The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1924, Page 1

es THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 160. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O')FLAHERTY. ON Chafin, leading West Va. demo- erat, backer of John W. Davis, at the Madison Square convention, and gunman extraordinary for the scab coal operators of that state, is under indictment on a bribery and bootleg- ging charge. How Mr. Chafin raved when the organizers of the United Mine Workers went into Logan county to organize the miners! Not alone did he rave, but his guns bark- ed and killed. In the Don’s opinion, it was a violation of the law to organ- ize miners. It might breed lawless- ness. That was Chafin’s monopoly. Like most propagandists for law ob- servance, Chafin himself is the worst offender, when it pays to violate the law. ee ee OHN Spargo evidently thot he had not plumbed the depths of human infamy when heedeserted the sooial- ist movement during the war and ral- lied to the side of the capitalists, help- ing them with voice and pen to send the young manhood of America to the battlefields of Europe. The renegade Spargo has a fertile,mind when it comes to devising new methods to ex- pose himself as a first class Judas. His latest contribution to the history of his treason to the working class movement is his endorsement of Cal- vin Coolidge for the presidency. Spar- go until now, lived on the offal thrown by the capitalists to their yellow so- cialist servants during the war. Per- haps the stomach is sending messages to the brain demanding succor. There is no other political party in the,field filthy enough to take this cur unto itself, but the G. O. P. It is welcome to him. . J . ‘ALVIN Coolidge, the Presbyterian president, felt quite at home ad- dressing the Holy Name Society in ‘Washington. He denounced socialism ° and no doubt, tion of his audience. How 1 dif. ference religion makes to the ruling class and their servants? The Pres- byterian Coolidge recognizes the Cath- olic church as a powerful supporter of the capitalist system and in order to maintain friendly relations with it, he is willing to run the risk of losing some Ku Klux Klan votes. But can- ny Cal knows that the Kluxers have nobody else to vote for, all the other candidates having already said nasty things to them. * ARSON Hight of Mt. Vernon, Ili- nois, who contracted the habit of dosing people with arsenic, was once a race track, tout and horse jockey. He was then living a life of sin and when he attended a revival meeting it was to scoff and not to pray. But one evening while alone in a field he was seized with a strange exultation and he knew from that moment that all his sins were washed away and he belonged to the Lord. We have an idea that his dead wife and Wilford Sweetin, the dead husband of his clandestine sweetheart, lived to wish the Lord had sent him an apoplectic strike instead of a pail of white wash for his black soul. But “God works in strange ways His wonders to per- form.” R htt, Nee. Chicago Tribune is fill execut- ing Mensheviks in Gedrgia. We venture to predict that before the Trt- bune gets out many more volumes (Continued on page 3) Shooting Victim Dies. ‘Sam Goldfarb, 3421 Flournoy St., a member of the Jewish Bakers’ Ynion, died in the Robert Burns hospital as a result of wounds received in a shoot- ing affray at the headquarters of the union last Monday. The body is now in the Weinstein morgue, 3556 Roose- velt Road. Inquest will be held ‘at 10 o'clock today. Vol H. No. 160. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: oursiae'cn-naso, by mas, COMMUNISTS in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chimago, by mail, $6.00 per year. HUTCHENSON IN AUTOCRAT RULE AT CONVENTION Carpenters Object to One Man Sway - (Special ‘to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 24.— Open dissatisfaction is develop- ing among rank and file dele- gates to the convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joinérs over the auto- cratic ruling of the convention chairman who is also president of the organization, William L. Hutchenson. Many of the delegates are openly calling him a czar, and are talking of nominating an opposition slate to that of the administration, while disgust with bureaucratic ruling rises everywhere. Shuts Off Discussion. An example of Hutchenson’s rulings was seen today when the committee on rules reported. It was impossible to hear the report since the chairman spoke in an indistinct voice. One of the points he read was that there should not be any discussion of poli- tical questions on the floor of the con- vention. “Hutcheson asked of there were any objections, and then, in spite of the fact that delegates rose to get the floor for discussion, he announced that the report was accepted. Another autocratic move was made when Hutcheson appointed from the chair the committees to take up the reports made by the. hag Much comment has been aroused by the report of the general president for the four