The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 139. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ENRY FORD has come out with a broadside in favor of the Ku Klux Klan, It may be mere than a coinci- dence that Ford’s Klan statement was made shortly after the flivver manu- facturer had a conference with Cool- idge. “If the truth were known about the Ku Klux Klan, it would be looked up to as a body of patriots,” said Henry. There may be methods in Henry’s madness. It is known that “many flivvers are used by the hooded Kluxers when on their tarring and feathering crusades. Perhaps Henry intends to go into the tar business, Several millions of Kluxers would pro- vide him with plenty ef customers, ‘+ * ACIFISTS and militarists are fight- ing it out at the Institute of Poli- tics, Williamstown, Mass. Oswald Garrison Villard, the good natured lib- eral, who never seems to realize what battleships were ‘built for, threw the apple of discord among the celebrities present when he lectured on “Ethics and the Export of American Capital.” He charged the government with aid- ing bankers and investors in exploit- ing weaker countries and'said that the blood of 3,000 Haitians and 400 in Vera Cruz was a blot on the honor of the American navy. Grizzled admirals and rear-admirals went for the. pacif- ist. They denied that the navy was ever used to collect debts. Villard knows it does, but apparently does not know that is one of its chief functions. *_ 2. © VERY interesting raid took place here in Chicago a few days ago. The raiders were Federal officials, They raided the federal building and walked away with the leading federal secret service operative who had charge of the work of rounding up evidence for use against the hold-up men who participated in the sensa- tional mail robbery at Roundout, Wisconsin, when $2,000,000 in money and securities were taken from the train. The arrested man, William F. |Fahy, had a reputation second to none, for locating postal thieves. He jit. was who secured the evidence against “Big Tim” Murphy in the Dearborn station robbery. Fahy-might eh set be Nes ale El ing , Dai i | ers.in the ‘Coolidge administration. If ‘Fall, Denby and the rest of them could sell out the country to oil pi- ;rates and get away with it, it was worth taking a chance on $2,000,000. ae 'HE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN announces that the Prince of ‘Wales may announce his intention to get married after he returns from his American tour. The Prince is caus- ing considerable anxiety among the best American families who have mar- riageable daughters and lots of money to purchase 4 title. Here is a big prize. American millionaires have purchased kings, princes, dukes and other aristocrats beforé this, but an heir to the British throne does not happen along every day. Peggy Joyce could vamp a Swedish count, but it takes real money to buy @ young British king. 4, @ TATES ATTORNEY CROWE is nothing \if not inconsistent. After making a vulgar display of his professed belief in God, and attribut- ing the discovery of the clue that led to the arrest and confession of the murderers, he referred to the case of the young man, Fitzgerald, whom he sentenced to death when judge, tho the criminal entered a plea of guilty. Crowe said that he sentenced Fitz- gerald to dgth fho he was “of my own race and faith.” It is just as il- logical to blame the Catholic religion for the murder of which Fitzgerald was guilty as it would be to attribute Leopold’s criminal tendencies to the fact that he is a professed atheist. But Crowe is a cheap, self advertiser and cares nothing for logic or con- sistency. > ¢. 22 ‘HE only thing we can think of that may be to President Coolidge’s credit is that he does not play golf. But it appears that he is not addicted to this vice, because of a healthy instict. He has a religious reason for not being a golfer. When asked if he golf on Sunday, the president “My grandmother was a Bap- tist.”. He evaded such a trifling ques tion, | ee ES ‘HE only issue between the Dem. ocrats and the Republican in this campaign is_one of honesty. The Democrats say in effect: “During the past four years that the Republicans had charge of the national interets they were unfaithful to their trust. They, robbed and grafted. We are honest.” Give us a chance to prove it.” No fundamental difference ‘over policy is stressed. The old tariff bogey is dead. On the question of wat the League of Nations, the 0 cratic candidate is for open participa- tion. The Republicans practically participating, but not officially, 4 X SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAWES PLAN HITTING ROCKS Chicago Speeds Campaign Work PUSH PETITIONS, | ier mo er | in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, 4! NEW SUBS AND PARTY MEMBERS Much Interest Is Shown in Straw Votes Drive forward for the biggest smash at capitalism yet re- gistered by the Communist forces in the United States! This was the spirit of the en- thusiastic gathering of the Chi- cago membership of the Work- ers Party addressed by Joseph Manley, the party’s campaign manager, and Earl R. Browder, “istries and that only he, DESERVE NO MERCY SAYS BOBBY CROWE “Loeb and Leopold deserve no mercy,” yelled Robert E. Crowe, prosecuting attorney in summing up his case. Crowe invoked the spirit of the famous highbinder, Theodore Roosevelt, to show that Teddy was not in favor of commutation of the death sentence of one John W. Bur- ley. Crowe insisted that Darrow’s speech