The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1924, Page 1

sere THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. H. No. 159. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. HE British Trades Union Congress instructed the General Council to proceed with the task of amalga- mating the craft unions, so that in Great Britain the workers will be or-| ganized along industrial lines. This} is a decided step in advance for the British trade union movement. Sev- eral delegates criticized this step as not being advanced enuf. One of the critics is the celebrated Jack Jones, the Communist baiter, who wanted! Walton Newbold, former Communist | member of the British parliament lynched, at the time the Polish bishop was executed for treason to the So- viet Republic. Jones wanted one un- fon for every worker in England. Industrial unionism was too tame for him, eee Fae delegate recalled the treason of Black Friday when he declared we must get together not to compromise wifh the capital- ists but to fight them. He had refer- ence to the action of J. H. Thomas end the leaders of the Triple Alliance who sold out the British miners’ dur- ing the miners’ strike in 1921. But the great sentiment was for industrial unionism thru amalgamation and the totion carried by an overwhelming vote. It is admitted that the speech 1 ade by M. Tomsky of the Russian Communist unions, in which he stressed the necessity of consolidat- fvg the many unions into one for each i-dustay as was done in Russia, had c msiderable effect in breaking down the opposition of the reactionaries. ce “(HE Congiess also passed a motion i severely criticizing the .New Loader, official organ of the Indepen- tent Labor Party, which is the Brit- i. prototype of the socialist party «” Zmerica. The New Leader sneer- i aly commentedon fhe flow 6f lan- {Mage at the congress and suggested -at nothing constructive was trans- 1. there. No doubt Mr. Philip taeween's official organ was peeved the ppearance 6n the platform as t rnal delegate of M. Tomsky, t’o Russian Communist. | After Mrs. Snowden and her husband, Phil, earned so much capitalist dough de- rouncing the Soviet government it vas taste for the delegates of the Br h workers to give them a front scat. eee ANOTHER resolution that, went over with a vim was one endors- ing the treaty between Britain and Cussia. This treaty has: been attacked ly the capitalist press and all the crpitelist parties. In speaking to the resolution, Mr, Bramley stated that tie Russian workers deserve the jvatse of the British workers for do- hat the British workers favor in r least, that is the overthrow urse of capitalism... A trace cesm may be detected in this fiatement of Bramley’s in view of IacDonald’s recent interviews on what socialism is not. All in all the congress reports are interesting and te. DAILY WORKER will soon pub- Ish a series of articles giving the proceedings more in detail. eee i an a, c T might be well to note here, that I whilo the British Trade Union s$ was showing signs of being (Continued on page 3) Cae Off the Track. }.AKBE VILLA, UL, Sept. 23.—Kight curs of a freight train bound for Chi- cago, on the main Soo Line tracks left the rails at Loon Lake near here to- day when an axle of the front car broke. Cattle and hogs in several of the cars were injured, and one of the crew was hurt, Traffic in both direc- tions was delayed two hours while the tvacks were cleared. To the Workers of Europe and Am- erica and to the Laboring Masses of the Oppressed Nationalities of the Orient. « HE British government, a govern- ment put into power by a Labor Party, and led by one of the out- standing figures of the Second In- ternational, is preparing armed in- tervention in Southern China, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of the nationalist pevo- lutionary party of China. The Coun- cil of the British Labor government has addressed a note to the people’s government of China, giving expres- sion to the imperialist designs of the British government. This note threatens the people of Cntna with severe military measures in case the nationalist revolutionary gov- ernment of China attempts to sup- press the rebellion of the Chin CONFERENCE OF LEFT WINGERS SHOWS PROMISE Whirlwind Campaign For Petition Signers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—In preparation for the important left wing conference Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., many active members of trade unions, Work- men's Circles, fraternal organ- izations, Workers Party branches, Young Workers League and other left wing organizations are engaged in a whirlwind campaign to put Foster and Gitlow on the ballot in New York State—to make the Empire State the tenth in the list of those who have placed the Workers Party ticket on the ballot. Up to date this list includes Mlinois, lowa, North Dakot&, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey. In New York City considerable progress is being made, especially in the Brownsville, Williamsburg and Harlem sections, Interesting Campaign Incident. One of the signature solicitors, of the hundreds who are going out today, relates an amusing anecdote in con- nection with his canvass of the workers in his dictrict. Coming into the proletarian home of @ garment worker in the Bronx, he was met with the question: “What party do you répresent?” Upon receiving the reply, “The Workers Party,” the worker said, “Why, you're’ the fellows I've been looking for, I’m sick and disgusted with this LaFollette-Hillquit-Gompers goulash. Let me have an application blank, will you?” Workmen’s Circle Indorses Foster. The Publicity Department of the