The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 1

bette! J THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY. Aa American press in China is e calling for an aggressive Ameri- tan policy for that country. Th American policy is not wanting in Rggressiveness, but at times polite- ness is tried and if successful our secretary of state does not show the mailed fist. The Chinese policy of the Washington government is dictated by the interests of the capitalists who have interests in China. They will Bee to it that firmness is used when- ever necessary. The American capi- talist agents in China are blaming France for not signing the Washing- tonagreement thus disturbing Hughes’ policy in the Orient, with the result that Pekihg recognized the Soviet government. o HE news appeared in very remote corners of the daily papers that the Russian embassy in Peking, where the Czar’s ambassadors used to hold out once upon a time, is now in Possession of the Soviet ambassador. Gradually the nations of the earth are forced to come to the conclusion that they. must deal with the Soviet gov- ernment. Those who still expect that the Soviet government can be over- thrown are more optimistic than is good for them. ee 8 ILLY SUNDAY, the human wind- bag who has made mdre money making Christianity ridiculous than Harry Daugherty got out of the boot- leggers, while he was head of the D. of J., has written an article for the Smart Set, setting forth his views on sin. We are indebted for this, in- formation to the ‘pen prostitute Ar- thur Brisbane who writes a good deal of the drivel for the Hearst papers. After reading the following Brisban- ality and “knowing ~Arthurto ‘be a skillful advertiser we are inclined to think that Mr. Hearst has purchased the Smart Set. This is Arthur's com- ment: “If you are inclined to take religion a little too lightly, it may be worth your while and also save you a few hundred millions of years of worry in the hereafter to read Billy Sundays’ warning in the October Smart Set. Billy may be right you know.” Brisbane does not believe in a hell beyond the grave but he is do- ing his level best to keep the work- ing class in hell on this earth. ** * CANADIAN soldier of the Third Engineering Division, a veteran “Mf the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Arras and (Continued on page 3) AMERICAN MARINES SENT TO HONDURAS TO BREAK STRIKE (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—It ap- pears that the American marines were landed at Ceiba, Honduras, be- cause the New Orleans chamber of commerce had protested to Coolidge that business in that region was be- irig ruined by the continuance of the revolutionary fighting in the re- public. Moreover, the proof that business was being ruined by fight- ing 100 miles from Ceiba was proved by the hostility of striking steve- dores and freight handlers in Ceiba to a shipload of strikebreakers im- ported from Jamaica by the Ameri- can fruit company controlling that port. Had there been a “strong” government in Honduras, the strik- Vol. Hi. No. 154. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MINE HORROR TAKES BIG | Workers! Here is John W. Davis, Attorney for House of Morgan Alleged Victory of Alleged Socialists. sults 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. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1924 << .,, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, JOnN W. DAVIS, attorney for the House of Morgan, the Telephone Trust, the Standard Oil Trust and other monopolies, and candidate for president of the United States on the democratic ticket speaks in Chicago tonight. John W. Davis, since his nomination. by the democratic national convention as its standard bearer has missed no occasion to tout himself as a friend of labor, The DAILY WORKER takes this opportunity to call the attention of the workers to the record of this lackey of Big Business and servile tool of the capitalist class. John W. Davis makes political capital out of the corruption in tMe Coolidge cabinet. He makes particular reference to the grafter Albert B. Fall who sold out the oil resources of the country for a satchelful of one- hundred dollar bills. But Mr. Davis forgets to mention the mansion he received from the generous oil man Mr. Bedford of Standard Oil. This was one of the show places visited by the Prince of Wales while enjoying himself in “Little England” on Long Island, New York. John W. Davis, claims to be the author of sections 6 and 20 of the Clayton Act which refers specifically to the rights of labor. They were the work of representatives Clay- ton and Carlin. Not that the act means any- thing to the workers. Even tho the following words “the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce” appear in the act, the workers still sell their labor power at the factory gate as before and are ged to get a buyer at the buyer’s own price. ut it proves that candidate Davis is careless with his facts and-is-willing to lie in order to catch the labor vote. John W, Davis lied when he stated that he defended “Mother” Jones and Eugene V. Debs at any time in his career. The fact is that instead of defending “Mother” Jones he prosecuted her and the other organizers of the United Mine Workers who participated in a strike in 1902 against the Clarksburg Fuel Company. John W. Davis succeded in securing an injunction restraining the or- anizers from mingling with the miners in nae and Morgantown. The suit against the union organizers was brought by the Guarantee Trust Company of New York, which is still one of Davis's’ well-paying clients. John W. Davis claimed that he defended the glass workers. On the contrary, Mr. Davis was attorney-for the Window Glass Manufacturers in the Federal Case 263 U. S. 402. John W. Davis was attorney for the non- union coal operators in their effort to crush the United Mine Workers of America by holding it liable to triple damages in a local strike. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 17.—The re- the first Danish elections were Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ‘BOB’ AND ‘BURT’ John W. Davis aided the Pennsylvania Coal Company in nullyfying a state statute to prevent sub-surface mining where caves- in endangered life. John W. Davis aided the New York Tele- phone Company in getting $6,000,000 a year more out of its subscribers in increased rates. The above is sufficient to prove that John W. Davis is as pronounced a servant of Big Business as there is in the United States. “Big Business has made this country what it is” said John W. Davis before his nomina- tion. “I have a fine list of clients. What lawyer wouldn't want them? | have J. P. Morgan and Company, the Erie Railroad, the Guaranty Trust Company, the Standard Oil Company and other foremost American con- cerns on my list. | am proud of them...” This is John W. Davis before he was picked to lead the democratic party in this election. John W Davis has now realized that if he depends for his election on the votes of the bankers and the capitalists, he will not get very far. He knows that the workers are many. So he tries to pose as their friend. The workers have not a friend in any capitalist candidate. Davis is no better than Coolidge. Both stand for the capitalist sys- tem. LaFollette poses as a progressive, but he stands for the capitalist system also. The workers need expect no more from him than from Davis and Coolidge. There is only one presidential candidate in the field who stands for the interests of the workers and he is William Z. Foster, Com- munist and union mari, running on the Workers Party ticket. (" , Davis, Coolidge and LaFollette, differ only in the manner in which they believe the capitalist government should be run. They all believe the system itself is alright but La- Follette believes that the small capitalists should bet a better deal. He does not con- sider the workers. The Communist candidate William Z. Foster, speaking for the Workers Party stands for the abolition of the capitalist sys- tem root and branch and for building on its ruins the Workers and Farmers government. Foster the union man, the strike leader, the Communist stands for the interests of labor. Davis and his capitalist competitors stand for the capitalists. The DAILY WORKER calls on those who toil, the workers in the industries and the exploited workers on the land, to rally be- hind the Communist ticket and join the Workers Party, that is pledged to work during election time and between elections for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of the workers rule, thru a Workers and Farmers government. [HERE ARE TWO MORE | declared this afternon to have been indefinite, tho the social democrats ap- peared to have gained some seats which were lost by the government forces. It was reported, however, that the net results of the changes will not effect the voting strength of the parties in the Landsting. Earthquake in Armenia. MOSCOW, Sept. 17. — A violent earthquake was reported from Lenin- ers would have been unable to in- |kan, Armenia. There were no details terfere with the strikebreaking jas to casualties or damage. PRIEST WHIPS BOY FOR PASSING OUT LEAFLETS URGING WORKERS TO ATTEND COMMUNIST MEETING By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH (Special to The Daily Worker) NANTICOKE, Pa, pt. 17.—Because he stood at the entrance to the church distributing leaflets, a small boy of this place was severely whipped by the pri it. The leaflets were an announcement of a meeting at which Joseph Kowalski, organizer for the Workers Party, was to speak. Kowalski is well known to the Polish workers of this place and it is thought that the priest was angered at the thought of the boy choosing the church entrance as the place to effectively distribute the leaflets. Perhaps he was afraid that his flock would become contaminated with ideas not to his liking, and inas- much as they were all now out of church, thereby deprieving the one with “holy orders” from telling his sheep that they were not allowed to attend the meeting, he felt that a public whipping would be understood, by those who saw it, as his opposition to the meeting. That it had no effect, can be attested to by the fact that a good sized crowd turnéd out to hear Kowalski. The same is true of his meetings at Edwardaville, Plains and Wilkes Barre in this region. New members tor the Workers Party were secured at each . HAVE HARD TIME IN GOPPER STATE Plotting to Clean Up . Farmer-Labor Party (Special to The Daily Worker) GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 17.— The moves of “Bob” and “Burt” to scuttle the Montana farmer -labor party are not meeting with the suc- cess they at first anticipated. The pointblank refusal of the farmer-la- bor party convention at Helena to withdraw its electors in favor of an independent set to be put on the bal- lot here was something in the nature of a bombshell in the camps of the two would-be dictators, Some five months ago, Wheeler sent Dorman, former non-partisan league manager in Montana, into the state for the purpose of reorganizing the C. PP, A, and advancing the candid- ature of Senator T. J. Walsh, After some months of labor, Dorman was successful in getting twelve men to- gether who endorsed Walsh and other reactionary candidates in the name of the C. P. P. A, Dorman counted on the support of the railroad unions for his endorsements. This was part- ly frustrated by the widespread pub- licity given to Dorman’s maneuvers by two well-known farmer-labor leaders, P. J. Wallace and Senator Chas. B. ‘Taylor, in the liberal and radical press of the state, As & result the railroad ‘brotherhoods repudiated the endorse- INSTANCES OF BIG RISKS TO CAPITAL MIDWEST, Wyo., Sept. 17.