The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1924, Page 2

‘Page Two THE DAILY WORKER ee eee “RED BAITING” MARKS SESSION OF CARPENTERS Hutchenson Covering Up Chicago Agreement (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23.— Fight the Fosterites, fight those who encroach on the jurisdic. tion of the brotherhood, expell those who advocate amalgama- tion, was the keynote of Inter- national President Hutchen- son’s speech to the convention of carpentvrs now in session here. These, according to Hutchen- son, were the greatest tasks be- fore the carpenters. Or, as he put it, the three great enemies of the brotherhood, were the OLIVER CARLSON IN TOUR OVER U.S. FOR YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE TO SPEAK ON PROBLEMS OF YOUTH Oliver Carlson, for two years a member of the executive committee of the Young Communist International, just returned to the United States after the congresses of the Communist and Young Communist Internationals, both of which he attended as delegate from America, has just begun his tour of the country prea ananassae eh under the auspices of the Young Workers League. . Most of his meetings will be for the league, while some of them will be held under the auspices of the Workers Party, where he will speak for the Communist candidates. Has Much Experience. Comrade Carlson is an excellent speaker and has had vast experience in work all over the world. He will bring these experiences in England, Germany, Russia, Sweden and other Buropean countries, to bear on the problems of the young Communists in America. His membership meeting in Chicago brought the best turnout of Y. W. L. members yet seen here. He has had equal success in Cleve- land and Youngstown. All league ings in great numbers. Carlson’s route is as follows: Carlson's Itinerary. Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Sept. 24th to Saturday, Sept. 27th. Bethidhem, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 28th and Monday, Sept, 29. Baltimore, Tuesday, Sept. 30. Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. ist to Saturday, Oct. 4th, New York, Sunday, Oct. 5th to Sat- urday, Oct, 11th. New Haven, Sunday, Oct. 12th. Boston (Providence, R. !.), Monday, Oct. 13th to, Saturday, Oct. 18th Rochester, Sunday, Oct. 19th. Buffalo, Monday, Oct. 20th and Tuesday, Oct. 21st. Toledo, Wednesday, Oct. 22nd. Detroit, Thursday, Oct. 23rd to Sat- urday, Oct, 25th. members as well as party comrades Fosterites who advocated in- dustrial unionism, those unions who tried to encroach on the jurisdiction of the brotherhood, @nd those who advocated the \American plan. Murray Lends His Aid. ) He was supported in this by Phil ‘Murray, vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America, who gave Mis usual red baiting speech against the militants in the miners’ union, felling his attack against Tom My- erscough, the Communists and Foster. He tried to excuse his failure to or- "ganize the miners in West Virginia by blaming Warren BH. Stone and sug- gested that Foster try his hand at it. He forgot to tell the delegates that whenever the miners attempted to ad- vocate progressive measures, be it Myerscough, Alexander Howat or an ordinary rank and filer they were ex- pelled from the union, and that the Lewis-Murray machine had not an- swered the charge of Frank Farring- ton, president of the Illinois miners that Lewis deliberately kept certain fields unorganized for a definite price. Hutchenson Not Opposed. Hutchenson’s opposition to the Am- erican plan is a lip opposition: What is the Chicago agreement entered in- to by him without the knowledge of the rank and file? The American plan is an “open shop” condition, but the Chicago agreement is worse than _» thgt. It has a union “open shop” agree- ment thru which Hutchenson pledged the support of the Chicago carpen- ters’ union to the “open shop” forces, to be used to destroy the other build- ing trade unions. In other words, Hutchenson signed an agreement that pledges that the carpenters will remain at work while the American plan is being forced up- on the other trades. The Chicago agreement was signed in secret, one day before the Chicago district election. Jensen, whom Hutchenson supported against Stahl, was elected on the strength of the re- port that the agreement was a real union agreement. Without this fake propaganda he would have been de- feated. The agreement was entered into last June. Not a single copy ‘was printed for months, and the agreement is so rotten that the rank and file has not received a copy