The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | Vol Il. No. 138. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered a6 Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1924 2y0 ci Published Daily except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., DAL Washington Bivd., THE 1113 W. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. LY WORKER Chicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents ANTI-WAGE SLASH FIGHT GROWS By T. J. O7FLAHERTY. SWALD GARRISON VILLARD, speaking at the Institute of Poli- tics in Williamstown, Mass., de- nounced the policy of the. United States government in sending its war- ships to protect American capital in South America. “The policy is grossly immoral,” he said, “and should be stopped. Bankers and investments should be warned that when they in- vest their money abroad, they do so at ‘their own risk, and that Unele Sam’s navy will not be used as bill collectors.” Well, that is one of the | Yeasons why battleships exist and will exist so long as capitalism lasts. ‘When American battleships went over | to Europe to fight Germany in 1914 | they went in obedience to Morgan’s |, demands. And the naive Villard. thot | for a long time that it was really a war for democracy, see EWS comes from Forth Worth that a move will be made to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of. the Demo- cratic Party. The prime mover will be the notorious Albert Sidney Bur- leson, the notorious post-master gen- eral who served during the reign of Woodrow Wilson. Burleson was sil- ent while the fortunes of the Klan were rising but now that it is losing ground he comes boldly out to slay the dragon. Ox @, <@. . RITAIN has just completed a won- derful air dreadnought. It is the most powerful single-engined airplane in the world. It measures 88 feet from wing tip to wing tip, stands 19 feet from the grourid and is 54 feet from nose to tail. It. only weighs 2,200 pounds. The pacifist MacDonald ministry is doing fine. The new air giant should prove very effective in dropping bombs. onthe. _Hindoos and | hits Egyptians. eee HAT happened at the conference between Calvin Coolidge and Charles. G. Dawes that took place at ?lymouth, Vt.? Nobody seems to «now except the G. O. P. leaders, and they will not tell. It is safe to say that Coolidge said: “Now, Charlie, frankness is very fine and after elec- tion you may curse all you want, be- cause people’s memories dre short, but during the election campaign you should be more careful. You should aot allow Mr. Davis to rush you off your feet. Watch my technique. We need the Klan vote, but it will never ‘lo to come out so openly for it as you lid.” And after Dawes swung his arms over his head a few times, no foubt he said, “Oh, hell an’ Maria. I guess you're right.” ses 8 HE situation in Morocco is daily growing worse for the Sanish troops. Not since 1921 were the na- tives so aroused and even tribes form- erly friendly are now joining the at- tack on the invaders. The Moors are well supplied with money and muni- tions, which supports the suspicion that France is backing the rebels against the Spaniards. After Spain is driven from Morocco, the French (Continued on page 3) Co-operators Succeed - CLEVELAND, Aug. 27.—The Work- ingmen’s Co-operative Co, of Cleveland, organized in 1912 by Bohemian work- ers, and now having a membership of 1,100, reports a business of over $100,- 000 for the first six months of 1924, \ _ with a surplus of over $33,000 in excess of Habilities, not counting the thou- sands of dollars returned to its cus- tomers in form of purchaser's rebates. ‘The company operates six stores. ‘ Membership Meeting in Cicero Thore will be a membership meeting of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League of Cicero to-night at 8 p.m, at the Lithuanian Liberty Hall, W. Mth St. ‘and 49th Court. DON'T DARE 10 URGE WAGE CUT Herrin Meet Can't Get Diggers to Yield By KARL REEVE’ (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) VALIER, Ill., Aug. 27.—“The officials of the miners’ union don't dare to agree with the coal operators in favoring a reduced wage scale for the min- ers. If they told us today to take a wage cut, not a man would go down in the mines to- merrow morning.” This is what Dick Swift, old time coal miner here, thinks about the Herrin convention which is try- ing to reduce the miners’ wages. Used to Cut Talk. “The coal operators may think they have us starved out. If they do they’re fooled. This is not the first time the miners have heard the coal operators clamoring for a wage reduction. We are used to it, and we pay no attention to it. The coal miners have stood for a lot of treachery from’ their reaction- ary leaders who favor class collaboration, but they will not stand for a wage reduction.””. I am going to write a lot shout Valier because Valier is vividly illus- trative of the many problems facing pe miners. When the city slicker Valier, he knows he. is in the ot the coal mining country. Valier, with its 2,500 population, is a trustified coal camp. The one mine in town, supplying work to all the men in the town, is called the Valier Coal Company, but in reality it is owned by the Burlington Railroad, (Contiued on page 5) Pullman Meeting Tonight There will be a general membership meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at the Russian School Hall, 11449 S. Park Ave. The question of organizing union locals and other important matters will be discussed. Every member is requested to surely attend this meet- ing. MACHINE SHOP MEN UNANIMOUSLY STAND FOR FOSTER-GITLOW The workers of, and Riechmann loud speal of the International Association of Machinists, passed the following re- sotution at their shop meeting which was attended by every work- er in the plant: Whereas: various bodies of labor have declared their allegiance and tendered thelr support to their po- litical parties or candidat and, Whereas: such declarations help the political party or candidate and endorsed, It Resolved, that we, the shopmen, die and tool mak- ers, machinists and specialists em- ployed by the Winkler & Riechmann Co. also declare our allegience to the Workers Party and endorse the candidature of Foster-Gitlow for int and vice-president, as rep- iting the interests of the work- 88, and be it further esolved that we assess ourselves 1 percent of our wages for two months to assist them in their cam- paign. John P. Denne, shop secretary. he shop Winkler e FOR THE COMMUNIST arene DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. For the enclosed $........0.. send me. we Coples of the First Special Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the speeia! rate of 3% cents per copy, or $3.60 per hundred. | want to help raise the ticket—Foster and Gitlow. jards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party HHRNAN slicers ceovadtaesslersi dicot AOI OG sasctvides acorns Sirona esac CITY.. sesaarsssnazorenrannnsccrsnsorsnsosonssonse QT AT Bossssesssrsssnstionnon By C. E, RUTHENBERG. IVE THOUSAND new members joined the Workers Party dunt ing the first six months of 1924. This is a ratio of increase almost twice as great as for the same six months of 1923. For the first six months of 1923, 2,892 members were accepted by the Party. For 1924, 5,041 mem- bers came into the organization. These figures Indicate the grow- ing appeal of the Communist pro- | gram for the workers of. the United States. They show that the activi- ties of the Party in the struggles of the workers, particularly the part It has played in the fight to mobilize the workers and farmers for independent political action, have rallied thousands of salle ahd to its standard. As shown by the avtrage dues payments, the record of growth of the Workers Party, for the six months’ period in question is as fol. lows? 1922, the first year of the Party, 8,320 av@rage monthly dues pay- ments, | 1928, ad average monthly dues payments 1924, 16,879 average monthly dues payments, The tabulation of the total mem- bers on rolls of the Workers Party fi the same six months’ period asishown by reports received from the various barnches, show a total of 27,500 members now onthe rolls of the Party. Because of ir- regularit in dues payments, thru serene receipting books by writing Peceipts therein in place of using dues stamps, the average monthly dues payments are only a little o 60 per cent of the total membership on the rolls of the Party. steps taken by the Cen- e tral exgetive Committee thru establishing the rule that any mem- as we seem \MINERS HEADS [Five Thousand Join Workers ber of the Party who has a dues book in which dues payments are receipted in any other form than with a stamp, is automatically ex- pelled from the Party, is expected quickly to bring the dues payments up closer to the membership on the Party rolls. Campaign Drive to Win Thousands of New Members. With the first six months of 1924, showing 5,000 new members joining the Party without any extraordi- nary campaign for membership, the last six months of the year are ex- pected to show double and treble that number of new members gained thru the organized campaign which is now under way. All the branches of the Party are being