The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 25, 1924, Page 4

to the membership of our party. ~ GHIGAGO HANDS IN$500 FOR CAMPAIGN FUND Dicaches ‘Urged to do Likewise The party branches in the city of Chicago have made the first big response to the party ap-| eal for a $100,000 campaign Sana for the fight for Commun- ist principles in this election campaign. Five hundred and one dollars and fifty cents have been turned into the local or- ganization by fourteen branches | in making their first report. The branches which are in- cluded among those making} this quick response to the party appeal are the following: Lettish Branch .... $100.00 Northwest English ... 57.50 | South Slavic Branc! 50.00 Northwest Jewish 42.00 Englewood English 40.00 Douglas Park English... 34.00 Douglas Park Jewish. 31.00 German Branch . 25.00 Harry Greenwood, Mid City Eng. 25.00 Russian Branch 25.00 Maplewood Y. W. L.. 20.00 Irving Park English 15.00 Rykov, Y. W. L. 10.00 Junior City Centra 5.00 Junior, Marshfield ... 1.00 North Side English 21.00 $501.50 This is an example which should be followed by every branch of the party. The kind of campaign which the party carries on depends upon the work which is done by the branches in raising money for the campaign. Follow the Example! If every branch follows the exam- ple of those which have made such a splendid beginning as Chicago we will create a campaign fund which will enable us to reach hundreds of thousands of workers with our state- ment of the principles of Communism and rally them to our support in the election campaign and add thousands Party Activities Of Local Chicago — 19th Ward Italian’ tos Ss. —— Cicero Italian, 1402 8. 50t! "ss Tuesday, Augye ist Ukrainian No. 1—1532 ‘West Chicago Rustan, Pullman—11453 South Park x W. 2 lish—2733 Hirsch Blvd. Irvin, Park English—4021 Drake Ave. Mee! a of all Street. istrict Menge mi Man- 166 West ‘ashington jay, August Mem eetin; ‘Workers Ly- coum, are. Bivd., 8 p. m. hu ay, August 28. Enlar; a City Executive Committee— Room 307, 166 West Wi gton Street. oat. a Ward I South Kley Blvd. Scandinavian Karl Marx—2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Scandinavian, West Side—Zeich’s Hall, Corner Cicero and Superior. Scandinavian, Lake View—3206 North Wilton Street. Fri August Scandinavian, Se youth Chicago—641 East Gist Street. . S. Membership Meeting— Wetiics Lyceum, 8 oe STREET MEETINGS | by CHICAGO. Monday, Au 26. Madison and Wo 4 ts —Auspices, Mid-City Branch; ,speakers, Mass, Louis Herzon. ‘Room 307, ibersh! Barney sevelt and Marshfleld—Auspices, ig po Y. W. L.; speakers, P. Herd, urie. Tuesday, Ppa 26. 1dth St. and 49th ‘Ct.—Auspices, Cicero Workers Party and Y. W. L.; speakers, . Herd, J awards. Girard and Wabansia—Auspices, North West Lithuanian Branch; speakers, G. Maurer, also Lithuanian and Polish, Kedzie and 0; den (or 16th) Ag &. engiish, Car Wednesday, August Belmont and W! a eee North Bite Sige ng P and Y. W. Le; speaker, “ rly. 33rd and Halsted Sts.—Auspici Lithu- in 4th © ‘essional Dis- speakers, Sam Hammersmark, Roosevelt ews x. ona Marshfield—Auspices, L.; speakers, Harrison George, B. asec: DATES OF THE FiSA90 ernine aR Lg T HE WORKERS ty units and Sriepely vCoushisations not set Seniesa: dates. ti tart T. "U. B. i. Plonic, Al- A > auinmeenaean Youth pe oA saute . Toetroster- Gitlow Campaign ). ing, Ashland Auditorium (after- Oct. 18—John Reed Memorial Bae on Se. 26—Freiheit Ball, Ashland Nov. 7—Seventh Anniversary ) _— Revolution, Ashiand Audi- day, ye a Afov- 15— Young Workers Ke 27-90—-Dait Wrereat and Labor lense Coun a “Deo. 31—T. u. “B. L. Dance, ‘est Hall. Wiletine” yatta Austria ee Essex County, N. J., Announcement. General membership meeting will be held Aug. 25, at 8 p. m., at the La- bor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th St., Newark, N. J. All members of the Workers Party in Essex County should attend. Candidates for coming election to be nominated and petitions will be given out for signatures. CHICAGO PARTY MEMBERSHIP MEETS ‘HE MEMBERSHIP meeting of Lo- cal Chicago, Workers Party, Wed- nesday evening, August 27, at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., will give the membership of Chicago an opportunity to listen to the prog- ress that the Workers Party is mak- ing in the elections campaign on a