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

\ 22s FAMINE TALES IN KEPT PRESS | SHOWN FALSE Disprove Lies of “Trib” and | Others: By M. A. SKROMNY. The capitalist’ press, espe- cially the Tribune, is continuing to feed its readers with horrible Russian famine sttories. A few days ago the Russian Cheka had shot in the Chicago Tribune a hungry mob. Now the same yellow sheet has obtained an “exclusive” map of the famine district which claims to. show that the famine “in the land of Red menace” is-“‘as severe as that in 1921.” When we remind ourselves that the same newspaper, in 1921 published an “exclusive” photograph of the Bolsheviks actually shooting down a hung- ry mob (which happened to be the photograph of the July up- rising of 1917 showing the Bol- sheviks being shot down by the Kerensky troops), we don’t wonder much about the ‘proofs’ of this paper. Recall Acts of 1921. ‘When the Soviet government in 1921 apealed to the world for aid to save the starving because it was unable to save them without aid from abroad, the same press called it “Bolshevik propaganda.” Only after the work- ing class organizations all over the world began an active campaign to aid fm the famine did the capitalist press take it seriously. The Soviet govern- ment was forced to spend in this coun- try several millions of dollars for food before the Hoover administration agreed to help. They actually permit- ted thousands of people to die before they did anything to help. Now, when the Soviet government states that it is able to take care of the famine districts without foreign aid, they are so anxiously advertising the “great” famine. Why are they so anxiously advertising the “great” famine. Why are they so good- hearted? What happened? Since 1921 the Soviet government has been recognized by many impor- tant states. The Hughey’ policy of splendid isolation in the Russian af- fairs has proven a failure. It con- tributed much to the unemployment in this country, to the lessening of exports and the general deflation of business. It was an aid to the Brit- ish, German and other business inter- ests as against the interests of Uncle Sam. Many countries, including the arch enemy, France, are now on the verge of recognizing the Soviet gov- ernment. Farmers Aimed At. The farmers in this country as well as the workers are rebelling against the well “oiled” old parties. In order to still their voices by raising artifi- cially grain prices, and at the same time prevent, if possible, further rec- ognitions of the Soviet government, this campaign of lies about the Rus- sian famine was brot about. In the eable in which the “killings of the hungry” are reported there is a para- graph which lets the cat out of the bag. It states that “M. Léshava (Commissioner of Interior Trade) re- rts that the crop failure has af- fected two-thirds of the grain-grow- Take a Vote in Your Shop DEVER PLAYING TWO PONIES IN DEFENSE DAY PROCLAMATION In the hopes that he would con- tinue to maintain some of his for- eign vote support, Mayor Dever con- tinued to straddle both horses by is- suing a proclamation to the people of Chicago to observe Defense Day, but at the same time deploring the inculeation of the war spirit in the minds of the populace, In the proclamation he pointed out that he doesn’t “believe in empha- sizing at this time preparation for war, yet | have no sympathy with the sentimental pacifism which would leave this nation helpless.” Therefore, proclamates Mayor De. ver, we shall observe Defense Day nevertheless. All the big corpora- tions—non-unionized—will have con- tingents of their employes on the line of march and in the audiences listening to patriotic airs—hot. aaaenew wanes ing districts in Russia and that ex- ports must be radically curtailed if Russia intends to feed itself this com- ing winter. This should prove wel- come news to American farmers, whom the Bolsheviks undersold in Eu- rope a year ago.” This is the main reason why there is such a “terrible” famine in Rus- sia, It should prove welcome news even if it is a lie. This will help Cutten and other speculators to cor- ner the grain markets and make a few extra millions of dollars while the farmer may forget his troubles at least until after election. But what is the actual state of af- fairs! Russ Situation Favorable. Comrade Rykov, chairman of the Soviet Famine Committee, reported the actual stituation recently at a Moscow meeting. It is much more favorable! than expected previously. According to the latest statistics, to- gether with the 150 million puds of grain left over from last year the gov- ernment will have on its hands 2,700 milion puds. After covering the needs of the fgmine districts there will be a surplus of over 100 million puds. Out this amount 75 million puds will be exported. Besides help- ing the population with grain, 35 mil- lion gold rubles have ben appropriated to help the famine districts and all labor and peasant organizations of the country have been molipbilized for this purpose. The district Affected covers about one-fourth of that in 1921, and only about seven million: people are affected against the 30 million of 1921. These facts are very well known to the Tribune correspondents but to print them would not be such welcome news to the grain speculators who are robbing the population as well as the farmers. The white guards and the counter-revolutionists in general are attempting to make good use of the “welcome” news of the yellow sheets. The local white guard Russian paper using the Tribune's “news” is telling its readers that the Bolsheviks are starving the peasants while export- ing grain. But the workers have learned many a lesson during the last few years and they know how “reliable” the news about Russia is in the capitalist sheets, titel Advocate Night Work Abolition. MILWAUKEE, Wis., September 2.