The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1924, Page 2

"Page Two ~~~. PROGRESSIVES — DEMAND ACTION FROM U. MW. A. Militant Miners’ Slate Gets Endorsements By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Ill., Aug. 29. —lllinois will be swept by a series of mass meetings of the miners protesting against un- employment, this fall, Arley Staples, candidate for Interna- tional vice-president of the United Mine Workers in the December elections, told the DAILY WORKER today. “The miners thru-out Illinois, where over 40,000 have been out of work for many months, and over the entire country, are al- ready passing resolutions de- manding more aggressive ac- tion on the part of the ‘official family’ against unemployment,” Staples said. “I look for thou- sands of unemployed miners to form special unemployment councils, and to demand of the bosses that” the industry take care of the unemployed work- ers.” Unemployment Grows. “Bvery month that goes by means that the industrial crisis becomes tories are closing down daily. There is less demand for coal. Unemploy-} ment is growing more acute and will} not get better this winter, but worse. | “The miners in southern Illinois re- alize that the worst period of unem- ployment in our history is turning not into a period of prosperity, but into a period when the entire capitalistic eco- | nomic structure is being shaken.| They are waking up to the fact that the only way to completely solve their } problems is to take over the mines| and run them for the use of the work-| ing class and not for the profit of mil- lionaires, as is done at present. Farrington Idle. “While the miners are starving in southern Illinois, while the coal oper- ators are attempting to force a wage cut after starving the miners by clos- ‘ing down the mines, Frank Farrington and the entire reactionary officialdom of the miners’ union is doing nothing to relieve the situation. “I am running for international vice president on the program of the mili- tant miners. The militant rank and file miners demand that a conference of all local unions on unemployment be called by the United Mine Work- ers’ officials. They demand that a drive be immediately started to organ- ize the unorganized coal miners of the south, They demand that the shorter work day be instituted as a solution for unemployment. They demand that the coal operators and the govern- ment pay unemployment benefits. “The progressive miners of this country insist that the miners’ offi- cials take immediate action to solve} unemployment and institute immedi- | ate and organized measures for real yelief of the suffering unemployed | dampéned. niners. Vote for Progressives. “There are two ways the rank and file miners can make their voice heard in Illinois. One is to instruct their Special New York Issue THE special New York-Gitlow-Campaign issue of the DAILY WORKER will be dated September 4th and will be on hand Friday morning, September 5th, in the Jimmie Higgins Book Shop, 127 University Place. Every reader of the DAILY WORKER should call at the book shop for a bundle at'2c a copy, to help boost the New York campaign and particularly the meeting of Com- rade Gitlow, our vice-presidential candidate. front page of this issue will matter. The entire consist of Special New York PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON CAPITALIST TICKETS UNLOAD CARGO OF HOKUM ON LABOR DAY MORGAN'S ATTORNEY OHN W. DAVIS, democratic candidate for president, arrived in Chicago today, on his way to take a jab at hat for the labor vote yesterday in his himself a “liberal labor” candidate. the agricultural vote. He held out his Labor Day speech, in which he tagged He heartily supported the anti-child labor amendment, and denounced the Esch-Cummins law. He favored voluntary wage agreements and de- nounced the use of injunctions in strikes. Had these promises been incorporated in the democratic party platfarm, Gompers might now be boosting the donkey instead of the Foolite ticket. * a * * MORGAN'S PRESIDENT ALVIN COOLIDGE, strikebreaker wagon, black that even Sam Gompers would public, Coolidge declared that he thot as they worked hard and otherwise president, also got on labor’s band- Speaking to a collection of labor fakers, whose records are so hesitate to shake hands with them in the workers had a right to live as long conducted themselves. He said the republican party put soup in the worker’s dinner pail and oil In his lamp. He urged the labor fakers to “stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality and t he American brand of wages.” The labor fakers promised not to accept any foreign ideas unless they came thru the League of Nations, Mr. Bahkmeteff, Angelo Firpo or the Prince of Wales. Thelr price for the next four years would be higher than formerly owing to the raise in the cost of living and their growing taste for luxuries. 