na- tional scale. Joseph Manley, national campaign manager, will tell us what is going on in the rest of the Party. How the workers are gradually begin- ning to see that LaFollette is an il- lusion and a fraud and is an inveter- ate enemy of the working class. The headway that “Bill” Foster and Ben |Gitlow are making with their Com- munist message to the workers all over the country will be outlined.. Petitions Being Circulated. All over the United States, the Workers Party is working hard to place the Workers Party presidential candidates and also state and congres- sional tickets on the ballot. There is no doubt that in the various states the Communist forces will succeed in doing that. In Illinois and Chicago we are carrying on the same task and we feel certain of success here also. We have a good start, signatures are being obtained by the hundreds. Our aim is to put every candidate nomi- nated for state and congressional dis- tricts on the ballot in addition to the presidential candidates. The membership mgeting Wednes day among other things will review the activities of local Chicago in get- ting signatures on the petitions and in spreading our propaganda thru sys- tematic distribution of. the DAILY WORKER, Election Platform of the Party and other literature. The Congressional District Cam- paign Managers will make their re- ports and their experiences will serve to help all the comrades in furthering the work: Spread Much Literature. The elections campaign of the Workers Party is not a vote catching proposition. That is a very secondary matter. Our use of the elections cam- paign is to spread our propaganda to aid in building the circulation of the DAILY WORKER, to help build the Party by getting in more members. (We have started off with distribution of 15,000 copies of the National Blec- tion Platform. Expect to handle ten times that many during the course of our election campaign). At this meeting therefore, Comrade Earl Browder, editor of THE LABOR HERALD, will outline the task of the Workers Party in the DAILY WORK- ER drive and the membership cam- paign in which every member of the Workers Party is expected to get a new subscriber to the DAILY WORK- ER and another member to the Work- ers Party. Local Chicago is beginning to forge ahead in the membership drive. In the coming months we must endeavor to get 200 to 300 new members every month and many times that number of subscribers to the DAILY WORK- ER. Everybody Come Out. Every Party and Young Workers League member shall be on hand at this membership meeting. We expect also to hear that every member has gotten at least 100 signatures to place the Workers Party candidates on the ballot. Everybody to the membership meet- ing, Wednesday, August 27, at the Workers Lyceum! Election Campaign Notes. There will be a meeting of cam- paign managers and candidates of congressional districts, Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 8 p. m., in Room 307, 166 West Washington St. We must have a review of the cam- paign in order to check up on the progress made and the work that re- mains to be done in order to put the Workers Party candidates on the bal- lot. Please bring in all the petitions with signatures on them and: be pre- pared to make a thorough report on the work done in your district cover- ing the following points: 1, Organization of your district. 2. Number of signatures obtained to date. 8. Street meetings. 4, eCampaign leaflets. 5. “Sign Here” posters. 6. DAILY WORKER. 7. House to house canvas. Sept. 15th is the final date for all the petitions to be in. We have only three weeks in which to put the Workers Party candidates on the bal- lot. This very important work must take precedence overy anything else. Be sure to attend the meeting Tues: day evening, August 26th.