The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 141. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: KLAN ASKS SMA THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1924 < i Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, UL L TO OUST SHERIFF UIE EET et NE, SS ata OSES EYL! Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O')FLAHERTY. HERE is a town \in the United} States called Boulder. To get| nearer to our quarry, it is located in the State of Colorado, It might} escape our attention and live happily | ever afterward but for the fact that! the stormy pethrel, Ella Revve Bloor, took it into her gray head to pay the place a visit with a view to planting some ideas there. It happens that) Sheriff Robert Blum can see beyond the stormy petrel, Ella Reeve Bloor, the domicile occupied by William Coal Miners! Demand Unemployment Action From All II Hlinois Labor Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. For many months now the miners of the state of Illinois have been denied the opportunity to earn a living. Thruout the state, scores of mines have closed down Kerr and Oscar Runion, a letter from Ella Reeve Bloor saying that she was coming to town to hold a meeting, the Sheriff hit the ceiling. the bosses could not make the present moment. and left the miners to get a living as best they could, because profits for themselves at the eee 'HE letter talked about trying’ to} create some syfmpathy for the workers’ cause and mentioned Soviet Tens of thousands of miners have not worked for months. In some places there has been no work for periods as long as six months and more, This denial of the fundamental right to earn a living Russia. The sheriff's donkey was given the job of translating the letter into Russian, and it popped out that in Russian the word “sympathy” means “inferno” which is a highbrow term only used by such ancients as Dante. In the vernacular it means “hell.” In other words by a process of reasoning that any moron should be proud of, the sheriff came to the conclusion that Comrade Bloor was coming to town to “raise hell.” * * ‘HE local sheet in which this im- portant news appeared under three rows of headlines justified its existence by adding editorial comment to the verbal slops dished out by the sheriff. What good is an editor un- less he can be just @s foolish as the thug who does the strong-arm work for his masters. The editor learned that the notorious William Z. Foster, “red” candidate for the presidency of the United States has been dumping a lot of his literature into the place. by The editor has a suspicion that Sher- Federation of Labor go on rec iff Blum has something up his sleeve owners pay wages to the miner: in case the “reds” plan to work. has brought misery and hard: families. widespread suffering. and face even starvation. lilinois labor meets in. co of the State Federation of L employed, Illinois.labor can be cannot or will not give them wages. Illinois immediate appropriatio ers. vEFe é ‘ f ‘ead to. th : have something inj ~The Chicago Federation of Labor and’ ‘the offitials of the |Rssembly ee ietien, ronnie’ ti leeve but it is safe to assume| State Federation of Labor have issued public statements en- establish the pict bes pressor dorsing the candidacy of LaFollette for the Presidency. The miners of Illinois should demandsof these labor officials that it he has nothing in his head, at least not inside. ; ° a ew E are informed by The Federa- tion News, official organ of the Chicago Federation of Labor, that the organized workers in this city are going to have the most impressive Labor day celebration in the history of the city. Visions of monster mass meetings and giant parades flitted across our mental vision. We read on breathlessly. Perhaps Samuel Gomp- ers might come to town to tell us again the oft-repeated but always wel- come tale of how he threatened to go to jail once in his life in a war against (Continued on page 3) they show them what there mine workers of Illinois. Miners, the State Federati: the labor politicians who are your voices. The Workers Party has m: on that platform. Canada Usés Injunctions Too. HAMILTON, Ontario, Aug. 29.