The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 1

1° SPECIAL COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN EDITION NUMBER ONE Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Vol. Il, No. 140. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ‘VEN the gods are opposed to pro- hibition. This became a matter of public knowledge when the Papa- go Indians held a protest meeting and blamed the shortage of rain on the ac- tivities of the prohibition agents who keep confiscating the supplies of “tis- win” an alcoholic beverage with which the Indians propitiate their gods and bring smiles to their own sombre countenances. Saloon keep- ers were always the best financial pil- lars of the church, but God is very ungrateful. P Beas Reg F the heads of the republican party want to make their candidate for president talk, they could do worse than slip him a cat when he is not looking. He might even learn to swear like General Dawes. One of those fellows who poses as deaf, dumb and sometimes blind for a living, was arrested in a Chicago business office on cOmplaint of a man who suspected him to be a faker. He carried a card which read: “I am deaf and dumb and need $750, to complete my edu- cation so as to be self supporting.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class tnatter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1924 CHARGE GAR MADE OFFER TO BIG CAPITALIST Letter to White Urged Humility for Negro By ROBERT MINOR (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 29.—A letter addressed to a wealthy white American capitalist with a broad hint that white capital- ists who may wish to have Negroes taught not to aspire to equal footing with the white race in the United States should give financial assistance to the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and bearing the signature, “Your humble and obedient servant, Marcus Gar- vey, President - General, Uni- All efforts to: make him talk were un-! versal Negro Improvement As- availing until a cat ran between his | sociation,” legs causing him to swear eloquently. ee atte | 'HIS is a good bull story. James Medill Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune and one of the most famous bull-throwers in the country was at the receiving end of the business for the first time in his life, while riding in a red auto- mobile recently. He was chased by a furious bull, who evidently mistook Mr. Patterson in his red car for a red agent trying to break up the bull's happy time. The great editor escap- ed with his life. Since then it may be noticed that two days passed with- out an editorial appearing in the Tri- bune calling for somebody's decapita- tion, electrocution or hanging. A few more patriotiic bulls might have a soothing influence on the pineal glands of Mr. Patterson. q pan ra KNRY Ford denies that he gave an interview to the Montreal Star eulogizing the Ku Klux Klan. It would not surprise us to learn one of those days that the Imperial Wizard denied he was a member of the hood- ed order, Henry may not go into the tar and feather business after all. * * . EORGE W. Hinman, who plays opposite to Arthur Brisbane in the columns of the Hearst press, says (Continued on e 4.) \ has come into the momentary possession of the correspondent of the DAILY WORKER. In order that Mr. Garvey or others may judge as to whether the signature is genuine or not, I have had the signature photo- graphed, and it is reproduced here-vith. Garvey Letter Reproduced. The letter, on the stationery of the Universal Negro Improvement Agsoci- ation “ and African Communities League, 56 West 135th St., New York, reads as follows: Dear Mr. ——:~ I am charged with the duty and responsibility of writing to you on a subject which I fee? that you are interested in, be- cause of your high and elevated po- (Continued on page 2) in Chicago, by mail, $8,00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. CONTENTS OF MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN ISSUE The Magazine Section of the DAILY WORKER Campaign issue contains the following articles deal- ing with the elections and other subjects: “For Class Struggle Against Re- formist Illusions,” William Z. Fos- ter. “The Road to Freedom,” C. E. Ru- thenberg. “Oil and International Louis Zoobock. “LaFollette Lovestone. “Revolutionary Unionism versus Weak-kneed Reformism,” Moissayre J. Olgin. “A Communist View of the Elec- tion,” Alexander Bittelman, “Trade Unions in the Election,” Earl R. Browder. “Pittsburgh—A Black City,” John Lassen. “The Workers Party in the Elec- tions,” Joseph Manley. “Workers! Give Judge Gary Your Answer,” J. Louis Engdahl. Politics,” in Congress,” Jay “The Youth in the Elections,” Barney Mass. “Class-War Against Imperialist War,” Manifesto of Communist In- ternational. “Presidential Candidates,” T. J. O'Flaherty. “White Mule,” Karl Reeve, Attention, South Side Workers! Gordon Owens, Workers Party can- didate for Congress in First District, and D. E. Earley will speak Sunday evening, Aug. 3ist, at the Washing- ton Park “Open Forum,” on behalf of the Workers Party candidate for elec- tion, T. U. E. L. Picnic Monday. T, U. E. L. Labor Day picnic, Sept, 1, at Altenheim Grove, Forest Park, Il. (German Old People’s Home), How to get there: Take Forest Park “L” or Madison St. car and transfer to suburban line. Can’t Stop Him! By Fred Ellis in the September “Liberator.” HOODED PARADES OFF IN HERRIN, SAYS GALLIGAN Shetilf Taine Down His Thumbs on Kluxers MARION, IIL, Aug. 29.