The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1924, Page 2

;. -flid come up. Page Two OLANDER AND FARRINGTON JOIN FORCES IN DEFE NSE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, COAL MINERS SHOW By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 14.—Secretary Victor Olander, following his failure to induce the Dowell miners’ delegates, Eli Lucas and Robert Speedie to withdraw thei the Klan issue off the conventior eration of Labor, at the last sess r anti-Klan resolution and keep n floor of the Illinois State Fed- ion pushed thru one of his fam- ous “pacifying” resolutions aimed to soothe the ruffled feelings of the Klansmen. it now transpires that Fran Illinois miners, conferred with 5 k Farrington, president of the ecretary Olander in an attempt to keep the Klan issue off the floor of the convention. Delegate Robert Speedie t Farrington atiempted to squash bid for the Klan vote at coming election of Ilinois min-| ers’ officials. Olander Gets In His Oar. “My name and Lucas’ name were| written on the black board during’ the| first day of the convention,” Speedie told the DAILY WORKER, “and we} were told to come to the convention headquarters at the Jefferson Hotel. There Olander met us and we were asked to sign the Dowell anti-Klan resolution. As we signed it Olander) said, ‘I'd advise you to withdraw that resolution. It would be to the best interests of the federation if the Klan issue didn’t come up on the conven- tion floor.’ I repliell that the Klan resolution Was there and there it was going to stay. I demanded a copy of | the resolution, and when Olander as- sured me the resolution would come up on the floor, I read it over carefully to make sure it would come up just as we had introduced it. Farrington Is Busy. “A little later we met Frank Far- rington in tle lobby of the Jefferson Hotel. ‘You are the Dowell boys, @ren’t you?’ Farrington asked us. *Aren’t you the fellows who introduced the resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan?’ When he found out we were, Farrington asked us to with- draw the Klan resolution. “Farrington showed us a letter ad-} dressed to him, with the three letters | K. K. K. typewritten at the top and bottom. The letter warned Farring- ton that he would lose thousands of yotes unless he used his influence to keep the anti-Klan resolution from) coming up on the floor of the feder- ation convention, and to fight it if it ‘Farrington then said,” Speedie told the DAILY WORKER, “‘ Boys, I wish you would withdraw that resolu- tion from the convention. I have just had a talk with Olander and we want to withdraw that resolution. If I use my influence to quietly withdraw the Tesolution, will you fellows keep quiet and not bring it up on the con- yention floor?’ Speedie Stands Pat. “I replied,” Speedie continued, “ Frank, that resolution was passed by old the DAILY WORKER how the anti-Klan resolution in his the+- ' the local union of the Dowell mine workers. It has been presented to |the resolutions committee, and it is before the convention to stay. It it is not printed in the book of resolu- tions, we will bring it up on the floor of the convention.’” The resolution aimed to pacify the Klansmen, which Olander succeeded in pushing thru the convention, de- | clared, “The convention of the Illinois | State Federation of Labor urges all working people, regardless of nation-' ality, race, color or creed to join and remain members of the trades unions having jurisdiction over their respect- ive occupations, and that trade union- ists should not permit themselves to be divided ‘by differences of opinion regarding individual affiliations, actual or supposed, with other forms of or- ganizations or by differences in re- ligious views or political beliéfs. Olander Loves the Klansmen. “Further resolved, that nothing that has transpired at this convention shall cause division within local unions or central bodies or be used to discrim- inate against any member or members of any trade union movement within this state. “Further resolved, that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an attempt to interfere with the con- stitution or by-laws of any national or international union, local union or central body.” Olander evidently is more concerned with the feelings of the Klansmen than he is with those of the militant trade union progressives. who have | been denied the floor so many times in the convention. Judge’s Wife Hurt. ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Sept. 14—Mrs. Floyd E. Thompson, wife of the su- preme justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, was recovering today at St. Anthony’s hospital here from injuries suffered when she was pinned beneath an automobile when it overturned on the Knoxville Road near Sherrard. Judge Thompson, who was driving, suffered minor injuries and an infant daughter, thrown clear of the wreck- age, éscaped unhurt. Growing A Few Days Left to Finish the Job! Congressional, Presidential and State Figures Let’s Put Every Candidate on the Ballot! Rapidly. ITH more Party and League comrades than ever before now on the job getting signatures for the dent, State and Congressional offices, and with thi signatures coming into the local office, the Work Workers Party candidates for Pre- eadily increasing Party in Ilinois feels confident that every Communist candidate will go on the ballot in the November election. The Presid ential Electors (Foster-Gitlow elec- tors) and the State ticket have almost got the necessary number of signatures. A few hundred more and ticket, and Bill Dunne, candidate for for United States Senator and other Foster, Gitlow, for the Presidential Governor, Louis Engdahl, candidate candidates on the State ticket will be sure bets to go over the top. Further, most of the pseeonibaes ba can- didates running from Chicago Congressional districts ought to ficient signatures in another day or two. ave suf- Comrades will be transferred to help out In other Congressional districts as fast as possible. Don't slacken on the job. There signatures. are still many days in which to get We have been making an effort to get as many of the candidates over the top by September 15th, and therefore the Workers Party set that Hate as the date up to which the comrades were expected to get the needed signatures. That also would give the Party time to check up on every possibility and angle of the work before filing the signatures. The candidates have not yet quite gone over in the time prescribed by the Party. However, the last possible date on which comrades can send in signatures to the Local Office, 166 W. Washington St. Room 303, is OCTOBER FIRST. Now that the Party and League comrades have two weeks yet to get signatures, the Party expects renewed energy and enthusiasm from avery comrade. It should be plain to all that the Communist candidates can get on the ballot if the membership in Chicago will get out every Aay for signatures. Rally to the duty. Every comrade out each day for signatures. k; The results to date are: Signatures Signatures District Candidate obtained necessary No. 1—Gordon Owens 1200 No. 4—Joseph Podkulski . 1300 No. 5—Harry Epstein 1000 No, 6—Frank Pellegrino 3500 No, 7—Sam Hammersmark ..... 4000 No. 8—George Maurer 800 No. 9—Jack W. Johnston » 850 1200 Presidential Electors (Foster-Gitiow electors) and Illinois State signa- tures 1800 2000 ‘Two weeks more in which to get signatures! That's great stuff and greater possibilities. Are the comrades going to make good on this job? ‘The Party thinks they are. Let’ some smoke from now on. Send in hundreds of signatures every day. Put the Communist candidates over. ity candidate on the ballot to help in the work of MILITARISTS GATHER TO ST. PAUL MEETING OF AMERICAN LEGION Numbers of delegates are now passing thru Chicago on their way to the national convention of the American Legion at St. Paul, which opens today. It is the sixth annual union of the war veterans’ organ- ization, which is controlled by a most reactionary clique of capitalist politicians, American Legionaries are among the«most prominent in the prepara- tion of the American workers for the next war, having taken a big part in the recent militarist fizzle, known as “Defense Day.” The convention is looked upon as the place for having a great time,a recent one having been the scene of a drunken orgy by the delegates who forget their Americanism to the extent of defying the police and “law and order’ for the period of the convention. At this convention not a word will be said about the betrayal of the slogans that were shouted by the imperialists when they sent “our boys” across, and hauled them back later to continue the home struggle of the worker against the boss. Harmony will reign and a good time is expected by all the delegates. BARBERS ADMIT WOMEN MEMBERS IN THEIR UNION Bobbed Hair Responsible for New Ruling INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 14.