The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1924, Page 2

DAVIS ACTED AGAINST W. VA. MINERS Demo Nominee Helped Jail Organizers By MAX SHACHTMAN John W. Davis, presidential candidate of the democratic party, did not defend “Mother” | Jones and other organizers for the United Mine Workers of America when they were on trial for contempt of court, hav- ing violated an injunction which attempted to prevent the un- ionization of West Virginia miners. Not only did John W. Davis not defend the miners’ union’s representatives, but he was in- strumental in the sentencing to jail of Thomas Haggerty, Tho- mas Burke, Bernard Rice, Wil- liam Morgan, Edward McKay, and the prosecution of Mary “Mother” Jones! These facts, directly contradicting the inspired statements of Democratic spokesmen, were brought to light here by the discovery of a file of official papers of the United States court for the Northern District of West Vir- ginia. In July, 1902, the Clarksburg Fuel Company, a powerful corporation own- ing scores of mines in West Virginia, was granted an injunction by Judge J. J, Jackson, of the circuit federal bench, ‘restraining Haggerty, Burke, Rice, Morgan, McKay, “Mother’ Jones, and others from interfering with the employes or property of the company. This injunction was an attempt to pre- vent the organizers of the mine work- ers’ union from mingling with the miners near Fairmont and Morgan- town in order to get them into the weak union. The counsel for the coal operators included A. W. Davis, of the firm of Davis and Davis. Davis Does His Stuff. The suit against the organizers was brought in the name of the trustee for the bondholders of the Clarksburg Fuel Co., the Guarantee Trust Com- pany. John W. Davis, together with his papa, John J. Davis, were the at- torneys for the railroad which is now @ part of the Baltimore & Ohio sys- tem, called a “short line,” running be- tween Martinsville and Olarksburg. This road hauled practically nothing but coal and was controlled by the coal mine owners. It is this gang that retained the Davises, father and ron, together with other members of the firm, to instituie the injunction pro- ceeding against the union. When the U._M. W. of A. organizers were urrested for violating the vicious injunction, it was not John W. Davis that appeaied to defend them, as the inspired story goes, but V. B. Archer, John J. Conff, Charles D, Johnson Henry M. Russell and A. G. Fickeisen. Appearing on the court orders against the unionists, however, was the name of the firm of Davis & Davis. Servile to Coal Operators. When the men were sentenced, and the case appeaJed from Jadge Jack- son’s court to that of Judxe Nathan Goff of Clarksburg, W. Va., Goff up- held the decision of his confrere and ordered the imprisonment of the de- fendants. Here, John W. Davis. per: sonally appeared on the behalf of the Clarksburg Fuel Co., run by the Guar- antee Trust Co., in which J. P. Mor- gan interests are. now heavily con- cerned. His life of service to capital, and to the House of Morgan began at an early date. John W. Davis, who now claims that he was instrumental in keeping “Moth- er” Jones and Eugene Debs out of prison, was the man who appeared against the old mine workers organ- iger and did all in his power to keep the coal diggers from organizing to better their conditions of life, to in- crease their wages and shorten their hours of labor. In Black and White. The proof of these statements can be found in “The Federal Reporter,” which gives opinions rendered by Am- * erican judges on important cases. All the facts of this famous dase are con- tained in volume 116, on page 610, un- “der the head of: United States ex. rel. © Guarantee Trust Co. of New York, t ae trustee, against Thomas Haggerty, “Mother” Jones and others. John W. Davis, A. B. Fleming, W. 8. Meredith, BE. F. Hartley and Reese Blizzard, dis- ** trict attorney, are given as counsel for the prosecution. The lawyers previously mentioned are given as counsel for the defense, Membership Méeting ~ of Czecho - Slovaks to be Held Friday ee fen branches oftythe Workers Party in Cook County are instructed to be “present at a general party meeting Friday, Sept. 29, at Novak's Hall, Ho- man ave., and 25th. A program of or- ganization and press will be presented there and all Czecho-Slovak comrades ‘i should make it their business to be present and participate in the dis- All members of the Czecho-Slovak- Our Candidates FOSTER'S DATES Sloux City, lowa—Labor Lyceum, 508 Jennings St., Friday, August 29, 8 p.m. “Des Moines, lowa—Grotto Hall, 721 Locust St. Saturday, August 30, 8 p.m. Omaha, Neb.