The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1924, Page 3

coodad \ Thursday, September; 25, 1924 STREET CARMEN EAGER TO TALK ABOUT POLITICS Many Declare Foster Is Only Labor. Candidate Street carmen are serious students of the present national political struggle in the United States. These workers were found to be the most alert when visited, at their various car barns, by the squads: of DAILY WORKER straw ballot takers. Out of the 566 votes cast at three Chicago car. barns, William Z. Foster received 43 votes, the Elston and Ad- dison barn giving him 19, and Devon barn 15 and the Kedzie and Van Burer. barn 9 yotes. The rest of the candidates made the following show- ing at the three barns: ‘oolidge, 82, Davis, 45, and LaFollette 396. Foster ts Workers’ Candidate. Among the numerous bits of intér- esting conversation heard among the workers who cast their ballots for their favorite candidates was the fol- lowing: “I'm thru with the old parties. I'm going to yote for a working man this time. I’m voting for LaFollette,” said @ motorman. “Who ever told you LaFollette was a working man, ye bonehead?” asked his conductor. “The only working man on that ballot is William Z. Fos- ter, and I'm for him,” and the first bal- lot cast was cast for the Communist candidate. . The DAILY WORKER straw ballot squad hardly expected to receive such @ warm welcome from the conductors and motormen at the car barns on the west side, at Elston and Addison Aves., where they went with their cardboard ballot boxes and their pock- ets stuffed with ballots. In a few minutes the car barn at! Elston and Addison, where the men/ gathered for their pay envelopes, was divided into little groups all discuss- ing the campaign. Arguments were heard for LaFol- lette from one group while another was expostulating for light wines and beers. But off in a corner a big giant a worker had another by the lapel of his coat ‘with one hand while he used the other to better make his point why every workingman should vote for Foster. One man refused to take a ballot. The girl vote getter urged him to vote, One of the conductors came up to help her out. .“Why don’t you vote, Mike?” “Aw, what’s the use. Straw votes don’t mean nothing to me.” “Say, this isn’t the Herald and Ex- aminer taking a straw vote. This is the DAILY WORKER, a_ working man’s paper. The Herald and,Exam- iner is taking a straw vote down in the loop among the bosses. The DAILY WORKER comes to workers, ‘they don’t go anywhere else, because they want to see what the workers are thinking about.” “Well, I'd like to see who could get RESULTS OF SIX DAY’S VOTING IN DAILY WORKER STRAW VOTE SEPTEMBER 16th: Hart, Schaffner & Marx Kuppenheimer Royal Tailors Total vote cast, 994, SEPTEMBER 17th: Western Electric Co......... Total vote cast, 1056. SEPTEMBER 18th Stockyards Total vote cast, SEPTEMBER 19th: Pullman Palace Car Co., Foster . 67 52 Executive office .... 3 Factory workers ....... soon OO Total vote cast, 393, SEPTEMBER 22nd Sears - Roebuck 69 Ch. & N. W. R. R. Shops:... 42 Total vote cast, 1142. SEPTEMBER 23rd: Street Car Barns: Kedzie Ave. & Van Buren 9 Elston & Addison 19 Devon Ave. au Total vote cast, 566. Grand total for six days. : Coolidge LaFollette Davis 158 206 31 94 200 19 37 90 8 407 408 70 136 118 57 70 35 15 86 127 19 -” 315 340 116 23 225 12 16 138 22 21 93 6 45 165 17 1408 2145 392 Total vote cast in six days, 4499. [ENGLEWOOD BRANCH OF |! YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE -| AFTER MODESTY LAURELS? Who said political connections don't pay? Not Gordon Owen— Owens is the Workers Party candi- date for congress in the first Illinois district. Incidentally he was‘ the first man to go on the ballot—main- ly thru the efforts of the Englewood branch of the | Young Workers League, which broke all records in getting petitions filled. You see its quite ‘simple. Owens happens to be young enough and fortunate enough to be a member of this same Englewood branch. reluctant one, as he took the ballot and voted. Interested in DAILY WORKER. Qite unlike the stupid indifference of the white collar slaves at the Sears- Roebuck plant, and the driven aspect of the raliroad car shop laborers, the conductors and motormen visited were refreshingly alive to what is go- ing on about them. They greeted the girls,-who handed them ballots, with real pep. They discussed politics eagerly. They were interested when the girls talked about the DAILY WORKER. Those who voted for Foster made no secret of it. They were for Will- iam Z. Foster and they wanted the world to know about it! The voters for LaFollette were clearly under the illusion that they were voting for a labor party. Martin Abern, city organizer of the Workers Party, in discussing the straw balloting said: Show Changing Attitude. | “The straw ballot being conducted by the DAILY WORKER serves, in a measure, to guage the rapidity with which the workers are changing their political attitude, especially toward me to go to war again,” replied the the republican and democratic THANK YOU FOR THE BOOST, NIMMO By BARNEY MASS. R. HARRY NIMMO, editor of the “Detroit / Saturday Night,” a magazine circulating in bourgeois cir- cles, and owner of a large open shop printing establishment, devoted four columns in this magazine to the ac- tivity of the