The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 3

Friday, September 12, 1924 | . HERESY HUNT q PROCEEDS IN HIBBEN CASE Liberal Army Officer Is Feared As “Red” By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press’ Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—The U. S. war department was directly charged with attempt- ing to get.Captain Paxton Hib- ben, 152nd Field Artillery, dis- credited and removed from the reserve corps of the army with- out itself appearing to be in- volved, when Col. John J, Bradley, counsel for Hibben, answered the reserve officers’ board of inquiry which is in- vestigating the case. Col. Bradley filed a copy of the Boston Transcript issue in which Orrin Kennedy, former Associated Press writer, had made charges of Capt. Hibben’s “radical activities.” Col. Brad- ley had marked the Boston Transcript article and the six’ or eight reports, including the Burns’ report, of the Army files which were almost verbatim duplicates. Used As Tools. The colonel charged that the infer- ence was that the Army, the Military Intelligence Division, either thru care- lessness or intention, had allowed its files to be used to spread false ac- counts of Capt. Hibben’s alleged “red activities,” when he himself, Capt. Hibben, had not had access to the files nor opportunity to'deny the charges. Col. Bradley stated that it was a reflection on the board of in- quiry and on the reserve corps that the war departmeft should thus at- tempt to remove Capt. Hibben “with- out the war department appearing in the matter.” Whitney Slammied, Major Thomas Heffernan, judge ad- vocate of the board, in cross-examin- ing Capt. Hibben, after the officer had read his own statement answering the “charges of the Army reports, contin- ued to read from R. H. Whitney’s book “Reds in, America” on Capt. Hib- ben’s work, especially with the Rus- sian Red Cross Commission, altho @apt. Hibben had. filed issues of the “New Republic” which exposed Whit- ney and destroyed his authoritative- ness on radicals. Capt. Hibben char- acterized Whitney's (assumed) state- ments as “monstrous nonsense,” “gar- bled quoting,” and “falsehoods” and “Mr. Whitney knew it,” he added. Capt. Hibben said that he had been persecuted and his personal effects subjected to repeated search, his mail even from his wife opened, and that “not one iota of evidence” had been found against him -by such methods used against him while he was on duty with the army. He quoted from ‘Woodrow Wilson and filed opinions of numerous national government figures with whose views he agreed and asked why, as a citizen, he was not al- lowed to hold those views when there were at the same time members of the government who held them. Russian Views Come In. The discredited Mr. Whitney’s mo- tive in writing what he had about Capt. Hibben was asked by the board, and Capt. Hibben replied that he headed the American Defense Society whose purpose was to “frighten peo- ple” about “radicals.” Much of Whit- ney’s article was from the report of the ousted and totally discredited head of the bureau of investigation, -department of justice, William J. Burns. The persecution of Capt. Hib- ben for his views on the recognition of Soviet Russia and for his activities in Russian relief work is a hang-over from the “red” hysteria which Burns ‘fostered while employed by the U. S. government in order that his private detective agency, with which he was still secretly connected, might thrive by the patronage of scared capitalists. The inquiry is being held in a dingy and deserted locker room of the Army building, 39 Whitehall street, with participants gathered informally about a long table. The display of gold braid and buttons that one might ex- pect is missing, for not all of the re- serve officers are in uniform. During the part of the proceedings in which Capt. Hibben’s remarks upon Ameri- can imperialism in Latin America were under digcussfon, one of the board of tnanity members suddenly shouted: “What good is the navy if you don’t use it?” Capt. Hibben declared that he be- ljeved that liberty should be recon- structed for each successive age. He said that the “analysis of existing con- ditions” makes speakers seem radi- cal, He said he thought we should “go forward with the growth of in- dust: "He concluded his an- swer to the board by saying that he had one thing to leave his daughter, the record of “an honest man who was unafraid,” ‘ id BUTLER, CAL’S MANAGER, EMPLOYER OF SHERMAN SPIES IN WAR AGAINST LABOR, CLAIMS GOMPERS AS FRIEND Butler is a friend of Gompers! And by the same token William Morgan Butler, multi-mil- lionaire textile mill owner of New England, now national cam- paign manager for “Silent Cal’ Coolidge, thinks the strike- breaker president in the White House is going to get some labor votes this year. The DAILY WORKER didn’t get’ this information directly from the lips of Cal’s manager surrounded by an army of of- fice boys, stenographers and private secretaries, to shoo the undesirables away from the vicinity of his private sanctum in the Wrigley Chewing Gum Tower, on Michigan Boulevard. *® Employs Anti-Labor Spies. And Butler had no cause to desireto interview anyone from the DAILY WORKER, especially not since the publication of the series of articles showing Butler, Cal’s manager, as an employer of spies and strikebreakers thru the “Sherman Service,” a polite name for a private detective agency. It was especially charged that Mr. Butler made extensive use of the “Sherman Service” in placing under- cover ‘men in his textile mills at Bed- ford, Mass. The DAILY WORKER felt that the series wouldn't be complete without a statement from Mr. Butler him- self.’ But it was only after several batallions of office boys had been over- come that a stone wall was encounter- ed in the person of James C. White, of Boston, Mass., ultra-gallant and suave, the custodian of the inner con- science of Mr. Butler, himself. | If you expect these sleek owners of industry, by self-proclaimed divine right, in the New England states, to confess themselves enemies of labor, you are doomed to bitter disappoint- ment. Nothing of the kind, He Is. a Friend of Gompers. “Oh, . Butler is for union labor,” declared °Mr. White to the DAILY WORKER. “Why, he is a personal friend of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor.” “Only the other day Mr. Butler said to me, ‘Those men and women in the mills have a larger stake in my mills than I have, I can pull out tomorrow, and still have my interests, but they only have the mills, or starve. What else is there for them to do in Bed- ford where they have their homes?’ “And Mr. Butler keeps those mills running all the year around; and he pays the workers good wages.” Sticks at Minimum. “What is the scale of wages in the mills,” the reporter inquired. “I don’t know that, but we have a minimum wage in Massachusetts you know.” Pays Minimum Wage. “Does Mr. Butler pay the ‘minimum wages?’” “He must do that.” “But he doesn’t pay moré.” “I don’t know. Is your paper a La- Follétte paper?” “No, our paper is a workers’ paper. It is a Communist paper.” The polite, suave Mr. White turned a shade whiter in the course of the above explanation. “Ah, I'll see what I can do to get you'an interview with Mr. Butelr,” he politely bowed himself out. Reporter Waits In Vain. The reporter waited a long time. But Mr. Butler did not leave “Room 246” that day. Wobbly Freed in Kansas Criminal Syndicalism Case (By Defense News Service.) GREAT BEND, Kan., Sept. 11.— The district court of Rice county has just reversed the conviction of George B. Wililams, I. W. W. organizer, sen- tenced several months ago to serve ten yéars in prison under the Kansas criminal syndicalism law. Williams was a delegate for the ricultural Workers’ Industrial Union pf the I. W. W. during the 1923 drive of that union for new members in the harvest fields. Ys There was no evidence against him except the simple fact that he was a methber of the I. W. W. Attorney Charles L. Carroll of Great Bend handled the appeal in Williams’ case. You can get-sample copies of the DAILY WORKER any time at the DAILY WORKER office. OFFERINGS OF THE = 2 Lettérs from Moscow.. The New Culture......... The British Left Wing. 4, 5. 6. % ORDER ANS eet TDCI *| Royalton, Ill, for the Workers Party | September 12th, The literature which The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th |. Three Principles of the Program of Action. The Confession of a Political Horse Thief. . Foreign Policies of the British Labor Government. How to be a Trade Union Reporter.. And Many Other Interesting Features hg VERSE———PICTURES———ILLUSTRATIONS himself. Butler is a busy man, NEGROES WISING UP ON GARVEY'S EXODUS SCHEME “Flight from Egypt”? No Solution for Problem Try campaigning with the Workers Party in the South Side districts—the Negro districts of Chicago! It’s here that all the difficulties with which the laws surround Communist campaign- ers are increased hundredfold by the curious difficulties of that most in- tricate of intricate problems—the Negro in the revolution. The South Side comrades are doing well, of course. Already they have gathered almost enough signatures to put comrade Gordon Owens, a Negro who has been through the mill of the industrial system, and who has thought and written and lived revolution, on the ballot for representative from the first Congressional district. Already they-have created a little whirlwind of revolutionary ardor on the South Side by distributing literature, by cir- culating pamphlets, by speaking’ to gathering on street corners. They have had the help, in this work, of enthu- siastic comrades from other branches. It hasn't been easy. They have had to meet and conquer the illusion of Republicanism—the strange notion, which the Republican party has ex» ploited, that just because it ‘was the Republican party that happened to take the measure—the economically necessary war measure—of freeing the Negro slaves—the descendants of these slaves are bound forever to the politi- cal chariot of that party. They have had ‘to meet and conquer the fetish of Garveyism—that curious philosophy that tries to teach the Negroes not to fight for their rights in their own country, but to leave the fight and go to another country—where they would be at the mercy of French bullets and British warships, seeking booty for their imperialist govern- ments. But many Negroes of Chicago have come to see, since this campagin got into swing, that their only hope lies in staying right here, and fighting side by side with their white brothers the battle against industrial greed and ex- ploitation. Already the South Side branch has increased its membership. 4iready hundreds of Negroes are think- ing about this organization called the Workers Party. Here's a fight worth fighting! Contributions for Foster-Gitlow Fund ’ Must Be Pepped Up Have you sent in your campaign fund contributions? Get busy, there is not much time left and money is needed for the Foster-Gitlow cam- paign. The following is a list of contribu- tions collected by Frank Edick, of Campaign Fund. Send in yours. Wm. Patach, $1.00; F, H. Edick, 50¢; A Simon, 50c; Wm. Trainis, 50¢; M- Matisky, 50c; A. Andejait iJ. tulis, $1 8c; J. J J. Andejaitis, 50c; Frank Rynikus, 800; 1. Val- ; Frank Valulis, 28c; J. Moser, b B80: $1.60 500; 43. B, Winevsky, 800; J. na, 50c; F. Kirsis, A. Skovron, 50¢; ‘A. Jensauskis, 50c; kovsky, 60¢; C. B zetsky, 50c Mani $1.00; Nusevige, $1.00; K, Kembel, $1: B nsky, 50c; S. Ruseika, $1. 50c. ‘otal, $26.25, , At It Again. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Sept. 11.— Postmaster F. K. Hahn confiscated lit- erature calling on citizens to refuse to participate in Mobilization Day on was mailed in San Francisco by E. Backus was turned over to the federal authorities. NEXT ISSUE OF THE > y William Z. Foster y T. J. O'Flaherty By Karl Radek ly Earl R. Browder By Anna Porter By a Teacher ly Alexander Bittelman , Now! ; THE DAILY WORKER GITLOW TAKES LABOR'S FIGHT TOCONN., MASS. Invades Coolidge’s Own New England States ' (Special to The Daily Worker) STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 11. —Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate for vice-president, in- vaded Cal Coolidge’s own New England states here today with a stirting address to the work: ers of Stamford, in Casino Hall, here tonight. Ambitious arrangements have been made for big meetings at Carpenters’ Hall, in Bridgeport, for Friday night, and in, the Central Labor Union Temple, at Springfield, Mass. Saturday night. Gitlow invades the New England state after the tremen- dous ovation he received at the Central Opera House meeting in New York City, Tuesday night. Hits Coolidge and Davis. “Coolidge and Davis are the can- didates of the big capitalist interests of the country,” said Gitlow. “They are both the candidates of Wall Street. “Coolidge is the breaker of the strike of the Boston policemen. Davis is the former attorney for the bank- ing house of J. P. Morgan & Co. Cool- idge represents the republican party? the party that smashed the strike of the, 400,000 railroad shop men against a wage.cut: He is the representative of the party that is famous for the Daugherty injunction. “Davis is the representative of the democratic party, the party that as the one in control of the government in 1919 smashed the strike of the steel workers against inhuman condi- tions in the steel mills of this coun- try. Davis promises to work in the interest of peace, knowing that if he is elevated he will at the comman¢d of Wall Street as Morgan’s right man, lead the country into an imperialist war to protect the investments of American capitalists should their in- vestments abroad be jeopardized. Explains LaFollette. “LaFollette is the candidate of the small capitalists in the United States. He is supported by Vanderlip, the re- tired multimillionaire and banker, and Spreckels, the sugar king. He is out to organize a reactionary bourgeoisie party..He is opposed to a Labor par- ty: He is the man who was able to kill the Labor party movement. He did so by issuing a vicious attack against the June 17_convention at a time when it was drawing in support from farmers’, and workers’ organiza-| tions thruout the couutry who had definitely decided to break with the parties of Wall Street to organize a united front against the dominance of Wall Street in the government of the United States. “LaFollette wants to bust the trusts but Roosevelt failed to do so and the Standard Oil Company. is more powerful today in spite of its dissolution by the United States Supreme Court. LaFollette besides being against industrial progress, de- sires to replace the exploitation of the workers by the big capitalists with their exploitation by the small ones. “LaFollette has been a member of the republican party for 45 years and has used his ability and intelligence and influence to fasten the rule of Wall Street upon the workers and farmers. “Imperialists of the United States, the monopolists, the capitalists, will win if either Coolidge, Davis, or La- Follette is elected. The workers have nothing to gain ‘from those candidates and the parties they reperesent. States Stand of Communists. “The Workers Party is the only party that serves the interest of the working class. Its candidates are the candidates pledged to support the workers, “The Teapot Dome government will be destroyed and a Workers’ Repub- lic established if the Workers Party will gain the support of the workers and poor farmers of the couutry. “Coolidge is now leading the coun- try headlong into war. The Japanese Exclusion Act and the present con- spiraces of the big powers in China led by the United States are laying the basis for a future conflict. The Dawes plan adds fuel to the flames and it but a means to help Morgan and Company enslave the workers of Germany. Sees Industrial Crisis, “An economic crisis is developing in this country. Capitalism can no longer assure a livelihood to millions of American workers and farmers. Un- employment is increasing. Discon- tent is growing. The Workers’ Party claims that the workers will ‘even- tually free themselves only thru their organized power when they abolish capitalism and capitalists’ rule and set up a government of Soviets in which the workers and poor farmers, the producers*shall rule.” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” | DAILY. Wi r + manne Page Thred RAILROADS ON country are turning out more ser they did in pre-war years. * Between 1915 and 1928 the t increased 14 per cent. ciency came under control. conditions |Conference board, an employers’ organization. Comparing the years 1919 to 1923 with the four | preceding years the board shows not only more ton miles produced |per hour worked by freight service em- |ployes btu also more passenger miles |per man hour worked by passenger |servicé employes and more equated traffic units per man hour worked by the yard service employes and by the train and engine service employes as ja whole. Increase Due to 8-hour Day. The average number of mei in the train and engine service of Class 1 trailroads in 1915-16 was 284,824. In 1923 it was 343,382 an increase of 21} per cent, But this increase in‘numbers| was in part due to the establishment | of the 8-hour day in 1917. From 1915 to 1923 the number of man hours of all train and service employes in- creased from 820,206,015 to 940,678,- 563 or by somewhat over 11 per cent, Over the same period the revenue ton miles carried increased by more than 21 per cent and the passenger miles by 13 per cent. The number of employes in road freight service increased ‘from 145,- 262 in the year 1915-16 to 163,292 in the year 1923, or by 12 per cent but the number of man hours worked in this branch of the service only in- creased 8 per cent. As a result the average man in the service was not only producing more ton miles per| honr of work brt actnally more per} year in spite of the reduction in hours. The ton miles per man hour for each| year covered by the board’s study are| shown in the following table together | with the index based on the year 1915-16 as 100 per cent. Ton miles per Relative! man hour to 1915-16| 1915-16 840.6 100% 1916 836.1 99 1917 839.6 100 1918 845.5 101 1919 902.4 107 1920 885.6 105 1921 946.8 113 1922 921.9 110 1923 945.6 114 Perhaps British Lions? BIERA, Portugal, Sept. 11.—Portu- guese, East African lions have carried off two women, and efforts to rescue them have been unsuccessful. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. ARRANGE BANQUET FOR FOSTER IN NEW YORK FOR SEPTEMBER 14TH NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—A ban- quet is being arranged for William Z. Foster, the steel strike leader and presidential candidate of the Workers Party, by the Noodle Trades Election Campaign Commit- tee. The banquet will be held in | Beethoven Hall, 210 East Fifth Street on Sunday evening, Septem- ber 14. This affair will be attend- ed solely by rank and file militant workers. The bosses, lawyers and millionaires, who have been trying to secure tickets for this unique affair, will be referred to Coolidge, Davis, and LaFollette. However, no workers. will be turned down as long as there are seats to be had. Tickets are now on sale at Room 8, 208 East 12th St., and at the Frei- heit, 153 East Broadway. WE'RE PARTIAL! My name .. Address ............ STRAT O RAST SST ENS S SESE ESET ETT SSNS TTT T ESTEE NTT T STS EFFICIENCY OF WORKERS ON THE INCREASE; CAN’T SAY SAME ABOUT WAGES By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Train and engine service employes on the railroads of the vice per man hour of work than on miles of freight produced per man hour of work contributed by road freight service employes | And the initiation of this increase in effi- established by governmental These facts stand out in a study of railroad statistics since |1915 by the National Industrial+ TIN LIZZIE KING SHIPS FORDSONS TO SOVIET LAND Hughes Gets F it as Ford Does Business WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. King Henry of the auto kingdom has rec- ognized Russia. At least he has ship- ped 900 Fordsons consigned to the soviet government at Novorossisk This is the largest shipment of tractors event sent to Russia. All the tractors will be used for agriculture. According to a Detroit dispatch the soviet government now uses Fordson tractors almost exclusively. U. S.-Russ Trade Grows This shipment comes as a sidelight on the department of commerce report that the United’ States has shared in the direct trade with Russia in the period January-March 1924 to the ex- tent of 12.8 per cent of Russia’s im- ports and 3.8 per cent of her exports. This marks a gain over the same period last year in which the United States got only 3.8 per cent of Russia’s import business and 5 per cent of her exports. The extent to which the United States is being outstripped in this important world market is indicated by figures of the department which show the relative share of Germany, England and the United States in Russia trade in terms of the per cent enjoyed by each: Per Cent of Russian Exports Imports 23.4 31.7 England . 8.2 29.8 United States 3.8 12.8 However, the United States in spite of Secy, Hughes is pushing up at the expense of the others. Russian im- ports in the first quarter of 1924 were valued at 37,873,000 gold rubles (a ruble, 50c). This marks an increase of more than 85 per cent over the same period in 1923. Such imports mean jobs for many workers. Russia Able To Pay Russia, according to the commerce department, is more than able to pay for these imports by the export of her products which were valued at 78,766, 000 gold rubles. This is more than twice the value of the goods purchased abroad during the three months under consideration. Germany Russian Dramatists to Present Famous Revolutionary Play Do you understand Russian? If you do, attend the performance given by the Society for Technical Aid to So- viet Russia this Sunday, Sept. 14th, at |7:30 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. The Russian Dramatic Players at the head of which is the well-known Russian actor, Anatoly Pokatiloff, will present “The Convert,” a drama in four acts, from the life of the Nihil- ists, by the famous Russian revolu- tionary writer, Stepniak-Kravchinsky. Matsui U. S, Envoy? TOKIO, Sept 11.—Insistent, but un- confirmed reports here say that Baron Matsui, ex-foreigh minister in the Japanese cabinet is the leading can- didate to succeed M. Hanihara as am- bassador to the United States. Join the Workers Party! SS ESE ae ee ARE YOU? We admit it! We see ONLY the interests of one particular class—that class of a living. Every day we fight their battles—AND ONLY THEIRS. Perhaps you are also prejudiced in this manner? And shop-mate—your friends—everyone—of your ideas? GET THEIR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER! The DAILY Can Do It Better! RATES in Chicago: 3 months, $2.50; 6 months, $4.50; 12 months, $8.00. “outside of Chicago; 3 months, $2.00; 6 months, $3.50; 12 months, $6.00. I’m Partial! Send him the 5 months. " His name perhaps you try to convince your _ Convince My Shop-Mate! DAVIS’ CITY DOESN'T GET PROSPERITY Uemployment Growing in Johnnie’s Town» ae By ART SHIELDS 4 (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Sept, 11.—The likeness of John We Davis stares blandly down from all the banks and smarter placeg of merchandise in Clarksburg. The campaign picture is tha most displayed piece of window dressing along Main and Pike: Streets. The gem establish< ment of R. B. Gill, supplements the photo with a placard that recalls those “Jewelers to Hig Majesty” one finds along tha business byways of Londond Gill asks the public to buy hid stuff because he has for many; years been jeweler to the Davig family. m Trade Is Wary. 2s But all the Davis pictures and the Davis men have not succeeded inl bringing trade to Clarksburg this sum« mer. The county seat of Harrisog county is going thru the worst period of depression the town has even known, old timers say. Loyal demo, crats may flatten their noses at thd panes in front of the picture of thei favorite son but their dollars are not clinking in the tills behind the picturay This much one can see by a walle jthru the town but the extremity of the depression and the suffering of the workers can only be learned byt longer investigation. Clarksburg dee pends on mining and on its nine glass |factories. Of these five are completely, shut down and the other four are runs ning one, two, or three days a weelg) with reduced personnel. Of the hune| |dred coal mines in this territory two-! ;thirds are shut down and the rest are working part-time. Less ‘building isy going on than in any other city in, northern West Virginia. i id Unemployment Hits Hard. raf ; The unemployment crisis hag! Clarksburg by the throat. It is the, vital, pressing issue facing the folks here. It is the issue John W. Davis, had nothing to say about in his home=: coming speech here last month. Thousands of folks in his-eaaitmnee- were out of work and suffering but; Davis apparently didn’t know an: thing about it. Of course as Noa Zinn, state chairman Farmer-Labor:. Party of West Virginia and a citizen: |of Clarksburg, saidy “a lot of things) | happen in Clarksburg that one doesn’t hear about in Locust Valley, Long Is- jland. Davis doesn’t visit his political residence often. And the folks he rubs, ;Shoulders with when he comes are not the out-of-work carpenters, glas: | workers and miners with their var | of little ones waiting to be fed.” | Babbits Boost Johnnie, The Rotary, Kiwanis and Lior luncheon clubs of Clarksburg are ; boosting Davis. Not so the folks who have no funchg |and they are many. RAWTHER BEASTLY OF THE DUKE, YOU KNOW! PRINCE TROTS DUCHESS LONDON, Sept. 11. — Vacation: court today refused the request of the Duchess of Westminster for an. injunction restraining her husband from ejecting her from his hi Bourdon House, in Berkeley Square. The domestic troubles of the di and duchess date back about a years The Duchess of Westminster is now visiting in New York. She hae!) recently attended social affairs on Long Island where the Prince of Wales was a guest and danced with her. people who work for q DAILY WORKER for .,