—Eagles Hall, 17th and Cass Sts., Sunday, August 31, 8 p.m Kansas City, Mo.—Musicians’ Hall, 1017 Washington St., Labor Day, Sep- tember 1, 8 p. m. | Ziegler, IIl—Pavillon Park on Wed- |nesday, September 3rd, 5:45 p. m. | Springfield, IIl—Carpenter Hall, Ad- jams and Seventh Sts., Thursday, Sept: ember 4th, 8 p. m. St. Louis, Mo—Triangle Park, 41 South Broadway, Tuesday, September 2nd, 8 p. m. 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- tember13, 8 p. m. GITLOW’S DATES Comrade Gitlow, candidate for vice- president, will address meetings at the following places: Reading, Veteran Firemen’s Hall, 612 Franklin St—Tuesday, Aug. 26, 8p. m Binghamton, Lithuanian Hall-- Thursday, Aug. 28, 7 p. m. Buffalo, Friday, Aug. 29. Rochester, The Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul St,—Saturday, Aug, 30, Dalsytown—Sunday, Aug. 31. Canonsburg—Monday, Sept. 1. West N. Y., N. J-—Floral Hall, 11th and Polk Streets, Wednesday, Septem: ber 10th, 8 p,m. Canton, Ohio.—Canton Music Hall, 810 Tusorawas St., E., Friday, Septem- ber 5th, 8 p. m. Akron, Ohio-—Perkins School Audi- torlum, Exchange and Bowery Sts., Saturday, September 6th, 8 p. m. Canonsburg, Pa.—Labor Temple, Monday, September ‘1st, 2 p. m. + Bellaire, Ohio — Miners Temple, Wednesday, September 3rd, 7:30 p. m, Providence, R. |.—A. C. A. Hall, 1753 Westminster Street, Monday Septem- ber 18th, 8 p. m. Daisytown, Pa.—Muffet Field, Walk- ertown, Pa., Sunday, August 31st, 1:30 p.m. Buffalo, N. Y.—Labor Lyceum, WiII- lam and Jefferson Sts., Friday, August 29th, 8 p. m. C. E. Ruthenberg executive secre- tary of the Workers Party, will make a series of campaign speeches in the New England States. Two of these meetings already arranged for are: Bo8ton, Mass. — Monday, Sept. 1, Paine Memorial Hall, 7:30 p. m. New Haven, Conn.—Saturday, Sept. 6, Hermanson’s Hall, 158 Crown St, 8 p.m. Christopher Party Members Discuss Organization Work CHRISTOPHER, Ill, Aug. 26.—A general membership meeting of the Workers Party was held here to dis- cuss the reorganization tour of Arne Swabek, the speaking trip of “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, and to discuss the DAILY WORKER drive with Karl Reeve. Comrades from Valier also at- tended, Reeve spoke on the tendency of the Christopher miners locals to isolate themselves, and urged the Comrades to re-enter the Trades and Labor Assembly here and endeavor to have their local unions affillate and build it up, in spite of the fact that at the present time it is dominated by Kluxers. The party members decided to ap- point a man in each branch to write in DAILY WORKER news. The DAILY WORKER agent, Mike Bace- vich, is doing well, not only with the DAILY WORKER, but with all of the}. Party publications. Those present from Valier included Dick Swift, William Potesak, Charles Grudich andJack Katich. The Chris- topher Comrades who attended were: Victor Cernich, Arley Staples, John Matosich, Martin Rabuffoni, Victor Komadina, Pete Grenko, John Bujan, Angelo Larinovich, Tom Jurkovich and Matt Laktosich. Herriot Getting Sat on for Not Securing 8-Hour Day on Ships (By Federated Press) PARIS, France, Aug. 26.—Great pressure is being brought to bear upon the Herriot cabinet to reintroduce the eight hour day in the shipping industry, which was abrogated under Poincare on the grounds that would not be able to compete with others as a shipping nation unless those emplayed in the industry work- ed for more than eight hours, This matter cannot be disposed of before the late fall, as so many other mea- sures of internal policy are pending which have been held up while Herriot was occupied with the foreign political situation, Send in that Subscription Today. emacs Metin ‘|Germany’s condition. FOSTER BRINGS CAMPAIGN INTO BERGER’S CITY Victor, “Democrat,” Refuses W. P. Ad (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Aug. 26.