The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 2

Page Two ” THE DAILY WORKER CARPENTERS IN CONVENTION AT INDIANAPOLIS Amalgamation Urgent Need of Union INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22.— The twenty-first convention of the United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners of America Opened here today with Presi- dent William L. Hutchenson presiding. John L. Lewis, notorious re- actionary. president of the United Mine Workers of, Amer- ieaz, made an address at the morning session to the over 800 delegates who are assembled. Jurisdiction Problem Up, Among the many problems before the convention ir jurisdictional dis- putes. Theso disputes in the build- ing trades have left a long and ruin- ous trail of disorganization and demor- m that will compel intelligent tssion in the convention. The carpenters have been the center of many of these disputes, and so far the only remedy. offered is to leave it to the joint board of jurisdictional awards or else for the unions to en- ter a life and death struggle. Neither of these remedies lessen, the problem. The board of awards is a class collabora- controlled by the bosses and only aggravates the situation. In tho scrap between the carpenters and tho sheet metal workers over the set- ting of hollow trim, etc., this board decided against the carpenters who then refused to accept the award Hutchenson’e refusal to accept this de- 4 cision was not, of course, because he is against class collaboration, but merely because the decision would mean less members paying dues to - the carpenters. K. C. Fight An Example. The militants in the union also point out th the other method is suicidal and brings demoralization, the destruction of one of the combatants and the weakening of the other. That the employers want to now going on in Kan- sas City, Mo., between these two or- ganizations is an example of the stu- pidity of settling disputes ,by this method.’ The whole of the Kansas varpenters and if it is allowed to con- tinue it can bring only destruction. With the centralization of the build-|SCope of his investigation. Such a ing industry, and the great changes| made in construction thru modern} un-|fatten on agent-provocateur work in | and improved methods, the craft ions are continually coming into con- in struggles amongst themselves in- stead of against the bosses. With the present state of development the craft form of organization stands in the way of the advancement of the work- ers. Their interests lie only in the solidification of the ranks. Jurisdictional disputes are quarrels over per capita tax and the officials who hold that it means mpre work for the present members of the union are merely spreading the buncombe. If the carpenters’ union fimally won the right to the hanging of hollow metal work, it wonld just mean that those who do this work would have to join the carpenters’ union, It is a fight be- tween officials for power and is detri mental to the interests of the rank and file. It strengthens only the employ- ers’ associations. Amalgamation Only Solution. The left wing is prepared to carry on a fight on the convention floor for the only logical solution of the prob- lem, the amalgamation of the craft unions into industrial organizations. Jurisdictional disputes, it is indicated, » can never be wiped out until there is a complete amalgamation of all work- ers on a departmental basis, for the ‘ simple reason that these disputes are 8 disease arising from craft unionism. By Pure Gall. A nattily dressed holdup man to- day robbed Gordon Heck, 18, messen- ger for the Lake View Trust and Sav- ings Co., of a grip containing only can- celled checks. The holdup occurred just outside the bank in the midst of early morning traffic, but the robber “held a gun so close to the boy’s back that passers-by were not aware of the robbery. FOR at 2733 HIR WM. F. DUNNE Candidate for Governor, who has just returned from Russia. COME ALL flict with one another, involving them |it would take them a long time to | recover. BILL DUNNE TO SPEAK AT LOCAL T. U. E. L. MEETING ON WEDNESDAY William F, Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, who has just returned from Soviet Russia where he attended the congresses of the Communist International and the Red International of Labor Unions, will speak at his first open meeting before the general membership meeting of the Trade Union Educational League, Wednesday, September 24, on the decisions of the third congress