Workers Party has just received word that Workmen's Circle, Branch 417, has given its unqualified indorse- ment to William Z. Foster and Ben Gitlow. All delegates to the left wing con- ference Sept. 28, should send in cre- dentials from their organizations, to the Workers Party Campaign Com- mittee, 208 E. 12th St. DUNNE, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, WILL SPEAK TONIGHT AT MEETING OF T.U. E. L. ON R. I, L. U. CONGRESS “| welcome this opportunity of placing before the trade union militants of Chicago the results of the third congress of the Red International of Labor Unions,” said William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, when asked regarding his speech at the regular monthly meeting of the Trade Union Educational League to be held at the Northwest Hall, Western Avenues, tonight. North and Dunne, known thruout the country for his militant activity in the labor and Communist movement here, attended the congresses of the R. I. L. U. and the Communist International, and tee of the labor union international is a member of the executive commir ides Dunne’s talk, Earl R. Browder will give his regular monthly Review of the Labor Movement which has aroused much favorable comment. All militants are invited to attend. The meeting will be held tonight (Madnasday) and opens at 8 p. m. sharp, ‘in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chisago, by mail. $6.00 per year, Militants for An End to merchants, which is being support- ed by the British government by supplying munitions to the counter- revolutionary rebels. The leader of this rebellion, is a rich Chinese mer- chant and an agent of the British banks at Shanghai and Hong Kong. Before the eyes of the whole world and in opposition to the de- sires of the international revolution- ary labor movement, the MacDonald government is now attempting to destroy the very basis upon which rests the liberation movement of the oppressed masses of China, a movement which is being led by Sun Yat Sen, the famous leader of the revolutionary party of China, which has- succeeded ir? 1911, in in overthrowing the despotic dynas- ty of the Manchus and in establish- ing as its basis the government of Southern China. The imperialism Communist Ticket Goes FOSTER OUTRUN | of the pacifist democratic govern- ment of MacDonald is serving not the interests of China, but the inter- ests of English finance capital and the Chinese fuedal counter-revolu- tion, which has been oppressing the masses of Chinese for decades. Comrades, American imperialism ‘has begun an offensive in Northern China, while English imperialism is doing the same thing in Southern China. ~ Furthermore, government of France has dispatch- ed warships from Indo-China and Saigan into the waters of Tienzsin and Shanghai. The smaller imper- jalist nation$ are joining the big- ger ones. Thus has world imperial- ism concocted a new conspiracy against the liberation movement of the Chinese people, against the toil- ing masses of China, and against the nationalist revolutionary gov- the Herriot | THE DAILY WORKER. | Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1924 << ,., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL NS WANT TO JOIN LEAGUE Jppose Intervention in China ernment of Southern China, it was only the other day that a declaration of the London confer- ence has been written, a declara- tion championed by MacDonald and Herriot which was to herald in a new era of peace and already this same champion of pacifism and de- mocracy is dispatching warships to maintain in oppression the toiling masses of China. Workers of England! You can- not permit British imperialism to shoot down hundreds of Chinese revolutionaries in your name, as has been done this summer in Hankow and Yantseking where the English have taken dhe lives of many lead- ers of the railroad union -of China, You cannot allow your government which is bearing the name of a la- bor government to support feudal reaction. and capitalist counter-rev- on Ballot in Michigan elec: tors pledged to William Z. Fos- ter and Benjamin Gitlow will ap- pear on the ballot in Michigan in the November elections. This was assured thru a state convention held in Detroit, Satur- day, Sept. 20, at which candidates OMMUNIST presidential for state offices were nominated as well as presidential electors. Un- der the Michigan law these candi- dates are certified to the Secretary of State and their names automatic- ally appear orn the ballot. The addition of Michigan to the states in which the Workers Party will be represented on the ballot brings the number in which the le- gal requirements have been compiled with up to six. These states are: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Michigan, lowa and North Dakota. It has been previously reported that the requirements had been met in Washington and Oregon, but this is not the case as the Oregon law requires some 19,000 signatures, it is hardly possible for the party or- ganization to secure these signa- tures in that state. In Washington it is likely that the Workers Party ticket will go on the ballot altho this is not yet definitely assured. Other states, most of which will undoubtedly have a Communist tick- et on the ballot are Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, Indiana, IIli- nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Mis- sourj and California. DEMAND BEFORE L.A. MM. CONFAB Heresy-Hunting (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 23.