The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1924, Page 2

re Page Two TEACHERS PLAN DEMONSTRATION FOR THURSDAY Praise “Daily Worker”; May Resort to Radio With a ringing denunciation of the school officialdom, which is led by SuperintendentWilliam McAndrew and Charles M. Moderwell, president of the board of education, the organ- ized teachers of Chicago, at the last session of the Teachers’ Federation, decided to hold a mass meeting at the Studebaker} theater on Thursday afternoon, the day after the final decision of the board becomes known, to present their case to the people of Chicago. A suggestion- that the pro- ceedings be broadcasted by radio may be acted upon. DAILY WORKER Wins Applause. The teachers roundly applauded the praise given by one of their members to the DAILY WORKER for the at- titude which the Communist organ has taken towards the war being waged between the rank and file teachers and the men in control, and accepted as just the criticism which the DAILY WORKER has made of the policy. of the federation—that it ts not firm and militant enough. Margaret Haley, business agent of the federation, bitterly assailed the mewspapers of the city which have been publishing false accounts of the| actions of the teachers. “The Chicago Tribune has come out with one false story after another,” said Miss Haley. “The newspapers have repeatedly refused to print real news which might help people to un-| derstand our point of view. Other newspapers have followed the same policy.” While teachers were. applauding Miss Haley's denunciation of the Chicago press, one of the teachers arose, saying: “While we are knocking we might |ton St. East, Monday, September 29, as well do a little praising. I wish that everyone would follow the com- plete, agcurate and helpful reports varried in the DAILY WORKER.” Turn On The Tribune. What. basis ‘the: teachers have for , Rissatistaction with the accounts of the teachers’ fights against official control which the capitalist papers have printed, is shown by the story published by the Tribune on the day after this meeting of the federation, at which militant steps were deter- mined on. The Tribune story was headed: “Rebellion (Among the Teachers) Is a Myth.” Rebellion—real rebellion—raised its head at the federation meeting while Margaret Haley told of the high-hand- ed and tyrannical actions of Superin- tendent McAndrew in refusing to com- ply with a rule of the board which provides for the calling of teachers’ councils, and the dismissal of the schools for a few hours during the year to allow these councils to meet. Tries to Tire Teachers. “This may seem a very trivial mat- ter,” said Miss Haley. “It is not. I have been reliably informed that this is but a preliminary attack—that the real purpose of McAndrew’s present Stand is to weaken the resistance of the teachers so ‘that later on he can cut their salaries. “Already McAndrew is planning a salary schedule based on secret mark- ings, so that no teacher will have the tight to complain if her salary is cut.” Present Case to Public. The school board, at its regular meeting next Wednesday, may take one of two steps. It may decide to en- dorse Superintendent McAndrew’s re- port amending the rules in such a way that he may call them at his discre- tion. It may refuse to endorse the re- port, in this way implying that it is the duty of the superintendent to call the meetings in accordance with the rule—an jmplication which it is gen- erally understood that McAndrew will ignore. In either case, the teachers of Chi- cago will meet at the Studebaker the- ater on Thursday afternoon, present their case to the public, and decide on further action. DEFENSE DAY PROGRAM IN TOLEDO IS FIZZLE; “| JUST A FEW TURN OUT TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 21.—The De- fense Day program held here, de- signed to promote interest in the Coolidge administration, and create sentiment for the next capitalistic war, was a frost, only a few turning out. Most of those who appeared on the streets in the parade were forced to march by their blood- thirsty employers. The rest were Swaggering Legionair nxious and glad of the chance to show off thelr uniforms, and thirsting for Commun- Ist blood. Altho the republicans tried to stir up enthusiasm, only a few flags were being displayed In inty-five blocks. - THE DAILY WORKER Our Candiflates DUNNE SPEAKS FOSTER'S DATES SEATTLE, Wash.—Myasonic Temple, Tuesday, September 23rd, 8:00 p. m. TACOMA, Wash. — Eagles’ Hall, Wednesday, September 24th, 8:00 p.m. ASTONIA, Ore.