The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, August 30, 1924 WM. Z. FOSTER | TO HAVE HUGE MINER RALLIES Illinois Diggers Plan Monster Meetings By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) \ ZIEGLER, Ill, August 29.— Several thousand idle miners from Jackson, Saline, William- son and Franklin Counties are flocking to Ziegler, applying for a job “st the Bell and Zoller mine number one, the only large mine which has started work again within the last few weeks. Yesterday 600 men as- sembled at the base of the air , shaft walting for the mine man- ager to come out in order to get work. Only a few were | selected. The day before yesterday one , thousand miners were turned away from the Ziegler mine, the mine manager chosing only ! thirty men to go to work. Her- {rim, Benton, Christopher, Ses- ser, Buckner, Wren City, Dow- jell, and other hard hit mining | comms poured out their hund- ‘reds who are unsuccessfully | teydag-to get work in the newly ‘re-opened Ziegler mine. St. Louis on Downgrade. | Reports reaching here from St. \ | brought from miners who have to get work and have returned }to Ziegler, show that one factory aft- | er another in St. Louis and other large ‘wities is closing down. The East St Louis steel mills are practically shut | down, and the consumption of coal is | therefore steadily decreasing. It is )} thought here that the diminishing de- mand for coal, due to increased fac- tory shutdowns, will cause the Ziegler mines to again shut down before many weeks have passed. The coal miners here are planning @ monster Labor Day celebration, at which the principal speaker will be Joseph Manley of Chicago, William Z. Foster will speak at the City Park ; here on September 3, and thousands ‘of miners will come in from many miles around to hear the candidate for , president on the Communist, platform. Foster’s audience will be composed of miners not only from Ziegler, but from five other southern Illinois mining eounties—Franklin, Saline, William- son, Jackson and Perry counties. Immediately after Manley’s Labor Day speech in. Ziegler, he will be taken by automobile to Valier, where, if connections can be made, he, will speak at another Labor Day celebra- tion of the miners. Karl Reeve will also speak at the Valier meeting. Need Militant Program. Ziegler is working better than any other town in southern Illinois now ithat the Bell and Zoller mine has re- opened, yet a survey of conditons re- veals that the purpose of the militant miners must be immediately put intc ‘effect if the United Mine Workers are not to lose their control of their jobs. ‘Conditions in Ziegler demonstrate that ‘even when the miner is working, his eondition is not comparable to a bed \PB- roses. Rents are higher in Ziegler than in t other mining town I have visited. shacks of three and four rooms, miners La a and as high as $40 per month. © prices charged for food and necessities are in some cases 25 ‘per cent higher than in other mining The Bell and Zoller mine No.1 here claims the record for average daily production, which is well above 6,000 per day. But the bosses have living costs so highly that the \bigger production and slightly higher \ are extracted from the miners in. living expenses. They are worse off than some of the miners getting Jess pay in other camps, =~ Louis Joich of Dowell, who was hunting a job in the Ziegler mine, told the DAILY WORKER how the few men hired here were picked by their ideas, the mine manager chosing his friends. Known radicals are suffering most. They are the first fired and the last hired. One man was told by. the mine manager: “If I remember your face, you'll never get a job from me.” Two men were hired who already had part time jobs in other mining camps. No provision has been made by the “oMcial family” of the miners’ union to distribute jobs to the most needy, or to equally distribute what little work there is. Altho theré are many other stores ‘ SPEAKER: “L” to the Grove, transfer to Suburban Line. J. Louis Engdahl Editor of THE DAILY WORKER, and Work- ers Party Candidate for U.S. Senator. ADMISSION 35 CENTS HOW TO GET THERE—Take Forest Park or Madison St. car and THE DAILY WORKER FOR VICE-PRESIDENT _ BENJAMIN GITLOW e BENAMIN GITLOW, running mate of Foster, has a long record of service to the'revolutionary movement and to the working class of America. He was born in 1892 and joined the social- ist Party in 1910. He was elected to the New York State assembly on a platform of opposition to conscription in 1917, and aligned himself one year later to the left wing of the party. He was a leading figure in the development of the Communist movement here, thru the Communist Labor Party (united) and the Workers Part Committee of the Workers Party. in Ziegler besides the Bell and Zoller company store, which runs under the name of thd Ziegler Store Company. because of the tndebtedness and tack of ready money many ntiners have been forced to deal at the. company store. They are allowed to draw sup- plies which are paid, for out of their next week’s pay check, but they are charged 25 per cent interest for all supplies advanced. Cee ae. ' CORRECTION. * In the last story from Ziegler by Karl Reeve an error occurred. The story stated that there is a Ziegler lo. cal union No. 2376. This is the ‘local union number of the East mine at Christopher. Ziegler’s local union number is 992. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Gas Workers Vote To Accept 21% Pct. Wage Increase Negotiations over the new yearly contract presented by the members of the Gas House Workers’ Union to the officials of the People’s Gas Light and Coke Company, and which calls for an increase of 10 per cent in their wages have@closed with the workers accepting a 2%’ per cent increase in their wages. At a general membership meeting of the union, held at 180 W. Washington St., the stewards, who have been negotiating with the com- pany officials, made their report which was unanimously accepted. The raise in wages’ will affect 4,000 employes of the People’s Gas, Light and Coke Co,, which includes laborers, watchmen, engineers and mechanics. Join the Workers Party! CANNON HEADS TICKET OF WORKERS PARTY IN STATE OF NEW YORK (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, August 29.—The fol. lowing state and local ticket has been'selected by the Workers Party nominating convention held here: For Governor, James P; Island. Lieutenant Governor, Buffalo, cretary of State, Lilly Lore, Cannon, Franklin Engineer & Surveyor, Verhagen, Schenectady. CONGRESSIONAL ISTRICTS IN MANHATTAN 12th Dist y Winitsky, against Jacob Panken, Socialist. , Rose Pastor Stokes, against i, Socialist. 4th Dist., Ludwig Lore, Meyer London. 20th “Dist., Juliet inst La Guardia, against Poyntz, “Republican-So- Stuart cialist”. 23rd t.,. Harry M. Wicks, against August Classens. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN 7th Dist., Joseph Kucher, 10th Dist., Alexander Trachtenberg, ASS MBLY DISTRICTS IN MANHATTAN 2nd Dist, Dr. Abraham Caspe. WSL, aa Meyer Loonin, Brodsky. William einstone. Dr. Abraham Markoff. 18th Dist., ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS IN BRONX * Ist Dist., Louis Baum. Joseph J, Padgug. Samuel Darcy. ebecca Grecht. Emanuel Elston, SEMBLY DISTRICTS IN BROOKLYN Paul Scher jam Ne Benjamin, Lifshitz, Dist., Fannie Warshafsky. SENATORIAL DISTRICTS IN MANHATTAN 14th Dist., Moissaye J. Olgin, 18th Digt., Nathan Wilkes. SENATORIAL DISTRICTS IN, BROOKLYN 7th Dist., George Primoft. llth Dist., Dr, Charles Brow 'y- He is at present a member of of the Central Executive MILLIONAIRE AID OF LAFOLLETTE _ EXPLOITS PEONS To the DAILY WORKER.—The fol- lowing account of the conditions ynder which the workers on the Spreckles’ family sugar plantation live will throw an interesting light on what the work- ers can expect from LaFollette, whose chief backer is this Sugar King. The sugar beet growers live to- gether in a little village on company- owned land, of which they each have leased a part to grow beets on a share basis, the company advancing the money to grow the crop. The money is parceled out to them in monthly installments by the com- pany’s agent who goes around to the growers once a month to ascertain their needs for the coming month and he gives them a check to cover the amount. | At harvest time the company takes charge of the harvesting and shipping and gives the grower the market price which as usual fs the very lowest at harvest time, the suguar barons hav- ing created the supply and demand themselves. Then the company set- tles its accounts with the growers. All the expenses and the money ad- vanced is deducted from the grower’s share and as a result the grower finds himself in debt to the company, and he is then given a small advance to put in another crop. This system of peonage on sugar plantations in which Spreckles is heavily interested, exists in California. What can workers expect from LaFol- letiam in view of this glaring exam- ple of peonage? SOVIETS GRANT MERCY 10 AID - OF KERENSKY Savinkoff Got Bribes from French, British (Special to the Dally Worker.) MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—A stay of execution and a_ recom- mendation for mercy were granted today to Boris Savin- koff, minister of war in the Kerensky cabinet, who was sentenced to death after being found guilty of stirring up counter-revolts against the Soviet. Savinkoff told of his plotting and admitted receiving money from the French Czechs. He said he had held conferénces with former pre- mier Lloyd George of England; Winston Churchill, former Brit- ish colonial secretary, and for- mer president Alexander Mille- rand of France. Confesses His Mistake, Sentence was imposed upon Savin- koff last night after a sensational trial. “I have made a mistake,” said the former war minister addressing the Red tribunal. “I recognize the power of the Soviets. I expected a death sentence and I do not ask any pity from you, But the revolutionary con- science will remind you that I, too, was a revolutionary.” Savinkoff was arrested while cross- ing the border disguised as a refugee. He had just come from Paris: The prisoner was brought to Moscow with much secrecy, Plan to Organize Terror. Savinkoff was put on trial, the state charging that he came to Russia to “organize terrorism against Soviet leaders.” The trial was conducted without a public prosecutor nor any counsel for the defense. Savinkoff pleaded his own case, saying it must be remem- bered that he organized the assassina- tion of Minister Pleve and Grand Duke Sergius, and that he led the first revolution in 1905. Join the Workers Party! WASHINGTON DENIES REPORT OF MEDDLING IN HONDURAS STRIFE WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.