The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 2

1° Page Two MILITANTS IN ENGLAND FORM ORGANIZATION National Minority Meet Is Successful (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, August 28.—Two hundred and fifty delegates, in- cluding 73 from the provinces, met here today at the “national minority” conference, held un- der the auspices of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, British Bureau. Tom Mann, well-known fig- ure in the British labor move- ment, for many years head of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (machinists) and member of the executive com- mittee of the R. I. L. U., pre- sided at the conference. To Follow T..U. E. L. At today’s session it was decided to create a national organization for the purpose of co-ordinating the work of the minority movements within the various unions so that revolutionary activities can be more successfully carried on. The organization will largely follow the lines of the Trade Union Educational League in America. This is the first attempt to create and perfect such a national movement. That the chances for a revival and growth of the movement for making revolutionary organizations out of the present unions in Great Britain, which are now under the control of “His Majesty's Labor. Opposition,’ are very great, can be seen by the increasing dissatisfaction of the rank and file of the unions with the leadership of the labor fakers. Unofficial strikes, con- demnation of officials who are betray- ing the workers’ ideals, the greater in- fluence of the Communists among the workers’ are some of the symptoms which mark a revival of militant act- ivity. The election of J. A. Cook, left- winger, as head of the miners’ union, is another sign. Have Noted Leaders Under the leadership of such noted left-wing leaders as Tom Mann, Willie Gallacher, and Harry Pollit the “na- tional minority movement” of the R. I. L, U. is expected to become a powe® that will soon prove itself in the councils of the workers. Greeks Demand Satisfaction. ATHENS, Aug. 28.—Greece sent a note to Sofia today demanding satis- faction from Bulgaria for the killing of a Greek frontier guard during a clash on the border. Greece claims that Bulgarian troops made a raid over the border. Bul- garia contends the trouble arose from a foray of Comitadjis (irregulars), over whom the government has little control. FAHY DOESN'T GIVE BOND; SLEUTHS IN HUNT FOR THE LOOT William F. Fahy, star postal in- spector and recently arrested as the alleged head: of the major postal robberies of the year, is making no efforot to be released on $50,000 bonds. Feeling that he has the money hidden, imported government Sher- (Continued from page 1.) Edwin Barclay, secretary of state of Liberia, reads as follows: “The government of Liberia, irre- vocably opposed both in principle and fact to the incendiary policy of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, headed by Marous Gar- vey, and repudiating the improper implications of its widely advertised scheme for the immigration of American Negroes into the republic under the ausplees of this associa- tion, which scheme, apart from not having the sanction of the Liberian government, does not appear to be bona fide and has in addition a ten- dency adversely to affect the ami. cable relations of the republic with the friendly states possessing terri- tories adjacent to Liberla, desire to place on record their protest against this propaganda so far as it relates to Liberla, and to express their con- fidence that the government of the United States will neither facilitate nor permit the emigration under the auspices of the Universal Negro Im- provement Association of Negroes from the United States with Intent to proceed to Liberia.” “Free” Negro Republic Small. The “free” Negro republic of Li- beria, settled a century ago by Ameri- can Negroes, is but a tiny patch on the west*toast of Africa, but as a land- ing place on the African continent out of their control, the European colonial powers have long considered it dan- gerous. The Great Powers have for many years been slowly stealing mile after mile of her territories, bulldozing and threatening with armies and na- vies when the weak little republic protested. England is now fighting armed re- bellion in the Sudan. Spain is suffer- ing military defeats in Morocco; the Spanish army has almost been driven from African soil by the great inde- pendence movement among African matives. Africa has, since the world war, because one of the main sub-soils into which the weakened capitalism of Europe is trying to sink fresh roots of colonial imperialism. The new post-war French empire has become utterly dependent on holding and strengthening the conquest of a great hinterland in Africa. An English war- ship rushing to Egyptian waters