of it. It is worse than the American D because the American plan is the frank “open shop,” while the Chi- cago carpenters’ agreement entered into in a period of prosperity, when every carpenter was working, many of them for $1.50 per hour, is the Landis award which offers an agree- ment to those union men who will De good and help to defeat and de- stroy their brother tradesmen. Fought Landis Award. ‘he carpenters of Chicago put up a and victorious fight against the Landis award, their membership in- ereased* during the fight, they had the contractors licked, and they were be- trayed by Hutchenson and Jensen for personal political gains. If they are proud of the agreement why don’t they publish it, read it to the conven: tion or let the rank and file know what it is? But they have something to hide, so they attack Foster, and the progressives, and no doubt Rus sia will come in for its share of the blame. The progressive issues now con- fronting the carpenters’ convention, cannot be met on their merits by such men as Hutchenson, the appéal to prejudice is all that can be expect- ed from machine politicians. If the keynote struck by Hutchenson in his speech, is followed out by the conven- tion, then it means that the agree- ment foisted upon the Chicago car. penters will be forced down the throats of other cities. Earth Does the Shimmy. LONDON.—Genoa’s municipal bandsmen proved themselves heroes and averted panic and a possible stampede when they calmly contin- ued to play while five earthquake shocks shook the city. Mexican Minister In Spain. MADRID.—The Mexican minister, Senor Enrique Gonzales, presented his credentials and was accorded an official reception here, are urged to attend the Carlson meet- | STEEL CITY PLANS TO CELEBRATE (Continued from page 1) tion. The Chamber of Com- merce is to receive twenty per cent of all receipts on admission charges, and the carnival com- pany staging the “show,” headed by Henry Marks, is to get the rest. Two Bits to Get In. The Gary steel workers are to pay twenty-five cents to get in and after they get in they are expected to buy something from the business men’s booths. In conjunction with this campaign to sell the goods produced in Gary, the Chamber of Commerce is issuing spe- cial literature to catch the eye of business men and induce them to settle in Gary. The prospective man- ufacturer and business man is told in this literature that Gary is an open shop town, with plenty of labor and no unions except in the printing trades. “There is available at all times a large surplus of high-grade female workers,” says the Chamber of Com- merce bulletin entitled, “Gary Forges Prosperity.” The Chamber of Commerce, domin- ated by the United States Steel Cor- poration, feels satisfied that there are ‘no unions and that there is a surplus of labor, because under those condi- tions they can pay the workers much less wages and make more profits for themselves. “The average normal number of workers employed in Gary industries is 26,875,” says the Chamber of Commerce. “Over 90 per cent of the workers are male and are em- ployed in the several units of the United States Steel Corporation,” But the most important inducement held out to manufacturers, the most important proof offered by the United States Steel Corporation and the Gary banks that Gary is an idea! town—for the large employer of labor —is the low wages paid to the work- érs, 90 per cent of whom are admitted to be steel trust slaves. 44 Cents. An Hour. “The average minimum wage for industrial male workers is 44 cents| per hour; for female workers, 25 cents per hour. With the exception of the building and printing trades, prac- tically every establishment in Gary operates under the American plan,” says the Chamber of Commerce. The United States Steel Corporation controls the lives of over 90 per cent of the citizens of Gary. Under the leadership of Elbert H. Gary, the Steel Trust has gained control of every institution in the town which molds public opinion and influences the thoughts of the workers. The paternalistic Steel Trust takes the children when they enter school, nnd makes them into efficient slaves GRANT PARDON PLEA NOW UP FOR ACTION TO GOVERNOR SMALL Bernard Grant, under sentence of death for the murder of policeman Ralph Souders, may escape the gal- lows, if the plea of his attorney to Governor Len Small, for a pardon is granted, Much discussion has been arous- ed over the case of Grant, who, like the murderers of Robert Franks, is only a youth of 19 years. It is point- ed out that Grant poor