The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1924, Page 1

i ; “ THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1924 i> 290 Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 ‘per year. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Vol. Il. No. 137. SUBSCRIPTION RATE H PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvyd., Chicago, LL SEEK STRANGLEHOLD ON GERMANY Cal’s Manager Pa Price 3 Cents oe Pe eee AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY | 4 HEADLINE reads “Coolidge Re- ception Broken Up by Cows.” This disaster. happened when a party of Coolidge . supporters came to Plymouth to see the président. They were gathered on the lawn in front of the Coolidge residence when a herd of cows: passing by took a liking for the grass that the president’s scythe had not laid low.. The cows listened to Calvin for a while and left consid- erably disgusted with the kind of “bull” he threw. se 6 ANDIDATES for political office on the capitalist tickets should fake a trip to Texas and study the ‘art of winning elections from Mrs, ‘Miriam Ferguson, the successful can- wildate in the recent primaries. The Aedy did not touch any of the issues ‘ot the day except, perhaps that the . Ku Klux Klan should change its night gown. Outside of that she confined herself to inspiring interviews on how hot it was in her kitchen while she, ‘was preserving her fruit and how her ‘husband suffered from the hives. She ‘won by a tremendous majority. The ‘writer only heard of one candidate who was a better campaigner than Mrs. Ferguson. His name was Flood, and his stamping ground was South Boston. “I am a poor man,” he would say, “and I need the money. My op- ponent has money to burn. Why not give me a chance?” He was elected and there was a public square named atter him. eee ILLIAM Z. FOSTER delivered a speech or two in Youngstown nd vicinity and the capitalist papers are still discussing it. Unable to se- cure publicity in any other way, the two local members of the Socialist Labor Party chimed in with the capi- talist press in attacking Foster. What they held against him partfcularly was his failure to mention their names. In a letter to the press, they blamed Foster for everything possi- ble, denounced Soviets, took a wallop at revolution unless it gave a guarh- tee in advance that it would conduct itself properly and would not throw bricks or empty beer bottles at the bourgeoisie and in general act like a perfect lady. In return for this at- tack on the Communists the capital- ist paper published the announcement that the S. L. P. had presidential can- didates in the field. As Charlie Chap- ‘Min would Say: “They always have.” eee qe commenting on General Dawes’ ‘I. defense of/the Ku Klux Klan, Dr. Rey, Norman Thomas, socialist candt- date for Governor of New York, de- clared that the Klan 1s not anti-labor or anti-socialist but that its activities are directed against foreigners, Ne- groes, Jews and Catholics. While ‘it is true that outwardly the Klan does not appear to be anti-labor or anti- socialist, it is used by the capitalists a8 >a strikebreaking organization wherever its services are needed. As ‘The DAILY WORKER already pointed out, the Grand Dragon of the realm of Indiana used the Kluxers there to (Continued on page 3) MORE THAN HALF OF MONTREAL A.C. W. A. STRIKERS ARE BAGK --NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Joseph Schlossberg, general secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, just returned from the Mon- treal strike says that more than half of the 1,200 strikers have been returned to settled shops. The strike was called against manufac- turers who were not living up to agreements. Such bosses are re- quired to put up security for the ob- servance of the contract in future before settlements made, DAWES PLAN EXPOSED BY COMMUNISTS Calls on Workers to Fight Against It The Dawes Plan, a beautiful scheme hatched by the finance capitalists of America to get a stranglehold on Germany, and reduce the workers of that country to industrial peonage, is now an interesting matter of discussion in every country in the world. The workers are led to believe that the Dawes Plan will bring peace and prosperity. The fol- lowing statement issued by the Communist International tears this iniquitous scheme asunder and exposes it in its true light. It also shows the role of the social-democratic parties of Europe are playing as servants of the capitalist class. It reads as follows: To Proletarians of All Countries. Comrades, Workers! FTER four years of war and six years of futile conferences over the distribution of the booty, the vic- torious imperialist robbers are about to squeeze out further profits of their robbery from the German proletariat. The old European League. of robbers ig being’ joined by a new and more troops upon the battle fields of France were. giving out, American imperial- ism came to their aid with its tanks and hand grenades. After four years of futile reparations war, America, the most terrible and formidable par- ticipant in the war, once again enters the European arena. The taboring millions are again to be subjugated by means of the weap- on of mass starvation and the poison gas of paoifist illusions. Farcism a Failure. This is what constitutes the “new method” of the reparation policy. The