Young Workers’ League for its participatiow in a conference with other organizations to oppose Defense Day. On Agust 31, a conference was call- ed by the Fellowship of Youth for Peace, Quakers, and other pacfist or- ganizations to oppose the Defense Day inaugurated by the government of this country. To this conference, the Young Workers’ League was in- vited. The delegate of the League succeeded in clarifying the atmos- phere to carry on a fight against cap- italist militarism instead of remain- ing passive or merely gesticulating with phrases against this attempt on ‘the part of predatory interets in this ‘country. This Mr. Nimmo endeavored to dis- credit this conference by issuing the familiar indictment of “Communist participation.” ten by F. L, Smith, Jr., and was one . of the feature stories in this particu- 4 “lar issue of the Saturday Night: In spite of these accusations, this open shopper will not succeed in antagon- izing and creating dissension in the ranks of the organizations which are sincerely engaging themselves to con- duct a large intensive drive against any efforts on the part of our capital- ist government to involve the youth of this nation in another bloody ca tastrophe. Ella Reeve Bloor spoke at, the pub- lic demonstration, representing the Young Workers’ League, and suc: The article was writ-|¥ pression on the audience. The posi- tion of the Communist element waa put forward by her, also stressing the fact that the Young Workers’ League is very much interested in participat- ing with all organizations in opposing militarism of the capitalist society. We are indeed very grateful to the “Saturday Night” for publishing the demands advocated by the Young Workers League in requesting all young workers to join us in the fight against capitalism. Contrary to the expectations of the Saturday Night, the elements which formed a part of the campaign against the defense day are completely satisfied with the aid rendered to them by the Young Work- ers’ League. All of the delegates at this conference cannot be so easily confused or biased against the Com- munists because Mr. Nimmo is inter- ested in rallying support to the im- perialist designs of the controlling powers. It should convince everyone sincerely dedicated to the struggle against. capitalist bloodshed that only thru closer co-operation with the cang Workers’ League will any suc- cess be attained. =~ This conference comprising many organizations is going to maintain permanent organization to carry out the Work mentioned, The Young Workers League is going to con- tribute. its share in accelerating the development of such movement. In spite of all open shoppers and politi- cal fakers, the ultimate goal for which the working class is struggling, that of the liquidation of all classes thru the dictatorship of the proletar- fat, will be attained and the cause of capitalist wars, the capitalist sys- tem will be wiped from the face of in creating a favorable im-|the earth. varties. “In this straw ballot we have taken » cross section of basic industries in Chicago. Enough workers have bal- lotted ‘to disclose some very interest- ing facts and possibilities. “The drift away from the two old capitalist parties is apparent; further, at least in Chicago industries, that the workers will not accept Wall Street Davis and are clearing their clothes swiftly of Coolidge oil and silence. “Our straw ballot, of course, gives the viewpoint not only of those called citizens, but of all workers, citizen ‘ : THE DAILY SILENT CALVIN CLAPS WUZZLE — ON NAVY CHIEF Wilbur’s Negro Speech Angers President WORKER Declarations that the Negroes of the South are deprived of their constitutional rights, dis- franchised, and persecuted by white domination, in speeches to be delivered on the Pacific Coast are thot to be the real reason President Coolidge re- called Secretary Wilbur from his western speaking tour. st President Coolidge, who has been attempting to follow out the policy of driving the Ne- groes out of the republican party of the south which was established by the late Presi- dent Harding, was embarrassed by Wilbur’s attitude champion- jing the Negroes’ rights. Wilbur, according to press dis- Patches, was to have said in a speech to be delivered in Denver, which was abondoned because of Coolidge’s re- call, “The South has not forgotten the issues of the civil war as they relate to the colored man, and by a consist- ONE MORE WEEK! Rush in the Signatures on the Petitions! By Wednesday, October 1st, at noon, every signature obtained to place Workers Party eandidates. on the ballot in the congressional districts of Chicago, Ill., must be in the local office, Room 303, 166 W. Washington St. Comrades shall therefore send in their petitions as fast as they fill them, either thru their District Campaign Manager or else direct to the local office. There must be no delays, if we are to have the signatures in time to file them. There is time yet for a FINAL SUNDAY DRIVE to get sufficient signa- tures’ for the congressional candidates. The members must make this big effort on Sunday, Sept. 28, not neglecting meanwhile to go out daily. We still expect to get every candidate on the ballot. We are trying by all means to make certain of districts 1 (already over), 4, 7, 8 and 9. District 5 formerly