—Safturday, Septem: ber 27th, 8:00 p. m. PORTLAND, Ore.—-t. 0. 0. F. Audi: torium, 10th and Salmon St., Sunday, September 28th, 8:00, p. m. BERKELEY, Cal.—High School Au- ditorium, Tuesday, September 30th, 8:00 p. m. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—California Hall, Turk and Larkin Sts., Wednes- day, October, 1st, 8:00 p. m. LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Friday, Octo- ber 3rd, 8:00 p. m: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. — Unity Hall, 138 So, 2 East, Sunday, October 5th, 8:00 p. m. DENVER, Colo.—Auditorium, Curtis and 14th St., Tuesday, October 7th, 8:00 p. m. GITLOW'S DATES. ENJAMIN GITLOW, _vice-presi- dential candidate of the Workers Party, begins his next speaking tour at Erie, Pa., September 24. This tour will carry him as far west as Minne- apolis, Minn. Originally the tour was planned to cover the entire west and the Pacific Coast. But because of the demands for the services of Comrade Gitlow, thruout the east and middle west, especially in the industrial sec- tions, the Pacific Coast tour has been cancelled. A corrected and final list of the new Gitlow dates is published here- with. Gitlow will complete his vice- presidential tour in a whirlwind finish in a series of meetings all thru the east, winding up'at New York City on November 2, the latter list of dates will be published shortly. Erie, Pa., Central Labor Union Hall, 1701 State St., Wednesday, Septem- jber 24,8pm * Toledo, Ohio, Labor Temple Audi- torium, Michigan St. and Jefferson, Friday, September 26, 8 p. m. Youngstown, Ohio, Moose Temple, 225 W. Boadman St., Saturday, Sep- tember 27, 8 p. m. Detroit, Mich, Arena Gardens, Woodward and Hendrie, Sunday, Sep- tember 28, 2 p. m. Grand Rapids, Mich., St. Cecelia Auditorium, Ransom Ave. near Ful- 7:30 p. m. Muskegon, Mich., Tuesday, Septem- ber 30, 8 p. m. South Bend, Ind., Carpenters’ Hall, 815 S. Michigan St., Wednesday, Oc- tober 1, 8 p. m. Gary, Ind., Turner Hall, 14th and Washington St., Thursday, October 2,8 p. m. Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, October 5. Duluth, Minn., Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave., W. 1st St., Monday, October 6, 8 p. m. Superior, Wis., Tuesday, October 7. St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Octo- ber 8, Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, Octo- ber 9. Chicago, Ill., Sunday, October 12. Omaha, Neb., Monday, October 14. Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday, October 14. St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, October 15. Zeigler, Ill, Thursday, October 16. Springfield, Ill., Friday, October 17. New York, N. Y., Sunday, October NEVER HEARD OF NIETSCHIE, YET HE'S IN THE GAN (Special to. The Daity Worker) MOUNT VERNON, IIL, Sept. 21— Rey. Lawrence M. Hight, 48, Metho- dist minister of Ina, 12 miles from here, waived preliminary hearing when arraigned, here today before Justice of the Peace, T. Morse, on a charge of first degree murder, in con- nection With the death of his wife, Anna, 44, demanded an immediate trial and was ordered held without bail for action by the October grand jury. Pending his indictment by the grand jury the first week in October, Sheriff Holcombe said October 13 had beén agreed on tentatively as the trial date in circuit court here. Meanwhile, the little community of Ina is in an uproar with its popula- tion about equally divided between those who believe the pastor guilty, and others who believe his protesta- tions of innocence and regard his ar- rest as persecution. Canadian Labor Body Takes Firm Stand on-- Unemployed Problem TORONTO, Sept. 21.—The Toronto Trades and Labor council is looking after the unorganized as well as or- ganized labor in regard to unemploy- ment. A sharp debate in the council was percipitated by a letter from Car- penters’ union No, 27, which declared that the unemployed union man should be relieved before the council tackles the difficulties of unorganized labor. After a vigorous debate the council passed a resolution condemning an at- titude unsympathetic to unorganized ube day in the Musicians’ Hall, ington Avenue and Wells street, will be announced in Tuesday morn- AT CONFERENCE FOR CAMPAIGN Call to All Workers for Wednesday Night The militant workers of Chi- cago have issued a call to all class conscious workers to "are to a mass meeting called y the Foster-Gitlow Confer- ence Wednesday night, Sept. 24, at 8 o’clock at 2733 Hirsch Bivd., where William F. Dunne, just returned from Russia and candidate for Governor of Illi- nois on the Workers Party ticket, will be the principal speaker, The capitalist parties in this election as in all others are try- ing to catch the votes of the working masses with their usu- al promises. The reactionary leaders of the un- ions (who until this“year have sup- ported either the republican or demo- cratic party) have combined with the socialists for the candidates of the bourgeoisie, LaFollette and Wheeler. Workers Party Hope of Workers, In this election the only hope of the workersisin the Workers Party, which has put out a class conscious work- ers’ ticket headed by the well-known militant labor leaders, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow. The question before the workers in this election is whether they will vote for the candidates of their em- ployers: Coolidge, Davis and LaFol- lette or act as class conscious work- ers and support the candidates of their own class. Those of you who want to know more about the issues before this campaign, are urged to come to this meeting Wednesday night, where Dunne and other prominent speakers of the Workers Party will put the is- sues clearly before you. MOTHER BLOOR TO TOUR THRU THREE STATES Mother (Ella Reeve) Bloor, famous Communist orator, is scheduled to make a tour thru the states of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana, in the interests of the candidates of the Workers Party nationally and locally. She will visit most of the min- ing camps of Illinois to bring the message of Communism to the unemployed coal diggers, and speak to the steé? slaves of Lake County and Gary. Com- rade Bloor’s itinerary is as fol- lows: Chicago, III, Sept. 29-30, Street. WISCONSIN, Sept. 22-30. Milwaukee, Street and factory meet- ings, Sept. 22, 23, 24. Racine, Thursday, Sept. 25. Kenosha, Friday, Sept. 26. Milwaukee, Saturday, Sept. 27. Sheboygan, Sunday, Sept. 28, ELECTION IN CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR TO BRING NO CHANGES The results of the election of officers to the Chicago Federation of Labor, which were held yester- ing’s DAILY WORKER. Altho John Fitzpatrick, Edward Nockels and Oscar posed for election as pr retary and vice-president, respec- tively, they no longer are leade the Chicago Federation of Labor. Fitzpatrick and Nock since their desertion of the Farmer-Labor Par- ty, have made their surrender to capitalistic politicians complete by Indorsing Len Small, republican candidate, for governor and are con- trolled in the federation by reaction- aries like Olander and Nelson. Fitzpatrick told the DAILY WORKER that no change in the policy of the Federation of Labor is contemplated as long as he is presi- dent, at the election yesterday. The statement of the Workers Party and Trade Union Educational League of Chicago, that Fitzpatrick, Nockels and Nelson, do not deserve the support of the trade unionists o id a favorable impression on rank and file trade unionists. Marty workers who are devoted to independent political action of the working class, and to aggressive ao- tion to organize the unorganized workers, left their ballots blank where the names of these three men they told the DAILY appeared, WORKER, MEXICAN LABOR IN DEMONSTRATION OF SOLIDARITY TO 63 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19.—A 72- hour strike of all textile workers in the state of Puebla is a .protest against tlhe arrest of 53 union work- ers who fought against the strike- breakers of the textile factory of Metepec in Atlixco. In an armed skirmish 18 were killed and many wounded. The carmen, the bakers and the milkmen will strike unless the 53 union men are released. The solidarity strike asks that the Mete- peo factory be closed and that three of its foreign directors be deported from Mexico. SILLINSKY STILL LEADS SWEENEY INTAILORS’ POLL Reactionary Stronghold Can't Overcome Lead Max J. Sillinsky is still lead- ing in the election for general secretary-treasurer of the Jour- neymen Tailors’ Union. That is the outstanding re-|' sult of the voting in Chicago and reports that continue to come from other cities. Tries Last.Hour Roorback. The present reactionary incumbent, Sweeney, made a last minute effort to roll up a majority in Chicage sufficient to overcome the lead Sillinsky has been piling up, thru a dastardly charge, published without the slightest sup- porting evidence, that Sillinsky had “defrauded the union” out