The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1924, Page 4

pas Page Four THE DAILY WORKER UNIONS JOIN LABOR FIGHT UPON HEARST Condemn Janus Policy of Bill | Randolph SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 11.— Letters continue to come to the headquarters of’ the local typo- graphical union which is con- ducting a strike against the Hearst sheet, the Post-Iintelli- gencer, which show that the men are being backed by labor nil over the state. ‘The unions are unanimous in “condemning the action of the Hearst paper, published man who always yelps his friendship to labor. resolutions of solidarity ‘all parts of the state. Labor With Strikers Among those adopted recently are eee ntors frém the painters and lecorators of Aberdeen, the Building ‘rades’ Council ofthe same city, the coal and joiners of Hoquiam ris numerous other unions in various by a about The come ities and towns. f One member relates a visit to surrounding towns and reports that he circulation of the Post Intel- Migencer has fallen off considerably nd that if it were not for fact that learst is throwing the full weight of his resources into breaking the back- one of the union, the local rag would fous ago have surrendered. ie Swat Hearst Piffle }; The strikers™ committee has been ypartieularly strong in its denunciation of Hearst’s labor day editorial in which he piously affirms his love fpr ithe workers and the unions and Suggests that they launch a big move- ment for independent political ac- tion. Hearst’s sudden solicitousness might ordinarly arouse the amazement ‘of workers who have seen him in action, but for the knowledge that he has his good right eye on the pres- idency and is looking around for some wave to wash him to the shores of the Potomac. The strikers are holding firmly and with the support of the state labor , movement and even the newspapers of various towns, they are expected to bring Hearst to his knees in a short time. Hearst will not very long be Policy --of swatting une workers whenever he is affected by a demand for better wages or shorter workdays and praising the unions when it doesn’t cost him anything. Edwards to Speak at An Open Meeting of the Northside Branch RUSSIA will be the subject JOHN EDWARDS will speak on at the regu- lar an nh f the North Side English Branch, Wo. able to get away with his two-faced t’ ers Party, Monday Sept. 165, at Imperial Hall, 2409 Halsted St. Edwards is a very fine speaker. He has just returned from Russia, where hhe spent five months studying condi- «tions there. - Everybody is welcome. )> NOTICE! CLEVELAND READERS! The DAILY WORKER is sold daily Schroeder’s News Stand on E. Su- rior, opposite the Post Office. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. 4 By W. J. WHITE. > GIRARD, Obio.—At Struthers, Ohio, gust below Youngstown, is located the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., pre- lided over by the open shopper, James mpbell, one of the foremost union ers in the country. The company loys about 20,000 workers and Labor Day it is the policy of company to have a big affair in ) @ park which they maintain for their é ployes. All day they serve to the ers of the company coffee, ice n and sandwiches. THE DAILY WORKER, The workers employed in. the | paanesenrecnnesenesss: we VOCS; Democratic Party : WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. on the presidential candidates, and the vote was as follows: WM, Z. FOSTER cecscsssssee VOCOS} LAFOLLETTE vices VOCS; 1 certify that this report is correct: THE POWER COLUMN H Bhspkies every week—this column uncovers to your view the motive power behind the DAILY WORKER. Here for the interest and inspiration of every reader—and especially the DAILY WORKER agents and committees—are tried and proven suggestions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further conquests. Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men pil pay of the working class who not-only believe—but We are in the midst of a political campaign. The work- ers are willing to listen to our views—to read our literature. Increasing unemployment is making more willing listeners and readers. If we gain nothing for the movement and for the DAILY WORKER at this time—RIGHT NOW—we will have missed a rare opportunity to serve the cause of Labor. Is your local or your branch ORGANIZED to work most efficiently at this time? Unless it is you are not making most of today’s opportunities. Many locals and branches have already done so. For those who have not the following letters from LIVE