had been a mass of soph- Crowe, knew what he was talking about. He maintained that the murder of Robert Framks had been committed for the money involved and not be- cause a pituitary gland had sprung a leak. Judge Caverly will take a few weeks off to digest all the evidence before rendering his decision, the date for which is set on Septem- ber 10. MINERS READY TO MEET FIRE OF KU KLUXERS member of the party’s Central Executive Committee. Three Big Party Tasks. Three big important duties for the moment were given thoro and successful considera- tion as follows: First—The gathering of thousands of signatures to put a complete ticket on the ballot for the first time in a national presidential elec- tion. Second—The getting of thousands of subscriptions for the DAILY THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday PUBLISHING CO., by THE DAL 1118 W. Washington Blvd., EXPOSE SECRE INSTRUCTIONS T0 SHERMAN SPIES Absolute Se Secrecy in Manipulations srourth Article. ) ipecial to ¢ Daily Worker’ NEW YORK" Aug, 28."Briga- dier General Charles Gates “Fascist” Dawes made a speech the other day in which he was supposed to have condemned “secret organizations.” But that was only the way the Capitalist newspapers put it —actually, he endorsed any se- eret organization providing on- dy that it fight organized labor. This open shop vice-presidential candidate on the republican ticket could not denounce secret organiza- tions as long as they fight the work. ers. The whole national republican committee is an organization whose .{inner machine wraps its motives and |iasftaes and financial affairs in pro- found secrecy.’ The national commit. tee of the republican party conceals from the people as a whole and from the workers in particular the huge campaign donations made by big busi- WORKER, so that it can carry the Communist message daily into hitherto unreached fields. Third—The winning of tens of Angered by I Marder of Mexican I Digger (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) DOWELL, Ill., Aug. 28.—De- spite the fact that Mayor Gus Blair, of Murphysboro, has come to the aid of the Klan, and that deputy sheriffs in town have received threatening let- ters signed K. K. K., the citizens of this town are armed and pre- paréd to protect their homes from further Kian outrages. millions of America’s working class. Straw Votes in Favor. The plan of taking straw votes among the workers in the mines, mills and factories, was also greeted enthusiastically and will be pushed energetically. These straw votes are the only totes that will indicate the real trend of working class sentiment in this campaign. They will be pub- lished regularly in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. A blank for this purpose appears on another page. Ways and means for immediately mobilizing the whole membership of the party for activity in these major tasks were presented by Manley and Browder, and also by Martin Abern, chairman of the meeting, who led the discussion on how to get Signatures. Browder took up the question of DAILY WORKER circulation, the mew membership drive and straw votes in the factories, while Manley reported progress made in the political cam- paign to date. © All Must Be Active, Abern stressed the importance of getting every member in the party Muby at once to bring in these sig- natures, if we are to place our can- didates on the ballot this election. He gave a report on the progress made in\ each district. He particularly stressed the need of more activity by’ the members of the Young Work- ers League for this work. The secretaries of all branches were instructed to call special meetings at once to organize their committees for this important task. Browder Demands More Readers. Browder stressed the need for greater activity in Chicago to get readers for the DAILY WORKER. A new subscriber for the DAILY (Continued on page 3) ORDER BY TELEGRAPH Before 6 O’Clock Tonight FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN — the invasion of their homes, the the terrorizing and gun-toting which the Ku Klux Klan has been practicing here for the past two weeks. K. K. K. Shoots. Mrs. Louis Gomer, wife of the man murdered by the Klan last week, in- terviewed and photographed by the DAILY WORKER, today, said she has no money. Louis, her husband who was shot by Tom Reese, a cowardly Klansman, had paid $600 toward the tiny home he had provided for his family, but Mrs. Gomer said she has ino money with which to keep up pay- ments. “I have been lying around the house, bewildered,” Mrs. Gomer said. “Louis never did anyone any harm. My baby is sick and I don’t know how I am going to provide food for them.” “Louis Gomer was a Mexican, true enuf,” said Joseph Stimebiegel, deputy sheriff of the town. “But he was a nat- uralized American citizen, a veteran of the Spanish American and of the World War. Louis was a good lad, who never did anyone any harm and (Continued on page 5) ness. Secret Organizations of Big Biz. Even the request made by the Unit- ed States senate upon the republican national committee to disclose how a | Five -meat.packers hay: handed thé republican party since 1920 is ignored—and the amount kept secret. These conspiracies of capital against the organized and unorganized workers are the stock in trade of the (Continued on page 3) .| Williams, TRANSPORT WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPS STRONG BRITISH-DUTCH LEFT WING AT HAMBURG CONGRESS (Special to The HAMBURG, Aug. Daily Worker) 7 (By Mail.)