in charge of Comrade W. S. Milson has failed miserably and has not shown a proper Communist spirit nor interest in the campaign. As a contrast we see the good work of District 1, 7, 8 and 9. All districts indeed except 5 have at least made a real effort and with | conscientious efforts during the coming days they will yet go over. District 6 is also working hard these days to put Pellegrino on the ballot. District 4, Joseph Podkulski candidate, Victor Zokaitis campaign man- ager, is very close to going over, requiring only a couple hundred more signa- tures to make certain. District 8, George Maurer candidate, Margaret Browder, campaign man- ager, also climbing, requires 150 more signatures. Comrades must make every effort to get this small number in the next couple of days. } District 9, Jack W. Johnstone candidate, D. E. Earley, manager, also requires but a couple hundred more signatures. We feel certain that com- rades will try to get this number quickly. District 7, Sam Hammersmark candidate, N. Juel Christensen, manager, is working hard and will spare no efforts to get the required signatures. District 6 branches have enough comrades who, if they will get out on Sunday, can put Comrade Pellegrino on the ballot. Branches here have not responded as well as they might with the exception of Douglas Park English and West Side Y. W. L. and John Reed Y. W. L. and some Czecho-Slovak comrades. Douglas Park Jewish should be able to get 1,000 signatures. We cannot afford to miss any possibility of placing our candidates on the ent system of political action they have defeated. and annulled those provisions of the federal constitution written as the result of the war which guaranteed to every man, regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude, full rights of citizenship. “The fact is there is only one issue in American politics, and has been only one great issue since the division of the republican and democratic Parties, and that is the issue of the Negroes.” ballot. That will add greatly to the activity in the campaign. PUSH THE WORK! GET OUT EVERY DAY FOR SIGNAWURES! and non-citizen, young and old, and. President Coolidge, however, is therefore probably is more represent- Playing a different political game— ative of the views of the workers than the game started by President Hard- a ballot taken only among citizens. ing in a speech delivered at Birming- Thére is very likely a greater ele-|ham, Ala. on October, 26, 1921, when ment of radical workers among the Harding definitely spoke against so- EVERY WORKERS PARTY CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT! IT CAN BE DONE! The figures to date are as follows: Signatures Signatures | District Candidate obtained required | No. 1—Gordon Owens ..... 1200 No. 4—Joseph Podkulski . 1300 | No, 5—H. Epstein .... 1000 No. 6—Frank Pellegrino 690 3500 | No.7—S. T. Hammersmark 4900 No. 8—George Maurer .... 800 No, 9—J, W. Johnstone ..... 1200 laid down by the president, REMOV- ING THE RACE QUESTION AS A Claim Reports’ of “|the workers has been apparent. non-voters than the voters. “The workers are obviously under the illusion that the LaFollette ymove- ment is representative of the workers’ interests, instead of the contrary be- ing the case. Yet the fact that La- Follette, in nearly all of the straw votes taken in the factories to date, has beaten Coolidge and Davis, that in virtually every “instance the com- bined vote of LaFollette and William Z. Foster, the: Workefs (Communist) Party candidate for president, has ex" ceeded the votes of the two old capi- talist republican and democratic party candidates. “Most certainly the Communists cannot link Foster, representing the Communists, and LaFollette, repre- senting petit-bourgeois capitalism, to- gether. the workers as yet regard LaFollette as one concerned for the interests of the exploited workers. Our problem is to convince the workers that LaFol- lette is in fact the workers’ illusion, another. swamp “which the workers must beware of: , Sees Old Party Weaknesses. “Virtually every type of worker has been pdiled in the DAILY WORKER- Local Chicago, Workers Party straw ballot. The weakness of the repub- lican and democratic parties among This by no means shows anything else but a very healthy tendency and compar- atively rapid development politically of the workers. Even in the white collared establishments, such as Sears-Roebuck mail order house, the sentiment is surprisingly against the Old Guard outfits. “But most important and note- worthy is the sometimes startlingly high vote that William Z. Foster, the Communist, is receiving. That vote is more than a protest vote; it is a class conscious vote which refuses tc be fooled whether by the soothing simmerings of the Teapot republic ans; the crude brayings of the demo- cratic jackass or by the false flirta- tions, with the workers of the middle class, working class hater, LaFollette. This vote says: We want a change, a revolutionary change, one which is, basic and counts; one which elimin- ates exploitation of the workers and gives them the ownership and contro) of government and industries and land. Plainly enough, the very large Foster vote will not be repeated in the actual vote next November, for the present Foster vote comes, in part, from those not eligible