of the Profintern. The meeting will be held at “the Northwest Hall, North and Western Avenues, and will open at 8 o'clock sharp. “Bill” Dunne of this country. He is a member of the executive committee of the Prof- intern (Red International of Labor Unions) and took an active part in the discussions at the third congress. Earl Browder will give his regular interesting Review of the Labor | Movement series and all trades unionists are invited to attend. Admission, | of course, is free. . | SEARS’ CLERKS MAKE GOOD SHOWING | | DAILY WORKER, | Many of the women said they would | take the straw ballots home with) them, they couldn’t spare the time to | vote during working hours, and they were late. The Negro porters, and | there seemed a good many of them, | all voted. One voted for Foster and | tried to let me see that he did. | There are about 10,000 people work- ing at the Sears plant. I should judge | that about 3,000 workers left, the building during the noon hour. During all the time that we were there the dicks and police were on the job, but they did not make themselves conspi- cuous. (Continued from page 1) vice men, or private detectives. There was also one pokceman on each cor- ner. We arrived wearing our ballot box hanking from our shoulders. We were ten in all. We carried little yel- low slips—the ballots. The private detectives wanted to know what we had come for. We told them that we were there to take a straw vote. They warned us not to stand on the steps nor in front of the buildings. However, they did not bother us much, Presently the workers began to pour thru the entrances. They were going towards another building on the other side of the street which we learned later, was the lunch room. At first they did not know what we want- ed. They did not want to stop to take the ballots. Finally they did begin to take the ballots. The older ones took them and started the voting. A man asked the writer, “Who is this fellow Foster? He must be a new one,” he said. “I haven't heard of him yet.” I told him of course, to read the MEANS IN ANOTHER “CONFESSION” the politicians who were running the oil show. This is Means’ story. Daugherty Failed to Show Up. Means is the second of those who testified against Daugherty to retract. But those who would make much of these retractions to clear Daugherty of guilt, are reminded that when Daugherty was invited to take the witness stand and clear himself, he availed himself of every legal tech- nicality in order to,dodge examina- tion. This fact stands out very clear- ly against Daugherty. Vote at Car Shops. Ballots for the DAILY WORKER straw vote were distributed to the employes at the Car Shops of the Chi- cago North Western Railway company early yesterday morning when the men were going to work. They will be collected in the even- ing when the men leave their work and the count on the votes will be pub- lished in Wednesday’s DAILY WORKER. (Continued from page 1) the injunction activities of his de- partment. While people of the Means-Stinson type are able to testify to facts that would not come to the knowledge of more decent citizens, they, being un- derworld types, are purchasable and are liable to switch their stories in return for money. Wheeler missed a great opportunity to serve the trade union movement is not only al capable speaker, but he has a long record of activity in the labor movement | en er ee MOTHER BLOOR HITS BOBBIE’S PLATFORM HARD Workers Gather to Hear Commmunist Speakers Hundreds of workers rallied to the open air meetings Saturday night, and bought numbers of copies of the DAILY WORKER, at the seven meet- Party. On Sunday, Mother Ella Reeve Bloor spoke at Newberry place and Clark Street, where she exposed the petty bourgeoise platform and record of LaFollette to a crowd of workers who deserted the free lance artists and eagerly read the hundreds of party platforms that were distributed. Many copies of the “LaFollette Illu- sion,” by Jay Lovestone, were sold to workers who carried LaFollette but- tons in their lapels and much good propaganda was spread. The following mettings will be held in the next few days by the Workers Party: STREET MEETINGS, Tuesday, Sept. 23. Wilton and Belmont—Auspices, Side English Branch; speakers: Manley and others. Division and Washtenaw—Auspices of Maplewood and Hersch Lekert Y. W. L.; speakers: Nat Kaplan and others, W. l4th St. iand 49th Ct.—Cicero Lithu- anian Branch; speakers: Maurer and North Joseph ings held in the city by the Workers Lithuanian comrade. 