The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, August 28, 1924 PRO-WAR STAND OF LAFOLLETTE NOW DISCLOSED Bob Voted for 55 Out of 60 War Measures By JAY LOVESTONE, (Tenth Article.) The United States was offi- cially drawn into the imperialist holocaust on April 6, 1917. When we. look into LaFollette’s voting record on the ‘sundry war measures considered and enacted by congress from this date to the conclusion of the war we find that he voted for fifty-five out of sixty such measures. Our detailed examination of LaFollette’s war record follows: LaFollette’s Pro-War Record. April 6th. “Battling Bob” voted for the appropriation of $163,841,400 for the general deficiency, one hundred million of which were immediately placed at the dis- posal of the president for any war purposes he might decide upon. April 11. They Wisconsin senator supported a bill to appropriate $147,363,928 for “sundry and civil expenses of the gov- ernment.” Voted for an appropriation of $1,- 344,896 for the military academy. Supported the 1918 army appropria- tion totalling $273,046,322. April 17. LeFollette votes “YEA” on “An act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the national security and defense, and for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign gov- ernments and for other purposes.” The total amount voted at this time was $5,063,054,460. Three billions went to the Aflied imperialists as Joans. April 20, Supports the measure to increase the midshipmen of the navy. Votes for raising the age limit for officers of the naval ¢eserve from 35 to 50 years. Favors an act providing for the is- suance of rifles and equipment to the home guards. April 28. LaFollette votes YEA on an amend- ment to draft bill for volunteers to protect the border and on an amend- ment to call for 500,000 volunteers and draft any deficiency after ninety days. ‘ April 30, Supported a resolution empower- ing President Wilson to take over the German and Austrian ships in Ameri- can harbors. ‘ May 9 Votes for the Administration’s amendment to the Federal Reserve Act. May 14. Tho voting against the Espionage act, LaFollette supported an amend- ment to the Espionage act, giving the President power to make rules pre- venting the disclosure of movements of vessels and other war activities, but providing that this should not be construed as preventing the criti- cism of the act or policies of the gov- ernment. May 15. Votes for proposal to increase the enlisted strength of the navy, from Take a Vote in Your Shop LEGION AND A. F. L. FAKERS JOIN HANDS INN, Y. LABOR MEET (Special to The Dally Worker) SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Aug. 27. —"The aims of the American Leg- jon and the American Federation of Labor are the same, namely to fight radicalism,” said the state comman- der of the legion at the opening ses- sion of the State Federation of La- bor convention here in Redmen's Hall. President James Holland, in open- ing the convention, eulogized city and state officials for their great support to labor, which they still maintained was not a commodity, and to the child labor amendment. A fight developed over the iting of the notorious Brindell building trades council, and altho they are not affiliated to the American Fed- eration of Labor, they won the right to seats. eighty-seven to one hundred and fifty thousand, and the marine corps from 17,400 to 30,000. Supports McCumber amendment to organize a board to devise. ways and means of guarding against submarine attack, . May 16. Favors a resolution permitting the Red Cross to erect temporary build- ings in Washington. ea May 19. Supports a bill appropriating $3,- 281,094,541 for war expenses. This was the largest appropriation ever made up to that time by any govern- ment in the world at gne time. Of this sum, $405,000,000 was for build- ing a shipping fleet. May 22. LaFollette supports an act to in- crease power of Interstate Com- merce Commission in respect to car service. Favors an act appropriating $45,150,000 to insure vessels and their cargoes. Votes in favor of naval appropria- tions as provided for in H. R. 10,854. The bill was unanimously agreed to. In order to secure better control of transportation during the war, LaFol- lette favored a bill to increase the personnel of the Interstate Commerce Commission and also for an amend- ment to prevent the increase of rail- road rates until approved by the Commission. j May 29. Votes in favor of an act to encour- age retired officers to re-enter the army in the engineering corps. June 2. Votes for the Food Survey Bill, car- rying appropriations of $11,336,000 for sundry purposes. June 15. Votes for bill providing for con- demning land for military purposes. June 16. LaFollette favors bill giving presi- dent power to direct that war ship- ments should have priority over all other shipments.’ * June 18, * Favors bill granting officers of the Public Health Service serving on coast guard vessels in time of war, or enlisted in the navy or army, the same pensions as army or navy offi- cers. June 21. LaFollette supports measure for National Security and Defense by stimulating agriculture and appropri- ating for same $11,346,000. June 26. LaFollette allows the senate to pass measure providing for the drafting of the state militia and the National Guard into the Federal service, with- out a roll call. duly 14, Supports the establishment of a per- manent aviation station for military OW do the workers in your shop stand in this presidential election campaign? How many of your shop mates are still. so backward that they accept the leadership of Coolidge and Davis? How many of your fellow workers have been fooled by the specious pleas of LaFollette and adopt this middle-class saviour? And, above all, how many workers are there in your shop who un- derstand that the working class must have its own party, its: own polley, and its own candidate—and who therefore stand for William Z, Foster for president? Take a vote in your shop. Send it In to the DAILY WORKER. We will compile it along with all the other shop votes and give you a picture of how the workers are thinking about the election issues and candidates. WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE THE DAILY WORKER, \ 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. The workers employed in the Shop Ofsssussuesssssssssensssssesessserseeeees } wwoyhave taken a straw vote on the presidential candidates, and the vote was as follows: FOSTER visser VOCORS DAVIS vsimanssnins VOCS; LAFOLLETE wsssssemne Votes; COOLIDGE seus votes, I certify that this report is correct: Name: .... Address: novannapnnsasesavensnesecannssesnuasunsnssnsnggssnssscegnssusesneeaneessnees \ THE DAILY WORKER COMMUNISTS TO HAVE COMPLETE TICKET IN N. Y. State and Local Slate and naval forces in the harbor of San Diego. July 21, Votes for the Food Control Bill, ap- propriating $162, 500,000. Supports an appropriation of $640,- 000,000 for aviation. July 23, Favors a bill to relieve entrymen of desert land when they enter the naval or military service, July 26. Asserting that money is more need- ed for war purposes, La¥Follette votes against the River and Harbor Appro- SOLEMN AMERICAN DIGNITARIES YELL AS CALVIN IS NOTIFIED; G. 0. P. OLD GUARD STAYS HOME By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, August 27.—Radio audiences, listening in Coolidge’s acceptance speech, wondered at the persistence of a wolfish howl which started the volleys of applause from time to time, in sately Continental Memorial hall. They must have won- dered, too, at the starting of the applause on the most inconse- priation Bill, during the war. Supports amendment giving presi- dent power to limit expenditures on rivers and harbors during war, to ac- tual necessities. Amendment defeat- ed. August 22. LaFollette supports a bill to provide an air craft station for the navy at the cost of $150,000. September 11. Votes for an act to secure the sec- recy of patents on war inventions dur- ing the conflict. September 12. Favors the organization of an air craft board and a hundred thousand dollar appropriation for the same. _ Supports an act called “The Trad- ing with the Enemy Acti’ making it unlawful to carry on business with an alien enemy. September 13. Supports an act providing for the appointment of twenty chaplains at large for the army. September 15. Votes for the bill authorizing the second bond’ issue giving the secre- tary of the treasury, with the approv- al of the president, the power to bor- row $7,558,945,640 for war expendi- ‘tures, and to issue other certificates of indebtedness, up to four billion dollars and war saving stamps up to two billion dollars. Several amendments proposed by LaFollette to limit the rate of inter- est to four percent, to issue bonds in sums of twenty doilars or multiples therof, and to tax incomes derived from bonds were defeated. September 25. LaFollette supports the second big appropriation for the war, totalling $5,356,666,016. October 4. Supports bill permitting public land affidavits to be taken before military officers. * Votes for act providing