The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 136. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1924 Publishe PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. d Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents COOLIDGE’S MANAGER IS FINK BOSS AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HACTIONARY labor leaders must have something to kick against if they are to retain some prestige among workers. While they support the cap- italist system, they pick out isolated capitalists and show them up as the cause of all the persecution and misery that the workers suffer from. Gompers has his Elbert H. Gary, head of the Steel Trust. Gompers dines with Gary at Civic Federation ban- quets, but they growl at each other in public for the benefit of the dupes. In Illinois the labor fakers have ‘Gen- eral Dawes to serve as their punching bag. see HE Geheral.is anti-labor. He hates unions with a hatred that is holy. It is even possible that he hates any kind of labor unionism even that under the control of the reactionaries. It hurts his feelings to think that a hired servant should have anything to say as to the conditions under which he works. It maddens him to see Len Small play with the labor fakers instead of standing solidly for the principle of capitalists dictator- ship, unsullied by the participation of even the labor betrayers. se 8 'HUS Dawes is worth lots of money to the reactionary labor skates. John L. Walker, president of the IIli- nois Federation of Labor and Victor Olander, the secretary of that organi- zation, make the welkins ring with their condemnation of Dawes. They always get a good hand when they fiay the General. Sometimes Mr. ‘Walker cries as he relates the crimes of Hell an’ Maria. But these two clever gentlemen know that the cussing banker is not the capitalist system, but one of its most candid and brutal- ly frank pillars. Len Small and his wing of the Republican party of Illi- Rois for meet labor half way by pure! leaders, while Dawes is more ing. ing its bend- 2 a 2. HE Illinois Manufacturers’ Associa- tion is one of the organizations that is in politics all the year round in behalf of its members. It sees that bills are introduced in the legis- lature that would enable the manufac- turers to make more profits. It spe- cializes in ‘anti-labor bills. It has its agents in the state assembly. There are millions of workers in this State who if properly organized could snap their fingers at anything the Manufac- turers Association or their bought as- sembly could do. But have the labor fakers who now denounce the Man- ufacturers’ Association made any at- tempt to organize them industrially or politically? Of course not. The activities of the association are now used by the labor leaders as an argu- ment to re-elect Len Small, an official with a record as black as that of any man who ever served a term in office. It is safe to say that had General Dawes used the same methods that Len Small used toward the labor lead- ers they would now be singing his praises instead of denouncing him. Oe = ‘HE Dawes plan is having hard sled- ding in the Reichstag. According to press reports the Communists are carrying on a vigorous fight against the infamous scheme. Recently the Communists fought Herriot on his held a conference with a view to tak- ing common action against the capital- ists of both countries. The French communists fought Herriot on his London agreement report. They lost but they made a splendid fight and even the capitalist press was obliged to publish Marcel Cachin’s great (Continued on page 3) ly unsatisfactory. New York Onthe Job TT WORKERS PARTY of New Yort is ar q FARMERS UNDER |HEAVY BURDENS IN BOB'S STATE Child Later Record-Ie Equally Poor By JAY LOVESTONE. (Eighth Article.) In Wisconsin, as in every other state where the financial and industrial interests are the rulers, the farmers are groaning under burdensome taxes, are oppressed by ever more enor- mous mortgages, sinking into hopeless debt, and are being robbed of their land by the in- vesting class. And despite all the applause [ given its much-heralded system of social legislation by the political honesty-hunters of the country, LaFollette’s ‘Model Commonwealth,” Wisconsin, does not present a bright picture of social conditions. Last year saw a more rapid rise in industriab accidents in Wisconsin than in many states far less reputed for their reform laws. With all its volum- inous noise about educating the work- ers, the LaFollette state government is, comparatively speaking, paying al- together too little attention to the ed- ucation of the children of the working class. Nor can Wisconsin have cause to be proud of its mortality rates. Even its weak sanitary laws are not lived up to by the bosses. The extent