The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES. THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Hl. No. 149. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SUGAR STRIKE DEATH LIST GROWS Communists In Anti-Defense Day Meetings UNITED TEXTILE WORKERS OPEN CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 11—One hundred and nine delegates from 11 states and 45 cities were present at the opening of the convention of the United Textile Workers of America at the Great Northern Hotel here. President Thomas F. McMahon in his feport declared that the adured: sion of the last two years had caused two thirds of}the union membership to be exempted from per capita pay-+— AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. EEPUBLICANS are jubilant over the G. O. P. victory in Maine. The Democrats say it does not mean anything one way or the other. It Means nothing to the working class | one way or the other which one of the | agents of capitalism won the election fight, The workers as usual fell for the victims to the hysteria raised by the rival political confidence men over an isswe whose fundamental charac- teristic they did not touch. The Kfan &s8 an organization preaching religious and radical intolerance was denounced by the Democrats and upheld—sil- ently—by the Republicans but the Klan in its strikebreaking role was ignored. sf @ ENERAL CHARLES G. DAWES, starts on another swing thru the Northwest, in an effort to gather in the farmer vote. According to in- spired newspaper stories prosperity has-come_to the farmers with a shock that is almost fatal, Those of them ‘Wwhovwere beginning to look like And- rew Gump, receding chin, prominent Adaim’s apple, and the rest of it have undergone a physiognomical trans- formation, since the political cam- paign “began in earnest. Protruding ‘chin and protruding stomach, beaming eyes, Adam’s apple comfortably es- coned in layers of hard flesh—these are the signs of prosperity that greet the eyes of G. O. P. news hounds all thru the. great Northwest. so. 6 NFORTUNATELY the farmers } don’t yet know how lucky they are. Banks continue to get busted. Farmers'-continue to D pack their be- Wustrial centers. "The ¢ corn harvest is ood =but chiefly for the elevator rusts. Of course the depression in the farming region may be, merely psychological, but it is just as bad. Many’ people die for no reason in the world except as a result of a too lively imagination, The farmers imagine they are poor and actually feel hun- They do not see the checks that jcome in the mails. So, leaving afflu- ence behind them, they join the army f the unemployed. It’s tough but it jeannot be helped. Even the rough yeloquence of the cussing Dawes can- not convince the farmers that they are rich. ‘OU will be glad to learn that the Prince of Wales’ injured optic is much better. An inconsiderate Am- erican pony kicked a bit of common clay into the royal lamp, temporarily dimming it, but this did not prevent ‘His Royal Highness from shaking a wicked aykle at a dance later on. (Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt II, plans to give a dance in honor of the prince at ‘Jericho. So the prince is going to jJericho. His Royal Highness "had planned to leave for his ranch in Al- ‘berta, but several interesting dancing engagements make the bleak prairie look very dull. To get used to the cows and the horses after his gay time on Long Island, is reported to be causing the prince some misgivings. NFILLED (hnnagé of the United States. Steel corporation is re- ported to have increased 102,505 tons between July 3ist and August 31, ac: cording to the monthly statement of the corporation. This means more profits for the steel trust, a little more work for the steel slaves and another argument for the Coolidge campaign “managers who will claim that these orders are the result of G. O. P, man- agement. But these little boomlets are only flashes in the pan, soon to ‘pass away. They afford scant conso- ation to the millions of workers walk- ing the streets without a job. (Continued on page 6) In the Name of Religion. In Illinois, on the road near Paxton, eighteen-year old Ralph Aron of Ran- kin, was branded with the letters, K. K. K., by a party of three men and one woman whom he met on the road, in Chicago, by mail, FARRINGTON IN CONFESSION OF HIS FAILURES Admits Ignorance of How to Fight the Bosses By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Dally Worker) PEORIA, Ill, Sept. 11.