2 Samuel Gompers could not delives all the votes to LaFollette, they In- more acute. In the large cities fac:| + ined the president. They were thankful to the old man for deserting the Prominent ‘labor fakers missing Murphy and Robert P. Brindell, were too pressing. ae | two old parties, as his absence makes the bribers grow fonder, from the delegation were “Big Tim” Their duties in Leavenworth and Sing Sing . * ANYBODY'S MAN ENATOR ROBERT M. LaFOLLETTE spoke to an invisible audience on Labor Day. What he said was h brain. has hopes in the people. “I believe,” ard on the ears and still harder in the He pictured the two old parties the abject slaves of wealth. But he he said, “that if the people can once regain control of the machinery of government we can stem the tidé toward economic absolutism. “Fightin” Bob denied that he was a radical, said that the Dawes Plan Street, if they would allow him. In the meantime the official organ | was a Morgan Plan and insisted that he would rescue the people from Wall of Samuel Gompers is coming off the press, with an editorial denouncing the trust-busting philosophy of LaFollette and demanding the repeal of Bob’s pet anti-trust Sherman act. Workers’ Blood Crim sons Hands of Dawes (Continued from page 1) of hooded cowards whose efforts are now directed toward the elimination of the miners’ union in the intersts of the open shop cal operators.” Engdahl, amidst enthusiastic ap- plause, called upon the assembled pic- nickers to join the Communist mover ment and work in the revolutionary ranks of this country for the establish- ment of a Soviet republic. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, also spoke on the sig- nificance of Mobilization Day, Sept. 12. Despite the rain, a good crowd |turned out to the annual picnic 6 the T. U. BE. L. The spirits of the young in particular were far from being “ee dwards Speaks for T. U. E. L. John Edwards, recently returned from Soviet Russia, addressed the last meeting of the Trade Union Edu- cational League of Chicago on the delegates to the eoria convention on|Communist youth movements in Eu- Sept. 8 to fight for this program. An- |Trope, embracing Germany, France and | other is to elect officers in the Decem-| Russia, and the lessons we should ber primary who are pledged to this | learn from them in developing our progressive program.” {youth movement. Edwards attended Staples declares that the miners|the Third World Congress of the have arisen in protest against inaction | Young Communist International in of the officials before and they are be- Russia. i ginning to do it again. He referred; In his speech he particularly to the time when Farrington misman- | stressed the fact that these countries aged the affiars of the Illinois miners centered their intensive organization in the 1922 strike. work on the youth of the working The five Christopher local unions, | class, Nos, 1421, 2376, 2468, 232, 3613, and He portrayed the life of the youth] many other locals thruout the state,|o¢ Russia, They work only six hours femanded of President Lewis the im-| 4 day. They attend the factory mediate removal of Frank Farrington | schools or colleges. Only workers at- as president of District 12. Farring- tend the colleges in Russia. 3 ton, who had been playing for a sepa-| parts ‘wall wae cai lade ik ele rate district agreement with the coal! t operators for the Illinois miners, be-|1 the Communist youth movements in Russia, too, The i |abroad and bur so ee Rs eagle Marg Dolictes | youth Red Sport International of Rus- among the miners, took a right about| face at the reconvened Peoria conven-| S18 has one million: aad. &, Delt, mem. Hot. Resort for Workers’ Sports. Indorsed in Nova Scotia. Leninhills, once a restricted pleas- Staples has been, nominated by all) ure resort for the nobility and wealthy the Christopher locals. He has just| merchants of Russia (of course it was received the following letter from New| not known as Leninhills them), has Waterford, Nova Scotia: been set aside for youth sport activi- “Dear Sir and Brother—I take) ties, The magnificent houses and ho- great pleasure in informing you of the|tejs are used for schools, fact that this local union, No. 4527, No. 1 2mine, New Waterford, has nom- inated you for international office as vice president. Hoping that you have every success in your campaign, also to cheer you with the knowledge that District 26 will vote to a man, I re- main, Yours fraternally, “(Signed) ROD R. McNEIL, “New Waterford, N. 8. P. 0. Box 426.” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. f . : Every six months workers receive a two weeks’ vacation in Russia, and they are of to Leninhills to join in the sports. “In no country does one see such healthy looking youths as in Russia,” said Edwards, “Imagine thousands of robust, laughing, joyous sturdy youths headed for Leninhills in hundreds of boats bearing red flags and you will have the picture that greeted my eyes as I stood on the banks of Leninhills with revolutionists from other coun: tries who spent a day there viewing t ~~ youth festivities in Soviet Russia. When they come on shore, they went thru military drills and took part in healthful games. These youths work in the factories, attend the colleges and take an active part in the work of the Communist Party.’ Urges Youth Nuclei. He urged the organization of youth nuclei in the unions just as they have in Russia, France and Germany. Youth nuclei in the unions have gained for them a better understand- ing between the adult workers and the apprentices in France and Ger- }many. In Germany especially the ap- prentices are used against the me- chanics by the owners, but the youth nuclei in the shops are bringing about a better working understanding between the workers. He said that Europe has taught him that no country can hope to gain rev- olutionary power without winning ing youth its most active part. In America the Y. M. C. A, the col- \leges and the press are the conscious leffort to spread capitalist propaganda among the youth. In our factory |towns thousands of dollars are con- tributed by big capitalists, such as John D. Rockefeller, for instance, for |youth sports. Thru these sport ac- | tivities they direct youthful tmagina- |tion and enthusiasm for their own lends. | We must get behind the Y. W. L. of America and use the knowledge gained from other countries to organ- ize the youth for the revolutionary movement. Browder Hits Dawes Plan. Earl Browder, assistant secretary of the T. U. EB. L., before closing the meeting spoke briefly on the Dawes plan and how it is being received in Europe by’ the workers. Browder said fhat Morgan is working hard to get the leaders of labor to champion the Dawes plan because he knows that if labor refutes it, it wiM not suc- ceed in Europe. As a result, Ramsay MacDonald of England, the social-democrat Marx of Germany and the radical-socialist Herriot of France have been enlisted to assist Morgan control the whole world thru the Dawes plan, but these losing leadership in the trade union movement. The left wing of the labor move- ments are not with the Dawes plan, They have expressed themselves against it at their conventions and meetings. This pressure from below is becoming greater every day, The fact that the left wing in the trade union movement is against the Dawes plan we can take as a guarantee tha, the Dawes plan will fail in Burope, over the youth to its cause and mak-|™ men by their deeds of betrayal are} ge, THE DAILY WORKER CHICAGO'S KOSHER | BUTCHERS STRIKE FOR PAY INCREASE Chicago kosher butchers went on strike yesterday, demanding an in- crease in salary and a shorter work- day. The increase will bring their salaries up to $5 and their workday down one-half hour each day. The strike call was issued at the headquarters of the butchers’ union here, and all union butchers have an- swered the call and are out on strike. Ku Klux Klan . Leaves Trail of Death in Williamson County (Continued from page 1) er; Green Dunning, reputed Klans- man, and Dewy Newbold, reputed Klansman. ‘ Klan and Anti-Klan. The Herrin officialdom is with the, Klan. The county authorities are on the other side. , Chief of Police, Matt Walker, an appointee of Mayor Magee Anderson, stated that he would not be surprised if fifty people were arrested by night fall. * & The police chief, who plainly show- ed his Klan sympathies, denonunced the sheriff's forces ang threatened to jail every deputy in Benton and Mar- ion. According to eye witnesses of Sat- urday’s battle, the Klansmen bore down on Smith’s garage in an Essex car, heavily armed, and started the shooting. It