locals should offer valuable suggestions: BE Sloe Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 18, 1924. Dear Comrades:—I have withheld my report because | wanted to wait until the organization committee was organized. | submitted at this meeting the following plan of activity which was unanimously adopted: 1. To distribute old copies of the DAILY WORKER and other party publications to the workers outside factoriés and plants when leaving or going to work for the purpose of arousing their desire to buy and sub- scribe for same. This distribution of free literature should be followed up by the SALE of same and should be carried out in regular and sys- tematic. manner. 2. To be present at all workers Party and OTHER WORKING CLASS MEETINGS and sell our literature. Places of distribution of free literature to begin with the flour mills, all railroad shops and manufactories of steel and machinery. The com- mittee should meet at least once a week to work out plans to carry out its work in the most effective and efficient manner and submit a report on all its activities to the organization committee at its regular meet- ings. This applies to all sub-committees. Speakers’ Committee.—To see that a speaker from the organization committee is placed on the program of all Workers Party meetings, picnics, entertainments, etc., and, if possible, all other working class meetings. The speakers to speak on the subject of the DAILY WORKER and other party publications for the purpose of obtaining subscriptions and organization. 3. Speakers should visit all labor organizations for the same pur- pose. Committee on Renewal of Subscriptions—Every comrade on the organization committee will be assigned permanently to a certain por- tion of the city. It will be his duty to visit every house and build up the widest circulation of the DAILY WORKER in his district. We had a very successful meeting and the comrades expressed a willingness to serve on the committee. Yours fraternally, WALTER M. FRANK. ate, eee Tee At the same time that these suggestions reached the office a similar plan of reorganization arrived from St, Paul, Minn. And to prove with- out question that the livest lacals are doing this generally the following mail brought us this letter from Worcester, Mass., with the plan applied TO BRANCHES, Dear Comrades:—At the last meeting of the Scandinavian branch in this olty the entire branch was organized on a committee basis, with five different committees. As a result | have been relieved of the position of DAILY WORKER agent and the work has been transferred over to a committee of between 10 to 15 members. This committee is to work exclusively for the DAILY WORKER and NY TID. One member was appointed chairman and is held responsible. | suggest you send him 8 or 10 subscription books for branch agent's use. Until the branch was organized on a committee basis all the work was put on a few comrades and under such conditions it was impossible to do any constructive work at all. But now it is different and you should have seen the spirit under which the different committees ac- cepted their tasks. | was put on the propaganda committee as respon- sible chairman and | can guarantee that the Scandinavian branch is going to do some wonderful work this coming winter. If you think it is of any use you can publish this information in the DAILY WORKER, for the only way to avoid the petty quarrels and disorganization of the party units is to organize them on a COMMITTEE BASIS. With comradely greetings, EVALD ANDERSON. Application of such plans as these “brings home the bacon.” The evident practical nature of them needs no comment. If your local—your branch—has not done what Min- neapolis, Worcester, St. Paul and others are doing—DO IT NOW! Or perhaps you have further suggestions—better plans? Let other locals know it. What's good for your city is good for others—and it’s POWER for the DAILY WORKER. WALT CARMON, Circulation Manager. lacate Workers With Big Eats are ever allowed to place the issues of the workers before the slaves of this company. Coolidge or Davis would be a welcome visitor in this park and even the voice of Fighting Bob would be welcome sounding his purile platitudes in the ears of the workers, but that is as far as the question could go in the way of speech making. They repeated this same game in the present Labor Day plans and the wage slaves were out in force at the park and regaled with the same old stuff about this being the greatest country on the globe. The boy scouts and the girl scouts and the camp fire girls marched and the workers were regaled with the same old bunk about the necessity of upholdindg the law and of patriotism. There is method in the madness of Campbell and his kind for it was at this town a few years ago that the workers, driven to desperation by the miserably low wages and the inhu- man conditions which they had to en- dure, were forced to take the law in- to their own hands and burn down the town ard defy the authorities in order that their condition might be brought to the attention of the United States, hence the paternal care of Campbell and his fellow capitalists about the welfare of the wage slaves employed by the company. It was at this place during the Steel Strike that free speech and the rights that are supposed to be enjoyed by the people of this country were abrogated and denied by the servile tools of Camp bell and his fellow, capitalists, # Thousands of these same workers are working part time and other thou- sands are forced to walk the streets in search of that precious thing, a job, and perhaps Campbell and his ilk are thinking of that riot by the work- ers a few years ago. Some day they will not be able to keep the working BMOP Of ....ssseorrvesveceeccenronnsnerssnrencsnennnceenee «have taken a straw vote No Party COOLIDGE ..... Republican Party Votes, Some day the worker is going to awake and take the indu: and run them in the interest of the work- ing class, ‘jer in a brass factory. STATE TIGKET 1S CHOSEN BY PARTY IN CONNECTICUT Mackenzie Is Candidate for Governor (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW HAVEN, Conn,, Sept. 11.— Nomination papers have been in cir- culation\in the important centers of Connecticut for the Communist na- tional and state tickets. The state ticket is as follows: William Macken- zie, of Stamford, for governor; R. 8S. Kling of New Haven, for lieutenant- governor; John Gombos, Bridgeport, for comptroller; Mary Dworkin, Bridgeport, for secretary of state; and Charles Crasnitski, Waterbury, for treasurer. Mackenzie is a mem- ber of the Carpenters’ union and has been a rebel for a good many years; Bob Kling is a young, live scrapper, driven from one machine shop after another because of his militancy, now driving a laundry truck; Gombos is an office worker; Mary Dworkin, a bookkeeper, and Crasnitski, a work- Electors Chosen. A full slate of seven comrades has FIVE DAYS MORE! All Districts Speeding Up Signature Drive. How Many Will Be Over the Top by Sept. 15? ONGRESSIONAL District 6 has made up its mind to get definitely in the running to put Comrade Frank Pellegrino, candidate for Con- gre: manager. 7 on the ballot, reports Comrade Rose Karsner, district campaign Cicero comrades are out to get 600 signatures in this district. Comrades B. Mittleman and Sahkin of the Douglas Park Jewish, Spiegel of Douglas Park English, Martin Sabin and Ruth Levin of John Reed Y. W. L., and Crek of the Czecho-Slovak Cicero branch are the comrades in the Sixth District who are doing good work. The Douglas Park Eng- lish branch will go out as a unit next Sunday to get signatures. branches in this and other districts would do well branch in this respect. will be got. “Beauty and the Bolshevik.” this district. Every Other to emulate the Then there will be no doubt that enuf signatures The comrades in this district propose to put on the movie, A few hundred signatures came in from Workers Party Candidate Must Go Over. Districts are shooting in their signatures faster now, as can be seen from the figures below. Bill Edwards of the N. S. English branch has been doing good work in District Nine, District 8 and 1, speed right along. Jack Johnstone, candidate. Foster and Gitlow will be a dead cinch on the Illinois ballot with a little more work. The score to date is as follows, with a few rounds to go: District Candidate No. 1—Gordon Owens No. 4—Joseph Podkulski No. 5—Harry Epstein .. No, 6—Frank Pellegrino .. No. 7—Sam Hammersmark No. 8—George Maurer .. been placed in the field for presiden- tial electors in support of the Com- munist candidates, Foster and Gitlow. Connecticut does all it can to make it difficult for an independent ticket to appear on the field, it being neces- sary to get signatures of those whose names appeared on the last complet- ed voting list, to the number of 1 per cent of the votes cast at the last election for similar offices. This is difficult in a state as small as Connec- ticut, 3,655 signatures being required. The active members of the Workers Party of Connecticut are busy