—Ilf Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners, repeats the same speech he made before the convention of the Illinois Federation of Labor every time he goes on the stump for re- election, he will defeat himself as candidate for president of the Hlinois miners. Farrington retailed a history of failure during his regime as president. He told how the coal operators had made terrific on- slaughts. Farrington Confesses Failure. “The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has now wiped out the one and only remaining thing that enabled the Illinois coal operators to sell eight million tons of coal in the northwest,” said Farrington, referring to the cheaper freight rates. “They have struck the Illinois mine workers the most deadly blow that has ever been dealt them,” Farrington continued, and then admitted, “I don’t know what can be done about it.” Fatringt mn rt serious contradic- gen eittiga: so far, arringyen began his speech by praising himself, and then patting himself on the back for his modesty. “The minets of Illinois have re- tained their war wages,” Farrington boasted, “then, after_we successfully resisted a wage cut, other organiza- tions began to take courage and the post war wage cuts stopped. The em- ployers were unable to carry them out to the extent that they had hoped.” Paints Dismal Picture. But almost in the next breath Far- rington painted a dismal and hopeless picture of the present plight of the miners, and admitted he was power- less to stem the open shop wage cut- ting drive, It was hard at times to tell whether Farrington was speaking on behalf of the Illinois miners or the Illinois coal operators. “The non-union operators have been given an advantage,” Farrington said on behalf of the Mlinois coal barons, “That it*ias been impossible for the Illinois operators to cope with.” Far- rington referred to the ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, beginning today, requires the Williamson, Saline and Franklin County coal companies to pay 82 cents a ton more i nfreight rates as com- pared to ‘the non-union rates, than they did before the I. C. C. ruling. Farrington Upholds Small. Yet Farrington indorses Len Small who belongs to a political party which upholds the scab rulings of the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Farrington misrepresented the true conditions of the Illinois miners. He mitted, in one part of his speech, hat, “thousands of miners with their families are starving and crying for food.” But at another point he left the impression that an average num- ber of miners are at work this year, He declared that the miners are work: ing from 160 to 170 days per year, which is the average. He declared that there are twice as many miners as are needed, that the industry is overstocked with labor, but it never entered his head to plead for a short- er work day with the same number of miners working. Farrington great- ly underestimated the present num- ber of unemployed miners. Then came the usual tirade against (Continued on page 2) CLAIM LABOR PREMIER HAS GONE INTO BISCUIT MAKING BUSINESS (Special to The LONDON, Sept. 11—The London premier J. Ri y ape has become the largest stockholder in Me- manufacturers, Daily Worker) Daily Mail today asserted that labor Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. xi ‘DAILY Batered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1878. FRIDAY, , $8.00 per year, SEPTEMBER 12, 1924 “y OQREER. HB 290 PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Communist. Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents ments. He declared, however, that the union was now holding its own and would resist all plans for wage reduction. Commenting on the lack of buying power in the agricultural districts of America, as one of the causes for the depression on in the industry, Mr. Me- Mahon said that the farmer and the industrial worker must get together. He declared that trade unionists will maintain the right to strike as one of their inalienable weapons. LLOYD GEORGE OPENS WAR ON RUSSIAN PACT (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 11.—A gen- eral election, aimed at the over- turn of Premier Ramsay Mac- Donald’s laborite government, was indicated today as a result of the announcement of former Premier David Lloyd-George that the liberal eommons the Anglo-Russian trea According to all signs, the la- ‘borite government is facing cer- tain defeat upon the Anglo-Rus- sian treaty, for both liberals and tories have signified their intention of opposing ratifica- tion. A defeat would mean the immediate dissolution of commons and a new election. In this event the election probably would take place before Christmas. The Laborite ministers are not go- ing to be caught napping. Already they are touring the country making speeches in favor of ratification. La- bor is prepared for an election upon Day entails no obligation of any sort.” believe that the rank and file of the pyblic is with the government, on the Russian issue. drive | front | q THREE NABBED FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST N. B. C. Twin City Y Young Reds| For Biscuit Co. Slaves (Special to the Daily Worker.) MINNEAPOLLIS, Sept. 11.