The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 156. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: WORKERS AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O7FLAHERTY. USSIAN rebellions nowadays should be considered guilty until they are proven innocent. The latest “uprising” was as shameless a fabri- cation as any that have appeared yet. This did not prevent the Chicago Tri- bune from giving the story an eight; column head, only to shift it to the financial pages the following day. Of course, there was no revolution. As the DAILY WORKER pointed out, the workers and peasants of Georgia are so glad to get rid of the czar and enjoy their own rule that conspira- ‘ors receive short shrift from them. . * * 'HE publicity given to the fake re- bellion serves the purpose of im- pressing on the workers the unrelia- bility of the news appearing in the capitalist press. The European cor- respondents of the papers that fea- tured the yarn must have been per- fectly aware that there was no re- volt in Georgia outside of the bandit escapade which was no more serious * than a few drunken officers im Chi- cago holding up a crap game or shoot- ing up a soft drink parlor and rob- bing the proprietor. Bee ie | HE papers featured the alleged burning of the Baku oil wells. ‘Trotsky was reported rushing to Geor- gia to pep up his troops. All fan- tasies! The Soviet ambassador in Rome in a statement to the DAILY WORKER’S Rome correspondent, said that only a few czarist bandits took part in the so-called rebellion and that it was crushed by the Soviet troops as part of the day’s work. In confirmation of the ambassador's story, an Italian economic institute with conneetions in Russia, announc- ed that it received telegrams from the cities which were supposed to be in the grip of great conflagrations. Another revolution gone up in smoke. LM, ‘HE Daily, Herald of London, pub- lishes a very interesting account of the proceedings of the Trade Un- ion Congress which recently took place at Hull. The most interesting event that took place at the congress was the appearance of M. Tomsky, chairman of the All-Russian Trade Unions and big gun in the Soviet gov- ernment, as fraternal delegate. While other fraternal delegates, even Oudee- gest of Amsterdam, were received with comparative coldness, the con- gress gave Tomsky an ovation that lasted for several minutes. His speech was given practically as delivered in the Daily Herald, while the speeches of Peter Brady, the American dele- gate and those of the Canadian and Amsterdam delegates were dismissed with a few paragraphs, * * . T should not be assumed that be- cause Tomsky was given a great welcome by the British congress, that the British labor leaders are revolu- tionists or Communists. Not at all. The Communist minority at the con- gress was not large, but it was organ- ized for the first time in its existence and its propositions received consi- derable support. So fast is the left wing sentiment among the masses developing that the trade union lead- ers themselves were obliged to put forward as their own some of the propesitions for advocating which the Commrnists were accused of being disrupti@kists one year ago. ta, Sadi s NE ot she labor leaders at the congrens, tho professing a friend- ship for Rwesia and favoring the movement for unity between the red unions of Russia and. those affiliated with the Amsterdam International, re- marked that the Russians were not angels. Tomsky with a mery twinkle in his eye replied to the labor leader saying he quite agreed the Russians were not angels and nobody knew this better than the Russians. “But,” he added, “angels don’t make revolu- tions.” This witty retort was received with gales of laughter by the congress. Cee NE of the most militant delegates was A. J. Cook, secretary of the British miners’ union. Cook was elected to office after the former sec- (Continued on Page 4.) in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chisago, by mail, $6.00 per year. “Hands off China!”’ WORKERS OF WORLD ASKED TO AID CHINA Commanist Internation- al Issues an Appeal (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Sept. 19.—The exe- cutive committee of the Third International at Moscow has issued a proclamation in which the workers of Europe, Amer- ica and the Far East are urged to keep England, the United States and other imperialist powers from armed _ interven- tion in China. Premier MacDonald and the English Labor Party regime are accused of being the protectors of the feudal-capitalist counter- revolution in China, and are denounced for sending war- ships to China for the purpose of crushing the Chinese work- ing masses. The trade union congress in Hull is urged to prevent the English mur- derers from arranging for a new blood bath in southern China. The United States is accused of be- ing a party to the plot to crush China’s struggle for freedom and to prepare for an offensive against northern China, WHEELER WARS ON LABOR PARTY IN GOPPER STATE Insists on New Electors for LaFollette GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 19— The LaFollette forces under the direc. tion of Burton K. Wheeler’s law part- ner, James Baldwin, insist on placing independent electors on ballot in de- fiance of the farmer-labor party of this state. The Wheeler forces are supporting Thomas J. Walsh, democratic reaction- ary, for the senate. This policy is creating a furore among the progres- sive elements, There appears to be a tri-party com- bination in this state between Wheel- er, the so-called progressive, Dixon, the republican governor, and Walsh, the democrat, against the farmer-labor party. The plan is to support Walsh and Dixon in return for their support for LaFollette in November. CLARENCE DARROW TO ENTER CLEMENCY PLEA FOR POOR GOP SLAYER Clarence Darrow, defense attorney for Loeb and Leopold, may enter the lists to save the life of Bernard Grant, not the son of a millionaire both of the Franks Attorney Swanson announces that Darrow has offered his services in an attempt to halt execution of Grant, who is alleged to have killed a policeman, and Swanson that Darrow’s offer will be accepted. Clarence will probably make the clemency plea before Governor Len Small and his advisory boards and his first request will be a full par- don for the youth, who, tho 19, al- réady has white hair from thie wor- rying he has done in the last couple of years. MONTANA COMMUNISTS PREPARE TO . PUT FOSTER-GITLOW ON THE BALLOT BUTTE, tion he tion campaign. attend the convention. ept. 19.—The Workers Party of Montana will hold a conven- next Sunday to nominate Foster-Gitlow electors for the comin: William Z, Foster, Communist candidate for president, will The ‘political situation in Montana, with Wheeler, Dixon and Walsh mixed-up in a horse-trading deal is very troubled and has the progressive elements by th rs, and the Commuists have an excellent opportunity to make a spirited campaign and put the Communist message across between now and November, UNDAY, Sept. 21, elections take place for officers of the Chicago Fitzpatrick and Nockels| 4 ¢ WA LOCAL Do not Deserve Support! of Workers in Election| Statement on the Elections in the Chicago Federation of Labor, by the Workers Pai Union Educational League. and the Trade Federation of Labor for the ensuing term. John Fitzpatrick, Ed Nockels and Oscar Nelson have been refiominated for the offices of President, Secretary and Vice-President, respectively. This is another instance in the trade union movement where leaders are seeking re-election on a record of complete lack of leadership. The late records of Fitzpatrick and Noeckels, which in every instance have been pointed to by the Workers Party and the Trade Union Edu- cational League, show their miserable failures when they were called upon to fight squarely for the progressive measures demanded by the development of the labor movement and which they professed to stand for. The record of Oscar Nelson has been one of a persistent reactionary attitude and opposition to such progressive measures actually required by the labor movement. At the crucial paint, when Samuel Gompers launched his vicious attack upon the demands for amalgamation raised by labor everywhere and particularly by the delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor representing their affiliated unions, Fitzpatrick and Nockels completely deserted the fight to get some action on this proposal by the American Federation of Labor. service, A proposal to which they had both given tip The Farmer-Labor Party, established by a referendum vote of the unions affiliated to the Chicago Federation of Labor, was slowly knifed by Fitzpatrick and Nockels thru their utter failure to maintain the right of the unions to engage in such activities in face of the Gompers opposi- tion and to give militant leadership to unify this movement on a national scale. Moreover, while the Farmer-Labor Party, established by the unions, was still in existence Fitzpatrick, Nockels and Oscar Nelson gave their endorsement to the candidates for Circuit Court Judges nominated on the two old capitalist tickets, many of them having injunctions against labor to. their record; this