—Martin Abern, City Secretary, Local Chicago, Ida McCarthy, Secretary, Campaign Committee. $$$ EDUCATE YOURSELF FOR THE STRUGGLE Class in English (for foreign-born workers) begins September 10; tuiton fee $2.00, Class in Trade Union Tactics be- gins September 11; tuiton fee $1.00. Enroll Now at Local Chicago Of- fice, 166 W. Washington St. (Phone State 7985) 'HE task of placing the Workers Party ticket on the ballot in the state of New York is a’ tremendous one. New York is probably the worst state in the union in which to place a new party ticket on the ballot. In order to put the presidential and vice- presidential electors on the ballot in New York must have 45 elctors, one from each of the 43 congressional districts and two at-large from the state, which is a very difficult task. This, however, has already been ac- complished in New York and the nomination petitions will be ready within a few days for circulation. Need 12,000 Signatures. In order to have the Workers Party become an official party in tis state, the laws of New York require at least 12,000 signatures on a nominating pe- tition for the national and state tickets. There are 62 counties in the state and the law further requires us to procure at least 50 signatures of citizens in each and every. county in the state. In order to make sure that we go on the ballot we must have at least 150 signatures in each county or approximately 25,000 signatures thru- out the entire state of New York. If we should fall below the required number of signatures in any one county, then the entire ticket is 'y.| thrown off the,ballot and we are dis- qualified. The petitions for the na- tional and state tickets have already been pringed but before we can begin to collect signatures we must have our petitions for the local candidates in New York City. These will most probably be ready in a few days. In addition to the 25,000 signatures needed thruout the state for our na- fonal and state tickets, we must also in addition procure 1,500 signatures in each congressional and senatorial dis- trict in which we run a candidate, and 5 per cent of the total votes cast in each assembly district in which we intend running candidates. Need Party's Full Strength. This is a tremendous task and un- less all members of the party in this state get into line dnd become active- ly engaged in securing the: signa- tures, there is the danger that we may not go on the ballot this year. This year above all others, it is im- portant that we go on the ballot. Each party branch must imme- diately elect a campaign manager and a campaign committee and these names sent to the district office upon the election of these comrades. ll PARTY CAMPAIGN IN NEW YORK By HARRY M. WINITSKY, Campaign Manager. comrades in the branches must be mobilized by their respective cam- paign managers into canvassing com- mittees to go out and secure the sig- natures in their districts. In order that this most important work may be done in an efficient and systematic manner, plans are being mapped out by the district campaign committee and these in turn will be turned ‘over to the branch and section campaign managers to put into practice. There must be no dupleation of signatures otherwise the petitions will, be void. It is therefore absolutely essential that this office have the namés of all branch and section campaign man- agers so that the petitions and instruc- toins can be sent to them. The campaign is about to start and each branch must mobilize its forces for this work. Unless our ticket goes on the ballot our campaign will not be successful. Each branch should, as its first order of business, elect a campaign manager and campaign com- mittee, and the mobilization of com- rades begun. If your branch does not meet within the coming week then the branch organizer should call| W: either a special meeting of the branch or of the executive committee for this purpose. Campaign On In Earnest. Our campaign is now on in earnest. THE DAILY WORKER MASSACHUSETTS SOCIALISTS BACK DONKEY SENATOR State Convention Won’t Nominate Against Walsh (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 24.—By re- fusing to nominate a “sbcialist” for senator, the state convention of the socialist party, consisting of 35 dispirited delegates, virtually endors- ed the candidacy of David I. Walsh, democrat. In the words of Weisbord, S. P. or- ganizer, “If we socialists can’t vote for Walsh, we hope our sympathizers will.” It was intended to put this over without discussion, the slate for the state ticket presented to the conven- tion not having any senatorial can- didate. But an immature delegate from the Y. P. S. L, spilled the beans. Morrill, of Haverhill, who presided, spoke of his association with Walsh in the state legislature, of his liberal views, how Walsh was even in favor of proportional