— Three members of the Young Workers League here, Carl Cowl, Leslie R. Hurt, former na- tional publicity director of the World War Veterans, and Mor- ton S. Green were arrested here today by Minneapolis police at the gates of the National Bis- cuit Company. The league is carrying on a nation-wide campaign to better the conditions of the biscuit company slaves and the Minne- apolis young Communists were starve’ care of their share of the open gir meetings in ‘the faci * Workers Cheer Reds. ‘When comrade Green began to ad- dress the workers they were all pinched by the cops while the workers cheered the young Communists. As they were escorted to the _ police wagon, company officidls’ demanded | that the officers make the arrests and then warned the workers away from the meeting. The comrades’ were immediately re- | leased and will continue to hold noon meetings in front of the company plant in spite of the city ordinance which abridges the constitution. Getting The Bees Busy. PARIS,—The ministry of commerce today began work on a plan to im- port 5,000 iive bees monthly from South America to reduce the high cost of living. ‘eats ii i the Military Trafuing Camps As- Julius Rosenwald, of Sears, Roebuck | |WORKERS PARTY’ AND Y. W. L. IN UNITED ACTION To Expose Imperialist Hand Behind “Day” By MAX SHACHTMAN The American Communists are the only ones today engaged in militant opposition to the Mobilization Day maneuvers} which are to take place today under the official guidance of the War Department of the United States. The Workers Party of Amer- ica and the Young Workers League, in a statement de- nouncing the “day,” are calling upon the workers of America to refuse to‘ have anything to do with capitalist mobilization days but to join, instead, in the mobilization of the workers to carry on the struggle against their exploiters. Backed By Militarists. For months the militarists of Am- erica have been engaged in a feverish activity to push the plan for Mobiliza- tion Day. An auxiliary committe, to| onstrations, has been formed, com-| posed of such jingo capitalist organ- izations as the Daughters of the Am- erican Revolution, veterans of various imperialist wars, the American Legion, the infamous National Civic Federa- sociation and similar anti-working class organizations. As an example of the personel be- hind some of the organizations push- ing this day for the perparation for} the next capitalist profits war, the Military Training Camps Association can be taken as typical. On its na- tional committee can be found such names as Richard T. Crane, chief of the anti-iinion Crane Co. in Chicago; Frank O. Lowden, of the Pullman Co., in which Morgan is a prominent direct- or; Stanley Field, of the slave-driving Marshall Field Co., the National City Bank, the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and others; Cyrus McCormick, chairman of the board of directors of | the International Harvester Co., and director of the National City. Bank; (Continued on Page 2.) By T. J. O'FLAHERTY ATHAN Leopold, Jr., and Rich- ard Loeb, the confessed mur- derers of Robert Frank will not for- feit their lives on the gallows for one of the most cold-blooded crimes ever committed in America, Life imprisonment is the sentence. It is just what we expected. The murderers belong to two of Chicago’s most wealthy families. The victim was the young,son of a millionaire. It was exceedingly re- grettable,from the bourgeois point of view that such a monstrous crime should be committed by two young men, Who could not be charged with any tinge of radicalism. Their fa- thers were “self-made men.” The youthful murderers were educated in our best goose-step universities. It is true that Nathan Leopold, Jr. announced his: disbelief in a person- al God, but that is a permissible bourgeois intellectual luxury, and under ordinary circumstances, for- givable. The capitalist rags published in Chicago are as vulgar, blatant and blood-thirsty as any in the United States. "When they are not howling for the blood of some unfortunate criminal—victim of the rotten sys- tem of society in which we live,— they are crying for the blood of some foreign people, whose wealth their masters covet. It, may be Mex- ico, Japan or China. When a poor man commits a murder these rags not alone call for the extreme penal- ty with gusto and vigor but like sewer