despite the candidates, members of labor unions, had been nominated for the bench. At a time when injunctions against the Chicago labor unions in their struggle for better conditions have been handed down wholesale, Fitz- patrick, Nockels and Oscar Nelson have failed miserably to lead a mili- tant fight against this usurpation of power by the courts. Now, finally, Fitzpatrick and Nockels have completed the surrender to Gompers and given up their last pretense of fighting for independent political action by labor. They, as well as Oscar Nelson, who, further, still supports the Democratic Capitalist party, have given their endorse- ment to the Gompers “non-partisan” policy and to the candidates of the “small bankers and independent manufacturers, LaFollette and Wheeler. They have even given their endorsement to such an outstanding reac- tionary as Governor Small who is still running on the program of the Republican Party which has nothing but scorn for labor. These candidates for office in the Chicago’ Federation of Labor for the ensuing term can no more command the respect of militant, progres- sive workers. WORKERS PARTY, LOCAL CHICAGO, Martin Abern, Secretary. TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE, LOCAL CHICAGO, Walt Carmon, Secretary. PATERSON SILK STRIKERS T0 PIGKET IN MASS (By The Federated Press) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 19. —With the Paterson silk strik- ers ready for a mass picketin, demonstration in the event o' an adverse injunction decision Vice-Chancellor V. M. Lewis ostponed three days the hear- ng on the application of five manufacturers for a permanent restraining order against the union. The temporary injunction re- mains in effect but peaceful picketing has continued. Broad- silk manufacturers are pinning their hopes on a permanent in- junction and say if such a writ is granted they will urge the police to a more rigid interpre- tation than has been followed to date. Six more employers settled on the date the hearing had been set for. Piece work rates are increased to ap- proximate the 15 per cent demand of the strikers. Replying to the newspaper state- ments from the mysterious Broadsilk Manufacturers’ Association—the al- leged bosses’ organization which con- the name of its officers and is not listed in the telephone or city directories, Secretary Fred T. Hoel- scher of the Associated Silk Workers, declared the fight against the three (Continued on Page 4.) FOSTER VOTE DOUBLE DAVIS AT PULLMAN William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for president, received exactly twice as many votes in the DAILY WORKER straw vote taken at the Pullman Car (Continued on Page 2.) RESULTS OF FOUR DAY’S VOTING IN DAILY WORKER STRAW VOTE SEPTEMBER 16th: Hart, Schaffner & Marx.... 67 Kuppenheimer .. -- 62 Royal Tailors . RONG 4 otal vote cast, 994, SEPTEMBER 17th: Western Electric Co.........171 Total vote cast, 1056. SEPTEMBER 18th: Stockyards .. Total vote cast, A SEPTEMBER 19th: Pullman Palace Car Co., Executive office . Factory workers Total vote cast, 393, Grand total for Four days veces 400 Foster Total vote cast in four days, 2791. *\had no experience, no money, and tho LEAD FIGHT ON LAFOLLETTE IN Militants Hit Alliance} with Liberalism One thousand members of| the largest local in the Amalga-| mated Clothing Workers of Amreica, 39 of Chicago, heard |the issue of support for LaFol- lette debated in one of the most | spirited and well-attended meet- ings yet held. Samuel Levin, member of the general executive board of the union, spoke for the leading body which had endorsed the candidacy of LaFollette for pre- sident and Wheeler for vice-pre- sident. Schneid Leads Against Bob. Hyman Schneid led the fight of the |left wing against the endorsement. | “The Amalgamated was born as a | Protest against the reactionary mis- jleadership of the Rickert bunch. We |we were being condemned by the offi- | cial labor movement, we succeeded in organizing the rebellious element with- in the United Garment Workers, which carried within it the faith and| devotion to the ideals of revolutionary socialism, the only power that has |made us what we are today,” began| | Schneid. “In the face of our traditions and history how can we jump on the band- wagon with the LaFollette crowd?