The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1924, Page 1

~ry , | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 146. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: “THE {n Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail. $6.00 per year, DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 8, 1379. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1924 Published Daily PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. ay by THE DAILY WORKER Washington .Blvd., Chicago, Il. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW, Price 3 Cents SOVIETS ROUSE IRE OF HUGHES AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. AMSAY MACDONALD says that the next conference for the re- duction of armaments must be held in Europe. The last one was held in Washington and was not a pronounced success outside of providing the Re- pulllican party with a fig leaf in the form of the Four Power Pact to cover its militarist nakedness. The Wash- ington conference concerned itself with an attempt at reducing unneces- sary naval expenses, The powers that attended the conferences parked their daggers outside until the pow wow was over and went away thinking up new schemes to violate the spirit of the agreement. If anybody hoagie that the political atmosphere is‘ more peaceful today than it was before the Washington conference was held, he ought to be kept under observation. oe 'HESE attempts on the part of the capitalists to reduce their arma- ments are really preparations for war. The bandit powers simply jockey for position. Was not the Czar of Russia the leader in building a Peace factory at the Hague? But he was everything but a man of peace as the documents exhumed by the Bolsheviki from the archives of his war office showed. Af- ter the other European capitalist heads are buried in a well or what- ever kind of a last resting place a grateful proletariat will give them for taking their carcasses out of the pic- ture, it will be shown that all the cap- italist powers were busily engaged preparing for war, while pretending that they were anxious for peace. * 6 HE Comunist International rightly branded the socialists of Europe as the agents of the capitalists in their efforts to restore the system back to health. The Dawes Plan is the first successful attempt of the international finance capitalists to reach a working agreement whereby prosperity could be restored at the expense of the weaker nations, the subject peoples, and of course, the working class. Now, that the Dawes Plan is accepted and beginning to bear fruit for the in- ternational capitalists, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald like a dutiful servant starts on another plan, or indeed an extension of an old plan, the League of Nations. He proposes to hold a re- fluction of armaments conference in Europe. ee HE League of Nations, a rather clever scheme conceived by the wisest among the international capi- talists, was left hanging like Moham- med’s coffin, because of the refusal of the United States to have anything to do with it. Woodrow the Prophet broke his neck trying to shove it down the throat of the young and virile in- dustrial capitalists of America who wanted to go and loot without the shackles of any world tribunal on their limbs. They are the Nietsche- ans of the industrial world, But even since 1919, Wall Street has been tak- ing in the slack rapidly, so that today industrial capital and finance capital are as close as two pickpockets, or still better, they have become amal- gamated inte one giant pickpocket whose fingers can reach to thé ends of the earth, ofa ce E can imagine Wall Street sit- ting back and. laughing at the ranting patriots who froth at the mouth over the sugestion of joining the League of Nations. But when Wall Street has Europe in such a con- dition that joining the League of Na- tions will mean that the United States simply takes over the job of world overseer, openly and without camou- flage, our patriots can be tickled dex- teriously under the chin with a golden feather and marvels in the way of a change of convictions wil be accom- plished. Poor George Washington's address will be hauled out as usual on the 4th of July, but the section warn- ing against entangling alliances will be patriotically laughed at. The Re- publicans who dug Wilson's grave with his fourteen points will claim credit for capturing his League of Na- ‘tions for the great honor and still greater profit of our country which means in the language of the White House, Wall Street. And Wall Street means capitalism, So much for that just now. There are other pressing problems. > a $ for instance. It is reported on authority usually found reliable, that