The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 2

_ industrial unions. PUSH PROGRAM FOR JOBLESS Doesn’t Know What the Convention Will Do By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PEORIA, Iil., Sept. 9.—John | H. Walker, president of the IIli-| nois State Federation'of Labor, | and chairman of the 42nd con- vention here, admitted to the} DAILY WORKER today that he| would recommend no action to} Solve the unemployment situa- | tion among the Illinois workers. | “I do not know what action} the various committees will| take on the unemployment pro- blem,” Walker declared. “But I will do nothing about the un- employment crisis. I mentioned | it in my report and wiil take ak further action.” In Walker's report tgere was only the most general reference to unem- ployment, and not even a vague or} indefinite plan of action was iggest: | @d by Walker other than “the need} for greater unity.” Walker declared to the DAILY WORKER that, “Press dispatches de- elaring me in favor of amalgamation misinterpreted my r arks. I am a member of an industrial union,“ Walk- er continued, “but I do not propose to} téll other trade unionists what they | Should do. If other unions want the| ‘raft union form of organization, Yam willing to let them have it.” Denies LaFollette’s Radicalism. So far no representative of the rank and file workers yet spoken to} this supposedly labor assemblage. Judge Charles Searles, of Rockford, | killed most of the afternoon session, Thursday, praising LaFollette’s indi-| vidual personality and denying the! tharge that LaFollette is radical. | A resolution demanding action on the unemployment cris was intro- fluced by the Valier Local Union of the Illinois miners. It resolved, “that | we call upon the offic: of the Illin-| ois State Federation of Labor to call| an unemployed conference of repres- entatives of the various local unions and central labor bodies of the state for the specific purpose of launching a@ fight for anemployed relief, as a means for forcing the reopening of the mines and factories, and to lay down fundamental plans for the solv- ing of the unemployed problem.” “Further resolved, that we demand from the state government that an appropriation be made to relieve the distress caused by unemployment, and that work be supplied to the un- employed by the state government at union wages under union conditions.” A resolution demanding that, “the Illinois Federation of Labor in the name of solidarity with the First Workers’ Republic, call upon the Fed- tration of Labor to extend all efforts | im order that the United States gov- ernment shall give full and complete recognition to Soviet Russia,” was in- troduced by Thomas Parry, vice-pres-| {dent of the Springfield sub-district of the miners. Introduce Anti-Kian Resolution. “ Several anti-Klan resolutions were imtroduced, including the resolution | indorsed by the Dowell Local Union| of the miners, anfl many other south-| rn Mlinois miners’ locals. | The Dowell resolution resolved, “That we condemn the illegal Ku) Klux Klan and call on our brother} flelegates to the 42nd Annual Conven-| tion of the Illinois State Federation | of Labor to adopt this resolution and demand that they promote a series | of anti-Klan mass meotings and dem- onstrations in the State of Illinois, especially in the southern part.” The Orient, Ij., Local Union of the miners and many others, introduced a fesolution, “calling upon the Ameri- ‘can Federation of Labor to unite all its affiiliated organizations for a great ‘organisation drive in all localities and Mtmdustries in order to finally bring within the protecting folds of organ- ized labor the masses who still re- main outside. Amalgamation Resolution Up. “This resolution was also indorsed by Local Union No. 146, of the min- ers, which also brings before the con-| vention a resolution demanding the Amalgamation of all craft unions into Henry Corbishley, president of the Ziegler Local Union No. 992, and pro-| gressive candidate for président of | the West Frankfort sub-district, in- : WALKER W NT '| Seven Days to Go! Speed Up Your Signatures! Presidential, State and Congressional Figures Growing. Put Every W. P. Candidate on the Ballot! OMRADES are now in the last stretch to get signatures to place the c Workers Party candidates on the ballot in the State of Illinois. There is time yet for every candidate to go on the ballot, and judging by the reports coming In of Party and Young Workers League members out to get signatures, the job will be done. But only with effort exerted by more comrades. eu, Pee See Young Workers League on the Job. The Young Workers League branches have been to the forefront in the past week in attempts to get signatures. Y. W. L. branches, Engle- wood, John Reed, N. S. English, are especially active. 