testi- fies that the British empire cannot withstand the shock of an epidemic of native nationalism in Africa. Those who cannot see a spark until it becomes a bonfire might smile over a mere meeting of Negroes in a one- story Harlem shack; and even wise men will smile over the fantastic “canonization of Jesus as a Black Man of Sorrows,” and at the equally fan- tastic and cruelly fraudulent idea that the American Negroes’ troubles will be solved by a wholesale transfer of the black portion of the American pop- ulation to African soil. But the colonial offices in London and Paris, and their allies in the Washington state department cannot afford to smile about the slightest touch between the African continent and any Negro nationalist movement, not even-in the fanta8ttc garb that this one carries. The result is that the Great Powers, disguising their voice behind the person of Edwin Bar- clay, secretary of state of Siberia, of which government they have gained control thru military threats and financial pressure, have fired this lat- est shot at the Negro convention. Thru 40 Years’ Struggle. Particular attention should be di- rected to the words in the document: “a tendency adversely to affect the amicable relations of the republic (of locks are hot on the trail for the $2,000,000 Rondout mail robbery loot which they believe is secreted some place in Chicago. It was said also that the arrest _of two more principals in the rob- bery is expected momentarily. Inspectors are saying that they be- Weve Fahy will not try to make his bond for fear both of implicating others and of having revealed the place where the money is hidden. Liberia) with the friendly states pos- sessing territories adjacent to Li- beria.” The “friendly states” referred to are the British empire and France. It will be remembered that for nearly forty years the little Negro republic has been struggling to prevent its exter- mination by France and England. About 1907 France stole 2,000 square miles of the best of Liberia’s territory and compelled the Liberian govern- JOHN EDWARDS BACK FROM SOVIET RUSSIA WILL SPEAK TONIGHT AT T.U. E. L. MEET IN NORTHWEST HALL One of the most interesting meetings ever held by ‘the Chicago Local of the Trade Union Educational Leagu OFFICIAL ORGAN OF LEGERE’S ONE BIG UNION KICKS BUCKET LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 28.— Lawrence Labor, official organ of Ben Le; private dual union, the One Union, has suspended Publication, according to the Law- rence unit of the union, due to lack of financial support and the nation of the editor, Bert E j ATTENTION! All Literature and DAILY WORKER Agents should be pres ent at the DAILY WORKER office, 1113 W. Washington St., Saturday, Aug. 30,3 p.m. Branches not rep- resented will be notified of the fail- ure of agent to attend. e will take place tonight in Northwest Hall, corner of Western and North Avenues. It is one of the regular monthly meetings of the T. U. B. L. and is open to the public. The principal at- traction this evening will be a lecture by John Edwards, member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers’ League, who has re- cently arrived from Russia, where he attended the sessions of the Fifth Congress of the Communist Interna- tional. Comrade Edwards will speak on “Youth and its Relations with the Trade Union Movement.” Comrade Earl Browder, editor of the\Labor Herald, will give his usual monthly report on the progress of the revolutionary movement in the trade unions here and in other countries. The recent swing to the left wing in England and the activities of the left bloc in the Amsterdam International are of tremendous significance to the workers of America. The meeting will start promptly af 8 o’elock. SIX POWERS WATCHING NEGROES ment to surrender its claim. Since the world war and the subsequent wave of unrest in Africa, these Powers have taken every possible step to keep the “independent” Negro state of Liberia (as well as that of Abyssinia on the other side of the continent) as weak as possible, as an example to all Afri- can native peoples of the “inherent disability” of Africans to govern them- selves, and therefore the necessity to depend on the colonial control of Eu- ropean governments. In 1923 the Universal Negro Im- provement Association, with head- quarters in New York, was frowned upon by the Great Powers as an or- ganization spreading in the West In- dies, South America, Liberia and the United States a sort of “pan-African nationalism” which it was feared might “adversely affect” their colonial rule over the black peoples. The United States government in 1293 sup- pressed the convention of the U. N. I. A. by arresting the president of the organization and keeping him in jail until the intended period of the con- vention had passed. I don’t know whether