the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of Great Britain dhd Northorn Ireland (Southern Ireland baving a decided taste for raw prince, is left (Continued on Page 6) ESR kth thse i ltl Mt I als Ec al A sn Ba Bh re ah RS RAEI tt Tt A An Aa RE iL EME «ARAN Atlantic Coast Communist Drive On FOSTER LEAVES FOR MEETINGS IN THE EAST To Address New Jersey Mill Workers William Z. Foster, Commun- ist candidate for president, left here yesterday evening for the east, to fill speaking engage- ments in Elizabeth, Newark and Paterson, New Jersey, on the 10, 11th and 13th respectively. Foster’s Westerp tour made a big hit with the workers and farmers. Several of the capital- ist dailies carried editorials holding him up to the public gaze as a menace to American institutions. The Okmulgee Daily Democrat was particularly incensed because Foster advocated a Soviet Republic. It said: “William Z. Foster, Bolshevik ‘candi- date, says our next step will be into a Soviet—if he don’t watch out his will be into jail.” A worker from Fort Smith, Arkan- sas, sent the clipping to the DAILY WORKER with the comment: “I was just wondering if the Okmulgee Daily Democrat thought Foster would worry a great deal if he was in jail. The workers would stand by him as they stood by Debs im 1920—before he cast in his lot with the is faker, LaFollette.” i Thousands of silk workers are ex- pected to attend the Foster meeting in Paterson, New Jersey, on Saturday, Sept..13. This will be Foster’s only appearance in that city during the campaign. The LaFollette wind-jam- ming campaign has not taken much of a hold in Paterson, and the werkers are ready for the Communist message. The meeting will be held in the eve- ning, at 8 p. m., in Halvitia Hall, 56 Van Houton Street. Newark workers will greet Foster on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Labor Lyceum, 740 So. 14th Street. Foster will speak in Elizabeth, N. T, on Sept. 10. The meeting will be held in Turn Hall, 725 High Street. Kansas City Negroes Protest. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 8.—An attempt to Jim Crow Swope Park, the largest local park, failed thru the prompt and aggressive opposition of the Negro citizens. Dr. T. C. Un- thank, a Negro politician and superin- tendent of the local Negro hospital, asked the park Board to build and equip a Negro swimming pool and Ne- gro tennis courts. the Race press and citizens protested hotly and the scheme was abandoned. Strike For More Pay. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—The work- ers of the International Ore and Smelting Co. in Saltillo, Coahuila state, are out on strike. They ask for an increase in pay to bring wages up to a living standard. A representative has been sent to Saltillo to settle the strike. Boy Gored By Bull. FENIMORE, Wis., Sept. 8,—Leo Hil- liger, 12, who. was gored by a bull at his home hege, was reported dying to- day. His face was mutilated and an arm and three ribs fractured. COOLIDGE PROSPERITY HITS BIG ST. LOUIS COKE AND IRON CO, ST. LOUIS, Sept. 8— The St. Louis Coke and Iron company, a $11,700,000 concern with offices in the Planters Building hére, and a large plant at Granite City, IIl., went into the hands of a receiver today, according to announcement made by W. L. MoGuire, president. MeGuire said James Duncan of Alton, Ill., was named receiver at Springfield, Ill, today. He blamed business depression for the com- Pany’s trouble and termed the re- ceivership a friendly proceeding to continue the present management in control. HIS THREE-BRANCHED CANDLESTICK 9 MORE SHOPS SETTLE UP I SILK STRIKE Police Make Threats Against Wicks (By Federated Press) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 8.— Nine more shops have settled with the Associated Silk Work- ers’ Union which has been con- ducting the four weeks’ strike in the silk mills. * About 220 more weavers will return to work under the union conditions, making a total of 1,400 workers who have won their demands for the 2-loom system and &8-hour day With wage increases. Seventy mills in all have signed up with the union. Bosses Have Paper Organization. The Broadsilk Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, which could not be assembled to deal collectively with the union at the time settlements were first of- fered, now has issued a statement say- ing that it will continue to resist the strike and the union. It denies that the Harry Barr work- ers are on strike and says that the Gilt Edge Mills have reopened. The strikers say that the Silk Manufactur- ers is only a paper organization and that the picketing has been success- ful in preventing the reopening of the mills. Police Threaten Wicks. Police attend the strike meetings in Turn Hall threatening to arrest H. M. Wicks, organizer in the Work- ers Party, who is assisting the strik- ers. So far no action has followed the threats against Wicks, \ Drawn especially for the Daily Worker by K A. Suvanto. ITALIAN COMMUNISTS BELIEVE IN REAL WAR ON FASCIST MUSSOLINI (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Sept. 8—“Meet Fascist force with revolutionary force!” is the cry of the Communist Party of Italy, which has Tefused to join the other parties of the opposition in adopting a weak resolution affirming the ideal of “fundamental liberty and inalienable right: and assert- ing their intention to “fight with all legal means against the party which is vainly trying to represent the na- tion. The parties which surrendered to a policy of legalism, as opposed to militant aggression on the industrial and political fields, are the Unitar- jan Socialists, who three week ago refused to join in the demand for a mass funeral for their dead deputy, Matteotti—the Republicans, the Populists, the Social-democrats, the Catholics—most of whom are sym- pathetic to the Italian National Cen- ter, organization of the Pope and the Fasciti—and the Maximali. It is interesting to note that the Maxim- ilists refuse to affiliate with the Third Communist International on the ground that the socialism of that group is “impure.” Grade Crossings in New Toll of Death; Roads Save Money A Pennsylvania railroad grade crossing at Indiana Harbor today took a toll of two lives in separate acci- dents. The first victim was Frank Sullivan, Gary, Ind, who was riding in his automobile, Five hours later, an unidentified man was killed and his two compan- ions critically injured. Vote Communist This Time! 600 DELEGATES. ATTEND PEORIA LABOR MEETING Expect Injection from Outside Resolutions (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 8.—The convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor opened here today. Delegates are arriv- ing in large numbers, and it is expected that about 600 will be reported by the credential com- mittee. The sessions are being held in the Knights of Colum- bus Hall. The morning session was taken up by the traditional speeches of welcome. In this instance the decorations are furnished by the Reverend B. G. Carpenter, by Mayor E. N. Woodruff, and others. Find Some Things Important. The report of President John H. Walker will probably be on the first order of business which, with the re- port of the credentials committee that completes the organization of the gathering, will complete the calen- dar for the opening sessions. The federation officials announce that “Among the important matters to be brought up are child labor and injunctions, old-age pensions, com- munity Pecreation, and political affill- ations.” “Several other political issues are expected to be injected into the meet- ing,” they say further, “thru resolu- tions submitted by local unions,” Walker's report dealt with the is- suing of injunctions in labor contro- (Continued on. page 2) rn { ’ | Wham HERS NUESTRA RMR ARMRETEMOS AROSE oy 6 meneame ten imminent RIE a ettStN Na (Special to The WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—S Hughes, Wall Street's prize pol jected its odor into the politica offset the miasma which has bi since Daugherty, Burns, Fall a sewer. Hughes anti-Russian policy. The bewhiskered freak of Hurope after helping to give J. stitutions of this country,” and leclared that the United States sould not enter into relations ‘until those efforts directed rom Moscow are abandoned.” Time Changes Slightly. The tune has somewhat changed. “ormerly “we could not grasp the | hands of murderers” in the best Lloyd George manner. Now we may forgive the Bolsheviks for uniting the Czar |with his fathers against his fondest |wishes but loans must be paid and |propaganda stopped. We remember |that Grtat Britain once played the }same kind of a tune, but now dances |to Bolshevik music. Mr. Hughes has gototen out a hand- }book for use in the republican cam- |paign. While -recognition of Soviet Russia has not been injected into the jcampaign by any party so far except jthe Workers Party, the question is causing dissension even in the ranks of the republican party and the strong speech of Colonél Haskell, former administrator of the Hoover Relief Expedition in Soviet Russia, favoring the resumption of relations, with the Workers’ Republic, was one of the reasons compelling the reactionary Wall Street lickspittle to provide the bitter foes of Soviet recognition with campaign fodder. What Mr. Hughes saw in Europe provided no balm to his wounded an ti-Russian feelings. The British gov ernment was after signing a treat) vith the Soviet representatives. Such hated Bolsheviks as Rakovsky and Joffe were actually in the same city with Mr. Hughes. Et Tu Herriot! + He saw Herriot of France getting ready to’ resume negotiations with little country in Europe making a be line for Moscow, His wrath can be imagined. It is no secret that Mr. Hughes at- tempted to hatch another anti-Soviet conspiracy while in Europe. But his | failure was so complete that his latest joutburst may be a physician's pre- | Seription to relieve his system of the janti-Soviet poisons which Burns, Gompers and other stool pigeons of capitalism have injected into him. Mr, Hughes is hard put for anti |Soviet ammunition when he is com- |Pelled to use the offal that Chester 'M. Wright has spread over the pages of the Gompers’ chart showing the in- terlocking directorate, which connects |the various radical organizations with jthe Third (Communist) International. | But he uses the yarns supplied by Gompers and Wright, which were bought by Gompers from the Burns Detective Agency. Fear Workers Party. That the Workers (Communist) Par- ty is the only revolutionary organiza- tion feared by the American capital- ists is shown by the following passage from the Hughes tirade: Hughes Speaks His Fears. While there may have existed in the, United States individuals and even groups imbued with Marxist doctrines prior to the advent of the Communist International, the exist- ence of a disciplined party equipped with a program aiming at the over- throw of the institutions of this country by force and violence is due to the intervention of the Bolshe- vik organizations in the domestic (Continued on page 2) consin, M resulted In death and 920 in partial dis. Germany, sees no possibility of Soviet country ceases its “continued propaganda to overthrow the in- the Workers’ Republic. He saw every | | YOUTH FED TO MOLOCH OF INDUSTRY WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—The Department of Labor has announced that 7,478 industrial accidents occurred to workers under 21 years of age in Wis jachusetts, and New Jersey, last year, 1 COOLIDGE’S PRIZE SCAVENGER DIGS UP CAMPAIGN FODDER FOR FOES OF SOVIET RECOGNITION Daily Worker) ecretary of State Charles Evans itical scavenger in the Coolidge administration, again brot forth his favorite dead cat and in- | atmosphere hoping thereby to een poisoning the minds of the workers and farmers of the country against the republican party nd Denby lifted the lid of the The deceased and oderiferous canine is none other than the nature, who has returned from P. Morgan a strangle hold on recognition until that Pa Be ANI TEE PRR SENSOR LAFOLLETTE IN - OPPOSITION TO WORKER’S RULE ‘Wants Only Competitive | Capitalist Order By JAY LOVESTONE. (Concluding Article.) There are two sacred parts to |the ritual of the so-called “pro- gressive” movement led by Sen- ator Robert M. LaFollettte. _ First, We havé an insistence on substituting for the highly concentrated industrial system of today a free, ‘competitive capitalist order of yesterday. Then, being dominantly a move- ment in the interests of the middle and lower strata of the -apital-owning class, it is op- posed to rule by the working lass or rule by the uppermost ind highest developed, corpo- rate exploiting groups. Program Breeds Hostility. In practice, however, the latter at- titude tends more and more to trans- late itself into a policy of implacable hostility to the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ republic. In the everyday political life of the |country, this pillar of LaFolletteism is | becoming an evermore dangerous ob- |stacle in the path of the workingmen jand exploited farmers who are seek jing to end the dictatorship of the jcapitalist class. This “non-partisan” |doctrine is today a toxin sapping the very lifeblood and energy of the working masses who are craving, still vaguely and unconsciously ih the main, for an economic order in which théfe will be no exploited workers and employing class exploiters—big, me- |dium, or small. Let us, then, look into the political validity and economic soundness of these features of the LaFollette pro- gram, An Impossible Fight. For more than three decades La- Follette has been massing his batter- ies against the “cembined power of {Continued on Page 6.) POOR WOMAN WONT WED RICH FARMER; CLAIM SHE'S INSANE CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Sept.8—A sani- ty commission has been asked to pass on the mentality of Be Rittenberg, county poor house in- mate, who has jilted Anton F. Svo- boda, wealthy Linn County farmer, “because she didn’t know him well enough.” Svoboda, after nearly a month of effort, finally learned that he could marry the woman if he could persuade her'to leave the poor house. Everything was arranged— but then the bride-elect changed her mind. Thirty-eight accidents ability for life. amit