old fascist method of war, the culminating point of which consisted in the occupation of the Ruhr for the solution of the reparations problem jjand for the consolfdation of capital- ism, has proved ineffective. It has *|frightened the victors with the spec- tre of Communism in Germany and has brought about the fall of the French Franc, the decay of world cap- italism and the destruction of the (Continued on Page 6) Brass Check Press Admits Fake Story; Reporter the Goat (By Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The Herald- Tribune confesses in its issue of Aug. 23 to a 1000-carat newspaper fake. The reporter, as usual is made the goat and dismissed. The fake was the Herald-Tribune’s sensational story a week earlier of a “floating cabaret” anchored 15 miles off Fire Island—a place where millionaires drank and whirled with light loves. Since then other newspapers have been conducting investigations which yielded nothing and now the Herald- Tribune admits that the yarn is the bunk, Of course the paper didn’t mean to print a lie, it says. The re- porter is to blame and he gets the axe. Union men wish the Herald-Tribune were as willing to repudiate bunk stories against strikers and radicals as it is against the millionaire class that is accused for making a joke of the law outside of the deep sea limit. OAKLAND BUILDING TRADES NOT SUPPORTING BOB AND WHEELER; STAND FOR FARMER-LABOR PARTY By JACK CARNEY (Special to The Daily Worker) OAKLAND, Calif. Aug. 26—The Alameda County Building Trades Councli has not endorsed LaFollette and Wheeler. This statement, official, was made at the last meeting of the council, as a result of a statement appearing in a local paper that the council had endorsed the candidacies of LaFollette and Wheeler and other candidates of the C. P. P. A. The ehairman further declared that the council stood for a farmor-iabor party. \ Work at Cut Wage (Special to The Dally Worker) OWENSBORO, Ky., Aug. 26.—The attempts of the Kentucky coal operators to reopen the mines at a Feduced rate of wages for the men is being reported to have failed signally. Not a single man in three counties has responded this morn- ing to the whistles which blew for the first time since last April. EXPOSES WAR | CONDITIONS IN RECORDS OF | MILLS EXPOSED LAFOLLETTE} THRU STRIKERS Senator Joined Hands| Weavers in Brave Fight With Imperialists By JAY LOVESTONE. (Ninth Article.) Nothing could be further from the truth than the statement, now being spread amongst many workers, that Senator LaFollette opposed the imperial- ist world war and America’s participation therein. sives are today asking the work- .-- Yet, many self-styled progres- ing men and poor farmers who suffered and are still suffering from the capitalist conflagration to support ‘ Bob” ..on- the ground that he fought against the devastating slaughter which took millions of lives and billions of dollars from the exploited masses the world over. 2 Entered With Militarists. Before the United States entered the World War, the Wisconsin “progressive”. wizard held the be- lief that it was not America’s busi- ness to join the infernal fray. Once the war was declared, however, La Follette accepted active American participation as a fact. He then lined up to support loyally the prosecution of the war and to hasten its victori- ous conclusion for the capitalist class in whose behalf it was fought. LaFollette differed with other sup- Porters of the imperialist conflict only as to method, but not as to the wag- ing of the war itself. The Wisconsin senator's attitade toward the war was the same as his present attitude to exploitation of the working class by the employers. LaFollette is not op- posed to the system of capitalist ex- ploitation. He is opposed to some of its methods and differs from the Lodges, the Smoots, the Coolidges, and the Davises only as to methods of exploiting the workers. Voted War Credits. Not only did LaFollette not fight against the war to make the world safe for plutocracy, but he even vot- ed all war credits. And dollars, it (Continued on page 6.) Mellon Coming Back, , PARIS, Aug. 26.—Now that his work for American financiers has been ar- ranged for, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is returning to this country. World Flight Worries, WASHINGTON, August 26.—War Department officials are undecided as to whether the world flight shall end officially at Seattle, Wash. or at Santa Monica, Calif, Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edition, dated Saturday, Aug. 30, AFOLLETTE did not fight behalf the batt! LaFollette’ were fought. oting security of the country.” The Wisconsin senator knew fought for the Morgan LA FOLLETTE DID NOT FIGHT net the last Imperialist war. war was declared, he accepted it as a fact. After the United States entered the war, the hundred-percenters to hasten a victory for ist wars when they are wrapped in such smooth phrases as “safety and 8 interests. Yet he voted for 55 out of the red and enacted by the senate. ollette proposed to strip the financiers and Against Bosses By ESTHER LOWELL (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 25.