The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 20, 1924, Page 2

Page Two’ SILLINSKY 1S FAR AREAD IN - TWILORS’ POLL See Big Victory for the Cleveland Progressive The membership of Local No. 5 of the Journeymen Tailors’ nion vote today for their choice of General Secretary- Treasurer of the international union. If the Chicago members of Local 5 follow the example of other J. T. U. locals thruout the country, Max J. Sillinsky, the Cleveland progressive, will win over Sweeney, his reactionary opponent, by an-overwhelming majority. Anger Rising Against Sweeney. All over the country the members ef the J. T. U. have been growing more and more incensed against Sweeney's incompetence and unheard- of censorship over the union’s maga- sine, “The Tailor.” Despite the union rules, Sweeney has made a personal publicity sheet of the union publication, shutting out supporters of Sillinsky in violation of the constitution. This was bad snough, but the membership is be- coming more angry than ever at the tailure of Sweeney to publish monthly GQnancial reports since June. “Why doesn’t Sweeney publish fin- ancial reports?” say hundreds of tail- rs, pointing to the union constitu- ion providing that the general secre- ‘ary-treasurer shall publish the finane- lal. accounts “for the preceding onth.” No such report has appeared since the June account, and the tailors are convinced that Sweeney has some ulterior motive for concealing ac- counts from the membership. Siilinsky Majority Heavy Everywhere. As an indication of how tailors everywhere are turning from the la- bor faker Sweeney to the left wing candidate, Max J. Sillinsky, is shown by the following votes already counted in J. T. U. locals in the following cities: For For City *Sillinsky Sweeney St. Louis... - 172 56 Cleveland 166 14 Pittsburgh 106 25 New York Ci 24 5 Houston ... - 22 4 TONRAO; Oy. nnrnncmne 14 4 Wher ioe. i... 19 3 iin 19 6 Columbus, O. 10 6 Pittsfield 8 Montreal .. 2 Washington .. 36 611 166 Not only is the disgust with Sween- ey turning the membership to Sillin- sky, but Sillinsky is known as the one whose fight for week work has won for the tailors this great benefit over the bosses’ sweating the tailors thru piece- work. Sillinsky is the one to whom credit goes for this. No One Hurt When Sante Fe Limited Runs Into Freight GALESBURG, Ill, Sept. 19.— The Chicago crack limited of the Santa Fe railroad, bound for Chicago, plow- ed into a freight train here today and altho cars were scattered like chaff no one was injured. Rube Stoner, engineer, and William Ellis, fireman, both of Chillicothe, Ill. rode in the passenger train engine 300 yards into a corn field without in- jury. Steel coaches protected the passengers. ‘The buckling of a car in the freight train as it was taking a siding, caus- od the smash. A Foul Disease. COLUMBUS, Ind., Sept. 19—An epi- flemic of “chicken appendicitis” has sadly diminished number of flocks of fowls in Bartholomew county. The malady has been paonounced “coccidi- ositis” or a “disease of the caeca” a flual appendix heretofore unknown to exist in a chicken. CHINESE TROOPS IN WILD RETREAT FROM CHAO YANG IS REPORT SHANGHAI, Sept. 19— Chihli troops were claimed to be in wild retreat near Chao Yang today, fol- lowing the opening of hostilities between the Fengtien forces of Chang Tso Lin and Wu Pei Fu’s Chihli soldiers. % A communique received here from Mukden, Chang's headquarters, said, the troops had ambushed the Feng- tlen soldiers. Chang Tso Lin will shortly as- sume personal command of his forces with field headquart Chinchow, the Mukden advices od. He is concentrating forces along the great wall from Shanghai Kuan to Jehol and is reported to be plan- ning an attack on Wu's forces at i | JAMES DRAIN ELECTED NATIONAL COMMANDER OF AMERICAN LEGION (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 19.—Gen- eral James Draln, Washington, D. C., was elected national commander of the American Legion at its closing session today. The first fifteen states cast a solid vote for him, which was brok- en only when Maryland cast two votes for John McQuigg. Drain was an ordnance officer of the tank corps and a member of the Anglo-American tank commission, quite a safe affair and a goodly bit removed from the trenches. No rank and file soldier was even considered for the job as national commander, an Indication of the le- gion’s control by officers, Drain pledged himself, of course, to the legion’s program of American- ization and reiterated that the le- gion would keep out of politics. Political boomlets failed to mater. tajize. WORKERS HUNT DEAD IN WYO. MINE DISASTER Eleven Bodies Remain in Death Pit (Special to The Daily Worker) KEMMERER, Wyo., Sept. 19. —Crews of workmen today con- tinued their efforts to remove the remaining victims of the blast in Mine No. 5, of the Kem- merer Coal company at Sublet, near here, where the lives of 39 miners and workers were lost in a terrific explosion last Tues- day. Official figures issued by the company show that eleven bodies are still in the death pit. Twenty-eight have been re- moved and identified while 12 of those in the mine when the blast let go worked their way to safety alive. Huge masses of debris are being en- countered as the workers near the spot of the actual explosion and it may be several days before all the bodies are taken out. Volunteer grave diggers were at work today in the hillside cemetery, midway between Kemmerer and Sub- let, preparing graves for the victims. Burials will be made singly and in small groups and a public memorial service is planned for Sunday. According to Coroner Holmes, of Lincoln County, an inquest will be held Monday. BOB'S NEW YORK TALK LEFT HIS AUDIENCE COLD (Speciai to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Thousands who came to see the modern Moses, who promises, all by his lonesome, to lead the “people” of the United States into the promised land provided they ask him no questions, walked out of Madison Square Garden after Robert Marion LaFollette reached the legal- istic part of his speech on the supreme court. Most of the effcetiveness of the speech was lost, because of an en- gagement with the radio. Continual panning of the audience for money al- so created irritation. This function was in the hands of the socialist party and however we may quarrel with them because of their incapability as revolutionists, we must admit they are masters of the art of passing the hat. Morris Ruminated. The platform was graced by the presence of Morris Hillquit, whose memory must have gone back to other days when the strains of the\Interna- tional were heard in that auditorium and the message of revolution thrilled the hearts of the audience. But on this occasion, there was no talk of the red flag, of the class struggle, or the interests of the working class. It was a “better than thou” meeting, with a craw-thumping political revivalist playing the role of a Billy Sunday, and his redr brot up by old sinners like Morris Hillquit, who had reformed and no longer walked in the paths of evil. The only real enthusiasm engender- ed at the meeting was that produced when LaFollette took a slam at the late war. WORKERS HEAR COMMUNISTS AT BIG MEETINGS Open Air Gatherings Are Very Successful Thousands of Chicago work- ers are listening to the Com- munist message in this cam- paign in the nightly open air meetings held on dozens of street corners. Hundreds: of copies of the DAILY WORKER are being sold, and thousands of leaflets setting forth the Communist program have already been dis- tributed. As the campaign to educate the workers to vote for their class, rép- resented by William Z. Foster, and Benjamin Gitlow, enters its hottest stage, thus far, every Workers Party member who can spéak is being press- ed into service. Many Questions Asked, The crowds at these meetings are not changing, but stand and listen to the Workers Party speakers straight thru the meetings. Many intelligent questions are asked, and interesting discussions held after the speakers are thru, demonstrating that the work- ers have their eyes open to the capi- talistic fallacies broached by Davis, Coolidge and LaFollette. Large outdoor mass meetings and open air demonstrations will be held during the coming week. “Mother” Bloor in Pullman. Tonight an outdoor mass meeting will be held at 114th Place and Michi- |gan Avenue, Pullman, to be addressed by Ella Reeve Bloor, which will give jthe Pullman car shop workers a jchance to learn why they are oppress- |ed by the Pullman company. An ear- jly street meeting will be held on the corner of 113th street and Langley ave- nue, where the residences of the car builders are located, at which short speeches will be made in Greek, Po- lish and Italian. This meeting will be adjourned early and the crowd will be taken to the corner where Comrade Bloor is to speak. Another big open air demonstration will be held Sunday afternoon in the park on North Clark street and New- berry place, where Comrade Bloor and others will speak. Cicero Is Peaceful. Many large street meetings were held. Thursday night. On the main street of Cicero, 14th street, Mother Bloor spoke to 300 people, and there was no sign of a policeman to dis- turb the “open air university” conduct- ed there. Comrade Antonio Presi, of the Italian Federation, and an edi- tor of Il Lavoratore, spoke in Italian, Many copies of the Italian Commun- ist daily, Il Lavoratore, and of the DAILY WORKER were sold by the children of the Junior Group of Ci- cero. “Bill” Kruse held forth at 62nd and Halsted street, and the crowd of 200 people stayed thru the whole meet- ing, buying out every copy of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Kruse was especially hard on LaFollette, and there was a lively discussion at the close of the meeting. Get Many Signatures. A good collection was taken up at the meeting of Comrade D., E. Early, 34th Place and Halsted street, and many signatures were secured to pe- titions for Workers Party Congres- sional candidates. Literature, includ- THE DAILY WORKER Saturday, September 20, 192= OPEN AIR MEETINGS PLANNED IN ALL PARTS OF CHICAGO TONIGHT Saturday, Sept. 20: North Avenue and Orchard St. Ausplces Liebkniecht Branch Y. W. L. Speakers: Willlam F. Kruse and Arne Swabeck. 114th and Michigan. Ausplces Pullman Branches W. P. Speakers: Ella Reeve Bloor and others. 