years ending June 30, 1924, There is not a single word said about the necessity of amalgamating the building trades unions, yet eight out of nineteen printed pages of the report are consumed with the history of the jurisdictional dispute as to the right of the Brotherhood to have jur- isdictional over “metal trim.” The only possible note of progress in the report is the announcement that most of the membrs of the Amal- gamated Society of Woodworkers, an English union with branches in all Anglo-Saxon countries, had. finally joined the Brotherhood. This was ac- complished not because of any partic- ular desire on the part of the Brother- hood officials to consolidate the strength of the workers in the trade, but merely because it meant more dues coming into the general head- quarters. - Amalgamation Coming .Up. A spirited discussion is expected when the proposal of amalgamation of the building trades unions, one of the most important resolutions to be pre- sented by the militants at the conven- tion, comes on the floor. News boys selling the DAILY WORKER in front of the convention hall have been threatened with a beating for selling the paper. One of them, who wore long pants, was thrown off the sidewalks and forced to discontinue selling the DAILY; the other newsie was saved by his youth. When Hutcheson was approached by the youngster, ‘and asked to buy the paper, the newsie was shoved off the sidewalk and threatened by the peer ident of the union, The DAILY WORKER will, howe ever, not only continue to print re- ports of the convention, but will go on with the sale of the paper to the delegates, * egal ei hp nastiest emp tneinniecipstatg ice, SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS ADDED FOR FOSTER-GITLOW MASS RALLY HERE we \ Workers League Orchestra are going These added attractions ought to \ The Freiheit, Singing Society, the Mandolin Orchestra and the Young to be special features at the William Z. Foster-Benjamin Gitlow election mass meeting on Sunday, October the “12th, at 2:30 p. m. at Ashland Auditorium. bring additional hundreds to the Ash- land Auditorium, adding as they will much revolutionary spirit and ardor to the intellectual treat to be given them by the candidate for president. The Freiheit Singing Society and its Mandolin Orchestra are known thru- } out the city and everyone most certai ment that they will be on hand at thi inly greets with pleasure the announce- @ October 12th gathering. The Young Workers League orchestra is coming along finely and is one of the prides of the Chicago League. WORKERS PARTY OF MONTANA WILL HAVE FOSTER ON BALLOT BUTTE, Montana, Sept. 24.—The Workers Party of Montana will hold a mass convention tomorrow in order to comply with the legal requirements for putting the Com- munist ticket for president and vice- president on the ballot in this state in the coming elections. The fol- lowing call has been issued by Ben Greenberg in behalf of the Workers Party of Montana: “To all members of the Workers Party in Montana: “Upon the authority of William Z. Foster, national chairman of the Workers Party of America, | am instructed to call a mass conven- tion of all members of the Workers. Party in the State of Montana. This convention will have as its purpose: “1, The organization of a state branch of the Workers Party. “2. The election of a state secre- tary and executive~committee. 3. The nomination of presiden- tial electors. ‘: “The convention will be held ‘on September 25, at 8. p. m., at Butte, Montana.” GITLOW AT THE DETROIT, MICH. (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 24.— Benjamin Gitlow, here on his| coast-to-coast campaian tout “3 f m. eunday, eo ing the issues on. which the Workers Party will enter the elections in many states in November. He comes here eight days after a Workers Party state convention, in Detroit, qualified William Z. Foster and Gitlow for a place on the ballots in Michigan. Expect Thousands At Rally. Gitlow has spread the appeal for a workers’ and farmers’ government far and wide thru Coolidge’s New Eng- land, where William M. Butler, mil- lionaire chairman of the republican national committee, as the director of textile companies, hires thugs and spies to war against the workers’ or- ganizations, according to exposures published in the DAILY WORKER, In Detroit, Gitlow will speak to thou- sands of men, women and cildren in the hall where the Lenin memorial meeting was held and where in the past the workers have gathered to cheer Wiliam B. Haywood, Max East- man, Foster, Arturo Giovanitti and others. The Arena Gardens has been the scene of Detroit's great May Day celebrations. It will be full to the last row for Gitlow. The Workers Party of Detroit and the Young Workers League haye ap- pealed especially to trade unionists to attend the Gitlow meetings. The size of the hall will permit thousands to hear directly from the party's vice- presidential candidate the reasons why the workers should vote for Fos- ter, Gitlow and the party candidates for