—"The Workers Party is a revolution- ary party, a fighting party that believes in the abolishing of the capitalist system and in the establishing of a government where only those who work shall eat and govern and be- come citizens of the country,” said William Z. Foster to an assemblage of over 1000 work- ers who gathered to hear him at the Workers Party picnic. Numerous Socialist Party and trades union members were present despite the active oppo- sition of the union bureaucracy and the S. P. machine. The Mil- waukee Leader, fearing attend- ance of socialists at the com- munist meeting, ordered its business manager to stop the advertisement of the gathering. Verboten by Victor. + To those who know the Socialist Party and its Milwaukee ruler, Vic- tor Berger, this action came as a great surprise. Berger has no scruples about accepting ads from the Boston Store, Fischer Furniture Co., and the Traction Co,, but when it came to accepting an ad about a workers’ meeting, he turned it down. The new political policy of Berger- Hillquit-Co. has brought the former into a nice kettle of fish. While he, running for congress, and Herbert Quick, running for governor, both take great pleasure in displaying La Follette’s picture in the middle of their campaign posters, they are fight- ing against Blaine as a reactionary enemy to labor. Blaine, running again for the governorship, has the endorse- ment of LaFollette. : May Ditch Quick, It is rumored that Quick may be ditched by the Berger machine .in favor of Cummings, who is aiming to cop the governorship via the republi- can ticket. Foster, in dealing with the Socialist Party here and in other countries, said; “In Germany the social demo- erats agreed to allow capitalism to exist in return for a mess of pottage and so betrayed the revolution of Ger- many. If the social democrats did that what would LaFollette do if the capitalist class was being threatened by the growing organized workers Would LaFollette stick with the work- ers? No! . LaFollette Breaks F. L. P.’s “He is now setting up LaFollette clubs as rival organizations ot the Farmer-Labor progressives all over the state of Minnesota. This is an- other attempt by him to destroy any chances of a labor party because Minnesota has the strongest F. L. P. in the country.” BERLIN CABINET THREATENS TO 60 TO THE COUNTRY General Elections If Pact Is Licked (Spectal to the DAILY WORKER) BERLIN, Aug. 26—— The German government intends to sign the Lon- don Agreement whether it secures a majority in the Reichstag or not. This was the ultimatum of Chancellor Marx to the opponents of the pact. The nationalist party still continues to oppose the Agreement and the Com- munists are waging a relentless fight on it, Chancellor Marx holds up the Dawes plan as the only solution of The Commun- ists on the other hand, tell the work- ers that it is a good plan for the Ger- man bankers’ and industrialists, but that it will reduce the workers’ stand- ard of living to a lower level than it is at present. Dissolution of the present Reich- stag will follow a government defeat on the motion to endorse the London Agreement, Cen vane Pershing Makes Speech, PARIS, Aug. 26.—General John J. Pershing’s speech suggesting a reduc- tion of France’s war debts to America has aroused considerable interest here, It is not likely that the General is expounding merely his own opin- ions, but has been used as a feeler by the United States government. Secretary Mellon is in Paris at the present time, but has refused to com- Pershing ment on the Those close to reason to believe that in the event of Coolidge’s re-election, immediate steps will be taken to give France favorable conditions on her debt. Some such proceeding as followed in the case of England, would be applied to France, _ statement, THE DAILY WORKER BUFFALO LABOR PARTY CONFERENCE GALLED FOR SUNDAY, AUG, 31 (Special to The Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 26.—The Buffalo Labor Party, organized by the Central Labor Council of this selty, Tor the purpose of giving the workers proper political expression, will hold a conference Sunday, August 31, at Engineers’ Hall, 36 W. Huron 8t., at 6 p.m. Send your delegates. Any work- ers organization in Erie County is entitled to send delegates. Three delegates for any organization and ane additional delegate for each 100 members, OPEN SEASON ON KLAN, PROMISES GOOD SHOOTING General Trains Guns on Fiery Cross It looks like an open season on the Ku Klux Klan. Since it became evi- dent that the former Klan stronghold of Texas was lost to the hooded order, following the Klux defeat in Okla- homa, politicians are more than anx- fous to tell the world how bitterly they oppose the Klan. The only exception to the rule so far is General Dawes, whose. Augusta, Maine, speech was a frank endorse- ment of the invisible wizards, despite the efforts of republican party pub- licists to make it look like an attack. Have Seen Best Days. Hitherto Klansmen were privileged persons and it is an open secret that during the Harding administration