is rumored that Sheriff Galli- gan intends closing up the garage on the ground that it is a public nuisance and Klan hangout. The undertaking establishment where the bodies of the anti-Klan vic- tims of last Saturday’s battle are ly- ing, is constantly crowded with min- ers who come to pay their last re- spects to the dead. The morgue where, the Klansmen’ are lying, is practical- ly deserted. Another attempt to oust Sheriff George Galligan from office is to be made today, the county ministers’ association announced, following a session at which Rev. I. BE. Lee was appointed to call on the county board at its meeting this afternoon and ask that body to use its influence to force the sheriff to relinquish his position. The president of the board, is Sam- uel Sterns, who for many months was closely associated with S. Glenn Young, Williamson county’s imported dry raider. Several previous attempts to re- move Galligan have proved fruitless. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities C, C. C. Meet September 5. The City Central Committee will meet Friday, Sept. 5, 8 p. m., at 208 HB. 12th Room 2. St. 5 The election campaign will be the chlet question before the committee, as the ES of finance, circulating petitions, increasing the effectiveness of street meetings require immédiate attention. The DAILY WORKER agent will also report on the subscription drive which is started in the city, and on Fang ome for raising the circulation of our Daily. Industrial Organizers Meet Sept. 8. Industrial Organizers will meet Monday, Sept. 8, at 208 B, 12th Street, Room 2, 8 p. m. sharp. Plans for intensifying industrial work in line with the party program of action will be taken +. This is the first meeting held since July. The summer is almost over, and we must prepare to double our efforts on the industrial fleld. OPEN AIR MEETINGS. Thureday, Sept. 4. 7th St. and Avenue C—Speaker to be mnounced. Sth St. and 8th Ave.—Ben Davidson and Huiswood. 110th St. and Lexington Ave.—Chorover and Markoff. 115th St. and Madison Avenue—H. M. initsky. Longwood and Prospect Aves.—Rebecca Grecht and oth Friday, Sept. 5, All meetings called off on account of pa ne A Solent ey the pone orkers League in Central Opera House, 205 East 67th St. Party Activities Of Local Chicag: 0 — J STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO. 1 Hrove & hoe 32nd and Halste: ets—Auspices, 4th Dist. Committee, Lithuanian branches. Speakers, Max Shachtman and Lithuan- “Frith and Wallace Sts.—Auspiees, 4th ce Sts.—Aus} Dist. Committee. Speak: D sh Warley ““iind and Morgan Sts.—Ausplees, 4th a) organ Sts.—Auspices, ist. Committee. Polish branch speakers, English and Polish comrades. BRANCH MEETINGS, LOCAL CHICAGO Wednesday, Sept, 3. Italian, Cicero—Circolo Giovanilo Hall, 14th St., between 5ist and 5 ct. D. P, Jewish—3420 W. Roosevelt Rd. Terra Cotta Italian—2475 Clybourn Ave- * Gregho-Biavale, Closto- basaryk Schoo}, y a) ‘aylor. Englewood—t414 So. ‘Halsted St. Czecho-Slovak No. 3—2548 8. Homan Avenue. Thureday, Sept. 4, Finnish—2409 N. Halsted st. 1ith Ward Italian—2439 8. Oak! . Sist Ward Italian—5i1 ai Buiganion ‘eet. Community Center, 8201 8. ‘Wi Avenue. 8. Side English. (Look sa] ee ieaiate Na 11902 W. Divist lan No, 1—! * . Soandinavian Karl Marx. rs ron INSURANCE or ANY KIND CARL. BRODSKY 1123 Broadway, New York City Tol. Watkins 3 “Make War on War!” Labor’s Slogan for “Goose-Step Day!” ' By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TORAY, the militarists of the nation speed up their efforts to arouse the masses in support of their rapidly ap- proaching “Goose Step Day,” Sept 12. Secretary of War John W. Weeks, pal of General Leo- nard Wood in helping to maintain American imperialism's sway over Wall Street’s growing colonial possessions, especially in the Philippines, is in the front rank of the mobilizers for “Defense Day.” That is his job. * ae * * Secretary of War Weeks is pulling all the old, familiar tricks, that the militarists have always employed, to make the game of human slaughter, for the protection of the world-wide interests of capitalism, attractive to the youth of the nation. Secretary of War Weeks looks over the statistics and finds that the mills, the mines and the factories, while they have been producing huge profits for the great trusts, they have at the same time turned out a population ‘of mentally subnormal and physically unfit candidates for the murder machines of war. * * * * For the masters of bread need strong, healthy, alert