of money. By this eleventh-hour election trick he may have gained a few votes in Chicago, but this will be more than offset by the reaction against Sweeney and in favor of Sillinsky that will in- evitably follow such cheap and dirty politics. Trump Card Fails. The votes reported to this time show that Sweeney failed in his trump card, which was to pile up a vote in Chicago that would outweigh the Sil- linsky majorities coming in from all over the country. The vote stands so far: Sillinsky Sweeney 1: 12 cities reported Sat. 166 Kansas City 91 Chicago 95 “522 WORKERS PARTY SPEAKERS WELL RECEIVED HERE Five hundred Pullman work- ers, mostly employes of the Pullman Car company, listened to Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor speak Saturday night at an Open air mass meeting on the corner of 114th Place and Mich- igan Avenue. The DAILY WORKER copies on hand were. entirely sold out, and intelligent questions were asked by the audience who stood for two hours listening to Comrade Bloor expound the class struggle and tell of the program of the Workers Party. Two more open air mass meetings were held Sunday, one in the after- noon in “Bug House Square,” Clark street and Newberry place, and the other in the efening at the open for- wm, in Washington Park on the South Side. Comrade D. E. Early reported a good meeting at Division and Wash- tenow streets and Pete Herd spoke to 200 people at the corner of Roosevelt and St. Louis, ‘ Several hundred Garveyites who held a meeting at the corner of State and 30th streets, stayed to hear Gor- don Owens, Negro candidate for U. S. Congress and George Maurer, also a candidate for the House of Repre- sentatives, explain the position of the Communists on the Negro question. Gordon Owens explained to the 400 people the futility of attempting to migrate to Africa. He declared there should be no division of the workers along lines of color or creed, but that all workers should unite with their class to war on the employers of la- bor. Owens showed ‘the impossibility of solving the problems of capitalistic society by withdrawing to another capitalistic country. He urged the Negroes present to join the trade un- ions wherever possible. A sympathizer with the Ku Klux Klan resented Comrade Bloor'’s re- marks denounci¢g the Klan for its at- tempted disruption of the miners’ or- ganization, at her Pullman meeting. This worker, however, was laughed to silence by the crowd when he ad- mitted he is of foreign birth, such, is being persecuted by the \ emt LaFollette and Wall Street Agree on Next War’s Preparations By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, “Cautious Cal” Coolidge and Senator LaFollette are practically agreed on the question of preparing for the next war. While Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, after his hurried transcontinental tour to Washington, is closeted with Pre- sident Coolidge, at the nation’s capitol, Senator Wheeler, running mate of the Wisconsin senator, is on tour talking about “the war record of LaFollette.” * * * * | heard Wheeler make his speech in Chicago. Merely the mention of “the war record of LaFollette” brought some ap- plause. But that was as far as Wheeler went. He dropped the subject like a hot potatg, turning instead to the Lorimer- Dawes bank scandal. Fur further information, however, about LaFollette’s attitude towards war, turn to the last page of the pamphlet, “Where LaFollette Stands on Fifty Living Issues” and read what is there set forth under the heading, “National De- fense.” These pamphlets were distributed free of charge. This last page declaration says: “Il believe the people should be informed that the great battle- ships now under construction, at a cost exceeding forty million each, offer little or no protection, and that our true safety Iles, even if we are to be attacked, which is an impossibility for years to come, in the laying of mines, the strengthening of coast defenses, and the building of a reasonable number of submarines and aircraft.” ‘ * * * * The above paragraph is taken from a speech made by Senator LaFollette in the United States Senate, May 16, 1921, on the Naval Appropriations Bill. It is typical of his attitude during the entire war, trying to show the big capital- ists how to conduct their war; and it is his reiterated position now, thru the circulation of this material as campaign propa- ganda. * x * * LaFollette raises the fiction of “national defense,” that leads on to so-called “defensive wars.” Every capitalist nation in the last world war declared it was waging a “de- fensive war.” The Russian workers and farmers exploded this fiction when they quit fighting for the czar, drew out of the imperialist slaughter house and established their own rule, LaFollette is opposed to $40,000,000 battleships. So is Wall Street. So is Morgan. So are the navy experts at Washington. So are the war experts of Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. They agree with LaFollette that battleships are out of date. They agree with LaFollette that “submarines and aircraft” will be the murder weapons of the future. 