30th and State Sts. Auspices South Side Branch W. P. Spea' George Maurer and Gordon Owens, .. Division and Waéhtenaw. ‘Aus- pices North West Jewish Branch. Speakers: D. E. Earley and others. Roosevelt and St. Louis. West Side Y. W. L. Branch. Speakers: J. Louls Engdahl, Communist candi- date for U. S. senator from IIlinols, and Pete Herd. Sunday Afternoon, Newberry Place and North Clark Street. Speakers: Ella Reeve Bloor and others, Foster Vote Is Just ing the DAILY WORKER, was also in demand at this meeting. Pete Herd spoke on the corner of Roosevelt and Laflin avenues, and Karl Reeve spoke to a crowd of 250 in the stock yards section at the cor- ner of Ashland avenue and 47th street. A comrade also spoke in Po- lish at this meeting. Questions asked at the Workers Party street meetings indicate that both Coolidge and Davis have lost the support of many workers. The work- ers listening to the Communist speak- ers, showing that LaFollette is run- ning on a personal program, that he does not concern himself with un- employment or any other vital prob- lem that concerns the workefs; that he is backed by millionaire exploit- ers of labor, and that he represents the independent manufacturers, be- came convinced. Then they hear the Communist speakers tell how the Workers Party is in favor of a work- ers’ and farmers’ government, aboli- tion of the capitalist system, and a fight to a finish against the capitalist class, which causes wars and ex- ploits the workers, until the working class gains control of the government and industries. Then they say, “Guess I'll vote for Foster.” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. ASK CAPITALIST U. S. AND WORKERS’ RUSSIA TO DISARMAMENT MEET (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 19——America and Russia, altho not members of the League of Nations, will be Invited to attend the international di rmament conference which will be held not later than June 15, 1925, it was learned thie afternoon from an official source. Double That for Davis at Pullman (Continued from page 1) shops yesterday, as did John W. Davis, jackass candidate for president. Foster received 38 votes, as compared to 19 for Davis. La Follette again led with 127 and Coolidge received 86 votes. See Illusion At Work. The large vote for Foster and La Follette demonstrates that the masses of the workers have split away from the two old parties of capitalism. They place their faith in LaFollette, but as soon as they are disillusioned about the middle class candidate, thousands of workers will flock to the Communist banner. Private detectives were planted in front of the Pullman company gates fat 111th Street, when the Workers Party volunteers were distributing their sample ballots during the lunch hour, They did not interfere how- ever. Some Refuse to Vote. Many of the workers expressed themselves as being disgusted with the two old parties, and some declared that they would not vote at all. The vote in front of the entrance for executives again demonstrates that Collidge is the candidate for the bosses and the white collar boys who have hopes of some day becoming cap- italists. Underdogs For Foster. * The vote by the executive force of the Pullman company was 70 for Cool- idge, 15 for Davis, 35 for LaFollette, and 3 for Foster. In direct contrast to this, was the vote of the workers themselves. The employes, who work under the most vicious non-union con- ditions and are oppressed by a speed- up system and by a blood-sucking com- pany union, and who would not be ex- pected to be in touch with the most militant ideas, nevertheless, gave 38 votes for Foster, 127 for LaFollette, and only 86 for Coolidge and 19 for Davis. 4 The DAILY WORKER is well known to the employes,of the Pullman company, for it was the DAILY WORKER that. helped the striking steel car builders in their strike a few months ago. At that time offi- cials of the Pullman company arrest- ed several members of the Workers Party for their activity on behalf of the Pullman workers, but they were found not guilty after a jury trial. Small Keeps Bulldog Grip on Dough; Hard Job to Pry It Loose 1 SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 19.—De- nouncing as “empty nothings” Gover- nor Small’s defense against the state’s demand for an accounting on interest money earned by state funds in his hands while state treasurer, assist- ant attorney-general Hadley today opened rebuttal argument in the civil suit against the governor. Hadley was expected to talk two or three days, after which Master in Chancery C. G. Briggle, before whom the suit is being heard, will draw up a report on the governor's liability to the Sangamon county circuit court, which will enter an order in the case. FILIPINOS STRIKE AT MANILA IN 104 BIG SHOE FACTORIES (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MANILA, Philippine Islands, Sept. 19.