young men to fight their wars so that they can fight them successfully against the strong, healthy, robust, alert young men of foreign imperialisms, whether of Great Britain, France or Japan. : Secretary of War Weeks laments, for the purposes of war, that “about one-half of our population is subnormal” and that the country suffers annually a loss of $1,500,000,000 by preventable illness and curable physical defects of its citizens.” * * * * Secretary of War Weeks doesn't worry about develop- ing a nation of intelligent, healthy men, women and children, for the purposes of peace, for the building a better civiliza- tion. He states his fears openly and frankly, that this po- pulation with its 50 per cent subnormals “places the nation in the position of having to defend itself with one arm tied behind its back,” which, “is bad.” Bad for Wall Street and its gold. * * ” * Weeks has no cure for this problem. He does not urge that the standard of living be raised. He does not demand that the children be taken out of the factories. He does not seek a shortening of the work-day, or the bettering of work- ing or housing conditions. : All that this pitiful peers? of the Wall Street war-makers has to offer is to suggest that, “the medical men in each com- munity, as a patriotic service, will issue friendly advise to their fellow citizens on Sept. 12, “Defense Test Day.” This is a confession that the. wages of the workers will -not permit them to have a doctor's care and advice when needed, that the workers must depend upon the charity of doctors on one day, six years after the great war ended, in order that they might prepare their bodies to become cannon fodder for the next war. _ 2 * * * “It may be too late,” confesses Weeks, ‘for any con- structive action on a nation-wide scale to eradicate the physical weakness of the present generation, but it is certainly not too late to prevent the oncoming generation from developing similar defects.” Thus, evidently hopeless of the patriotism of the doctors, Weeks pleads that “fathers and mothers will have the phy- sical condition of their children investigated,” but he dd not add, in order that they be better fertilizer for the blood- crimsoned soil of some foreign land in the next great war. * * * * In the last great capitalist war the dead alone totalled nearly 8,000,000 young men; to be exact just 7,975,000. In- cluding the wounded the casualities went up to “at least 35,000,000” says The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year-Book, for 1919. And the only beer was the triumph of the profiteering dollars of J. Pierpont Morgan. * = * * Thus the issue for “‘Goose-Step Day, Sept. 12, 1924,” in the United States becomes quite clear. Will the masses, in the workshops and on the farms, help the big capitalists, the war-makers prepare for the next war? Or will the-masses of workers and farmers prepare to make war on the next capitalist war? * * * * William Howard Taft, now Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was secretary of war in thé cabinet of President Roosevelt, more than two decades ago. Taft and Roosevelt did what they could to put budding American militarism on its feet., } But it was Roosevelt’s Secretary of War Taft, who as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, only re- ' cently declared “unconstitutional” legislation restricting the labor of children. It is under the rule of Chief Justice Taft that an increasing number of children are being driven to labor, before their timé, when they should be in school, de- veloping in the mills and factories all those diseases and ail- ments that make the American population nearly 50 per cent, = 46.8, defective. And the only worry of the big capitalists is that these children will not make good murderers in the next war. * *” s * * Thus capitalism is revealed in all its barbarism. When it does not feed the nation’s youth to the war machine, it drives it into the equally deadly maw of capitalist industry. Against the capitalist slogan of “Prepare the Youth of the Nation for the Next War!” the Communists raise the demand, “‘Arouse the youth of the nation for war against the wars of the great capitalists. Arouse the workers for the war to end war-breeding capitalism!” Sept. 12, this next week, should be a mobilization of all workers and poor farmers to spread the call for a great. struggle to sweep this barbarous and blood-thirsty social system called capitalism off the earth forever. THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT if A. MERICAN labor is still ep, drugged into insensibility by bour- geois propaganda. It is the only important labor movement in the world not yet aware of the revolutionary character of the fight that it is carrying on; it is the only one which has not declared for some sort of a socialist society as its ultimate goal.”"