man’s son, and on his way to the gallows for a crime similar to the one of Loeb and Leopold, who, the sons of rich parents, got away with a life term sentence, ing the noose. It is now reported that the con- fession of Walter Krauser, which cleared Grant of the murder charge, has now been repudiated. C! Darrow, attorney for Loeb and Leo- pold, who is now working for a par- don to Grant, refused to comment on this repudiation. Grant's attor- Thomas E. Swan hearing on Grant's ot petition fer a pardon, ‘ Grand Rapids, Sunday, Oct. 26th. Muskegon, Monday, Oct. 27th. to be fed into the Gary steel Imills. The steel, mills quickly wear out the physical machinery of the workers, a season in the hot foundries and open hearth work marking permanent lines of suffering in the steel slaves’ faces. Therefore, the Steel Trust does as much as it can to build up the bodies of the steel workers while they are still school children, with the hope that they will last a little longer in Gary’s mill. The fact that the public schools are designed to train the children of Gary’s workers for only one purpose in life is put into fancy language by the Chamber of Commerce. “In addition to excellent academic instruction, features of the ‘Gary Plan’ are the op- portunities offered for healthful physical development and for natural selection by the individual student of vocational courses,” says the Chamber of Commerce. The Gary Plan. The “Gary Plan,” of which the Gary employers boast so much, teaches the children largely the narrow, confining factory work which restricts their im- mature minds rather than broadening them, as would scientific or cultural courses. “In the high schools,” boasts the Steel Trust controlled Chamber of Commerce, “vocational training is of- fered in the following courses: animal husbandry, automobile mechanics, commerce, forge, foundry, machine shop, printing, shoe repairing, cook- ing, millinery and sewing.” It is noticable that most of these courses enable the Steel Corporation to transplant the children from high school to the semi-skilled steel mill trades. The town thus uses its high schools to take the place of a private trade school which Elbert Gary would have to maintain if he did not have |the high schools to do that work for him. There is only one local paper in Gary, The Post-Tribune, which is ob- viously, as all the Gary workers know, @ tool of the United States Steel Cor- |Poration. The Post-Tribune has been jengaged for-the last few months in trying to make the steel workers who can’t even buy a job anywhere, be- lieve that there is no unemployment in the steel mills. The Chamber of Commerce realizes the value of the paper to the town’s non-union em- ployers. “The educational value of the Gafy Post-Tribune is worthy of especial note,” the Chamber of Com- merce announcesfl “The Gary Post- Tribune is a potent force in the life of the community.” The service of the Post-Tribune consists of doing any dirty work for the Steel Trust which comes to hand. The “Greater Gary Exposition” is proof that Gary is a splendid town for the employers and for the United States Steel Corporation, and a good town for the workers to keep away from. . Ella Reeve Bloor Talks to Big Crowds in Milwaukee, Wis. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 23,— “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor spoke here at two large street open air meetings yesterday, taking up good collections from audiences of several hundred people. “Mother” Bloor told the crowd last night about the heroic struggles of the Soviet government 01 behalf of the workers of the world, and plead- ed for international solidarity. She denounced LaFollette as an up+ holder of the capitalist sys‘om, which is egainst not only the Russtau work- ers urd farmers’ government, but the working class of the world. Comrade Biecr will speaic in Mil- waukee at open air meetings until Sept. 25, when she speaks {o Racine and Kenosha and returns to Mylwau- kee next Saturday. Oct. 1, “Mother” Bloor begins a tour of the Souhern ,|Ulinois coal fields, AMPAIGNI LAST HOUR DRIVE FOR SIGNATURES IN 6TH DISTRICT Must Work Hard to Put Pellegrino on Ballot Are you a member of any one of the following Workers Party branch- es? Cicero Young. Workers League, Lettish Branch, Czecho-Slovak, No. 8, Czecho-Slovak North Berwyn, Czecho- Slovak Cicero, Cicero English, Cicero Italian, Douglas Park English, Doug- las Park Jewish, Scandinavian West Side, West Side Young Workers League, John Reed Young Workers League, Lithuanian No, 74. If you are, you