The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. I. No. 150. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE DAILY WoO KER. 5° Bntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. in Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by $8.00 per yéar. mail, $6.00 per year, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1924 — 290 PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents Three FAT MEN MARCH ON GOOSE-STEP DAY BIGGEST FEATURE OF CHICAGO CELEBRATION IS BURNING OF 50 COPIES OF DAILY WORKER “Defense Day—Selz Good Shoes!” “Defense Day—Balaban AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE NEW YORK NATION fears the spread of German militarism among: us. But why German militar- ism? Why not American militarism? However we are not concerned with the cock-eyed conception of militarism entertained by the political ostriches who edit that weekly collection of il- lusions, but with the confident hope expressed in the same paragraph of the Sept. 10 issue, which contains the above, that the moment Robert Mar- fon LaFollette takes office, Mars will park his sword in William Jennings Bryan’s monkey house and interna- tional bankers will hire a private col- lecting agency to go after their debt- ors, instead of having the job per- formed by the United States army. * ps yes innocence might be excusable on the part of one of H. G. Well’s Martian visitors, but it would be straining credulity to believe that a man who has spent so many years among the editorial dens of Wall Btreet should be so naive as to expect the capitalist system to surrender its ‘weapons the moment LaFollette takes office. It might be remarked that Mr. ‘Villard was equally hopeful, when the great moutebank, Woodrow Wilson, moved into the White House and the ‘Wisconsin senator never expressed so many harsh things about the money power as did the late’ Woodrow, and it must be confessed that Mr, Wilson delivered his indictment in flawless English. * R. VILLARD’S scribe might be ex- cused for his optimism, but we can hardly excuse him for the follow- ing comment on the actions of the British Labor government in view of what I have read in the London Daily Herald. This is what the Nation says: . we believe that active “should have in t yashington the same spirit'of amity in the conduct of our . international -affiairs which so glori- fies ‘the ministry of-Ramsay MacDon- ald and thru him has brot about a temporary solution of the political mis- ries of Europe.” This matter has al- ready been dealt with editorially in the DAILY WORKER and the reason for this added comment is the follow- ing news item in the London Daily Herald of August 16: ._*e © EVERE fighting and more bomb- ing of natives by the Royal Air Forces is reported by the Central News from Transjordania.” Appar- ently bombing natives does not stain the pacifist purity of Ramsay MacDon- ald in the eyes of American liberals. ‘What counts ip his favor is, that he ‘was more or less successful recently | in maintaining peace, between the big capitalists powers, so that they could go on peacefully exploiting the wage slaves in their own countries, the un- fortunate peoples of their colonial em- pires and the oe that are nom- inally independent but cannot sneeze untilthe rulers of the capitalist powers take snuff. Ramsay MacDonald bombs Indian villages because the British im- perialists must keep these people in subjection. Refusal on the part of MacDonald to protect their interests (Continued on page 6) “No Cut,” Say Textile Workers. NEW YORK, N. ¥., Sept. 12.—A de- termined fight against attempts to cut wages in the textile industry is the outgrowth of a discussion in the con- vention of the United Textile- Workers of America here, on the attempted cut of 10 per cent in wages by Rhode Island and North Carolina mills and affecting 10,000 workers. The execu- tive board of the union was instructed to draw up resolutions expressing the union’s flat refusal to accept the cut. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SUGAR WORKERS ARRESTED IN HAWAII; | STRIKERS MAY TAKE NEW ACTIO. (Special to The HONOLULU, Sept. 12.—One hundred and thirty Fillpii have been involved in Tuesday's massacre of the striking sugar the police, in which 16 strikers and 4 into Kauai County | court under a strong guard fora preliminary The authorities, who are under the ests, are preparing to file charges of nem kidnaping and rioting a the suspects. A full report han beemeent to Islands by the labor In the meantime the from both sides, and It is workers, a more serle nw tertee We CHARGE LABOR HEADS SOUGHT TO SHIELD KLAN Urged Withdrawal of Anti-KKK Resolution By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 12.—Dele- gates Robert Speedie and Eli Lucas, of the Dowell Miners’ Local. Union, charged that Victor Olander and Frank Far- rington asked them in the Jef- ferson hotel to withdraw the anti-Klan resolution introduced by the Dowell miners at the 42nd convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor here. Victor Olander, secretary of the state federation, had them called to the Jefferson. hotel, the two Dowell miner delegates told the DAILY WORKER, and asked them if they would not withdraw the Klan resolution. They abruptly refused. Olander did not definitely state to them the rea- son for his request, they declare, after he found that they were hostile to withdrawing the resolution denounc- ing the Klan. Farrington Shows Klan Letter. “We met Farrington at the Jeffer- son hotel headquarters ofthe Federa- tion,” Lucas told the DAILY WORK- ER. “Farrington showed us a letter, evidently written by a Klansman, which declared Farrington would lose thousands of votes among the miners if he did not oppose our anti-Klan res- olution,” withdrawal of the Pacatiee % it he had the resolution withdrawn they de- clared. They replied they certainly would. It is significant that Farring- ton was absent from the convention when the Klan resolution condemning the Kian passed. The substitute motion resolution brought in by the resolutions commit- tee, which passed the convention with less than 20 dissenting votes, while it condemned the Klan by name, left out that part of the Dowell resolution which “demands that the Federation of Labor promote a series of anti-Klan mess ‘meetings and demonstrations thru-out the state.” The resolution. condemning the Klan, which is the same as was Adopt- ed by the American Federation of La- (Continued on page 6) _ NEW JERSEY LABOR CONDEMNS THE KLAN; FIGHTS INJUNCTIONS PATERSON, N, J., Sept. 12-—-The New Jersey Federation of Labor convention went on record condemn- ing the Ku Klux Klan. This action follows soon after the Klan’s effort to turn Labor Day at Trenton into a Klan demonstration day. The Klan’s were opposed by local labor and the parade mustered only a few thousand—marching outside the ‘city limits—instead of the sg 000 boastfully forecasted. The convention also a legislative program for the pas of a law legalizing peaceful pi ing. President Arthur A. Qui: urging the legislative program, em- phasized that the injunction against picketing had become the em- ployers’ accepted. method of. — ing strikes. t behind ge Daily Worker) policemen were killed, | thumb of t American sugar * General Wood of the Philippine is awaited. filled with tense WORLD'S GREATEST AIR MURDER WEAPON BEING PREPARED FOR THE U. S. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,’ Sept. 12—The world’s greatest air- plane, the Zeppelin Z R-3, built for the United States Navy set out to- day for her third and most sever trial flight. The route lay over the Alps to Zurich and other Swiss towns. The Z R-3 sets off on her Trans-Atlantic flight to Lakehurst, N. J., about Sept. 23. The air boat will probably be the most powerful weapon in the next world war for which the capitalist nations with the United States in the forefront, are now pushing to- wards for the purpose of redividing the resources and markets of the globe. EXPOSE U.S. AS OPPRESSOR OF CHINESE LABOR Workers Face N, ational, International Foes Editor’s Note—In view of the world interest that centers in the latest internal eruptions within the Chinese nation, the DAILY WORK- ER herewith publishes correspond- ence received from “Rosta,” Russian Official Telegraph Agency, giving the declarations of the Chin- ese delegation to the Fifth World Pycn tek of the Communist Inter- (By Rosta) MOSCOW (By Mail).—The following is a declaration sub- mitted by the Chinese delega- tion to the recent Fifth World Congress of the Third (Com- munist) International, in con- nection with the discussion of the-national question: “China is under the yoke of world imperialists, on the one hand,-and home militarists, on the other,” the declaration sets forth. ? “Inasmuch as the militarists are subordinated to the influence of one imperialistic power or the other, they are ageuts of the latter. Therefore, the national movement ought to be (Continued on Page 6.) FEDERATION OF LABOR IN WASH. LOVES BOSSES Short Wants Chaniber of Commerce Affiliation (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SEATTLE Wash., Sept. 12—wW. J. Miller, delegate to the State Federa- tion of Labor convention from the Central Labor Council here, scored the policy of class collaboration laid down in that gathering, in his report which was accepted by the council. Miller Fights Short. “If the policy laid down by Presi- dent Short, of the State Federation of bor, is a sound one,” said Miller in ‘his report, “then I that our un- fons should be led, and all strike committees be abolished. “We must how be in that state of bliss where the lon and the lamb lie down together. But Brother Short has not vouchsafed any information to show that struggle has been relegated to the garbage dum) | The president of the state federa- has been instrumental in cement- ing close relations between the Cham- ber of Commerce of Olympia, Wasi Ig and the central labor body ere, Auxiliary For Bosses. These two bodies exchange dele- gates, with the result that the labor movement is:made into a sort of labor auxiliary to the Chamber of Com- the | NO AID FOR JOBLESS FROM STATE LABOR Olander-Walker Clique Worry Only About Len By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill, Sept. 12.—A small left wing stubbornly fought black reaction in the convention of the state federa- tion of labor, and altho 107 votes in favor of the recognition of Soviet Russia were mustered, the resolution condemning the Defense Day was sugar-coated with flowery Fourth of July patriotism, in Small and La Follette were indorsed after Walker had cut off left wing criticism by ruling Tom Parry of Divernon out of order. Amalgamation Was Voted Down. The report of the resolutions committee on the unemploy- ment resolutions is typical of the attitude of Walker, Olander and their reactionary brethren toward the vital problems which now confront Illinois labor. The report, which was passed by the convention, while it “thinks the unemployment problem should receive the attention of Illinois labor, we rec- ommend the subject matter to the executive board with instructions to give such co-operation and helpfulness as their means and time will permit.” None of the Shecite Seohmsivends- The class prt ta pleas of Henry Corbishley, of the Ziegler miners, and Thomas Parry, of the Divernon miners, for a helping hand to Soviet Russia in the name of International working class solidarity were instru- mental in mustering the comparative- ly large vote for recognition of Soviet Russia. The resolutions committee recom- mend non-concurrance with the reso- lution offered by the Dowell miners’ local, “calling upon the American Fed- eration of Labor to extend all eflorts in order that the United States goy- ernment shall give full and complete recognition to Soviet Russia.” Johannsen Stands Up. Anton Johannsen, of the Chicago carpenters, and secretary of the reso- lutions committee, asked to be record- ed as favoring the recognition of Soviet Russia, being the only member of the committee who dissented with the non-coneurrance recommendation. Parry flayed the reactionaries in) the convention who pretend to be progressive. “Even the Ramsay MacDonald gov- ernment of England recognized Soviet Russia,” Parry declared, “and you sit here and vote against this resolution and try to call yourselves progressive. I am in favor of the recognition of Soviet Russia because it ie a real working class government. In the name of international solidarity of the workers, we should favor the recog- nition of Russia. “Capitalism, especially under the Dawes plan, is organized internation- ally, and it is up to the workers to or- (Continued on Page 2.) SECOND MEETING OF FOSTER AND GITLOW CONCLAVE TOMORROW Comrade J. Costrell, secretary of the left wing committee of the Workmen's Circle, will report the progress of the Foster-Gitlow cam- paign in New York, to the confer- ence of working class organizations | that will be held Sunday, Sept. 14, at 10 a. m., at 3322 Douglas Park Boulevard. Comrade Murtz will report the ac- tivities of the Chicago conference on the: battle front here. All labor or- ganizations are urgently invited. CHANG TSO-LIN ADVANCING UPON CITY OF PEKING Japs Refuse Permission to Use Trains (By Cable to The Daily Worker) PEKING, Sept. 12.— All available cars and locomotives have been seized by the government in a desperate move to check the advance of Gen. Chang Tso-lin upon Peking. Newspapers have been suspended or placed under strict censorship and a number of editors are in jail. Japs to Refuse Railway Use. It is reliably reported that Japan will refuse the request of Gen. Chang Tso-lin, who has declared war against Wu Pei Fu to use the South Man- churian railway for the movement of | the troops. Troops are, however, ar- riving in Mukden from both Kirin to| the north and Antung in the south- | west. The Mukden regiments are| ready to move on short notice. The indications are that a major en- ‘Will \take* place “abort 100} miles from Shanghai, at Tai Lake. Wounded arriving in Kashing, on the Shanghai railway, are being brought from Huchow and Kienping. Both towns are in Chekiang province. Vigilance of foreign governments, whose embassy troops are under the central control of the American of- ficer Loomis, has not ceased. They are looking after property interests very well, as usual. Spain Faces Civil War by Losses in Moroccan Venture LONDON, Sept. 12.—Spain is face to face with civil war today as a result of continued reverses on the Morroc- can battlefront, according to dispatch- es received by the Daily Telegraph. The correspondent declares the lat- est appeal to the nation from General | Primo Rivera to stand by the direct-| ory was occasioned by a division in the ranks of the army. The older generals damand a con- tinuation of the Moroccan war to a bitter finish, while regimental officers and enlisted men are demanding with- drawal from Africa, adding: “Whichever way the directory de- cides, it is bound to result in civil war all over Spain.” Tough Black Jack Quits. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. — The; Army is saying “good-bye” today to) General John J. Pershing. General Pershing will be succeded by Maj. John L. Hines, who has been deputy chief of staff for several years. FAVO. that, “I regret that the resolution condemning Mobilization Day was: introduced.” Olander made a lengthy, patriotic harrangue declaring against mobiliza- tion mainly because it was pro- moted by Cal Coolidge and Dawes. He made it very clear, however, that is in favor of preparedness and al- so of capitalistic wars, He bragged about the patriotism he had shown in the last capitalistic war and praised the soldiers who fought to establish American 4 pitalism in Europe. i Olander was followed by Walker, who vio! ‘denied he was either a i rma, against preparedn His altho his speech was in- Site dager he rambled the He deportation to 4, tirede/on th OLANDER AND WALKER CONFESS THEY D THE WARS OF BIG EMPLOYERS (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill, Sept. 12.—In line with the reactionary policy of President John H. Walker and his companions who control the convention, Secretary Victor Olander declared to the delegates to the Illinois Federation of Labor I. W. W. and the detective agencies, were in the same patriotic vein as those of Olander. ’ “The trade union movement be- lieves in preparedness against attack,” said Olander. He described what made a good soldier, and declared that one of the reasons the workers de- mand better working conditions in the mines and’ factories is to serve the country better in times of war. Corbishley, as introducor of the orig- inal Defense Day resolution, denied he is a paid agent of the Soviet govern- ment, as Lieutenant Burt, who ke \65th Cayalry division, and Katz, movie producers!” Fat men marching behind t ” Defense Day! e Selz banner. Fat men march- ing behind the Balaban and Katz flag. A straggling line of the Boston Department Store employes. Another straggling line of Post Office clerks. A couple of drunks bringing up the rear. The Kaiser Had ’Em. An enterprising corporal with tight breeches shouts: “Hey, youse—trow yer chests out, will ya?” Laughter from the standard-bearers., From the side-lines: “Aw, c’mon, let’s beat it! C’mon, Madge, we gotta get those shoes ‘before the sale is qver.” ; No trouble at all to get room to stand. No trouble getting to the very} front. A couple of policemen hand-| ling the whole gang that had turned| to witness the much-heralded Chicago} celebration of Defense Day. Only Stores Flaunt Flags. I counted rows and rows of houses) without flags. One block, two blocks | —almost three—but there’s a small dingy one in a store window. Almost all of the flags are in store windows— but they are never placed in such a way as to obscure the window dis- plays. Here comes the parade making its way to the grandstand at Michigan Boulevard, the entrance to Grant Park. A-few stragglers start up a faint cheer. It dies out quickly. Here's the flag. A few hats go off— not many. ~Novwcomes the grand body of the parade. An Opportunity to Advertise. Defense Day—it pays to advertise. Here they come—the Illinois Mer- chants Trust company. come—the department of constabu- lary, the Carson, Pirie, Scott company, the Marshall Field company, the Peo-| ples’ Gas, Light and Coke company, the Commonwealth Edison company, the Selz-Schwab Shoe company, the Federal Reserve bank, the Continental and Commercial bank, the Chicago! State bank, the Boston Store, the John Vv. Farwell company, the Davis Dry} Goods company, Mandel Bros., the Ki- wanis Club, Dartmouth College, the| Chicago Board of Trade, Balaban and} Katz. And here’s “The. Fair,” another de- partment store, purveyors of “Happy Home” dresses and shirts—prison-| made goods, Refreshments! The “crowd” goes quickly to the grounds where the Daughters of the} American Revolution, beloved of Cal Coolidge, distribute bottles of milk and sandwiches. It is the only spon- taneous move that the crowd has made so far. But the enthusiasm wears off quickly, for the milk is warm and curdled and the bread is stale and the ham and beef are fatty. “Let's make Defense Day twice as big next year. And let's make every day in the year a Defense Day.” Colonel Thomas, chief of staff of the is shouting hoarsly from a make-shift grandstand in the park. The platform is almost empty, and the “crowd” apathetic, even when the speakers, true to form and obedient to orders, throw bull into the folds of an imaginary red flag. The band tries the Star Spangled Banner, then. A few falsetto voices take it up. Burn the “DAILY WORKER.” “Is that all?” the crowd begins to ask. That's all, except for a little bonfire that the khakied officers have started. It's the DAILY WORKER—the only working class newspaper in the Unit- ed States, fifty copies of it, going up in smoke. News of the sugar strike in Hawaii. News of fight of the Work- (Continued on Page: 2.) Here they| lisence onishent MILITANT MINER FLAYS BOOSTERS OF LAFOLLETTE | Wisconsin Senator Does Not ‘Belong’ with Labor | (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PEORIA, IIL, Sept. 12.— The left | wing of the miners’ union struck a fierce blow at the LaFollette and Len | Small backers today when Walker }and Olander in long speeches, tried to | get the convention to buy bonds for |the LaFollette campaign. | Olander splashed tears all over the jconvention in his plea to the dele- |gates to buy bonds because LaFol- jlette had such a lovable personality. Tom Parry, a militant miner, spoke after Olander. He said he is oppos- ed to the convention buying bonds for the LaFollette campaign because |LaFollette represented the small | capitalists and this was a conven- tion representing workers. LaFollette for Capitalist System. “LaFollette is in favor ef continu- ing the capitalist system which en- [sie the workers,” he said. ers, including Olander, when trying to work us into a frenzy in support of LaFollette always go backward. Olander points out the dark and dis- mal days of long ago, of the Sea- }men’s union. But to the workers it jis a question of what LaFollette is |doing today and what he will do in | the future.” | He said the miners average $8 a |day when they worked. In his mine 700 men draw $5,600 a day in wages. Every day they work they produce | $16,000 of wealth. How can they be expected to buy back what they pro- eicaintd System for Exploitation. Parry said he was against the eapi- |talist system because as long as it |continued, exploitation of the work- |ers would continue and he was jagainst LaFollette because he stood |for the perpetuation of that system. jot exploitation of the workers, | “What is LaFollette doing on the unemployment question? I and thou- |sands like me in the mining industry jalone, have been out of work for many months and still LaFollette is silent on the unemployment question. Must Have Workers’ Party. “I know that there is no individual Moses who can lead the workers out of their present industrial and eco- nomic chaos. We will be compelled to organize into a clear cut political party.” All the time that Parry spoke there was the utmogt confusion in the con- vention hall. Walker was continual- ly rapping his gavel for order and the LaFollette supporters were shout- ing at the top of their voices while the left wing delégates demanded that Parry be given a chante’to talk. Condemn Convict Labor Products, The convict labor system, ‘particu larly as it applies to the marketing ot prison-made goods in competition with the products of free labor, was dis- cussed and generally condemned. Reso lutions urging the prohibition of pub lic marketing of all such material and Tecommending its use exclusively in State institutions were adopted. The convention went on record as favoring legislation to. provide com pensation for those suffering form oc cupational diseases, and it urged the creation of a state division of labor statistics to study)labor, conditions. HERRIOT APPOINTS COMMITTEE _ ON SOVIET RUSSIA RECOGNITION PARIS, Sept. 12.—Premier Herriot, of France, today took an important step looking toward the recognition of Soviet Russia when, he appointed # committee to study the manner of re-establishing relations between France and Russia ; and the formula je recognizing the Soviet government. for De Day charged, . “However,” he added, “I am favorable to'that form of government because it is a work- ers’ and farmers’ government.” Soviet recognition was one of the main planks in the platform on which Herriot was elected to office. ‘The efforts of C: 8 Evans Hughes during his recent visit to Europe to organize a new drive against the Workers’ Republic has obviously not been @ Pronounced success, ae “It is strange that ‘our labor Wéad- r | \