—William 2. Foster. Wednesday, September 3, 1924 FOSTER'S TOUR MAKING LABOR SKATES UNEASY Fake Progressives Are Placed in Pillory (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 2.— William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, arrived here today after delivering a Labor Day speech in Kansas City, Mo. He will speak tonight in Triangle Park, South Broad- way, Foster’s speech, in Omaha, Nebr., received considerable publicity and his appearance was a bombshell in the camp of the fake progressives who are so anxiously trying to be- tray the workers and poor farmers for their own oppor- tunist, material gain. Progressives Disillusioned. The progressive party of Nebraska, which for some time was a thorn in the side of the old party politicians like Bryan, has been almost destroy- ed by some of the weak-kneed Farmer- Laborites in it. The genuine prog- ressives are very much disillusioned by, the action of LaFollette’s agents and some are unwilling to join with them in the rank betrayal of an in- dependent party of the producers. Now, more than ever, many of these genuine progressives are begin- ning to realize the correctness of the view expressed by the Communists, who said to them monthe ago at their former conventions that LaFollette would betray them. Dawes Would Fool Farmers, Into the midst of this confusion now comes Dawes with his famous plan, which he and Mr. Hoover and the entire republican party say will help the American farmer by bringing about great exports of Am@ican agri- cultural, particularly animal, products. This ‘will be Dawes’ big appeal to the farmers. In realty it means that, by declaring the German nation bank- rupt, appointing the House of Morgan as receiver and fastening upon the German people a debt which, they can never pay, Morgan will gain a few billion dollars, a yery small portion of which may be used to purchase Amer- ican products. j This cold-blooded exploitation of the German nation might make some appeal to a few “retired” farmers, but the “tired” farmers of Nebraska are beginning to realize that to force the Dawes’ plan upon the German work- ers May mean another imperialist war. They are in no mdod in Nebraska for war, and every day‘ they understand more clearly these pos- sible eventualities, and have a keener sympathy for the Communists and their program. Worried About Foster, On Sunday, August 31, William Z. Foster ,Communist candidate for Presi- dent, spoke in Omaha. Foster's ap- Pearance in Omaha caused consterna- tion.among the various tlabor fakers who are anxiously climbing on the band wagon piloted by LaFollette and Charley Bryan. Foster ruthlessly ex- posed all the capitalist politicians and their various nostrums—Dawes with his plan, Bryan with his fake paci- fism, and LaFollette with his oppor- tunist, horse-trading politics, masked with the name of “progressivism.” Foster, fresh from his recent trip to Europe and Russia, showed how the workers and poor farmers of those countries are led by the Communists in opposition to the imperialist bank- ers, headed by Morgan and his handy- man, Dawes. Foster told his audience about the tremendous possibilities of a rehabilitated Russian agriculture, which, when operated with modern agricultural machinery, Will enable the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment of Soviet Russia to smash the international markets of Europe. This meeting was a bombshell in the camp of the fake progressives who are so anxiously trying to betray -|the workers and poor farmers for their own opportunist, material gains.” Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES Springfield, Ill—Carpenter Hall, Ad- ams and Seventh Sts., Thursday, Sept: ember 4th, 8 p, m. Elizabeth, N. J—Turn Hall, 725 ion St., Wednesday, September 10, 8 p.m. ; Newark, N. J—Labor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th St., Thursday, September 11, 8 p. m. Philadelphia, Pa—Musical Fund Hall, 8th and Locust Streets, Friday, September 12, 8 p, m. Paterson, N. J.—Halvitia Hall, 56 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; Warren, Ohio—Hippodrome Hall, High Street, Thursday, September 4, at 7:30 p. m. ;