The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 152. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1924 : in Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicago, by $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 per year, 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents PROBE MURDER OF 20 WORKERS Legion Speakers Defend Big W AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. OT since Albert B, Fall, and his friendship for Edward L. Doheny the oil magnate lit up the political atmosphere of America with a glare in which could be seen the figures of Coolidge, Daugherty, Denby and other prominent republican officials, taking their share of the precious oil cake, has such a man-sized sensation broken from its moorings as the recent story of how Ramsay MacDonald took the biscuit. It is true that great events sometimes cast their shadows before and it was thus with MacDonald’s con- tribution to the gayety of nations. ae ee EFORE the real sensation was sprung the capitalist press broke ithe news gently. It was reported that Ramsay MacDonald invested a eonsiderable sum of money in a bis- puit manuufacturing concern. Where Mid he get the money? That was the question on every lip. Then the ‘homb burst. Sir Alexander Grant, a friend of MacDonald’s being con~ «@erned over the premier’s health and the fact that he had to ride in the sub- wway, offered him an automobile and to make sure that Ramsay would not yun out of gas, endowed the automo- bile with $150,000, which invested fm Sir Grant’s cracker factory, would ‘bring in an income sufficient to pur- hase gasoline, tires and everything pise that an automobile uses. os HARITABLE people would accept i this’ explanation without shaking Wheir heads, sticking their tongues in against the right side of the nasal ap- pendage while moving the other fin- gers fan like in the vicinity of the optics. But it appears that the Eng- ish are not charitable, tho they are quite generous. To prove the latter, they allow Mr. MacDonald to draw four salaries. One as a journalist and ‘writer of books on socialism; another as a member of parliament; another as prime minister and still another as minister for foreign affairs. But tho charity may be related to generosity 4t would seem that in this case the re- Jationship was not recognized. *e @ R. MACDONALD, in order to es- cape from the fetid atmosphere ef the London subways was obliged to accept the above token of the friendly wishes of* his good friend, Alexander Grant, millionaire biscuit man. Four salaries cannot support a man decently in London as any Lon- don docker can tell you, so when Mr. Grant, later on “Sir,” asked Ramsay thow was that cold of his and if he still had that ugly wheezing on his ehest, and Mac replied that his throat was getting dusty, the biscuit man gently hinted that he would take steps ‘te take his friend out of the subway, where the foul air is everything but heneficial to wheezes and coughs. * 28 @ 'T took great courage for Alexander to make the suggestion, for every- body knows what a hard customer a social-democratic-presbyterian-Scotch- man is in an attempt to force money ‘on him withqut due process of law. Alexander, however, was a friend of his so he made bold to approach the premier and in the following langu- age eased his ideas into him: “Ram- aay, old pal, you are a socialist after any own heart and the way you are yubbing it into that confounded sin- mer Marx is pleasant to my sense of (Continued on Page 6) PRODUCTION IS SLOW; WAGES, JOBS FALLING, BUT GAL STAYS QUIET (By Federated Press.) > WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—Busi- ness is still slowing down, and jobs fare becoming more scarce. Leading manufacturers of locomotives report to the department of comm: hat they shipped 139 locomotives and had orders unfilled for 361, for Au- gust, 1924, as contrasted with 272 locomotives shipped and 1,497 or ‘ders unfilled in August, 1923, August production of pig iron, this year, was 1,891,000 tons, and on Au- o 1923, was 3,449,000 tons. Bteel production this August was, In ingots, 2,542,000 tons, as against 8,696,000 tons last August. FOSTER SLAMS DEFENSE DAY AND GEN. DAWES Cal’s Head Like Wall Street Dictaphone By JOSEPH MANLEY. Campaign Manager, Workers Party. That the Communists are the only real opponents of capitalist war, and its consequent slaughter of the workers, was amply demonstrated at the en- thusiastic gatherings just held for our See oggs candidate, William Z. Foster, in the cities of Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey. Both of these meetings held just preceding Coolidge’s De- fense Day aroused great interest and crystalized the anti-capital- ist war sentiment in both of these places. The “democratic” government of New Jersey was well represented at both of these meetings by large details of police. : Foster was in fine trim, especially at the Elizabeth meeting, he flayed Coolidge and his “Defense” Day. He said: “Coolidge’s quick change of front in calling the original Mobiliza- tion Day, Defense Day, illustrates the calibre of the man. His one-cylinder intellect responds only to the wishes,’ dictates and desires of his Wall Street masters. 