The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1924, Page 2

Page Two NEGRO WORKER ‘MADE TO SCAB BY EXCLUSION Ask West Va. Labor to Open Books to Negro (Special te the DAILY WORKER) WHEELING, W. Va., Sept. 15. —A scathing attack on the trade unions of West Virginia for ex- cluding Negro workers from membership was made by Thomas Edward Mills, Negro, of the Bureau of Negro Statistics of Charleston, at the 17th an- nual convention of the West Virginia Federation of Labor held here. “Negroes do not want to work in non-union shops, on non- union jobs or on jobs where other men have walked out on strike,” Mills told the delegates “By refusing to take them into y Organization you force them to work @gainst you. Were every labor union fm West Virginia to open its rolls to Negro workers you would see the Negro strikebreakers disappear en- tirely in a very short time.” The consideration of a candidate for the office of president of the Federa- tion is being given much of the con- vention’s time, W. T. Harris, the @resent president is to be ousted un- der charge of misuse of the organiza- tion’s funds. Frank Keeney, former President of Dist. 17 United Mine ‘Workers who resigned his office be- cause of a request from John L. Lewis giving way to an appointed president in Southern West Virginia is being slated for the office but not without opposition. In fact it is understood that practically all locals from the ‘Wheeling district and a number from other parts of the state have threat- ened to withdraw from the Federation if Keeney is elected. Among the other names mentioned for the presi- dency is that of Ned Sims of Wheel- ing. Mother Buries Babies. LAKEWOOD, N. J., Sept. 15.—The Srand jury will meet in Toms River tomorrow to consider the case of Mrs. BDatelle Saunders, charged with bury- img her new-born baby alive in the “Woods near here at Forked River. Police will start on a hunt to dis- cover whether or not this attempt to Kill her last child was the first time Mrs. Saunders had done the same thing. Her husband, according to his story to the police, believes that she buried at least two previously born abies in the same manner. Dicks Held For Blackmail. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 15.— Three private detectives today faced one to five years in prison each and fines of $100 for blackmail on sen- tences pased by Judge Collins in crim- inal court. They were Robert F. Mc- Blroy, superintendent of O'Neil Detec- tive Service; Chas. Hasselberg and Frank Cordell, operatives, the latter recently sentenced to sixty days in Louisville for assault and battery in connection with the kidnapping of a Chicago man by a jealous husband. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. | Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES | FARGO, North Dakota.— Friday, F September 19th, 8 p. m. a SPOKANE, Wash. — Monday, fember 22nd, 8:00 p. m. SEATTLE, Wash.—Masonic Temple, Tuesday, September 23rd, 8:00 p. m. TACOMA, Wash. — Eagles’ Hall, Wednesday, September 24th, 8:00 Sep- p.m. ASTONIA, Ore.—Saturday, Septem- ber 27th, 8:00 p. m. PORTLAND, Ore.—!. O. 0. F. Audi- terium, 10th and Salmon St., Sunday, September 28th, 8:00 p. m. ; BERKELEY, Cal—High School Au ' ditorium, Tuesday, September 30th, 8:00 p. m. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—California Hall, Turk and Larkin Sts. Wednes- day, October, ist, 8:00 p. m. LOS ANGELES, Cal—Friday, Octo- ber 3rd, 8:00 p, m. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.— Unity Hall, 138 So, 2 East, Sunday, October Bth, 8:00 p. m. DENVER, Colo—Auditorium, Curtis and 14th St. Tuesday, October 7th, 8:00 p. m. GITLOW'S DATES Comrade Gitlow, candidate for vice- ARRIVAL OF FLIERS 1S CAUSE OF EXCITEMENT AMONG ALL THE MORONS The heralds of American imperial- ism in the form of the three world flight airmen, reached Chicago to- day amid the blowing of whistles All sorts of reparations are be- ing made to recelve the pilots of America’s “victory” in right royal order and it is expected that there will be a real hot time in the old town tonight. Thousands of morons are gather- ing at Maywood, where the fliers will land, in order to get a glimpse at the red-blooded American pion- eers. Special trains will be run and there will be more excitement in Chicago, than if the news had come that the King of Afghanistan had married the Queen of Sheba. Traffic has been suspended in many districts to permit the inhabit- ants of Oak Park, who will drive to the field in their Tin Lizzies, to go ahead without any delay. A squad of sixty-nine flappers are prepared to mob the airmen with osculatory affection. When the airmen recover they will attend the reception of the bigwigs that has been arranged. B, & 0, BOOSTERS) FAIL TO ROUSE ANY ENTHUSIASM By CYRIL LAMBKIN. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 15.—Taking advantage of the presence in Detroit of members of the general executive board of the International Association of Machinists, who are here for the convention, Detroit Local No. 82, has arranged a series of open meetings |for the purpose of recruiting new jmembers. The first of these meet- ings was addressed by four members of the general executive board. Surprised at 10-hour Day. Nicholson, the first speaker, admit- ted that the union had lost ground since the organization campaign in 1916, conducted under his leadership. He said he was surprised to find many shops maintaining a ten-hour day. Suddenly he was fired with elo- quence in speaking of the millennium when the devil will be chained and there will be no sin for a thousand years. He rapped the democratic party for its failure to nominate McAdoo and urged those present to vote for La Follette. He concluded by express- ing his pleasure at the renomination of the multi-millionaire James Cou- zens for U. S. senator. A casual re- mark about Couzens being the man who created the fine conditions in the Ford plant brought bitter smiles to the face of many a Ford worker present at the meeting. Announce Brownlie Meetings. Mr. Fickert, who followed Nichol- son, announced the meeting next Thursday, which will be addressed by President Brownlie, of the Amalga- mated Engineering Union of Great Britain. Brownlie, who is the fraternal dele- gate from Britain to the Canadian Trade Union Congress, is to address meetings in the principal cities of the United States for the purpose of interesting the tens of thousands of British mechanics in the U. 8S. who, according to this official, not only do not join the I. A. of M., but in many instances directly scab on the Ameri- can machinists. The keynote of the next speaker was: Gain respectability. He urged the trade unionists to speak to the butcher, the baker and others of the so-called public on the gentle aims and objects of the labor movement. Mr. McMahon, the last speaker pleaded for pep and for appreciation of the noble cause of labor. But like the previous speakers, he failed to suggest a single concrete issue that would inspire a worker to join his fellow workers and battle for better conditions. Militant Sees Lack of Spirit. A militant in the machinists’ union who heard for the first time four leaders of his international union, re- marked at the close of the meeting that the thing that impressed him most was the spiritlessness and utter incapacity of such men to‘inspire dis- contented workers, and the conse- quent opportunity for the militants who have an inspiring message to win the workers. All that is neces- sary is an indomitable will and thoro organization to accomplish the feat of winning over an important trade union to the revolutionary position. Telegraphers’ Wage Dispute Comes Before Railroad Labor Board A dispute over a demand for an increase in wages by the telegraphers predident, will address meetings at the following places: GARDNER, Mass.—Wednesday, Sep- tember 17th, 8:00 p. m. in WORCESTER, Mass.—A. O, H. Hall, Trumbull St, Thursday, September - 18th, 8:00 p. m. NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Hermongon's Hall, 158 Crown St., Friday, Septem- ber 19th, 8:00 p. m. , HARTFORD, Conn. — Educational employed on the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will come up for hearing before the Federal Railroad Labor Board here on September 22. The dispute involving wages and rules has come up between the men and the company, but under the new ruling railroad employes cannot settle their disputes with the company but must submit their grievances to the Labor Board. J. R. Hindmarch is MACDONALD IS HARD PUT T0 EXPLAIN GIFT “Endowed” Auto Keep- ing Mac’s Tongue Busy LONDON, Sept. 15.