The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 3

i) Tuesday, September 23, 1924 PENNSYLVANIA COAL DIGGERS’ JOBS FAILING Lewis’ Treachery Felt in Fayette County By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) UNIONTOWN, Pa., Sept. 22. —The great coking fields of Fayette county—so intimate a part in the Pittsburgh steel in- dustry—are smitten. by the same depression that has laid its hand on steel. Most ofthe 45,000 miners of the county are idle and the others are working on part time. In the vicinity of Uniontown, the leading city in the southern end of the coke district, the shutdown is 85 per cent com- plete. All the Frick mines here are idle and the little Frick com- pany towns, of monotonous red frame building, each exactly like its neighbor, are filled with unemployed men and anxious women. é Desert Homes, Many of the Frick miners have de- serted the homes they lived in for 30]. years and moved on. The miners are becoming migratory workers in this greatest depression that has hit their industry. by The unemployment is made worse by operators opening up new coal pits and still further inflating the industry. The Fayette or Connellsville field, is an old one and the best coal is further from the surface than it used to be. So the steel corporations are going into the virgin coal lands of beauti- ful Green county on the edge of Ohio and the trainloads of coal from there are throwing still more men from the old fields out of work. Haul Non-Union Coal. I was sitting in West Brownsville on the front porch of the A. F. of L. organizer for the coke regions, hear- ing his recital of unemployment con- ditions when a doubleheader train came rumbling over the tracks a few feet away, hauling 70 cars of Green county nonunion coal for the Youngs- town Sheet & Tube Co. The Connellsville district is open- shop. It has been openshop since Henry Frick crushed the Knights ot| Labor and the early efforts of the United Mine Workers 30 years ago. Only in the great 1922 strike did the men become organized again for a time. Then they gallantly joined the national struggle, cutting off this great source of fuel on which the operators had counted, and thereby saving the “national strike. Betrayed by Lewis. They continued this strike for months after the genéral settlement, ip which they were not included by the international officials of the union. | Since there is no union agreement in the coke region no uniform wage seale exists. The 1917 scale prevails in the big Rainey system; the Mones- sen Coal and Coke recently cut its men another 33 1-3 per cent, aproxi- mating the 1917 rates; the Hillman mines are close to the same scale and the Frick mines, tho paying a wage not far below that in union mines for day men have the reputation of mak- ing it up on the tonnage miners by extra heavy “tons.” There are no check-weighmen on the non-union tip- Ples to guarantee accurate measure- ment. ‘ Hughes Worrying His Whiskers Loose Over Roumanian Oil Field ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — Peter Jay, American minister to Rumania, who was recalled by secretary Hughes to give a detailed report on the Ru- manian law, enacted in July, under (Continued from Page 1.) of the Montana oil senator means his repudiation of the Farmer-Labor Party candidate, J. W. Anderson... Ditches Anderson. } Workers and farmers in Montana point out that it was Anderson, a plain dirt farmer, who prominently led in the fight that originally sent Wheeler to the United States senate. They charge that Wheeler is now betraying the Montana workers and farmers, and their Farmer-Labor Party, in the role that he now plays on the LaFollette ticket. Wheeler is on his way back to Mon: tana and he has outlined a policy for himself in an effort to justify his po- sition, This is the old, worn-out trick of charging militants with being “the agents and the stool pigeons of the {employing interests.” This is the charge that Sam Gomp- ers loves to level at the radicals in the labor unions when they espouse progressive principles. It is the charge that socialist reac- tionaries, like Hillquit and Berger made against the revolutionists in their own organization when they de- manded affiliation with the Commun- ist International. | It is the charge that LaFollette him- self, in trying to disrupt the Farmer- Labor movement for a clas party, has made on various occa ions, not- ably in his atack on the St. Paul June 17, National Farmer-} abor Con- ference. Stool Pigeon Fake. “From what I am informed a lot of stool pigeons and radicals are in con- trol of the Montana Farmer-Labor Party, and are trying to break up the progressive forces and swing the elec- tion to Coolidge and the republican candidates,” Senator Wheeler braz- enly told the DAILY WORKER. “Do you think that Mr. Anderson, who helped in your election, and who is now the Farmer-Labor candidate for United States senator against Mr. | Walsh, is a stool pigeon?” Wheéler was asked. Senator Wheeler was in a corner. He had to confess that he, “did not refer to Anderson as one of the stool pigeons and radicals,” who are dis- rupting the progressive forces of Mon- tana. He could only comment favor- ably on Anderson. When asked how it was that he could desert and ignore the Farmer- Labor ticket, by favoring Walsh, the conservative, anti-labor lawyer, and at the same time praise Anderson, who is the Farmer-Labor standar bearer against Walsh, Senator Wheel- er. evaded the question by declaring he would comment no further until he had visited Montana and could look into the situation for himself. This was very evidently an evasion. “The Farmer-Labor people of Mon- tana are playing into the hands of the Anaconda Mining Company,” was the parting shot. ' No F. L. P. for Him. This declaration of LaFahtetf's run- ning mate is further evidence t the LaFollette camp has no interest in forming a working class party after the presidential elections. Wheeler, |who told the DAILY WORKER, “I admire Senator Walsh very much be- cause of his Tea Pot Dome exposures, and would like to see him get re- elected to the senate,” is thus trading with the corrupt old parties and knif- ing the Farmer-Labor party move- ment. When asked if he, were in favor of the formation of any sort of a third party after the elections, Senator | WHEELER ADMITS DEAL WITH WALSH ‘Wheeler told the DAILY WORKER, “IT am for the formation of a third party on the lines, of the Labor Party of Great Britain.” Wheeler accented the world Liberal, shrinking with hor- ror from any thing which might earn him the name of radical. An Anclent Trick. ‘Wheeler, in raising the “radical” cry in the Montana senatorial and presidential campaign, is using the old trick of raising a smoke screen to confuse the issues, and to hide his own political trickery and dickerings with the politicians connected, with big business. Wheeler has placed him- self in the position .of fighting the party in Montana whose members aided him into office yet he tries to create the impression that the Farm- er-Labor Party of Montana is a “party dominated by. Coolidge and by stool pigeons in the pay of the Anaconda Copper company. But in reality, Wheeler in making a political deal with Thomas Walsh, has himself enfered into an alliance with the representatives of the very busi- ness interests which he pretended to fight with so much noise in Washing: ton—-the oil interests. Action Is Betrayal. Wheeler's. betrayal of the Farmer- Labor Party of Montana is added proof that the LaFollette group is erely a loose organization of indi- vidual vote-getters, who will ally themselves with any sort of business —big or small—and any sort of poli- ticians, corrupt or otherwise, as long as they can pull out the vote for them: selves in the election. Without prin- ciples or constructive platform that will interest the workers, theie strength lies in maneverings with mil- lionaires and betrayals of workers’ or ganizations, ‘s Use Old Pretext. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22,—A raid staged by detectives on the California Branch General Defense committee, I, W. W., in San Farncisco, brought 9 arrests. All were dismissed except Ed Delaney, secretary, who altho having @ regular salaried job as secretary, was sentenced to 90 days for vagran- cy. Delaney appealed and is out on bond. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. GRAFTER IN VETERANS’ BUREAU, FORBES, WILL BE TRIED IN OCTOBER Demurrers to the bribery indict- ments against Col Charles R. Forbes, former head of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and John W. Thompson, millionaire St. Louis contractor, were dismissed in fed- eral court here today and the de- fendants ordered to stand trial. The date for the trial will be set at a hearing October 14, The demurrers were based on claims of the defense that the in- dictments do not set forth in speci- fio terms the exact nature of the offense. The court ruled, however, that “conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment” was a broad term and need not be couched in detailed com- plaint. The indictments in the case grew out of graft in connection with the conduct of the veterans’ bureau. DEFENSE DAY IN SAN PEDRO BIG FIZZLE; LABOR NOT THERE 24 By J. STEVENSON, SAN PEDRO, Calif., Sept. 22—From a master class viewpoint “Defense Day” in San Pedro was a fiasco, but from a workers’ viewpoint it was a decided victory. y In this city with its evil reputation for bourgeois tyranny, the consistent repression of the workers, had its re“ flex in the lack of enthusiasm amongst the slave class to defend or ‘show their willingness to defend the profits and property of the bour- geoisie, True there was a procession—why which foreign oil companies operating | yes—a procession that took just four in Rumania are to be forced to sell a majority of their holdings to Ruman- jans, has reached home, — His report _ will cover the text of the confiscatory law and the secret understandings that may have been reached by Stand- ard Oil and other concerns’ with the millionaire Bratiano brothers who con- ‘val the government in, Bukharest. minutes and fifteen seconds to pass a given point; the parade, numbering 500 persons at the most, was composed al- most entirely of military or semi- military forces, police of course, fire- men, a squad of infantry, a detach- ment of sailors a squad of boy scouts. The only civilians in the parade were a gang of Elks whose small numbers Since the law was enacted, over the|were reinforced by several elderly protest of the American arid other dip-|Jadies who would undoubtedly be out lomats, speaking for their respective|of place on a long march or under oil companies, a quiet but effective | campaign conditions. There were financial blockade of Rumania has|also present a handful of ex-service been established. , ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures to petitions? {QO APITALIS™ bus had its day. Gompers, who frankly admits that he is CAPITALISM, GOMPERS, HILLQUIT liveabio for the workers, whether the patching Is done by a ayeten, or by a Millquit, who hypocritically tells tho workers that weighing sosialisin, The capitalist system must be abolished root and branch, and the Russian: workers of the world how to do it,’ men and a few G. A. R. veterans. Not a single working class organiza- tion was repregented—why should they?—the workers of this city have had some experience of war—class war—and the lesson has not been for- gotten, It cannot be patched up and made he wants to perpetuate the present working class have shown the Dall hid z Foster. oa ALL PARTIES IN GREAT PUBLICITY PIFFLE CAMPAIGN ) (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—-Not since 1896 have newspaper correspondents in Washington been supplied with so heavy a volume of political press- agent product as during the past few weeks. While the G. O. P. headquar- ters issues almost hourly statements, interviews and digests of campaign news, the LaFollette-Wheeler pub- licity bureau, d' ted by Ernest Gruening, formerly of The Nation, comes a close second. It issues from 5,000 to 10,000 words of press material every week-day, The democrats come third, with printed and mimeographed statements, and the American Federa- tion of Labor trails with an average of two statements each day, Kidding The People. The favorite theme of the G. 0. P. press agents is an interview with a standpat senator or national commit- tegman, who is called in from a dis- tant state to confess that Coolidge will carry his’ state by a majority as big as Harding secured in 1920. Minne- sota is claimed, about three times a week, for Coolidge, while Dawes is reported as arousing the enthusiasm of the Germans in St. Louis.’ 4 THE DAILY WORKER’ PLEDGE $2700 TO CANPAIGA ~INNEW YORK T.U. E. L. Members for Communist Ticket (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 22— Twenty-seven hundred dollars were pledged here by the mili- tants in the labor movement at a meeting of the Trade Union Educational League. With few exeeptions all the groups were present. The furriers pledged $1,000; the ladies’ garment workers, $500; the metal trades, $250; the building trades, $300; the teamsters, $100; the food work- ers, $100, and the window clean- ears announced that despite the fact that they were on strike they would contribute a good portion of the money. Others to Contribute, The members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and other needle trades were not present .because of union meetings that were being held; special meetings will therefore be called for these groups and it is ex- pected that large sums will be raised from that source. A shop chairman of the capmakers’ union announced that altho his local had officially indorsed LaFollette, no shop chairman had volunteered to take a list for “Bobbie.” He pledged $500 on behalf of the militants in the capmakers’ union. | Comrade William Weinstone dwelt jon the political problems of the cam- paign, showing how the LaFolletteites were disrupting the organized Farm- er-Lavor parties in the western states, and pointed out the betrayal of inde- pendent political action by the social- ist party. He presented a resolution, adopted by the conference immedi- ately, which pledged the T. U. BE. L. to the support of the Communist can- didates. Outline Campaign Plan. Charles Krumbein, district organ- izer, urged the assembled workers to push the issue of the Communist cam- paign in their local unions, and the eastern district organizer for the league outlined a plan for action for the groups to follow. Suggestions were made _and approval given to the general plan. Numerous subscription lists were distributed and it is ex- pected that large sums of money will be collected in a short time. A special conference of militants from labor and fraternal organizations is to be held on Sunday, September 28th, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 2 o’clock. All progressives are urged to be present. | Bloor Meetings | ILLINOIS. Chicago, IIl., 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. Moline, Wednesday, Oct. 1. Peoria, Thursday, Oct. 2. Kincaid, Friday, Oct. 3. W. Frankfort, Saturday, Oct. 4. Orient, Sunday, Oct. 5. ie Christopher, Sunday evening, Oct. 5. Johnston City, Monday Oct. 6. Valier, Tuesday, Oct. 7. Dowell, Wednesday, Oct. 8, E. St. Louis, Thursday, Oct. 9. O'Fallon, Friday, Oct. 10. Belleville, Saturday, Oct. 11. Madison, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 12. St. Louis, Mo., Sunday evening, Oct. 12. Livingston, Monday, Oct. 13. Staunton, Tuesday, Oct. 14. ° Collinsville, nesday, Oct. 15, Benld, Thursday, Oct. 16. Talorville, Friday, Oct. 17. Nokomis, Saturday, Oct. 18. , Divernon, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19. Springfield, Sunday evening, Oct. 19, (open air). Westville, Monday, Oct. 20. Joliet, Tuesday, Oct. 21, i Waukegan, Wedhesday, Oct. 22, Rockford, Friday, Oct. 23, DeKalb, Friday, Oct, 24, 1, Marx’s Inaugural Address, Make It a Party of Leninism. Marx—Engels—Lenin..... The Proletarian Will to Powe) How to Build Shop Nucl From the First International to VERSE 1113 W. Washington Blvd. First International Anniversary Number ANOTHER DAILY WORKER SPECIAL! Saturday, September 27 The Founding of the First Internationa’ Carrying the Banner of Social Revol: PICTURES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL PICTURES ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER REDUCTION IN RAIL RATES IS PAID FOR OUT (Federated Press by layoffs which have left many of them on the street looking for a job. Three Million A Day. The total amount which the rail- road workers contributed to the rate reductions for which railroads are claiming credit is estimated in rail- road circles at $3,286,000 a day. That means about $1,200,000,000 a year. Wage cuts account for approximately $1,576,000 a day in this saving. Ap- proxjmately $1,700,000 a day has been cut from the cost of transportation by reductions in force affecting 365,000 workers. Some Profit! Meanwhile the profits of the rail- roads for the first 7 months reached a total of $465,616,601. On a property {valuation determined not by the inter- state commerce commission but by the railroads themselves this points to a return of more than 4 per cent for the entire.year. On a fair valuation basis it means a return in excess of 6 per cent. The latter part of the year is expected to prove even more profitable. Of 41 leading railroads whose prob- able income for 1924 has been com- are saving the country nearly $5,000,000 a day? road capitalists whose profits are holding right up to average in spite of the depression. No, the bill is being met in large measure | by railroad employes and their families who have been hit by} successive wage reductions and¢——— puted on the basis of returns for seveh months, 23 show increases over 1923, 27 show profits for stockholders which will exceed 6 per cent and 12 show profits of more than 10 per cent. The predicted returns to stocxhoiders in 1924 compared with 1923 in the case of 20 leading carriers are as follows: Wotta List! Pct. Pet. Atchison, T. & Santa Fe 11.0 15.4 Atlantic Coast Line 20.0 18.6 Baltimore & Ohio 8.6 13.2 Chesapeake & Ohid 17.0 12.5 Chicago & Northwestern 64 4.9 Delaware & Hudson 11.6 111 Delaware, Lacka & Western 9.5 7.1 Great Northern 19 12 Illinois Central 16.7 13.5 Louisville & Nashville 9.0 11.5 New Orleans, Tex. & Mexico 23.7 16,2 New York Central 14.5 16.9 Nickel Plate 14.0 15.1 Norfolk & Western 10.0 11.8 Northern Pacific 6.2 5.2 Pennsylvania 96 9.0 St. Louis-Southwestern 11.0. 14.7 Southern Pacific 10.3 12.9 Southern 8.6 101 Union Pacific 15.7 16.1 The railroads whose common stock- holders can look forward to returns of more than 6 per cent for 1924 op- erate together over 128,000 miles of main track, or more than half the to- tal mileage of the country. The rail- roads for which more than 10 per cent is forecast operate a combined mile- age of more than 58,000 or approxi- mately one-quarter of the country’s transportation system. The Next Meal. Families of unemployed railroad workers may wonder where the next good meal is coming from but rail- road owners have reason to be satis- fied with the profits of a depression year, Rockefeller “Supe”. Proves Good Picking for Yale Graduate NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Montague Pike, 29, graduate of Yale and Sing Sing, was under arrest today in con nection with the robbery of Miss Edith Bobe, Broadway modiste, and Robert L. Hague, marine superintend- ent of the Standard Oil company, of New Jersey, of jewels and cash estim- ated at over $50,000 under circum- sances similar to those ‘surrounding the robbery of “Dot” King and Louise Lawson. . yPike was arrested charged with ex- tortion after it was alleged he had telephoned Miss Irene Flaherty, Miss Bobe’s sercertary, and demanded $400 tor which he promised to reveal where the stolen gems now were, Miss Bobe has disappeared as the result, it is reported, of a mysterious telephone call which threatened her with the same fate of “Dot” King and Louise Lawson because of information she has given to the police. Vote Communist This Time! By Harrison George By Earl R. Browder By T. J. O'Flaherty y Max Shachtman By Martin Abern By J. Louis Engdahi y Alexander Bittelman the Third. ILLUSTRATIONS Chicago, III. OF THE SLICES By LELAND OLDS. Who is paying the price of reductions in railroad rates which | CONNECT ICU l | bt | —— A Industrial Editor) Not the big rail- ORGANIZE FIGHT AGAINST RULING ON NEGRO BELT N. A. A. C. P. in Fight on Segregation (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 22—The Na- tional Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People is striking a legal blow at black-belt segregation in its appeal to the U. S. supreme court in the case of Mrs. Helen Curtis of Washington who is enjoined from tak ing title’to property outside of the socalled Negro district, -which she purchased from a white property owner. The injunction alleges that the sale violated a white property owners’ agreement not to sell to Ne- groes. The federal district court up- held the agreement. $5,000 Fund. A fund of $5,000 is being raised by the association to fight the case. Wal- ter White, assistant secretary told The Federated Press that if this case is won a gap will have been torn in the wall of the black belt, the Negro ghetto. The association contends that residential segregation leads to unfair and exhorbitant rentals to Ne groes who have no choice but the gregated district. Their statistics show that Negroes are compelled to pay rents 25 per cent and more above those charged whites, who have the privilege of selecting their own dis- trict. Segregation is also ooposed as leading to hostility between the races and making difficult the inter-racial co-operation.the association is urging. It is pointed out that compelling Ne- groes to live in isolated districts him ders co-operation between Negro and white workers and makes it easfer for employers to use the workers of one race to crush the organization efforts of workers of the other race. bo) FOSTER’S DATES TACOMA, Wash. — Eagles’ Hall, Wednesday, September 24th, 8:00 p.m. ASTONIA, Ore.—Saturday, Septem- ber 27th, 8:00 p. m. PORTLAND, Ore.—I. 0. O. 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. Toledo, Ohio, Labor Temple Auidi- torium, Michigan St. and Jefferson, Friday, September 26, § 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- ton St, East, Monday, September 29, 7:30 p. m. Muskegon, Mich., Tuesday, Septem- ber 30, 8 p. m. South Bend, Ind., Carpenters’ Hall, 315 8S. Michigan St., Wednesday, Oc- tober 1, 8 p. m. Gary, Ind., Turner Hall, 14th andy Washington St., Thursday, October 2,8 p.m. Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, October 5. Duluth, Minn., Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave., W. Ist St., Monday, October 6,8 p.m. Superior, Wis., Tuesday, October 7. St. Paul, Minm; 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) uu. St, Louis, Mo., Wednesday, October 15. : Zeigler, Ill, Thursday, October 16, Springfield, Ill, Friday, October 17. New York, N, Yi, Sunday, October 19. Wage Cut Coming. MANCHESTER, N, H., Sept. 22.—A textile wage cut is dmpending for the 14,000 workers in the Amoskeag mills at Manchester, Cuts have gone into effect in several Rhode Island mills. . sa ametnemarnicemmmnetmmnnmnnsesrttntantinseiirnr 2 de Our Candidates | Np from the policemen, ii $ Workers Party Pushin Hard in Campaign By WILLIAM SIMONS,. > District Organizer. | (Special to The Daily Workery 7 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 22 —The Workers Party district executive committee is 4 mined to strain every nerve t |get our state and national tick- fets on the voting machine. W. have until Oct. 7 to collect 3,665) signatures, but in order to asq sure this amount it will be ni number. The slogan i Thousand by Sept. 30. Thursday, Sept. 11. Bridg had 325; New Haven, on Mom day, the 15th, 546, and Hartfo! 200—a total of 1,071. The best: showing so far hai been made by the Bridgepor comrades, especially J. Gombo and Jennie Feldman. Gombo: had 80 and promised 200 in all |In New Haven 365 of the signa. |tures were obtained by Comrad |H. S. Bloomfield, who had been} called in from Worcester for thi specific purpose. 4 eid | Members to Meet. 2 7” On Monday, the 15th, a special |membership meeting was called i New Haven, where 30 comrades pledg: ed all their energies toward getting? | Signatures. The total obtained is gro’ ing from day to day. Quotas have been assigned tg th major cities as follows: : s Have 9.23 9.30 40-7) Stamford é 200 600 7504 Hartford 200 500 1200° 1500. Bridgeport 325 800 1200 1500) New Haven 546 1500 2000 250 5000 6250 Judging from the zeal with which the comrades are attacking the job, Connecticut will go on the ballot. It must be remembered that this is no small task for the all membership. lin Connecticut. I sts with six! times the membership have had to se- eure one-fourth of the number of sige natures. But, despite this_h, Connecticut is going over the top. Open Air Campaign. 4 An open air campaign is being are ranged, to include Bridgeport, Hart- ford, Waterbury, Stamford, Ansonia, New Haven, New Britain, South Nor- walk, Naugatuck, Torrington, and Meriden. The noon hour shop meetings which! are being canducted in New Haveny are reaching the workers with ou election prograsn, and campaign wera ature. Since August 22, there we: held five noon hour meetings: evening; two on ‘ Bandstand; and one indoor meeting. Total attendance 2,575; 124 DAILY: WORKER copies sald; 100 copies I Lavoratore distributed, as well as 500 copies of the election program. , Differ From S. P, In marked contrast to the Soctalis' Party, the Workers Party is carryin; on a clean-cut, working class came paign. The S. P. official bulletin um der date of Sept. 12; (Defense of the Fatherland Day) quotes a Connecti4 cut S. P. member thus: “Our part, members are joining the LaFollett clubs and neglecting the socialist pare ty meetings.” The Workers Part faces in this nutmeg state a solidi amalgamation of the So@ialist Part: and the LaFollette forces. Getting th W. P. ticket on the voting machin two! the Central Greece movement of the small manufacture; business men and indepedent bank. ers, as well as against the old tickets. To the DAILY WORKER:— So: of the members of the police fore@ connected with Stanton Ave. statio on the south side, make it their busi ness to stop, molest and questio} couples ‘composed of Negro men a light complexioned ladies. This vicious and unlawful practi of these big rawboned sapheaded licemen, is bound to lead to seri trouble if allowed to continue, Numerous protests have been madd by Negroes to Chief Collins agai) this practice, but evidently to avail, j Time and again Negro men escoi ing their light complexioned Ne; wives and lady friends have been bula lied and molested by these so-call guardians of the law. Last week two of these policeme! separated a Negro man from his rn complexioned Negro lady friend, an proceeded to question the lady as t It is time that a halt was called these illegal practices of po! n before something serious happens, — The Chicago Tribune printed an torial telling of the fine police prate tion that Negroes received in C} It appears as tho Negroes need pi GORDON ate her racial identity, residence, ete, am ‘