— Re. ports from Amapala that the United States government had ordered the establishment of neutral zones in Honduras to prevent fighting be- tween the federal troops and revo- lutionists were denied today by the state department. One American warship tioned in Honduran waters. Is sta- Subscribe for “Your Daily,” PARTY ACTIVITIES IN CHICAGO and the} = exploitation. The only difference turers, bankers and merchants wi Party of America. (Continued from page 2) an immediate reply, I have the hon- or to be Your humble and obedient servant, (Signed) MARCUS GARVEY, President-General, Universal Negro Improvement Association. MG:FG Letter Constitutes Grave Charge. If the foregoing letter is genuine, it constitutes a graver charge against Marcus Garvey and his associate lead- ers of the U. N. I. A. than has ever been written into any grand jury in- dictment. It is indeed the kind of charge that would never be consid- ered by a grand jury—a charge of an offense entirely “within the law” and well ,within the habits of the worst type of Negro leaders of the past fifty years: the habit of soliciting financial favors from the enemies of the Negro people and offering in return to teach the Negro not to aspire to the rights which his enemies do not want him to have. Against all the charges made against Garvey by the frame-up gang of the capitalist government at Wash- ington, it is the spontaneous impulse of all intelligent and honest workers Negro and white, to defend Garvey. Every federal grand jury indictment of Garvey only makes Garvey appear as a man honest and loyal to his peo- ple, whom the government hates. If Garvey’s arrest, imprisonment and conviction were the only things to be considered, we should say, “Hail, Gar- vey, honest leader of an oppressed people!” But the above letter, and a long line of facts of similar nature, seem to can- cel the facts in Garvey’s favor. The letter cannot be dismissed as unimportant. If this letter is authen- tic, Garvey feels out the white exploit ers with a view to finding those who hate the Negro. (Never mind the guff about the “rights of humanity’”— any Negro hater will subscribe to that which does not mean anything in practice.) The point is that Garvey, if he wrote that letter, is looking for rich white men who are worried be- cause the Negro “is not prepared to be satisfied as a secondary consider- ation in the social, economic and po- litical life of the nation.” Having found those who thus hate the Negro and who wish to keep him as a lower caste in the United States, “your hum- ble and obedient servant” then offers the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation as an organization in which the Negro will “be taught not to as- pire” to equality in America, and asks the rich man to “help morally or otherwise” to that end. Mr. Marcus Garvey, you owe an ex- planation to the Negro workers whom you ask to support you in this coun- NLY SEVENTEEN DAYS MORE! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO GET WORKERS PARTY CANDI- DATES ON THE BALLOT IN CHI- CAGO AND ILLINOIS? Members of the party and league in Chicago must speed up in their efforts to get signatures to petitions to place our party candidates on the ballot. Every member is expgcted to get out daily from house to house, at vari- ous meetings, etc., getting signatures. The job is easy if every comrade will get to work. The quicker we get this job done, the sooner will the real cam- paign begin. Obtaining signatures ic only preliminary to organizing the main work of the campaign. District No. 1, in which Comrade Gordon Owens, a Negro comrade, is candidate for congress, with Comrades Shafer and Holt as campaign manag: ers, still needs 1,000 signatures. Congressional District No. 4, Joseph Podkulski, candidate; Victor Zokaitis, campaign manager, needs yet over 1,100 signatures. : District No. 5, H. Epstein, candi- date; W. S. Wilson, campaign man- ager, needs over 900. District No. 6, F, Pelligrino, candi- daté; R. Karsner, manager, has the job of gathering 3,000 more signatures. District No, 7, Sam Hammersmark, congressional candidate; N. Juel Christensen, campaign manager, has 3,500 to collect. Great Labor Day Demonstration FOLLOW ‘THE CROWD TO THE T.U.E.L. PICNIC District No. 8, George Maurer, can didate; Marguerite Browder, cam- paign manager, has 600 more to get. District No. 9, Jack Johnstone, can- didate; Delbert ' Earley, manager, needs over 800. Easy to Get Signatures. We can get all that are