The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 147. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MILITANTS PUSH AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HERE is a gentleman in Chicago} known in polite society as Mr. Joseph Wejl, and among his cronies of the underworld, “The Yellow Kid.” He is a successful business\ man tho in pursuit of it he sometimes finds himself on the wrong side of a peni-| tentiary. But Mr. Weil is not a radi- cal and his prison’ terms are only ht interferences with his business. Quite recently “The Yellow Kid” was coasting about the Chicago boule- vards in a slick limousine and ran into a young lad who was sent to the hospital for repairs. Mr. Weil ap- peared in court the following day with his lawyer, informed the judge that he had settled with the wounded man who was perfectly satisfied with the settlement, declared Mr. Weil. “The Kid” was released. Yesterday the wounded man appeared in court and hi talk with the judge. What “The Kid” told the court was a pipe tlream, The cops are now looking for Mr. Weil. ee * 'ORMER Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, is dead set agains certain witnesses who may appear be fore the grand jury which is seekin; further evidence in the “oil cages.’ Vall is one of the associates of Charle: by Jughes who was running awa} ith “out institutions” while Hughes d Gompers were burning the mid t ofl getting the “goods” on So- Ru If Fall had a little more to tinish the job, Sam and Char- 1.2 would have to use electric illumi- nation. s it is he put quite a hole ja the oil supply. e 8 * \AiSS AMERICA of 1924 who won i the beauty contest at Atlantic ay be sound in the body but telegram she sent to olidge she is reasonably from brain fever. She hasn't Here is the telegram: “The any. crown of honor of being Miss Amer- ica was bestowed on me in the na- tional beauty tournament in Atlan- tic City last Saturday night. To be worthy of this honor, I will endeavor to live the principles and.traditions of +> in Chicago, by mail, ‘Outside Chicago, by $8.00 per year, mail, $6.00 per year. W ORKE! Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, limois under the Act of March 3,'1879. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1924 <>“ Publish PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. ed Daily except Sunday by LH DA SCHOOL BOARD IN TRICKY AD TO MG ANDREW Teachers Declare Fight to the Finish Superintendent William Me- Andrew, waging war on the organized teachers of Chicago, may find unexpected help when a sympathizing school board, on whose action the calling of the teachers’ councils depends, decides to ignore the entire con- sroversy until the time for the 2achers’ meetings has passed. In that case, the teachers are repared to take more drastic ction against the superinten- ent of schools, and fight the hing out to a finish, Elzy F. Jowney, president of the high school teachers’ council, inti- nated yesterday. Expect Action Today, The executive board of the high school teachers of the city, whom Mc- Andrew has refused to call together for the regular meeting scheduled for next week, decided yesterday to post- pone ‘further action until the matter is taken up in the meeting of the board of education today. : Meanwhile, copies of McAndrew's statement have been sent out to every member of the councils, so that the teachers may be prepared to act after the decision of the board has been made, That the board may fail to bring up the question for decision until after the date set for the teachers’ meeting # Teak “Amefean Ute: -Whieb~dees, thet Swit not mean a thing. The lady also ex- pressed her desire for the “red blooded type of man.” We are not aware pt any blood that is not red tho the Prince of Wale’s gore is supposed to be blue. ’ so HAT is in a name? There is a good deal when it is properly used: Passing along by the Herald| end Examiner Building in Chicago, my attention was called to a large sign which read “Hearst Square.” I had seen it before and did not pay any particular attention to it. “Well, that takes the biscuit,” remarked my friend. “Hearst Square. Why he is; covered yesterday when Charles M. Moderwell, president of the board, told the DAILY WORKER that he did not expect the matter to come up today. Moderwell Backs McAndrew. President Moderwell. who is presi- dent of the Moderwell Coal and Coke company, and of the Mordue Collier- ies company, a mining company lo- cated in West Virginia, as well as being president of the board that |runs the affairs of the thousands of teachers and the hundreds of thou- sands of school children in Chicago, expressed himself as being in com- so crooked that he could sleep com-|Plete sympathy with the action of fortably on a cork screw.” And come to think of it, he was right. 28 © | HE PRINCE OF WALES got home | at 5 o'clock one morning and his host immediately called in the doc- tor. The prince, explained however, that his early arrivaf’ was not due to | indisposition but to the arrest of his bootlegger by an Irish policeman. Despite the general warning broad-| cested by the prohibition department, that the prince’s booze runners should not be interfered with, the cop who happened to be a member of the Clan_ na‘ Gael saw a chance to have a drink | of good stuff and take a slam at Brit- | ish royalty. As the prince’s slogan is) that no party can exist half drunk and half sober he quit early and went to sleep. *_** © ELSINGFORS took up lots of space in the papers during the war. It is a Finnish port and was need by the Allies as a lie factory. ‘vhe latest from Helsingfors is that Leningrad is under martial law be- cause the troops refused to act Superintendent McAndrew in refus- ing to call together the only school ‘organization in which the teachers have a voice. “We are going to settle once for all the question of whether the board is running the schools, or whether the teachers are running them,” is the way Moderwell phrases it. “When Superintendent McAndrew last year attempted the same thing he is trying to do now, Margaret Haley, of the Chicago Teachers’ Fed: eration, preferred charges agaiyst him. The school attorney proved that McAndrew has no right to refuse to call councils together. In spite of that fact, he is trying the same trick this year,” Mr. Downey told the DAILY WORKER. Not Tempest In Teapot. “If it were not that there is really something more to this controversy than the simple question of whether the teachers are to meet on their own or on school time, the whole thing would seem like a tempest in a tea: pot.” No action has yet been taken by the against strikers. Helsingfors also learns that another bomb was found in the Lenin mausoleum and that the | given that the Federation will take up| “Our common Moscow police are beginning to smell e plot. Who would ever believe that they could be so suspicious? ne @ OVIET RUSSIA is not going so badly, The total foreign trade officials of the Chicago Teachers’ Fed- eration, and ‘no indication has been the fight, in spite of the fact that all of the teachers of the city are looking to the Federation for help. ° Wash Streets For First Time. JOHANNESBURGH, South Africa, (Special to ‘The Gitlow, as well as the entire fall elections. District Organizer, Workers Party Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 9.—Electors for the Communist candidates, William Z. Foster, for president, and Benjamin state Communist ticket have been placed on the Massachusetts state ticket here for the Petitions carrying 1,241 certified signatures have been filed with the secretary Of state. More than 2,000 We Go on Massachusetts By JOHN J. BALLAM allot names were secured, altho only 1,000 were required to place the candidates on the ballot. Great enthusiasm prevails here for the Gitlow mass meeting planned for Sunday afternoon in the Scenic Auditorium. * * * * ASSACHUSETTS is the third state to put Communist candidates on the state ballot. The ‘first was North Dakota, the second, Pennsylvania, and now the third, Massa- chusetts. WHO IS NEXT? FALL'S FOES STUB TOES ON LEGAL JOKER Oil Thief’s Operations Are Privileged (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The new grand jury probe into pri- vate oil business conducted by Albert B. Fall when he was a trusted member of the Harding cabinet is positively insulting, in the official opinion of Justice Siddohns of the Washington Supreme Court. The judge gave it to understand that business is | business even if it involves cash in satchels and ranches and cows and other desirable things. When Fall fell from grace after his ‘relations with Doheny and Sinclair came ,to light, the “average citizen” thought his goose was cooked. Per- haps is was, tho Fall prefers chicken a la Do. Anyhow, Fall:employed a battalion of good lawyers who know capitalist law pretty thoroughly and Fall is le: that it is as easy to there is plenty money to do with. 2 Red Foe Is Fall Friend. A fellow by the name of Littleton was very active against the Commun- ists: in 1919 on the ground that they were out to smash “American insti- tutions by force and violence.” The same gentleman is now helping Fall to violate the laws of the United States. The U. S. government gave Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts the job of lighting a fire under. Fall, They had plenty of oil but no matches. They went to the court for a permit to carry lighting material and the judge looked at them like a pair of arson bugs. By the time the Fall case is over and done with, we may have a Soviet Republic hefe, that is provided Samuel Gompers joins his fathers, Sam says the Workers’ Republic will be established over his dead body. So be it. Ameg. Fall May Head Oil Trust. The last we heard of Fall was that he was one of the attractions at a party given Mr. Doheny. Fall is a republican and Doheny is a democrat, yet they did not quarrel with each other. The report that Fall is slated for president of the Standard Oil Com- pany has not been confirmed. Subscribe for ‘Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, -, MAC DONALD LEARNS | THAT GODLY MEN HAVE ONE HELLUVA TIME ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept. 9.— aim and aspiration should be to promote good will among nations and establish peace upon earth,” said Premier Ramsay McDonald today, in accepting the freedom of thé city. “When we put our hand to this work, however, we turn-over figures for the first half of|Sept. 9.— Earth tremors here today| discovered how difficult are the 1928-24, shows @ considerable increase | upset huge vats in a soap factory and| minds of men. Peace, security, co- over the figures for the corresponding | streets in the vicinity were flooded to| operation—what do they mean? ‘previous half year and with the first | depth of three feet with the boiling| There are men of critical minds six months of the previous fiscal year. The figures for 1922-28 are 119,73 value in gold rubles; 1923-24, 262,765 in gold rubles. In quantity the in- crease is more impressive. Ih the first half year 1922-23 the foreign trade turn-over was 65,196 thousands of oti while the figures for the cor- responding period. of 1928-24 are 222,903, This looks very much like progress. But Charlie Hughes will not pay any attention to information that is not furnished by stoolpigeons. | the rallway line from Ceuta to Tangiers, Vote Communist This Time! who can prove beyond the possibil- ity of a doubt that any scheme pro- duced will not work.” RIFF TRIBESMEN CUT RAILWAY LINE WHEN FOES AREN’T LOOKING t (Special to The —__ Daily Worker) ; GIBRALTAR, Sept. 9.—It is reported here that the rebellious Riff » fighting the Spanish troops in Morocco, have succeeded in cutting LEFT WING URGES ACTION ON BIG PROBLEMS FACING LABOR AS PEORIA STATE CONVENTION GETS UNDER WAY (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill:, Sept. 9.—Assurances that a strong left wing fight would be made for progressive labor measures, at the con- yention here of the Illinois Federation of Labor, were found in the resolutions being presented for action by the annual gather- ing of Illinois labor. ‘These resolutions covered amalgamation, organization of Soyiet Russia, the Ku Klan, Defense Day, and the vital issue of unemployment. These resolutions are published in full as follows: * Condemn Ku Klux Klan. WHEREAS, We see plainly that there are different kinds of illegal organizations thruout the world ap- | pearing under different. kinds of masks and names; and ‘WHEREAS, We see all thru ex- perience that every one of those or- ganizations has the same aim—to destroy the labor organizations; | and WHEREAS, We see one of the bosses’ organizations—the K. K. K. —existing in this country and daily ganized labor, as for instance at 1,,, Zeigler, and britar and etc.; therefore be it RESOLVED, That we, condemn- ing the illegal K. K. K. organiza- tion, also call on our brother dele- Convention of the Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor to adopt this reso- lution and demand that the Illinois State Federation of Labor promote and demonstrations in the State of Illinois, especially in the southern part. L. U. 3703, U. M. W. of A. at Dowell, Ill, and many other local unions. eee For Soviet Recognition. WHEREAS, The Russian Soviet Government, for a period of almost six years, has withstood all attacks launched against it not only by en- emies within its own boundaries, but also from outside hostile gov- ‘ernments, thereby demonstrating that it is a stable organization and has the support of the Russian peo- ple; ands . WHEREAS, Many European and other governments have establislied diplomatic and commercial rela- tions with the Russian government that have proven profitable to all such countries and are also enab- ling the Russian people to secure access to the foodstuffs, medicines, machinery and other commodities and supplies so vitally needed in their great work of reconstruction; and WHEREAS, The present admin- istration at Washington, by thus far failing to give recognition to Soviet Russia, has greatly injured that country as well as our own, and WHEREAS, Many labor unions, in common with liberal minded peo; ple generally, such as Senators La- Follette, Borah, Wheeler, Brook- hart, Shipstead and Johnson are de- manding that this belated recogni- tion be granted Russia, therefore be it RESOLVED, That the Illinois Federation of Labor in its Forty- segond Annual Convention, in the name of solidarity with the First Workers’ Republic, join this pro- gressive movement and call upon the American Federation of Labor to extend all efforts in order that the United States government shall give full and complete recognition to Soviet Russia——TOM PARRY, Delegate, Miners’ L. U, No. 146, Oe Organize the Unorganized. WHEREAS, Only) small per- centage of the working class mass- es are as yet members of the trade unions, great numbers being still (Continued on page 2) Klux* torturing the people, especially or- | gates to the Forty-Second Annual | a series of anti-Klan mass meetings | among other subjects those of the unorganized, recognition of STRIKE STILL ON IN BELLEVILLE; UNION AID SLOW Determined Workers Get Small Assistance By BARNEY MASS. | (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLEVILLE, Ill, Sept. 9.—A com- mittee of three, cosisting of Alice Jones, Lucille Boyce and Arthur |Renfro, a Negro, who are the secre-! |tary, president and sergeant-at-arms| \respectively, of the Amalgamated |Clothing Workers’ Local in Belleville, Christopher. and |i. and. are: now..on.s ike, Jett. for. murder HRBE I Chicago ior doltch tuo ala tthe ‘cont “courthouse of West Frankfort, eral office for support in their fight. eer committee left Sunday night | after a meeting of the local’s execu- tive board, which authorized such ac- tion. | Committee Still in Chicago. } | Up to last night the committee had} /not returned from Chicago. The reason | for this action on the part of the| Strikers is due to the hesitant man- ner in which the union representative jof the Amalgamiated is handling the| strike. Many of the pants makers live | jou their own resources and the strike | jhas entered its seventh week. It is (spears to say, that scabbing for these determined strikers is one out lof the question. In spite of the laxity] jot the union officials, the workers are by on winning their own strike. After appealing for aid to Mr. Blum- berg, organizer for the Amalgamated, | \time and again, the strikers decided to take things in their own hands, and the committee of action resulted. When speaking to Alice Huber, one of the ‘girls fined $50.00 for violation of the injunction, also a member of the ex- jecutive board, she said: “Winter is |coming and we will need clothdés, but |we would rather die than go back |defeated to that boss.” This was made | |in referdémce to Chas. Meyer, owner jof the factory. Out of 65 workers 50 lare on strike. The chief complaint of the strikers against the union‘is the failure on| its part to pay. the girls who are in destitute cirumstances. Wy doesn’t Blumberg do something instead of sitting all day long in soft cushion chairs in the Belleville House? He merely kids the strikers when ap- proached for assistance, was the ac- cusation made by the girls inter. viewed yesterday. Rumors of Settlement. Rumors are current of a settlement to be reached within a few days, Mr. Blumberg refused to make any com. ment on this. Efforts to call a con- ference. between the operator and the, union representative were made by Dan Thomas, president of the Belle- ville sub-district U. M. W. of A., but! it was of no avail. The greedy boss| refused to even see anyone repres- enting the strikers. He is bent on crushing the union. Luke Coffey, vice-president of the Belleville sub-district U.°M. W. of A., has contributed largely in helping the young pants makers. The question has been raised, why the aid of the miners is not obtained? Why doesn’t the whole Central Labor Union of Belleville get behind the strike? When asked these questions, Blum- berg replied, “these people know nothing of an injunction and how to COOLIDGE GANG IS LINED UP ON RUSSIAN ISSUE Erstwhile ‘Liberals Are Silent on Recognition Orders to line up a la Hughes on the issue of Soviet recogni- tion have undoubtedly gone out to so-called liberal republicans who have shown a tendency to waver on the side of the Work+ ers’ Republic. Both Raymond Robins and William Wrigley, Jr. now staunch supporters of the Cool- idge-Dawes campaign, but for- merly champions of the cause of Soviet recognition, refused} to discuss this issue when ap- proached by the DAILY WORK- ER. Hughes Raises Issue. The issue of Soviet recognition has been raised again by the campaign |material combatting Soviet recogni-| | tion ,furnishéd by. Secretary of State| “This rule gives delegates the op- that..will be circulated ag of- Rushes, ficial matter by the republican cam- paigners. “We would like to quote your views on the hostile material furnished by Secretary Hughes,” a reporter for the DAILY WORKER opened up on Mr. Robins. “Nothing doing!” said Robins, clos- ing the interview before it had hardly started. Robins was a,“Bull Mooser” in 1912, with Roosevelt. This year, it is said, the LaFollette forces tried to get him to run on the “Back to '76” ticket for governor of Illinois. But he has come out for Coolidge. Robins visited So- viet Russia and wrote articles very favorable to the Soviet ‘government. “Wrigley Dodges Issue. Efforts to get in direct touch with the Chewing Gum King failed. But the interview was carried on thru his assistants. First efforts were greeted with, “Mr. Wrigley is very busy.” Then finally, “But I'll ask him.” The final decision was: “Mr. Wrigley will not issue any statement to the press on the subject of the recognition of Soviet Russia.” Wrigley was formerly one of the chief backers of Senator Hiram John- son, of California, in his primary race| for the presidential nomination. But he deserted the Californian and the national republican campaign head- quarters is now housed in his Chew- ing Gum Palace on “Boul Mich.” Borah Escapes. Senator Wiliam E. Borah, of Idaho who has urged recognition of Soviet Russia, and who is this fall in the Coolidge camp, could not be reached before he left for the west last night. FOE OF BOXING GAME GRABS CASE OF PAMPA BULL BY THE HORNS Jersey City, N. J., Sept. 9—In a. , last minute effort to stop the fight between Luis Firpo, “Wild Bull of the Pampgs,” and Harry. Wills, scheduled to be held at Boyle's Thirty Acres on Thursday night, Herbert Clarke Gilson, attorney for the Society for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Public Mor- als, today announced he would seek a restraining ord; fight it.” It comes with ill grace from anyone to insinuate that miners don't know how to fight injunctions. ' Rome, sserting that the Fascisti Baying as its object the suppression of the opposition leaders, ashington Blvd., Chicago, IL ITALIAN FASCISTI PLANNING BIG COUP AS DAY OF RECKONING NEARS (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘LONDON, Sept. 9—The Dally Herald today quoted the Giori Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. ILY WORKER Price 3 Cents + LEFT WINGERS FOR PROGRESS | AT LABOR MEET |Quesse, Janitors’ Head, Taboos Discussion (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 9.—The | left wing delegates to the state convention of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor are responsible | for the fight that is being waged here for progressive trade union policies against the opposition of the reactionary labor leaders. The great majority of the re- |solutions printed for use at the convention were introduced by the left wing locals of the Min- ers’ Union. Seek Jobless Insurance. Dan Thomas, delegate from the O'Fallon Miners’ Local, brought in @ resolution seeking a law for unemploy- ment insurance and urging state and national governments to hire the wn- jemployed for public works at trade junion wages. Other resolutions introduced called for: The six-hour day, demanding the | formation of a state labor party, to be formed under the auspices of the State Federation of Labor; endorsing Len Small for governor; endorsing LaFol- lette for U. S. President. | Gaseous Quesse Fumes. | Delegate Quesse of the Flat Janitors’ Union of Chicago, qualified as an ex- |pert on noxious gases when he suc- | ceeded in defeating a ruling of the committee on rules, that the in- troducer of a resolution be permitted to speak after motion to close debate. portunity. to convention and is dangerous and un- | constitutional,” declared Quesse. He |forget to say that it was “ifrelevent, | incompetent, immaterial and had noth- ‘ing to do with the case,” as the law- |yers put it, where hard up for an objection. William Near of the Chauffeur’s Union supported the flat |janitor chief. ‘ Delegate Suggests Fumigation. Delegate Henry Corbishley of the iegler miners, said: “If the delegates” are afraid of being poisoned perhaps |we ought to fumigate the place.” | Delegate Corbishley explained that jit was not poison in the atmosphere some of the reactionaries feared so much as enligntment in the heads of the rank and file. Fight Occupational Diseases. In a report presented by the com- mittee on occupational diseases, the |trade union movement was urged to | fight for workers’ compensation in’ oc- cupational disease cases as well as in accident cases. The report is in part as follows: ‘ “With the life of our organizations assured and with diminishing need for | Pressure on wage rates, unions should |now assSume a militant position in se- {curing protection for the workers’ |health and thru that protection. the | | opportunity to earn established rates jof wages without a high degree of | hazard of intermittent. or permanent: | illness in the occupation itself, | lilinois Conditions Explained. “Tilinois has advaneed in the pre- vention of industrial*aceidents and in the compensation of the accidentally injured; more persons aré gradually having their health broken down by were fifteen years ago and there has been no improvement in provision of benefits for those stricken. “There is just as much reason for workmeh's compensation in oceupa- tional disease cases as there is in the case.of accidents. If it is hazardous to human lives to produce an article of human usefulness, then the cost of production should include the cost of the conservation of health. Profit ing. by the experience of other states, IMinois should bring occupational dis- eases under’ workmen’s compensa- tion rules by amending the act to make it apply to all ‘personal in- juries.’ ” 7 Admire ‘Len’s Techni 5 % A capitalist judge,’ J. Harles, of Rock Island, addressed the delegates (Continued on page 2) jale, of is planning a coup for September 21, harmful conditions of work than there - inject pelstn ieee ees ina ie ae