representation! Louis Marcus, the only voice raised in opposition, said “most of the speak- ers claiming to be active in, the in- terests of organized labor, have no connection with labor and never car- ried a union card; as a matter of fact, labor does not care what we do here today, we have no influence on them one way or the other.” He was of the opinion that Hillquit had a night- mare to go into such a thing, said Walsh was a trimmer, worse than Lodge and Gillette and that no con- vention could make him vote for a democrat. Intended to Keep Mum. Arkin (Boston agent for the yellow Forward), said it was never intended to have this come up but for this dele- gate, pointing to the Y.P.S.L. rep-f, resentative. If Weisbord would with- draw his objection the convention could proceed. It was then discovered that Weisbord had no vote and as there was no other objector—Marcus being silenced—the slate went thru with no senatorial candidate. The convention was a dismal failure. No amount of discussion could revive the corpse. The undertakers, Bearak and Roewer, didn’t give this thing a lecent burial. The 35 delegates from he 15 odd branches had no life, no enthusiasm, no interest—there was the usual confusion. Arkin wanted the analysis of society n the program to include “another ‘lass—the poor farmers who do not vork for anyone.” Weisbord pointed LEAVES SOCIALIST PARTY IN ~ DISGUST AND AFFILIATES TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY The National Office of the Workers Party is in receipt of the following letter from E. D, Ladd, Elmira, N. Y., who signs himself as a delegate to the recent convention of the socialist party held in Cleveland after the C. P. P. A. convention: C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary, Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrade:— Find enclosed copy of your former letter. The literature has not been received.” There are quite a number of revolters here from the Cleveland craft union convention. They agree with me that capitalism makes Socialists and that such deals as we got at Cleveland makes Com- munists, Send me that literature. There is nothing left for us but the Workers Party, We are anxious to get busy. E. D. LADD. Similar expressions of disgust at the betrayal of the working class ‘move- ment by the socialist party at Cleveland are reaching the National Office from other sources. The Workers Party is ready to welcome to its ranks every class conscious worker who is ready to carry on a cla struggle for the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government and the abolition of the capitalist system. It invites those members of the socialist party who cannot accept the latest betrayal of the working class movement by that organization to join the Workers Party. FAIL TO GET OUT OF COURT (Continued from page 1) ganization so much damage, and were witnesses to the entire affair, some statement is required from us. “We have observed that Rowan, Chairman of the G. O. C. of I. U. 120; Bowerman, Chairman of the G, O. C. of 440; Trotter, Chairman of the G. Q. C. of 520; Anderson, Chairman of the G. O. C. of 210-220; Raddock, Secre- tary-Treasurer of I. U. 440; Grady, Secretary-Treasurer of I. U. 520; Grif- fith, alternate General Organizer, and McMurphy, alternate General Secre- tary-Treasurer have applied for an in- junction against Tom Doyle, General Secretary-Treasurer of the I. W. W., jand Joe Fisher, General Organizr and Chairman of the G. E. B., as a re- sult of which for days now, the Gen- eral Headquarters at 1001 West Madi- son St., Chicago, have been locked by court order. “In regard to the origin of the con- troversy which led up to this extra- ordinary action by Rowan, Bowerman, and the others already named, we have little to say, except that it was trivial. It is very evident to us that personalities and old quarrels play the most important part in this dis~ cussion, next to the crude work of plain stool-pigeons. Injunction is Disastrous. “The results of the injunction have been absolutely disastrous. The cir- culation of our publications has been terribly hampered by our ejection yut that “much was left out of the]from headquarters. wrogram—there was no mention of var and imperialism for instance.” Better Not to Mention “Socialism.” “We have also witnessed the dam- age done