— Work in dark, dusty old mills worse than cellars and no chance to voice grievances or have them adjusted, speeding up in so-called “modern” mills, doubling up of work upon workers employed and con- sequent unemployment for others, lengthening of hours, these and r foul conditions in the Paterson ‘mills forced the silk workers into active battle with their bosses. The strike of the weavers, led by the Associated Silk Workers’ Union, is well into its second week and the enthusi- astic fighting spirit of the strik- ers ts still at full pitch. Every morning thousands of the strikers pour into Turn Hall at the corner of Ellison and Cross streets down in the “Latin quarter” of the country’s silk capitol and hear speak- ers cheer them on in their battle against the manufacturers. Eighteen different nationalities are participat- ing, but all co-operate gladly and troop out on the picket lines at 6 a. m. and 4 p. m. “Cock Roach” Mills. Shop meetings fill the early after- noon hours and each group of workers eagerly discusses the problems of FOSTER’S VOTE TO COME FROM WORKING CLASS Straw Ballots Indicate Strong Showing How many men and women are there in the United States that would name William Z. Foster, Communist, as their political leader? One of the popular pastimes of political prophets today is the gathering of straw votes to show which way the wind blows. It would be a rash person who would make any hard and fast pre- dictions so early in the game as to how many votes will be cast for Fos- ter. Straw Vote In Shops. But if a straw vote is to show the strength of the Foster wind it must be taken in the shops and factories, among the workers, and not at state fairs and on the business streets as the capitalist press polls their test votes, where the workers are automa-| tically excluded with scattering ex-| ceptions. When workers in the shops| begin to take straw votes, we will| have some indications of the prospect- | ive Foster vote. / Until this is done it may. be inter- esting to see what the capitalist press is-willing te-concede to Foster in theiv privately-conducted polls. There is, for example, the poll taken at the Wis- consin state fair by a Chicago daily, which gave Foster approximately one and one-half per cent. Crowd of Well-To-Do. The crowds at a state fair are pre- dominantly well-to-do agricultural and middle-class elements, so that a Com- munist candidate certainly has little immediate appeal to them. But if we would assume that the whole elector- ys Big Money For Finks Ky. Miners Won’t STOOL PIGEONS AN AID TO G. 0. P. IN N. D. SENATE RAGE (Second (Specig! to The Article) Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—William Morgan Butler, king over the sweaty slaves who toil in the textile mills of Massachusetts, president of some twenty odd million dollars worth of textile corporation interests, and now Chairman of the republican na- tional committee, which is campaigning for the election of Cool- idge and Dawes—believes in ‘“‘American institutions.” And no institution is more ‘ ‘American’ and more thoroly to the taste of Mr. Butler, than the use of stoolpigeons in industry to oppose the workers. Butler is up to his neck in this institu- tion. In fact the whole republican party reeks with it. Two years ago’in the senatorial race between the alleged progressive Lynn J. Frazier and the old-guard, rock-ribbed, stand-pat P. J. McCumber, in the state of North Dakota, the McCumber gang put out in streamer headlines of the Dakota papers, “red scare” stories, sup-? ported with supposed photo- graphic copies of letters con- necting McCumber’s opponent with the “seditious I. W. W., Bolsheviks and Communists” in “plots” to overthrow the gov- ernment, etc. ~ This was pure fabrication of stool pigeons hired by McCumber of course, since Frazier is only a timid, middle. class politician. But McCumber was a useful man to the republicans in Washington. He was one of the au- thors of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Bill. Phere is an interesting story con- cerning Butler and McCumber’s tariff measure, which we will tell in due (Continued on page 3) JOHN L. LEWIS LANDS ON 6,0. P, ate should this year follow the Wis- consin state fair crowd then, on the basis of the 1920 volume of voters for the whole country, Foster would re- ceive approximately 400,000 ballots. How, many votes will be added be- cause of the new women voters this year is problematical, but it is safe to say it will be at least one-fourth, which would make Foster’s propor- tion over half a million, accepting, of course, the state fair of Wisconsin as the index. keeping its ranks intact and winning union conditions from the boss. None can settle until the strike settlement committee confers with the manufac- turesr and sees that it can guarantee (Continued on page 3) PHILIPPINE LEADER ASKS ADMISSION TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS (Special to the DAILY WORKER) GENEVA, August 26.— Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, and a Philippine delegation arrived today to ask the League of Nations to admit the Philippin lands to membership. Quezon is leader In the Philippine indepen- dence movement and this applica- tion for membership in the “league” is seen as a movement in ti - tion of independence. This is the manner in which Philippine leaders want to assert themselves. Quezon Is considering a visit to Soviet Russia for which he has pressed much Interest. é Once Follette lined up with capitalists in whose my to imperial- and admitted that the war was Won't All Be Counted. Of course this takes for granted that all these voters will have a chance to vote for Foster and that their votes will be counted. But this will not be true in states where the Workers Party fail to get onto the bal- lot, on account of lack of organization or because (if such a thing is think- able) our members do not do their duty. And then we must expect, where we do not have watchers at the polls, that innumerable votes will be thrown into the waste basket if they are for Foster. All of which points out some of the main tasks facing the Workers Party in the course of the election struggle. Get Word From Factories. But the Communists cannot accept any capitalist-conducted straw vote as indicating the working-class currents. Before we draw any conclusions about what Foster's vote will be, we must begin to get word from the railroad shops, from the steel mills, from the packing houses, fronr the clothing fac- tories, from the mines—and we want to know who took the polls and in what manner they were conducted. When such news begins to come in the DAILY WORKER will analyze it and pass it on to our readers. On With the Bob! LA PORTE, Ind., Aug. 26.—Michigan STRATEGY STAFF Miners Union Head Is Picked by Butler John L, Lewis, International Presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, was selected by William M. Butler as member of the advisory board which is to map out the plan of campaign for the G. O. P. during the campaign. The advisory committee is headed by John T. Adams, of Iowa, former chairman of the National Committee of the republican party, and one of Harry Daugherty’s strongest backers. It was Adams who used the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice to dig up information that he could use against the party's enemies. Lewis is the second international president of the American Federation of Labor, who has failed to follow Gompers into the LaFollette camp. Major George L. Berry, who had the A. F. of L. backing for the vice-presi- dency on the democratic ticket openly declared for John W. Davis. It is expected that other labor fakers will break away from the La Follette movement as soon as they succeed in getting a satisfactory price. William Morgan Butler, who picked John L. Lewis as a member of the advisory committee of the G. O. P., is the man who is being exposed in the DAILY WORKER as one of the greatest organizers of stool pigeons in the country. NEW YORK, August 26.— Lugosy, alleged killer of a number of custom: ers and friends, has disappeared as well, On being questioned by cops, his wife said she did not know his whereabouts. LIONS ROAR FOR “OPEN SHOP” IN HERRIN MEETING Bosses Want Non-Union Wage Scales By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill., Aug. 25.—While the Lions’ Club of Herrin, which is just another name for the Chamber of Commerce backed by the coal operators and the Ku Klux Klan, was meeting to advise the breathlessly waiting world that unemployment is caused by high wages, the min- ers were angrily collecting at the street corners, discussing the meeting and refusing to participate. The Herrin convention of coal operators, Kluxers, busi- ness men, chamber of commerce members and railroad magnates marks the latest stage in the drive to completely break the United Mine Workers’ Union. The demand has been made by the coal operators, thru their president, for a wage reduction and an open shop form of agreement. The miners hurl back a defy in the teeth of the one hundred per centers and declare a fight to a finish. Drive for Open Shop. It is quite generally understood that the statement of the operators that non-union coal brings a cheaper price than union coal is not true. There is little difference in the price, and the Illinois coal is better in qual- ity and often is sold slightly cheaper than the nonunion coal. The coal operators are merely do- ing at the Herrin convention what the Lewis-Farrington Class. collaboration Policy has left the road entirely open for them todo. Make a drive for the open shop and the reduction of the miners’ wages. Dr. Honnold, presldent of the Wil- ljamson-Franklin operators associa- tion, said: “There is a lack of elas» ticity in our working agreement with the miners, not only as to wage scales (Continued on page 3) NEW YORK, Aug. 26. -Three men were rescued "from a sinking yacht in one of the worst storms experienced here, . City school teachers may now bob their hair without endangering their jobs, the school board announced to- day. ogee Hooray! Country ed Again! LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 26.— Claire Windsor today set at rest the terrible rumor. She has not given the| ¢an section of the international financiers’ bund. cold shoulder to Bert Lytell, another | !n¢ movie actor. wcocililaiIOC RUFUS C. DAWES GOES TO EUROPE TO PUT HELL-AN’-MARIA’S PLAN TO WORK FOR INTERNATIONAL BANKERS The Dawes family appear to be the agents extraordinary of the Ameri- ndida: plan that Germany. for vice-president on the Republican Party tick was the basis of the London Agreement, between Now his brother Rufus, president of the Chicago Chamber of Get a member for the Workers Party, Commerce, goes over to put the plan te wark _ kai Fx Ln Aah Hell an’ Maria, the cuss framed the Allies and