2 LaFollette did not oppose the last war. He is not now opposing preparations for the next war. When the next war comes he will not oppose it. He will merely offer,his advice on how to run it, especially urge the capitalists to adopt his plans for financing he * * * * . But there are those who will exploit “the war record of LaFollétte” to the limit. Among these will be found the German capitalists and small business men in the United States. The Steuben (German-American) Society has en- dorsed LaFollette. One of the members of the constitutional council of the Steuben Society is George Sylvester Viereck, during the war, before the Unted States entry into it, the Kaiser’s propaganda agent in this country. Viereck was literary agent for Theodore Roosevelt dur- ing the height of the Bull Mooser's career. It will be remem- bered that Roosevelt, during his tour of Europe in 1910, stood side by side with the Kaiser reviewing the German im- perial army, lauding the Hohenzollern military machine. Roosevelt came to Europe after his lion hunting expedi- tion in Africa in 1909, and the Encyclopedia says of his Euro- pean tour, “His most striking experience was in Germany, where he was received with cordiality by the Emperor.” The German capitalists in the United States, those who long for the return of the Kaiser and the monarchy in Ger- many, are supporting LaFollette in this campaign. When there are indications of revolt within the Steuben Society, against the endorsement of LaFollette, it is the ex-Kaiser's agent, Viereck, who is most strong in his defense of the Wis- consin senator. This is one of the main reasons why German workers and farmers in the United States should bitterly oppose La Follette. LaFollette is not opposed to the wars of capitalism, and in the next Wall Street war, to protect the loans of the House of Morgan, it will be the German workers and farmers, in this country, as well as workers and farmers of all other nationalities who will be called into the trenches, to bleed and die for the Almighty American dollar. * The interests of the German workers and farmers in this country are identical with the interests of the hungry and jobless workers and poor farmers in Germany. They are all faced with but one struggle—the ending of the rule of the capitalists in both Germany and in the nited States. Let workers of all nationalities, in these United States, as well as native-born Americans, ponder these facts, and then they will realize why they must give their support to the Communist candidates, William Z. Foster, for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, for vice-president. Foster and Gitlow lead in the fight for the working class against the capitalist class. Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette are on the side of capitalism against the workers. On which side are you? +80 heresy-hunting in the machinists’ Machinist Delegates Defeat Johnston’s War ‘on the Communists (Continued from Page 1.) ruled on that, declaring that the “noes” had defeated the motion to table. A division was demanded from the floor, however, and all Johnston's cleverness availed him nothing except to expose him, for the division show- ed that the convention was over- whelmingly in favor of killing the proposition. The convention is in a rebellious mood against the raw attempts at domination of the Johnston machine. Emme struck a responsive chord in the debate on the above question, when he said: “It you are going to union, why don’t you come out in the open and say who it is you want to be thrown out of the organization.” Another delegate declared that the whole proposition was so veiled that it meant nothing and anything, and could not be understood by anyone. Johnston is using “red-baiting” tac- ics to ain his lost ground, two of his principal assistants being Robert Haberman, renegade socialist pow in the service of the Mexican govern- ment, and the British representative, Mr. Brownlie. But the convention has shown that it is absolutely oppos- ed to throwing out members because of their political beliefs. And some of the old fighting spirit of the or- ganization is again coming to the fore- front, Monday, September 22, 1924 MACHINISTS KILL FAKE INSURANCE PLAN IN DETROM Delegates Down “Com- pulsory” Seme, (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 21.