to the general organization ind to all organization work by the One of the women delegates rose to|expulsion of the industrial union and semark: “We should not mention so-|general offices from the general head- cialism; talk about it like Claessens |@uarters building. loes—the Trinity, rent, interest and “We have seen the enormous in- profit, and talk about women—women |jury done to the I, W. W. press thru are idealists. I do in my letters and|the action of Bowerman, Trotter, and have sent them to the New Leader, |°thers with them, in going to the bank and the say they are good.” where the organization money is de- After four hours of this sort of|Posited, and by threat of legal pro- thing the convention adjourned and|Ce4Ure, persuading the banker not to the younger delegates in attendance |°#%" any organization checks, includ- went over to Boston Common to hear|i28 those intended for the organiza- the Communist speakers for the tion press. This was done about two Workers Party at the regular Sunday |W°e*® before the injunction was ap- afternoon meeting. To Study War Here. MADRID, Aug. 22.—Two members plied for, and while thase who after- wards applied for an injunction were still meeting in the headquarters building. “We have witnessed with dismay of the Spanish Generla Staff will go|the editorials and special feature ar- to Washington next month to study |ticles in all sorts of capitalist, labor American military schools, NEW YORK CITY Party Activities OPEN AIR MEETINGS, Time, Place and Speakers. Tuesday, August 26, 10th Street and 2nd Avenue—John| cations, are ‘all union, and political newspapers in re- gard to the applicdtion for an injunc- tion against officials of the I. W. W., by Rowan, Bowerman, etc., feeling sure that the I. W. W. has, by their action, received such an injury in the eyes of the world, as will do us un- told damage in organization cam- paigns, make us ridiculous in the opin- jon of the unorganized, and bring us all to shame. “We, the editors of I. W. W. publi- members in good TOsth ‘Street. and 2nd Avenue—Sam | standing of the I. W. W., and we have Toth sagt. and Afaaison aveienny always been proud of our membership. y, 1 reet it. Ann's Ave.— lyn—S. A. ‘wena August 27. wth St. Or Avenue—J. C. Oblans, We are determined to put the Work-| ®ussian, ers Party ticket'on the ballot, and this| Bis can only be done with the active as- B. sistance and support of each and every comrade in the district. The Workers Party is a well organized and disciplined army of Communism, These orders from general head- quarters for the party mobilization in} ay this district must be carried out in an efficient and systematic manner. Comrades to the task! The camypitign is on! All comrades to their posts, the fight has begun! rcheitteaisageenty Cleveland, Ohio, Readers, The DAILY WORKER is now being sold daily at Schroeders Newsstand, E. Superior Ave., opposite the post | p office. Also by news agent on square near monument, Polish Workers Down Tools, KATTOVITZ, Poland, Aug. 24. — Because the industrialists of Upper Silesia are trying to put over longer working hours most of the workers in the fron, gas ahd coke industries have downed their tools, an speakers. pa cy ast and Lenox ‘Ave. John Brahdy, Thursday, August 28. We have always felt that the I. W. W. ue Nave. -<-Joe Brahdy. | was a revolutionary labor organization and the hope of the working class. “ lana Papevoise St, Brook-/We cannot understand, how anybody carrying an I. W. W. card, and pro- fessing to belfeve in its principles, could so far forget himself as to go to the bitter enemies of the organiza- and Sth Avenue—Joe Padgug, |tion, the capitalist courts, and plead ion, Brooklyn—N, B, |t0 ha ‘¢ sheriff install them in pow- er over the rest of the organization. We cannot even understand how any 116th Street and Madison Ave.—G. E./sincere member of the I. W. W. could wers. Friday, August 29. think for a moment that he had any Jeftereson and E. Broadway—Harry right, whatever his provocation, to bas ag ‘St. and 2nd Ave.—w. Ww. Wein-|>?ing the capitalist courts into the in- ternal affairs of the organization, un- ME St. and Madison Avenue—J. 8.|/der any’ circumstances, ang treet and Brook Avenue—John Grand and cvldne St., 1. Potash, B. f tone and 06 Brahd a Varet Sts., klyn— Nt. Island—L. Lan Pra tg: ade 20. sth wh ea and Wi ‘Ave.