belong to the Sixth Congressional district, and your can- didate is Frank Pellegrino. What have you done to help put him on the ballot? If you have not done your share, and Pellegrino does not go on the ballot, it will be your personal fault, and I trust that the City Central com- mittee will find ways of making you feel your responsibility in this fail- ure. Communists are workers, not shirkers, Sunday, Sept. 27. You have one more chance to do your share of this work. On Sunday, Sept. 27, a special drive for the needed’ sig- natures will be conducted by District 6. Every member of the above men- tioned branches is urged to come to 3322 Douglas Park Blvd. and get his assignment. A true Communist is not he who simply pays dues regularly and at- tends meetings where he sits by nice- ly and quietly listening or taking part in abstract discussions. A true Com- munist is he who does this plus work, more work and still more work when the call to action comes from the proper body. A true Communist is a good soldier. One who knows how to take orders and carry them out ef- fectively. A true Communist is he who recog- nizes that when his Central Executive Committee has pondered over a ques- tion and finally come to a definite decision, all lower units must carry out the policy of the C. E. C., regard- less of personal opinions. The get- ting of signatures for Pellegrino is not the whim of the City Secretary, or the decision of the C. C. C., or the order of the District Organizer. It is (TI I de ee the giving of life to a policy decided upon by the highest body of our party —the Central Executive Committee. Must Carry Out Work. After careful and deliberate consid- eration our C. E. C. decided that our party shall enter into the election campaign. Every lower unit ,imme- diately proceeded to pass the decision on and lay plans for carrying it out. Your duty as a soldier in the ranks is to help carry out this decision. To give it life by securing the signatures which will make it possible to put the candidate in the field and so con- duct a real aggressive campaign from now until November. You will not be called upon to make speeches. You will not be called upon to write ar- ticles. But you can make it possible for the party to have an opportunity to send speakers in the field who will make Communist talks to the work- ers. You can provide this opportunity to the party by putting the candidates on the ballot. And there is only one way of doing that—by getting the re- aired number of signatures. It is no easy job to conduct a na- tional campaign. To get the right speakers for the right places. To run street meetings. To publish pam- phiets on ‘timely subjects written from the Communist point of view. To get a daily campaign message to the workers. And to do it all on a shoe string. All this the party will have to do—but it must first get the candidates on the ballot. Give This One Sunday. Is it asking too much of us to give up ONE Sunday morning to the get- ting of a few signatures, as compared to the gigantic task ahead for the party? District 6 will not get its can- didate on the ballot unless more sig- natures are turned in. “We have not enough so far, because only a hand- ful of the membérs have taken their responsibility seriously. But we can still do it. There is no reason to fail. We have 12 branches in our district and all we need is an- other 1,000 signatures. If each branch sends only ten members next Sunday morning, we can get more than the required 1,000 signatures. With one hundred comrades, divided # into groups of twos it will only be ne sary of each group to get 20 signa- tures, That is easy! Those of us who have béen out know how easy it is, NOON OF MONDAY, SEPT. 28th IS THE CLOSING HOUR FOR REG- ISTERING PETITIONS! Comrades of District 6! We can still put our candidate on the ballot! But it all depends upon those who have not done their share as yet. Hspecially upon the comrades of the language branches who make the excuse that they cannot speak English, The Lettish Branch, for instance, has about 100 members. To date, all they have turned in is“76 signatures and these were procured by ONE member, Comrade Mrs. Dozenberg. Surely there are at least ten more in Wednesday, September 24, 1924 Politics Links Steel Trust to Officialdom of Labor in Illinois By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, more than ever, “politics makes strange bed- fellows.” This is particularly true of Illinois. 