— Women won a victory in a battle for equality with men at the annual con- vention of the Journeymen’s Barbers’ International union, which is bein, held here when the convention voter to admit women barbers to member- ship. ed at the door of the barbers’ union in vain. On the other side of that door battles raged and fumed between the ultra-conservative barbers from the country who would exclude the wo- men and the more reasonable barbers from the large cities who were con- fronted with the problem every day of the year and believed in accepting the inevitable, that women had come into the trade to stay. With the advent of bobbed hair and the consequent influx of women pa- trons to barber shops the question be- came one of immediate importance to the barbers. To exclude women only meant that they would meet them in competition instead of working with them for their common interests. Barbers from large cities came to the convention determined that this year membership would be open to women barbers and they won. British Bank in China Offers Base for Imperialist Plots (Continued from Page 1) THE DAILY WORKER REFERENDUM IS |LaFollette Waves Flag BURIED BY THE of Wall Street; Workers’ REACTIONISTS| Flag Everywhere Is Red Miners in Protest At New Backward Step By KARL REEVE (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Sept. 14.—After denouncing Charles G. Dawes, republican candidate for vice- president, because “he expressed opposition to extension of the initiative and referendum, both ‘of which he appears to believe contrary to American constitu- tional principles,” the 42nd con- vention of the Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor abolished the referendum in its own organ- ization, after the left wing put up a stiff battle to retain it. About 35 miners walked out of the convention hall in pro- test after the reactionary Chi- cago delegates, led by William Quesse, Robert Fitchie, Secre- tary Victor Olander and Presi- dent John H. Walker, had abol- ished the referendum. Thomas Parry pointed out to John Walker that the question of the abol- ition of the referendum would itself have to be put to a referendum vote. The question of the referendum came up in a resolution introduced at the last minute by Delegate Briggs that section 86 of the constitution be abolished. Section 86, passed at the Rockford convention, declares, “No al- terations or amendments to the con- stitution of the Illinois State Federa- tion of Labor shall be made without first being submitted to a referendum vote.” Walker Takes Things in Hand. ‘In direct violation to this section of the constitution, Walker ruled that the resolution abolishing this section For 15 years women barbers knock- | Will not be submitted to a referendum “Because at.the time the section was passed, it was not submitted to a referendum.” Delegates pointed out, however, that at that time there was no law in the constitution necessitat- ing a referendum vote on all matters, but since there is at present such a clause in the constitution, according to the laws of the federation, the abol- ishment of the referendum must be submitted to a referendum vote to make it legal. s ee Pho Delegate William Pierce, Local Un- ion 4049, Mine Workers, charged that Briggs had introduced the resolution abolishing the referendum to enable the officials of the state federation to levy larger assessments on the coal miners. Walker Lets “Cat out of Bag”. Walker, in reply, indirectly admit- ted the truth of this statement, by declaring that the federation does not have enough funds, and express- ing the hope that more funds would be supplied in the future. Delegate Henry Corbishley, of the Ziegler min- ers’ local, charged that those who Oop- posed the referendum were those who had something to slip over on the 25,000 christians who are willing to|membership. He declares it to be the cut anybody's throat in the name of|Tight of the membership itself to the Lord. An interesting event took place here a few days ago when a brigade of the christian troops came to Peking, car- rying old guns, and other equipment. change the organic laws of the feder- ation. He warned the delegates that if a larger burden is placed upon the 45,000 miners the reaction will be so severe as to be detrimental to the They came to get baptised. Not alone | ‘deration. were the mankillers blessed but also their guns were given divine benedic- tion. Officers Will Now Make Laws. Delegate Thomas Parry, after ex- tracting a ruling from Walker, that Dr. Sun has forty thousand men at} “It is a matter of common sense that his command, hut. it will be necessary | anything a convention does it has the for him to leave part of his force to|right to undo and therefore the reso- guard Canton. So far the laurels in the fighting are on the side of the Chekiang forces. Or, to make the lution abolishing the referendum will not be submitted to the membership,” denounced Walker's stand... “I hate sittataion clearer to American read-|to g0 back and tell my union that ers, it may be said that the forces backed by the United States and this convention has ruled that the offi- cers are to make the laws and they British governments Have the worst ®° to pay the freight,” Parry declar- of the fighting. A AOL oh the Soviet Interested in China. MOSCOW, Sept. 14.—Soviet Russia is taking the Chinese civil war very seriously. “Hands off China” meetings are being held all over the country. Columns of space in the papers are devoted to the Chinese situation and the leading Communist papers are bitterly attacking the bewhiskered American State Secretary, Charles Evans Hughes, for his part in bring: ing about the blood deluge that is now drenching China, Warned Against U. S, Imperialists. The Moscow Pravda warns the Chinese revolutionists that American imperialism is their most dangerous enemy, The only friends, it continues, that China has are the Bolsheviks and they will stand by the oppressed People of that country, Soviet Russia was the first country to treat China as an equal, declared the Pravda, and when China decided to demand similar treatment from the big capitalist powers, trouble started. Hughes is the most bitter enemy of Soviet Russia, and tho he may rave in Washington against the Workers’ Republic and boast of his ability to prevent U. 8S. recognition of that country he finds that Soviet Russia is today a powerful influence in China and in a position to fight the ‘robber policies of the United States “This move is an tdictment against the men who sent us here. Ii we want the confidence of our mem bership we must give them our con fidence. The referendum is an instru: ment to educate the rank and file workers as to the issues before the federation.” “Gag Rule” Rang Thru Hall. Delegate William Stacey of the Peoria Cigarmakers’ union declared that only those in the higher posi- tions of the union are against the referendum. After Anton Johannsen and Ben Fer- ris had declared against the referen- dum, Robert Fitchie of Chicago, took the floor and derided’the miners. “The miners will not have as much to say from now on,” Fitchie sald: “The Chicago delegates are going to have more to say. The referendum was put thru the Rockford convention more as a joke,” Fitchie added. Walker then made a speech, insult- ing the miners, declaring they only came to the convention when they had a measure they wanted passed, Then he said, they came “by the freight train load.” After Walker's speech, debate was closed and shouts of “gag rule” rang thru the hall. Dele- gates were on their feet demanding to be heard, but were not granted the | Sept. 14—For six years no one paid floor to speak against Briggs’ reso-jany attention to them. lution, The miners then walked out |fought in the war for democracy, but what of it? Today, they were treated| CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute to a free place in the race track. On]when you are out getting signatures of the hall in protest. ‘ » Workers Party! » labor's world victory. Was Worth Fighting By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | TOR AY. Burton K. Wheeler, the vice-presidential append- “age to the LaFollette ticket, stumps up and down the land, voicing radical phrases in industrial centers, soft- pedalling, wherever necessary, and completely silent where that becomes the best policy. In Philadelphia he got rid of the following: “The issue is peace, and on election day you women will have an opportunity to express ydur opinion in votes, just as the people of France and England have expressed theirs by electing their present Tabor governments.” * * * * But Wheeler fails to show how the LaFollette campaign leads toward peace. He does not show how the MacDonald government, in England, or the Herriot government in France, lead toward peace. ‘ * * * * In fact, on Defense Day, the LaFollette Campaign Head-, quarters, in Chicago, displayed the flag of Wall Street just as enthusiastically as did the Coolidge and Davis headquarters. Every window of the LaFollette headquarters in the Morrison Hotel had a flag all its own. Morgan's emblem, un- der which Wall Street slaughters natives in Haiti; workers in Hawaii, and subjects nations everywhere over the globe to American financial domination, is accepted as the flag of the LaFollette campaign. ; ” * * . MacDonald's government, in England, under the flag of British imperialism, fights with Thomas W. Lamont, of Mor- gan & Co., as to whether the British pound sterling, or the Almighty American Dollar shall act as the measure of value in floating the bonds under the Dawes plan for extending Germany its $200,000,000 loan. : LaFollette’s flag, the flag of Wall Street, is the emblem carried in the struggle to make the American dollar more than ever, the sole monetary standard of the world. MacDonald's flag, the flag of Lombard Street, is the em- blem of the greatest British financiers, striving to maintain the dwindling strength of the British pound sterling. And the British chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Snowden, the socialist, fights ng as hard on the side of the British pound, as Andrew Mellon, the American secretary of the treasury, a Pittsburgh multi-millionalre, fights for “The Dollar.” * Herriot’s flag in France is the flag of the greatest French financiers. It is theeemblem of the French Franc. It is the flag carried at the head of French militarism that is frying to push the French Franc ahead of the British pound sterling and the American dollar. Herriot's flag is the flag of the French Franc that flies at the head of the largest a of any capitalist nation, and that Is carried by the largest air fleet of any capitalist nation in the world. * * * * And Wheeler might also have one Germany on his list. For, altho the kaiser is gone, it is the flag of the kaiser, the flag of the biggest German capitalists that flies over Ger- many. It is the flag of the Sh Rag trying to put strength into the German Mark, to make it a contender again, some day, with the Franc, the Dollar and the Pound Sterling. Fritz Ebert, president of Germany, calls himself a “socialist,” but his flag is the flag of the German capitalists, just as much as the fl of Herriot, MacDonald and LaFol- jette, are the flags of the labor-crushing capitalisms of France, Great Britain and the United States. It has just been shown that the State of Prussia, an im- portant part of socialist Ebert’s German republic, has paid, since the war, about $8,000,000 for the upkeep of some of the members of the family of the former kaiser, now Herr William Hohenzollern. Millions of Germans are starving, and more will starve under the Dawes plan, but Ebert, the socialist, winks his eye as new millions of dollars are turned over to the ex-kaiser in order that he and his family may live in luxury and plot their return to power. x * * * * Workers are hungry in France, but Herriot, the radical socialist premier, joins in the spending of new wealth for greater armaments for the protection and the aggrandize- ment of French imperialism. Workers are hungry in Great Britain, but MacDonald, the labor-socialist premier, and his socialist minister presid- ing over the treasury, turn tens of millions annually over to the family of His Royal Majesty, to squander as they please. MacDonald himself confesses getting a high-priced auto- mobile and enough stock in the British Biscuit Trust to maintain it, while the donor, the biscuit millionaire, is knighted by the king. And MacDonald praises the king for the good deed and keeps his automobile. Workers are hungry in the United States. Millions are out of jobs. Other millions work on short time. But LaFol- lette, who likens himself to Ebert, who waves the flag of the mark; to Herriot, who waves the flag of the franc; to Mac- Donald, who waves the flag of the pound sterling, is himself the energetic waver of the flag of the dollar. ‘i Where the fight goes on for the victory of the working class, there the Red Flag of Communism is unfurled to the breezes; it matters not whether it is in Moscow, in Berlin, in Paris, in London, or in the United States of America. Whether the fight is on the side of the workers, or ainst them, is shown by the flag that leads in the struggle. ie oe of the workers’ struggle in all nations is the Red Flag. The flag of LaFollette, MacDonald, Herriot and Ebert is not red. They join the master class in making war upon the workers who carry the Red Flag in the struggle for hey are the enemies of the workers. LaFollette and Wheeler fly the flag of Wall Street in the ge against the workers and farmers of the United States of America. They fly the flag that leads the forces into the war against labor; to the for Wall Street; to the war to, make the American dollar the greatest power in the world. track let in all veterans free of charge providing they wore uniforms. It cer- for Democracy; You _ |tainly was worth while going across 1 and coming back out a leg or arm Get ca Free to Races or some such more or less useful por- tion of your body, and then get in free at a race track for one day. ' "ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and EXPOSITION PARK, Arora, IIL, They had mapagement of the|to petitions? , ey Monday, September 15, 1924 CHICAGO HEARS ABOUT BURNING DAILY WORKER Audiences at Open Air Meetings Buy Paper By ELSA BLOCH An enthusiastic crowd of workers, at the corner of 30th and State Streets, waited thru a dreary drizzle of rain, thru the honking of the auto horn of an infuriated “plute,”’ thru the deafening howl of an old “min- strel” on the corner opposite, while | told my own story of how | had been pushed and mauled, jeered at and followed for blocks, for attempting to distribute a few copies of the DAILY WORKER on Defense Day, in Grant park, on Chi- cago’s lake front. And within a few minutes after I left the platform, hund- reds of copies of the DAILY WORKER had been placed in eager hands. “What is this paper that the authorities are so anxious to keep from us?” was the uni- versal question. From soap-boxes all over the city, Workers Party members spoke on Fri- day and Saturday nights, telling of the real meaning of Defense Day, of the businéss interests behind the last war, of the imminence and horror of the next capitalist war. Always, when the speaker told of the criminal destruc- tion of the only working class news- paper in the country, at the hands of half a. dozen, patriotic rowdies, an eager group crowded about to get hold of a copy of the DAILY WORK- ER. Manley and Owens Speak. Joseph Manley, campaign manager of the Workers Party, and Gordon Owens, candidate for congress from the first congressional district on the Workers Party ticket, spoke to a crowd of Negro workers on the South Side. They told how Defense Day, among other things, had been made a Jim Crow day—how the Negro workers who showed themselves willing to march behind an imperialist flag h@d been segregated in Washington park, and forced to go thru with’a celebra- tion entirely separate from the “white”. celebration in Grant park. One of the most successful meet- ings was that held at the corner of Roosevelt and Homan Sts., under the auspices of the Young Workers League, where J. Louis Engdahl, Editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Abe Harris, talked to an ever-increas- img crowd on the subject of imperial- ism and war. Herd Feels Police Fist. So successful were the meetings that the cops have again begun to get busy. At the corner of Lawrence and Sawyer Sts., Peter Herd, member of the Young Workers League, was taken from the box and marched off to the Racine avenue station. Mem- bers of the League believe that the police may have been the agents of the Irving Park Business Mens’ league, which had drummed up the charges of “disorderly conduct” and “hinder- ing traffic.” Comrade Herd was re- leased and the case postponed to al- low the police to bring in witnesses. Thru these meetings, literature—the DAILY WORKER, the Liberator, the Labor Herald, pamphlets of all sorts —is reaching the masses. And hun- dreds of signatures are being obtained at these meetings which will help to place in the field this fall working class candidates—candidates of the Workers Party. Party Activities Of Local Chicago STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO, Monda: , Sept. ts, Us} Hi imont—auspices N. S. Eng- "Speakers, Bila Reeve Bloor ices Cloero Lith. and others. W. 14th & 49th Ct.—aus} branches. ‘Kers, h & Lithua- YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES, 8:00 p. m. shops es ore erg 5 ja . Russian Branch, 1008 W. Dilivion St. ‘ednesday, Sept. 17. 5 City Executive ‘Committee meeting, Room 03, 166 W. Washi, + 8p. m, North Side Branch, 2: dN” Haiate St. 409 N, Englewood Branch, 6414 8. Halsted Bt Marshfield Branch, Hebrew it Taylor and Lytle Sts. Social meeting. iu » Sept. 18, Bridgeport Branch, ety Emerald Ave. Maplewood Branch, 2733 Nirech Biv rai “Fourth Congress” of the Y. C, I, Nat Kaplan ox ‘a i rl . West Side ‘Branch, $932 Douglas Bivd.: Class in Communist Manifesto. Rosa Luxemburg Branch, 1910 W. segnn Heed Branch, 1224 8. Al A john er le a Hersch Lekert Branch, 2618 Nlrsch weiath iebianeont Branch, 1500 N. a syphyid