The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1924, Page 2

Page Two WORKERS DIE, BLAST STARTS BIG OIL FIRE Seriously Injured Are Rushed to Hospitals (Special to the DAILY WORKER) FRANKLIN, Penn., Sept. 8.—| At least two men were killed, six were injured and probably others were seriously burned when an explosion of unknown origin shook the Eclipse Oil Works stills today. The entire working force of 300 men employed at the stills THE DAILY obit WORKER DELEGATES AT STATE COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS AT PEORIA DENOUNCE LEN SMALL’S RECORD AS DISGRACE By JOHN CHRISTOPHER, (Special to The PEORIA, IIL, Sept. 8.—The here. concerned itself almost entirely with organizational questions. It was manifest that the small one cent per capita tax from affiliated lo- cals, with the direct opposition from Harry Jensen of the Chicago District Council, as well as the indirect one from General President Hutcheson, tended towards the destruction of the two year old state organization. For instance, Local. 504 of Chicago, against whom charges were preferred in the Chicago District Council for using corrupt methods, in order to re-elect Harry Jensen in the last elec- tion threatens to withdraw its affilia- tion from the State Council. Daily Worker) Carpenters’ State Convention assembled on Sept. 4, and adjourned Sept. 6, in the Labor Temple There were 75 delegates in attendance. The meeting COLORED FREIGHT HANDLERS STRIKE ON PULLMAN COMPANY Two hundred freight handlers from the Pullman shops at 103rd Street, Pullman, went on strike last Satur- day, when a heavy wage reduction in piece work wages was Inaugufat- ed. The strikers are colored. the A. F. of L. and Governor Len DAVIS’ STATE SURE HANDS IT TO THE MINERS Darkest West Va. Home of Donkey C andidate By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Pi Staff Correspondent.) MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Sept. 8—The liberties of 19 members of the United Mine Workers’ local on strike inBrady are in jeopardy this month when Justice 1. Grant Lazzelle, of the Circuit Court of Monongahela County, hears the contempt cases af the men he ordered ar- Chance to Give Mr. Dawes Taste of what the Czar Got in 1917 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. - Open, the republican campaign managers are very busy trying to explain the recent “Farm Speech” of their vice-presidential candidate, Charles Gates Dawes, in which this Chicago “Hell an’ Maria” banker took a stand against reclamation projects in the west, for the winning of desert and arid lands for the purpose of agriculture. This head of the Central Trust Co., in Chicago, ally of the House of Morgan, in his Lincoln, Neb., speech opposed irrigation as a means of fertilizing the barren places, because it would result in the production of too much food. The Tuesday, September 9, 1924 BEN GITLOW IN NEW YORK CITY TONIGHT Exposes War Record of Burton K. Wheeler Ben Gitlow, New York cloth- ing worker, candidate for vice-, president on the Workers Party ticket, speaks tonight at a mass meeting in the Central Opeta House, New York, when the Communist. campaign in that state will be opened in real earnest. Gitlow, whose anti-war record a faut is a household word amongNew Pere Hpnting the: Aaieg! tals | Ane. wikee: Ropes, Soancll, the | Smal, rested on a charge of violating] smaller the production, declares Dawes, the better the prices. | York workers, made acid com- afternoon, and newspapermen | “biggest” figure amongst the carpen The delegates, according to their the injunction he issued at the ill b “Th ieot: Wilke stabilized” eaviedhs banic anbebas ihe: enone ot: the sent to the scene were ordered | ters of Illinois, would be the president |“personal” views, did not approve instance of the Brady-Warner wi ec. e@ market will be stabilized, y' er- back. Can't Recover Body. Swartz and Witherup were the dead men’s names. Efforts to get Wither- up’s body so far have been unavailing and it is believed the body of a third victim is also behind the barrier of flames. The injured men are in a hospital and emergency preparations have been ordered to care for others. The blaze is one of the worst.oil fires which has ever visited this section in recent years. Men Run For Lives. The bottom fell out of one of the stills at No. 5 plant, sending flaming oil all over the scene and men had to run for their lives. Three tanks and the entire No. 5 plant were burn- | ing this afternoon and special calls | were sent for huge blankets to help check the spread of the flames, FIRPO THE PUG IS NOT RADICAL of the Chicago D. C., hence the op- position by Harry Jensen and Bill Hutcheson. Consequently the convention direct- ed itself towards the strengthening of the position of the State. Council by the inauguration of better methods of propaganda and an increase of per capita tax, (which will go to referen- dum vote) from 1 to 2% cents, which would then make possible the em- ployment of paid organizers, for the organization of the unorganized, etc. The neglect of the convention to- wards the stimulation of a rank and file character in the organization was one of its weakest manifestations. The next big thing was the discus- sion of the latest political position of SOVIETS ROUSE (Continued from page 1) and political life of the United States. . He Has Had It Before. The last time Hughes suffered a bad attack of anti-Sovietism was immedi- ately prior to the exposure. of the either the past or present policies of the A. F. of L. on the political field, but because of the principle of disci- pline, the convention adopted a mo- tion: “We endorse the position of the A. F. of L. in its political action, with no comments.” As to Governor Small, even those delegates who claimed to be republi- can stated that the position of the governor has been one of “disgrace to the republican party.” Especially was his use of low-paid labor in road building denounced. All of the old officers were re-elect- ed with Willis K. Brown of Peoria, as president and to the Vice-Presi- dency in place of Ryan, Anton Johan- son of Chicago was selected. \ IRE OF HUGHES “our” institutions. The exigencies of the political campaign has again driven Hughes out into the open. Business Jealousy. Since Britain signed the Soviet treaty, American business men have Coal Corporation. The injunction was granted May 19, the date Sam Brady be- gan evicting the strikers, and it contains those stringent provi- sions which have made the labor injunction the chief strike- breaking weapon of the West Virginia open shop operators. Perhaps They May Not Breathe. The strikers are forbidden from “soliciting, inducing or persuading” the strikebreakers from “violating their terms. of employment,” says one clause of the injunction, intended to protect the notorious “yellow dog” contracts the open shop firms forced .|on its new employes, signing them to work for a definite period as non- union men. The strikers are also forbidden from sttting foot on company proper- ty, thus denying an easy right of way to their union hall, and they are en- joined: “From in any way interfering with the lawful right of the plaintiff to em- ploy such laborers as it may choose} and to discharge them as it may see vice-presidential candidate, which means that there will be good pickings for the profiteers. a * * * What Dawes proposes is a trick that has been put over very often by the fond pertieers, Potatoes have been allowed to rot in the fields, or thrown upon city dumps by the mil- lions of bushels, in order that the quantity for sale might be restricted, and high prices charged. Shiploads of fruit have been cast by the fruit trust into the harbors of New York, Boston, and elsewhere, in order to “stabilize the market.” Shiploads of fish have been given similar treatment. * * * * In the southern states the “Night Riders” set fire to tobacco plantations and tobacco warehouses in order to keep down the production and available supply of tobacco. But the farmers of the grain producing states have not yet taken to burning the results of a hard year’s work in order to “stabilize the market” for the food speculators on the boards of trade in Minneapolis, Chicago and other big food distributing centers. Nor do the Fruit raisers of the far west, in Idaho, Wash- ington, Oregon, and to the south, where irrigation has caused bountiful orchards to grow, where previously there had been but sandy wastes, intend to burn down their trees and quit producing in order that the friends of Dawes, on South Water Street, in Chicago, might rig the market and socialist party to boost the Wheeler meetings. He said: “Undoubtedly, this is an effort to stem the tide of waning La Follette sentiment among the class- conscious workers of New York, in order to insure the collection of mon- ey for the LaFollette campaign. Of those workers who look back with horror and loathing upon the terrible days of the world war, few if any, will listen to the man who supported the war at every stage. That man is Senator Wheeler of Montana.” Gitlow will speak in Floral Park at lith and Polk Streets, West New York, New Jersey on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 8 p. m. Harry Winitsky, New York District campaign manager, will act as chairman of the meeting, CHINA ARMIES BATTLE NEAR SHANGHAI WALLS been bringing pressure to bear on the make a killing. ' un Sen Assai \ AND HAS RIGHTS crooks, Fall, Daugherty, Burns and|administration. “Why should England oe and noes in ag speci obstruct- e es *& & * S Yat d — US. é Denby, props of the G. O. P. adminis-|get in on the ground floor,” they ask,|{28, opposing, or interfering with the The United States has a population of undernourished an rl tration. These grafters and thieves| “while we are on the outside sucking| Plaintiff in re-entering upon and tak- . : vedi Labor Department Sees Constitution and $ WASHINGTON, Sept: 8—Canon Wm. Shaeafe Chase of New York, again threatened today to go to President Coolidge with his demand for the de- _-Portation of Luis Angel Firpo, Argen- tine prize fighter, before his bout with Harry Wills on Thursday. Chase said he would ask Coolidge to order the Labor Department to have Firpo’s bond forfeited and. a deporta- tion order issued immediately at Ellis Island. When he learned of Chase's an- nouncement, Commissioner of Immi- gration Husband, said tht the Firpo case was being handled by the Labor Department the same as any other and that ther had been no unusual delay. Firpo had a right under the law, Hus- band said, to be released in New York under bond pending a hearing before immigration inspectors at Ellis Island. LaFollette Again Wallows in Mire of Generalities sold everything that was not nailed down and peddled themselves to the highest bidder. So raw was their work that even millionaires, fearing an explosion, got hold of the broom and tried to sweep the entire ad- ministrataion out of office. The crooks were strongly en- trenched and only the least powerful of them got the gate. Coolidge, Hughes, Weeks and Hoover stuck. But the storm was so strong that Hughes did not have the nerve to accuse Soviet Russia of trying “to overthrow our institutions” until the public began to forget that Fall, Daugherty and Company had sold all (Continued from page 1) versies and bitterly assailed the prac- tice. His other recommendations for la- bor included: Enactment of legislation clearly de- fining the rights of labor and making courts function as interpreters and not makers of laws; Prohibiting of the practice of hav- our thumbs and. watching Hughes scratch his whiskers?” Hughes in self-defense tries to minimize the trade advantages to’ be gained” by Soviet recognition. But England does | not consider the advantages so trivial. The secertary refers to the $187,- 000,000 loan made to the derensky government by the United States and the subsequent Soviet decrees that “unconditionally and without any ex- ceptions all foreign loans are an- nulled.” This loan was used by the notorious Czarist Bahkmetieff, self-styled Rus- sian ambassador in Washington to plot against the Soviet government. ‘ 600 DELEGATES AT PEORIA MEET keting in Illinois of prison-made goods in competition with the products of free labor. Also “Other Issues.” The “other issties” that the reac- tionaries expect to come up, are the outstanding issues before the labor movement, which are not dealt with in the official statement. They in- clude such matters as unemployment, the Ku Klux Klan, the “open shop” ing possession of its said dwelling houses and each of them and remov- ing the goods of said defendants there- from.” Scabs Want to Quit. I talked with one of the strike breakers this injunction seeks to pro- tect from persuasive unionists and I found that he Ages not need ae sion. He is already persuaded. All he needs is the funds to get out with, The firm keeps him so deeply in debt to the company-town store that he sees little money from one two-weeks pay to the next—and it takes money to move his family out, he says. There are white strikebreakers too, but this particular man is a Negro. Brady's agents brought him from the Connellsville coke region in Penn- sylvafifa and placed him in a house from which a strikebreaker’s family had been evicted. He is just two years out of Alabama where he chucked the hopeless life of a tenant farmer and left for the North. The 1922 strike found him in Southwestern Pennsylvania. A labor agent gave him a job in a Frick mine, on strike. He knew little of the labor movement and went to work. The mine later shut down and another agent brought him to Brady during the present. strike. people. Nearly half—to be exact 46.8 pér cent—of the nation is made up of defectives. This is the direct result, in large part, of insufficient nourishment. The child who is compelled to hunt food in alley garbage cans isn't going to make a healthy normal human being. The tenement house baby, who is brought up on canned milk, and hardly ever sees fruit, if at all, isn’t going to be sturdy in after years. The million American sehoot children, who go hungry to school every day in the school year, according to figures given us by the American Medical Association, will be weak and’ anaemic when they have grown to manhood and womanhood. « _ It isn’t that there is an overproduction of food in the United States. The trouble is that those who ought to have the food never get it. The workers of today, and those who will be the workers, the producers of tomorrow, are forced to live on the scantiest ration. They cannot buy what they really ought to have to keep even decently alive. * * cd * Mr. Dawes would interpret the charge that there are hungry men, women and children in the United States, as a Bolshevik attack on the American constitution. According to Mr. Dawes everyone is well fed, in the cities and on the land, the on See is that we work too hard and produce too much, e don’t need irrigation and reclamation pro- jects in the west because that would only result in producing still more. Mr. Dawes says, “Let the deserts remain deserts; limit_production, keep prices up.” This will not be welcome doctrine to the maery work- drs in the cities and the bankrupt farmers on the land. It will not solve their problem. The farmers know they would (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 8.—The bitter battle being waged by the provinces of Chekiang and- Kiangsu reached the city today. Shortly before noon fighting took place in the outskirts of the native city which surrounds the foreign set- tlement, . Dr. Sun Yat Sen, ruler of Canton, who has the support of the working class, declares that Great Britain and the United States are assisting Wu Pei Fu, the general who has charge of the armies of the Peking govern- ment. Fu’s troubles are not all on the south, however. From the north comes the Manchurian war lord, General Chang, with what. is reported to be the most formidable army in China, That Chang and.Sun have designs on the same enemy, does not necessarily mean that there is an alliance between them. Chang G. O. P. Material. Chang is a reactionary bandit, and no doubt, would like to have control of the Peking government for his per- sonal benefit. The ‘capitalist powers stand ready to back any general who will bring about a condition in China that will give foreign capital the de- WASHINGTON, Sept. $—Address.| ing privately paid attorneys assist |drive, amalgamation, organize the un‘|His eyes are opening to the union| have a good market for all their produce if the city workers pei A ae eek re ree ing representatives of organized labor | attorneys in prosecuting criminal cas-| organized, and the labor party. Only movement. He is sick of his present} could only buy. But the Dawes banks, the Armour grain fhe ian T ce This we A at a political meting here today, Sen-| 8; the left wing proposes a program on |life and says he'll find some way to!’ trust, and the big food speculators, like Jim Patten, the |°™ cag gerd pabnennanal bo ator Robert M. LaFollette, independ-| Opposition to the establishment of|these issues, The resolutions from ent political candidate, said that one pf the fundamental issues of the cam- paign is the high cost‘of living—as it was in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson defined it in understandable terms. Another issue to be declared, he said, is whether the “American people are strong enough to repossess them- selves of the government originally Nesigned for them.” Pensions For City Employes. QUEBEC, Can., Sept. 8.—The city council of the Ancient Capital has de- cided to grant pensions to laborers employed by the ity. The pensions vary with length of service according to the following scale: $5 weekly for those who have been from five to ten years in civic service; $7 weekly from ten to fifteen years; $8 weekly from fifteen to twenty years; and $9 weekly tor those who have worked more than twenty years. state military police; Improvement of the state mining laws to lessen the hazards of the min- ing occupations; Establishment by the state federa- tion of a bureau to prevent the .mar- MACDONALD IS HAPPY | OVER HIS WORK FOR CAPITAL AT GENEVA (Special to the Daily Worker.) LONDON, Sept. 8— “I am very well satisfied with the results of the League of Nations Assembly at Gen- eva,” said Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald today, on the eve of his depart- ure for Scotland. “But there is a tremendous amount of work still to be done. | think, however, we have made the right kind of start.” RAIL BROTHERHOOD CHIEFS MAY BE SUED FOR CONTEMPT FOR SHOWING CONTEMPT FOR RAIL LABOR BOARD Hearings in the wage controversy involving the Brotherhoods of Loco- motive Firemen and Engineers on virtually every railroad In the West and Southwest were resumed today before the United States Railroad Labor Board here. Only representatives of the railroads were present and no steps were taken to bring in the union representatives who walked out of the hearings some time ago claiming the board had no jurisdiction in the fail to appear when the board has finished hearing the representattv If they of the carriers, action for contempt may be filed in Federal Court under the trans- portation act, to compel them to testify. The brotherhoods are seeking wage increa similar to those granted some time ago by Eastern roads. The carriers have appeared with requests the local unions are those carrying the left wing program, to defeat which the reactionaries are organiz- ing with all their energies, and for which large blocks of deleg: brought here from the “sa! CELEBRATED IN NEW YORK CITY (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Thousands of young working men and women crowded to the doors of the. Central Opera House last night to celebrate International Youth Day with the Young Workers League. Juniors in red-trimmed khaki suits, and members of the League stood at the doors distributing copies of the Young Worker and the Young Com- rade, and gathering subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER. In enthusiasm and eagerness, the spirit of the eve ning was the spirit of Young Russia, Comrades Jack Stachel, district or- ganizer, Sam D'Arcy and William Weinstone addressed the meeting. They told the story of the first Inter. national Youth Day in 1915, when young workers who opposed, the war in the very countries in which the war was being fought met to raise the slogan of WAR AGAINST WAR. They told how every year since 1915, on the first Sunday in September, the work- ers, young and old, have gathered to ,jedueation in get out of ly as other Negroes have done recently. Negro Getting Educated. Miners tell me this case is typical. The Southern Negro is getting a stern Northern industrial methods. The contempt defendants were ar- rested July 8, after Sam Brady found the strike going strong despite the burning of the union hall. Cases were heard during the July term, without decision, and continued for further hearing. Brady gets the benefit of the restraining order all the while. Former Governor Glascock, a tried servant of the coal barons, represents Brady at the hearings. Attorneys Harold Houston and Townsend, of Charleston, represent the miners, Miners Seek Damages. In the October term of the Circuit Court a signficant damage suit for $10,000 is coming against Sam Brady. It is brought by Joseph Morton, Harry Casal and Leon Antrim of the Brady Local for damages sustained ,in the violent evictions of May 19-21. ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures to petitions? \ DAWES IS NOW HAPPY! BIG FIRE HELPS HIM “STABILIZE MARKET” BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 8—Fire of undetermined origin this after: noon completely ‘oyed the Ex. Chicago multi-millionaire, stand in between to reap their harvest of gold. * * * * How different in Soviet Russia. There every muscle of the great Soviet Republic is strained to develop, thru irriga- tion and reclamation, the nation’s agricultural resources, Agriculture has been backward in Soviet Russia. The deposed czar surely must have had “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes in mind when he made no pioeees against~the ancient methods used in agriculture while he was in power. No modern farm implements, on a large scale, were uséd to in- crease production. “Small production and high prices,” was the motto of * the deposed czar, just as it is the motto of the republican vice-presidential candidate. And the profits from the high prices went to the food speculators, the big landlords and the great financiers, in the Russia of the czar, just as in the United States of Charles Gates Dawes. The poor peasant, toiling endless hours thru the many years, always remained the same poor, landless peasant until the czar and all his gang were overthrown, Pa ® _ But the czar's regime wasn't long in going once the workers and peasants in Russia found oyt what the trouble really was. The republican campaign managers are now trying to prevent the workers and farmers from discovering the real significance of the “Farm Speech” by the banker Dawes, at Lincoln, Neb., 0 Lager. | the greatest assets of modern agriculture, irrigation and reclamation. They are afraid that the workers and farmers of the United States, if they discovered the truth, might give Mr. Dawes a little taste, in the November elections, of what the czar experi- enced in the revolutionary year of 1917, in Russia, Vote Communist. That will help do it. : AGED STORY-TELLER, STARVING TO DEATH, AMUSED THE CHILDRE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 8—"Uncle Al,” aged story-teller who amused the He was poorly atk, is dead from lack of nourishment, explain Dr. Sun’s scathing indictment of the Chinese policy of the Washing- ton government and that of Ramsay MacDonald. Wage Frauds In Lumber Camps. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8—The state labor commissioner: is investigat- ing charges of wage frauds in lumber camps in Mendocino county, resulting in a loss of $32,328 by 302 lumber workers. Warrants have been served on three lumbermen who are alleged to have perpetrated the frauds during the season just closed. Party Activities Of Local Chicago WORKERS PARTY, LOCAL CHICAGO. BRANCH MEETINGS, Tuesday, Sep' le Stancick's Hall, 205 BE. 115th St., Polish, Roseland Pullman. Northwest English, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Irving Park English, 4021 Drake Ave. Ukrainian No.»1, 1532 W. Chicago Ave. Roumanian Branch, 2264 Clybourn Ave. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, LOCAL CHICAGO, Tuesday, Sept. 9, meeting (in Rus- 10701 Stephenson Hegewisch Branch, Hegewisch, Il. Junior di 6 - fe ior, Lae ers Class, 1113 W. Washing: Irving Park Branch, 4021 Drake Ave. ———— Local Bronx, N. Y., Attention! If we are to put our candidates on the ballot, we must get on the job at once, Comrades, put your shoulder to the wheel and get busy. Come around 4 W. Division St. * € solidify their forces for the struggle} change Elevator in the harbor here, | children of Astoria ; to the headquarters, 1847 Boston for changes In certain working conditions and the entire matter came before |against capitalism and for the peri The hi elevator tontained. 760,000 | dressed and had been sleeping out In the park. He told the children much |Road, any night during the week, and , the board wiren It arbitrarily took the matter in hand on the grounde that |lishmont of a Workers Soviet govern:| bushels of grain, the loss ie es- | about the flowers and plants of the park and dngid seemed at loss for a/you will be assigned to work, Don't a tie-up was threatened. mop a timated at $1,000,00, ~~ ~ _ Istory p re be # shirker.—B, Robins, Seo'y, i ‘ Heytig {) : E 4