—Joe Pad-|&M injunction, and by immediately ex- 25t! ane St. Barone Charles Brower Union Hill, New Jersey. tension, Brooklyn—Joe ine ee ie HH St. and Bergen- een iy, Aug. same place—Ludwig Menai hve Coney Trotter, ne apd f 5, B Bivd.—Rebecea Grecht | Demand Repudiation of Injunctionites. | © mon “We are of the opinion that any- body who even considers such action Brooklyn! hag demonstrated that he is either in- sincere or insane. “We believe that the only way the Send Sta, a organization can retrieve itself is by id 42nd St—s. Darcy, sg. |{mmediately denouncing, and repudiat- ing the actions of Bowerman, Rowan, Griffith, MeMurphy, and oth- ers concerned in this attempt to get pelling all of them from the I. W. W. “Therefore, in view of all of these nd “Plain PsA Hua Ritonre— | tots we, the undersigned editors, rec “L—That a general Constitutional Convention be called immediately to decide this Toy the two-year | very PEED At ts ERAS TRO Ra A EOE AS Tt IIE eR BEE RS EE pe SR a eee AL he A, wie i Ria Rel eA RE ear aa rule being temporarily waived, by ac- tion of the membership at large. “2.—That -complete support be giv- en to all I. W. W. publications, es- pecially during this critical situation until the General Convention decides the matter. “3.—That during this period, the regularly elected officials of the I. W. W., Doyle, Fisher, and Morris, be rec- ognized. “4.—That all financial support be withdrawn from Bowerman, Ryan, Rowan, Trotter, Anderson, Griffith, McMurphy, Raddock and Grady until the membership can take action to ex- pel them. “5.—That organization work should be carried on even more than before. “Vern Smith, (Card No. 794,514), Editor Industrial Solidarity; Editor Pro Tem Industrial Pioneer. “Louis Bartha (Card No, 76,478), Editor Bermunkas. “Nick Radivoeff (Card No. 272,661), Editor Industrialen Rabotnik. “Titus Kataja (Card No. 299,562), Editor Tie Vapauteen. “Joe Miller (Card No. 255,026), Edi- tor Jedna Velka Unie. “Adolfo Garcia (Card No. X62,621), Editor Solidaridad.” FAIL TO BREAK WORKERS’ RANKS WITH VILE LIES Attack on President of Musicians is “Bunk” The Chicago theatre managers are resorting to the old game of confus- ing the issue on which the strike is to be called by the Musicians’ Union on Labor Day by issuing long tirades sa eI ANE ANC ASSAD AN TR 468 RSTO ES Monday, August 25, 1924 fd NEGRO. PLUTES END CONCLAVE WITH NOTHING Lackeyism to Whites Marks Sessions By the re-election of Robert R. Moton as president of the National Negro Business league, in session at the Wen- dell Phillips high school here this week, delegates to the con- vention voted to continue a policy of pacifism in regard to the race problem. Servile to Capital. Running thru the sessions of the convention was an under- current of dissatisfaction with the fawning on government and corporation officials, which is the attitude of the officers of the league, of distrust of the bankers, lawyers, small manu- facturers who determine its policies. This dissatisfaction was evident in the statement of Dr. Will W. Alexan- der, head of the inter-racial league of Atlanta, Ga., taking exception to the vote of thanks tendered Julius Rosen- wald, head of Sears Roebuck /and Co., for the money he has given to set up Negro schools in the rural djs- tricts. Dr. Alexander suggested that, were the policy of the states fair, Negro children would be educated as a matter of course, if for no other reason than that Negroes must pay taxes as well as whites. To Peddle Stock. There was distate, too, in the recep- tion given the announcement of Presi- dent Moton’s million dollar finance corporation, stocks in which are to be peddled to members of the league. But the conventions of the league ‘are packed with followers of the po- licy of Robert Moton. A payment of two dollars’ into the funds of the league entitles anyone to become a delegate. He may represent only him- self, but he has a seat and a-vote. It is these “two-dollar-a-heads,” as Ne- gro newspaper men call them, who are largely responsible for the non- militant and pacific view which the league takes on questions of the Ku Klux Klah, of Jim Crowism, of the cowardliness of the major political parties in their attitude towards the oppressed Negro. Dr. Moton last year received the praise of Southern