state officers. The party herewith extends a special invitation to all del- egates who are still in Detroit after attending the convention of the In- ternational Association of Machinists. Just Here From East. Gitlow in the East addressed strik- ing textile workers in New England and New Jersey and spoke to thou- sands of members of the United Mine Workers and their wives in Pennsyl- vania. He will find Detroit, the auto- mobile center, the open shop strong: hold of the United States. But it is apparent in advance that the response that will be given to his message will prove the labor movement is not dead here and the class struggle not for- gotten. He is expected to attack the repub- lican and democratic parties and nom: inees and attack especially the tactics of the conference for progressive pol- itical action, for the reason that the two old parties made no promises to labor, whereas the LaFollette move ment, being founded on promises to labor, amounts to a gigantic betrayal. (Continued on page 4) ~ ARENA GARDENS | PETITIONS ARE SUBMITTED FOR FOSTER-GITLOW Miners Disappointed with “Bob’s” Hokum The-class conscious workers Of Illinois will be able to cast their ballots in the coming elections for William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Com- and vice-president of the United States on the Workers Party ticket. This announcement was made today at the district office of the Workers Party. Arne Swa- k, district organizer, ‘is in ‘Springfield today filing petitions with L. M. Hmerson,’ secretary of state for Ilinois. Es File 3,629 Names. Tho only 1,000 signatures are re- quired in this state to place presiden- electors on the ballot, the party etibers gathered 3,629 for good The success of the party in putting he Communist candidates on the bal- }lot in this state makes Illinois the eventh state to quality. Arne Swabeck stated to the DAILY WORKER reporter that his recent tour thru the mining region in Illi- nois convinced him that the miners |} were disgusted with the two old par- ties and keenly disappointed with the failure of the LaFollette movement to tackle the unemployment problem, veea is the most: burning issue con- ting the miners today. sm to hundreds of miners. ‘They feel that the capitalist parties have no interest in their fate except to use them as voting cattle on election day. The LaFollette movement is little dif- ferent from the two old parties of Wall Street in their opinion. For Workers Alone. “The Workers Party alone takes up the problems of the workers and makes those problems its only con- sideration. The Workers Party is not concerned with the welfare of the cap- italists. Its object is to organize the workers for the crushing of the capi- tai‘st class politically anc the over- throw of their system. The Workers Party is not a vote-catching machine. It frankly tells the workers that the social revolution will not be accom- plished inside the halls of congress, but must be the act of the working masses, “The Workers Party goes before the toiling masses in Illinois and all over the country, with the slogan of a work. ers’ and farmers’ government, telling the exploited proletariat that there can be no solution of their problems until they overthrow the capitalist system and establish the rule of the workers and farmers on the ruins of the capitalist state. “Our candidates, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow are both union men who have*devoted their ‘lives to the struggles for the building up of the power of the, workers arid for the betterment of their working conditions. Foster and Gitlow have seen the in- side of prisons for their loyalty to the cause of labor. Care Not For Labor. “None of the other candidates are union men or have anything but con- tempt for union labor except when they can use it in order to get into office. This is as true of the LaFollette movement as of the democratic and republic parties. Foster and Gitlow are the only two candidates appeal- ing to the masses for support in this election who are not lawyers and lack- eys of the ruling class.” Comrade Swabeck, declared that the machinery for waging an effective campaign was being built up in the district, TONIGHT AT ‘munist candidates for president | WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September #1, 1928, at the Post Offoe at Chicago, Ilinoia under the Act of March 3, 1979. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924 “22> 250 PUBLIS: Published Daily except Sunday by HING THE DAILY WORKER , 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, UL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents N ILLINOIS BALLOT ms HELP TAKE STRAW VOTE AT CHICAGO'S FACTORIES Today the DAILY WORKER squad will cover two large industrial plants and volunteers are urgently needed, for the noon-hour and the afternoon squad. In the early morning a group of straw ballot volunteers will visit the Crane Company, a machine man- ufacturing plant, at Kedzie and 39th St., employing from 5.000 to 6,000 men and stretching fully across three sqare blocks. They will get there at 7 a. m. when the men be- gin to work and hand the ballots out. At 3 in the afternoon another group will return to collect the bal- lots. Come and help in the after- noon shift! At noon the Cunneo-Henneberry printing plant, employing over 1,500 workers, will be covered by a group of 20. Can you help at noon? Get in touch with the. DAILY WORKER office, at 1113 W. Wash- ington Blvd., Monroe 4712, immedi- ately upon reading this appeal. The plants to be visited today are the most promising yet, and we must endeavor to get all the votes. ee 8 & Story of "the straw-balloting at three of the city’s street car barns on page oe Sa re MICHIGAN GETS COMMUNISTS ON STATE BALLOT By CYRIL LAMBKIN. {sees sa jis Cally | Worker) The Workers Party ¢ is on rine ballot in the state of Michigan. Saturday, Sept. 20th, the state convention of the Party was held in the House of the Masses in Detroit, at which 15 electors, and also candidates for secre- tary of state, attorney general, auditor general and state treas- urer were nominated. The convention also ratified the national platform, adopted a state platform and indorsed the candidates for president and_ vice-president, comrades Foster and Gitlow. No Candidate for Governor. Because the Michigan law provides that candidates, for governor, lieuten- ant governor, and U. S. Senator must file their petitions bearing three thou- sand signatures thirty days before the primary elections, or about the 10th of August, the party will not have candidates for those offices on the ballot. The time between the decision of the party to go into the campaign under its own banner and the 10th of August was too short to mobilize the membership for the task. The nominees for the state offices are as follows: Secretary of State, Herman Richter; Attorney General, Cyril Lambkin; Auditor General, Aaron M. Katz; State Treasurer, Pauline Finnila, The state central committe was also elected. Its of? ficers are: Chairman, Cyril Lambkin; Secretary, William Reynolds; Treas- urer, Pauline Eiges. The state platform follows: THE STATE PLATFORM. The Workers Party of Michigan declares its adherence to the princi- ples and platform of the Workers Party of America, It recognizes that thruout the ages a struggle has gone on between the owning class and the propertyless class, and that the owning class has always been organized politically and used its political power to keep the working class in subjection. “The so-called democratic forms of government have been used to ensnare and to (Continued on Page 4.) GARY STEEL WORKERS IN MEETING THE TURNER HALL y (Special to The Daily Workér) GARY, Ind., Sept. 24.—The mass meeting of the steel workerg here Thursday night at Turner Hall, 14th and Washington, under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor, assumes special significance in view of the recent announcement of the Steel Trust eliminating the “Pittsburgh .plus” system. The steel workers, laboring undbr a ten-hour day at low, non-union He is exepcted in this connection to| Wages, have attempted several times recently, under the handicap of the (Continued on page 2) jour party; Campaign Reaching Masses. This campaign is remarkable )for the fact that great masses of workers, as seldom before, are interested in political issues. |Not since 1912, when Roosevelt |bolted the republican party, and the socialists made a widespread cam- paign which netted them a million votes, have the masses of the work- ers been so deeply stirred or so po- litically responsive. At this auspicious moment our party makes its debut as a real po- iitical champion of the oppressed masses in the present election struggle, against the combined forces of capitalism, represented by Cool. idge, Davis, and LafFollette. With the masses in a politically receptive mood, the many and various speakers of the old parties and the LaFollette movement, are appealing to the out- raged workers to continue and main- tain the capitalist system of exploita- tion, the system that is responsible for»Teapot Dome, and Wall Street, |which are being inconsistently de- nounced by Davis and-LaFollette. Bring Message of Communism. To expose this system in its true light, and the two republican and one cratip ar candidates who up; hold it, is our prime object. To has- ten the end of capitalism, and to bring the message of Communism to the arranged for our prominent party speakers. These speakers are fully capable of dealing in a revolutionary manner with the issues of the present election campaign. They will con- vince many, as no other medium of ex- pression can, that the only answer to the dictatorship of Wall Street is a dictatorship of the workers.» The effect of the campaign on the party, of this large number of addi- tional speakers and meetings, will be to arouse tpe spirit of our member- ship to the highest possible pitch of | revolutionary ~enthusiasm. That will have the effect of putting much addi- tional life