— Coincident with a convention in Mil- waukee of the Wisconsin Association of Master Bakers, local No. 205 of the Bakers’ union advocated the abolition of night baking and appealed to house- wives to buy union-made bread in the interest of health and better working conditions fér their craft. OW do the workers in your shop stand in this presidential election campaign? How many of your shop mates are still so backward that they accept the leadership of Coolidge and Davis? How many of your fellow workers have been fooled by the specious pleas of LaFollette and adopt this middle-class saviour? * And, above all, how many workers are there in your shop who un- derstand that the working class must have its own party, its own policy, and its own candidate—and who therefore stand for William Z. Foster for president? Take a vote in your shop. Send it in to the DAILY WORKER. We will compile it along with all the ploture of how the workers are thinking about the election issu other shop votes and give you a and WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE THE DAILY WORKER, ” 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. The workers employed in the OUND - Of sscceonttosnechoocipsogpeisesionnasacnnesinn wshave taken a straw vote on the presidential candidates, and the vote was ‘as follows: WM. Z. FOSTE Workers Party DAVIS vw» Votes; Democratic Party terenevesserves VOCCB} LAFOLLETTE ssssssesssrve VOtOS; No Party COOLIDGE . Republican ssssssnnnnne VOTER: rty I certify that this report is correct: svssengsenneennanneaneoangngeoeonsionsssgnessnegnengneens, eanenunsovonsasecanensnnunennonsnsoneensesncsanesanecanengneconseeneanecanennes THE DAILY WORKER HERRIN. MINERS, JOBLESS, 60 T0 KU KLUX TRIAL Thirty Mines ShutDown in Sub-District Editor’s Note: This article by Karl Reeve was written before the renewal of civil war in Herrin last Saturday. . By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) HERRIN, Ill, Sept. 2. — Thirty mines in the entire Herrin sub-district, the second largest sub-district in Illi- nois, are completely shut down. Only 17 are working at all, and none of these are working full time. This was * * the statement made at the offices of the United Mine Workers in Herrin. 3,000 Are Jobless. Sven mines are completely closed in Herrin, and three mines are working part time. Over 2,000 miners in this town are idling the streets, out of work. Mines Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of the Franklin County Coal Company have been abandoned. Mine B of the Chi- cago, Williamson+ & Franklin Coal Company, ordinarily employing 300 men, has been shut down for practi- cally a year. Mine A of this company, which works better than any other mine around Herrin, employing 700 men, works at the most four days a week. Many of the unemployed miners, with nothing else to do, are attending the trial of Carl Nielson and Walter Winsted, members of the Ku Klux Klan, They are being tried. at. the county courthouse in Herrin, charged with assault with deadly weapon. Visitors Searched. When Arley Staples and myself en- tered the courtroom we were searched by two deputy sheriffs. Delos Duty, the prosecutor, and A. O. Boswell, de- fense attorney, were having a hard time to pick jurors who had no fixed opinion of the Ku Klux Klan. Judge Bowen had his back to the courtroom and was reading the Chicago Tribune. He alid down the paper occasionally to dreamily gaze out of the window. . Boswell seemed unwilling to allow foreigners to serve on the jury. C. Barbalia was removed from the jury, altho he declared he had no fixed opinion on the case. Dennis Craig was also removed by the Klan lawyer. Duty, the prosecutor, explained to the jurors that the charge grew out of the raids, “commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan raids in which Glenn Young was involved.” He ex- plained they ‘were being tried on an indictment returned by the Grand Jury. Mystery in Court Procedure. Boswell suddenly asked for a pri- vate conference and the judge andthe two lawyers went into another room. Upon their return Judge Bowen an- nounced that court would be ad- journed until four o'clock in the after- noon. He refused to divulge the sub- ject of the conference. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) the injunction. Perhaps John H. Walker might use up a dozen hand- kerchiefs, telling the workers how he has repented of his sins, how he turned from the wicked path, trodden by him during the days when he was a member of the socialist party and be- lieved there was such a thing as the class struggle. Perhaps——, . UT listen. “Quiet, thotful refiec- tion is expected to hold full sway instead of the clamor of former labor days. The parade, the outings and the oratory of other labor days will not be in evidence. Instead there will be @ more constructive, more benefl- cial and more substantial way of ob- serving labor day—the silent reflec- tion upon the past and its lessons and the future and its problems.’ This from the Federation News. * © if you read something like the following in the columns of the capitalist press this morning you need not be surprised, because you are fore- warned: “One of the most remarkable labor celebrations ever held in the vi- cinity of the Windy City, took place here yesterday in Sleepy Hollow. Sev- eral thousuand workers spent the day laying on their backs gazing into the little patches of blue sky that could be seen thru the foliage of the trees. There was a dead silence. Suddenly a heavy sobbing was heard, but the sleepers did not move. The reporter astonished by the strange scene made his way in the direction of the sob- bing and found John H. Walker, John Fitzpatrick and Victor Olander sitting near a brook crying furiously into the water. * ff ‘ALKING up and down nearby was a tall old ‘man who looked very much like the figure of Santa Claus that can be seen around Christ- mas in the Marshall Field store win- dow, ‘That is Rip Van Winkle,’ Mr. Walker managed to tell me between sobs. ‘We brot him here specially today to give our union members a lesson in the art of keeping quiet. They are too fond of fighting with the capitalists, and fighting gets them no- where. This method takes the cake. You watch for the results. Instead of parading around the streets carrying banners, and getting under the hide of the capitalists, we intend to “reflect” every once in a while. Reflect on the past, and dream ahout the futuure, when science. .will he taking sugar from the sun and moonshine from the moon. Never mind about the present, *e that’s Christian Science.’ ee. © {6G2UDDENLY, John Fitzpatrick jumped up and mounting a boul- der, took off his hat and began: ‘Brothers this meeting now comes to order. The situation is this—’ Olan- der pulled his coattail and handed him a stick of chewing gum. Fitz got down and said: ‘Oh, hell I was dream- ing.” Walker continued: ‘Fitz is not yet completely broken in. He gets those fits once in a while. He does A. T. GRIGGS MANUFACTURING CO., OF DETROIT, MICH., IS A DEVIL’S OWN HELL-HOLE, WORKER WRITES lined up close to each other, quickly picking up the metal parts dropped by the machines and sending them on to the next stage of production. These human machines must be con- tinually at their posts (not for one moment can they stop) to keep pace with the rapidly moving machines, Rumors in Factory. Here is the letter: 'To the DAILY WORKER—On Mon- day, Aug. 18, at 6:30 a, m., a rumor went the rounds at the Briggs Manu- facturing Company that 150 men were to be laid off. Fifteen minutes later another rumor. The plant has over- produced. It will be necessary to re- duce production, An inventory is being taken and there may be a com- plete shut-down. A ruse to frighten the workers, 1 knew something was coming. And then the cat was let out of the bag. There will be a cut in wages. The men have already received a 10 per cent cut in wages only a month ago. Conditions in this plant are horrible. Fifteen minutes for lunch. No one is allowed to leave his bench even to go to the toilet. Anyone caught rest- ing during work is immediately dis: charged. Workers Often Discharged. Discharge is a familiar word, Men are discharged on the flimsiest pre- tenses. Outside the plant every day, except Sunday, a long line, of men are wait: ing for a chance to work. There are at least 200 in line each day and t! line hangs like a sword over the heads of the men inside who never know be forced to stand A human voice out of the pit of a dungeon known as the A. T.. Briggs Manufacturing Company, in Detroit, Michigan, eached the DAILY WORKER today. bile bodies are made for the Hudson and Essex cars. Those who have visited automobile manufacturing plants will recall, as they read this letter, rows and rows of human flesh In this dungeon automo- back into this hell. I stood in this line three times. When you are discharged the com- pany gives you another chance to stand in line, With each time you are taken back you get a harder and lower paid’ job, Endless Line of Jobless. The men in line are a bad looking bunch. Broken down in body and spirit, hungry, sleeping in alleys, ragged and diseased they stand there waiting. The A. T. Briggs Manufacturing Company is next to the largest body making firm in Detroit. They employ 15,000 men, They have four large plants and run night shifts. The plant runs 12 hours a day and night. This factory is known all over Detroit as the Devil's Hell Hole. The doctors call it “The Home of Blood Poisoning.” It is horribly unsanitary in hundreds of ways which it would take too much space to describe, Workers Only Hope. I hope the day is not far off when the workers will be set free from this ‘slavery to the money kings. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is the workers’ only hope for a better world. Enclosed find a subscription for four months and $2.00. ae A COMRADE. MEN, WOMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS Learn at Home A Refined, Healthy, Money-Making Business During the Long Fall & Winter evenings. Address: The American Artificial Flower Co, 7925 So, Halsted St., Chicago, tll, | locker. not understand the new policy of giv- ing the class struggle the absent treat- ment. Foster spoiled poor John and it will take him some time before he gets completely over his desire to go out and fight. But he is convalesc- ing rapidly.’” 4 * OU may not read such a report in today’s papers. The labor fakers have not taken the organized workers to Sleepy Hollow, in the physical sense, It would not be so bad if they could sleep for 21 years and wake up to find the capitalists wheeling hand trucks and sweeping streets and dig- ging sewers. The labor fakers have given them a drug that has put them to sleep mentally, A labor parade, even on Sept. 1, was a class demon- stration. The workers walked to- gether and it was the custom to give the position of honor in the proces- sion to whatever union had a strike on its hands. But this policy i. to be dropped in preference for the Rip Van Winkle method. * ig the leaders of the American Fed- eration of Labor have decided to sleep the class struggle away, not so the enemy. We read in the New York Times, that Judge Gary is to preside at a conference of industrial leaders on September 12, the day designated by the War Department to mobilize the man power of America, as a test to see how fast the militarists can get their cannon fodder into action when the bugles of war again ring out upon our ears. An industrial advisory board is created with Gary at its head and among the other members of the board are railroad presidents and heads of big manufacturing concerns and banks. This presages industrial conscription’ of the most drastic kind and the American Federation of Labor appears to be in accord with the plan. rf © ‘HE White House is decorated in honor of the visit of the Prince of Wales. How many of our readers remember the occasion of Prince |Henry of Prussia’s visit to thts coun- jtry? What a welcome he received! Pullman sleeping cars were named after him and hotel rooms in which the royal parasite slept were objects of interést and commanded higher \prices because Henry patronized them. ** LICE ROOSEVELT publicly be- | stowed an osculatory favor on the prince. All in all the prince had a good time. One would never suspect that not so very long afterwards our moving pictures would be featuring the depradations of the terrible “Huns” and showing German princes in uniform, not being osculated by Al- ice Rooseyelt but attempting to rape the occupants of a Belgian convent, and of course getting smacked in the left eye by an American douughboy. ae ee ODAY the Prince of Wales is greeted by the American capital- ist class and the multitudes who ac- cept the headlines as their creed give him the glad hand. Girls who dance with him say “Oh, isn’t he the elk’s antlers?” and feel honored. What he will say to Coolidge over breakfast may not be published, if they say any- thing. e- * @ UT grizzled American admirals who take their orders from Wall Street via Washington, will not let down in their efforts to elevate the guns on the American navy, that will some day show a lean pair of heels to the Statue of Liberty on its way to send the Royal Navy to Davy Jones" Behind the smiles of princes and presidents are thé scowls of com- peting capitalists and some day they will fight, when diplomacy can no longer settle the arguments. The guns will boom and the now smiling prince will become the leering roue. But the pawns will be the workers, unless they wake up in the meantime. The diplomats and capitalists will not go where the bullets fly. EIGHT AND NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS LEAD Young Workers League Members on Job Under the impetus of the drive launched at the recent Chicago Work- ers Party membership meeting, party workers are sending in more eénthusi- astic reports on signatures obtained in the various congressional districts. A review of the signatures obtained jana the work done in the Eighth and Ninth congressional districts, in which | George Maurer and Jack W. Johns- |tone are the candidates, show real progress, with indications that these will be the first to go over the top in placing Workers Party candidates on the ballot. Other Districts Do Well. Other districts are also going well, and with a little added speed from more of the members, Chicago expects to place all its candidates on the bal- lot. The Young Workers League mem jbers have begun to organize their to turn in a large number within the next few days. What Have Candidates Done? The local is issuing a ‘short state- ment on the “Lives and Work” of the Workers Party candidates, to be used to acquaint prospective signers of pe- titions with the men to be placed on the ballot. Party workers who have gone out to get signatures invariably relate that it is easy to secure them. One good rule to. follow is to carry copies of the DAILY WORKER and other campaign literature for distribution. Bring in Petitions. Real hustling is needed from every member, as there are only two weeks left in which to get the required num- ber of signatures in the various dis- tricts. Every branch must get busy at once. Every member in the branch must be mobilized into quick partici- pation in this work. Street meetings can be and are be- ing used successfully in getting sig- natures. Earn Your Merit Stamp. Earn your merit stamp for getting a new subscriber to the DAILY WORK. ER and a new member into the party. Merit stamps are different from any other stamps issued by our party. They must be earned by work. And siow a merit stamp on his book. A campaign to visit those whc signed to put the Workers Party can- didates on the ballot will be inaugu- rated as soon as the drive for getting signatures is over. This will give every member in the party an oppor- tunity to earn his merit stamp. Party Getting on Ballot. Reports coming in from all the states in which the Workers Party is trying to get its candidates on the ballot in the coming elections are very promising. Many have already re- ported success. The Workers Party has the distinguished honor in this na- tional election campaign of being the ONLY WORKING CLASS TICKET in the field, all other parties in the field being upholders of the capitalist sys. tem. Comrades, don’t let your state lag behind! Get behind your candidates! Put their names on the ballot! CLEVELAND, OHIO A $500,000,000.00 GRAFT This is the orep trust’s annual toll from the gullible rich and poor. For this, not only worthless substances, but also dangerous and habit-forming drugs are given, and as a result, “Medicine destroys more lives than war, pestilence and famine combined. Patent- medicine is responsible for about 70 per cent of the inmates of all insane asylums.” ‘easive men and women have dis- carded drugs a relic of the supersti- tious it, a are now using Natural Methods only.—When Ill see Dr. J. J. SCHOLTES Chiropractor and Electrotheropist 2838 W. 26th St. Linc, 8340 \forces to obtain signatures and expect | every member in good standing musi | Wednesday, September 3, 1924 TEAPOT DOME THIEF WINS FIRST VICTORY IN GASOLENE BATTLE WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of the Teapot Dome oil reserve, scored for the first time today in the litigation growing out of the Senate Investigas tion of the naval oil leases. Justice Hoehling of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, grant- ed Sinclair a special appeal from the court’s order overruling his de- murrer to an indictment charging him with contempt of the senate, The contempt charges grew out of Sinclair's refusal to answer cer- tain questions propounded by the Senate Public Lands Committee during the oil inquiry. ILLINOIS MINING TOWN IS PICTURE OF DILAPIDATION By KARL REEVE, “a (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) ~~ SESSER, Ill, Sept. 2—The main street of Sesser is dilapidated and for- lorn. Most of the stores have closed their doors, the windows are broken and in some places boarded up. Those stores remaining open have only a few dollars’ worth of stock on hand. The Old Ben Coal Company mine No. 16, usually employing 550 men, has been shut down for seven months, and the. Southern Gem Coal Company, employ- ing 670 men, ig not only closed, but it owes the men over $100,000 on their last December pay roll. Stores Die Off, The Caesar Biotti grocery and meat market, after extending credit to the unemployed miners to the amount of $8,000, has closed its doors and given up the ghost. J. H. Isom, selling gen- eral merchandise, is expected to close soon, having gone in the hole over $5,000. Allen & Loukes, formerly one of the biggest stores in Sesser, will close soon, having lost already $6,000. The Page Drug Company, formally de- clared bankrupt, has closed its doors. Many of those who left for the large cities to find work hawe returned home. Some of those who went to De- troit, St. Louis, Chicago and other cities, and failed to find work, are Reggie Garner, Roscoe Stone, W. C. Stone, Edwin Tate, Charles Bublis, Robert Hancock, William Bai Buagher, Joe Caveglia and John Moudy. Out of a population of 4,500, over 1,000 miners in Sesser are out of work and have been unemployed for-the last seven months. AL, SMITH, NEW YORK GOVERNOR; ' HAILS PRINCE NEW YORK, Sept. 2. — Governor Alfred E. Smith, who was supported in his bid for the democratic nomination for the presidency by the Irish nation-. alist organizations and their mabid anti-British press, broadcasted @ wel-, come to His Royal Highness, the’ Prince of Wales, while on board the! Berengaria on his way to New York, Governor Smith, the “friend of Ire-| land,” delivered himself as follows: “His Royal Highness, the Prinee off Wales, on board the steamship Rer- engaria: * “I have the honor to express thé| greetings and extend a warm ‘wel-| come on behalf of the people of the; state of New York on the occasion of| the arrival of your Royal Highness im, our harbor. “ “This greeting is sent to you thru the courtesy of the United States} army service, one of whose airplanes is circling over your vessel. “ALFRED E. SMITH.” The most important and interesting newspaper in America today is THE DAILY WORKER Are Your neighbors and friends subscribers? 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