mobilized for systematic work to increase the Party membership and to secure subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER, Each member of the Party has been given.the task of securing one Party new methber and one new sub- scriber for the DAILY WORKER. Special combined cards are in the hands of all of the branches of the organization. The fact that the Party won 5,000 members during the first six months of the year, should be an | inspiration to every member and | branch of the Party to carry on an energetic campaign to secure new | members during the membership | drive. These five thousand new | members show the possibilities for | our Party. If we organize our- selves for this work and make an effort, our Party strength will be greatly increased during the next. six months. A Party of thirty-five to forty thousand members is well within our reach before the end of 1924. That possibility can be made a feality thru hard and efficient or. ganized work to stir the enthusiasm of the whole Party for the mem- bership drive now under way. ORDERS POURING IN FOR SPECIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE Arsenal of Facts for Election Battle There will be enough cam- paigh ammunition in — this Saturday's Special Campaign Edition of the DAILY WORKER to blow the capitalist ideology GROWE STILL HOWLS THE BLOOD OF LOEB AND LEOPOLD Robert E. Crowe won't be satis- fied until the judge hands down the decision against the two young mur- derers, Loeb and Leopold, which will mean their hanging. Crowe yesterday pointed out that life imprisonment did not really mean what it seemed to mean. In Illinois the law allows for pardons and paroles at the discretion of the governor, and if the death penalty is not given it Is likely that another ten years or even less may see the two reprobates free, With these facts in his hands, Crowe raises a long and loud yell out of the minds of the’ work-}°f" the mese. : ingclass. The problem is to get this material to the work- ers. That problem is now being solved as well as can be ex- pected. Numerous large cities have ordered thousands of copies. They have sent in the orders and the money, too. That’s the way to talk. Expect Flood of Orders. Between now and Friday night we expect the flood of orders to increase. Orders are coming in from all over the country. From country towns as well as from the great industrial centers. The Labor Day issue of the DAILY WORKER is Campaign Issue of any paper ever is- sued in the United States. It is the first Communist Campaign Issue ever issued by a daily in the English lan- guage. It tharks a milestone in work- ing class revolutionary history. Can't Afford to Miss It. ~ Who can afford to miss this historic number? The best writers in the Workers Party have co-operated to turn out a well written mass of material that will enable our agitators to turn the tables on their wily capitalist op- ponents in argument. It will give the records of the capitalist candi- dates, what they have done for the capitalists and what they have done against labor. The workers in the factories who have been bamboozled by the drivel peddled out in the capitalist press, will be glad to get a refreshing draught of “ommon sense in the DAILY WORKER Campaign Issue. It will not show pictures of Foster handing a sap bucket to Henry Ford, or Ben Gitlow presenting a fur coat to a shivering Zulu. None of the hokum that gives an intelligent work- er a nauseating sensation in his in- tellectual stomach will be spread be- tore the readers of the DAILY WORK- ER. Onr de-bunking. specialists will take care of that. Here are a few of the orders that have come in as we go to press: « MacDonald, Pa., 100; Carnegie, Pa., 100; Cheswick, Pa., 100; Bentleyville, Pa., 100; Maynard, Pa., 200; Denver, Colo,, 500; Omaha, Neb., 100; Collins- ville, Pa., 50; Boston, Mass., 100; New York (one branch), 200; St. Louis, 200. Use Blank on this Page. Send in your orders now. Orders will be accepted up until 6 o'clock Friday. That is the dead line. Order by mail or by wire and make it snap- py. This is an election campaign. The campaign fumber sells for five cents and costs 3%c in bundles. Order from the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. Use the blank on this page. the first Communist | MINERS’ PAPER ATTACKS “SPLIT PLAN OF 0.8. U. McLachlan C Calls ‘Halt to Dualists (Special to The Daily Worker) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, August 27.