rats they dig into the private affairs of the family of the criminal and spread juicy tidbits of scandal before their readers, They insist The Loeb-Leopold justice must have her bucket of blood, but justice must help busi- ness, which to.a capitalist paper means advertising. But in the Loeb-Leopold case, this procedure was not followed. It is true that the most conspicuous yellow journal among the prostitute press called for the extreme penalty with unusual mildness. But what is a neck more or less when balanced against the circulation ‘ambitions of a Hearst sheet? The Tribune, that gory rag, showed remarkable calm. The parents of the families must be given consideration. The Loebs and Leopolds are wealthy. And they are honorable men. They advertise, in the capitalist press. Franks, the fa- ther of the murdered child is wealthy. He also must be considered, He is an honorable man and the sob sisters of capitalist journalism, must follow his movements and the progress of the deepening furrows on his cheek. FRENCH AND BELGIAN COLLECTORS QUIT AS DAWES’ MAN GETS BUSY (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Sept.11.—Carrying out the terms of the London repara- tions protocol, ice and Belgium have ceased the collection of cus- toms duties between occupied and unoccupied Germany, the foreign office announced this afternoon. Collections ended at midnight. Sentence Both sides must be catered to. The side that is fighting to evade the gallows and that which wants its “eye for an eye.” The bloodthirsty capitalist papers found themselves in an unhappy si- tuation. Here was high crime com- mitted by young sons of million- aires. It is the usual thing to take aid the War Department in the dem-|, COMMUNIST MEETINGS BEING HELD ALL OVER COUNTRY ON “THE DAY’ Meetings in militant opposition to | capitalist Mobilization Day are be- | «ing held today all over the country 16 STRIKERS MURDERED BY HAWAI! COPS under the auspices.of the Workers | Party the League. In Detroit, the meeting is being held in McCollester Hall, Forest Avenues, with Ella Reeve Bloor, Dr. Atkinson and Reverend Reed Moon as the speakers. In Chicago, the following meet- ings will be held tonight. Lawrence and Sawyer, Irving Park branches; Peter Herd and others. North Ave. and Washtenaw, aus- pices N. W. English and Maplewood Y. W. L.; speakers: Borgeson, Kjar and Earley. Roosevelt and Homan, auspices W. S. (Rykov) Y. W. L.; speakers: J. Louis Engdahl and Abe Harris. Wilton and Belmont, auspices N. S. Y. W. L.; speakers: Swabeck, Elsa Block, Gregory Maurer. All workers are urged to attend to hear the Communist mesgage. and Young Workers auspices speakers: New Jersey Mayor Announces Martial Law for Defense Day | (Special to The Daily Worker) BERGENFIELD, N. J., Sept 11— Martial law will prevail here on Sep- tember 12, and imprisonment may be the fate of those who fail to comply) with the mandatory conditions out-} in} lined by the military -committe charge of arrangements, Dr. Charles B. Warren, mayor of Bergenfield, has plastered the entire town with’ a which;he says, has réceiyed the ap- proval of the War Department. Proclamation Posted Everywhere. Cass and | | Workers Rebel Against U. S. Sugar Barons By JOSEPH CATLIN (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) | HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. |11.—Sixteen Filipino strikers and four policemen mark the dead today following a olash between the desperate sugar | slaves and the uniformed tools | of the sugar barons of Hawali, | at Hanepe, on the island of Kauai. U. S. Lords. Responsible. The responsibility for this slaughter of the workers can be | placed definitely on the shoul- |ders of the American capitalists | who control practically the en- tire market there and who have had the police instructed to shoot down every striking | worker who approaches. | Distracted Fillippino widows, ther | children following them, wander from | the jails to the hospitals and from | thence to the morgues in search of missing strikers, who have been forced into hiding with the exception of those occupying prison cells, hospital beds or death beds. Police Slaughter Workers. The clash was the result of the in- | terference of the police in the peace- ful attempts of the strikers to induce the scabbing workers to join them in “mobilization “order,” | tae movement. for better. conditions =">- Z and higher wages. The Filipino sugar laborers are on the level of the worst paid and most ILLINOIS LABOR DENOUNCES “DEFENSE TEST” AS WAR MOVE (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Iil., Sept. 11.