— Judge Evans has issued an injunction restraining Motion Picture Projection- ists’ union, local 303, from picketing the open shop theaters, against which they are on strike. SKY PILOT POCKETS DOUGH OF KU KLUX. WOMEN AND VACATES (Special to the Daily Worker.) ELDORADO, III., Sept. 2—Women of this town who are members of the Ku Klux Klan have presented a gift of money to the Rev. J. C. Or- vine, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. In acknowledging the gift of money, Irvine announced to the Kian women, “I feel most grateful for the gift. I have been working hard lately and am going to take a vacation.” The minister told the women, who signed themselves “Women of the K. K. K,,"" “My dear women of the K. K. K,, you and 1? are fighting for the same thing. We are fighting to keep Ameriga American.” Then he pocketed the money and started on his vacation. NORTH DAKOTA IS FIRST TO PUT THE WORKERS PARTY TICKET ON BALLOT FOR THE FALL ELECTIONS LFRED KNUTSON, the field organizer of the Workers Party in North and South Dakota, reports that North Dakota is first to place Foster and Gitlow on the ballot. The necessary 260 signatures to accomplish that In the state of North Dakota have been secured and an additional 200 to make the job absolutely added by the petition circulators. The Workers Party is therefore sure of a place on the ballot in North Dakota, A state Farmer-Labor ticket will probably be nominated by the Farmer- Make your slogan “Work the unemployed!” William Z. States Attorney Delos Duty of Will of his belief not alone is General Carlo: hooded order. support of the labor fakers of Illinois also secured the support of LaFollette’: against the Kla The workers of Illinois and ‘the ‘Small! FS state ticket will be supported by the Workers Party. ‘ know whether Delos Duty’s suspicions are well grounded. ship to the miners and their Thruout the mining camps of the state, there /is The unemployment among the miners of Illinois has reached that stage where they must have relief or go hungry invention at Peoria on Sep- tember the 8th. Unemployment among the miners is the biggest problem which Illinois labor faces today. The United Mine Workers of America is the bacécbone abor. By sending delegates from the miners’ union who will fight for relief for the un- ° forced to take action to save the miners from further hardship and suffering. During the war, the government and coal mine owners insisted that the workers produce coal. labor generally should insist now that if the mine owners The miners and work, that they pay them The miners of Illinois should demand that the Illinois Federation of Labor go on record to demand of the state of ns for relief of the coal min- The miners of Illinois should demand that the Illinois ord demanding that the mine 's when they cannot give them is in the LaFollette program which will bring relief for the unemployed coal miners and should refuse to give their endorsement to a candidate who is unwilling to consider this fundamental problem of the ion of Labor Convention gives you the opportunity to voice your grievance. Do not permit climbing on the LaFollette band-wagon because they are -hungry for jobs to silence ade one of its most important demands in this political campaign that the government and the employers, if they cannot give work, shall pay wages to unemployed workers. The Workers Party candidates stand Make Illinois Labor take up that issue at Peoria. or wages without work for Central Executive Committee, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, Foster, Chairman. C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. Is Governor Small Member of KKK? jiamson County states that to the best s Black of the state militia a member of the Ku Klux Klan but that Governor Len Small also is a member of the What have you to say about this Mr. Small? You have secured the in your election campaign. You have 's army. Both are officially on record miners in particular are anxious to Speak up Mr, ENGDAHL BRANDS DAWES’ PRAISE OF KLAN AS HERRIN RIOT CAUSE “On the hands of the ‘Fascist’ Charles Gates Dawes are the crimson stains of the blood of the dead, killed in the new Klan war at Herrin, IIL,” was the charge made yesterday at the Trade Union Educational League pic- nic by J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER and candidate for United States senator from Illinois on the Workers Party ticket. “Only a few days after his eulogy at Augusta, Me., of the black order 04 the Ku Klux Klan, blood was flowing again in Williamson County. Dawes, the American Fascisti leader, the head (Continued on page 2) i 1 NEGROES FIGHT © CONCESSION TO RUBBER TRUST See Liberian. Privileges By ROBERT MINOR (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) NEW (YORK, Sept. 2.