at this task. We want to make sure, that we get on the ballot. ‘Phe co-opera- tion of all sympathizers is solicited. If you have not seen any nomination petition in circulation, write for one to William Simons, 38 Howe St., R. 6, New Haven, Conn. Just a few weeks remain for this important task. Do all you can now while there is still time to get a real working class ticket on the ballot. The work is made easier thru the distribution of the party election pro- gram, 5,000 each having been ordered by the New Haven, Hartford, and Bridgeport locals. Tell It to Morgan; Or to Rockefeller; Warmakers, Churchmen WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—It is the! people who should decide on war, and there should be created an interna- tional organization of the governments for peace, says the National Catholic Welfare Conference, social action de- partment, in an interpretation of the attitude of the American Catholic hier- archy as set forth in the pastoral let- ter of the bishops in 1919. The letter is quoted by the conférence to prove that America should take part in a world-wide movement and organiza- tion to preserve good will and main- tain justice. j As a basis for the safe participation No. 9—Jack Johnstone .... Presidential Electors " electors) and tures .... (Foster - Gitlow Illinois State signa- Signatures Signatures obtained necessary “ 1200 310 * 1300 1000 650 3500 4000 800 1200 ++ 1400. 2000 The Party is making an effort to get the necessary signatures for all Workers Party candidates by September 15th. 500 signatures per day from now on are the number expected. Party and League .members will make good. Let branches set a night or Sunday morning to get Push the work for Communism. every evening. every member out with petitions, We have no doubt that the Let all members get out Letters From Our Mobilization Day. To the DAILY WORKER: As an ex- officer of the army I do not agree with you that Sept. 12 is a “threat against other countries.” Most if not all pro- fesional officers are awful dumbbells but even they are not so damn dumb that they think the U. S. military forces will be in better shape after Mobilization Day. No indeed—the white collar slaves and trousered hash-slingers will be just as useless on Sept. 13 as they were before the compulsory parade on their peor blist- ered feet. Sept. 12 from a military viewpoint will be a colossal joke to all soldiers—French, Japanese and Russian! Good Thing for Bosses. From a psychological viewpoint it is a good thing—for the boss. There’s a widespread belief that there will never be another war. This folly is an obstacle to the Reds and a nui- sance to the bosses, who want their slaves always ready to fight. Mobili- zation Day will help make people think of war as a reality. Propaganda Not Preparedness. Sept 12 is a- big piece of propa- g@anda—no more. It is not military preparedness. It is on the same plane as the army training in collegés and high schools. These kids don’t class in subjection thru this method, | ®90%e and control by the people in this field pean Aeoeeh to. be. ge0d soab herders, of war-decision, the conference de- + LP ecaallgae dig ryan. aged pet clares for “making the principles of to fre his gun and’ (if very bright) charity and justice an essential part » Nail dcteun fied Abb oA nod bins adeg ef education,” so that human intel-|72& pepansive beh sos EB Kent ap, ligence would be directed to finding his ggg arid Soucy tecdbehe din Mirna new means of binding the peoples to- ERIE Soe salle aad ses gether in common purposes. being an unmixed good—for the bos: fo lie Niels: 9 Don’t Want to Go. Re “In 1920 the U. S. bandits made faces Machinists Lodges at Mexico. While the situation was Urging Retrenchment |acute our Aero Club held a luncheon. In F f C * ¢ |Of 32 members (all ex-officers) seven- ace oO} T1818) teen claimed we should under no circumstances inyade Mexico; fifteen (By Federated Press) : thought it necessary, The fifteen were WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Several | not in the reserve, the seventeen were lodges of the International Association|—and liable to call! I remember I of Machinists have proposed the aboli-| Was one of the seventeen! tion of their official monthly Journal, GHO. McLAUGHLIN, while others have suggested the es- Ex-Reserve Military Aviator, tablishing of a daily newspaper, as Lieutenant Air Service, matters to be voted upon at the in- Military Aeronautics. ternational convention which meets in| P, S.—I shall spend Defense Day Detroit on Sept. 16. preaching Bolshevism to some of Alex Editor Hewitt, commenting in the|Howat’s coal diggers. current Journal on these propo: indicates that while the organization * Toller Not Communist. is far from the prosperous condition} Tothe Daily Worker: In a recent is- in which its 350,000 members viewed|sue of the DAILY WORKER, it was it at the time of the last covention,| wrongly stated that Ernst Toller is a in 1920, it is still strong enough to|Communist. As this is not the first maintain its present headquarters or-|time the DAILY WORKER gives a ganization, ready for the anticipated| picture of this gentleman, different new era of expansion and development|from that drawn by history, as our which mort favorable industrial con-|German comrades have it in mind, ditions may bring. allow me to say a few words about this matter. P A pe py etek a gifted dramatist and a st f. i. G. B. Shaw or arty ctivittes Of Romain Rolland, but not a Communist. Local Chicago The “Vossische Zeitung,” a Berlin democratic newspaper, declared in July after the released Toller had at- WORKERS PARTY—LOCAL CHICAGO|tended a performance of his “Limp- 8 hate e yan eetings ing Man” for the first time, that “he riday, September 12, intends to turn away completely from gf antinevion South Chicago, 641 E, 61st politics and devote himself to only one Lot ‘ish Branch, 4359 ‘Thomas St, task, the liberation of his imprisoned Boos Teoeae achat tas comrades from Niederschoenenteld.” Grand. This means the same as if one re- solves never again to jump into the water and devote himself to the art of swimming. ” w The pe oer of the political pri- ‘nch, 1910 West|soners is a political task and has been doh ‘ie Fe ee ano ahh Peak tny Ave, | slogan of the C. P, of G. since sev- scant Some Maniatis? ‘aol Tees arias powertal every day Schachtman. . in meeti and even b Perhaps he suffered his term in prison also as an individual and not as a member of the rebellious @ass. He certainly is a victim of class justice. But the role he played in spring 1919 was a very sad one. He declared the Bavarian Soviet Repub- lic despite the protest of the commun- ists, who foresaw the marching-in of the white guards. After the commun- ists, summoned by Toller, joined the lost game, it was Toller who warned the shop-councils of the “terroristic Communists.” He demanded protest demonstrations where an armed de- fense was necessary and lost sight of the real danger, while anxious watch- ing the terrible communists. The cli- max of the tragedy arrived when he before the judges confessed he didn’t stand for the “Dictatorship of Love.” Therefore got Toller away with 5 years, while Erich Muehsam, the an- archist received 15 years and the Com- munist Eugene Levine got nine bul- lets into his body which.extinguished the noblest soul and the sharpest brain the German movement had to show after the death of Liebknecht and Luxemburg. But he died with a smile, exclaiming: “Long live the world revolution!” Toller is today the darling of the liberals, social-democrats and saloon- revolutionists, besieged by photo- graphers, reporters and autograph col- lectors. His plays, of course, are worth being attended; (if one does not ex- pect communistic ideas) Toller the artist I shall let it pass. Toller the revolutionary leader is dead. Toller the Communist never existed. Arthur Necker, Chicago. Wants Leaflet on LaFollette. To the DAILY WORKER: It seems to me that LaFollette has made himself the most vulnerable of all the three capitalist candidates. I think a leaflet should be gotten up by the Workers Party to show him up tothe workers. He has corralled the treacherous leaders of the workers but I do not think the rank and file support their leaders. By showing up the hypocrisy of the so-called progressive movement a large mass of the workers would go over to the Workers Party. ‘ LaFollette a Fraud. The whole thing is just a colossal fraud intended to head off the work- ers from consolidating into 4 true workers party. “Divide and Conquer” has always been the greatest weapon that the ruling classes have used to keep the masses in subjection. LaFollette has shown his cloven hoof most conspicuouusly. He denounces the two old parties viciously for their treacheries to the “people.” He says they have both been owned and controlled by big business for the past 26 years and that these same interests have con- trolled governments of both pa ties, He says that they do not carry out any of the promises made in their platforms but use them merely to get votes. He says the trusts have been growing without hindrance from the government. Never Did Anything Against ‘Capitalism. . He says that during the late war the “profiteers” (which is a smooth word to cover thieving, robbing and general swindling) had a perfect riot of robbery and fraud against the treas- ury as has ever been known hitherto in history. } ata mE Friday, September 12, 1924 CONNORS, |, W. W. GETS THREE YEAR TERM IN FRISCO Contractor Gets 5 Days on Same Charge (By Defense News Service) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Sept. 11. —Tom Connors, secretary of the California branch. of the General Defense Committee, who was con- victed on February 1 of “tampering with a juror,” was brought before the prison board in San Quentin peniten- tiary a few days ago and his sentence was definitely fixed at three years. Connor's conviction is declared to be without precedent. At his trial it was proven that he had never heard of, the person whom he was accused of tampering with. The sole evidence was that a leaflet issued by the defense committee criticizing the state authorities for unjust convic- tions under the California criminal syndicalism law fell into the hands of a juror serving in a syndicalism trial. Different with Rich. In the week after Connors’ trial, a tractor was convicted on the same charge in an adjacent county. It was proven that not only had he talked with a juror, but had intro- ‘|duced the latter to a defendant who was on trial in the court where that juror was serving. But the con- tractor was sentenced only ‘to five days in jail. Connors’ case is being appealed. Arguments on his appeal will be heard this month. Readers been thru that party. All thru this long era of public corruption he has been a member of the government and knowing of all this corruption what has he done to stop it? LaFollette Reforms Futile. He boasts that during that time he has initiated some 30 reforms and that all but one have been “enacted into law.” He shows that the trusts have never paid any attention to any laws and have never been punished for their lawlessness. So he admits that his “reforms” have absolutely proved futile in their purpose. But “reforms” are his hobby and he is still offering them as a remedy for monopoly in spite of this fact. This completely proves his utter insincerity in his present movement.— From a War Veteran, Soldiers’ Home, California. DAILY WORKER Draws Fire. To the DAILY WORKER:—As ex- pected, your articles on the unemploy- ed situation of the coal miners has drawn fire. Your article of August 22, under the caption “Miners Live in Decrepit Old Houses,” has drawn the fire from the superintendent of this mine in Divernon. He called me up on the phone to tell me of how many lies were in that article, also that he is going to deny it in the capitalist press; of course, I am going to answer him in the capitalist press as far as they will let me go. It becomes necessary that you cor- rect the article for many reasons. Where you say, “the houses are mere shells of one story with two small rooms” that is a misstatement, ai the houses are four rooms and a sum-' mer kitchen and haye only been erected sixyears. Also we have no back) yard pumps; we draw our water with buckets. Please make these correc- tions. Also correct the statement | where you say that the company was forced to give in to the use of the’ fuse; that is not correct, since we are’ still using the old ancient method of shooting shots, namely: squibs. Yours for the Cause, TOM PARRY, Divernon, Ill. Daily Worker Is Necessity. To the DAILY WORKER—I have) been reading your paper for a long: time, but it does not come in my name. I Keep in the background be-| cause I am an employe of Uncle Sam. Altho my job is far from fat-paid, it’ gives me at least a living and keeps. me off the unemployment line in our, land of prosperity. { I was a reader of the Labor News, in Detroit, a union weekly, and I thought, they told the whole truth about labor conditions, but since I read your\paper it has opened my in a different direction. We are so accustomed to fill our minds with one-sided news from the Detroit News, the Free Press, the De- troit Times and all the press on the other side that we have become lop.’ sided. Why, I even heard some American workers say that LaFol- lette is radical—just think of it! Therefore I think a paper of your cal- iber is not only good, but necessary, Your vigilant Gaily is certainly an eye opener and a refreshing tonte every day. Keep up the good work, —L, J. L., Detroit, Mich. “Yc Peliys