—Jonn Hogenson and Perry Gregson, oil field workers, both believed to be from Tul are dead today as the result of asphyxiation and drowning in 15 inches of crude oil in the Slat Creek area. The men entered a 55,000 gallon tank to make repairs and were overcome by fumes. Falling into the shallow oil they drowned before they recovered from the fumes. -_ rere nS ments and removed their legislative representatives who attended Dor- man’s meeting. This put an end to the C. P. P. A. in Montana in its role as a smoke screen for the payment of Wheeler's political debts to Walsh. Dixon Supporters Present. The next move was the visit of Phil LaFollette to the state. Dorman had a carefully picked group of en- emies of the farmer-labor party to meet him, The group was composed mostly of reactionary labor leaders recruited from the brotherhoods. But harmony did not prevail. Many of those present were supporters of Gov- ernor Dixon and were sore because he was not endorsed at the same time (Contiued on page 5) Nab Six Hitlerites, MUNICH, Sept. 17.—Six Hitlerites (Bavarian Fascisti) were arrested to- day charged with plotting the libera- tion of Adolf Hitler from prison, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL FOSTER STRONG WITH WESTERN ELECTRIC LABOR LaFollette and Coolidge Run Neck and Neck Out of a mixed group of work- ers at the Western Electric com- pany, including many office employes, straw bosses and scissor-bills who have managed to retain their jobs in spite of |the immense lay-offs of the past j|months, William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for president, polled enough votes from among the real working class elements to give him a total of 171. Robert M. LaFollette, for whom a great many workers voted because “Foster hasn’t a chance this time,” was one vote ahead of Calvin Coolidge with a total of 408. Davis Runs Behind. The vote polled for John Wallstreet Davis was again light, as it had been among the workers in the clothing in- dustries. Davis got only 70 votes. Thousands Cast Their Ballots. The flood of workers that pours every noon time from the gates of the Western Electric Company eddied about groups of Workers Party mem- bers who stod at each entrance. One after another four thousand electric company employes took the blanks on which were printed the names of the four candidates who will run for president in. the. fall elections. marked them, folded them, and drop- ped them into the ballot boxes which the party had provided. By means of this straw ballot, a cross section of the political opinion of the 25,000 workers in the company was secured. “Mother” Bloor Speaks. At one corner of the Western Elec- tric plant a tremendous crowd of men gathered about the platorm from which Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor de- livered a ringing appeal to the work- jers to throw their votes to William Z. Foster, the only working class candi- date in the field. She explained how the candidates of the old parties, by the very nature of the parties, could never be of service to the workers, how the “party” of Robert M. LaFol- lette was appealing to the workers of the country with carefully phrased and illusory misstatements. She went on to tell of the work of Foster in or- ganizing the men in steel mills dur- ing the strike of 1919, of the record of the Workers Party in giving aid to all of the striking workers it has been able to reach. Thousands Lose Jobs. “Mother” Bloor ended by directing her listeners, who by that time were packed about her in a solid phalanx, to the ballot boxes to register their choice, The large vote cast for Foster is all the more significant when it is re- mebered that over 10,000 workers have been laid off at the Western Electric Company during the past four months, and that when the periodical firing process begins, it is the scissor- bills who are chosen to remain. Very seldom is any consideration shown for a worker who has shown a tendency to radical thought. i Surprising incidents occurred dur- ing the poll of the straw vote. A well-dressed office worker—perhaps a boss—held out his hand for a ballot, placed it on the box, and marked it plainly and deliberately for William Z, Foster. A mumber of seemingly intelligent workers declared them- (Continued on page 2) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th: . Foster Coolidge LaFollette Davis Hart, Schaffner & Marx... 67 158 206 31 Kuppenheimer 94 200 19 Royal Tailors 37 90 8 TOTAL . 