—The fight of the members of the Communist Party ‘and the Trade Union Educational League against the O. B. U. secessionist propa- ganda which has been carried on in this district for some time has began in earnest with the publication of an editorial in the current issue ‘of the Mari- time Labor Herald denouncing those who. suggest that the miners have anything to gain by running away from the fight against the Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers’ Un- ion by means of a split. The editor of the paper, Jim McLachlan, veteran leader. of the miners, draws upon the ten years bitter experience of the miners of the district with dual unionism prior to 1919, for examples as to what is ingstore ‘or the miners if they split the solidarity of the rank and file of the district. Adhere to T. U. E. L. Program. The adherence of the militant min- ers to the policy of the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions and the Trade (Continued on page 2) For Minneapolis Labor Temple. MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27.—Stock is being successfully sold here to labor unions and individuals to finance the erection of @ ee porapte. LAFOLLETTE IN AUTOCRAT RULE OVER NEBRASKA Green Threatening to| Kick Over Traces By THOMAS MATTHEWS (Special to The Daily Werker) OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 27.—Dis- ruption is still growing apace in the “LaFollette movement” in Nebraska. Altho the progres- sive party in this state was mur- dered in appropriate style by the LaFollette forces in their ‘state convention” at Grand Island on the 19th, State Secretary W. H. Green refuses to have the coffin lowered. In fact, Green threat- ens to carry the case before the “court of public opinion.” Green went to Russia last fal! and was elected to the presidium of the Peasants’ International. This, of course, places him “‘be- yond the pale” with the LaFol- lette politicians, who would like to get Green out of their way at the least possible cost to them- selves. Green has refused to resign as state secretary of the progressive party, and insists that his organization will have a full state ticket in the field whether LaFollette and Wheeler will so or not. So the battle goes merrily on. Local Republican papers, mean- while, are making the most of the La- Follette-Bryan deal, by which this crowd hopes to put “Brother Charley” Bryan in the White House by minority vote. The “Omaha Bee,” local Repub- lican organ, states in its issue of Au- gust 23rd that: ' “. . . it seems certain that in Ne- braska at least, where the Bryan tac- tics are fully understood, there will be enuf democratic votes cast for Coolidge and Dawes to ‘make sure’ of Coolidge and thus block the scheme to make Bryan president thru the back door of the Senate.” LaFollette Skullduggery. It has come to light that after the Grand Island LaFollette meeting, a “hand-picked” meeting of the newly elected state committee was held, at- tended by seven out of thirty mem- bers, and this the first meeting of the committee. The bosses in control proceeded to name their permanent officers, but this was too raw for An- son H. Bigelow, labor attorney of Omaha, who walked out after protest- ing against the methods used to ram down “what LaFollette wanted.” This, it must be admitted, required some (Continued on page 6) STRIKE REPORTED AND DENIED The press today carried a story would have another strike of the ladi Labor Day. Meyer Perlstein, vi: telling of a possibility that Chicago to be, called on president of the International and in WILD RUSH MADE BY 34 WORKERS FOR ONE JOB IN MASON CITY MASON CITY, la., Aug. 27.—The prosperity that has hit this town may be judged by an announcement that appears in the local paper. It refers to an advertisement that had been inserted for a truck driver and wafehouse man for an all year around job, and remarks that the plater of the ad informed the news- of the ad 34 replies had been re- ceived by noon time. This is an indication of the state of unemployment in Mason City, as well as thru the entire West. RAID ITALIAN DAILY; CHARGE LOTTERY DEAL Badillo and Candela Are Arrested Ten postoffice inspectors and plain clothes men yesterday bore down upon the Workers Party headquarters and ar. rested Louis Candela, secretary of the Italian Federation of the party and Alvaro Badillo, busi- ness manager of the Italian Communist daily, I! Lavoratore, for alleged violation of the fed- eral postal regulations. Charge Postal Violations. The charge was made that lottery tickets had been sent thru the mails in violation of the law but Comrade Candela today explained how the diffi- culty arose. Some time ago, a number of persons forming a local committee had begun to circulate a lottery for the