8 # & News comes from downstate that “Charley” Deneen, ex-governor, now candidate for United States senator on the republican ticket, is opening his campaign in Eastern Illinois. At Danville, in the heart of a coal mining center, Deneen is the guest of honor at a luncheon given by Thomas Moses, general superintendent of the United States Fuel Company. Mr. Moses is also the representative of the United States Steel Corporation, of which the fuel company is a subsidiary in the Danville district. That Mr. Deneen, the political spokesman of the greatest corporations, should associate with the officials of the Steel Trust, is to be expected. That is his role in politics and he makes no effort to hide it. | * * * * But Mr. Deneen is the bedfellow in politics of Governor Len Small, who has been endorsed for re-election by the of- ficialdom of Illinois labor, including Frank Farrington, pres- ident of the Illinois Miners’ Union, and John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor. This is the Walket who acted as chairman of the LaFoliette-Wheeler mass meeting in Chicago last Saturday night. Len Small is the LaFollette candidate for governor in IHlinois. * * Farrington endorses the republican candidate, Len Small, the political pal of Deneen, the guest of honor of the Steel Trust. i It is charged that it was’the steel trust that stood back of the Herrin open shop mine owners in their war on the Miners’ Union in Williamson County. It is charged that the war on the Miners’ Union at Herrin was merely a part of the steel trust’s open shop war against organized labor thru- out the entire country. The miners’ officials themselves made these charges. Yet Farrington, the president of the Miners’ Union, shakes hands, thru his political alliances, with all these anti- labor elements. Farrington is the political bedfellow of the politicians of the Steel Trust. He is in the same nest with the open shoppers. * * * Walker comes from Danville, center of reaction, that sent “Uncle Joe” Cannon to Washington as congressman, to do the bidding of the biggest business interests, until he be- came too old to make the trip to the national capital. Walker as a socialist, often campaigned for congress, in the Danville district, as the socialist candidate, against the Cannon re- publican machine. But Walker turned renegade, even to the socialist party, and is now in the republican camp. Walker now denounces the radicals, especially the Communists, at the same time building his alliance with Len Small, the political ally of Deneen. It is not difficult to see how Walker, like Farrington, dabbling in Wall Street politics, becomes another hangman of the workers, just as much as the worst reactionaries, even as much as Deneen, the professional politician-lawyer of the moneyed interests. * * * Farrington and Walker may sleep in the left side of Len Small, but in the same political bed, on the right side, sleep very comfortably indeed, the Deneens and the Brundages with their steel trust friends. A strong chain, that loops about the neck of the whole working class, runs from the Steel Trust’s banquet to Deneen, at Danville, to the LaFollette meeting addressed by Wheeler, in Chicago. It is a strong chain, powerful in every link, that labor can only break when it decides to go into class politics for itself, working class politics, a * * * Capitalist politics, the struggle for the maintenance of the present capitalist social order, unites all capitalist poli- ticians—Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette; Deneen, Small, Farrington and Walker. Working class politics, the struggle for Soviet Rule, must unite the workers and farmers under the Communist stand- ards, carried aloft in this campaign by the candidates of the Workers Party, William Z. Foster, for president, and Ben- jamin Gitlow, for vice president. All workers and farmers must oppose revolutionar: working class political action to the traitor alliances of their reactionary officials with capitalist politics. STREET MEETINGS. Wednesday, Sept. 24. 