newspapers for the letters of apology which he wrote when his wife, by mistake, boarded the white section of a Pullman train. Compare Moton to Morgan. Praise of Dr. Moton by speakers at “|the sessions of the league went hand in hand with praise of Coolidge, Dawes and the entire republican administra- tion. Beginning with the statement of Mr. B. J. Davis, president of the Ne- gro Press association, that “we can only hope that Robert Russo Moton will do for the Negro race what Mor- gan, under the operation of the Dawes plan, is doing for-the whole in the Bosses’ press against the pres- ident of the union, James Petrilla. . His Car Ie Gift. “The attack that Harry Riding, President of the Theatrical Managers’ Assotiation, is directing against me, and being given widespread publicity in the Chicago newspapers,” said Petrilla to the DAILY WORKER re- Porter, “that I ride around in a high priced car is too silly. Please say to your readers that the car I own is a gift from the members of the organ- ization.” “And there is no truth in the state- ment that this is an officers’ demand being handed down to our members,” said one of the union members. “I want Mr. Riding and his associates to know that the very fact that they are making these attacks on Petrilla only strengthens and renews our con- fidence in him.” Seek 10 Per Cent Raise. The musicians’ union has put in a demand for a ten per cent increase in wages to go into effect Sept. 1st. ‘Unless this increase is granted them the musicians in all the city’s vaude- ville, burlesque, dramatic and musical comedy shows of Chicago will go on strike. All the actors in these shows have volunteered to go on a sympathy strike to helg the musicians. Barbecue for Los An, The Workers Party, oung Workers League and the Trade Union Educational League of Los Angeles have gotten together and are going to have a Barbecue Picnic on Sun- day, August 31st, at Rose Hill Park, Jack Carney, Editor of Labor Unity, will address fhe Picnic. Tickets 35 cents, ) Gas Workers Demand Increase. The Gas House Workers, employes of the People’s Gas Light Co., are de- termined to get a ten per cent in- crease in their wages. This was the ultimatum given by the members of the union to the company thru their representative, Patrick Gallagher. Now It’s Settled. OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 24.—The bi- ennial conference of the Seventh Day de- nounced the teaching of evolution in the public schools, on the ground that it is “diametrically ac ees to the Christianity.” Adventists of California has very fundamentals of world,” and ending with the asser- tions of Roscoe Simmons, republican organizer among Negroes, that “the Business League is not going to worry itself about the Ku Klux Klan or the question of social equality,” and that “only slaves, will say that our debt to the party of Abraham Lincoln has been paid,” every speakér made some contribution to the policy of coward- liness and evasion followed by these Negro exploiters of Negro labor. But praise of the republican ad- ministration cannot go too far in a league whose president must now go back to Tuskegee institute, in a state which is militantly democratic, and where Negroes live in constant ter- ror of the Ku Klux Klan, So when a telegram came from President Cool- idge, congratulating the league on its attempt to solve the race problem by ! accumulating wealth, Dr. Moton re- fused to allow a resolution of thanks to be passed, but decided that the matter should be referred to the ex- ecutive committee for further action, Of this decision Miss Hallie O. Brown, who two weeks ago refused to permit discussion of racial discrimi- nation during the sessions of the Na- tional Association of Colored Women, expressed her hearty approval. Pittsburgh to Have I. Y. D. Celebration Sunda: y, ve September 7, PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 24.—Inter. | national Youth Day will be celebrated | by the local branch of the Young Workers’ League, on Sunday, Septem- 1 ber 7, at Walton Hall, Third floor, cor- ner Liberty Ave. and Stanwix St., at 2p. m. All workers, young and old, are in- vited to attend this demonstration, | which will be addressed by prominent and capable speakers, . ron INSURANCE or ANY KIND CARL BRODSKY 1123 Broadway, New York City _ Tel. Watkins 3626,