of child labor in this state is distinct- in the wages paid its industrial work- ers, so it does in the wages paid its agricultural laborers. Our analysis of the December, 1923, issue of Weather, Crops and Markets, published by the department of agri- culture, reveals that there were at least fourteen states paying higher av- erage monthly wages to their farm la- borers in 1923 than Wisconsin did. This is the pay for rural laborers with- out board. For the average monthly pay to farm laborers with board, our investi- gation shows that in 1923, in at least thirteen states, the workers received higher remuneration than they did in Wisconsin. Farmers in Hole. And the farmers, whose special friend LaFollette says he is, have met with continued adversity in Wiscon- sin. On Aug. 5, 1924, Edward Nordman, Wisconsin state commisioner of mar- kets, delivered an address before the State Retailers’ Association, in which he made the following significant re- marks: “Agricultural land is rapidly passing out of the ownership of the dirt farmer and into the hands of the men who use it as a safe place to in- vest their money. Ts practice forces ;the independent farm owner to settle on poorer land or in out-of- the-way places.” Our analysis of the 1920 United States ‘census findings on agriculture discloses how the farming masses of Wisconsin are being driven to adver- sity at an even faster pace than the farmers of the country as a whole. Farm Mortgages Increase. From 1910 to 1920 the proportion of farms free from mortgages in the United States as a whole declined from 65.6 per cent to 52.8 per cent. At the same time the Wisconsin (Continued on page 2) ging a city-wide distri- bution of the Labor Day issue of the DAILY WORKER with which the Party is launching the First Communist Campaign in the United States. Every member of the Party is expected to take at least five copies to sell or distribute. Every one of our readers should help in the launch- ing of this campaign against the LaFollette-Hiliquit-Gompers conglo- meration, against the old Wall Street parties, and for Foster, Gitlow and Communism by taking as big a bundle of this Campi in issue of the DAILY WORKER as possible to sell or give to English reading workers. “We must reach these native Amerioan workers with our message in their own language In order to make an effective campa This campaign number sells for Se and costs 3/0 in bundles. Order thru Branch Organizer immediately, or get your order to Jimmie Hi; Book Store, 127 University Place, or to District Office of Workers ins ty, °OR East 12th Street, New York City, before Thursday. BUTLER, REPUBLICAN EXPOSED AS EMPLO PIGEONS IN WAR 4 (Written Especially for Thi i NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 25. Chairman of the Republican National | Strike-breaker Calvin Coolidge for in the slimiest sort of stool-pigeon a: against labor inions and the workers informant whose name is withheld AIRMAN, R OF STOOL- GAINST UNIONS aily Worker.) William Morgan Butler, ommittee, now boosting ident, is deeply involved agent provocateur work’ merally, is charged by an ding further revelations. —That The story, given with exhaus-+ —— tive details as to names, dates and places, is the most damning evidence against this multi-mil- lionaire ‘angel’ of the republi- can party yet brought to light, and is a fitting climax to the exposures of the corruption of cabinet officers by oil companies in the famous Teapot Dome cases. The fact that at the time Calvin Coolidge as Governor of Massachu- setts, was using troops to break the Boston police strike, his present cam- paign manager and financial backer. Mr. Butler was engaged in supervis- ing a regiment of stool-pigeons to break up textile workers’ unions, to break strikes by agitation of private detectives, to burglarize union offices in midnight raids, destroy and carry off their property and work hand in glove with the Department of Justice to arrest and deport radicals—this is enough to blast this pair of scoun- drels and the party they represent in the elections. On August 21, the DAILY WORK- ER printed the story of the exposure of the nefarious “Sherman Service” detective agency, whose director, S. F, Fannon, upon being pressed by Henry Dennison of Boston and Rob- ert W. Dunn of New York, unburden- ed himself of admissions condemning the Sherman industrial stool-pigeon work, until even the audience of busi- ness men then present were sickened and disgusted with such infamy. Butler Relishes Stool Pigeons. -cbeirman uf the" Republi can National Committee, Mr. William Morgan Butler, has a strong stomach, He relishes stool-pigeons who spy up- on labor unions. And well he might. He is one of the industrial overlords of New England. He owns the Bos- ton and Worcester Electric company and odds and ends of stock in such things as street railways. But But- ler’s biggest interests are in the New Bedford textile mills. He is president of the Butler Mills company, with $4,518,528 listed as- sets; president of the Hoosac Cotton (Continued on Page 6) Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES Sioux City, lowa—Labor Lyceum, 508 Jennings St., Friday, August 29, 8 p. m. Des Moines, lowa—Grotto Hall, 721 Locust St., aturday, August 30, 3 p.m. Omaha, Neb—Eagles Hall, 17th and Cass Sts. Sunday, August 31, 8 p.m. . Kansas City, Mo.