—There will be no more parades of masked Ku Klux Klansmen in Williamson Coun- ty,” declared Sheriff George Galligan here today, after an all night vigil at the county jail, where he and deputy sheriffs, armed with riot guns and one machine gun, stood guard anticipat- ing an attempt by Klansmen to liber- ate J. E. Lashbrook of Harrisburg, who was arrested in a Klan parade here last night for wearnig a mask. No attempt was made to free the prisoner. Klansmen Gullty. Carl Neilsen, reputed exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, and Carl Win- stead were found guilty by a jury in Herrin court yesterday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon on George Stover. Another one of Glenn Young’s bonds was forfeited yesterday when he fail- ed to make an appearance when case 271, charging assault with deadly weapons, was called. This runs his total forfeited bail up to $41,000. Attention, Chicago Comrades! All Chicago Workers Party and Young Workers League branches run- ning street meetings must have a couple of comrades on hand at their corner by 7:30 p. m., also two or more in addition to sell literature, distribute leaflets, get signatures, etc. Literature agents, see Hammers- mark at National Office, or come in to local office to get supplies. The Workers’ Picnic. Annual picnic of the Amalgamated Shoe Workers of America, Joint Coun- cil No, 3, at Atlas Park, 5025 N. Crawford Avenue, Sunday afternoon and evening. Tickets 50c. Crawford Ave. car stops at Grove. IS THIS YOUR SIGNATURE, MR. GARVEY? Your humble and obedient. servant, Pr UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT nt-General o@feaan 290 ieee NEBRASKA AND 1OWA STIRRED BY COMMUNISM Tour in Industrial East Next on Program (Special to the Dally Worker.) SIOUX CITY, lowa, Aug. 29. —William Z. Foster, candidate for president on the Commun- ist ticket, dropped off the train here today for his first meeting in this Middle Western state where the agricultural unrest is running high. To judge from the wailings of the red-baiters here, there is grave danger that Foster may run off with the state, and in- terest in the meeting tonight is growing. American Legion Active. Rumors of American Legion inter- ference have been denied, but prop- aganda in that direction has not abated. At the same time that Foster ar- rived, Brigadier-General Dawes passed thru on his way to Lincoln, with a party of bankers and capitalist po- liticians, in a special train. Local capitalists were excitedly rounding up reception committees, but the General did not stop to greet them. “The workers and farmers in Iowa and the other states in the middle- west, particularly, know that Coolidge and Dawes, as well as Davis and Eryan, are hookéd up so closely to Wall Street that nothing to remedy the crying grievances of both groups of toiling men and women can be looked for from these camps,” said Foster. All for Capitalism. “What they have to learn—and they are learning it fast,” he continued, “is that LaFollette and Wheeler stand for the same system as Coolidge and Davis. They will not do anything that touches the vital interests of our in- dustrial and financial overlords. “And nothing can be done for the workers and farmers, except thru the bitterest struggle, against the forces that now rule both the republican- democratic bi-partisan combination, and the LaFollette-Wheeler combina- tion of the tag ends of both parties.” Urges Rule of Labor. “A government of workers and farmers,” was Foster’s incisive an- swer, when asked what the solutia was for the pressing problems of the day. “So long as those who toil al- low lawyers and capitalist politicians to hold the governing powers in their hands, so long will the workers and farmers be begging for favors from their natural enemies.” “The Communists, organized in the Workers Party, offer the only program that cuts to the roots of exploitation,” said Foster. “Only thru class struggle, leading to the overthrow of the capi- |talist system and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in alliance with the farmers, can the present dictatorship of capitalism, now grinding both farmers and work- ers, be abolished.” re * Fight on in Nebraska, marcela! to The Daily Worker) OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 29.—The po- litical battle here is on in full swing. Today Charles G. Dawes arrived from Chicago, with a party of bankers and politicians that filled two Pullman coaches. Dawes speaks to night at Lincoln, the home of Charles Bryan. Both Charlies, one the fake progressive demodrat and the other the tin soldier- banker republican, will vie with each other to show what good friends they are of the Nebraska farmer. The promising progfessive political movement, which for some time has been developing in Nebraska against the bitter opposition of Charley Bryan, has been cut to pieces by Robert M. LaFollette. LaFollette agents have actively engaged in mak- ing deals, dickers and horse trades with every fake progressive and job soeker in the state. The result is that confusion worse confounded, brought about by these unscrupulous LaFol- lette methods, now exists. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. d Price 5 Cents FOSTER OPENS FIGHT IN WEST Gompers and Dawes; Twin Supporters of Capitalist System By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER ]N the Aug. 23 number of the American Federation of Labor _ “Weekly News Service,” official organ of the arch-reac- tionary Gompers, appears the startling headline, “Dawes and Foster Join Hands to Defend Labor Injunction.” What a tasty morsel, if true. But everyone, with the exception of Gompers’ hopeless dupes, will see at once that the slander contained in this headline is only one more instance of the desperate and unscrupulous efforts of the Gompers machine to stay the progress of the left-wing movement by carrying on an organized campaign of libel and misrepresentation. The headline is followed by a screed, accredited to a Chicago nobody by the name of Mr. Wise, inferring that in the recent judicial elections in Chicago | co-operated with General Dawes to secure the election of Dennis E. Sullivan, a notorious injunction judge. This is, of course, a lie out of whole cloth. The facts are these: In the above-mentioned elections, which occurred about a year ago, John Fitzpatrick, fresh from his collapse at the Federated Farmer-Labor Party Convention of July 3-5, aban- doned the policy of independent working class political action and had the Chicago Federation of Labor re-adopt the disas- trous Gompers “non-partisan” policy by endorsing 10 judicial candidates on the republican and democratic tickets.. This treason to the Labor Party idea was supposed to be for the purpose of defeating Judge Sullivan. But several of the candidates endorsed were themselves almost equally notor- ious as injunction judges. In this situation the Communist delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor denounced Fitzpatrick for leading the workers back into the old party. political shambles and demanded that the Federation stick true to its former Labor Party policy. They pointed out that it was exactly the Gompers non-partisan method which was responsible for the political impotency of ‘the workers and for the presence of such men as Sullivan on the bench. For thus uncompromisingly defending the principle of the Labor Party, which the Chicago Federation itself had advocated for several years, the Communists are now denounced as having helped Sullivan and his backer, Dawes, Can treach- erous sophistry go further? In his lying headline connecting my name with Dawes’, Gompers follows out his usual tactics of trying to prove a community of interest between the big capitalists and the Communists as against the unions. What a silly argument. Gompers himself is one of the greatest allies of Dawes and his like against everything progressive in the country and the labor movement. Dawes is a militant defender of the Amer- ican Legion and so is Gompers, both looking upon this Fascist organization as a valued prop of their beloved capitalist government. Dawes is against the amalgamation of the unions, the formation of a Labor Party, and the recognition of Soviet Russia. So is Gompers; he froths at the mouth when any of these vitally necessary progressive measures are mentioned. Dawes is a supporter of the Civic Federation and the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Gompers is a member of both. Dawes is an ardent “red” fighter and defender of the capitalist system, and in this he is even out- done by the pseudo-leader, Gompers. The Communists would destroy the industrial and social system which produces the parasitic Dawes. But between Gompers and Dawes there is no real quarrel. They both stand for the same social system and the same exploitation of the workers. They are agreed that the workers must remain in wage slavery. The only difference between them is the degree of this slavery. Dawes would give the workers rough and heavy shackles, while Gompers would make the shackles lighter and polish them up a trifle. That is all there is to the sham battle now going on between them. Gompers and Dawes are props of the capitalist system. Every time that the left-wing moves against that system these two worthies are to be found fighting shoulder to shoulder to protect it. The alliance between the Dawes’ and the Gompers’ will become ever plainer and more firmly cemented as the class struggle sharpens, until the aroused masses, under the leadership of the Communist party, finally smash it and the system of exploitation behind it. BUTLER’S FINKS PAID TO STIR RACE HATRED AMONG WORKERS; IS “UNDERGROUND SECTION” OF G. 0. P. (Fifth Article) (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 29.—William Morgan Butler, chairman of the national committee of the republican party, employs stool- pigeons to spy upon and betray the workers’ unions in the tex- tile mills he owns at New Bedford, Massachusetts, He personal- ly supervises the spying and outlines plots to be carried into ef- fect by Sherman Service detectives occupying official position in the unions. The attraction of+ Mr. Butler to the Sherman |gives his employes something, it does Service may be seen by the fol- lowing quotation from the ad- vertising this fink corporation puts out to win contracts with bosses: “A few employers have tried to win co-operation of their empjoyes by giv- ing them something. But they soon found out that when the employer not win their co-operation.” Mr. Butler does uot “give his em- ployes somethiug.’ Excepting wage cuts and stool pieons for union offi. clals, Mr, Butler taketh away, but Mr, (Continued on Page 6) ¢ entail Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER,