The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 4

A eee Was said to be out of town, campaign- Page Four ANTI-FASCISTI IN NEW HAVEN HOLD BIG MEET Squelch Black-Shirters Riot Attempts (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, Sept. 18.— Despite the attempts of Fascisti to break up the meeting, over 500 workers in Music Hall, yelled their condemnation of the Fascist regime in Italy. | Long before the meeting, the! papers predicted trouble, based on past experiences here. What infuriated the small Fascist group was the bright red tunic worn by John Govenesi, of New York, a white-haired, white- bearded veteran of the Italian | War of Independence in 1860. | Only the determined attitude ‘of William Simons, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party, saved the day. From then on, there was little interruption. The Fascists mumbled to them- selves that their plan to disrupt the meeting was a failure. Speakers In Italian. ‘The speakers in Italian were Mario Baldini, Pietro Allegra, and Carlo Tresca of New York, and Pasquale Cobianche, of New Haven. Baldini was eloquent in delineating the heights the Italian workers could at- tain in art and science, if they were in control of their destinies. Cobian- che’s passionate denunciation of the brutalities committeed by the Fascisti drew heated protests from those crea- tures that may once have been men, but are now nothing but Fascists. Pietro Allegra lived up to his name, with his witty thrusts at the enemy. Corlo Tresca, the veteran of the Law- rence 1912 strike, analyzed the rea- sons for the Fascist movement, excor- jating the renegade socialist, Musso- Mini. Socialist Fails To Appear. The only speaker in Hnglish was Comrade Simons. I. Polsky, was ad- vertised to speak for the socialist party and for the LaFollette club. But he must have recognized the impro- priety of a supporter of a capitalist tandidate attempting to condemn a Capitalist movement like Fascism. He ing for LaFollette, instead of being at a working class gathering to protest against cruelties inflicted upon the NCREASING activities and syste- matic attempts to reach the larg- est possible number of workers with the Communist message are marking the campaign for the Workers Party candidates by the membership of Dis- trict No. 8. Thirty-seven cities are being covered with campaign mass meetings thru Comrade “Mother” Bloor’s complete tour of the District. Street and factory meetings are being held regularly in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis, in Chicago an average of 25 a week, some of them showing} an attendance as high as 700 or 800. Other speakers, including the presi- dential candidates are carrying our) Party program to the workers inthe main cities. The printed propaganda, however, is one of the most effective mediums during the campaign, and special edi- tions of the DAILY WORKER are be- ing prepared. Ten thousand copies for Chicago to appear about October 10, 20,000 copies for the State of Wiscon- sin to appear a few days later and * 12,000 copies for the State of Indiana} to appear October 20, These editions will particularly take up the local is- sues with a comparison of the meas- ures proposed by our Party for which} material is being prepared by the comrades. The cost of these special editions are being covered thru ad- vertisements and they will be one ad-| ditional means of rallying the work- ing class for the fight against the/| tapitalist system and its institutions | THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chicago, The workers employed in the on the presidential candidates, and WM. Z. FOSTER .. Workers irty DAVIS ... wee Votes; Democratic Party Address: ..... WORKERS’ STRAW VOTE Votes; LaFOLLETTE wesc VOtOs; | certify that this report is correct: © NEW YORK ¢ OMMUNISTS! The Communist International.Calls.Upon-Us to Intensify Our Industrial Work. The First Step in This Direction is the Industrial Registration of Our Party Membership Comrades; have you responded to this call? Have you already regts- tered in the industrial registration as instructed by the» Party? Branch officials, have you already sent in the registration slips to the respective Party offices? If you have not already done so, then you must get every member in your branch | registered in this industrial registra- tion. Use every means possible to get this work done. Branches should make the indus- |trial registration an order of business lat their next branch meeting for the purpose of completing the registra- tion of every mémber in the branch. All members must be registered. This is ‘a Communist duty which must be fulfilled by every Member of the Party. This registration should have been completed by Sept. 15. Up to date only 35 out of 125 branches reported. The following branches have filed their registration reports either in full or in part: Name of Branch. Armenian, N. Y. C., partial. Czecho-slovak, Union Hill, complete report. English, English, English, English, port. English, English, port. Finnish, port. German, port. German, Yorkville, complete report. Bronx, No. 1, part report. Bronx, No, 2, part report. Bronx No. 3, complete re- North Hudson, part report. Linden, N. J., complete re- Jersey City, complete re- Night Workers, part re- Jersey City, part report. German, Passiac, N. J., part report. Greek, N. Y. C., part report. Hungarian, Yorkville, part report. Italian, West Side, part report. Italian, West Side, Corona, complete report, Jewish, Harlem, part report. Jewish, Bronx No. 1, part report. Jewish. Brownsville, part report. Jewish, Bath Beach, part report. Jewish, Elizabeth, complete. Polish, Elizabeth, complete. Polish, Paterson, complete report. Russian Bronx, part report. Russian, S. Brooklyn, complete re- port. Russian, Passaic, complete report. Russian, Cliffside, complete report. Russian, Manville, complete report. Scandin., Harlem, partial report. S. Slovak, N. Y. C., partial report. Spanish, N. Y. C., complete report. Ukrain., Hickville, complete report Ukrain., Elizabeth, complete report. Ukrain., Bayonne, complete report. Ukrain,, Manville, complete report. If your branch name does not ap- pear on this list, then your branch is delinquent in filing its report. If you have part of the members registered, send same in to the respective Party offices and go ahead until completion of the registration in your branch. Whipping Boss Film Draws Well. VINCENNES, Ind.,. Sept. 18—The Whipping Boss, a film depicting the horrors of the Martin Tabert case showing how the workers are impris- oned and sold to private corporations, then worked beyond endurance and whipped to the point of death, drew vigorous applause from Vincennes movie patrons. working class. He was right in stay- ing away. He should never have been invited. He would have been out of place. A Communist Speech. Simons called the Fascisti question an international one. He laid the Fascisti movement to the base sur- render of the social democratic lead- ers of the Italian metal factories seized in Sept. 1920, and to their fail- ure to enlist the sympathy of the peas- ants. The middle class was enlisted by Mussolini to serve big capital in re~ building Italian industry at the ex- pense of the working class. He stressed the united front nature of the meeting, where he representd the Communist Workers Party, and other speakers were syndicalists and anar- chists. “But,” he declared amid stormy applause, “when the working in which our Party is taking the lead- ership. The Chicago special editions will be distributed at the same factories where the straw vote for the presiden- tial candidates is now being taken. Systematically the workers in the factories will thus be brot face to face with the campaign issues presented from a working class point of view. Over 75,000 printed Party platforms have been distributed in the district. More than three times the amount of signatures required to put our can- |didates on the ballot in the State of Tilinois have been secured, while the numbers for the congressional candi- |dates in Chicago are mounting daily with assurance that most of them will go over. In Wisconsin the amount required has been secured and the comrades are forging ahead to get a good margin to be sure. Re- ports frém Indiana show that more than half the number have been ob- tained with until October the 15th to go. Altho the comrades in Missouri have obtained only a little more than half the amount of signatures needed, they assure us that the last few weeks will see some speed. ‘The Negro workers are showing con- siderable interest in the Workers Party election campaign. In Gary, |Indiana a Negro preacher has told his congregation that the Workers Party ticket is the only ticket worthy of consideration by the colored workers, while in congressional District No. 1 SHOP Of nrcsve sesnesevversvammesneceanoanesesenssssesesees, the vote was as follows: No Party COOLIDGE Republican Party ——___—— class is threatened, then the Commun- ists enter into joint demonstrations to battle for the true interests of the pro. letariat.”. He condemned the United States government for recognizing a capitalist dictatorship; and Gary, Dawes and other 100 per centers, for praising and shaking the bloody paw of Mussolini. He urged the workers present to be internationalists, and no |matter what their individual differ- ences might be, to fight shoulder to |shoulder, when the working class is in danger. A telegram was unanimously or- |dered sent to the widow of Matteotti the slain deputy; and one against the damnable Fascist regime to the work: | ing class of Italy. The Italian branch of the Workers party was active in arranging the meeting. Chicago, which is mainly a colored district about enough signatures have been obtained for our candidate, Com- rade Gordon Owens, a colored worker. To obtain the utmost possible ad- vantage for the strengthening of ‘the revolutionary movement the District, Committee has decided to place Com- rade John Mihelic of Kansas City as field organizer in Southern Illinois and St. Louis. It has also decided to im- mediately begin the reorganization of all our branches in the Illinois coal field upon a shop nuclei basis, This industry is particularly suited for such reorganization and the comrades in that territory have repeatedly pointed to the necessity of such step, realizing the immense superiority of such form of organization where the basis of op- eration of all forms of activity will be the place of work. Altho the heavy unemployment among the Illinois coal miners has compelled many to leave to seek em- ployment elsewhere, and thus consid- erably weakened a number of our branches, still they have everywhere taken the leadership in proposing real measures of relief and are being wholeheartedly supported in these ef- forts by the progressive elements. They are now demanding that their unions take action and make it one of its main immediate problems to solve. They are preparing the workers to take steps to gain relief thru their own organized efforts, thru the organ- ization-of Unemployment Councils. The fact that the Ku Klux Klan, which has particularly shown its vici- ous character in the Illinois coal field, is now decidedly on the decline, due in a great measure to the fight by our units supported by the pro- pressive elements. has cleaned these little Mussolinis out of the local unions where they had seized control in violation of all union rules, While the members are being or- ganized for the fights and Party cam- paigns, the necessary educational ac- tivities are not being neglected in District 8. The District Educational Circuit is this year organized in the cities of Milwaukee, Kenosha, Chi- cago, Gary and Springfield. In addi- tion Chicago is carrying on classes in elementary and advanced econom- ies, public speaking, history of the U. 8. Communist movement, trade un- jon conduct and elementary English. 3 ’ ’|pull the THE DAILY WORKER DBSTACLES FAIL TO STOP A FINE OPEN AIR MEET Cicero Cops, Fireman and Lassies Foiled All the powers of the state in al- most comic-opera form, tried unsuc- cessfully tostop a Workers Party street meeting in Cicero Tuesday night, The “Black Hundred,” the’ church, the police, and even the social-democracy in its historic role, contributed to the entertainment of a crowd of 200 who braved the chilly night to hear speech- es delivered by" Wm. F, Kruse and a prominent Lithuanian comrade. The meeting was well under way with no more opposition than the usual auto horns and small boys’ smartness, when an ancient flivver, light blazing and cut-out roaring, drove down the wrong side of the street, right into the crowd, and up to within a few inches of the stand. One of the crowd protested that his child had been hit and the burly driver, at least 250. pounds of him, rolled out of the machine, took hold of his slightly-built critic, and almost carried him across the street. The speaker told the crowd to stay where it was, jumped off the platform, and separated the two. “What's the idea of driving into a crowd of people that way?” he asked. “Ain't I got a right to park over there? I wanna go inter that ice cream store?” Not For Ice Cream. He didn’t look like an ice cream customer and later events proved his ‘|lack of interest in that store. “Well, you're driving on the wrong side of the street, beat it or you'll get pinched.” The big man’s jaw fell in amaze- ment. “Pinched? Me? Me pinched?” He was so stunned he forgot that he came to fight. The speaker got back on: the stand, the driver backed ‘out his machine and drove up the main street, and the meeting proceeded in fine spirit. The crowd identified the interrupt- er the “The Fire Department,” but it developed that he was only one mem- ber. Someone said he was the chief but this was also denied, he was just the biggest man on the department and his chief mission in life was to keep the police from winning the an- nual tug-of-war. With “Dan” as the anchor, the cops might as well try to “Western” off its founda- tions. Back Again. . A roaring like a machine-gun right in back of the stand. “Daredevil Dan” was back again, he had driven around the block. Some of the crowd had to jump for their lives. One. woman started to tell him where he got off. From the stand: “Let him alone, he wants an ice cream.” The horse- laugh got the fireman so sore that without any warning he started the flivver forward, just missed the stand, and was gone for the day. Soon after a Salvation Army organ started up around the corner. A few of the more curious left and came right back again. The music stopped. An Ex-Socialist Cop. Automobiles and police were hover+ ing around. Finally a uniformed cop, Charley Opolskis, former secretary of the Lithuanian branch of the socialist party, came over with the word that we would have to move off the busi- ness street, these here business men were complaining, and they paid taxes so we would have to go down a block into the unlighted residential streets. The personal representative of the Second International was told that the issue of our right to hold meetings on that corner had been fought out once before in the Cicero courts, and that we were ready to do it again; the only way to stop our speakers was to lock them up. Some Friend. A plain clothes sergeant then took up the plea: “I know you,” he said to the speaker, “we had trouble with you years ago, better beat it, the cop’s yer fren.’” He got the same an- “|swer with a little kidding thrown in. Another policeman came to the res- cue and saved the others’ face. He told the speaker the meeting could go on provided it was-orderly, and the crowd promised to remain that way even if “Daredevil Dan” brought out the whole fire department. A substantial collection was taken up and a large number of tickets to »/the Foster-Gitlow Mass Meeting at is | Ashland Auditorium, Oct. 12 were sold. Crowds assemble on this corner, made upom this hooded fascist outfit | 49the Ave, and 14th St., every Tuesday | W- night long before the meeting starts An organized fight /and they stay right thru to the end. Vote Communist This Time!, incre THE POWER COLUMN Twice every week—this column uncovers to your View thee the motive power behind the DAILY WORKER. Here for the interest and inspiration of every reader—and especially the DAILY WORKER agents and committees—are tried and proven sugges- tions and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further conquests. Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of men and women of the working class who not only believe—but ACT! The New York Edition a aks DAILY WORKER has already announced the ‘500 New Subscribers’ Campaign initiated in New York. The systematic and continued effort of the New York com- rades led by Comrade L. E. Katterfeld, DAILY WORKER agent for that city, forces further recognition, It is not simply a subscription campaign. As Comrade Katterfeld explains, with it goes “The building up of larger and larger bundle orders from week to week, the campaign for the distribution of at least 50,000 copies of the Foster number, which the Campaign Committee has now definitely ordered, publicity in foreign language papers, circularization of sympathizers, etc.” Right now they are in the midst of this campaign which they began in a systematic and ORGANIZED method. To start with Comrade Katterfeld announces that “within the next two weeks some energetic comrade will visit every branch that has not : yet an agent and to see to it that one is elected.” (What a celebration there would be in this office if every city did it!) But let this communi- cation to the New York Workers Party membership signed by Comrades Katterfeld and Rebecca Grecht, the Secretary of the Executive Committee, tell the story: Comrades:—YOU WANT THE DAILY WORKER TO BE SOLD ON THE NEWS STANDS IN NEW YORK CITY— HERE’S HOW TO DO IT: Secure 500 additional subscribers for the DAILY WORKER by the time of the Foster meeting in October, and the DAILY WORKER will go on the news stands. This will benefit EVERY party member, whatever language he speaks. It will be a great convenience for thousands of workers. It will mean thousands of new readers for the DAILY WORKER— more votes for our Communist candidates—more new members— more successful meetings—more success for EVERY activity of the WORKERS PARTY in this city. Realizing this, the City Executive Committee decided to launch a campaign AT ONCE for the 500 subscribers necessary before plac- ing the DAILY WORKER on the riews stands of New York. This campaign has now begun. To create some friendly rivalry among the comrades of the various branches and as a reward of merit, the branch that makes the best record will receive a Red Silk Banner with Bolshevik emblem, Hammer, Sickle, Star and suitable inscrip- tion embroidered on it. This will be officially presented by Comrade Foster, our presi- dential candidate, at his meeting in New York, at which the comrades of the winning branch, together with comrades with the best indi- vidual records from other branches, will have seats of honor. The contest is on. START NOW to get subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER. Bring or send them to the DAILY WORKER AGENT, 108 East 12th Street. a Be This ‘this and other plans of the New York comrades have proved successful can be seen by a few facts: Local New York has distributed an edition of 14,000 copies for the Gitiow campaign meeting. A special edition will be had for the Cannon meeting and an edition of 50,000 has been ordered for the Foster cam- paign meeting. Comrade Irving Potash, of the Williamsburg English branch, alone secured an order of 300 copies from his branch members —10 per member. Circle 12 of the Young Workers League ordered a bundle of 750 copies. Subscriptions from New York are pouring in daily in increasing numbers and the POWER COLUMN will surely be forced to further cheers for this local. ‘ To other locals and branches we simply must get somewhat religious in our suggestion: GO THOU AND DO LIKEWISE. WORKERS PARTY AND YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO. Friday, September 19th: Lawrence and Sawyer. Irving Park sen acmanaenneane a ttc . i aan September 19, 1924 { ST, LOUIS apa (ST. LOUIS PARTY. HOLDS EXCELLENT STREET: MEETING May } Form , Negro Branch in Near Future By HARRY STOLZ, (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS, Sept. 18.—Police intim- idation failed to frighten the speakers of the Workers Party in the most suc- cessful street meeting held in this city for a long time. The meeting, held at the corner of 22nd and Chestnut. Sts., was being adressed by John Brown, candidate of the Communists for, congress, El- mer McMillan, candidate for lieuten- ant-governor of the state, and by Hd. Latterdale, a Negro who has just joined the party, with Harry Stolz as chairman. Applaud Communists, A large crowd, mostly Negroes, had gathered and interrupted the Commu- nist speakers with frequent applause, especially when Brown and Latterdale spoke on the Negro question and Me- Millan on Defense Day. In the midst of Brown’s talk, a big burly cop came over, and despite Brown's insistence on his constitu- tional rights of free speech, the stand was finally moved to another corner, the majority of the crowd following. The cop didn’t mind the talking ex- cont that he thought that speeches “agin’ the government” should not be tolerated on that corner. It,might