—The repeated attempts of Ramsay MacDonald, so- cialist premier of Great Britain to ex- plain away the gift of $150,000 and the Daimler car from Sir Alexander Grant, millionaire biscuit manufacturer and member of the Tory party, appear to make matters worse instead of better. Close friends of the premier advise MacDonald to keep his mouth shut and give the confounded thing a chance to die down. But there is hardly a billboard in the city that does not carry a head- line advertising some newly discovered detail connected with the troublesome gift. Graft Story Funny Had the story of MacDonald's sud- den good fortune been one of plain and vulgar graft, while it might have created a storm of anger among the betrayed workers, an element of un- conscious humor which is present in this case would be lacking. “Taking the biscuit” from now on will be understood to mean accepting a bribe or participating in graft. The alleged fight made by MacDonald against acceptance of the gift is com- mented on derisively and writers of headlines are straining their ingenuity in framing the snappiest combination of words possible to put the premier’s financial pursuits in a ludicruous light. The following are samples: “Mac's Car Drinks Much Gas: Would Drain the Teapot Done.” “Takes Thirty Thousand Pounds To Keep Her Thirst Quenched.” “Dough Makes Biscuits; Ramsay Makes Dough.” Strange Bedfellows The Communists are calling atten- tion to the points of similarity between the generosity of Edward L. Doheny, of America to Albert B. Fall, member of the Harding cabinet and that of Sir Alexander Grant to James Ramsay MacDonald. Doheny is a democrat, while Senator Fall was a republican. Sir Grant is a Tory while MacDonald is a socialist. Political grafters are something strange bedfellows. The left wing section of the British labor movement is furious and de- mands the premier’s political head. His recent statements repudiating the class struggle and calling for closer collabo- ration with the bourgeoisie have helped to kill his reputation as a radical among the class conscious workers but this exposure helps to put the tin hat on him asa working class leader. MILITANT YOUTH UPHOLSTERERS IN FIGHT FOR UNION (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) BOSTON, Sept. 15.— A general strike of upholsterers was called for today in this city by Local No. 87, for the purpose of organizing the “open shops.” Three hundred youths, comprising two-thirds of the union, have estab- lished the 40-hour week, with a scale of one dollar per hour, in the organiz- ed shops, and they are now trying to establish the same terms with the bosses operating what are now “open shops.” Wheat Drops in Price. LEWISTOWN, Mont., Sept. 15.—The old trick of wheat at a good price when the farmer has none to market and a big drop in the price as soon as he starts to thresh a new crop, has again been resorted to here. The wheat figures of the local market show that spring wheat dropped 21c, winter 15c and durum 22c in a month, an average drop of 19%c per bushel. Catch Coin Counterfeiters. MADRID, Sept. 15.—Police today ar- rested five counterfeiters making five pound Algerian notes. The plates were confiscated. $2,500,000 DAMAGE AND 6 DEAD IS TOLL IN CALIFORNIA FIRE MONTEREY, Cal., Sept. 15.—This old seaport, one-time capital of Cal- ifornia, and popular beach toda: law as a great oll fire which already has taken a possible toll of six lives and $2,500,000 in property damage roared on unchecked. Military authorities at the Presi- dio took charge of the situation when after a fourth great explosion, the oll fire, started by a bolt of lightning, which has been raging for 24 hours, spread into New Monterey and burned six homes. Soldiers who have been on the fire line since early yesterday, and civilians turned hastily to the work of erecting dikes across all streets and other possible channels thru whieh burning oil liberated by explosions can run into the town. The whole population of the town spent the night on the hills fringing the bay, fearful that another gaso- line explosion might shower a flam- Baltimore & Ohio “get-to- THE DAILY WORKER ARREST DETROIT BOYS FOR FIGHTING WAR DAY, THEN TURN THEM LOOSE (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 15.—Three members of the Young Workers’ League were arrested by the police as they were handing out the anti- Mobilization Day leaflets published by the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League. The police swooped down upon the young workers as they were dis- tributing leaflets from door to door. These stalwart upholders of law and order with drawn revolvers de- manded to see the leaflets and found nothing seditious until one of them discovered the name of Trot- sky. Then they decided to bring the youth to the station where they were given a_ lecture by the ser- geant who tried to convince them that they should spend their time to better advantage and suggested that one of these comrades, a Nor- wegian by birth, should be deported. But after the examination to deter- mine whether he could afford to let them loose without any great dan- ger to our society of bootleggers, grafters and oil scandaleers, the sergeant asked whether they were against the Germans, and when he was answered in the negative, he said: “You better not, | am a Ger- man myself.” The young workers were then re- leased and will of course, continue to carry their fight against mili- tarism and spread the message of Communism to the workers in De- troit. CHANG’S TROOPS MOVING SOUTH ON NIPPON RAILROAD Tokio Fighting U. S.'On Chinese Policy PEKING, Sept. 15.