16th and Kedzie—Douglas Park Eng- lish; speakers: Harley and others. Wednesday, Sept. 24, 32nd and Halsted—Auspices, Lithuanian Branches; speakers in English and Lithu- anian. Rosevelt and Marshfield—-Auspices of Luxemburg Y. W. L. Good speakers. 32nd and Morgan—Auspices of Polish Branch; speakers in English and Polish. Madison, about 900 west—Auspices of Local Com. We P.; speakers; Earley and Maurer. PREACHER HAD MUCH PITY FOR HIS ILL FRIENDS MT. VERNON, IIL, Sept. 22.—With the aid of a bible, state’s attorney Thompson secured a signed confession form the Rev. Lawrence M. Hight, ad- mitting the murder of his wife and Wilford Sweeting, husband of a woman with whom the preachér had illicit relations. The only defense.the man of God offered for the murder was that both were ill when he dosed them with when he refused to bring in the ac- tivities of and the Daugherty injunction into the It,is a matter of regret that Burton K. eeler, reli liars, crooks, and other underworld characters to build up an indictment against Daugherty, in order to make political capital for the democrats and particularly for himself, when he could have dealt a sever blow to the system which produces crooks like Daugherty, by showing up the govern- mant departments as instruments of class rule used by those who own the development would ‘undoubtedly .end in giving the detective agencies, which the trade unions a blow from which Dicks Might Be Exposed. But fear that a probe into the de- on” ‘professional’ arsenic and he wanted to relieve them of pain. “Wiitord passed “away” sweet ly, declared the divine and expressed his faith in God in a way that would bring joy to the heart of any clergy: man. ; Whether thé court will consider this mitigating evidence remains to be seen. The minister’s confession}, follows: Kind Husband! “While I was temporarily beside my- MONSTER MASS Foster and Gitlow Campaign Wednesday, Sept. 24th Speakers: M. SHUCHTER will preside. Auspices: Foster-Gitlow Campaign Conference. \tective agencies might expose many prominent labor leaders, who like Mr. Beattie of Pittsburg, former president |of the Central Labor Union of that city, acted as a spy and a baiter of jradicals, was a factor in inducing | Wheele lay off the most vital part jot th« .avestigation. Wheeler had , ambitions and ‘ millionaires Vanderlip, while anxious to see |the government cleaned of its grafters |for the sake of the capitalist system, had no desire to see capitalist gov- ernment exposed as a class weapon jand a strikebreaking instrument in |the hands of the hands of the capi- talists. Means has repudiated his testimony on the witness stand, it is believed in the hope of avoiding a jail sentence for his bootlegging activities. It is not publicly known whether Harry M. Daugherty acted on his own ac- count in inducing Means to come across or whether the Coolidge fac- tion of the republican party had a hand in the game. The Coolidge gang cares nothing about Daugherty’s fate, but as Harry's indecenices are causing Silent Cal to sweat blood, it is not unlikely that he has taken steps to wipe some of the slime of the ex-attorney-general so that his own carefully manufactured purity should not lose any of its whiteness in the mud-hurling contest. The Means confession charges that the Wheeler investigation was to be used against the administration. 1t was proposed that Means be also used by the oil committee, but Wheeler would not stand for any of like THE H BOULEVARD ° A. BITTELMAN Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party ADMISSION FREB country against’ the workers. self with grief at my wife’s condition, Roxie Denies Allegation. she suffering intensly and believing Means would have it believed that} she was surely dying and wishing to the testimony of. other witnesses, in-| save her I, early Wednesday morning, cluding Roxie Stinson, divorced wife\sgept, 10, while Mrs. Lucy Laur, my of Daugherty’s former confidant, Jess/qaughter, Marie Eaton and Mildred Smith, was “put in the mouths of|Hight, were in the kitchen of my these witnesses by Senator Wheelef,|home at Ina, and my son Robert, was primarily to confound and discredit|in ped at home, put some arsenic in the department of justice and the ad-|her coffee. My sole thought was to ministration.” ease her pain in her dying moments.” However, Miss Stinson, when in-| The Sweetin confession reads: formed of the repudiation by Means,,} «] placed some arsenic in a glass of branded as “ridiculous” the reference] water and gave it to Wilford Sweetin. to her testimony. She said none of her testimony was obtained under coercion and that she was not forced to go to Washington to appear before the committee, Daugherty Upbraids Davis. Former attorney general, Daugh- erty, who addressed his statement to John W. Davis, democratic nominee, upbraided him for attacks on the de- partment under Daugherty on charges “without making a thoro investigation of their truth.” Means told newspaper men who questioned him about the new state- ment to Daugherty that in his “busi- ness” it was necessary to sign many things, and that “the full story is yet to come.” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. LEFT WINGERS POLL WELL IN ELECTIONS OF CHIGAGO LABOR John .Fitzpatrick was re-elected without opposition to the office of president of the Chicago Fe of Labor, and Edward Nock took office as secretary, also unop- posed, at the last election of the Chicago body. The feature of the election was the high vote reached by John W. Johnston, left winger, and assistant secretary of the Trade Union Edu- cational League, for the office of member of the executive board, He polled 62’ votes, and John Werlik, another militant, got 31, Arne Swi left wing candi- date for di je to the convention of the American Federation of La- bor, got 27 votes. Thomas F. Ken- nedy was elected to the position. Oscar F. Nelson wi re-elected vice-president of the federation, He was ill in bed and I wv: sure he was dying. My motive was to make his last moments easier.” As a postscript to this he added: “And there was never anything be- tween Elsie Sweetin and myself in any way.” MC GRADY FAILS T0 AROUSE ENTHUSIASM AT MACHINISTS? MEET (Special to the DAILY WORKER) DETROIT, Sept. 22.—Edward Mc- Grady, representing the American Federation of Labor, received a very lukewarm reception from t! delegates to the machinists’ conven- tion when he appeared here today to deliver a eulogy of Samuel Gom- pers and President William H. Johnston. McGrady failed to evoke any enthusiasm and was awarded by only a few handclaps on the con- clusion of his speech. The forenoon was entirely taken up with a jurisy dictional dispute over automobile mechanics, Storm In South Bend, SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 22.— South Bend was recovering today from a cyclone that dropped out of a clear sky Sunday afternoon paralyz- ing traffic, leveling trees and tele- phone poles, dismanteling light and power lines, flooding the city from gutter to gutter and drenching thou.| sands of amusement seekers. Operator Killed In Storm. NEW CASTLE, Ind, Sept. 22— Adelene Stewart, of Loufsville, a tele- phone operator in that city, was killed and two other girls seriously injured in an automibile accident during a heavy rain storm last night on the National Road ten miles south of this city. " - Onl Means, the Detective, Decides to Stick by His Pal, Daugherty By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, a private detective, formerly employed by the William J. Burns’ International Detective Agency, and later in the secret service of the United States government, under Attorney-General Harry M. Daugherty, becomes the central figure of the presidential campaign. His name is Gaston B. Means. The labor baiter, Burns, at one time referred to him as “America’s greatest detective.” 4 * * * * . Gaston B. Means enters the back door of the president- ial campaign thru the fact that he was a witness before the Wheeler Committee investigating the department of justice. In the language of his profession he “peached” on Burns and Daugherty. Like all stool pigeons, he has now had a change of heart and repudiates his testimony. There is some talk that Means is planning to repudiate his repudiation. This is believable. In the meantime the subsidized press is busy publishing denials and counter-denials, statements and counter-state- ments, affidavits and counter-affidavits, with the result that mud is sticking everywhere, notably on Senator Burton K. Wheeler, vice-presidential candidate on the LaFollette ticket: Wheeler is held up as a framer of witnesses and a fixer of testimony. The whole capitalist press gets another op- portunity to befog the class issues involved in the Teapot Oil Scandal and the corruption in Daugherty’s department of justice. * * * * Wheeler has shown himself the best ally of his “friendly enemies” in the opposition capitalist political parties. Wheeler prepared the trap in which