insurance for military forces and for injured sol- diers and dependents involving an ap- propriation of $176,250,000. October 5. Supports a measure providing for commissions in the army for medical and dental corps. Votes to fix commutation price of the navy ration. Votes to establish ragings for arti- sans in the army. Supports an act empowering the pres- ident to use cavalry as artillery regi- ments. Favors a bill permitting vessels of foreign registration engaged in coast- wise shipping to be admitted to Amer- ican registration. Supports an act granting ‘six months’ pay as a gratuity to families of deceased officers and maikng same applicable to all retired officers re- entering active service. Favors act extending morality and liquor sections of army draft law to the navy. October 6. LaFollette supports a bill facilitat- ing the purchase of land for the Ord- nance Department. From the close of August to about mid-September, 1917, Congress was busy with the war revenue measure. During all this time LaFollette was busily at work in an effort to raise the maximum sum of money with which to wage the war-on the basis of levying higher tax rates on war Profits and big incomes rather than on the incomess of the middle and lower groups of capitalists. LaFol- lette’s proposals in this direction were of course, defeated by the spokesmen of the uppermost crust of the capital- ist class. But none of “Bob's” amend- ments aimed at preventing the im- Derialists from getting war funds. He aimed only at transferring the bur- dens of war to the biggest capitalists from the lower group of exploiters. Views of Our Readers Capitalist System Ethics. To the DAILY WORKER—I wish you would publish this letter in your paper to give your readers one exam- ple of the honesty of the industrial capitalist class. A year ago, thru an advertisement in the Rural New Yorker, which claims it guarantees all its advertise- ments, I purchased a garden tractor from the Centaur Tractor Company of Norwich, Ohio, paid $412 for it in cash and received a guarantee from the company that they would take the tractor back and refund my money if it did not prove satisfactory. So I had “two” guarantees, I tried out the tractor and found it was no good—it did not do the work guaran: teed in the contract. I wrote the com- pany and explained in detail. I asked them to take the tractor back and re- turn my money, They refused to do it, and I have a tractor which is of no use to me, It has cost me $412 to learn what the Rural New Yorker guarantee ad- vertisements are, An expensive les- son you will agree.—Joseph Carosilli, Holly, N. Y. Send in that Subsoription Today. Now Chosen (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The Workers Party of New York has nominated a complete local and state ticket to contest the elec- tions this fall in opposition to the socialist party-LaFollette- labor faker concoction, the democrats and the republicans. The petitions for signatures will be ready in a few days. Each branch manager must im- mediately get in touch with the district campaign manager for petitions for his district and also instructions in order to finish the tremendous task of getting 50,000 signatures during the coming month. Unions Endorse Ticket. A special conference has been called of all sympathetic unions, Workmen's Circle branches, and other fraternal organizations, the Kranke Kasse and co-operative movements to ratify and endorse the Workers Party ticket. Plans are rapidly going ahead with the formation of cloakmakers, furri- ers, capmakers and other committees from the various industries in support of the party slate (printed in another column). Over 70 brancKes of the Workmen’s Circle in the city of New York have already elected a committee of 100 members to work for the W. P. ticket during the election. The work’. is progressing rapidly and smoothly and all comrades must get on the job im- mediately for the big task of collect- ing signatures. All comrades must re- port immediately to their branch campaign manager for instructions in this work. Campaign Plans Mapped. It is proposed to have special cam- paign literature prepared and the Jewish Daily Freiheit and the Volk- zeitung, together with other party pa. pers, will issue special campaign edi- tions. Streets will be filled with the Communist message thru the lungs of the speakers that are being turned out by the speakers’ classes. Together with the seasoned orators in the party they will make a powerful battery for the Communist campaign. IOWA UNION COAL LOSING IN FAVOR OF SCAB PRODUCT Miners Losing Jobs by Manufacturer Scheme (By Federated Press.) DES MOINES, Aug. 27.