| | Rickert is supporting LaFollette. How} can we in the samg breath endorse LaFollette, while we condemn the Rickert gang, when Rickert even so late as this year sent his henchmen in to break our strikes, signing agree- ments with concerns against which we} were striking, and helping the manu- facturers to defeat us? “Then there is Big Bill Thompson, the man that the LaFolletteites want- ed to have as their senatorial candi- date. How can we support this move- ment which wants Thompson, when this same man, in the greatest strug- gle of the Chicago clothing workers in 1915, ordered them to go back to work, and betray their own interests; when three thousand men were arrested for the mere fact that they were carrying on peaceful picketing?” Levin Evades Issues. These arguments amounted to ques- tions to Levin, but all of them were evaded. The arguments of the sup- porters of LaFollette in the meeting were that while it is true that LaFol- lette did not represent the interests of the workers, and fn spite of the knowledge that we differ on funda- mental economic problems, we see in this movement the greatest hope of} breaking the workers away from their allegiance to the republican and demo- cratic parties and of forming a third liberal party, which, while not to our liking, would be the first step towards the formation of a labor party. This last was a repetition of the statements of the general executive board which in its declaration of gup- port to LaFollette said that while it differed fundamentally with Bob on ec- onomic problems, they saw in the movement headed by him the first (Continued on Page 2.) Coolidge 158 94 37 LaFollette Davis 31 300 19 90 8 407 408 70 57 THE DAILY WORKER. 5 Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulinois under the Act of March &, 1879. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924 G3 ,,, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington ,Blvd., Chicago, Ill. WAR ON LAFOLLETTE CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents pees Wheeler! Defender of Capitalism URTON K. Wheeler, candidate for vice-president of the United States on the LaFollette ticket, speaks tonight in Chicago. Because of the publicity which his million- aire backers have flooded the coun- try with, thousands of workers are under the impression that the Montana senator is a radical, and a champion of the rights of labor. Wheeler’s record does not support this assumption. Burton K. Wheeler was an ardent supporter of the late war, a war that left 100,000 of the flower of America’s manhood to rot on the bloody battlefields of Europe, and left behind it a train of misery from which the human race has not yet recovered and will newer recover under capitalism. The vice-presi- dential candidate on the LaFollette ticket did his level best to defend the Morgan millions with the lives of others. he Wheeler’s Friends. There is an old saying to the effect that a man may be known by his company. Who are Wheeler’s friends in Montana? One of them, and perhaps the most influential, is Thomas J. Walsh, senior senator from Montana, author of the crim- inal syndicalist law of that state, a man who has nothing in common with the aims of labor or even with mild progressivism. T. J. Walsh was permanent chairman of the democratic convention in New York, where he eulogized John W. Davis and endorsed the platform adopted at the democratic convention, which entirely ignored the demands of even the ultra-reactionary officials of the American Federation of La- bor. Yet Burton K. Wheeler has enter- ed into a horse deal with this re- actionary foe of free speech, Senator Walsh, under which Wheeler agrees to support Walsh in return for Walsh’s support of the LaFollette ticket in Montana. Furthermore, Wheeler has entered into a con- spiracy with the democrat Walsh and the republican governor, Dixon, in Montana, to kill the Farmer-Labor Party in that state which is a thorn in the side of this ambitious poli- tical schemer. see The Daugherty Quiz. Wheeler broke into the national limelight when he was appointed prosecutor for the committee to in- vestigate the doings of the depart- ment of justice. The crimes of Har- ry P. Daugherty smelled to high heaven. No more notorious crook, grafter and all-around criminal ever headed that cesspool of corruption, the department of justice. But of far greater import to labor than the bootlegging deals of Daugherty and his grafting connections with the war fraud cases, was his spec- tacular act in breaking the strike of the railway shopmen by use of the injunction, the employment of thou- sands of marshalls to act as strike- breakers and his use of the in- vestigation bureau. of the depart- ment of justice to disrupt labor unions, and act as finks in radical movements with a view to getting the members of those organizations behind the bars. Mr. Wheeler, you had an excel- lent opportunity to perform a great service