be all right on the next one, though. Literature to the extent of 48 DAILY WORKERS, five Labor Heralds, 17 programs of the party, three Commu- nist Internationals, and one Bank- ruptcy of the American Labor Move- ment was sold. Names of 19 Negro workers were secured and there is a good possibility of forming a branch in the heart of the Negro district here. N.Y. WORKERS PARTY MEMBERS MEET FRIDAY ON IMPORTANT PLANS On Friday evening, Sept. 19, at 8 p. m. sharp, Local Greater New ‘York of the Workers Party will hold a membership meeting at Stuy- vesant Casino at 142 Second Ave. The order of business for this membership meeting will be the coming election campaign of the party and every comrade should make it his and her business to be present at this most important meeting without fail. Every branch meeting should be called off on that night and every member of the Party interested in the growth and the development of the party should be present at this meeting. The date is Friday evening, Sep- tember 19, at 8 p. m. sharp. The place is Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. READ THE NEXT ISSUE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, SEPT. 20th Branches, Y. . L. and W. P. Speakers: Pete Herd and others. North Ave. and Fairfield. Auspices North-West English Branch W. P. Speak- ers: George Maurer and others. Wilton and Belmont. Auspices: North Side Y. W. L. Branch. Speakers: D. E. Earley and others. Rosevelt and Homan. Auspices D. P. Jewish Branch W. P. Speakers: Ella Reeve Bloor and others. Saturday, Sept. 20: North Ave and Orchard St. Auspices Liebknecht Branch Y. W. lL. Speakers: William F. Kruse and others. 114th and Peighignn. Auspi Branches W. P. peal Bloor and others. 30th and State Sts. Auspices South Side Branch W. P.. Speakers: George Maurer and Gordon Owens, etc. Division and Washtenaw. Auspices poe West pi ipo Branch, Speakers: D,_B. Earley and others. Roosevelt and St. Louis. West Side Y. fy L. Branch, Speakers; Pete Herd and others. ‘s Pullman lla Reeve YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE SACTIVITIES. Friday, Sept. 19. Hersch Lekert Branch, Y. W. L., 2613 Hirsch Blvd. John Williamson, speaking on “Youth and the Present Elections.” West Side Branch, 3322 Douglas Blyd.: borat in Communist Manifesto. Luxemburg Branch, 1910 W. Roosevelt ‘Hoad John Reed Branch, 1224 8, Albany Aye. Karl Liebknecht Branch, 1500 N. Sedg- wick St. Saturday, Sept. 20. Concert and Dance for the benefit of The Young Worker, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Y. W. L. LITERATURE AGENTS Please call for New issue of YOUNG WORKER and for Sept. issue of YOUNG REBEL at the Local office, Room 303, 166 Washington St. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Join the Workers Party! " THE WORKERS PARTY ("HE Workers Party Is the party of the workers, The Workers Party has no interests separate and apart from those of the masses that by their sweat and toil produce the wealth of this country. The Workers Party stands for the unity of the workers and exploited farmers on the political field in a “The Workers Party stands for the rule of the workers against the rule of the Wall Street plunder bund. government the Workers Party ralses the slogan‘of a workers’ and genuine Farmer-Labor Party. Against Teapot Dome farmers’ government thru Soviets.”—Benjamin Gitlow. The “Pacifist” Imperialism of the United States.. A Modern Version of the Innocents Abroad.......By T. J. O'Flaherty Wheeler’s Labor Party. y Alexander Bittelman Unity in the International Trade Union Movement....By A. Losovsky What Shop Nuclei Can Do... y Martin Abern The Negro Worker and the Next Wa .By Pasquale Russo And Other Interesting Articles PICTURES ILLUSTRATIONS By L. Trotsky VERSE ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois Stir the Shops! The very best place to carry,on a working class campaign is in the shops and factories where the workers gather to earn their living. It is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates that stand for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter facing the working class. It is in the shops that the workers will see most clearly, fof example, the difference between Foster, the union organizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and fighter for the middle class. (Editorial Daily Worker.) THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on the head. Nothing could be added to that. It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically Possible to place THESE PAMPHLETS in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- tories. Sell them everywhere. Now {8 the time. The LaFollette Musion— As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. Single copy. Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign. By Alexander Bittelman, Questions and answers, how the ‘ait. ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class, It’s a gem. No worker should go to the polls this year without first reading this pamphlet....... Unemployment— Why It Occurs and How to a It, by Earl R. Browder. This pamphlet deals with the most important issue before the work- svongssnnsnnansnssnnsnnnnvonssevecessonnasssssersresssseseere OG your orders at once. LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Workers Party of ig wroneg 1113 Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il.