—The entire local shoe industry is completely tied up as a result of a strike which has just been de- clared in 104 shoe factories, For some time the Filipino shoe workers have been preparing to press their demands {Sr an increase in wages and the abolition of cer- tain restrictions in their working conditions. The present tie-up is the answer of the workers to the re- fusal of the shoe bosses to deal with them or meet their demands. The Filipino shoe industry Is largely owned by British, American and native capitalists, ‘ Communism Has Inning at Mass Meeting for John Wallstreet Davis By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the DAILY WORKER is much better known to an increased number of democrats in Chicago. When these democrats went to the carefully planned demonstration for their presidential candidate at the stockyard’s Pavilion, Thursday night, they didn’t expect to get better acquainted with the Communist daily. But such in the case. " * * * * John Wallstreet Davis is strong for “our constitutional liberties.” “I'm for a free press,” yells Davis, into the loud speaker, and his voice thunders thru the great amphitheatre. Just about that time several policemen, probably with First Ward training, under “Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bath- house John” Coughlin, spy our comrade, John P. Heinrich- son, with a bundle of the DAILY WORKER under his arm, and give him, what is popularly known along the river fronts as the “Bum’s Rush.” “We don’t want any of your ‘red’ papers around here,” blurted the policemen, as they dumped their victim into the street. © .0) 16li But it is hard to keep a good Communist down. Hein- richson immediately got in touch with our DAILY WORKER “newsie,” Kitty Harris, who has seen service at the great conventions of the coal miners at Indianapolis, Ind., and Peoria, Ill. She had been selling “The Daily” on the outside. He sent her back into the great hall. And she went. “I'm for personal liberty!” proclaimed Davis, and the cattle, sheep, hogs and other intended victims of the slaughter on the morrow, lost some more of their last night's slumber in the neighboring “Yards.” It was the big demon- stration of the night. To the great crowd “personal liberty” meant only one thing—the return of the saloon, a wet city. And when Davis continued with a denunciation of “unlawful search and seizure,” the crowd outdid itself in defense of “Home Brew” and the kitchen still. At about the same time the ever-watchful policemen dis- covered Kitty Harris with her bundle of the DAILY WORKER under her arm. And they did their duty, as they saw it. “Personal liberty” didn’t apply to the right of Kitty Harris, to carry a bundle of Communist papers in a democratic meeting. Large numbers of the DAILY WORKER were sold before the Davis meeting got under way. Early comers got the front seats and sat reading our Communist daily with its first page editorial on the democratic vice-presidential candidate under the heading, “Workers! Here is John W. Davis, Attorney for the House of Morgan.” Sales were better after Davis had finished. Crowds that refused to listen to the lesser candidates, and wended their way slowly to the streets, heard Heinrichson’s own story of the democratic principle of ‘free press” in action. “One man laughed so hard that he had to take out his handkerchief and wipe the tears away,” reported our comrade. “He saw the joker in the situation and he enjoyed it. But he also got a copy of the DAILY. WORKER.” The DAILY WORKER isn’t worried much when its hornet’s sting gets the enemy excited. Kitty Harris tells the story of how the DAILY WORKER sold better than ever after our reporter, Karl Reeve, had been ordered off the floor of the Illinois Miners’ Convention, presided over by President Frank Farrington. Farrington is now out for Len Small, republican candidate for re-election, and he is seeking the vote of the Ku Klux Klan, in the miners’ union, to insure his re-election as head of the Illinois Miners’ Organization. It was not an accident that the big capitalist daily in Detroit, Mich., “The News,” gave special notice to the bar- ring of DAILY WORKER “newsies” from the building where the convention of the International, Association of Machin- ists is being held. The “Brass Check” press feels safer when the \officials of labor make war upon the Communist press.’ The chair- man of the Machinists’ Convention is President William H. Johnston, who is also head of the Conference for Progressive Political Action that is backing LaFollette. * * A ” The DAILY WORKER doesn't expect any consideration from the upholders of the present social system. By their actions the officials of labor, Johnston, of the machinists, supporter of LaFollette; Farrington, of the miners, backer of Len Small, the republican, have shown that they are little different than the Henry Dubb policemen doing the bidding of the Chicago democracy. ’ | sat at a press table and two high school boys, from the Parker High School, on Chicago's South Side, edged up a little closer. They were there to write 3 4 the meeting for their high school paper. They wanted to know what paper | was from. “From the DAILY WORKER,” | told them. “Oh, you're for Debs!” they exclaimed in unison. | gave them a copy of the DAILY WORKER. They looked at it, and it didn’t take them long to make the cor- rection. “Oh, | see, you're for Foster.” They kept their copies of the DAILY WORKER. They promised to read them. And | added they might put some- thing about the DAILY WORKER in their write-up of the 8 9 ig in their high school paper. They promised they would, So Communism had its inning at the ‘mass meeting addressed by John Wallstreet