— The convention of the Interna- tional Association of Machin- ists today witnessed a real battle on the suspension of seven militants from local 105 of the international in Toledo, Ohio. Johnston, president of the ung ion, attempted to block a hear- ing on the Toledo case by using a technicality in the law as an excuse, and then ruled out of order a resolution presented by Peter Jensen of Chicago calling ad the raising of the technical ar, Emme Appeals. Julius Emme, of St. Paul, then moved to suspend the fines of $50 that had been laid on each of the seven, and hear the cases before the grievance committee, and the chair- man again ruled against it on the ground that it was out of order. Em- me then appealed from the decision of the chairman, and the latter was just barely sustained by the delegates. The progressives in the convention, determined that the cases of heresy- hunting shall come before the meet- ing, have taken up a collection of $350, covering the seven fines, to de- posit with secretary Davison. Resentment against the arbitrary rulings of the chair is growing among the delega' Progressives Win Victory. ‘The progressives today won a spir- ited fight by having the convention adopt their resolution for a two-year term for officers, all elected officers to stand for re-election on January 1, 1925. The secretary announced the defeat of the resolution by two votes. The roll call was immediately called for and the result was found to be 288 for the proposition and 199 against it. Provision for an election board to supervise counting of the ballots was carried by an overwhelm- ing majority, More Trouble For Spain. ALMERA, Spain.— Prices have struck such a slump here that many shops have been forced to close, { SILENT CAL, MAY NOT ESCAPE Co WATH CLEAN SHIRT THIS TIME (Special to The Daily Worker) CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 23._A special session of the Brookhart- Wheeler committee investigating the depattment of justice will be summoned immediately, Senator Brookhart, of lowa, announced here this afternoon fol- lowing receipt of a telegram from Senator Wheeler. Brookhart did not make public the text of the message he received. TOLEDO TAKE NOTICE! All comrades and readers of the DAILY WORKER should report Thursday afternoon any time after 4 o'clock at headquarters, 131 Michigan Street, Toledo. Very im- portant. GASTON B, MEANS AGAIN ON WRONG SIDE OF FENCE Mellon Nails Man Who Spilled the Beans WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Gaston B. Means, the elusive and contradict- ory star witness in the Daughtery in- vestigation, again ran afoul of Daugh- erty’s machine today. Galen L. Tait, collector of internal revenue for the district of Baltimore, filed a lien in district court against Means’ residence at 903 Sixteenth St. here. Means, who jumped into the lime- light on Sunday with a quasi-repudia- tion of the sensational testimony he gave in the Daughtery hearing, was absent from Washington today. He was reported to have left the capital last midnight for an unannounced des- tination. Previously he had voiced a demand for a re-assembling of the Wheeler-Brookhart committee in or- der, he said, that he could lay fur- ther “startling and sensational” facts of coffuption in high places before the investigators. METHODISTS NOT INTERESTED IN HIGHT MURDER Killer Not a Highly Paid Preacher (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23.—Rev. Lawrence Highi held a small and un- important place in the Methodist min- istry. according to Bishop Frederick D. Leete, to whose conference the Southern Illinsis district, was added receutly. : “I do not know the man,” Pishop Leete said, “and his case calls for no particular attention of the church. “In a case like this, I have no doubt that he has already surrendered his parchment to Dr. C. C. Hall, the local district superintendent, altho I have not been notified.” The charge held by Rev. Hight was one of the smallest and paid in the neighborhood of $1,000 a year, Bishop Leete said, Bishop Leete went to Carbondale, Illinois, today to attend a district meeting at which Hight’s case might be considered, he said. Moors Still Fighting. TANGIER.—Serious fighting was reported today in East Alcazar, near the frontier of the zone which gov- ernment troops have cleared of re- bellious Riff tribesmen. THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! A large campaign fund will mean a big campaign. STEEL TRUST TO STAGE HUGE EXPOSITION IN GARY WHILE WORKERS’ JOBS DISAPPEAR By KARL REEVE. (Staff riter, Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 23.—While the 20,000 workers in the Gary mills of the United States Steel Corporation are working only one, two and three days a week, with from three to six thousand men laid off, the Chamber of Commerce has chosen this time to stage an “Exposition,” to demonstrate the “prosperity” enjoyed by the steel trust town. The “Greater Gary Exposition,” being held all thts week, whose largest exhibitor is the United States Steel Corporation, is an advertising and money making proposi- ; (Continued on Page 2.) ‘ olution in order that the British banks and the British colonizers of China may derive larger profits. Comrades! Workers of England! You must demand of the trades un- jon conference which is holding its sessions at Hull to intervene in this affair and demand that the blood bath in China be stopped. You must raise in protest your pow- erful voice against armed interven- | tion in South China. You must | compel your iffperialists to keep their hands off the basis and center of the nationalist revolutionary movement in China. Long live the Chinese nationalist revolutionary movement! Down with the imperialism of MacDonald and Herriot! The Executive Committee of th Communist International. A Moscow, September 4, 1924. COOLIDGE, DAVIS INCARSHOP VOTE Reactionaries Ditched| by Railway Workers William Z, Foster, Communist candidate for president, polled | more votes in the DAILY WORKER'S straw ballot at the| Chicago & Northwestern Rail-| road Shops, Crawford Ave. and W. Lake St., than Coolidge and/| Davis put together... LaFollette was again the “high man. The vote results showed the} following: Foster, 42; Coolidge, | 23, LaFollette, 225, and Davis, | 12. | Compared to Clothing Workers. | It is interesting to Mote that both) Coolidge and Davis ran poorer in the big railroad shops than they did among the clothing workers, who are | consigered more radical. At the plants of Hart, Schaffner | and Marx, Kuppenheimer “and the Royal Tailors, Coolidge and Davis all | managed to run better than they did among the railroad workers. The Communist strength in both the cloth- ing factories and the railroad shops was about the same. One of the DAILY WORKER'S straw vote getters, who got up early in the morning and arrived at the Northwestern Shop doors at six in the morning, to get there in time to meet the men on their way in told the DAILY WORKER, “It is an edu- cation in the labor movement of this country to go down to the plants and talk to the workers as they go to and from work. “IT am going again and I think the party should keep the work up and all the industries should be visited. |The carshop workers begin arriving as early as twenty-five minutes after six in the morning. Dressed in overalls they seem to drag themselves to work still half asleep. When they were approached by one of us they acted as tho shaken out of a stupor. One Vote for Foster. “I watched one man handling his ballot. I said: ‘Who are you for?’ He looked at me. He looked at the ballot. Never a word from him, not even a twinkle in his eye. Quietly he put his cross beside Foster's name and handed me the ballot.. It gave a queer sensation.” Most of them said they didn’t care who got in. “Why not?” brought the response, “What's the diff?” “Read the DAILY WORKER and you'll learn the difference,” we told them. “We could have done much better had we more people handing out the ballots. There are eight entrances in all.» We covered only four of them. “We explained that we would re- turn in the evening to collect the bal- lots. When we arrived in the eve- ning there was one rush out of the buildings and we had to run after the men to get the ballots. Feels Vote Is Encouraging. “Like so many automatic human machines they moved toward and away from the huge shops. They re called to my mind the drama by the Kopek Brothers. I wanted to shout at them: ‘Robots Awake!’ We must keep right on shaking them until we (Continued on page 6) a Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents BERLIN CABINET EYES WALL ST. INTERNATIONAL Britain Favors Entrance on Equal Terms (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Sept. 23.—The Qer- man cabinet agreed unanimous- ly this afternoon to declare it- self in favor of the republic’s entry into the league of nations, provided the powers guarantee Germany admission with, rights equal to the other big nations. President Ebert presided at the meeting. . 8 British State Position. LONDON, Sept. 23.—Upon learning that the German cabi- net had voted for entering the league of nations, the foreign office announced this afternoon that Britain will reply to the Germans with the statement that this country is willing that Berlin should have equal voice with other nations in the league council. NEW ATTEMPT BEING MADE 10 ORGANIZE GARY STEEL SLAVES (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 23.—A drive to organize the steel workers employ- ed in the mills of the United Stater~ Steel “Corporation will be. of here tomorrow night, September 25, by a mass nieeting under the aus- pices of the American Federation of Labor in Turner Hall, 14th and Washington. George Carbine, of the coal and coke workers, who has been work- ing among the miners of Southern Illinois, will address the meeting, as will William Hannon, secretary- treasurer of the stee| workers’ or- ganization, and ather American Fed- eration of Labor representatives, The American Federation of Labor wiil station organizers here per- manently following Thursday night’s meeting, it was announced at the Labor Temple orday. ROYAL BR. CORRUPTS LONG ISLAND MORALS Judge Drinks Booze and Ogles Damsel NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A justice of the peace dancing the highland fling, with a bobbed-haired girl and holding a glass in his free hand does not constitute a “wild party,” accord- ing to the verdict of a Rosslya, Long Island jury. Miss Isabelle Briggs, Philadelphia debutante, was, therefore, found not guilty of disorderly conduct at a birth- day party given im her honor by Miss Vera Leightmer at Great Neck, Long Island. Charlie O’Hearne, former Yale foot- ball star, and Thomas Orth, of the Harvard Club, two of the dozen men at the party, had already pleaded guilty and had been fined $10 each. Justice of the peace Egbert L'Ecluse, of Great Neck, another guest, and Miss Leightmer, Bryn Mawr girl, still afe to be tried on similar charges. ANTI-ADMINISTRATION MAN IS BEATEN UP AT CARPENTERS’ CONFAB (Special to <The Daily Werker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 23,— C. J. Mulcahy, of Providence, R. |. leader of an anti-administration fac tion of the carpenters’ and joiners’ convention here, wa: verely beat- en on a downtown street early to- day by two unidentified men who escaped after kicking him in the ic id jaw while he lay pros- tr The attack was credited to his enemies within'the union, police sald.