—Musicians’ Hall, 1017 ishington St., Labor Day, Sep- tember 1, 8 p. m. St. Louis—Tuesday, Sept. 2. Ziegler—Wednesday, Sept. 3. Springfield—Thursday, Sept. 4. Elizabeth, N. J—Turn Hall, 725 High St., Wednesday, September 10, 8 p.m Newark, N, J.—Labor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th St., Thursday, September 11, 8 p.m. Philadelphia, Pa—Musical Fund Hall, 8th and Locust Streets, Friday, September 12, 8 p. m. Paterson, N. J.—Halvitia Hall, 56 Van Houton Street, Saturday, Sep- tember 13, 8 p. m. Comrade Gitlow, candidate for vice- president, will address meetings at the following places: GITLOW’S DATES Reading, Veteran Firemen’s Hall, 612 Franklin St—Tuesday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m. Scranton—Wednesday Aug. 27. Binghamton, Lithuanian Hall-- Thursday, Aug. 28, 7 p, m. Buffalo, Friday, Aug. 29. Rochester, The Labor Lyceum, 880 St. Paul St—Saturday, Aug. 30. Daisytown—Sunday, Aug. 31, Canonsburg—Monday, Sept. 1. C. E, Ruthenberg executive secre- tary of the Workers Party, will make @ series of campaign speeches in the New England States. Two of these meetings already arranged for a jo8ton, Mass. — Monday, Sept. 1, Paine Memorial Hall, 7:30 p, m, New Haven, Conn.—Saturday, Sept. 6, Hermanson's ih 158 Crown St. 8 p.m. ‘BOB’ RIPS THE F.4. FEDERATION IN. MINNESOTA Foster Greeted Warmly) shor In the Northwest “L@Follette is is ripping the Farmer-Labor Federation of Minnésota to pieces, just as we warned the movement that he would,” said William Z. Foster yesterday, upon his return from a speaking tour that included Minneapolis, St. Paul, Superior, and Milwaukee. “He is setting up his own personally-supervised commit- tees everywhere, utterly dis- regarding the workers’ own organizations, and cutting the vitals out of the whole Farmer- Labor movement. Our warning was not heeded, and as a con- sequence, the Minnesota move- ment is in for a bad time.” feature, illustrat- fe the Bas Party is is that the official leaders are fighting against the election of J. F. Emme, nominated in the primaries, because he is a Communist.” The trip was quite successful. Mil- waukee turned out a big crowd to the picnic in Tippecanoe Park .to hear Foster flay Berger and LaFollette, and applaud his exposure of the treacher- ous role played in the labor movement by. these petty-bourgeois reformers. Minneapolis held a big outdoor meet- ing in the city park. St. Paul worked under the handicap of rain, but in spite of weather conditions the crowd greeted the Communist candidate with enthusiasm. Duluth also made good, and displayed great interest in the campaign. Foster leaves in a few days for his second Middle-Western trip which will include Sioux City, St Joseph, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Ziegler and Springfield. He then goes east for a few big meetings, before starting on the long swing to the Pacific Coast and back. Congregation Has Hard Time Telling Ape from Skypilot BUTTE, Mont., August 25.—With a monkey tied to his pulpit, Reverend Colin O'Farrell, pastor of the First Baptist church, raved away above the chatter of the animal in an attempt to prove that whoever maintained that man was decended from a monkey is a descendant in actuality from an ass. The monkey got so frightened at the maniacal manoeuvers of the gen- tleman of God that he shouted at the top of his voice. The congregation had great diffi- culty in distinguishing the monkey from the preacher. PRINGE OF WALES IN STUPOR AFTER NIGHT _ OF WILD DANCING ABOARD THE BERENGARIA, Aug. 25. — The Prince of Wales, champion horse jumper and setter of styles, retired early this morn- ing after a night of dancing on his first evening out of England on his trip to the shores of Columbia. He is occupying a suite th: been built for the e: r, but that does not prevent him from having a gloriously good time. Ramsay MacDonald is also hav- ing a good time suppressing strikes of the workers he is supposed to represent. Ramsay and the prince get along well tog ir at all din- ners and lawn parties. had [DANGERS SEEN ‘being corrupted, | INNEW JERSEY RACE CLASHES “Shoot to Kill” Order of Police Chief (Special to The Daily Worker) TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 25.