5; “Why all the mobilization for ‘De- fense?’ Defense against whom? Where is the great and powerful en- emy with battleships, poison gas and armies, to attack the United States? Separated as we are from both Eu- rope and the Orient by thousands of miles of"ocean. The ‘enemy’ whom Coolidge wants to mobilize against are primarily the workers of America. “This great display of military force has several objects. To overawe and in- timidate the workers at home, to pre- pare for the slaughter that will result from a war precipitated by the back- ers of Coolidge and Dawes, to collect the debts of these American imper- ialists; or a war caused by their ruth- less struggle for supremacy in the world markets. This whole scheme is symbolized in the person of Dawes the running mate of Coolidge. This so-called warrior, who never fired a shot, and who stayed safely far be- hind the lines in the last world war, is a Brigadier General. h “The only war he fights in is a class war for his own class, the capitalist class. He “fights,” surrounded by comfort in luxury with an attempted use of hardboiled language, against the reds and organized labor. In Illi- nois this cross roads capitalist hero organized the Minute Men of the Con- stitution. Dawes, Financial Tool. “One of their chief objects is to fight the ‘red menace’ and to protect scabs. Banker Dawes, president of the Illinois Trust Company, is an un- scrupulous and demogogic champion of the financial oligarchy which owns the United States government. The plan which bears his name and which is administered by Owen D. Young, an- other agent of Morgan, will enslave to American Imperialism millions of German workers, This American re- ceivership will require the use of ter- rifle force to fasten the collar of Am- erican gold around the throats of the German workers; just the kind of cap- italist force that you are asked to glorify in the present Mobilization Day, The next international imper- ialist war is the war of “Defense” which Coolidge and Dawes are tempting to rally the American work- ers to. “All the talk about the yellow men- ace and the question of Japanese im- migration are false issues. The real issue behind this political smoke- screen is the struggle of American imperialism for the markets of Asia and the domination of the Pacific.” Foster dealt in an equally virile and ruthless manner with the other candi- dates, Davis and LaFollette, He said: “Davis may come from West Virginia, but it is a long time ago, He is “from” West Virginia all right. Part of the (Continued on page 2) AN ENEMY OF LABOR! EDITOR’S NOTE.—This week Senator LaFollette leaves Washing- ton and starts on a speaking tour in port of his presidential candi- dacy. His first meeting is scheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden, in New York City. The DAILY WORKER, voicing the Com- munist message in this campaign, will show how LaFollette is the enemy of the workers and farmers, as much as Coolidge or Davis. Here is our first message, directed to the workers of New York City, in this fight: The Wilke awl LaF ollette 1 great fraud of the 1924 election is the “Labor” en- dorsement of LaFollette. It is the same deceit against the workers practiced in every country by the small business class, the petty capitalists, to get by false pretenses the help of the working masses. in futile political struggle to sub- ordinate big capitalism to little eapitalism—an attempt to reverse the evolution of productive forces by “busting the trusts.” This is not to benefit the workers, but to give to small business the chance of sweating the workers now sweated by big business. But LaFollette and his kind are not strong enough to fight big business successfully, so they speak lying words to the working class, making promises to get workers’ support. Listen to Barron's Financial Weekly, a banker's paper, tell how LaFollette acts: “LaFollétte talks ten tirnes as radic- al as he acts. Unless you class the Railroad Valuation Act— one of the best things that ever happened for the railroads— as radical, his name is identified with scarcely a single meas- ure that truly goes to extreme.” In fact LaFollette’s chief Supporters are bankers. A lumber baron named Stephenson ay him his start years . ago. Now Frank Vanderlip, once President of the National City Bank, backs him. Rudolph Spreckles, the sugar king, owner of Hawaiian plantations where strikers last week were murdered by the dozens and arr by hundreds, backs LaFollette.. Ask LaFollette to ince this massacre. - \LaFollette’s inathine has: for thirty years, and he says it is a “model commonwealth.” Ask LaFollette why his machine in the Wisconsin Legislature in 1923 de- feated the following bills: For 8-hour day on public works; for 8-hour day on state printing; for one day rest in seven; for shelter of railway shop workers; for unemployment com- pensation; for old age pension; for a general 8-hour day in factories; to abolish private detective agencies. Ask LaFol- lette, too, why, the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, right this year, meeting on July 15-18, 1924, said of LaFol- lette’s state legislature: “No recognition’ has been given labor. Labor was encouraged, but finally ignored.” Ask La Follette! Ask him if it is not a fact that today, in the na- tional election, “labor is encouraged” only to be “finally ignored.” Another strong LaFollette backer is W. T. Raleigh, a patent medicine millionaire who, in his factories at Freeport, Mlinois, fights the unions and upholds the “Open Shop.” Ask La Follette about this “friend of labor.” La Follette rails at “monopolies.” Ask him why Daniel Hoan, now mayor of Milwaukee, a socialist who wrote a book on LaFollette called “Failure of Regulation,” said, “Not only were trusts not prosecuted while LaFollette was governor, in spite of the statute ‘Section 1791-j,’ but when Attorney- General Morgan of Wisconsin tried to irritate some of the big trusts with fines and dissolution orders, LaFollette, then a senator, hurriedly left Washington to defeat Morgan for re-election.” In LaFollette’s ‘model commonwealth’ in which image he promises to make the whole United States, the average wage is only $91.69 per month, while in the whole country the average wage is $5.00 more, $96.50. Ask La Follette if he thinks labor wants its wages reduced to the Wisconsin level! In LaFollette’s “model commonwealth” only 31.3 per cent of the workers have an Eight-Hour Day. In the country as a whole, 48.6 per cent have the Eight-Hour Day. Ask La Follette if he will lengthen the work day 'throughout the United States! In LaFollette’s “model commonwealth” nearly a thou- sand more children are working than in New York state which has four times the workers. Ask LaFollette why he hasn't stopped Child Labor in Wisconsin! LaFollette has praised the fake “labor government” of England. Ask him what difference there is between Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald, who sold a baronetcy for $135,000 worth of stock owned by Sir Alexander Grant, and Secretary Fall's bribe by Doheny. Ask La Follette, who says MacDonald's government is like his would be, if he and Mac- Donald are not representatives of the petty bourgeoisie, and not of the workers. Ask LaFollette if he is not a fraud on these things. If you want to support a worker in the elec- tion—Joint the Workers Party! WORKERS’ STRAW BALLOT BEGINS TODAY IN CHICAGO’S FACTORIES For the first time in the country a straw ballot of workers will be taken by the Workers Party of Chicago on the pr ences of the employes ot Chicago's big industries in the presidential race. The biggest establishments, of every kind, have been chosen and at least 25,000 ballots will be distributed for the duration of the drive of nine da: The various factories and plants will be covered by members of the ers Party and the Young Workers’ League during the noon hour and elsewhere between the morning arrival and the evening departure, The workers will mark their ballots for any one of the four candidates so that an idea can be obtained as to the preferences of the capitalist s| in the shops, The Workers Party will follow up this campaign with special editions of The DAILY WORKER to be handed out free. Comrades are needed to help in this work and should get in touch with the local office, 166 West Washington St.,°Room 307, or phone State 7985. Push the Workers’ Straw Ballot! + |LAFOLLETTE + FASCIST MEET WON'T ATTACK U.S. ACTIONS Criticism Is to Be Kept Onthe“Q.T.” | (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 15.