—A '|bombshell of international po- litical ahd financial intrigue was bu over the astonished heads of the delegates of the International Negro Conven- tion, in session here, when the announcement was made from the platform that the govern- ment of the African Negro re- public of Liberia, completely ig-| noring former concessions to an| American, Negro Co-operative | Company, has suddenly granted | | a big concession covering prac- tically the same field to the, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., of | Ohio, and that under admitted! coercion of the French and British governments the Liberi- | an state has barred all mem bers of the Negro organizatio from landing on soil. For several minutes after the| annoucement was read, the| 1,500 colored visitors and dele-| gates sat in dismayed silence. Then pandemonium broke loose. Delegates from Negro communities of South America, the West Indies, Cuba} and from American cities jumped to} their feet to shout their anger and dis-| gust. | N. G. G. Thomas, assistant secretary general of the Universal Negro Im- sociation’s plan to help develop the} economic strength of the African re-| public thru a colonization and co-oper- | | ative trading scheme had been official- ly recognized and accepted by the Li- berian government. One document read appears to be a formal grant to the Universal Negro, Improvement Association of the right (Continued on Page 6) HERRIN MINERS MARCH BEHIND KLAN VICTIM (Special to The Daily Worker) | HERRIN, Ill., Sept. 2.—The| miners buried one of their dead, Bud Allison, this morning.) Thirty-five cars filled to capa- | city followed the 250 members of Local Union No. 1248, United | Mine Workers, who marched behind the hearse. i Officers of the Herrin local ; union, which conducted the fun- eral, acted as pallbearers. Mike Flynn, member of pit commit- tee, Scott Desett, president; John Green, fingncial secertary; Rex Al- bright, recording secretary; Joe Lynn, treasurer; William -Engler and Will Pierce/ trustees. The men marched behind the banner of the local union, Reverend John Meeker, a Presby- terian, the only Protestant preacher in town, he told me, who has not lined up with the Klan, performed the ceremony. He pleaded for all Herrin citizens to come into the church as cure for bloodshed in Herrin. When later I asked him how fol- lowing the banner of preachers who allow the use of their churches as arsenals by Klansmen would bring peace, he was hard pressed for an answer, He said he believes Klan, Nquor raids were good for the town.| Bud Allison, up until six weeks ago, when he sworn in as special deputy, worked in mine A of the Chicago, Williamson and Franklin Coal Com- pany, as we returned from Allison's funeral, we passed the funeral of Green Dunning, Klansman. Eleven cars were in the procession including two filled with robed Klansmen. John Smith, the garage owner, was in the first car in his regalia, Another oc- cupant of the Klan cars was Carl Nielson, last week found guitly of as-| cruiser Libya, is rushing to Shanghai of the Minute Men of the Constitution, | sauit by Judge Bowen. Doctor J. T.|/to protect Italian lives and interests, Labor Party, which holds a meeting at Bismarck today, Sept. 3rd, and this|/is now the inspiration of the vile mob| Black's hearing was continued until especially interests, of course, the Ital- jan legation announced today, jext Saturday. Stolen From Them || diers in the Tetuan zone of the Moroc- can batt'efront have been compelled \to retire after severe fighting with the ment that the Dawes plan is now offi- cially in effect was made today by the | union-economic Inter-Allied Reparations Commissions. er premier of Switzerland was elect: | ed president of the League of Nations Assembly this afternoon. Dawes Is Guilty! HARLES GATES DAWES, republican candidate for vice president, in his speech at Augusta, Maine, Satur- day, August 23, declared that: “A thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan without disguise—they were brave men—marched to the office of the sheriff of Williamson County to protest against the lawlessness in that section. IF A SECRET ORGANIZA- » TION TO UPHOLD LAW AND ORDER IS JUSTIFIABLE ANYWHERE IN OUR COUNTRY, IT WAS JUSTIFIABLE THERE.” PRISE RS Ceaey In those words, the Fascisti candidate for vice presi- dent on the republican ticket, placed the stamp of his ap- proval on the lawlessness of the Ku Klux Klan in William- son County. The “law and order” of the night shirts in Williamson County, is