-— Fear is being*expressed that the drastic order of Police Commis- sioner George B. LaBarre to his police force to “Shoot to Kill,” in connection with the race sit- uation here may cause a very serious state of? affairs in a short time. The situation arose by the influx of southern Negroes into the city which has doubled the Negro population in Trenton since the world war. This in- crease necessitated the provid- ing of shelter for the newcom- ers, who were working in the Roebling Wire Mills, John L. Mott Iron Works, American Steel and Wire Company, Na- tional Radiator Company, Cook’s Linoleum Company and in the pottery and rubber indus- tries. Blacks in Filthy Houses. The Negroes were obliged to live junder terrible conditions, in the most miserable shacks, without the slight- est pretense to santitation or comfort. This situation was made more acute by the fact that the black and white workers were becoming rivals for jobs; the capitalists splitting ~ the ranks by dividing the workers accord- ing to race, The first sign of trouble came with the unusual purchase of firearms by the migrants because of the shooting of a Negro minister, Banks, who got into a quarrel with a white, and the police were then given instructions to jarrest anyone carrying concealed | weapons. ‘The racial antagonism has been ag- gravated also by a Ku Klux Klan agi- tation and by numerous encounters between whites and blacks. A Negro physical instructor in the public schools, Howard Dangerfield, soundly thrashed a white man who attempted to prevent him from using a certain diving plank in a public pool which Dangerfield had used for some time before. Elements are now active in an attempt to have the Negro expelled from the school, while the Negroes are determined upon his retention. Unemployment Increase Dangerous. The laying off of many workers in the local industries has not helped the situation since the jobless are} empty-handed and there is a fossibil- jity that a sudden incident may be the spark to arouse the fire. DAWES PLAN HAS HARD -SLEDDING IN REICHSTAG BERLIN, Aug. 25.—The critical stage in the work of putting the Dawes Plan in operation is reached. Unless the Reichstag ratifies the Lon- don agreement, all the efforts of the conference has been in vain. German industrial and banking circles are worrying. Fear that the government will fail to put thru its program has caused several banking deals to be cancelled. Herr Hergt, chief leader of the German nationalists, attacked the London reparations agreement when debate was renewed in the Reichstag today upon Chancelldr Marx's demand for ratification. Hergt declared that the London pact left the Rhineland as an allied pawn. He urged a united national front in Germany. The Communists are carrying on a vigorous campaign against the Lon- don agreement outside as well as in- side the Reichstag. Strike Winning In Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Aug. 25.— Seventeen cloak and suit shops have settled with the International Ladies Garment: Workers Union and nearly two-thirds of the original strikers are returning to work under union conditions, —te Militant Miners Opposing Lewis, Murray, Green By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) ZIEGLER, Iil., Aug. 25.—The Illinois miners are determined .to resist the drive of ‘the coal operators to institute the “open shop,” by electing to union office men who are pledged to accept no wage reduction, who demand a shortening of the work day and the payment of unemployment benefits, Henry Corbishley, president of Ziegler Local, No. 2376, told the DAILY WORKE today. 1 know that the’ miners of Southern Illinois will pay no attention to the so-called Lions’ Club convention, now being held in Herrin,” Corbishley said. “Conditions are pretty bad for the miners. Ziegler is a town that has the coal mine at one end and the company store at the other. “When the miner gets up in the morning to go to work, Ld streets in town lead to the Bellt+ and Zoller mine. When he comes out of the shaft and JUDGE JEERS starts home, all streets lead past AT WOBBLIES; ’ the company store. Feel Open Shop Drive. Plan Hearings Before Master in Chancery “The United Mine Workers’ Union has felt the shock of the open shop drive as much as any other union, and its officials have been as yellow and as traitorous as any other reac- tionary union officials. But the min- ers are fighters. They know that if they listen to the bunk handed out by the coal operators, and the same identical bunk handed out by the mine officials, their union will be wrecked. And the rank and file min- ers are not going to allow their un- ion to be wrecked.” Arley Staples, who has been nom- inated for international vice presi- dent by the Ziegler, Valier, Coello, and other-local unions in