—The International Congress of the Transport Workers’ Unions was opened today with rep- resentatives from 56 unions, of 2,000,000 members. 28 countries, representing over The opening speech was delivered by the general secretary of the Transport Workers’ Un-*+ ion of Great Britain, Robert who severely con- demned the Dawes plan. ‘ Dawes Plan Denounced Robert Williams said: “This Plan has been devised to protect the in- terests of finance capital and when en- forced will lead to the further ruina- tion of the working masses. The so- called stabilization of the European economic system will be paid by the workers with a terrific price.” Continuing the speech Williams ex- pressed an emphatic protest against the attempt to denationalize the Ger- man railroads, against the plans to cut the wages of the German railroad workers, and in general against the enslavement of the workers of Germa- ny by international capital. These protests by Williams were heartily ap- proved by the delegates. In conclusion, Williams remarked: “But it is only to be wondered at how the leaders of the international labor movement could so readily accept the Dawes Plan.” Favors Admission of Russia. Speaking about the Russian trans- port workers union joining the inter- national organization, Williams ex- pressed the hope that in the very near future the Russian unions will esta- blish close connections with the Trans- port- Workers. International, in accord- ance with the resolutions passed by the Vienna Congress of the Amsterdam International. Regarding the invitation to the In- ternational Propaganda Committee of (Continued on page 2) (Special to The detachment of United States marines i t rt! i lecti shooting of ,their citizens and preserve order during the forthcoming election. NICARAGUA AGENTS OF WALL STREET CALL FOR UNITED STATES MARINES WASHINGTON, D. C., August 28.—The state department today received They declare they will resist | @ request from the conservative forces in Nicaragua for the sending of a Daily Worker) to the Central American republic to OFF TONIGHT The Special Communist Cam- paign Edition wil be running off the presses tonight. After 6 p. m., unless you have your order already in, it will be too late and you will not have taken advantage of the great oppor- {tunity to strike a nail into the coffin of capitalism or do your share in preparing the minds of the American workingclass for the coming of the Soviet Republic of the United States. Orders Coming In. City Centrals, branches and indi- viduals are sending in orders and not alone party members are ordering DAILY WORKER (SIX POWERS SPECIAL ISSUE | WATCHING BIG bundles but sympathizers. All branches of the Workers Party have not yet done their duty, how- ever. This is the last day to act. Send in your order by wire. The capitalist parties have plenty DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lil. For the enclosed §........ ow» Coples of the First . Special Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the speete! rate of 31 cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred. | want to help raise the standards of Communiem in'this compolen for the Workers Party tleket—Foster and Gitlow. NAME cicssccssceoeesssssssssnsvssnonecoessseessesesoseqsomensvensessoonsonpeoensven “g ADOREGS cisscsssssscsocoossocrsonsooresssessesnsnnonssvassesssersensanneororseesssenseosesessseeseetssteeessnnen ORM niieoh nein sins! HATA Regie of. money to spend on radio broad- casting. They can shoot their bunk over the ether into the homes of the workers. Coolidge, Davis, Dawes and Bryan, LaFollette and Wheeler, can afford to pay high prices to the radio trust for sending out their nostrums, The Workers Party must depend on b> Rag assistance of its mem- Order now! ‘The campaign num- sells for five cents a copy. Bun- dle orders sell for 3% cents. Wire your order to The DAILY WORKER, 1118 West Washington Street, Chica- Ti Orders will be taken up un- SILK STRIKERS DENOUNCE S. P. DAILY FORWARD Strike Committee Hits Yellow Sheet By H. M. WICKS (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 28. —True to its record of betrayal of that part of the working class that falls under its in- fluence, the notorious Jewish Daily Forward, controlled by the rabid Bolshevik-baiter, Abe Cahan, endeavored, in a recent article, to create division in the ranks of the Paterson silk strik- ers by raising the anti-Com- munist issue. NEGRO MEET By ROBERT MINOR (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 28.— Liberty Hall, the rambling one- story frame building with a seating capacity of 5,000 which has become known far and wide as the meeting place of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association convention in New York, is today the center of a concentrated fire of the diplomatic guns of at least three great world powers, if not six of the most powerful govern- ments of the world. The startled fear with which the great capitalistic govern- ments view any organized movement among the sup- pressed colored races anywhere in the world, is illustrated with almost ludicrous sharpness when the combined French. British, and American govern- ments—with perhaps the Bel- gian, Spanish and Italian gov- ernments lending a hand—un- der cover of the name of the consul-general of the little Negro state of Liberia, are is- suing diplomatic documents denouncing the Negro conven- tion in New York as “incendia- ry.” Iseue Inspired Note. A diplomatic note just given out at Washington, on the face of