550 signatures have thus far been got for the First Congressional District candidate, Comrade Gordon Owens; over half this number is the result of work by four live Englewood Y. W. L. members. If other Y. W. L. and Party branches will do but half as well in the coming days, every Communist candidate will be on the ballot in the coming elections. As the paper goes to press, 525 signatures arrived for Hammersmark’s candidacy. Fine stuff! SEND IN YOUR PETITIONS FILLED OUT; THEN GET MORE OF THEM AND HUSTLE FOR SIGNATURES. Every comrade out with petitions should turn them in as soon as filled out to his captain or to the local office. Monday night there were meetings of nearly all of the Congressional District Campaign Commit- tees. No doubt hundreds of signatures were turned in which will be reported in Thursday’s issue of the DAILY WORKER. The signatures turned in thus far are: Signatures Signatures District Candidate obtained necessary No. 1—Gordon Owens 550 1200 . 4—Joseph Podkulski .. 1300 No. 5—Harry Epstein 122 1000 No. 6—Frank Pellegrino 3500 No. 7—Sam Hammersmark .. 4000 No. 8—George Maurer 800 No. 9—Jack Johnstone .. 3 1200 Presidential Electors (Foster-Gitlow electors) and Illinois State signa- tures .. see 176 2000 bees * 500 Signatures a Day From-Now on Our Aim. We want to get from now on until the end of the time for getting signatures, 500 signatures per day. That is not very much with a little work. Let every Party and League member get an average of one signa- ture per day and all our candidates will go on the ballot in two days. it is expecting but a little work te ask every member in the Party and League to get one signature, petitions. the Communist cause. Make your partner comrades go out with you. Get on the job every day, comrades, with Be a doer for LEOPOLD AND LOEB AREN'T WORRYING; EXPECT LIFE TERM Loeb and Leopold don’t seem to be very much in fear of the verdict to be rendered tomorrow by Judge Caverly. In fact, Nate is betting with newspapermen as to whg¢ther or not Dickie and he will occupy the center position of a noose or merely get a life sentence to be served in Joliet penitentiary. So jolly are the two cute young murderers that they are willing to take any side of the bet so long as it is a bet. Unfortunately for the gambling instincts of the young men, the bet was never closed, due to the sudden appearance of the guard who came up and “raided” the party. All signs indicate that the sén- tence of being hung by the neck un- til they are dead, will not be be- stowed upon the killers of Robert Franks. Judge Caverly has request- ed that a guard of police be placed around the court room when the verdict is rendered, a sure indica- tion that it is feared that the mob outside will raise a fuss when the verdict of a life sentence instead of hanging, is handed down by the judge. At any rate, the young murderers are not much disturbed, and their glands are working well, according to latest reports. troduced the following resolution, de- nouncing Defense Day; WHEREAS, September 12th has been proclaimed as National De. fense Day, to be observed thruout the country as a means of testing | the nation’s preparedness for war; and WHEREAS, This preparedness test is an avowed part of the efforts of the capitalist war mongers to build constantly greater armaments, to build a military machine ready to extend American imperialistic in- vestments and exploitation of the workers of colonial countries, and other oppressed nations, as well as to be held in readiness to be turned against the workers at hame in any conflict between capital and labor, therefore be it RESOLVED, That the Illinois State Federation of Labor in regu- lar convention, go on record oppos- ing these efforts of tl American war mongers including the’ proposed national defense day exercises and condemning militarism in general, PEACOCK MAY BE PROUD OF HIS “NAME BUT NO T OF MRS. PEACOCK (Special to The « PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.—Kenneth M. Peacock, Taylor, dainty motion picture actress, who has given the impre: Daily Worker) husband of Estelle jon in a Walvé way that she might like to become Mrs. Jack Dempsey, has decided _ hie beautiful wife may have her way as far as he is concerned. Angered at the way in which the name of Mrs. Peacock, or Miss Taylor, as she prefers, has been linked with that of the ring gladiator of late Peacock has decided to sue for divorce and afte sey may marry her If he wants to.” © that, says the Irate husband, “Damp- FOREIGN TROOPS LAND IN CHINA AS WAR SPREADS (By Cable to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 9.—Heavy Che- kiang reinforcements were this after- noon believed to have stemmed the Kiangsu advance on Shanghai. Heavy firing continues to the west of the city, but the intensity of the attack seems to have die! cown and the Chekiang defenders express confi- dence their new lines will hold. Meanwhile, more than 1000 marines of the four leading powers landed this morning and took up their positions as ess'sned by the defense strategy board. The forces landed from allied naval, vessels in the harbor included 250 American, 360 British, 400 Japa- nese and 100 Italians. (Continued from page 1) unorganized in nearly all the indus- tries; and WHEREAS, This state of affairs not only militates against the unor- ganized, who are helpless, but against the organized as well, who find themselves severely handicap- ped in their struggle for better con- ditions by the everpresent army of unotganized; and WHEREAS, The approaching in- dustrial crisis makes it all the more imperative that we bring g~hese un- organized masses into the unions and thus enormously strengthen our ranks against the bitter onslaughts that are bound to come from the employers as soon as this indus- trial crisis becomes general, there- fore be it RESOLVED, That the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, in its Forty-sec- ‘ond Annual Convention, calls upon the American Federation’ of Labor to unite all its affiliated organiza- tions for a great organization drive in all localities in order to finally bring within the protecting folds of organized labor the masses who still remain outside, E. B. HEWLETT, 808 U. M. W. of A., Orient, MIKE RUKAVINA, 303 U. M. W. of A., Orient. T. C. MASON, Also endorsed by Divernon min- ers’ local union No. 146. ee eae Amalgamation Is Demanded. WHEREAS, The employers thru- out the nation have solidly united, being bound together by a solidar- ity of interest and organization which leaves no room for divided action or desertions, and moreover, they are supported by the govern- ment, the courts, the press, in any union-smashing undertaking they engage in; and WHEREAS, They are carrying on a vicious attack upon the labor movement, singling out the various unions and forcing them to engage in a bitter struggle for self-preserv- and 4 q LEFT WING URGES REAL ACTION THE DAILY WORKER DAWES SPEECH WON KLAN FOR 6.0, P. IN MAINE Big Boost for Tar and Feather Business AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 9.—The Ku Klux Klan for once agreed with the DAILY WORKER. The hooded order understood “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes’ Augusta Klan speech just what it was, an endorsement of the Klan just as the DAILY WORKER understood it. With the aid of the Klan, the speech of General Dawes, the silence of Si- lent Cal and the general stupidity and uselessness of the democratic party, Judge Brewster, Klan candidate for governor on the republican ticket, romped home several thousands votes ahead of his democratic rival. Donkey Sick in the Head. Republican campaign leaders have always tooted Maine as a political barometer. The only thing it indicates this year is that the donkey is either broken or badly bent. The republicans are now saying Cal is the white haired boy for the next four ycars and that Maine is only a dark cloud on the landscape. “Maine |has spoken,” declared William M. But- |ler, fink expert and boss of Cal's cam- | paign. Demand for Dry Goods. Dry goods merchants in Augusta are replenishing their supplies of pil- low cases and night shirts, and bar- rels ot tar are replacing the once familiar molasses in grocery stores. “The Klan lost Texas, but won Maine” was the remark of the King Kleagle, as he lifted his head from his latest report on the lynching of Negroes. Coolidge Rushes to Greet World Flyers as They Land on U. S. WASHINGTON, Sepf. 9.—The world flight airmen, Smith and Wade, land- ed on Bolling Field here today as thousands of Washington’s officialdom stood waiting to see them land. Pres- ident Coolidge forgot his silver silence and took off his hat, joining in the cheering which greeted the flyers. He rushed over to them and officially wel- comed them back to the United States. The flyers, who have tested out the possiblities of air warfare for the United States, are now the guests of General Patrick. en | Cal Stands In Mud. BOLLING FIELD, Washinton, D. C., Sept. 9,—Calvin Coolidge was-obliged to get out of his car in the rain and mud to stand at attention while the army band mischievously played the national anthem while waiting for the world flyers to land. Cal’s patent leather booties were considerably messed up, sad to relate. Dead and Injured in Wreck. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 9.— One trainman was killed and several injured in a wreck near Maricopa, Arizona, of the Sunset Special, South- ern Pacific railroad. WHEREAS, These unions, be- cause they are divided against themselves along trade lines and are thus unable to make united re- sistance against the employers, con- stantly suffer defeat after defeat, with heavy losses in membership and serious lowering of the work- ers’ standard of living and working conditions; and WHEREAS, The only. solution for the situation is the development of a united front by the workers, thru the amalgamation of the vari- ous trade unions, so that there will remain only one union for each in- dustry; therefore be it RESOLVED, That we, in regular meeting, call upon the American Federation of Labor to take the nec- essary action towards bringing about the required solidarity with- in the ranks of organized labor, and that as a first step in this direc- tion the various international un- ions be called into conference, for the purpose of arranging to amalga- mate all the unions in the respect- ive industries into single organiza- tions, each of which shall cover an industry. Presented by Local Union No, 146, Divernon, and others, \ G29 5 4 Suffer From Unemployment. WHEREAS, The workers of Iil- inoisaresuffering from terrific unem- ployment, especially the miners of the state, from which no relief ig in . sight, and to fight against which no policy has been adopted by the IIl- inois State Federation of Labor; and WHEREAS, The employers are preparing to take advantage of this condition, in order to lower wage scales and break down union con- ditions in Illinois; and WHEREAS, The glorious strug- les of the past, which established @ Illinois State Federation of La- bor, and raised our conditions in former times, stands as a challenge to us to meet these problems and solve them in the samo fighting of the Illinois ipirit of the trade union Russia Didn’t Belong to Czar, America Doesn’t Belong to Wall Street By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Bearden the campaigners of the Wall Street parties rush to the protection of the United States Supreme Court. “The pee-pul” are called upon, in the name of their ‘sacred liberties,” to rise against the effort to strip this judicial oli- garchy at Washington of its despotic powers. The strike- breaker Coolidge, present incumbent of the White House, puts it this way: “The question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded into a Communistic or socialistic state, or whether it will remain Amer- ican. Those who want to continue to enjoy the high state of American citizenship will resist all attempts to encroach upon their liberties by encroaching upon the power of the courts.” C Bye, aes, Aaa _ The despotic role that the U. S. Supr. Court plays,in th American capitalist form of government is best revealed in the rotund personage of William Howard Taft, the presiding officer of that black gowned aggregation of judicial fascisti. “Bill the Fat" Taft was raised to the presidency by “Teddy” Roosevelt in 1908, and just as quickly hurled from this eminence by the “Bull Mooser” in 1912, when the “Hero of San Juan Hill,” in the slaughter of Spaniards, in Cuba, in 1898, for the glory of the sugar trust, wanted to get back into the White House. Taft received only the electoral votes of two states, Vermont and Utah, in 1912. Wilson was gloriously elected. All indications were that Taft's political days were over. The suffering “pee-pul” had spoken. : * * * * But the privileged interests take care of their own. time Taft was elevated to his present position, carrying with it more power than the presidency itself, the job of Chief Justice of the nation’s highest Court. How the judicial lackey of big business, Mr. Taft, has used the despotic power placed in his hands, on behalf of special privilege, was best seen in the outlawing of the anti-child labor law passed overwhelm- ingly by congress. Thus the autocratic veto possessed by the Supreme Court over the acts of congress was startlingly revealed, ek atte, ek, Se To the forward-looking workers and farmers of the United States, it is very easy to see that “Cautious Cal” Coolidge, and his friends in the high places, are on: the wrong side of the fence when they raise the issue of the only big struggle worth while in the United States today— Communism against capitalism. * % % * This nation has gone thru two great upheavals. It was the Virginian, Patrick Henry, who raised his voice in the impassioned cry, “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Patrick Henry was raising the issue against the British king, on behalf of the revolutionary uprising of the colonies. The British king was on the going end of the issue. The colonies were gn the arriving end of that issue. The colonies were victorious. Patrick Henry got his liberty from the British throne. The American republic was established. * * * * Nearly a century later, Abraham Lincoln declared, “This . nation cannot endure half slave and half free.” Lincoln was against slavery. The upholders of black slavery were on the going. end of the issue, occupying the same place as the ritish king in 1776. Lincoln was on the arriving end of the issue. It took five years of bloody war to settle that issue. But in the end Lincoln won out and human slavery “was driven from these shores. * % cg * “Silent Cal” and his pals ought to profit from history. They are on the wrong side of the fence in the American class struggle of the year 1924. That is; the wrong side, if they want to speak for the interests of the great masses of workers and farmers, and if they desire to win in the end. When Coolidge. declares that the question is whether America will allow itself to be degraded.into a Communist state, he has his feet in the shoes of the royal head of the British monarchy, in 1776, and he wears the cloak of the Southern slave holder of 1861. Coolidge is on the going end of the issue. The republican party, capitalism, is on the losing side of the fight. * te * * Only the Communists struggle for the abolition of cap- italism in this campaign. The Communists alone are on the are end of the issue of “Communism against capital- ism.” The question is whether the United States shall con- tinue a nation of great wealth and growing poverty. In other words, “Shall capitalism continue?” The candidates of three of the parties in the field de- clare that capitalism shall continue. the La Follette-Wheeler ticket is no less emphatic in favor of capitalism than the Coolidge-Dawes and Davis-Bryan tickets, La Follette today devotes most of his time trying to dodge the stigma of “radical,” not to mention that of “revolutionary.” * * * * The fight of the Wall Street candidates for the preserva- tion of the United States supreme court is but a small part of this campaign. But it shows’ the tenacity with which the spokesmen of capitalism fight for all of their “sacred insti- tutions.” The supreme court is not American, any more than the czar was Russian. America will still be here after Coolidge, Davis and La Follette, with their/treasured capitalist social order have crumbled into dust. America ought to belong to the workers and farmers of this country, just as Russia now belongs to the workers and peasants, the producing multi- tudes of that country. Victory perches upon the standards of Communism in this campaign. —_— eee into this fight the plans and tactics In, Wednesday, September 10, 1924 | HOLD ROUSING = GITLOW MEET IN CLEVELAND Rathenberg « on Ticket | for Congress By J. A. HAMILTON (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 9.— Benjamin Gitlow,- vice-presi- dential candidate of the Work- ers Party, was received here at Bricklayers’ Hall with a splen- did ovation and his speech greeted with frequent applause %. in the first big election meeting =} of the Workers Party. Flays Capitalist Candidates, Gitlow attacked the old par- ties and the \LaFollette move- ment as equally opposed to the interests of the workers and ex- posed “Silent Cal” Coolidge, the strike-breaker; Dawes, the open shopper, Fascist and Ku Kluxer. He showed that Davis, the Wall Street attorney, has a black record as prosecutor of the West Virginia min- ers in spite of his lies to the con- trary. LaFollette was excoriated as the small business men’s candidate with much millionaire support— Spreckels, the sugar king; Vanderlip, the Wall Street banker, and told of how even Steel Trust Gary has spok- en favorably of “Fighting” Bob. The’ speaker mercilessly condemn- ed the LaFollette movement for its treacherous plea for labor support while at the same time, wrecking the farmer-labor movement. He made an eloquent plea for support of the Workers Party as the expression of Communism, the only reliance of the workers for escape from capitalist oppression. A.i- Speak On I. Y. D. Martin Gordon spoke for the Young Workers’ League in celebration of In- ternational Youth Day. He exposed the dangers of new wars and present. ed the league program against mili- tarism and Mobilization Day, and for a shorter work-day and improved con- ditions for the young workers. A good. collection was taken and good sales of the DAILY WORKER subs and literature were made. In the forenoon, Gitlow spoke be- fore the Trade Union Educational League, Cleveland general group, and groups of metal trades, building trades,, clothing workers and miscel- } laneous trades of workers were or- i} ganized with quite a number of La- bor Herald subs taken. Ruthenberg On Ticket. Sufficient signatures have been ob- tained to secure a place on the bal- lot for C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, John Brahtin, and A. V. Severino, as can- didates for Congress in the Cleveland districts, and for a county ticket in Cuyahoga county. Militants Pushing ' Fight for Progress at 1p Peoria Convention (Continued from page 1) in behalf of the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket. John Gaffigan, president of the Central Labor Union, is canvassing the delegates for endorsement of « Judge Jones, democratic candidate for governor, a notorious injunction judge, while Bagney Cohen, republican office holder and delegate from the Cigar Makers’ union, is strong for Cal a | and Davis. : But the federation officials have the ways greased for the endorsement of Len Small, whose sleight-of-hand work while state treasurer, has kept several crack lawyers busy ever since trying to learn his technique, very likely in order to emulate him. Miners Have Their Friend. Delegates from the miners’ locals | find considerable amusement in Small’s explanation of how the mythi- cal Grant Park Bank, where the state funds were lodged, disappeared. The story has placed Jonah and the Whale in the ranks of the “has beens.” That a bank able to stomach a couple of million dollars could be blown away by a puff of wind is the bee’s knees in J the way of travel tales, but John H. Walker, Victor Olander and Frank f Farrington, seem to believe that George Washington was an accom- Dlished liar in comparison with Len knows, They don't expect to put their Small, The militant left wing delegates are talking Foster and | Gitlow for president and they don’t care who candidates over this year, but they necessary to meet the changed con- ditions of modern industry; and WHEREAS, This necessitates wide council together of the rank and file, and frequent councils of war of our forces, just as the em- ployers are holding councils among themselves (as witnessed in the Herrin open shop, wage-slashing conference); therefore be’ it RESOLVED, That we call upon the officials of the [linois State Federation of Labor to call an un- employment conference of repre- sentatives of the various local un- ions and central labor bodies of the state for the specific purpose of nee ~ 2 ‘ launching a fight for unempolyed relief, as a means for forcing the re- opening of the mines, etc, and to lay down fundamental plans for the solving of the unemployed prob- lem, and be it further ‘ RESOLVED, That we demand from the state government that an appropriation be made to relieve the distress caused by unemploy- ment especially amongst the min- ers, That this fund be administer- ed by the union, That work be supplied to the unemployed by the state government at union wages and under union conditions, Introduced by Valier, IIL, local union and several others, feel that the future is theirs. To Broadcast Defense Dayisms, , WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The war department today announced that ° speeches by Secretary of War Weeks, John J. Pershing and Brig.-Gen. J, J. Carty, on thé subject of the so-called, “Defense Day” would be broadcasted by various radio stations. ror INSURANCE or ANY KIND CARL BRODSKY 1123 Broadway, New York City Tel. Watkins 3626, yh vi