the “law and order’ of the war of coal barons against the coal miners. That is why Vice Presidential Candidate Dawes is in favor of it. Ye eae ae It was with these words of approval of the rep. can- didate for vice president, spoken on August 23, still ringing in their ears, that the Ku Klux Klan inaugurated, just one week later, on August 30, another reign of terror, in Wil- liamson County. Even the Dawes, mouthpiece, the Chicago Tribune, confesses in its issue of Sunday, August 31, that: “Today's fight is directly attributed to the ending of the murder trial of Carl and Earl Shelton, brothers. in city court, this forenoon. The brothers were freed after State’s Attorney Delos, anti-klansman, nolle prossed the charges that they had shot to death Constable Caesar Cagle, klansman, in a free-for-all fight between klansmen and Flaming Circle men last February. “Duty’s action followed a dramatic appeal in the courtroom by the aged father of the slain constable, who arose and begged the judge to free the prisoners, because he was convinced they had not killed his son. “Hostilities began when Sheriff Galligan, accompanied by De- puties ‘Bud’ Allison, Fred Berger, Henry Walker, and John Shafter, went to the garage, known as klan headquarters here, to attach an automobile owned by Jack Sklecher, anti-klansman. Followed by several men, said to be from St. Louis, the sheriff entered the garage. His story of what happened follows: “Dewey Newbolt, a klansman, was seated in a chair leaning back against the wall. Several men were with him. A few words were exchanged and Newbolt jerked from its holster one of four guns he had strapped to his body and opened fire on us. Allison fell, shot thru the chest, and the other three deputies and | returned the fire. atts retreated to the street followed by the klansmen, and the batye lihe stretched out for a biock. It was over in a few moments, and"a checkup showed that the score stands 4 to 2—four dead klans- men, one dead deputy, and one dead bystander, Roland, who was not a klansman. “Dunning, Reid, Willard, and Newbolt were members of the klan, and from remarks them have made lately WE HAVE FEARED THIS OUTBREAK WAS COMING.” A CS ee That is the kind of “law and order” that Dawes stands for; the kind of “law and order” that carries four guns in a peaceful working class community. : Out at his home in Evanston, “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes sits crouching, evidently struck dumb with fear at the quick response, from the guns of the Williamson County Klansmen, to his speech one week before in Augusta, Maine. The DAILY WORKER sought to reach Mr. Dawes over the telephone. His manager, Kilkenny, responded. “All the newspapers have keen trying to get Mr. Dawes to make a statement on the situation at Herrin,” said Mr. Kilkenny. “Mr. Dawes has refused to make any statement to any newspaper.” » The silence of Mr. Dawes is proof that he feels the guilt for the spilling of blood in Williamson County. Let the workers remember the words of “Fascisti” Dawes, fearful of the growth of militancy among the Southern Illinois coal miners, when he said: i “If a secret organiation to uphold law and order is justifiable anywhere in our country, it is justifiable there (Williamson County).” Dawes stands back of the Klan. Dawes is guilty of the crimes of the Klan. INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES WILL REPORT TO SPECIAL MEETING OF CHICAGO YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE “<*" «2ecicncy. | KLAN LEAVES ~ DEATH TRAIL IN HERRIN, IL ‘Murderers Backed by Protestant ( Charches (Special to the DAILY WORKER) | HERRIN, IIL, Sept. 2.—Removal | of Sheriff George Galligan as a means to peace in Williamson coun- ty will be asked of Gov. Len Smail, by a committee representing the county ministers’ association and other citizens, it was decided this afternoon after the same committee had called on the county board to urge that body to use its influence to bring about the removal. The committee is headed by Rev. 1, E. Lee, of the First Baptist church. It is charged the Protest- ant churches are in alliance with the Ku Klux Klan. The governor is the only person empowered to remove a sheriff. It is now charged the governor is also a Klansman. The Christian church here, depu- ties charge, has been used as an arsenal to store ammunition for the Klan, It is rumored that the police cleaned it out of ammunition Satur- day night. a) (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, | Ill., Sept. 