—The troops. of General Chang, war lord of Manchuria, are moving south over the Japanese South Manchurian railway. Tokio de- clares this is merely a matter of busi- ness and has no political significance. Nevertheless, it is significant that the United States and Britain are reported to be supporting Wu Pei Fu and that the French are’ supplying the Chek- iang forces with armored cars. Japs Against Fu. Japanese papers give consicenante, publicity to news and articles host: to Wu Pei Fu. Headlines suggesting that the ousting of Wu Pei Fu is necessary to.the peace and unity of China are common in the Tokio press. ‘Wu has not made a real start yet, but once he does, the fat will be in the fire and a first rate civil war will be on, involving the whole of China. G. O. P. Senator Main Speaker at Machinist Meet (Continued from Page 1.) Women’s Auxiliary of the machinists’ union, stated that the women have both feet in this election. After the favorable impression that is usually created by the speech of a woman, Dennis Batt, the renegade revolutionary who was recently sub- jected to a severe drubbing in his race for the legislature in the republican primaries, took the opportunity to present Johnston with a new gavel from the Detroit local. This is more of a symbol of Dennis’ willingness to be beaten into line by Johnston who has finally rallied Batt to the class collaboration standards of the gether” plan. Millionaire Couzens Speaks. Johnston then took the chair. He immediately introduced the million- aire senator from Michigan, James Couzens, who spoke on the subject of liberal legislation. The report of the resolution committee, which is in charge of all the propositions brought this afternoon. It is expected that a number of preliminary skirmishes will take place before the chief issues before the convention, to be em- phasized by the militant bloc in the convention, such as the B. & O. plan, amalgamation, the organization of the unorganized and the question of in- dependent political action, will come up for action. A hot battle is expected especially on the subjects of the B. & O. plan and amalgamation of the metal trades unions, due to the reac- onary ition of the officialdom on both points. An indication of the attitude of in- tolerance towards the militants and any of their literature, was evidenced when the news boy of the DAILY WORKER was summarily ordered to leave the convention hall. Seek Explosion Cause, BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 15.—Hf- U. S. Fascist Elements Meet in Gathering of the American Legion By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. Tea the American Legion, organization of Fascisti ele- ments gathered from among veterans of the recent world war, opens its Sixth Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. _Reports say that St. Paul is ablaze with color. Every business house has been decorated. The Legionaires have been given the freedom of the city. * * * * It was only three short months ago that the June 17th Convention of the National Farmer-Labor forces gathered in the same city. There was no blaze of flags on the main streets. The business houses were not decorated. Instead the newspapers were openly hostile, even the so-called “labor” sheet, the Minnesota Star. At one point: it was threatened to drive the convention from the Municipal Auditorium, thru the use of the police, if not the militia. It was even noised about that the farmers and workers, striv- ing to build a class party of their own, would be driven from the city or thrown in jail. * * * * But the farmer-labor forces were striving to make pro- gress for labor. They were planning to build a liberating Workers’ Power. They were seeking emancipation from war-breeding, hate-creating capitalism. For that reason the forces of capitalism fought them. * * * Capitalism opposes progress. It worships those who fight its wars, That is why it is showering its hospitality on the American Legion meeting it St. Paul. Morrow Krum, in the Chicago Tribune, today, tells of the invasion of St. Paul by the friends of the Fascist, Charles Gates Dawes, republican vice-presidential candidate. It reads like the reports in thumbnail form, of the hystericalAmerican press, in telling of the German invasion of Belgium in the early days of the war in 1914. Morrow Krum says: “It may be reported frankly that St. Paul has been a bit