benefit of the weekly predecessor to Il La- yoratore, Alba Nuova, but soon aban- doned the project. ignorant of the postal regulations, de- cided to revive the lottery and turn the money over to Il Lavoratore. He did this without the knowledge of the management of the paper or the exec- utive committee of the federation. Takes Responsibility. On being questioned by federal agents yesterday at the postofiice, Ba- dillo assumed sole responsibility for having sent out the lottery tickets. The two comrades were released in the hands of their lawyer, Isaac ‘E. Ferguson, until the time when they will be called again, The presence of department of jus- tice agents may complicate matters, since they demanded more than infor. mation about the lottery. Minutes oi various committees were requested, but the dicks were unsuccessful in get- ting them. It is not expected that the lottery case itself will develop intc anything serious, Two Labels Now NEW YORK, August 27,—Beginning charge of the Chicago office, is said to have stated today that the new| With September all ladies garments strike would assume much gi union last year, iter Roneraene than the one staged by the made under union conditions will have both the union sanitary label and the subsidiary trades unio nlabel, the In Asked to comment on the news Item, Mr. Rappoport, secretary of the} ternational Ladies Garment Union an Joint Board, stated that no etrike action had been contemplated. +~retimiahitaatmmree ne nounced, paper that with only one insertion | Comrade Badillo, | BUTLER’S FINKS SWARM IN ALL - TEXTILE UNIONS Helped Coolidge Smash Police Strike (Third Article) (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The biggest men in the republican |party are engaged in a con- |spiracy against the workers. | Yesterday we told how former |U. S. Senator P. J. McCumber, author of the Fordney-McCum- ber Tariff Bill, one of the old guard surrounding Coolidge, used private detectives to dis- credit an opponent in the elec- tions. | | | Butler, textile multi-millionaire, who is now chief financial backer of Coolidge and chair- man of the republican national committee, had hired a swarm of stool-pigeons to worm their way into thé confidence of the textile workers of New Bedford. We told how the Sherman Service jhad in their pay as a stool-pigeon, John Silver, Secretary of the Doffers’ and Spinners’ Union and Secretary of the Textile Council. | Finks Backed Coolidge. The Sherman stool-pigeon Service is closely connected with the republi can party and its standard-bearer in this campaign. It was backing Cool- idge as a strike-breaker while he was (Continued on Bie ar Phi 6) WAR-MONGERS IN JAPAN COUNTER U.S, “WAR DAY” .| “National Drill Day” to be Oriental Reply (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Aug. 27.—The military launched an agitation for a “National Drill. Day” on October 23 to be held all thru Japan with the obvious pur- pose of countering the imperialist maneuvers in the United States on “Defense” Day. Government officials have not yet given sanction to the plan but it can already be seen that the day will be observed by the inspired statements that are being issued to the effect that there is no connection at all be- tween the Japanese and Americin day. Defense Day for War. That the Communists’ interpreta- tion of Defense Day here as the first big post-war step towards open prepa- rations for a new war over the con- trol of Pacific. treasures, is seen in jthe protest against September 12 to President Coolidge by American mis- sionaries in Japan who realize more jacutely why the mobilization of Am- erica’s military strength is about to take place. K. K. K, SPANKED FOR RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE NOT ON LABOR STAND COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 27.—Fol- lowing the new lead set by its presi. dential candidate, the democratic party of this state, at its convention today adopted a platform declara- tion on the Ku Klux Klan which at- tacks the organization as rasing td standard of racial or religio lief as a test of fitness to the spirit of the American constitution, Not a word is said about the Klan's anti-labor attitude, and it is certainly not condemned for it. The democrats see the waning influence ofthe Klan as depicted in the losses they suffered in the recent pri+ maries in Oklahoma and Texas, and they are making the attempt to ride the wave of "paction against the Hooded Hoodiums dressed in Kute Knighties, sree sara emteene remade ekine baeetee. We told how William Morgan reservist organizations today officially’ oe