necessary with a little effort. Every branch which has not got all of its members functioning is instructed to call a spe- cial membership meeting within one week in order to assign every mem- ber to a task to a special territory to gather signatures. As fast as we can get one district completed we will transfer comrades to help in other dis- tricts. Watch This Column. From day to day we shall publish in this column the number of signa tures which have been obtained in the various districts and which yet need to be gotten. Watch this column. Send in your petitions as soon as you have them filled out to M. -Abern, Room 303 166 W. Washington St. When you go out with petitions be sure that you also have the state pe- titions with you. Have the signers attach their names to both in order that presidential, state and congres- sional candidates may be put on the ballot. Be sure to take the DAILY WORK: ER and other literature when you gp out. (German LAFOLLETTE, COOLIDGE AND DAVIS si] AFOLLETTE, who is running as an independent progressi.e republican, is equally a supporter of the capitalist system of and Davis Is that LaFollette represents the independent manufac- profit for themselves and are trying to use the workers and farmers to attain that end.”"—From the Election Platform of the Workers campaign | SEPTEMBER 1 Altenheim Grove FOREST PARK, ILL. UNION ORGHESTRA—FREE DANCING — SPORTS between LaFollette and Coolidge ho are seeking greater power and GARVEY DICKERS WITH CAPITALISTS? | | try Mr. William M. Sherrill, Clifford S. Bourne, Mr. P, L. Burrows, Mr. N. G. G. Thomas, Mr. Van Lowe, Mr, Dr. Jay J. Peters, Mr. William A. Wallace, Mr. Fred E. Johnson, you }owe an explanation, Is this your pro-| |gram?—to solicit money from the en-4 }emies of the Negro people on the} |promise to teach the Negro not to} |“aspire” to equal political, industrial |and social rights in the United States? | Are you trading away the rights of jtwelve million toiling and suffering American Negroes, their political and economic rights and their rights to be treated as men in the country made: wealthy by their labor—in exchange |for their enemies’ dollars and 4 men-} tal picture of a “free government inj | Africa” which does not yet exist? ; | And you, plain Negro workers whi jare not leaders—have you been fooled | by the preachers for 250 years into | giving up your rights on earth for a |mental picture of rights in “heaven,” |only to be fooled now by Garvey into |siving up your rights in the place | where you are, in exchange for a men- tal picture of rights in Africa? The aspiration of the members o! the Universal Negro Improvement As- sociation to help free African soil of the European imperialist government: and to establish the right of independ- ent self-government for the Negra. peoples, is a noble’ one which deserves the support of not only Negro workers, but of all white workers as well. The freeing of Africa from foreign impe- rialist tule is no idle dream, but one/ of the greatest of coming events of} the early future. It is a part of the task of the world Communist revolu- tion, and to call the attention and support of the Negroes of America to/ this, and to awaken their interest in| international affairs pertaining to their race, is a splendid piece of work to be done. But to teach the Negro to “lay down” and give up his rights in the land where he lives now, on the excuse that if he submits to the white ruling class here as a weakling and inferior he will win a “homeland in Africa,” is not only a swindle of; the most dishonest sort, but it will also make him incapable of being any help whatsoever to the breaking down: of capitalist-imperialist rule either in, Africa or anywhere else. Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES Des Moines, lowa—Grotto Hall, 72' Locust St. Saturday, August 30, p. m. ‘ Omaha, Neb—Eagles Hall, 17th and Cass Sts., Sunday, August 31, 8 Kansas City, Mo.—Musicians’ Hall,; 1017 Washington St., Labor Day, Sep-| tember 1, 8 p. m. 1 St. Louls, Mo—Triangle Park, 41 South Broadway, Tuesday, September 2nd, 8 p. m. Ziegler, I!l—Payilion Park onlWe |mesday, September 8rd, 5:45 p. m. Springfield, I!!—Carpenter Hall, A |ams and Seventh Sts., Thursday, Se; lember 4th, 8 p. m. Elizabeth, Ns J.—Turn Hall, High St., Wednesday, September % 8 p. m. Newark, N, J.—Labor Lyceum, So. 14th St. Thuraday, September 8 p. m. Philadelphia, Pa—Musical Fu Hall, 8th and Locust Streets, Friday, September 12, 8 p. m. Paterson, N. J.—Halvitia Hall, 58 Van Houton Street, Saturday, Sep tember 13, 8 p. m. GITLOW'S DATES Comrade Gitlow, candidate for vice- president, will address meetings at the following places: Rochester, The Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul St—Saturday, Aug. 30. Daisytown, P: Muffet Field, Walk- ertown, Pa., Sunday, August 31st, 1:30 p.m. Canonsburg, Pa.—-Labor Temple, Monday, September 1st, 2 p.m. Pittsgurgh, Pa--Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Tuesday, September 2nd at 8 p. m. + Bellaire, Wednes Ohio — Miners Temple, September 3rd, 7:30 p, m. Old People’s Home)