appre- hensive of the Yanks’ convention. Things have been said. Parents have discussed it. Even in the office where this is being written, the young women operators have hoped they would be permitted to go home early. “This night before the opening of the convention is a bit different from that at the Kansas City and New Orleans meetings. There are no dice games in the hotel lobbies at present. If cups have been flow- ing, there is little evidence of it.” m ae * *” But the gathering of the Fascist Legions is just start- ing. There is plenty of time yet. Drunken mobs of the friends of Vice-Presidential Candidate Dawes will yet parade the streets, committing the man cowardly mobs can be guilty of. a as they are —— travel in mobs, whether they wear the hood and cloak of the Ku Klux Klan, or the badge of the American Legion. The cups will be filled to overflowing. The dice games will run 24 hours a day in all hotel lobbies. Communists will ‘be denounced in speeches and resolutions oh the convention floor. The women and girls of the working class, on the streets, will be insulted and worse, as they have been in previous years, in the cities where the Legionaires have al- ready met. Soviet Russia will be scour; in varied denun- ciations with the slanders that super-pay-triots always call to their aid in the absence of facts. The annual report of these American Fascisti proudly proclaims that, “We have been unrelenting In our campaign against revolutionary radicalism.” » crimes that only drunken, The craven defenders of Some so-called “labor leaders” may be expected to pre- cipitate themselves into this mess of capitalist hoodlums, in order to give a “labor” atmosphere to this annual bacchanal. “Major” George L. Berry, head of the Printing Press- men’s Union, is an annual ‘attendant’ at these affairs. He even tried to win the job of leading the organization. He had the Legion support in his drive for the vice-presidential nomi- nation in the democratic convention at New York City. But his democratic affiliations, and his endorsement of the Davis- Bryan ticket will not prevent him from hob-nobbing with Mr. Dawes. Sam Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has also been a regular visitor at these affairs. He has urged what he calls a “soldier-labor alliance.” The American Legion is not a rank a file organization. It has some Henry Dubb rank and filers, but it is officer-con- trolled. It is run from the top. It is with this sabre-rattling, goose-stepping soldier officialdom that Gompers would lin up the American Federation of Labor. It is well for the workers, as the American Legion thers, to remember the denunciation of this organization, in resolutions —— at the Second General Conference of the Trade Union Educational League. The Legion is here denounced as having engaged, since its formation, in the breaking up of peaceful meetings of workingmen, in oppos- ing strike movements, and various other anti-labor activities. It is shown to have given abundant evidence of hostility to the aims of trade unionism and of loyalty to the big employ- ing interests which finance it so liberally. It will be remembered that last year the American Legion invited Benito Mussolini, the bloody Fascist dictator of Italy, to grace its gatherin; _ with Berry and Gom- pers. But Mussolini was too busy clinging to his tottering power at home. . * * * oe Mothers may fear for their dau; rs in St. Paul, dur- ing the days ahead, as a result of the invasion of that city by the American Legion. That is an imminent danger. But a broader menace faces the whole working class. Labor's growing power confronts a standing threat from the great robber interests as long as this Fascist menace exists. Labor can best fight this menace now by makin war upon any effort to ally the American Federation Labor with the American Legion. Spanish Claim That There Are Nuts In England. Moroccan Rebels Are |coopan, “amorin's child. fim. star, On British Payroll LONDON, Sept. 15.—According to forts were being made today to deter-/the Standard today, a British com- mine the cause of the explosion Sun-| pany advanced money to Abdel Krim, day in the canning factory of J. O.|leader of the rebellious natives of Bernard, at Henderson, Md., in which|Morrocco, in return for oil and min- three persons were killed and five|eral concessions. others, including four children, were] The paper said there is little doubt injured seriously. oo that Abdel Krim is using part of the money to finance his present cam- nearly created’ a riot here today while visiting royalty. . Jackie appeared. at the window o! St. James Palace to view the changing of the royal guard and the news went around at once, Thousands of women fought to get a glimpse of the boy and only the appearance of police rein- forcement prevented a riot. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” © IRS Aa atthe a he 2 SE EE ES EC eT a MUSSOLINI IN FIT AT DEATH OF CASALINI Wasn’t Like T hat When Matteotti Died ' (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Sept. 15.—An elabo- rate public funeral for the body of Armando Casalini, Fascist deputy who was killed by Gio- vanni Corvi, a worker, “in re- venge for the murder of Gia- como Matteotti,” will be held here tomorrow on the author- ization of government officials. Prominent among the mourn- ers will be the figure of Mus- solini. The premier has already visited the body of the Fascist deputy, and has publicly ex- pressed his “anger that such an outrage should be committed.” The action of the government in this case is strikingly in contrast with the attitude taken towards the funeral of Matteotti. In spite of insistent de- mands of workers all over the coun- try, no permission could be obtained for the holding of a public funeral for the socialist deputy. Workers Arrested. The police are making wholesale arrests Of all workers suspected to be in sympathy with Corvi. A fourteen- year-old boy has been thrown into jail for no reason other than that he is known to have been on friendly terms with the slayer of Casalini. Foster Slams Wall Street’s Defense Day and ‘General’ Dawes (Continued from page 1) money which enables him to own and occupy that great palace he calls his home at Locust Valley, Long Island, comes from the non-union coal opera- tors of West Virginia and the rest of his fortune comes from J. P. Morgan, and other Wall Street financial pi- rates, “As for LaFollette he says he will “bust” the trusts. You New Jersey workers know very well that the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, is stronger and wealthier than ever. It is more unscrupulous toward its workers than at any time in its his- tory. You know that the Standard Oil was to be broken up by the Sherman anti-trust law. A law proposed by Sherman, the former friend of LaFol- lette. No laws of this kind, which La- Follette at this late day proposes, can be enforced. Abolition of Capitalism. “Neither by LaFollette’s middleclass business men nor by his labor skate followers, as long as capitalism con- tinues or as long as Wall street con- tinues to own the government at Washington. The Workers Party stands like a rock against this whole capitalist combination. Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette. We stand for Communism; the abolition of the capi- talist system; the organization of So- viets and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The meeting at Elizabeth was re- markable. A large audience sat in rapt attention for almost two hours listening to Foster. They repeatedly broke in on him with loud applause. A large number of tickets were sold, admission was charged and in addition a collection of almost two hundred dollars was taken up. On the follow- ing night an equally successful meet- ing was held. There also a large de- tail of police watched over the meet- ing. Apparently the New Jersey “democratic” government wants to overawe the rising militant spirit amongst the workers. These two meetings just held in New Jersey point toward a bright future for the Communist movement in, that state. You can get sample copies of the DAILY WORKER any time at the DAILY WORKER office. PRIZE FIGHTERS NOT LIKE COMMUNISTS AT ALL, CANON IS TOLD NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—That heavyweight prize-fighters are be- coming as respectable as other cap tains of finance was made clear to canon Chase, Brooklyn preacher, when he was defeated in his second attempt to K. 0. the Firpo-Wills fight. The second stopping of the canon was given by federal judge Runyon of Newark, who refused to issue a warrant for the wild bull’s arrest on a charge of violating the Mann act. Time was when a_ prize-fighter was a much harried individ the law always on his back but that was in the old days beofre the mil- lion dollar gate. In those days the young Argentine slugger would have been rushed before deportation au- thorities with the scant ceremony now accorded an |. W. W. or Com- munist. But now it took a colored — in both by the left wing delegates and locals and the right wing, will begin 287 Windsor Ave., Saturday, 0 give this alien he bum's thy 8200 rom chairman of the telegegphers’ com mitteo ing rain upon the town and destroy Ua the DAILY WORKER, ¥ Join the Workers Party! 9, Pwlen against the Spanjaade. eT ' ' ne