2—Six men dead and several wounded. This is the toll of the latest out- rage perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in what the Illinois Chamber of Commerce is pleased to call “bloody William- son County.” Sheriff Galligan and his depu- charging them with murders of three persons killed last Satur- |day. A warrant is issued for the arrest of State’s Attorney Delos |Duty, charging him with con- spiracy in the murders. Doctor J. T. Black, head of the Her- \rin Hospital, is released on a $15,000 jbond. The Klan-controlled city ad- ministration charges him with being jan anti-klan sympathizer. | Thirty automobile loads of ammuni- |tions were unloaded at the rear of |the city hall last night. All efforts to trace the autos ‘were unsuccessful. Police and ‘firemen were not giving out any information. Fear of whizzing bullets seals lips. | Started in 1922. The people are in deadly fear of the next outbreak. Since the 1922 riot at the scab mine, during which several strikebreakers were killed, the county is divided into warring factions, one the Klan faction backed |by the operators and the Protestam, |churches, the other friendly to the miners’ union. Adj. Gen. Carlos Black announced that he would withdraw the troops, which were sent into Herrin on the request of Sheriff Galligan. State's Attorney Duty, charges Gen. Black with being a member of the Klan. |People are beginning to think that | Governor Len Small is also sympa- thetic to the hooded order. Not be- jeause Small believes in the purpose of the Klan, but for reasons of poli- death-carnival started last Saturday after the Shelton broth- All branch and other meetings of the Young Workers League of Chi-/ers were acquitted of the charge of |cago for Thursday evening, Sept. 4, hd@ve been called off. Instead there will |take place a general membership meeting where the delegates to the 4th con-/ policeman, during the Glenn Young jgress of the Y. C. I. will render their reports on the decisions and resolutions | raids, jarrived at there, and the immediate problems of the Y. W. L. in the light of|on February 8, these decisions. Comrade Carlson, who has been “working for the B. C. of the Y, C. I. in Europe for the last 18 months, will be the chief reporter. OF The decisions of the last congress | are of particular importance to the More attention was devoted to the Y. W. L. than was ever the case hitherto at Spaniards Losing Ground. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 2.—Spanish sol-| work that must be done here. experiences of GENEVA, Sept. 2.—M. Otta, form- fields. jmeeting, the French league; the Anti-militarist ex- |periences in the Ruhr, in Bulgaria, League of Nations President. \etc., make possible a clearer and more concrete line of action in all of these uvery member of the Y. W. L. of Chicago and suburbs, must attend this | Admission will be by pres- |the deputies, murdering Constable Cagle, a Klan The constable’s death occurred Klan Killed Skeicher. After the acquittal, a deputy sheriff, who had loaned a Dodge car to Jack Skelcher, another deputy, to hunt Glenn Young in the Ohaw bottoms last February, went to Smith’s garage to recover his car. Smith is a promi- nent Klansman. Skelcher was mur- dered by the Klan and the Dodge car- Moroccan rebels. an international congress. Further- |ried bullet marks. more, the valuable experiences gain- The Dod was stored in Smith's Ryans pee grit Accepted. joa in nucleus work in Germany, Brit- et by Klansmen after they eee } Sept. 2—Formal announce-| 1 14 checho-Slovakia; the Trade |*%Ot and killed Skelcher « few months ago. The immediate cause of the shooting was the attempt of deputy sheriffs to recover their car from the Klansmen, It is reported that an Es- sex, filled with Klansmen, drove past the deputies as they stopped in front of the garage and fired at them, kill- ing Bud Allison. Sheriff Galligan was in charge of He was present during They Always Have Interests. lentation of membership card only. |the trial of the Shelton boys. PEKING, Sept. 2. — The Italian party cards. Blue Island Ave., at 8 p. m. Workers Party members are also in- vited to attend, but must show their The meeting will take place at 722 2 OS VNR ASAE OH AAI VE EA AAMAIRLON ARE OSCAR TLTS A oY 7 The six dead men are: Bud Allison, \deputy sheriff; Otto Roland, deputy sheriff; Charles Wollard, reputed Klansman; Chester Reede, a by-stand- (Continued on page 2) we 4 ties. were served. with .warnants¢: