The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1924, Page 2

i i ‘ o i ees Page Two SCHOOL GRAFT IS SHOWN HERE IN NEW ARREST Americanization Plan - Proposed One former official of the Chi- cago schools has been placed | under arrest andanotherisbeing| sought by the police. Both are arged with alleged school ft operations that have been ing on for seven years and ‘are said to have resulted in the ‘embezzlement of more than $10,000. The man who is under arrest Js Julius A. Cordes, 1511 N. (Olark 8t., former head clerk of the bureau of operating en- of the school board. gust W. Koenig, suspended clerk of the board’s bureau finance, has not been ap- ended, Both are charged padding payrolls. } Not the Only Ones. The cases of these men are to, be jaded to those of John P. Kiely, for- \ her ehief clerk of the engineering "bureau, and Robert E. McNamara, sus- (pended school custodian, who are ‘charged with selling jobs. The discovery of the graft opera- ‘tions of these men bears out the con- ‘tention of the organized teachers of | Chicago that inefficiency in the public schools is due to corruption among officials, and not to the attempts at organization made by the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, as Superintend- ent William McAndrew conn this week. Teacher Writes to DAILY WORKER. A letter from a prominent mem- ber of the Federation, a teacher in one of the public schools, telling something of the methods used by the grafters, reached the office of the DAILY WORKER this morning. The} letter reads in part: “In regard to the engineers padding their payroll, they are not abova it, as they collected a large slush fund under the previous grafting school eae They gave a banquet to Mr. reringhaus, a prominent member of the school board, and presented a very expensive silver service to him. When he looked in the teapot, he smiled gratefully. It was learned af- terwards that it contained a large [CAPITALIST WOLVES OR FOUR LEGGED VARIETY ALL THE SAME TO RYKOV, SOVIET RUSSIA’S PREMIER (Special to The Daily Worker) SARATOV, Russia, Sept, 5.—Fighting off a pack of starving wolves in the dead of night when they trailed his automobile on a lonely road was the dramatic experience of Alexiev Rykov, who succeeded Lenin as head of the Soviet government, and is now visiting the Russian famine stricken families. Rykov travelled 300 miles by day and night thru the Volga} slopes visiting villages and hamlets and mingling with the pease —_————e CORRUPTION IN SCHOOLS HERE! ants. Simultaneous with his arriv: \feared they would have to flee+— from their homes on account of famine. Relief supplies brought fresh hope and the people are planning to remain in their homes, meanwhile preparing for the next planting season. Rykov refused a military guard and his only weapons were a rifle and a revolver. Asked if he was not afraid to venture into isolated districts with- out an escort he replied: “Well, I escaped eight times from | Siberian jails and I fied thru the wil. derness of the Ural mountains so I think I have nothing to fear now.” The rifle came in handy when a pack of hungry wolves descended up- on the motor car while it was passing thru a wild stretch of woodland. They al came relief for the peoplé who trailed the automobile just as they trail sledges in winter time but were driven off by rifle fire. Villagers thronged about the auto-} mobile thanking Rykov for the timely} assistance he brought. They said) that this season’s crops were ruined} as there had not been a drop of rain all summer. Grain and vegetables} were killed and the people were re- duced to eating roots and grass, Live stock died off in large numbers land the people were getting frantic when supplies arrived. Many of the peasants had com- | Plaints to make against the local or state governments. Rykov listened patiently to each complaint and prom- ised relief. afterwards the engineers received a substantial raise in salary. “They laughed at the teachers at this time and said, ‘Why don’t you play the game?” To Push “Americanization.” Superintendent William McAndrew has followed up his denunciation of the organized teachers of Chicago with announcements which amount in substance to a declaration that a thoro “Americanization” of the schools is to be put thru this winter. No propaganda or other drives which do not bear the stamp of ap- proval of the group of business men which forms the school board, are to reach the children of Chicago this year, according to a statement issued by Mr. McAndrew yesterday. Hight movements have his approval. The Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and the Campfire Girls will be given adequate opportunity to spread the ideas of the American Legion in the schools. The Red Cross, auxiliary American war organization, will receive its mea- sure of attention. Washington’s birth- day will be fittingly celebrated. One other participation will be cele- brated during the school year; the na- ture of this drive will be announced later, said Mr. McAndrew. Mobilization Day Too. This occasion will be celebrated on September 12—mobilization day. A copy of a notice to be sent out to the principals of all the schools in sum of money, I think, $60,000. Soon the city, instructing them to hold ap- Take a Vote in Your Shop ME Workers’ Straw Vote returns are just beginning to come in. Machine shops, clothing shops, factories and warehouses are beginning to vote on the presidential candidates. Wherever the issues are being presented by the Communists and militants, there the workers are voting overwhelmingly for Foster for president, with LaFollette second, and Coolidgé and Davis not in the running at all. As an example, Comrade I. L. Davidson, working in the Blair Bros. elething shop, took a straw vote after a discussion of the candidates, with the result that the workers voted 4 to 1, as between Foster and LaFollette, for the Communist candidate. The Workers Party members In vote-taking at the factory gates for next week. up in a similar manner in other cities. Chicago are preparing a widespread This should be followed As soon as large enough returns propriate patriotic exercises on Sep- tember 12, has come into the posses- sion of the reporter for the DAILY WORKER. The notice is signed “Will- iam McAndrew.” The report is still lying in the offices of the board at 460 S. State street, and the teachers of the schools have not yet been in- formed of the duty tney will have to perform on September 12. McAndrew's instruction from the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, ob- tained when he first came to the city in January, are. being carried out to the letter in the reorganization’ of the curriculum in the elementary schools which he is directing, and in the con- struction of the courses of the five new Junior high schools. The demand of the Chamber of Commerce was for greater chanical effiicency—this is, greater efficiency in reading, penman- ship and arithmetic. McAndrew’s plan is to bring these subjects to the fore, it was announced today. Import Civics Class. “Citizenship” is the avowed aim of every course in the Junior high schools, according to William J. Bo- gan, assistant superintendent of schools. “Civies,” a course of study that edged its way into the curricu- lum of the New York high schools three years ago, a study occupying one hour a week has become in the Junior high schools of Chicago, a@ course consisting of four parts —community, constitutional, eco- nomic and vocational. “All of these divisions emphasize the duties of the citizen toward community, state and nation,” said Mr. Bogan. The tone of the course will be very much like the tone of the course in New York. The keynote of the civics course in the New York schools was: “Let us be thankful to America!” Action on the report of Superintend- ent McAndrew will probably be taken at a meeting of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation a week from next Satur- day, it was announced at the offices of the Federation, yesterday. The hearing by Judge Fred Rush of the Circuit Court on the petition for injunction restraining the board of education from converting the Har- per School into a Junior High school will be resumed today. . North Side Branch Meets. ‘ Take a vote in your shop! are in to furnish a basis for comparison, the returns will be printed in THE DAILY WORKER. Send in the results! WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. The workers employed in the shop of. have taken a straw vote on the presidential candidates, and the vote was as follows: WM. Z. FOSTER Workers Party DAVIS ...... Democratic Party Votes; LAFOLLETTE ccccsssssssee VOCCS; No Party COOLIDGE wnrrrsssvsseerrene VOTES, Republican Party | certify that this report is correct: please write or call local Young |.” W. P. “Speakers Gordon {forces to get control of the miners'|Lewis is a member of the Mlinois|importance of this special meeting . Address: Workers League office, Room 303, | Owens, c Finer. unions in the state, with the result/miners’ union and has long trailed| makes it imperative that there be a 166 W. Washington St., State 7985. Sickats Sunday, . % that the rank and file in many unions} With the forces now in control of the | full attendance of C. C. C. delegates —Frank Buckley, Sport Director, — | workers Barty. ‘Speakers, Pe", Parity, {have started a house cleaning and|state federation. and all will be expected to be present. Se fe North and Western Avenues A special meeting of the North Side English Braneh, Chicago, will be held Monday, Sept. 8, at Imperial Hall, Hal- sted and Fullerton. Get your petitions signed up in time to report at this meeting. Bring along the signed peti- tions without fail. eninge * Cleveland Readers! CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 5.—DAILY WORKER readers who buy their pa- per at newsstands will please take no- tice: DAILY WORKERS are on sale every day at Schroeder's newsstand, East Superior, opposite the postoffice, YOUNG WORKERS OF CHICAGO ORGANIZE SPORT ACTIVITIES League and party members of sympathetic ‘sport organizations, THE DAILY A CL SSE GITLOW WALLOPS FAKE REMEDIES OF LAFOLLETTE (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. 5.—"The | purpose of our campaign is not prim- arily to elect the Workers Party can- didates to offices in the government, but to spread the message of Com- munism in America.” This was the |opening statement made by Benjamin Gitlow at a large meeting of workers! jin the “Iron City.” The interested jaudience, with a sprinkling of steel workers, paid twenty-five cents ad- |mission to hear Gitlow denounce Cool- idge, Davis and LaFollette and ad- vocate the Communist program of the Workers Party. Gitlow’s speech dealt jin particular with the Labor Day pronouncements of. Coolidge, Lafol- lette and Davis. | Gitlow’s analysis showed that the |LaFollette Labor Day message is, |allea with fake remedies and ideas that could ‘only serve to perpetuate the present system of capitalism. This statement was wildly cheered by the assembled workers. Many Subscribe to Daily. Comrade S. Johnston Knight spoke for | subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. A large number subscribed, and the meeting was concluded with the tak- ing up of a good sized collection. A meeting of this character in the) city of Pittsburg denotes the progress | being made by our party. The holding of a successful and enthusiastic cam- paign rally in trust-controlled Pitts- burg is an indication of the possibili-| ties to our party in the present cam- paign. Hope for the revolution can in- deed be maintained when a body of workers will wildly cheer a Com- munist denunciation of LaFollette. Alexander Howat Supports Foster in. Communist Campaign (Continued from Page 1) slavery, Foster said, is responsible for low wages, unemployment and war. “LaFolletteisnot even the yellowest kind of a socialist,” Foster declared. “Let me make a prophecy. Before this campaign is over, pressure will be brought to bear on LaFollette and he will denounce even thie socialists. “Unemployment is the natural re- sult of the wages system. Millions of workers have unemployment to con- tend with. You miners have had a pretty good taste of unemployment. Between two and three millions are at present. jobless in this country, and the industrial crisis will grow much worse this winter when the summer agricultural and out-door work ends.” Mobilization Day For War. Foster declared the world war was not a war to make the world safe for democracy but was a struggle against other capitalist nations for the world markets. have a national mobilization day. We are told that it is for the purpose of honoring General Pershing. That may bunk some of the workers, but the capitalist nations know this reason is nonsense. They know there is but one purpose for mobilization day, and that is preparation for war. Japan, England and other nations will spur on their armaments under the stimu- lus of American mobilization day.” Duncan MacDonald, Freeman Thompson and other well known labor leaders were interested spectators, who received Foster's remarks favor- ably. Party Activities Of Local Chicago ‘STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO. Saturday, Sept. 6. 23rd and Oakley — Auspices, Italian branches, 4th District. Speakers, English and Itallan comrades. Dickson and Division, near Milwaukee ~Auspices, Polish ‘branch, | 8) eee Hammersmark and Polish comra li4th Pl. and Michigan—Auspices, Pull- man branches. Speakers, D. Barley, K, Harris. Halsted and Seabor Greek branch, Greek comri _ Division ‘and Washington—Auspices, North West Jewish branch and Hersch Leckert. Speakers Louls Engdahl, Sid- ney Borgeson, North Ave. and Orchard St.—Auspices, German and Hungarian branches. Speak- ers, Peter Herd, H. nnes, h api State St Sts,—Auspices, Thomann) F, Buckley and “September 12 we are to|\ Pictou, Nova Scotia, Gets Place on World’s News Map for One Day By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY we find Pictou, Nova Scotia, on the news map of the world. It has been placed there by the yellow press because it provided a temporary stopping place for the Amer- ican round the world flyers. It is put there by the Communist press because it stands for another front where militancy is fighting reaction in the American labor, movement. What widely different reasons! * * * * The world flyers epitomize the latest and most ambitious fete of American militarism. It has sent its warships of the air around the earth. Every American schoo! boy will be asked to go around wearing a chip on his shouldgr. His imagination will be fired. His country is the ruler of the air, he will be told. Jingoism will be fostered in his youthful mind. He must be prepared for the next war—the war in the air—where the biggest and the fastest air fleets, able to carry the biggest bombs and the largest quantities of poison gas, and to direct the most powerful death rays against the enemy, will win the victory for the dominant capitalism. The achievement of the flyers in girdling the earth will not be hailed as a triumph for human progress. It will be used to symbolize the successful preparations of American imperialism for the next great world slaughter, more deadly, more devastating than the last. * % * * It is only because these world flyers touched at Pictou, Nova Scotia, that out-of-the-way Pictou is noticed in the yellow press. Suddenly the weather conditions about Pictou become of world-wide interest. American warships ride at anchor in Pictou Harbor ready to lend any aid needed. The telegraph, cable and radio stations are besieged by an army of newspaper correspondents. The world must be told of this’ victory being won:in the Zam of murder. Be But in and about yo there live thousands of coal miners, members of the United Mine Workers of America. They are militant coal miners, co-workers with the militants in the United States, sympathizers with the Russian Revolu- tion, struggling for the better day for all labor. These Pictou coal miners, in common with those of all Nova Scotia, under the most trying conditions have fought alike against the reactionary rule of the Lewis regime, in the Miners’ Union, and against the tyranny of the British Empire Steel Corporation. When Lewis arrogantly used his power to reorganize the district and unseat the militants in'office, there was a great temptation to withdraw from the organization. It is easy just to quit. Ben Legere came on from “the States” with his “One Big Union” and offered the opportunity of joining a harmless, isolated sect.+ But the coal miners of Pictou are fighters, better fighters in their struggle, than the world flyers are fighters for Amer- ican capitalism. It is easier to fight with the established social order, with the crowd, than to take a stand on the frontier of civilization and wage a struggle for S0mething new. eC easing a The Pictou coal miners, when they decided to stick in the Miners’ Union, when they took a stand against splits and isolation, won a real victory for human progress. They aided the building of the power of labor. They did something constructive for the world’s working class. That is why the Communist press puts Pictou, Nova Scotia, on the day’s news map of the’world. The action of the Pictou miners, in com- mon with the militant solidarity of workers everywhere over this American continent, heralds better days for labor. It is the forerunner of greater victories of the workers’ struggle against their masters. It is prophetic of the day when the workers will. win all power from capitalism, not thru any victory of air fleets, but thru the triumph of Communism over capitalism; thru the abolition of the whole social system of robbery and exploitation of the employers, and the usher- ing in of the new social order, th the Communist society. Pictou is on the world’s news map for a day. But it will be heard from again and again, in the days ahead, in the workers’ struggle for power. CAN’T MOVE OLANDER IN JOB CRISIS rhs INTRODUCED IN CHINA WAR City Residents Fear an Aerial Bombing (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 5.—In an effort to break down the morale of the Kiangsu army, the Che- kiang forces today began aerial bombardment of’ the enemy's lines, Six airplanes crossed the Kiangsu lines between Huang Tu and Liuho dropping bombs. No reports have yet been re- ceived as to the results of the bombing. Introduce Aerial Warfare. The Chekiang forces have a fleet of 32 planes and the Kiangsu forces eight. Their employment in civil hos- tilities now in progress marks the first attempt at aerial warfare in China. The Kiangsu forces are ex- pected to retaliate by bombing the Chekiang lines and some fears were expressed they may drop bombs on this city. The troops on both sides at noon today apparently had settled down to steady firing from their entrench. ments. No gains were reported from either military headquarters. Refugees continued to pour into Shanghai today. They declare that sanitary and hospital conditions at the front are deplorable. Wounded troops lie for many hours under a broiling sun without aids Press gangs are busy on both sides. Couriers from the front reported that the battles that were in progress allday yesterday died down during the night, but that heavy exchanges of shots took place during the morning between outposts. Our Candidates (Continued from page 1.) Cossacks Only Strikebreakers. “While it is urged by the business interest that the State Constabulary is needed to prevent bank rob- beries, for instance,” said Olander, “there is no doubt that this state po- lice will he used in strikes, especially to enforce injunctions granted by the courts,” Olander felt certain that this mat- ter would come before the Peoria con- vention, and that every effort would be made to fight this strike breaking scheme. Soft Pedal Klan Issue. Olander also made it certain that an effort would be made to keep the Ku Klux Klan issue off the floor of the convention. “This is purely a religious issue,” declared Olander, claiming that only the enemies of the labor movement were trying to press @his issue. Efforts have been made by the Klan YOUNG WORKERS CELEBRATE AUSPICES: YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE (Local Chicago) are ousting members who insist on wearing nightshirts and assisting the forces that are fighting the labor movement, Nigger in Wood Pile. Even when informed of the menace that the Ku Klux a is to the min- ers’ union, resulting in action being taken at international and state con- ventions by the coal diggers, Olander refused to take a position on this question. Olander is a supporter of Governor Len “Small for re-election, and Small has not denied the charge that he is a member of the Klan. The Peoria convention will also get the report of the state executive board endorsing the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket. Olander refused to state whether any action would be taken condemn- ing President John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America, for endorsing the Coolidge-Dawes ticket. J. Louis FOSTER’S DATES Elizabeth, N. J.—Turn Hall, 725. High St., Wednesday, September 10, 8p. 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, Se ber 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: Akron, Ohio.—Perkins School Audi- torium, Exchange and Bowery Sts., Saturday, September 6th, 8 p. m. Cleveland, Ohio—Bricklayer’s Hall, E. 21st St. and Prospect Ave., Sun- day, September’7th at 7:30 p.m. New York City—Central Opera House, Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 8 p. m. West New York, N. J.—Floral Park, 11th and Polk Stree Wednesday, September 10, at 8 p. m. C. E, Ruthenberg executive secre- tary of the Workers Party, will make a series of campaign speeches in the New England States. Meetings al- ready arranged for are: New York City—Central Opera House, Tuesday, September 9th, 8 p.m. DETROIT PARTY ACTIVITIES DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 4.—A special meeting of the City Central Commit- tee of the Workers Party of Detroit will be held on Monday, Sept. 8, at 8 p. m., in the House of the Masses, 2648 St. Aubin Ave. The reorggnization of the City Cen- tral to conform with the Program of Action will be completed at his meet ing. The agenda will include the Michi- where state candidates will be nomi- nated and presidential electors chosen; the Gitlow meeting of Sun- day, Sept. 28 at Arena Gardens; the membership and. DAILY WORKER drive, and the creation of special ma- chinery for the distribution of the tens of thousands of campaign leaf- lets during the fall campaign. The SPEAKERS: . John Edwards Earl Biewde Music by Young Workers League Orchestra s Engdahl gan State Convention of Sept. 20, _