he has been caught. And LaFollette stood at his shoulder helping him do it. In his‘campaign pamphlet, “Where LaFollette Stands on Fifty Living Issues,” the Wisconsin senator quotes himself as saying, under the heading, “Communist Dictatorship,” the following: . “If I were a citizen of Russia I should resist this communistic dictatorship as vigorously as I have endeavored to resist the encroach- ment upon our democratic institutions in America. I hold that govern- ment by one class, denying other classes the right to participate, is tyranny.” " * * * * . The above paragraph appeared in LaFollette’s series of articles on “What | Saw in Europe,” published in the Hearst papers, the extract being taken from the Washington Herald, Dec. 16, 1923. It is not an isolated expression of opinion. It is a state- ment embodying the backbone of the whole LaFollette- Wheeler political philosophy. La Follette does not believe in class political action and so he fights the organization of the Farmer-Labor Party, betraying it at every opportunity into the hands of its ene- mies. An example of this was his attack on the St. Paul, dune 17th, Farmer-Labor Conference. LaFollette has never ‘the class-issuein behalf of the workers and farmers during his whole political career. His refusal to do this has 40 him one of the best supporters of the Wall Street social order. Similarly with Wheeler. As prosecutor of the department of justice, he spent his time chasing bootleggers and under- world characters of many kinds, instead of using the oppor- “ey to place the American capitalist government on trial. it was Daugherty’s department of justice that helped break the nation-wide strike of the railroad shopmen; Daugherty acting on behalf of the biggest moneyed interests. But Wheeler claimed an investigation of Daugherty’s record in the shopmen’s strike would be raising the class issue of the railroad workers against the railroad capitalists. Especially it would show that the government was but an instrument in the hands.of money oligarchy of Wall Street. The golden opportunity to render a real service to the American working class knocked at Wheeler's inquisition chamber. He refused to listen. He would not turn upon his own class—the capitalist class He would not attack his own government—the American capitalist a ahaa it to be the enemy of the workers and farmers. Instead he spent his time in dabbling with characters like Gaston B. Means, the detective of Daugherty and Burns; with’Roxie Stinson, the widow of Jesse Smith, pal of Daugh- erty, who made half a million in. one year thru issuing whisky permits; George Remus, the millionaire bootlegger; Howard Mannington, the keeper of “The little Green House on K. Street” and a host of others. * * * * But never, at any time, did Wheeler call a single witness to the stand to expose the strike-breaking activities of the department of justice. Never, at any time, did Wheeler call a single witness to expose the “red baiting” activities of Burns and Daugherty against militant labor. Never, at any time, did Wheeler direct his attack against the capitalist class, an attack that would have brought bene- ficial results for the American working class; an attack that could not be repudiate by private detectives, bootleggers, stool pigeons and other riff-raff of the underworld that has wormed its way into the upper social strata. 7 The Communist fight makes that class cleavage. That is why it fights LaFollette and Wheeler, as well as Coolidge and Dawes, Davis and Bryan, all upholders of the most op- pressive class rule in all history, the American capitalist pene om 2 é The class struggle leads on to triumph of the Workers’ Dictatorship over the Capitalist Dictatorship. But where the dictatorship of capitalism is an instrument for maintaining capitalism in power, the dictatorship of the workers is mere- ly a transition period ending in the Communist Society where all classes have disappeared; where there are no parasitic shirkers nor cruelly exploited workers, where all are common producers in full enjoyment of their labor, * * * * Only the Communist candidates in this campaign, William 2. Foster, for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, for vice president, carry the standards of the class fight against capitalism. i LaFollette and Wheeler, republican and democratic themselves, have helped the Wall Street parti r than they know, to muddy the waters in this year’s presidential struggle. They have created confusion that will help the big “open shoppers,” more successfully than ever, to carry on their fight against the workers, ly the Soviet Rule of the Workers’ and Farmers’ Dio- se Santtale win a Final oe for ba and land labor _over alism ani ackeys, even down to, the La- Follettes and the Wheelers, x } Tuesday, September 23, 1924 SPANIARDS LOSING FIGHT ON MOROCCANS Imperialist Demands of Spain Rejected (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 22.