—Thhe Ili sion here today went on record ag scheduled for tomorrow. nois State Federation of Labor in ses- nst the Defense Day test program In a resolution adopted by the federation it was set out that the Defense Test program “is a mobilization movement and note a test of national preparedness and that it will have tendencies toward war at a time when the world is greatly in need of peace.” It greets the passerby at every street corner, on every lamppost and on all billboards, and thus far the citi- | zens have not openly demurred. The proclamation reads, in part, as fol- |lows: “I hereby order every able-bodied citizen of Bergenfield, between the ags of eighteen and forty-five years to report at the Borough Hall on Friday, September 12, at 7:15 p. m. sharp. |ill-condioned workers in the ‘world. | American capital, in its furious march |towards greater profits, has wrecked the lives of thousands of the workers. The average plantation worker re- ceives a starvation wage of one dol- lar for a twelve-hour day and is sup- posed to get a bonus if sugar goes above five per cent. The bonus is a fake, pure and simple, as was stated by George W. Wright, president of Citizens above the age of forty-five | the United Workers of Hawaii, in his years may participate if they desire, but their enrollment is not mandatory. Enrollment for National Defense Test Day entail no obligation of any sort.” In the Saturday Review, a newspa- per-edited by W. R. Jones, one of three poor murderer or murder suspect third degree confessions out of them and grease the ways to the gallows without any publicity, except a head- line announcing. the sentence and a sermon when the hanging takes place. Their glands are not examin- edin search of “mitigating circum- stances;” their family history is not unearthed in order to prove that heredity may be partly responsible for the criminal’s abnormalcy; his environment is not considered in an attempt to show that the murderer is sinned against as well as sinning. These things are not done because under our capitalist system it takes money to purchase “justice.” The state’s attorney wanted the blood of the young slayers. That was his business. His career depends on thé number of convictions he secures and on the number of executions that glut the gallows of Cook County as the result of his efforts. Of course he kills legally, therefore his part in taking life is approved by the law and is not henfous in the eyes of God. because the Christian God and capi- talist law work in perfect harmony. Fortunately for the young slayers, their parents belong to that class in society which lives on the toil of Under the new scheme all revenues are controiied under the Dawes plan. others, Therefore they had plenty of money with which to purchase the expert opinion of alienists. How (Continued on page 2) mR RON members of the military committee in charge of Defense Test Day in Bergen- field, appears the following: “During the progress of the demon- stration from 7 to 9:30 p. m., Septem- ber-12, Bergenfield will be placed un- (Continued on Page 2.) HE man who now holds office ization, Frank Farrington, didate for re-election, rel over spoils, has withdrawn in united front of all the fakers is established. All of you miners know something of the history of this so-called labor ler, Farrington. But it and has never been told in full. it will never be told. But the DA the part of it which is on the records. of IIlinois some of the FACTS about Frank Farrington which should be widely known before the miners series of articles, written by Th records for verification of every the DAILY WORKER. This advance notice should serve to prepar in Ilinois, for a wide-spread distribution of t miners. We bring you the facts, “| price of sugar,” MINERS OF ILLINOIS! William Sneed, a dummy candidate put up by Len Small’s political machine to force Farrington to settle their quar- Probably much of the juiciest part of recent letter to the president of the Hawaiian sugar planters’ association. Hit Fake Bonus. “You are forcing them (the work- ers) to gamble with their unpaid quota of wages on the fluctuations in the he wrote. “They give their day's labor and you pay them half a day and bet the rest of the wages with yourself that the price of sugar stays down. If it does, you win, and keep their money; if it goes up, you lose the bet and pay: them back (Continued on Page 2.) of president of your district organ- has announced that he is a can- favor of Farrington, howing that a is a long one, and a crooked one, 1LY WORKER has been looking up We are going to telt the miners vote for their next president. A omas J. O'Flaherty, and giting the statement made, will start soon in ery militant miner articles among the You must distribute them,