into the campaign, also to enlarge the scope and extent of our influence with ever larger sections of ot workers. Some districts that have not, in the past, been able to main. tain a number of party speakers, will now have this opportunity. Following is a complete list of speakers’ dates in the-various party districts: SPEAKERS LIST. DISTRICT ONE. October: Weinstone, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Cacison, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18, Boston; Providence, R. |. Gitlow, 20, 21, 22 and 23, Boston. Foster, 25 and 26, Worcester; Bos- ton. Engdahl, Nov. 2, Boston. DISTRICT TWO, October: Carlson, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, New York. Foster, 19 and 20, New York. Gitlow, 19, New York. Gitlow, Nov. 1, Yonkers. Gitlow, Nov. 2, New York City. Cannon, Nov, 2, New York City. DISTRICT THREE. October: Carlson, 1, 2, 3 and 4, Philadelphia. Trachtenberg, 16, Philadelphia. Foster, 21, Reading. Foster, 22, Scranton, Foster, 27, Washington, D. C. Foster, 28, Baltimore, Md. Gitlow, 24, Philadelphia. Gitlow, 25, Camdeh. Gitlow, 26, Wilmington. Foster, 28, Philadelphia. Weinstone, Nov. 2, Philadelphia. DISTRICT FOUR. October: Minor, 1, 2 and 3, Buffalo, Foster, 17, Buffalo. Foster, 18, Rochester. Carlson, 19, Buffalo. (Continued on Page 2.) Stokes, 10, 11 and 12, Set telicte, to fo titged by the pameeiee COMMUNIST CAMPAIGNTOHAVE — WHIRLWIND CLOSE AS BATTERY OF SPEAKERS TOUR THRU LAND By JOSEPH MANLEY, Campaign Manager. A whirlwind finish to the first Communist election ¢ |—this is the objective set by the National Office of the Workers | Party in arranging to tour in October, the clgsing months of the campaign, leading party speakers thruout the various districts, The success of the Foster-Gitlow campaign meetings, eape- cially in the large industrial centers, has enthused and enlivened that, perhaps more than any other one factor, will |contribute to the success of the present election campaign. B. & 0. PLAN UP TODAY AT LAM. MEET Militants Rallying All Their Strength (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 24.— What will undoubtedly occasion the biggest fight between the reactionaries and militants at the convention of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists here, will be the Baltimore & Ohio plan which is coming up for action at Thursday's ses- sion. Delegates everywhere are dis- cussing the arguments of the collaboration against the class collaborati opie pine B proposition ‘and’ it eal that Johnston will sweat blood in his attempt to ram his infa- workers, this series of tours has beeninjous scheme down the throats of the rank and file. B. & O. Plan A Failure, All indications point to the correet- ness of the progressives’ assertion that the B. & O. plan would destroy the machinists’ union. It is pointed out that there are absolutely no dele- gates from the local of the Glenwood shops where the plan is already in ef- fect. It is also evident that all the locals on the B. & O. 1a‘Iroad are ex- tremely small and that nfost of the workers there are in a disorganized condition. The militants have termed the plan the “sweat shop under union protec tion,” since it obliges the union to work its members up to a high speed in order to insure an efficient and sut- ficient profit for the employer. It de stroys completely the working class character of the union and transforms it into an adjunct for profit manufac- turing chine, The plan is generally credited for authorship to Otto Beyers, Jr, a aptain in the ordnance department of the army, and is regarded as one of the most pernicious instruments in favor of the capitalist that has yet been manufactured. One of the points ciaimed in its favor is the faet that it brings steadier employment. But the militants show that no such thing is true. The B. & O. railroad is now manufacturing its own brake- shoes, building locomotives and roll ing steel. This is an attempt to stabilize employment on the railroad and secure cheaper equipment. But the worker in the contract shop is cheated out of just the amount that is added to the B. & O. worker, thus robbing Peter to pay Paul, and leav- ing the workers in general without of the bosses’ efficiency ma it jany advantage in the matter. Or else the contract worker, not having ,afly employment in his shop, leaves it and goes to the railroad shop, thus mak- ing no change in jobs. Instead of or- ganizing the many non-union contract in their program for organizing the unorganized, the officials of the un- ion have succumbed to the bait of the co-operation geheme, Joint Meetings a Fraud, The joint meetings of workers and | bosses is also a fraud. An investiga- tion of a number of items taken up at — a typical meeting proves this conten: tion, The question of opening an ap- prentice school was referred to the district master mechanic but no ad- vice was received. The condition of the toilets was referred to the divis- ion engineer for handling and “is be — (Continued on Page 2.) pike ‘