Marcus Garvey was or was not culpable, but J will not take the word of the United States government for it. Many Negro leaders whose sin- cerity cannot be questioned, in addi- tion to nearly all of the white “liberal” intellectuals who take an interest, in the Negro movement,’as well as the most reactionary political circles, de- clare that Marcus Garvey, president- general of the organization, was justly convicted of misuse of the mails in his methods of collecting money. But a glance at the record shows that any man guilty of getting a lot of money by dishonest means—be it by bootlegging or by bribing the mem- bers of the president’s chabinet—does not get convicted as long as he has any of that money. To put it mildly, the writer has never seen any evi- dence that the federal authorities prosecute anybody for swindling. Garvey Cringing. However, casting aside all the charges of the “dicks,” there are far worse charges which the “dicks” would only smile upon. The efforts of the Negro leader to “keep out of trouble” by catering to the most re- actionary elements of the white capi- talist class present a record so dam- aging to Garvey as to overshadow all of the specious charges of the federal “dicks.” I have in my possession a letter purporting to be signed by Gar- vey, addressed to a reactionary white capitalist in subservient tone, sugges- tively referring to the “friction” that is caused by the Negro’s attempts to gain political rights and “social equal- ity” in the United States, and broadly hinting at the desirability of white millionaires giving financial assist- ance to a movement that will turn the Negroes’ attention to Africa and away from such ambitions in America. (I will treat this more fully in a later article.) Even worse, and more con- cretely dangeorus to the Negro, is the circumstantial evidence to show that Garvey has extended exactly the same sort of plea toward the Klan terror or- ganization—that is, that if this Négro- burning organization will tolerate Gar- vey’s operations in the United States, Garvey will relieve the Klan of the hated black man’s striving for liberty in America by turning the Negro’s at- tention “back to Africa.” a Of course the idea that the twelve million Negro people in the United States (who are as muweh “American” as anybody here) could be bodily transplanted into Africa, is an idiotic phantasy. None but the most foolish take it literally in this way, and Gar- vey himself does not exactly claim to do that; his pleas to, the white mil- lionaires are rather put on the basis that he will take the Negroes’ hope of freedom away from America, than that he will take the Negro population away in toto. This conyention is coming to a close with Marcus Garvey appearing more distinctly each hour in the dastardly role of the one Negro leader (outside of a few Negro’ professional and busi- ness men) who cringes before the Negro burners, saying he wants “to keep out of trouble.” Tyrants Are Trembling. But at the same time the echoes from near and far show that the pow- ers of oppression are trembling be- fore the coming dark tornado that swirls now in eddies around Liberty Hall within the segregation dam in New York city, and which is destined to break hard upon the coast of Africa and that of Asia, and to help to sweep & capitalist-impertalist world into a world of revolution, The phenomenon of organization of Negroes is here. It is beginning to take its right¢u? place in the struggle of the oppressed, weaker nationalities against interna tional capitalist imperialism. It will stay. It will grow. The hope of free. dom for the world, for Harlem, for Senegal, for Georgia, Oregon, Abys- sinia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Texas, England—the hope of the rev- olution for all the oppressed of the world is brighter because of this be- ginning of the organization of the most oppressed part of the American proletariat, with international connec. tions. Garvey may destroy himself by fawning in the organization's name before the cowardly Ku Klux, Klan; but with one set of leaders discredit- ed and disgraced, the organization will go on nevertheless and will find leaders who are not afraid, ‘ THE DAILY WORKER KU KLUX KLAN IN ATTEMPT 10 STOP|F ay, Ace of Postal WORKERS’ STRIKE Taylorville, Ill., Picket Is Beaten Up / (Special to the Daily Worker.) TAYLORVILLE, Ill, Aug, 29.