to the labor movement by taking advantage of the Daugherty investigation to throw the light of publicity on the real character of the government and its machinery. The government was functioning under Harding and Coolidge as a strikebreaking agency and you could prove this by documentary evidence. You were in a postion to put the crooks on the witness.stand and compel them to admit their crimes. Did you do this? Did you ever bring up the question of the infamous injunction issued against the railway strikers by Judge Wil- kerson on Daugherty’s demand? Did you ever deal with the strike- breaking activities of the Burns Detective Agency, of which William J. Burns was chief even while hold- ing a government position? You did not. Why? ‘ See Wheeler for Capitalism. The wogkers of the United States, hundreds of thousands of them, be- lieve you have their interests at heart. We know better, We know that you are a supporter of the cap talist system and no matter how you quarrel with the dominant wing of the American capitalist clase you will fight for that system against the workers in every important crisia, as you fought for it during the war. Burton K. Wheeler did not deal with the anti-labor activities of the department of justice, because he declared it would narrow the scope of the investigation. It would eom fine it to the narrow limits of one class. But that class happens to be the reason why the department of justice is in existence, likewise the government. It is to keep this claes in subjection that capitalist govern- ments exist. The Daugherty crimes you brought to light thru the ald of spies, and women of easy virtues, were of the common garden variety and could be duplicated under the Wilson or any other Washington administration. Wheeler was not interested in exposing Daugherty as a strikebreaker. He only wanted to have Daugherty driven out of of- fice so that his party, the dem- ocratic party, could use his dis- missal as political campaign fodder. For refusing to expose the most heinous crimes of Harry Daugher- ty, his crimes against the workers of the country, Burton K. Wheeler deserves the severest condemnation. He has shown himself in his true light as a friend of capitalism, and a dangerous man to the interests of the workers. ees Took Vanderlip’s Orders. Burton K. Wheeler did not de- cide to accept the nomination for vice-president on the LaFollétt ticket until he was given orders by” Frank Vanderlip, capitalist and financier. Gary has his Coolidge; Morgan has his Davis and Frank Vanderlip has his Wheeler. Where is the difference? For the moment the newcomer into the political spotlight will play to the mass will try to fool them with progre: sive phrases, but in the end he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the system that has enabigi him to amass wealth valued between $100,- 000 and $200,000. Tho Wheeler fights the Anaconda Mining Com- pany in Montana, he has the Kevin- Campbell interests behind him. Today Senator Wheeler is sup- porting David |. Walsh, reaction- ary democratic senator from Massa- chusetts. He is supporting Thomas J. Walsh, reactionary democratic senator in Montana. Senator Wheeler is a champion of the capi- talists who are “on the outs” with Wall Street. He is the champion of small business against big busi- mss. He indulges in fair words to labor, but he insists that labor must not organize into a party of its own. He has done his level best to kill the farmer-labor party move- ment because he knows that if a mass labor party existed, based on those who toil in the industries and on the fields, capitalist politiciane would not be so well able to realize their ambitions and at the same time help the interests of their class as they can by using the democratic and republican parties to further their personal ambitions as Robert M. LaFollette has done for decades, or by organizing a so- called “liberal” party. re The Communist Slogan, Against LaFolletteism and Wheel- erism, with their “back to " slogan, the Workers (Communist) Party raises the banner of social revolt and with its candida Wil- liam Z. Foster and Benjamin Git- low, both union men, it hurls into the ranks of ali the enemies of la- bor the demand for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment. COMMUNISTS MAKE IT TOO HOT FOR ‘TONIO LOCATELLI; HE QUITS NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Under heavy guard as a protection against hostile demonstrations, Lieut. An- tonio Locatelli, Italian flier, was es- corted aboard a liner today and sailed for his home country, Subscribe for “Your Dally,” se ntee i