—Discrimi- nation by Iowa manufacturers against Iowa union-mined coal is charged by a committee of the United Mine Workers local at Des Moines. This discrimination, the local says, has been going on for three years. Coal From Scab Fields. “Before the unaccountable discrim- ination set in,” says the committee’s statement, “Iowa produced an average of 7,000,000 tons of coal. During 1923 state mines produced about 4,000,000 tons. The state’s consumption is somewhere around 40,000,000 tons. Eastern coal is bought in the Chicago market at prices greater than Iowa coal. The coal has frequently been mined in West Virginia and east Ken- tucky, both strong nonunion fields. Union mined coal, however, is also bought. Miners Losing Jobs. “If discrimination keeps up, the miners will lose all work and the op- erators will be forced to shut down their mines. About 400 out of the Des Moines miners are working half time; the rest are working about one day a week or less. This discrimina- tion is directed not only against the Des Moines miners, but against all Towa miners, numbering some 12,000 men, or figuring on the basis of four to a family, some 48,000 persons.” According to President J. H, Har- ris of the Iowa District 13, over $42,- quential phrases amid the labyrinth of platitudes. Had they been in the hall, *Stearns, Greene and the rest of CANNON HEADS TICKET , OF WORKERS PARTY IN STATE OF NEW YORK (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ~ NEW YORK, August 27.—The fol- lowing state and local ticket has been selected by the Workers Party nominating convention held here: For Governor, P. Cannon, Long Island. For Lieutenant Governor, Franklin P. Brill, Buffalo. Lilly Lore, ecretary Edward Lindgren, James of State, omptroller, Brooklyn. ‘Treasurer, Abraham Epstein, Arthur 8. For’ State Engineer & Surveyor, Richard J. Verhagen, Schenectady. CONGRESSIONAL, DISTRICTS IN MAN TTAN ‘y Winitsky, against For Attorney General, Leeds, New 12th Dist., Ha Jacob Panken, Socialist. 13th Dist., Rose Pastor Stokes, against ferrari, Socialist. Ludwig. Lore, against n. st., Juliet inst La Guardia, cialist’’. rd Dist, Harry M. Wicks, against August Classens. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN 7th Dist., Joseph Kucher. 10th Dist., Alexander ‘Trachtenberg. ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS IN MANHATTAN , Dr, Abraham Caspe. t., Meyer Loonin. Rubin_ Saltzman. Canl Brodsky. lith Dist., William Weinstone. 18th Dist., Dr, Abraham Markoff. ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS IN BRONX Ist Dist., Louis Baum. Stuart Poyntz, “Republican-So- Samuel , Rebecca .. Hmanuel Elston. SSEMBLY DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN 6th Dist., Paul Scherer. 14th Dist., Sam Nesin 22nd Dist., Benjamin Lifshitz. 23rd Dist., Fannie Warshafsky. rey. SENATORIAL DISTRICTS IN MANHATTAN BROOKLYN 7th Dist., George Primoff. llth Dist., Dr. Charles Brower. NEW YORKERS TO GO WITHOUT THE JOYS OF MOVIES Operators May Strike on September Ist NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—If New York folks want to see their favorite movie stars on and after September 1, they had better put pressure to bear on the managers to concede the union's de- mands for the two shift system and higher wages. At an enthusiastic meeting in Beethoven Hall, the mem- bership of the Moving Picture Ma- chine Operators Protective Union voted overwhelmingly to strike at the end of the month unless the bosses yield. Confident of Victory. The union is assessing its members for a $200,000 defense fund and is con- fident of a clean cut victory: Mem- bers of the General Executive Board pointed out to the Federated Press that the New York workers have a record of avoiding scab places once Pickets have given them the facts. In addition, they say that the union has @ near monopoly of the skilled opera- tors in the industry. Before authorizing a strike the uni- on agreed to submit its demands to arbitration. These demands call for the two-shift system with a maximum of six hours and a minimum of four and a wage increase of 30 per cent. The scale now runs from $1.18 to $2.04 an hour. At the last moment the Theatre Owners Chamber of Com- merce refused to negotiate the new wage \scale and the strike vote was precipitated. Shorter Day Demanded. The union finds it necessary to cut hours to a double shift s: m be- cause of the danger to health of op- erators who inhale the carbon mon- oxide fumes of the