—The local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan has shown its true color as a fascist or- ganization ready to lend active serv- fee to help suppress the organized workers. The International Union of Retail Clerks is at present conducting a drive to organize the white collared workers im the stores of this little city. It is receiving the active sup- port” of the United Mine Workers Sub-district No. 5. One part of the organization strategy has been the calling of a strike, with members of the miners’ locals doing picket duty. Banker Leads Kluxers. A few days ago the local chapter o/ the hooded brotherhood, under the leadership of a local banker, went or record condemning the attempts made to organize the white collared slaves condemning the labor movement in general and the assistance given by the mine workers in particular. Com- ing from the meeting where this ac- tion was taken, several of the Kluxers assaulted and beat up one of the coal diggers on the picket line. GLENN YOUNG, KU KLUX HERO, GIVES COURT THE AIR Judge Busy Forfeiting His Bail Bonds ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 28.—Efforts to locate Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan raider of Southern Illinois, who is at liberty under bonds aggregating more than $200,000, proved futile today after his mysterious disappearance from a leading Atlanta hotel. Altho Young declared to the last minute that he would enter an At- lanta hospital for a “major operation,” a check today failed to show his regis- tration at any of them. Employes of the hotel here said he “failed to leave a forwarding address,” adding that they had no idea of his whereabouts. Young came to Atlanta from Her- rin, Ill, last week in order to under- go the operation, he ‘said, which was necessary because of wounds received when an assault was made upon him several months ago in Illinois. ** * HERRIN, Ill, Aug. 28.—Belief was expressed here today that S. Glenn], Young, Ku Klux Klan raider, who was reported to have disappeared with his wife from an Atlanta, Ga., hotel yes- terday, was on his way to Herrin to surrendér himself to the court here where fifteen of his cases arising out of the February 8 rioting heré, were on the docket this week. Bondsmen Rattled. City Judge BE. N. Bowen Ifas al- ready ordered forfeited nine of Young’s bonds, aggregating $39,000, on account of Young’s non-appearance when his cases were called for trial, despite affidavits presented to e effect that Young was unable, phys- ically, to travel. This action is said to have scared the Kluxer’s bondsmen. It became known today that Young was in long distance telephone com- munication yesterday afternoon with Arlie Boswell, his attorney here. Sheriff George Galligan was report- ed to be preparing to swear in extra deputies to preserve order, following voicing of threats against Young. MUSIC SUPPLIES ATMOSPHERE TO: RUSSIAN FILM Workmen’s Circle Or- chestra Big Favorite An extraordinary feature for the showing of “The Beauty and the Bol- shevik,” which has had astounding success, is the 25-piece Workmen's Circle Mandolin Orchestra. This or. chestra hag been in existence many years and has tremendous popularity among the 100,000 members of that organization, as well as among the many other workers for whom they have played on various. occasions. The mandolin orchestra has prepared special musical selections for this oc- casion. Because of the great number of peo- ple that have been unable to get into the theater since the opening of the show, all are urged to come promptly at 7:30, Don't Come Late, aK This picture is being shown at the Lenox Theater, 111th St. and Lenox Ave., New York, with a continuous performance from 7:30 p, m. until 11 ‘p,m. 7 Ls xe Sleuths, Had Many Examples to F ollow By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, William F. Fahy, herdlded as “the ace of postal sleuths,” is spending his time in a cell in the Kane Couey Je near Chicago. It is claimed that Fahy got a big hunk of the proceeds of the $2,000,000 mail robbery loot taken, in the nation’s most up-to-date train hold-up, at Rondout. If “Bill” Fahy is guilty of all the charges now levelled at him, it would be nothing unusual. It would only be an- other instance where a public official had used his office for his own benefit. That is a common feature of. public and _ Private business,under capitalism. According to capitalist ethics anyone who doesn’t do it is “a fool.” i * * * Fahy knew all the ins and 6uts of the postal service. He knew of the great wealth, in negotiable securities, that was being transported daily thru the mails. Why not get some of it? That was a very logical question. The Rondout mail robbery helped push the Teapot Dome scandal, for a day, on an inside page. It had been shown, at Washington, that public officials, democrats and republicans alike, of all shades, could be bought for a sum. _ Harry M. Daugherty, as head of the department of justice, had made everything pay, according to charges, from graft in aircraft to bootlegging. Daugherty had been raw about it. He sold pardons, for instance, like groceries, over the counter, or jobs as federal judges. In other cases it was more politely done. William Gibbs McAdoo, an aspirant for the