Iilinois, said he looks for the December elections to sweep into office in District 12, men who will resist the open shop drive, and do a little attacking of the bosses on their own account. Seek Six-Hour Day. “The Illinois coal miners are back- ing the Progressive committees’ de- mand for a six-hour day, equal dis- tribution of work in all the mines, payment by the coal operators of un- employment benefits, and organiza- tion of the unorganized miners,” said Staples. e“The Illinois miners know that the talk of non-union coal freezing out union coal is bunk. The Illinois min- ers know that the business men are one hundred per cent organized in their Chambers of Commerce, the railroads are one hundred per cent organized thru their interlocking di- rectorates, and the coal operators of the entire country, both union and non-union mine owners are one hun- dred per cent organized into the coal trust. Demand Organization Drive. “I am going to run for internation- al vice president on the progressive miners’ platform. I am _ going to fight the open shop and resist reduc- tion of wages, talk. The whole damn coal mine industry is solidly organ- ized against the miners, and the rank and file miners are ready to see to it that the non-union miners are brought into the union, and the min- ers organized one hundred per cent against the open shop coal operators.” WHERE IS THE BOOM PREDICTED BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE? The Chicago Tribune, which has for weeks predicted a tremendous boom in business, prints a story con- cerning the work of the Chicago Christian Industrial league, a “char- itable organization” which is start- ing a drive’tor help “in preparation for what is expected to be a winter of extensive unempolyment,” Homes_wtere families have new clothing, new furniture, and new toys, in spite of the employment shortage, are asked to sekd their cast-off clothing, furniture and toys to the offices of the Christian Indus- trial’ league so that men and women who might otherwise starve this winter may survive to work another year. The stuff will not be given away, The men and women who come to the offices of the league are ex- pected to work, repairing the arti- cles so that they will once more be fit for use, The articles are then sold by the Christian League—pre- sumably at a profit, The affairs of the Industrial Workers of the World continue to be the football of the capital- ist courts. Little progress was made when the fight of the Rowan- Bowerman faction for an in- junction against the Fisher- Doyle element came up yester- day, this time before Judge David, the third judge to handle |the case. Judge Has Surprise Party. Previous eflorts to settle the in- ternal differences of the outside of court were unable to over- come the Rowan-Bowerman determina- tion to obtain a court order, with the re- sult that there was another appear- ance in court, in which both sides found themselves the butt of the jeers of a capitalist judge. are the Industrial Workers of the World, and that you have come to this court to settle a difficulty arising with- in your organization,” sneered Judge David, as he was made aware of the nature of the case brought before him. Attorney T. B. O'Connell, for the “injunctionites,” pretty much on the defensive, went into a long and legal explanation of the alleged reasons for starting the injunction proceedings against the officers of the I. W. W. Rodriguez for Cunnea. These reasons are already familiar to the readers of the DAILY WORK- ER. The “injunctionites” claimed they had been ousted from office by force by the Fisher-Doyle elements, and that they wanted the injunction to restore them to power. “So you are the pacifists,” sneered Judge David, addressing the injunc- tionite clients of Attorney O'Donnell, who admitted that this was true. Then turning to Attorney Willian E. Rodriguez, substituting for Attorney William A. Cunnea, lawyer for the “ins,” Judge David continued. “And you, Mr. Rodriguez, you represent the revolutionists.” Women In Court. Attorney Cunnea was still away on his fishing trip in Wisconsin. So his law partner, Rodriguez, former Social- ist alderman, now in the LaFollette camp, had to be re-called from his vacation in order to make an appear- ance, The courtroom was filled again with members of the Industrial Workers of the World. “Who are all these people stand- ing around here,” said Judge David, in calling the court to order. “Are they all members of the Industurial Worker’ of the World? Then let them take seats.” All indications yesterday in the courtroom were that the internal troubles of the I. W. W. are arousing an increasing interest. Women were present in court who had hitch-hik- (Continued on page 8) j* “‘Wobblies” - “Do you mean to tell me that you