32nd and Halsted—Auspices, that branch who can turn out on Sunday morning and go out with Eng- lish speaking comrades, if they are shy about going out by themselves, The Final Test Day. Sunday morning will be the final test day. All branches in District 6 are urged to send their members to 3322 Douglas Park Blvd., where they will get their assignments. . If you have not yet done anything toward putting Pellegrino on the bal- lot, take advantage of this opportun- ity to do your share, If you have done your share already, come again and show the rest how to work. Show them what it means to be a real Communist. Show them that you feel that your party can never ask too much of you, and that you can never give too much. Show them that your one thougift is to make the party— our party—grow. And that no detail, no matter how unpleasant and dis- tasteful and difficult, is too small for you to do, COME ONE, COME ALL! SUN- DAY, 9 A. M., AT 3322 DOUGLAS PARK BOULEVARD. SHOW THAT YOU ARE A COM. MUNIST IN PRACTICE, ' PROVE THAT YOU ARE A SOL. DIER IN THE RANKS, DON'T. BE A SHIRKER! BE A WORKER! CARRY YOUR SHARE OF COMMUNIST RESPONSIBILITY! Rose Karsner, Campaign Manager, Sixth Congressional District. anian, Luxembur} Good Branch; speakers in English Madison, about 900 wes Local Com. W. Maurer, + Py speaker at 2733 HIR s WM. F. DUNNE just returned from Russia. COME ALL THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! One hu ph \* Shad ith ea Nees" samen em Lithuantan Branches; speakers in English and Idthu- Rosevelt and Marshfield—Auspices of 5 Be, Sa speakers. 82nd and Morgan—Auspices of Polish and Polish. ‘Auspices of : Harley and MONSTER MASS MEETING Foster and Gitlow Campaign | Wednesday, Sept. 24th peakers: Candidate for Governor, who has M. SHUCHTER will preside. : Auspices; Foster-Gitlow Campaign Conference. SILINSKY 1S HOLDING LEAD IN ELECTION | Predict Militant Will Win Out in Tailors Max J. Sillinsky, Cleveland progressive, retained his lead yesterday over the reactionary Sweeney, in the election race for secretary-treasurer of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union. With Boston, Indianapolis, Burlington, and Grand Rapids returns in, Sillinsky leads Sweeney by 1028 votes to 944, Progressive centers in Canada, Detroit, and other local unions which are expected to give Sil- linsky a majority of their votes have not. yet been heard from. Protest Fake Votes. At the election for secretary-treas- urer in Kansas City, the reactionary business agent of the local brought in 21 votes tor Sweeney which he had canvassed and which he declared Sweeney told him to get. In spite of the protests of progressives, the tell- ers counted these 21 votes, making 79 for Sillinsky and 91 for Sweeney. The total vote to date follows: Sillinsky Sweeney. Previously tabulated 779 Boston . 128 Burlington 2 Grand Rapids us 27 10 Columbus, Ga. ....... 8 10 Indianapolis. ..... 15 Total 944 Harding's Doctor Dies. MARION, Ohio, Sept. 23.—Brig.-Gen. Charles E. Sawyer dropped dead while talking to his wife and son, Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, this afternoon. He had not been feeling well for a long time. Heart disease was the cause of death. He was 64 years old. Brigadier General Sawyer was Pres- ident Harding’s personal physician and was given his army rank by Pres- ident Harding at the time of his’ in- auguration as president. CARPENTER DELEGATE HITS INDIANAPOLIS AS OPEN SHOP GITY (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 23.—The credentials committee reported to the convention of the Carpenters’ Brotherhood, and the report was ac- cepted. President Hutchenson ap- pointed the following committee on rules which is to report tomorrow: Kresten, Walker, Bates, Dubin, and Bennett. John Manning, secretary of the Union Label League, spoke at length on the nec ity of using union- made goods. When he was thru, delegate John J. Reardon, of the Cabinet Makers’ Local 1596, St. Louis, said that when he had asked in Indianapolis for union-made cigars Qe was looked upon as crazy. He belli that unionism should begin at @4me where most of the unions had their headquarters and should organize the workers instead of permitting the city to be open shop. If that were done, the officers of the unions might have some reason for asking the delegates to use only union-made gods. The delegates loudly applauded this speech. Hutchenson then took the floor and said that he agreed with most of what Reardon had said, but that it should not be looked upon as an attack on the officers of the union, since they were doing their best to unionize the town. Hutchen- son didn’t believe in running away because it was a non-union city, here ex- Numerous. delegates pressed thelr appr DAILY WORKER ing class newspaper, ge U. S. DICTATORSHIP BRINGS STARVATION TO 20,000 FILIPINOS MANILA, Sept. 23.—That “20,000 persons are in a state of starvation in one province” and misery threatens other provinces on account of crop fail- ures, was revealed in a report made public today by the Red Cross. H BOULEVARD : A. BITTELMAN Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party ADMISSION FREE