presidency, was more genteel about it. He just got $250,000 as a professional retainer, with promises, if ‘not the actual furnover of a million. * Or another way of doing it; a very old method in politics, Len Small, the republican governor of Illinois, and La Follette’s candidate for cA oy stands charged with pocketing the interest on public moneys that had been farmed out at the governor's discretion. Secretary of the Treasurer, Mellon, allows his rich friends to escape their taxes. Another good method. The son of General Leonard Wood, America's arch militarist, gets friendly tips from Wall Street. Wins big sums in stock gambling. <___ Fahy had all these examples to follow. Fahy evidently did not think of getting his in a genteel way. At the Rondout robbery, the bandits were attired in gas masks, carried hand grenades that they used effectively, and it is claimed that the loot was taken away in an airplane. That is more adventur- some, but not. as effective perhaps, as John D. Rockefeller arbitrarily boosting the price of gasoline a cent or two, or Armour giving a little upward shove to the cost of meat. * _ Fahy, in- his government position, had a good lookout during the war, on all the successful attempts of big business in looting the people of the nation, in addition to the govern- ment treasury. © The steel trust got its million dollar a day in profits. The powder trust was in the heyday of its glory. The food pro- fiteers never before had found plundering the people such an easy matter. Extortionate prices, rather than gas masks and hand grenades, proved themselves more successful and more up-to-date means of picking the pockets of the nation’s population. With all these examples before him, it is charged that Fahy did pretty well, nevertheless. It is claimed that he suc- ceeded fairly well in achieving the most laudable ambition under capitalism, which is, * * Under capitalism, where struggle to win the necessities of life, “Get Yours!” * * the greatest struggle is the to keep alive, the motto of success is “Steal All You Can!” The only crime is in getting caught. Such a rotten social order must crumble into dust as a natural sequence of its own gradual decay. It must be followed by a better social order not only the right of all to live, that recognizes but also the right to enjoy life, without plundering his fellow man to secure the ne- cessary means. . Capitalism has created chaos; with its consequent crimes, pores the people of the earth. Communism will bring order out o this chaos, where no man will be compelled to stick gun in the face of his fellow man in order Med peed to keep from star- vation; where there will no rich to fatten off the abject and helpless many. SeSSeseSeeseseS (Continued from page 1) he Profintern among the transport workers to come to Hamburg for a joint conference with Transport Work- ers Federation, Williams reported that the Executive Committte of the Feder- ation could not agree on this point. He expressed his conviction that in the coming years the Russian unions and the International Transport Workers Federation will no doubt come to a complete agreement. French Delegation Reactionary Upon the conclusion of Williams’ re: port, the French delegation entered a motion to postpone the report of the Executive Committee of the I. 'T. W. F. until the arrival of the representatives of the Bureau of the Amsterdam In- ternational. “In reply, Williams re- marked that the representatives of the Bureau will be admitted to the Con- gress as guests, but not as dictators. The French proposal was supported by the German delegation. The English delegation voted against it.The French | ° motion was carried and the report of the Executive Committee was post- poned until Aug. 8th. Fimmen Calls for Class War, At the evening session Fimmen made @ report on the international situation, He expressed himself categorically against the illusions arising among the masses a8 & result of the labor govern- ments coming into power. , Fimmen said: “These labor govern- ments have made capitalism much stronger than it ever before, All toctallst and somtsoclalist are nothing else but a wall of protection, behind which the bankers, industrialists, and agrarians, are “continuing their old ‘ ' Lt TRANSPORT WORKERS’ LEFT WING doings, The London Conference, is bound to ‘destroy many of these illu- sions. The Dawes Plan is. dictated merely by fears of German competi- tion. Only fools and knaves can greet this Dawes Plan. It seems that many labor deaders have forgetten every- thing and have not learned anything, They even forgot the terrors of the last world war.” In conclusion, Fimmen said: “In case of a new war, the working class work must offer the most active resistance, The working class will have to trans- form the imperialist war into a civil war.” . These