The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1924, Page 1

_THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND , | FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT tbtinanh niaaeneacnanese see shamermeatiee mmo Vol. II. No. 142. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: LEN SMALL IS in Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by Entered as Second-<class matter September 21, 1! AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ‘HE PRINCE OF WALES danced to jazz music unil 6 o’clock in the morning, while weary-eyed reporters wandered over Long Island, New York trying to locate him. Nervous night city editors waited with watch in hand hoping that a good prince story would tome in before the deadline. But alas! The American public was not able to read a detailed story of the prince’s jazzy gyrations! For once he escaped the press. We warn His Royal Highness however, that it is not good politics to disappoint his follow- ers too often. If he does, the guns on American warships may be elevated |* so they can shoot farther than the guns on His Royal Highness’s war- ships. . HILE H. R. H. is in the United States indulging in the terpsi- chorean and other fine arts, America is returning the compliment. We learn that the American season in Scotland will not be in full swing until the King and Queen and the American ambassador take up their residence in the Highlands. a ee aie R. and Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan are at Agagannochy lodge. It is a very pretty place, so they say. There is good shooting and fine fish- ing. Morgan is tired after his work on the Dawes’ Plan. He needs a rest. He can afford to take a vacation. Already the German workers are turn- ing the Dawes’ Plan into dollars for him, ene E COUNTESSS OF ANCASTER, formerly Hloise Breese of New York, is holding successful shooting parties at Drummond. The report does not say what the shooting was Bullets cost money but the countess’ American wage slaves have lots of en- ergy and more patience and they work like little 100 per centers in the mills, mines and factories operated by the Countess’. ducats for the profit and pleasure of the Countess. Most of her slaves will vote for Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette in the coming election. ‘When they begin to vote the Commun- ist ticket in great numbers the Count- ess had better sell out and go some- where else if there will be any place to go by then, except some place where naughty Countesses are com- pelled to work or fight. P88 ‘HIS may seem silly, but there is no better propaganda than keep- ing the workers informed of the ac- tivities of those they toil eight, ten or twelve hours a day for. When a worker is bending over a machine or swinging a pick down tn the bowles of the earth or repairing tracks out in the blazing sun, or stoking a ship's ‘furnace in ‘the broiling heat, what a revolution would be created in his brain if he only could see the parasites in whose behalf he is sweating his life away, trying to kill time at some pleasure vesort?, The society col- umns of the capitalist press contain good propaganda for Communist agi- tators. (Continued on page 3) CLARA SMITH HAMON WIFE OF HARDING'S BACKER KIGKS TRACES LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3.—Clara Smith Hamon, who shot and killed Jake Hamon, Oklahoma oil mag- nate and politician, is plaintiff against John W. Gorman, motion picture producer, in a suit for di- vorce on file here today. Extreme cruelty is charged. Mrs. Gorman was acquitted of Harmon's killing and came here a few months later, mafrying Gorman after a whirlwind courtship in Au- gust, 1921, Higgins Book Shop, matter, 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 wore September 5th, in the Jimmie 127 Universit Every reader of the DAILY the book shop for a bundle at 2c a copy, New York campaign and particularly the rade Gitlow, our vice-presidential candidate. front page of this issue will consist of special New York $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 per year, Boston Store BUSINESS MEN, MILITARISTS IN ‘DEFENSE’ MOVE Day Is Compared to War Time Call | That the big business inter- ests are the ones who are really behind the drive for Mobiliza-| tion Day on September 12, is evidenced bya circular, posted in the Boston Store, one of the biggest of the State Street De- partment Stores, which has just reached the DAILY WORKER. The Boston Store circular, posted in all pdrts of the. big establishment, reads: “In the year 1916 you were called to Arms for a Prepared- ness Day. In 1917, you were called to Arms for War. On both occasions the employees of this store responded in num- ber, demonstrating their patri- otic spirit.” The circular continues: “ON SEP-| TEMBER 12th, 1924, YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ARMS FOR A DEFENSE DAY DETAIL.” Free Lunch For Patriots The employees of the store will form on Dearborn Street at 11:30 a. m. on the morning of September 12 and will to That this is not an isolated instance of Big Business backing this mobiliza- tion maneuver can be seen in the pre- parations being made for “Der Tag” in Woodlawn. The Woodlawn Business Men’s Association is running the pa- triotic show there, fireworks and all. At the state convention of the Illinois American Legion unit, at Champaign, Defense Day was also en- dorsed after Gen. Charles N. Martin, assistant Chief of Staff of the United States Army denied that the day was in any way a militarist move. Hale Gives It Away Unfortunately for the soundness of this statement, Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale, commanding officer of the sixth army corps area, in an address before a luncheon held by the Rotary Club at the Sherman hotel here, spilled the beans by saying: “Let America show its patriotism on September 12. Let’s give the world the word of how we stand.” Defense Day is intended to show “the world”—that is, the imperialists of other nations,—that the United States is ready at a moment’s notice to defend the profits and investments of its capitalists in any country, on any sea, in any island. pues Park, where a lunch-|down for the winter at lest. served Trev otchanpet Wwe} Bai Cohaition ywhere. is paying for these free lunches?) SEYMOUR 6. PARKER WILL BE MORGAN’S BILL COLLECTOR IN EUROPE PARIS, Sept. 3.—Seymour Parker accepted the post of agent general in Germany under the Dawes plan, and will succeed Owen’ Young, who is occupying the office temporarly. ILLINOIS MINE, EMPLOYING 190, NOW CLOSED UP Other Industrie’ “Also Increase Jobless (Special to The Daily Worker) MURPHRYSBORO, IIL, Sept. 3.— The Mine No. 9 of the Consolidated |Coal company, employing 190 men, shut down yesterday, adding further to the acute industrial depression in this town. The No. 9 Mine has been threatening to suspend for some days, the Murphrysboro paper ‘vainly . try- ing to keep the people fooled into thinking the mine was going to con- tinue operation thru the winter. Just three days ago this business men’s paper came out with a front pape headline, “Mine No. 9 may be work- ing all winter.” However this is small comport for the workers now that the mine has actually closed The Mobile and Ohio railroad car shops have been laying off men in few weeks ago. Tle other industry of the town, the Brown shoe eompany, while it is working part of its force, hires only young girls, paying them $9.00 per week. Rusiness conditions are bad. The only mines working are the Blair no. 3 mine, employing ten men, the Utility mine, employing sixty men, which works three days, and the No. 10 mine of the. Consolidated, employing 70 men which works three days per week. Insurance Companies Relieved. GIJON, Sept. 3.—Fire broke out to- day on the"Spanish cruiser Victoire Eugene, but was controlled after a struggle. SERIOUS CHARGE IS PREFERRED AGAINST U. S. ARMY PRIVATE MANILA, Sept. 3.—Frank Cola, a Obregon to Speak. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2—The Mexi- can Congress convened today to hear a message from President Obregon be- fore it goes into session as an elec- toral college to. proclaim the next president of the republic, Calles. private of the 31st Infantry, of Po- lish-Mexican descent, was arrested by «military authorities this after- noon and charged with the attempt- ed sale of a confidential map of a United States army fortifi¢ation. Authorities say that Cola wanted $500,000 for the: map. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE TO HAVE CELEBRATIONS ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY IN ALL LARGE CITIES Gilbert of Washington, D. C., has | reparation | the: Murphrysboro, 138 being laid off a} 290 pay atta a WORKER. at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, EPTEMBER 4, 1924 « Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL is Goose-Step Aid arshWill Oppose Farrington (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, III. Sept. 3— roomy E directly upon the heels of Frank Farrington’s an- nouncement that he would run for re-election as president of District 12, of the United Mine Workers of America, comes the news of an opposition slate by the progressive element within the union. Hindmarsh vs. Farrington. Running against Farrington for the presidency of the dis- trict is his opponent in the last el , John Hindmarsh, of Riverton, Illinois, one of the most outstanding progressive figures in the state. jomtent with the Farrington- | Fish ick regime has been rising high ever since the open alliance against lall progressive measures that was made between the district president and the international president, John L Lewis. The rank and file of the m District 12 are aroused over growing concern over the coal operators; his bitter fight against the Farmer-Labor Party ‘movement; his failure to do anything to fight against th eterrible scourge of unemployment, and his* general re- actionary record. PROGRESSIVE DISTRICT TICKET. The slate of the progressive miners for the éntire district ticket is as fol- lows: For president, John Hindmarsh, Lo- cal 754, Riverton, III. For vice president, E. B. Hewlett, Local 303, Orient, III. For secretary, Louis Contaurianx, Local 303, rient, III. For auditor, Jack Gartshore, Local Virden, Hil. For auditor, Dick Swift, Local 3613, Valier, It. For auditor, Andy Young, Local 705, O'Fallon, Il. For special accountant, Joe Angelo, Local 413, Springfield, Ill. For not of the miners. but of! N Herrin, Illinois. came: | the Herrin matter.” ous outbreak of the Ku Klux | has yet appeared. | | Klan. Now he is silent. of America. OPPOSITION 10 JUNIOR HIGH - SCHOOLS GROWS ‘Parents in Injunction Writ Plea 1 In spite of bitter opposition on the part of parents whose children are to be transferred to| other and crowded schools .so| that the Harper school, 6520 S.| Wood St., may be transformed} into a Junior High school—an opposition which has the back-| ing of the organized labor bodies of Chicago—officials of the Board of Education, with the help of police, yesterday organized the classes of the |Harper school on the basis of the Junior high school system. Hearing on the writ of in- “Mr. Dawes will not talk to any newspapers. desn't want to talk to the newspapers. He won't discuss | junction obtained by parents to} iprevent the transfer of their| |children was postponed until | |Friday morning. Charles M. Moderwell, president of; \the board of education, yesterday Dawes Still Silent OT only the DAILY WORKER, but all Chicago daily newspapers, have been trying for days to get a state- ment from Charles Gates Dawes, the republican candidate for vice-president, on the outbreak of the Ku Klux Klan at But he rofuses to talk. Yesterday the DAILY WORKER again got the Dawes’ residence in Evanston, on the phone, but again the reply He No direct quotation of Dawes’ views on the murder- Klan in Williamson County | One week before the outbreak at Herrin, Dawes en- dorsed the activities of the Williamson County Ku Klux It is a confession that he feels himself a guilty part- ner to the blood-spilling, the first victim of which was a union coal miner, member of the United Mine Workers KANSAS CITY FOSTER MEET BIG. SUCCESS LaFollette Man Joins Workers Party (Special to the Daily Worker.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 3. —wWilliam Z. Foster addressed a packed hall filled with en- thusiastic workers on Labor Day. In spite of the sabotage of the fakers and the widély ad- vertised radio speech of Bluff- ing Bob, the Communists filled to capacity the same hall that the LaFollette committee had been unable to half fill for their national speakers. Comrade Foster was in fine fettle. He was welcomed by a cyclone of applause that made the two seedy finks jump and) look round in bewilderment. He dismissed Cal and Morgan’s slavey briefly, then shed his coat and went after Bob. Bob Is Squashed. He analyzed without mercy his rec- lative committees, Tony opened fire on the Chicago Teachers’|ord and his program and contrasted Shragle, Local 3192, Johnston City,| Federation, which he opposes both for| both at every point with that of the ML, and Bert Local Springfield, III. For international T. C. Mason, Local 303, Orient, III. SUB-DISTRICT TICKET. Besides the district slate, the West Frankfort sub-district of the Illinois miners’ union, will also have a slate of the progressive element. It is as follows: For president, Henry Corbishley, Local 992, Ziegler, Ill. For vice president, Local 3160, Sesser, III. Gerger, 413, For secretary, Frank Johnson, Lo-| bor bodies, against the introduction | Larollette cal 2376, Christopher, III. For legal adviser, Charles Local 3160, Sesser, lt. For sub-district board members: Tom Connors, Local 303, Orient, Ill. Stanley Miller, Local 303, Orient, September 7th, International Youth Day, the young workers of all] titinois. lands will hold mass demonstrations. In America every ei.y and town will James McCollum, Local 959, West have its meetings and demonstrations under the auspices of the Young Work-| Frankfort, III. ers League of America together with the co-operation of the Workers Party. A few of the meetings and speakers are as follows: Chicago, Northwest Hall—Speak- ers, J. Williamson, Earl Browder and Place. ORKER should call at to help boost the meeting of Com- ‘he -entire J. Louis Engdahl. chel, 8. Darey and William W. Wein- stone. Detroit, Mich—Speaker, John Ed- wards, Springfield, Ill. — Speaker, Carlson, Milwaukee, Wis.—Speaker, John Williamson (afternoon at 3 o'clock). Mass and T. J. O'Flaherty. South Bend, Ind.—Speaker, Herd. Peter ee Editor's Note—The Adrien Delforge, Local 959, West Frankfort, Ill. Emil Handgand, Local 959, West New York City—Speakers, J. Sta- Frankfort, Ill. For auditors: » Mike Benco, Local 3613, Valier, Ill, Joe Hardy, Local 303, Orient, Ill. Matt Cernovich, Local 992, Ziegler, Oliver] HMlinois. Walk Off With Church Bell. LOGANSPORT, Ind., Sept. 3.—A Boston, Mass.—Speaker, Max Salz-|hundred-dollar reward was offered for the capture of the thieves who made Max] off with the 300-pound bell from the steeple of the Eel River chapel, near Dillonvale, Ohio—Speaker, Shachtman, St. Louis, Mo.—Speakers, Barney | here. Auto Wreck Injures Twelve. DAVENPORT, Ia., Sept. 3.—Twelve persons’ were recovering from injuries International| sustained when the auto truck in Youth Day Proclamation appears to-}which they were riding skidded and day on page six * \ overturned four miles north of here, R. Slade, ‘|incomes to the factory door, its attempts to unionize Chicago Workers Party. He spoke at length teachers and for the consistent fight|and was followed attentively by the board =member,| which it has waged against the intro-| cTowd. |duction of the platoon and junior high |school systems. At the same time Superintendent McAndrew, in his an- |nual report, fired a few. skirmish shots jinto the camp of the organized teach- ers, whom he characterized as a “disloyal and undisciplined minority. | jOpening of the schools, the long-con- Federation and of other organized la- | of the platoon system into the schools lof Chicago is expected to come to 2 | he: | “This is really the fight of Margaret | Haley, business agent for the Teach-| \ers’ Federation, and the Federation of| Labor to take the administration of the schools away from the superin- |tendent and the board of education,” said Mr. Moderwell. The platoon system has been brand- ed by organized labor bodies as {meaning “a revival of the ancient leaste system, the sidetracking of chil- |dren of men and women with small the brand of inferiority upon productive workers, a false economy, harmful to the entire nation and other detrimen- tal results.” The platoon and the ju- nior high school systems, it is charged, are designed to facilitate classification of pupils into standard groups. The overcrowding and underequip- ment of school buildings, which Su- perintendent McAndrew reveals in his report, is due to nothing but the illegal tax evasion practiced by the rich, which is robbing children of the poor of their rightful educational op- portunities, Chicago labor bodies claim, ; 1 — ticket on the ballot. Not a single worker left the hall; indeed, they were reluctant to leave at the end and stayed to get petition blanks to put the Communist Foster gravely warned his audience that he was not sure of his election this year, but in- »| Vited them to work for that fast-near- ing day when the Communists will With the disturbance attending the| sue America. Bob’s Man Joins Party. Ross White, tinued fight of the Chicago Teachers’) Among the applicants to join. the Workers Party was a member of the State Committee. brother was disgusted by the hard- boiled attitude of Nelson, LaFollette’s boss, who ordered the State Commit- tee to purge itself of its trade union elements and “represent all classes.” We welcome him to the fight against open enemies and treacherous allies. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE MEMBERS! ATTEND YOUR MEETING HERE TONIGHT Interest is growing in the mem- bership meeting of the Young Workers League of Chicago, at which decisions of the last congress of the Young Communist Interna- tional will be reported upon by Oliver Carlson, for two years a mem- ber of the executive committee of the youth internation The meeting will be held tonight, Thursday, at 722 Blue Island Ave., 8 p.m. and admission will be by Y. W. Lb. membership card only. Party members are invited, but they also must present their red cards. All other meetings of the branches of the league have been called off for tonight, and the mem- bership has been notified to attend. ORIN NSARNNe DREN Yn nna cme + This | Communist, Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents DELOS DUTY SLIPS KLAN HOOD ON LEN ‘Len Seems to Think Headgear Fits Him Governor Len Small has not |yet deigned to make a reply to |the charge of States Attorney |Delos Duty, of Williamson | County, that Mr. Small is in his jopinion a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Small was in this city |days ago conferring with Wi- |liam Hale Thompson, former mayor of Chicago, who is now at loggerheads with Small be- jcause the latter has picked {Fred Lundin as his representa- tive in Cook County. Governor Fears Thompson. The governor is afraid that Thomp- son’s hostility may cost him thou- sands of votes in Cook county. He also knows that if he chooses Thomp- son the Lundin gang will give him the absent treatment on election. Such is the dilemma in which the crooked politician finds himself in. Small has not yet made it clear whether he is a klansman or not. But State’s Attorney Delos Duty of Williamson county declares that to | the best of his belief Small is a Klux- jer. Duty ought to know what he is |talking about. He is a capitalist poli- |tician. It is an old saying that “when thieves fall out honest men get their due.” Whether they do or not, they get-a lot of good information. Has LaFollette Aid. | Small is supported .by the LaFol- lette crowd for governor. LaFollette | attacked the Klan in order to gather |in the anti-Klan vote, knowing that |the hooded ballots would be cast in all }probability for Coolidge. Small does |not want to lose the Klan vote by de- |nouncing the white-robed night prowl- Jers, And he does not want to lose the anti-Klan vote by making public | knowledge of his Klan affiliations. | ‘This is the position the double- |faced capitalist politician, Len Small, is in. This is the man who is sup- ported for the governorsIip by Rob- ert Marion LaFollette, the man who proposes to clean out the Augean sta- bles in Washington. What a collection of fakers and po | litical false alarms! The atrocities perpetrated on the {workers of Illinois by the hooded or- der acting under the orders of the coal operators and other capitalists {do not bother Mr. Small. Neither do they trouble the sleep of Frank Far- rington, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois. | Small’s only concern {s getting |elected to office, so that he can have jhis fingers on the spoils. | Wouldn’t Be Surprising. | ‘The workers of Illinois who know |Small would not be surprised to learn that he is a member of the Ku Klux Klan, The miners of Williamson |County who are the targets for the bullets of the Ku Klux Klan are par- | ticularly interested. And until Small proves that Delos Duty’s charge is baseless the workers will have no op- tion but to come to the conclusion that Len Small, the so-called “friend of labor,” is a member of the hood- ed order. The Kian Inquest. HERRIN, Ill, Sept. 3.—In a court room where two squads of state mili- tiamen were standing guard with bay- onets fixed, Coroner McGowan today open the inquest into the deaths of six persons in the rioting here Sat- urday. When the inquest opened, quiet, which seemed almost ominous, pre- vailed. Less than 20 persons were in the court room. Sheriff Galligan and his deputies had failed to appear, The absence of Galligan was ex- |plained by Capt. Bigelow, command- Jing the militia detail here, who sald he would remain at Marion in the hope of averting trouble. The inquest, which had been her- alded as a probable producer not only of an armed clash, but of sensational testimony, passed without special in- cident. The Klan and its sympathiz- lers were left in unopposed command and they gave their various versions of Saturday's disorders. These show- ed wide discrepancies, due, it is be- leved, to the fact that an accurate version of the entire affair is probably unknown, ‘