289 496 58 Total vote cast, 994, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th: Western Electric Co.........171 Total vote cast, 1056. RESULTS OF TWO DAY’S VOTING IN DAILY WORKER STRAW VOTE N.Y. GIVES LOCATELLI, FASCIST, A NEW DOSE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Thousands of workers again gathered here, this time in front of the Manhattan Opera House, to let the Fascist de- puty and world fiyer, Antonio Loca- telli, know what the opinion of the Italian workers in this country is about the black gang with which he is associated. “Chevalier” Emanuele Gatti, leader of the Fascisti in New York, and Locatelli were treated to a dose of their own medicine for a change, when the indignant workers pounded them and other Fascist sympathiz- ers on various parts of their bodies. Police interfered again, and kept Locatelli safely in the theater; and after waiting for some time for the crowd to disperse, they finally es- corted him to a motor car when the anger of the workers let loose. In the affray a detective was stabbed and an alleged member of the I. W. W. is being held. His name is Anthony Cioffo. The po- lice claim to have a confession, but the experiences of radicals in such matters should be enough to cause disbelief in this “confession” un- til more substantial evidence is of- fered. NATION-WIDE SURVEY FINDS NO RENT DROP Either Standing Still or Being Raised Despite ‘the fact that the growing unemployment, which is being used by the employers of the nation to lower the wages of the workers in industry, has not enabled the worker in many instances to maintain the same standard of living he “enjoyed” during the war, rents have not been decreased in proportion. In fact, a nation-wide survey, conducted in all the principal cities of America, from one end of the country to the other, shows that not only have rents remained stationary, but that in many instances the landlord hogs have increased the sum which the worker has to pay for his two by four. The fol- lowing are typical cities: Caray Baltimore Rents At Standstill. BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.—Rents here have remained practically stationary since the high mark in real estate val- ues was reached a year ago. The de- mand for apartments has been es- pecially heavy, often resulting in a flat bringing in more revenue than a whole house. Many cases have been cited where the lessor of a house has converted a floor intoanapartmentand derived more than enough income to pay the rent of his home. Cee DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 17.—Rentals in Detroit are not on the decline ex- cept for certain type of apartment house dwelling in a rather fashionable district. The decrease in rentals of the large apartments according to property own- (Continued on page 6) 407 408 70 Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN CITLOW. Price 3 Cents TOLL DEATH TOLL IN WYOMING BLAST NOW THIRTEEN Horror Scenes Abound in Mining Town (Special to The Dally Worker) KEMMERER, Wyo., Sept. 17. Scenes of anguish and grief abound in the little mining set- tlement of Sublet, seven miles north of here today, as stricken wives and children waited at the mouth of Mine No. 5 of the Kemmerer Coal company where a terrific blast at noon yester- day snuffed out the lives of what is estimated to be fifty miners and other workers. A check up early today by company officials declared that sixty-four men were in the bowels of the earth when the explosion took place, instead of the eighty-one previously cal- culated. Thirteen Dead. Thirteen dead bodies had been re. moved early today and it was expect ed that the work of bringing up the victims of the disaster would move more rapidly as the day wore on, the gas and fire conditions gradually clearing up, according to reports of rescue workers. Yesterday the smoke and fire were so intense that it was some time before the frantic efforts of hundreds of rescue workers could gain entrance into the mine, the por- tals of which have been shattered and the passageways littered with debris by the explosion. Cheers rent the air when 12 men were rescued alive last night, unin- jured, since they had been entombed in a chamber above the seventh level when the blast occurred. But a group of mothers and children and kin mournfully followed the truck that bore 13 bodies to Kemmerer for iden- tification in the undertaking parlors of Fitzpatrick and into the Odd Fellows’ Hall. No Hope For Rest. Little hope was held out early to- day that any of the remaining men in the mine would be fetched out alive. The explosion came a few minutes before noon. Luckily it was pay day, and of the 200 men usually employed in Mine No. 5, only a few score were working at the time. The explosion was immediately followed by a great flash and fire started at once. Lage columns of heavy black smoke poured from both entrances of the fatal mine. Hundreds quickly gathered around the mine despite the heavy downpour of rain accompanied by an electrical storm. Volunteer workers arrived soon from Rock Springs, Diamonéville, Cumberland, and Frontier, and they will split into four shifts. Many expert mining men expressed the belief that it would be many days before a complete exploration of the mine can be made because of the ex- tensive damage done the interior by the terrific blast. Timbers were splin- tered, rails twisted and great cave-ins of rock and earth hindered the prog- ress of the men who were searching for victims of the disaster. A Regular Occurence. The Kemmerer disaster is another of the long line of mine explosions in which hundreds of coal diggers have been the victims, making profit for the employers at the risk of their lives. Recent disasters occurred at Benwood, W. Va. Corby, Minn., Shanktown, Pa., and Johnston City, Illinois. Subscribe for “Your Daily," the DAILY WORKER. FRENCH COMMUNISTS HIT DEBT FUNDING PLAN AS ‘DAWESISM’ (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PARIS, Sept. 17.—Denouncing the | Hurley debt-funding plan as a new Dawes proposition, L'Humanite, offi- cial organ of the French Communist Party, comments editorially: . “A veritable Dawes plan forced on France by the Anglo-Saxons, Let the French proletariat prepare to work twelve hours a day on starve ation wages to satisfy the billion aires of Wall Street and the society of Atlantie City.” oe me %