Davis in Chicago. WORKERS REPUDIATE LAFOLLETTE NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The regular meeting of the Downtown Section of Local 22, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, which hab a membership of fifteen thousand workers, went on record refusing to support, or in any other way endorse, the campaign of LaFollette, ‘The action of the Executive Board in endorsing LaFollette, and sending de! to the conferences of the American Labor Party and the Conference for Progressive Political Action was repudiated. The Local went on record refusing to send delegates to these conferences, They called on the Exeou- tive Board to recall its delegates and refuse further moral and financial sup- port to the LaFollette campaign. It was also decided to call a special meet- ing for the purpose of entering into a full discussion of the political situation, and the merits of the various parties participating in the election. Around the meeting hall many expressions of sentiment were voiced for the Foster-Gitlow campaign of the Workers Party. There was considerably more interest manifested in the Trade Union Educational League shop col- lections drive for the benefit of this oampaign, than in the whole LaFollette campaign. ‘POSTPONE CASE / OF FOUR MPLS. Y. WL MEMBERS Four Bodies ‘Demand Their Release (Special to The Datly Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 19,--Four members of the Young Workers League here today ap- peared before Judge Frank Reed of the Municipal Court on the charge of disorderly conduct. The arrests occured in con- nection with a nation-wide drive conducted by the league against the rotten conditions of the youth employed in the National Biscuit Company, in front of which the four comrades at- tempted to hold a meeting. Case Again Postponed. This time the case was again post- poned until October 2. The city at- torney informed the court that there was no evidence upon which to prose- cute the young defendants, Leslie R. Hurt, Carl Cowl, Gerry Pett and Mor- ton Green, but the policemen who made the arrest insisted on the prose- cution. These cops are organized into the American Federation of Labor, but they can show their servility to the bosses on any occasion. The city council, the Hennepin county farmer-labor federation, and the local Trades and Labor Assembly are all on record demanding the re- lease of the young Communists. An- other attempt will be made today to hold a meeting in front of the plant chr by the four comrades out on ail. Lead Fight on the LaFollette Ticket in the Amalgamated (Continued from Page 1.) real, definite steps towards a labor party. Later this was changed to a third, liberal party “not to our liking.” ‘When Levin was asked to inform the members who deserve@ to know of the stand taken in the G. E. B. by Schlossberg, he refused to answer. G. E. B. Contradictory. Again no answer was made when it was pointed out that the G. E. B. had at first spoken of its differences with LaFollette and Wheeler and directly contradicted itself in an editorial in the official organ, Advance, of August 29, where it said of LaFollette that he .| Was a man who “could be absolutely depended upon not to use the powers of the government against organized labor,” and that Burton Wheeler had a record which was “100 per cent in favor of labor in its struggles.” If Wheeler was 100 per cent for the workers, then there was absolutely no difference between him and Hill- man or Levin. After all, there cannot be a loyalty to an idea or a group that rises above 100 per cent! The discussion showed plainly that while many of the LaFollette support- ers were undoubedly sincere, they were consciously or unconsciously mis- leading the workers. None of the arguments of the left wing wing mem- bers of the local that spoke, were re- plied to by the LaFollette boosters. A moral victory was won by the oppo- nents of LaFollette. A show of hands showed that they had been refeated numerically. Pope Wareth Senile. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—A let ter from Pope Pius XI, extending his blessing to the convention of the Holy Name societies of the United States, said That since the society was founded in the United States, it had “brought in its wake blessings to both the Catholic religion and to the civic welfare of the country,” Having a Wild Time. LONDON, Sept. 19.—Many Bulgari- an»comitadji (irregular troops) who have been pillaging into Serbian terri- tory, have been killed, captured or driven out of the country by Serbian troops, according to a Central News dispatch today from Belgrade. If You Want An Intellectual Treat g0 to 3322 Douglas Boulevard, Monday evening, Sept. 22, and hear John Edwards, who will tell you about the European situation. Comrade Edwards has just recently returned from Europe and can well handle the subject. The above lecture was arranged and is held under the auspices of the Douglas Park branch of the Workers LAST CALL!! HIS is the last call for the Communist Children’s surprise party to be held tomorow, Sunday, Sept. 21, 3 p,m, at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. Come and bring the children! Ad- -mission only 250 for adults and 16¢ for children. Come! sel’ 4 <