they had a key to the White House, But times have changed. Brig. General George Moseley, com- mandant at Camp Custer, Mich., or- dered machine guns trained on Har- bord. Hill within the Camp Custer re- servation if any more Klan meetings are held there, The Kluxers have been in the habit of holding meetings there and burning fiery crosses on the hills. General Moseley was recently or- dered transferred ot Hawaii, owing to publicity on account of suit for divorce filed by his wife, in which she charged desertion. He is one of the leaders in the “Mobilization Day” plans of the War Department, Young Stays Away. . From Atlanta comes the story that Glenn Young, the notorious Willimson County raider, will not return to Her- rin to stand trial as ordered by the} judge. Young is supposed to be a brave warrior but it looks as if he is afraid to face the music. His wife declares he will not return to Herrin because of ill health, re- sulting from wounds received while “cleaning up” Williamson County. It is reported he is on the payroll of the Klan at national headquarters. General Dawes, while on his way to Chicago from Boston, solicited opin- ions on the effect of his Klan speech. He was disappointed because more attention was not paid to his attack on organized labor. The General will speak in Lincoln, Nebr., Friday. No authentic report of the discus- sion between Dawes and Coolidge at the latters’ home in Plymouth, Vt., was given out. It was stated that the Klan issue was not discussed, tho this report is not taken seriously. Chicago Juniors to Hold Convention on Sunday, August 30 The youngest of the reds in Chicago will gather when the local junior sec- tion of the Young Workers League will hold its convention on Saturday, August 30, 1:30 p. m., at 2633 Le- Moyne Ave, Hundreds of children of the working class are now members of the junior groups in Chicago and it is expected that the representation at the convention will show how well the little comrades have developed on the road to understanding Communism and the struggle against the boss class, , All are invited to the convention as, visitors, Political Prisoner Goes Thru Operation; . Write Him a Letter HUNTSVILLE, Texas, August 26.— Abraham Cisneros, who has been in prison here for over ten years, has recently been successfully operated on for appendicitis. He has a. life sentence, having been convicted dur- ing the border troubles when Diaz was overthrown, Anyone wishing to send this sick man card or letters may address him as follows: Abraham Cisneros, R. R. 1, Box 1, Wynne State Farm, Huntsville, Texas. Edward Reed, Attention! Kindly call at the editorial office of the DAILY WORKER or write us your address so that we can com- municate with you, Distribute a bundie of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi. Got a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER. tion, dated Saturday, August 30, ‘ does tin, Publishing Fake Is Easy for American “Brass Check” Press By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. FORAY: the yellow press of the nation is busy exploiting one of the prize hoaxes of American newspaper history. They kept blowin on their bubble of fiction until it burst. Since the Volstead act went into effect the inebriate editors have ceased regaling their readers, during the sum- mer season, with wild stories of sea monsters roving the deep. But the New York Herald-Tribune, one of the sheets owned by Frank Munsey, big steel trust stockholder, recent- ly lived up to all yellow press expectations by “scooping” its competitors with an exclusive story of a “Rum Palace,” former German ocean liner, that stood by, a few miles out- \ side of New York harbor, to serve all comers who could dis- play a sufficiently large bank roll. * * * * : Some one had given the editor the tip about the “Float- ing Cafe.” The editor grabbed it as a life saver, and put his best writer on the job. The reporter felt he had, to produce, and he turned out one of the best ieces of sea fiction of the present season. But it was all a fake. This was discovered a week later, after the story had roamed at will over the first pages of the nation’s “Brass Check” press. * * This incident should arouse the workers to a realization of how easy it is to get faked news into America’s daily newspapers. This fiction story dealt with alleged facts on the very doorsteps of the so-called “great” New York dailies. There was no real need for the putting over of this fake, to satisfy the desire for a day's