— There will be no criticism of the shameful treatment accorded veterans of the World War by the United States at the con- vention of the American Legion, just opened here. Mussolini There. That is the tenor of the speech made at the beginning of the first session by General Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau of the United States government. Hines Lays Down Law. “You and I know very well that there was at one time something amiss in the Veterans’ Bureau,” Gen- eral Hines said, “that until lately there was always something consid- erably wrong with the administration of soldier relief. The roots of the trouble lay far back in the beginning when these government agencies were hastily organized under stress of ac- tual warfare. “There are rumors,” continued the general, “that attacks will shortly be SPAIN SIMPLY WON'T QUIT MOROCCO; PUT ON NEWS CENSORSHIP MADRID, Sept. 15.—Reports that Spain is preparing to evacuate Morocco as a result of the continued offensive by the Riff tribesmen, were formally denied by the direct- ory today. | Spanish troops have cleared the Tetuan-Tangier road as far as the international line. A communique admitted further retirements by the Spaniards. Several advanced garrisons were recalled. ie ae et LONDON, Sept 15. — Spanish authorities have placed a severe censorship on all war news from Morocco, said a dispatch from San Sebastian to the Daily Telegraph today. Comment upon Moroccan operations has been forbidden upon pain of court martial. LABOR IN NEW JERSEY FAILS SILK STRIKE Federation Convention “Talks” at Injunction (Special to The Daily Worker) ade upon the Veterans’ Bureau; pub-;~~PATERSON, N:- Ji, Sept. 15. licity and propaganda campaigns which are under way to drag out the mistakes of the past and so to visit, as it were, the sins of the fathers upon the children of the third and fourth generatfon. “No one set of men, it seems to nile, can righteously lay upon the should- ers of any other set the whole respon- sibility for the conditions which pre- vailed.” This forestalling of all criticism of the government's amazing record of treachery to the young men who laid down life and limb and health to fight for a non-existing democracy is the keynote of the entire convention. A Valueless Convention. Nothing of any value to the workers | who were conscripted into the late/| war will result from this convention. | Undoubtedly some kicks will be made} about the fake bonus, so-called, which was slipped over on the veterans, and| which they later found to be nothing} but an, insurance plan. But the Amer-! ican Legion has outlived any reason} that it may have had for existence for | the soldiers or for the capitalists. The} only form in which it may continue, | or be resurrected is as an aid to any fascist actions that the masters of the Legion, who are in control of it at the top, may see fit to take against the workers in the event of the lat- ter making any move towards wiping out of the system that brings misery to them. They Have a Good Time. The annual conventions are used by the delegates who come to the city, as the time when they have a cork- ing good time at the expense of the Volstead Act, anti-gambling laws, the modesty of girls and women on the streets and general law and order. At the last convention in Kansas City, the delegates indulged in a veritable orgy of “law breaking.” Girls were insulted on the streets, the town was shot up, cops were beaten up for in- terfering with crap games in the hotel lobbies and alleys were littered with the drunken bodies of ex-second lieutenants. It is said that precautions are be- ing taken against a recurrence of the same thing at the present convention. ATTENTION NEW YORK WORKERS PARTY! BE AT DISTRICT OFFICE (Special to The Daily Worker) —The New Jersey convention of the American Federation of Labor concluded a four days’ convention here and in spite of the fact that the strike of the Associated Silk Workers is the]. most important labor event in the state during the past three years, this convention com- pletely ignored it. A committee was appointed by the strike committee of the Associated Silk Workers to secure co-operation of the New Jersey Federation of Labor con- vention in the fight against the injunction. The Usual Red Herring. When the committee appeared at the convention, a number of dele- gates spoke in favor of co-operating in this fight. The officials in charge of the convention were in a quandary and it was some time before they could organize their forces to meet the situation brought about by the ap- pearance of the committee from the strikers. Finally, Delegate Isaac Young, of Paterson, representing the United Textile Workers, arose and in an un- intelligible harangue asserted that (Continued on page 6) G. 0. P. SENATOR MAIN SPEAKER AT MACHINIST MEET (Special to the Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 15.