projection booth for any length of time. The shorter workday per operator is also made necessary by the unemployment in the industry. Under the two shift sys- 000,000 is pent by Iowa people each year for coal mined out of the state. First Woman To Swim Channel. PARIS, August 27. — Thomas Bur-, gess, first man to swim the English channel, predicts that Miss Lillian Harrison, champion girl swimmer of Argentina, whom he training, will be the first woman to turn the trick, chestra in © tem a large part of the unemployed members will be put to work. Will Advi Him To Quit. TOKYO, August 27. — The Argen- tine minister here will advise the Ar- gentine air racer, Major Zanni to quit where Butler, Weeks, Gillett, the Massachusetts bloc—ex- cepting only the disabled Lodge dominated an audience com- posed of government employes and their relatives, they would have discovered Frank Mondell had provided them with a pro- fessional cheer-leader. The Rah-Rah Boys. This cheer-leader, a short, fat, red- faced man with horn-rimmed spec- tacles and high-tension energy in his pudgy arms, sat on the middle aisle, front row, just under the speaker's desk and in front of Chairman Butler and Lameduck Mondell. He watched anxiously a source of inspiration which appeared to be the Wyoming derelict, and at every possible chance he leaped to his feet, thrust his arms out over the crowd as tho to yank them from their chairs, let out his awful yell, and began the pumping gestures that mark the cheer-leader at a football game. Charlies, the Baptist, Also. At the end of three minutes of the first serious outbreak by this profes- sional enthuser, Hughes stepped for- ward and called for three cheers for Coolidge, which were given to the graceful waving of his left arm. Hughes seemed to think that he had established decorum, but he was soon disabused of that notion. Cal smacked his lips over the phrase “stupendous sum” and the madman was up again. A few minutes later Cal paid trib- ute to Hughes, Mellon, his pension vetoes, and proposed to keep America American. At each of these points the signal which seemed to come from Mondell and to reach the cheer-leader by means of a tack under his seat, sent the fat arms pumping over the heads of the first two rows, while grimaces that would exdite the envy of the hunchback of Notre Dame en- livened his features. A Significant Silence. When Cal mentioned honesty in government, the one-man demonstra- tion was asleep, but the tack, or whatever it was, woke him with a bound, and turning in midair to face the audience he let out a whoop that caused even the hardened Jim Wat- son to lift an eyebrow. And so it went thru the entire performance. The G. O. P. old guard was not present. The Old Familiar Faces Gone. Where were Pepper and Smoot and Wadsworth and Moses and Lenroot and the rest of the boys? Where was Cummins? Where were Newberry and Denby and Fall and Daugherty and the rest who notified Harding, four years ago? What had happened to Poin- dexter and Kellogg and McCumber and McCormick, and where was their safe majority in the house and the senate? INJUNCTIONS GET NASTY WALLOP IN NEW YORK COURT McCrate Raps Bosses For Request (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The labor injunction got a rap in’ the court- room of Supreme Court Justice Mc Crate in Brooklyn when he rebuked Gottlieb & Shiff, ladies’ garment man- ufacturers for asking for a restrain- ing order against the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, which is picketing the plant, before the police had found it necessary to make any arrests. McCrate said that from his experi- ence with the police he knew they would have made arrests if there had been any disorder. Morris Hillquit, counsel for the union, declared that there had been no violence. His legal opponent, John C. Osborne, represent- ing the employers, attempted to em- Phasize the importance of some affi- davits of employes who swore they were satisfied with their jobs but the judge discounted such assertions as ir- relevant. He reserved decision on the injunc- tion. . Lowden Dame Hitching Up. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y., August world flight when he reaches Tokyo. | 27,—Hundreds are being invited to tea The season is not conducive to high|this afternoon in honor of the hitch- fliers. MUSICIANS ATTENTION! Cornetists, flutists, clarinetists, and other wind instruments, also cellists and drummers WANTED | By the Young Workers League Orchestra Come and join the only revolutionary working cla: go. Friday, 8 p. m., 823Kimball Mall Bldg. x . paperreres ing up of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Lowden and the son of John B. Drake, sr. A good time will be had by John. Divers Recover Dough, LONDON, August 27,—With the ex- ception of a few bars, the entire seven million pounds sterling of gold bul- ‘Mon that went down with the Lauren- tic when a German submarine tor- pedoed her has been recovered by divers, togethr with sundry jewelry, Page Thre@ IO-HOUR DAY IN VOGUE IN : . STEEL MILLS 84-Hour Week Not All Eliminated Either (By The Federated Press) 4 NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Thé extent to which the eight-hour day has been installed in the steel industry has beer? greatly exaggerated, the Federal Coun- sil of Churches shows in an analysis of reports made by the U. S. Department of Labor and by S. Adele Shaw, an investi+ gator for the Cabot Fund. The 10-hour day is common; and the 84-hour week has not been entirely abolished. é Unskilled Suffer Worst. Laborers, the men who do the hards; est work at the least , are the worst sufferers. Seventy-five per cent of the laborers im the blast furnaces work 60 hours a week and more. | Of} the laborers at the fiery open hearth} furnaces 55 per cent work 60 hours? and more. The number of men having} the 48-hour week is almost negligible only 8 per cent of the total blast fur nace employes, skilled and unskilled, have their toil at this exhausting work? limited to 48 hours, and just 4 perj cent of the open hearth men. Condis} tions are slightly better on the Bessesj mer conyerter jobs. There is a difference of observatior?} regarding the seven-day week. Cabot’ Fund probing found it still prevail- ing, but the presidents of the U. S. Steel Corporation’s manufacturing subsidiaries have just asserted that if has been abolished. # Where the eight-hour shift, with three shifts a day, is used, the work- ers get only eight hours’ rest every other week-end, while shift time is be ing changed. The alternative weelg; they get 32 hours’ rest, which, how- ever, is four to eight hours less than is given eight-hour men in other occu- pations. —_ Gary Forecast Untrue. ea The gloomy forecasts of Judge Gary and other steel chiefs of higher costs under the shorter workday system are not borne out by production re- ports. In the rolling mills where 12- hour men have been put on ten-hour. shifts on tonnage rates, production is. as great in two ten-hour shifts or 20: hours as it formerly w@s in 24 hours. Since tonnage has actualy increased on blast furnace work, the same con- dition largely prevails. The reports show a large influx of Negroes and Mexicans to take the place of the European immigrants on whom the industry formerly depended for its fresh labor supply. oe CLEVELAND W. P, § 4 TO HOLD PICNIC. ON LABOR DAY Party Preparing for Gitlow Meeting |.) CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 27.—The last picnic of the season by Local Cleve land, Workers Party, will be held on Labor Day, at Russick’s Farm. Alb party members should arrange to spend the day at this picnic in order to help make this last affair a rouss, ing successe i The program of entertainment ind cludes sports, dancing, and a speech by Comrade Brahtin, Candidate tor} Congress from the 2ist Congressional, District. Comrade’ Brahtin is one of the best-informed comrades in the! Cleveland Local and his talk will be well worth the hearing. ; The sports will include a Potatod Race, Tug of War, Sack Race, and) Running Race for Men, for Wome: and for Children. 4 Take the West 25th car to the endy, then the State Road car to the end;) % mile west of the car line is the pio nic ground, on Russick’s Farm, Auto- mobiles take the Ridge Road to Bean Road, left on Bean Road to Stata Road, left on State Road to Russick’ Farm. 4 The Collinwood Branches are hok ing street meetings at the corner School and East 152d. All party! members and sympathizers in that) section should turn out and help make) these meetings sudcesstul; held on Saturday night, at 7 p. m. 4 Preparations are being made for & large crowd to hear Comrade Ben Git low, candidate for Vice-Presidenty when he speaks here Sunday, Sept. %, at 7:30 p. m., at the Bricklayers Hall, East 21st St. near Prospect. Admis. sion will be 25 cents. Reserve thig date, and advertise it among youg! frievtds and at your union or frate: meeting. Sheffield To Mexico H WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—James Ry, Sheffield, New York lawyer, is undey. consideration for appointment ad, United States ambassador tg it was learned today,