—Dictato: Primo de Rivera, at the head of the Spanish forces which are attempting’ to crush the rebel- lion of the natives of Spanish | Morocco, is facing the necessity |of withdrawing his troops from the colony so that the Spanish government may negotiate im- mediate peace, dispatches from Morocco indicate. The terrific losses inflicted on the Spaniards by the rebel forces are said to be responsible for the sudden decision of King Alfonso’s government to come to terms with the Moors. The Moors demand that Spain {withdraw to four posts along the coast. It is generally understood that Ab- del Krim, leader of the Moorish forc- es, will not comply with the demand of Spain that Tetuan be left to the Spanjards or to the Sultan of Moroc- co, whom he considers the agent of Spanish imperialism. Spain’has de- manded in a preliminary conference that the nominal sovereignty of the sultan be preserved over the entire territory, and that Tetuan be guaran- teed as the sultan’s capital, If the Spanish refuse the demands of the rebels, it is understood that Abdel Krim will continue his offensive on the Spanish troops. The Spanish garrison at Sheshuan has never béen relieved, in spite of the use of 100,000 men with airplanes and artillery to preserve it from attacks of the rebels. The entire route from Tetuan to Tan- gier is occupied by the Moorish troops. Eastern Morocco is practically lost to Spain, and Western Morocco can- not be held for more than a few days, the reports say. Government circles in France are said to be considerably worried over developments in Morocco. The estab- lishment of a Riff republic, on the bor- ders of the French possessions in Africa, would endanger the security of French dominion. Dunne Speaks at Campaign Conference for Foster-Gitlow (Continued from page 1.) organization in the country, the Work ers Party. Learn Real Issues Before Workers. “We, the undersigned workers have called this meeting so that the,work- ers: of Chicago may learn the real is- sues before the workers of this coun. try in this campaign and we call upon you men and women of the working class to attend this meeting and learn the facts that are of real significance to you. “Come to the meeting of the Foster- Gitlow conference tomorrow night at 2733 Hirsch Blvd., at eight o'clock. Admission is free, Come and bring your friends. “Signed: Members of the Amalgam: ated Clothing Workers of America: Hyman Schneid, Phillip Arenberg, Kalman Dune, M. Berson, A. Salon, N. Green, I. Gersh, Members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers: I. Crown, M. Met- rick, N. Held, J. Gerber, S. Levin, Ph. Hausser, S. Cohen. I. L. Davidson, @. Garbin. M. Brady of the Cap Makers; M. Kirshner of the Millinery Workers; I. Held of the Capenters’ Local 504; I. Greenberg of the Fancy Leather Goods Workers, Machinists’ Meet Votes to Cut Down on Officeholders (Continued from page 1). was held by the czar of Russia, In his attack, the labor bank of the machin- ists at Mount Vernon came in for its share, Nicholson pointing out that out of the 21 directors, only five “carried cards.” According to him, it was not a labor bank at all, but an open shop financial institution. Executive Board member, McMahon made the statement that the Grand Lodge had gone into the hole to the extent of $17,000 a month to keep the organizers on the payroll, instead of canning these dough artists and giv. ing some money to the men out on strike or those in jail for the organ. ization. ' The real struggle will take Dl the question of appointing or el the age and it is expected the rank and file will not vote for the Johnston proposition, since Johnston wants to have the right to appoint them, while the left wing wants to have them elected by the districts con- cerned. If the left wing keeps on with the same showing of strength, as it has done up to now, the conven- tion will no. doubt, go*down in the history of the American labor move- ment as one of the most progressive ever held by the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, == r 44