it inspired by the Great Powera but signed by (Continued on’ page 2) Its failure to injure the strike was as, humiliating as its effort was contemptible. This time its yellow appeal to ig- norant prejudice acted as a boom- erang, as the strike committee of the Paterson silk workers, in a hot re- tort, correctly aligned Cahan and his whole crew with the lowest of capi- talist pen prostitutes. The reply of the strike committee told Cahan: “If you are not paid the same as any other paper that slan- ders the workers when they are en- gaged in a desperate struggle against the avarice and greed of the capital. ists, you are scabbing upon the paid capitalist editors.” S. P. Tried to Butt In. In the long, tedious preparation for the silk strike, during which period the Communists of Paterson were most active, the socialist party politi- cians were never heard from, because most of the remnants of that party in Paterson are petty bourgeois manu facturers whose interests are opposed to the interests of the mill slaves. They covertly tried to belittle the ef- forts of the Associated Silk Workers’ Union to prepare the workers for a strilte against the multiple-loom sys- tem, because most of them were sweating their slaves under this iden- tical system. But when the strike was called and the response was such as to insure its success, and when the Communists, who had worked day and night during the arduous preparatory work, took Prominent places on the strike com- mittee, the yellow socialists then tried to sneak into the committee by glow ing promises that the Jewish Daily Forward organization would use its wealth and influence in the interest of the strikers. A group of small capitalists, carry- ing credentials from the local socialist party, appeared before the strike com- mittee and boasted of the great opu- lence of the Forward and assured the committee that their organization would assist the strikers. But just be- fore leaving, the spokesman said there was just one little thing he had for- gotten—the fact that the socialist par- ty should be permitted to have three members seat®1 on the strike com. mittee, This blank. request was refused point Yellow Rats Enraged. Infuriated at the failure of its polit- ical henchmen to impose themselves (Continued on page 3) “Jican | Communist Candidates | Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN CGITLOW. LY WORKER Chicago, IL Price 3 Cents COMMUNISTS EXPELLED IN GERMAN ROW \Dawes Plan Caught in Political Whirlpool (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Aug. 28.—So vigor- ous and effective is the Com- munist opposition in the Reichstag to the Dawes Plan that a squad of detectives en- tered the House to compel the Communists to leave the build- ing. This is the first time in the history of the Reichstag that such action has been taken, and shows to what extremity, the government is driven in its efforts to put the Dawes Plan across. While the plain clothes men -were swarming into the chamber, the Com- munists sang the Internationale, The government lost out in the first vote on the Dawes Plan, when the banking, industrial and railroad bills, included in the Dawes Plan, failed to receive the necessary two- thirds vote. Owing to the opposition of the Com- munists who continued to press their amnesty bill, further balloting was postponed until tomorrow. There is scant hope that the Dawes Plan will be passed in the Reichstag. The government threatens to sign the Lon- don agreement whethet the House passes it or not, It is expected final action will be taken on the Dawes Plan tonight. LEGIONAIRES FEAR FOSTER’S [OWA MEETINGS No Violence Against Him Now, They Say William Z, Foster, who left last night on a trip thru lowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and south- ern Illinois, to carry the mes- sage of Communism in the pre- sidential campaign, has re- |reived notice from the Amer- Legion that they are watching him. “Reddest Red is Coming Here to Talk Sovietism,” is the head- line in the “Iowa Legionaire,” publication of the American Legion in Des Moines. Legionaires Worried, “All loyal citizens realize the dan- ger to society from even a few con- verts to the insanity he preaches,” says the Legionaire. In view of the traditional methods of mob violence and Fascist action by the Legion in the past, against those whom it considers “dangerous,” there was some talk about attempts being made to prevent Foster from speak- ing. But the officials of the Legion have denied that such things will happen. “No effort will be made,” says this paper, “to keep Foster from coming but the effects of his visit will be watched closely.” Question ‘Cautious Attitude. Whether this cautious attitude ex- presses a fear that to act against Foster would arouse more support for Communism, or whether it is merely to establish an alibi, while the rough stuff is pulled off by the rank and file, remains to be seen. While the Legion fumes and fuss- és, the interest in Foster's meetings continues to grow. Large crowds are predicted in aii the mid-western cities where Foster speaks in the next few days. * UNITED STATES WARSHIPS WILL SHOOT CHINESE FOR U. S. BANKERS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. c. August 28.—Preparations were being made at the navy department today for the concentration of naval forces in the Far East.for the protection of Amrican interests In China during the revolution now directed at Shanghai. snnnannstinniesshsttecnsatiientnt lin ectshtssbatdssnsenalnle™