— The convention of the Inter- national Association of Machin- ists rejected the proposal of the general officers to turn the un- ion into a compulsory insurance society. It was the first major defeat of the Johnston administration, and when the vote was shown so overwhelmingly against the insurance proposal, predictions were rife in the convention that this foreshadows an even more bitter struggle over the “B. & 0.” plan, whieh reactionaries are even more determined to establish and the radicals to de- feat. Chicago Delegates Lead Fight. The progressive forces in the con vention, led by Bernard Koretz and Pete Jensen, of Chicago, and John Otis and A. T. McNamara of Pitts- burgh, made a frontal assault upon the insurance scheme, condemning it as a part of the wholesale plans of class collaboration of Wm. H. Johnston and his lieutenants. Even the old-timers in the union who have been sentimen: tally following Johnston voted againsi him and his measure. In spite of all the well-planned ef forts of the reactionaries, this conven: tion has not repudiated the class struggle. Every speaker has admitted the necessity of a fighting policy against the capitalist class, and even President Johnston, bowing to the spirit of the convention, makes oc- casional mention of the class struggle. It is the B. & O. \plan that is going to furnish the biggest battle of the convention. The real test between progressives and reactionaries comes on this issue. The entire Canadian delegation is violently opposed to the plan, and many delegates from cities in the U. S. who came here still under the influence of the efficiency engin- eer, Beyer, and his propaganda, have joined to forces pledged to sink this collaboration scheme into oblivion, Ask About “B. & ©.” Workers, The fact that the Glenwood local, where this scheme was first put into effect, has not even a delegate to the convention, has had quite an effect upon the delegates here. Delegates are preparing to demand an explana- tio also, as to why the locals on the “B. & O.” railway, where thousands of machinists work in the shops, only have 100 to 200 members. Why are these men not organized? William H. Johnston and his “expert,” Captain Beyer, will have a hard time-explain- ing to the delegates. According to the Pittsburgh dele gates, the men in the “B, & O.” shops are themselves opposed to the plan The railroad delegates here are so overwhelmingly against the scheme, that it is absolutely impossible for it to be carried unless the delegates from the contract shops vote it over on them. The contract shop locals are in a majority in this convention, Railroad Locals Demoralized. At ‘the Rochester convention, four years ago, the reverse was true; the railroad locals were in the majority. But the railroad ‘locals are badly de- moralized as a result of the defeated shopmen’s strike, so that they have been unable to finance delegates to this convention. Johnston is counting upon this fact as his only hope to jam the B. & O. plan down the throats of the railroad machinists. Benny to Call Chamber. ROME, Sept. 21.—Premier Musso Yni today decided to reassemble the chamber of @eputies on Nov. 16. Vote Communist This Time! RAIN HALTS STRAW BALLOTING; WILL GONTINUE TODAY The straw ballot which was to have been taken Saturday in an- other of the factories being covered thru the DAILY i off because of the heavy downpour of rain. The ballot was to have tak- en place at 6 im, at which time ill strong. However, the factory missed in addition to the one regularly scheduled for today, will be handled tomorrow. Results will appear in Tuesday's issue of the DAILY WORKER. It may be pointed out here that, if the party were organized inside the shops, on the basis of S| Nu then there would be no postponem: of any” party activity on account of rain, The straw ballot is proving very popular and is stimulating discus- sion on the three capitalist candi- dates and the only workers’ eandi- dates on the presidential ballot, Fos- ter and Gitlow of the Workers Party.