workers ponder the meaning of this dis- play of affection between their oppressors. = * * * * When Elbert H. Gary, head of the Steel Trust, was in Italy, he gave an interview to his own kept press, stating that Mussolini rule was badly needed in the United States. Mussolini rule is the dictatorship of capitalist reaction: against Communism. Mussolini rule, the rule of Fascism, wades to power thru the blood and over the dead of the working class. During the two short years it has been in power, since Oct. 28, 1922, the Mussolini Fascisti Dictatorship, in Italy, has murdered 9,000 workers and sent 40,000 more to prison. The armies of Black Shirted Fascisti, who have ravaged the land with the support of the Fascisti government, have: burned 700 workers’«co-operatives; burned and destroyed 225 Labor Temples; and burned 100 Workers’ Theatres and Libraries. The barbarism of an Attila, descending on Rome, was not more devastating. The rule of Fascism is the rule of the revolver, the dagger and the torch, that seeks to wipe out every spark of independent working class thought and action. This bloody reign of terror culminated in the assassina- tion by Fascisti of the workers’ member of the chamber of deputies, Giacomo Matteotti, who sought to expose the deals between the Mussolini government and the American oil magnate, Sinclair. Itafian Fascism sought to drown in blood its “Teapot Dome Scandal,” just as it had sought to drown in blood the resistance of the whole working class. ITIS BECAUSE HE IS A LOYAL UPHOLDER OF THIS CAPITALIST RULE THAT THE BANKER, YOUNG, HAS HAD CONFERRED UPON HIM THE GRAND COR- DON OF THE CROWN OF ITALY. * * * * Ten Fascisti dictatorships rule in Europe today over as many nations. The Dawes plan will give strength to them alt, if it can be put into effect. * * * The war had not yet ended in 1918, when the Dictator Mannerheim ruled by the might of his fist on behalf of the German Kaiser and the Finnish White Guard in Finland. Workers’ Rule had been established thru majority edict, but it was crushed thru the ruthless use of armed force, with allied consent, and 70,000 Finnish workers were sent to prison, and 7,000 murdered, including most of the officials of the Workers’ Government. To this day Fascism rules in Finland, where recently 200 more workers were sent to prison, because they were active in a Labor Party, sympathetic to the Communist movement. It is because he is a loyal upholder of this capitalist rule that the banker, bb saiy 3 receives from the hands of the Italian Mussolini, the Order of the Grand Cordon of the Crown of Italy. sete One more instance. The workers of Hungary had established their own Soviet Rule. It was overthrown by black reaction, with the aid of the American food dictator, Herbert Hoover. In order to crush the whole Hungarian working class, all the organizations of labor, political parties and trade unions alike, were wiped out. One hundred thousand work- ers were thrown into prison—the Budapest Court of Justice openly confess to 70,000—while tens of thousands were put to death after the most barbaric tortures, All this under the rule of the Hungarian Fascist dictator, the Regent Horthy. * * * * What an array of assassins of the working class! Mussolini! Horthy! Mannerheim! They have served capitalism well. Being themselves the most loyal servants of capitalism, they recognize those who have shown themselves most loyal to capitalism. Therefore Owen D. Young, the American banker is re- warded by Italian Fascisti Rule with a royal decoration. There is no surer indication from the ruling class of. Italy that it feels the Dawes _ is for its protection against the whole Italian working class. * * oe ” i . vi The German workers, thru their Reichstag representa- tives, are making war upon the Dawes plan. The French workers, thru their spokesmen in the Chamber of Deputies, are fighting the Dawes,plan. The Italian workers, forbidden the use of parliamentary action under the Mussolini dic- tatorship, fight the Dawes plan. with whatever weapons they have. The Russian workers, thru their Soviet Government, thru the Communist International, call for a struggle against the Dawes plan. Workers of America! Make war on the rine plan, that receives the royal decoration of bloo ascism. " 4 Monday, August 25, 1924 HUGHES FEARS SOVIET-CHINA RELATIONSHIP Russia Doesn’t Permit Any Bluffing ae By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Rress Staff Cor. respondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.— Secretary Hughes, stoutly shut- ting his eyes to the geographic- al and political fact of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, has permitted Minister Schurman to have an interview with Leo Karakhan, Soviet am- bassador to China, and now Karakhan has tossed back into Hughes’ face, with caustic re- marks, a note sent by Hughes’ agent, Edward Bell, to the Soviet envoy. The note stated that while |Hughes was willing that the Soviet ambassador should re- gain possession of the Russian legation property in Peking, on certain conditions, this consent must not be taken as a recog- nition of the existence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, Karakhan Angers Charlie. Karakhan has aroused the wrath of Hughes by his refusal to receive, in- directly, a scolding from an American charge d'affaires. The American note }seemed to the Soviet envoy to imply that Karakhan was in Peking to stir up trouble for the diplomats from capitalist governments. Yet it stated that the Soviets must agree to the protocol of 1901, which gives to all foreign governments adhering to it the right to share the con- trol of the legation compound prop- erties, and to import foreign soldiers as a guard for their diplomats. As Karakhan will henceforth, as the first ambassador of any power to China, be chairman of the diplomatic body, and as the Soviets may now send Red soldiers to Peking to asso- ciate with the soldiers of the United States, Great Britain, France and Jap- an, Hughes faces new anxieties. He must insist that these Soviets uphold the imperialist claims of the other powers as against the Chinese. At the same time, the consequence of this harmony of action is that Red soldiers will mingle freely with the soldiers from other nations, in this place of exile, and the morale of the non-Soviet troops will be sorely test- ed. Fear Soviet Virus. State department anti-Soviet propa- gandists feel that Moscow will send to Peking the very pick of its propa- gandists, in Red army uniforms. They remember what happened to the German kaiser’s troops in time of war, when the Communists went among them. They realize that, with Ambassador Karakhan at the head of the diplomatic corps in Peking, repre- senting the powerful neighbor with whom China has just made import- ant treaties, the influence of the Am- erican minister and the French and British and Japanese ministers upon the wavering policies of the Peking government is seriously impaired. Schurman is hurying to Washing- ton, to tell Hughes how near at hand is the twilight of the old diplomatic gods. BUSINESS MEN IN TRIP 10 MEXICO FOR NEW MARKETS NEW YORK, Aug 24.—Plans for the Mexican jaunt which 100 bankers and industrialists will take next month in search of more nesting places for American dollars were completed at a conference between H. M. Herr, presi- dent of the Westinghouse Blectric and Manufacturing company; Frank D. Waterman, president of the L. EB. Waterman company and W. W. Nichols, vice-president of the Allis Chalmers Manufacturing company. ‘Received by Mexican Bosses. The New Yorkers leave September 9, for St. Louis where the delegations from Baltimore, Washington, Phila- delphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Buffalo will unite. The travelers will spend only four days in Mexico City, from September 14 to 18, as the guests of Mexican business interests, but this is considered sufficient time to clinch agreements which will make Mexico still further dependent on Big Business in the United States. \ Only One American Named, | TOKYO, August 24.—An American is the only foreigner named in the 1,500 honored on account of their con- duct during the earthquake period of a year ago. He is EB. D. Barton, rep- resentative of the United States Steel Corporation. ‘ ‘Get a member for the Workers Party.