last words of Fimmen called forth severe remarks from the’ French and German delegations, who said: “Fimmen speaks in favor of Moscow, and not Amsterdam.” YOUNG WORKERS WILL TAKE 10 THE WOODS SEPTEMBER FOURTEEN The Young Workers League of Chicago will finish a week's cam- paign against the Mobilization Day scheme of the militarist govern: with a hike into the Milwaukee woods, on Sunday, September 14. All those wishing to participate in the hike are requested to meet at the end of the Milwaukee Avenue car line at 11 a, m. nBRERAS ht ad MU Friday, August 29, 1924 GITLOW MEETING HELD IN SPITE. OF INTERFERENCE Washington Hall Owner Intimidated (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C., Aug. 28,—At last the government of Silent Cal has spoken, using a . United States Marshal as its mouthpiece. At least so states the proprietor of Knights of Pythias Hall, in this city, which hall had been engaged for the mass meet- ing to be addressed by Benjamin Git- low, candidate for Vice-President on the Workers Party ticket. The meet- ing had been vigorously organized and largely advertised. Three hours previous to the time of the address, the hall proprietor tel- ephoned to the chairman of the com- mittee in charge of the meeting and stated that a United States Marshal had informed the proprietor that Git- low must not be allowed to speak. The right to use the hall was cancelled and another instance recorded of the tactics of the White Terror in Amer- ica, All may speak but those who actually represent the exploited work- ers. 4 There were rumors that the meet- ing would be raided by agents from the “Departure from Justice,” but this good-fortune did not occur. Shunting Off Audience. Representatives of Washington lo- cal remained at the entrance to the hall and directed those who came to hear Gitlow, to the regular meeting hall of the Workers Party in Wash- ington, where’ the meeting was held. Despite the fact that a heavy rain was falling, the hell was crowded to ca- pacity by an ‘enthusiastic audience that welcomed the opportunity to hear Ben Gitlow expose the fallacies of the platform and candidates of the republican, democratic and progres- sive parties and to listen to an ex- planation of the principles of Interna- tional ‘Communism, the only hope of the working masses of America. Comrade Gitlow was introdilced by Comrade Roy Leman, chairman, who delivered an interesting, tho brief, account of his experiences in Russia, where he participated in the cere- monies at the burial of Comrade John Reed. POLITICS IS ‘DEBATE TOPIC AT LABOR MEET “Fatty” Arbuckle and ‘Phil LaFollette to Speak SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 28.—The Indiana Federation of Labor was this afternoon turned into an-open forum for the discussion of political issues, despite the opposition of many of the delegates to the plan which had the sanction of the executive committee, headed. by President J. N. Taylor, a supporter of LaFollette and Wheeler. LaFollette Jr. to Speak. It was understood that Phillip La Follette, son of Robert LaFollette, the presidential candidate, would arrive here at noon and that he would be one of the speakers appearing before the convention. Because of the victory of the open forum faction, it is expected that the convention will follow the lead of the American Federation of Labor and endorse the candidacy of LaFol- lette and Wheeler. A lively debate, however, is probable before the en- dorsement takes place. ‘ “Fatty” To Do His Stuff, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, film ac- tor, in South Bend this week, is,ex- pected to be one of the speakers be- fore the convention this afternoon at the request of Louis Hart, vice-pre dent of the State Building Trades © Council, a resolution declaring Ar- buckle has been “unjustly persecuted by the press and others” was adopted late yesterday. The resolution asked Arbuckle to address the convention. August 200 tion, da’ Appoint Sheffield Mexican Ambassador “In Spite of” Wealth — | (By the Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Another {l- lustration of the truism that poor men are not given high diplomatic posts under old line party adminis- trations was given when a wealthy New Yorker, James Rockwell Shef- field, was appointed ambassador to Mexico, to succeed Charles B. War- ren, who has resigned. As member of the law firm of Betts, Sheffield, Bentley & Betts, the new envoy has handled some highly lucrative corpor- ation practice, One of the juicy_plums which fell to him from the federal courts was the receivership for the “ Interborough Consolidated © tion, the holding company ton that! terbérough Rapid Transit and other transit lines, He is a former presi- dent of the Union League Club, loat- ing place of the financial aristocracy and of the Ni Republican Olub, —