sensation. except When the pros- titute sheets had had their thrill, then they began investigat- ing the authenticity of the story, to deny it, another dose of thrill. * * spending more space later * * This incident should help workers to better understand all the fakes, hoaxes, that these same sheets have Soviet-Russia, forward. If a reporter can fake a story about a at the very entrance to New York harbor, lies and the generally fabricated news published about conditions in or wherever the fighting forces of labor move “Floating’ Bar,” how much easier to fake stories about conditions within the news blockaded First Workers’ Republic, thousands of miles away. And there is a in Russia, great incentive to lie about Soviet Rule, that threatens the capitalist structure the world over. The yellow press, defender of capitalism, has the great- est interest in misrepresenting the struggles and victories of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Government across the sea. And it is to their interest to strangle every effort to repudiate these malicious attacks. No capitalist sheet, to our know- ledge, has ever published a correction of the millions of lies circulated about Russian Soviet Rule: * cS * * The “Floatin sidized tegrity in the future. we confess it. * * yellow press exploded its own hoax about the Bar.” It didn’t hurt it to do it. In fact the sub- eets will pdint to this confession of guilt, in this instance, as a big reason for believin in their complete in- Surely, they will say, wherever we err, * * _ But no worker should be deceived by this sham effort at innocence. The kept sheets of big business lie about labor's cause, 24 hours in the day, and every day in the year. Labor can completely meet this situation ~~ italist Press with a Workers’ Press. sheets in Soviet Russia. by obliterating the Cap- here are no capitalist MUSICIANS ARE (HILARITY WILL JUBILANT OVER | HOLD FORTH AT BiG WAGE GAIN Chicago Players Are the Best Paid and Happy The union musicians of Chicago have won a big victory over the theatrical managers in their fight for an increase in wages. A new wage agreement has been signed giving the musicians an increase of 7% per cent in their wages. This increase will go into effect Sept. 1 and will bring the musicians’ wages up to $74.50 and $92.50 a week. All the city’s musical comedy,’ bur- lesque, vaudeville and dramatic the- atres come in on this new wage scale, These wages, because of the short season, bring the average wage of a musician to about $60 per week, Thank Daily Worker. A President James C. Petrilla yester- day thanked the DAILY WORKER for the assistance it gave the musi- cians during the last two weeks in bringing the union’s story to the workers of Chicago, and in denouncing the lying statements that came out in the local press thru, Harry Riding, representing the managers, in an effort to break the backbone of the fight. Best Paid in Country, He said the musicians were jubilant over their victory. “And tell your readers that the musicians in Chicago are the best’ paid musicians in the country,” Petrilla proudly asserted, The managers of the moving picture houses, with the exception of the two- aday houses which are all settled up, will meet with the officers of the union to day to arrange for definite season terms for musicians as against the present fire and hire system, Kill Death Dance Grip. Louis H, Chalif, president of the American Society of ‘Teachers of Dancing, holding its 47th annual con- vention in Chicago, says that the “death grip in dancing” must go. You a laugh on the floor, but no bunny uss. T.UEL PICNIC Noted Mirthmakers to Grace Occasion The Labor Day Picnic of the Trade Union Educational League is expected to beat all attendance records of the Season. It will be the last big out- door social affair of the year and trade union left wingers, Communists and sympathisers are sure to be there for a day of real enjoyment. -The usual games will be played and prizes will be awarded. Sam Ham- mersmark was induced to donate one of his famous five cent cigars as a prize to the best ball thrower. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Work- er, and Earl Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, are expected to lead the editorial popularity contest, Jour: nalists being ideals, no prizes are of- fered, but T. J, O'Flaherty promises to immortalize the winner in his col- umn. Anton Overgaard, Jack Johnstone, Walt Carmon and J. Ramirez are scheduled to run a two legged race with Moritz Loeb, Nick Dozenberg, Barney Mass and Al Schapp. Besides the fun a political complex- jon will be given the affair by having the Workers Party candidate for sen- ator of Illinois, J. Louis Engdahl, ad- dress the pickinckers, This does not begin to tell half of what is liable to happen at the Labor Day picnic, But see for yourself, Ad- mission is 35 cents. To get there, take a Forest Park “L.” or Madison St. Car and transfer to suburban line. Distribut: ef the DAILY cial Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August 80. a Wednesday, August 27, 1924 NO CHANGE IN DEADLOCK OF »: LW. W. GROUPS Master-in-Chancery to Hear Dispute Sept. 4 Nothing had changed at the headquartérs of the Industrial Workers of the World yester- day as a result of Monday's de- cree by Judge Joseph B, David that the lawyers of both sides in the present dispute get to- gether and draw up 4 working agreement for the temporary conduct of the organization’s work and the safeguarding of its interests, The I, W. W. case will next come before Fred Bernstein, master-in-chancery, Thursday, Sept. 4, at 169 N. LaSalle St. Bernstein will hear evidence in the case and make a final de- cision. In the meantime the lock is still on the door of the Wobbly headquarters at 1001 W. Madison St. Judge David of the Superior court instructed the attorneys on both sides to get together and reach a tempor- ary agreement that will make it pos- sible for the editors and industrial union officers to enter the building and take whatever papers are necessary for carrying on the organization's work, Attorney John A. Ryan, acting in Attorney William H. Cunnea’s ab- sence, informed the DAILY WORKER yesterday that the attorneys of both elements met all day Monday, but could not reach any agreement. So the matter will rest as it stands, until the hearing Sept. 4. Ryan said Cun- nea is expected to attend the hearing before Master-in-Chancery Bernstein. BIG CAMPAIGN. MEET TONIGHT IN WORKERS LYCEUM Manley and Browder to Address Party Members Workers Party members and cam. ‘paign managers are bringing in peti- tions every day, filled out, to the local office and at the same time offering many plans and suggestions to speed the work of getting signatures to place Workers Party candidates on the ballot. March Gets Lon List, «Mike March, of the Mid-City English branch, has been especially success- ful and has himself secured 123 sig- natures. Comrade Davidson of the Northwest Jewish, Comrade Kahn, Comrade Murasko and others have also been very successful in obtaining signatures. To keep the work at high speed, to find out how much we’ have done and how much we yet have to go, cam- paign managers will make their re- ports at the membership meeting to- night at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. On the progress of the national campaign a report will be given by Comrade Jos. Manley, national cam- paign manager. Get New Members. ‘ Every member must get a new mem- ber and thus earn a Communist merit stamp. Every member is to get a new reader for the DAILY WORKER, To better co-ordinate the work of the DAILY WORKER and membership campaign with the election campaign, Comrade Earl Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, member of the City Executive Committee, will report on te plans of the party in these respects. Membership eeting Tonight. Every effort must be made to get the preliminary work of placing our candidates on the ballot over with as quickly as possible in order that * the real Communist campaign activity | can be speeded up. ' Be on hand at the membership meeting tonight, 8 p. m. at 2733" Hirsch Blvd. Come out to the mem- bership meeting and show a Com- munist interest in the campaign. Help to put Foster and Gitlow on the ballot. Forward to Communist cam- paign and to a proletarian govern- ment! — What Crop Poor in Canada. The official forecast of the Canadian wheat crop shows a reduction of near- ly 200,000,000 bushles, or 40.5 per cent, compared with -the final es- timates last year, according to a tel- egram just received by the United States Department of Agriculture from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The forecast for this year is 282,- 042,000 bushels and the final estimate for 1928 was 474,199,000 bushels, Get a member for the Workers Party. SEE ene aeanansssenIne _ BRAZILIAN SEAMEN OUT ON STRIKE BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 26.—The Maritime Labor Federation, comprising a es 7,000 workers, has declared a general strike, ee