— The convention of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists was opened here today by Dennis E. Batt, former revo. lutionary of the purest water and now a close associate of the president of the international, William H. Johns- ton. He introduced Judge Jeffries as a friend of labor, in spite of the fact that the honorable judge is still a respect- able member of Silent Calvin's politi- cal party and Jeffries launched into a speech which was intended to be a eulogy of the candidacy of LaFollette, Frank X. Martel, speaking on be- half of the Detroit Federation of La- bor, asured the anxious delegates that if they were brought up before Judge Jeffries while in Detroit, they “would be treated right.” This made a strong |appeal to the delegates who felt that NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Ali mem- |they might be prevailed upon to in- bers of the Workers Party are es- pecially urged to be at the district office of the party, 208 E. 12th St., Thursday, September 18, at six \dulge too strongly in the amber fluids. Martel’s reference to Jeffries is an indication as to how far this particular “friend of labor” will go to treat the poor workers with leniency. o'clock sharp. This is extremely important and no comrade should | miss the meeting. ar Graf | | ters HAWAI SUGAR SLAVES CLAIM BETTER WAGES Dept. of Labor Knows Nothing About It By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.— Scores of Filipino strikers on the sugar plantations of Hawaii have been shot down by com- pany gunmen and police, and hundreds more are crowded in- to jails, because these workers were not satisfied with wages ranging around a dollar per day. The U. S. Department of Labor, ~ conciliation: division, knows nothing about the affair, and its spokesmen direct all in- quirers to “write to the Gover- nor of the Territory” for in- formation. Gompers Investigates as Usual. After a brief study of the list of cas ualties in this latest skirmish between the strikers, armed with bare fists and hunger, and the gunmen and pol- ice, equipped with riot guns and rifles, the American Federation of Labor of fice here has decided to start an in- yeatigation -in) Hawaii, quests for immediate action are being sent to affiliated unions in Honolulu. Some two years ago the labor de partment sent John Donlin, president of the building trades department of the A. F. of L., and four other men as special commission, paid by the Hawaiian territorial legislature, to in- vestigate and report upon the question —Is the existing supply of plantation labor in Hawaii sfficient? The com- mission found that the Filipinos who numbered 25,000 or more, and the Koreans, who had mustered some 2,000 laborers to help break the strike of the Japanese workers, were suffi- cient, with the Japanese, to operate the plantations. a Filipinos Organize. When the Japanese realized that |they had been beaten, despite their strong unions, in the fight for a living |them went on strike for wages equal to those already paid the Koreans. The plantation owners, assisted by lo- cal and territorial officials, inaugurat- ed a reign of terror, according to re- ports sent here. Strike leaders were virtually beseiged. in their homes; | strikers were forbidden to approach them; all meetings were forbidden; guards were given orders to shoot at sight any striker? who might approach | | them. The first result of this outlawry by the sugar kings has been the murder of 20 strikers, and wounding of a great number, and the jailing of hpndreds, while widows and children are dis- tracted with grief and fear. Scenes recalling the Ludlow massacre in Rockefeller's suppression of the Colo. rado coal strike of 1913-14 are report. ed, Racial antagonisms, cultivated by the plantation owners between. the Japanese, Koreans and Filipinos, have kept the strike from becoming general. DEFENSE DAY; FREE ADVERTISING; THREE CHEERS! DEFENSE DAY! (Special to The Daily Worker) * SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 15.— The parade here on Defense Day was a farce. There were only about 150 people in the parade and these included children. Autos were prominent in the parade. in them Satsthe fat, well-fed business men of South Bend. Funny how patriotle | May Peake, the president of the (Continued on page 2) they are when a chance for free ad- | vertising is on the horizon, Re: f Cabled. tes, -- wage in the sugar industry, many thousands of them turned to the build- ing industry and to truck farming, and discovered that they were better off than when serving the sugar kings. The Filipinos, at the bottom of the economic scale, began to organize, and | about a month ago many thousands of . x