to vote under capitalist restrictions. Nevertheless irrespective of the vote cast for the Communist candidate, William Z. Fos: ter, the straw ballot indicates a very marked tendency of*the workers to as- sert themselves independéntly poli. tically, and as class conscious’ workers aiming for the overthrow of capitalist society and its replacement by a work- ers, a Soviet government. “It is well to note how greatly this straw vote differs from those taken by the Chicago ‘Tribune and Herald: Examiner, which takes them mainly at county fairs and ‘conservative sec tions, out of touch with working class thought and development.” THE CAMPAIGN FUND campatan:| How many dollars have you sent in? + he, - It is only pointed out since} ’ cial equality between the races, and cast the Negroes adrift from the re- publican party of the South. “Men of ‘both races,” Harding said in his Birmingham speech, which has been Coolidge’s guide in his political policy toward the Negroes, “may well stand uncompromisingly against every suggestion of social equality. Indeed, it will be helpful to have the word ‘equality’ eliminated from this con- sideration; to have it accepted on ‘both sides that this is not a question of social equality, but a question of ‘recognizing a fundamental, eternal and inescapable difference. We then have made real progress when we de- velop an attitude in the public and community thought of beth races which recognizes this difference.” Followed Warren’s Lead. President Coolidge has followed this policy inaugurated by Harding of dis: ing the Negroes of-the South and king the republican party in the South “lily white,” and as strenu- ous an advocate of white donation as is the democratic party in the South. The “solid” democratic South has become a nuisance to the large financ- iers who control the two old parties because the solid South keeps the democratic party always within strik- ing distance of a majority in national elections. To have a more equal div- ision of the two parties would make it easier for the capitalists to manipu- the South to suit their needs of the moment. Hence the new policy of making the republican party rabidly anti-Negro in the South, inaugurated by Harding, and followed by Cool- idge as the only means of breaking the “solid” South. That Harding’s declaration for white domination in the South had the desired reaction upon the south- ern, Negro-hating aristocracy, is seen in the press comments of the southern newspapers, “Taken broadly, there is nothing in the speech to which’ the South can object since Mr. Harding placed strong emphasis upon his op- position to race equality or anything aproaching it,” said the Jacksonville, Fla., Metropolis. The Atlanta, Ga., Constitution also revealed the trend of the republican party by comment ing, “There is no reason why the whole so-called Negro problem should not be solved along the very lines IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THERE 1S PROSPERITY THEN GLANGE AT THIS OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 24.—Left a widow with a two-weeks-old baby, and without funds, an unknown woman hired a taxi driver to take her baby to the East Oakland Salva- tion Army home then disappeared. Search is being made for her, but it is believed, {rom a note she sent with the child, that she committed suicide. The note read in part: “I ‘am leaving my baby alone In the world, Won’t you good people take care of her? You are my only friends. Her father is dead. | am out funds and will soon join him. | am going. Do as you see best. A heart-broken mother.” Bulgarian King’s Death Are Untrue (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 24.— Reports tha King Boris of Bulgaria, was ass‘ ated are untrue, arising from a hoax | put over on the Servian press, accord- | ing to a Central News dispatch circu- lated here this afternoon. Boris is safe at his summer home in Varna, it is said. POLITICAL ISSUE.” Wilbur Pulls Boner. Secretary Wilbur, more honest but less of a politician than Silent Cal, in his western speeches threatened to counteract Coolidge’s knifiing of the Negroes, and embarrassed the presi- dent’s plans of strengthening the re- publican party among the whites of the South by making it as Bourbon and Negro-hating a political party as is the democratic. Wilbur raised the use aaa RAL AUN = Page Thres' RYKOV TELLS OF RUSSIAN GRAIN YIELD Big Surplus. Available. for Export» i (By Rosta News Agency.) MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (By Mail.)' —The grain resources of the\ Union of Soviet Socialist Re-! publics amount to 2,800 million! poods, according to a statement! made in a report on this years; harvest to the plenary session} of the Central Committee of the! Russian Communist Party by! President Rykov of the Council of People’s Commissaries. This quantity not only full satisfies the requirements of th Soviet Republics, but leaves me surplus of about one hundred million poods. 4 Plan Grain Reserves. wea, However, after some stocks ant stored to create a reserve fund with’ a view of ke down bread prices in districts they might otherwise gol up, there will be seventy-five million{ poods available for export abroad,} which is to be proceeded with afterj special decision by the government. i Further, the reporter states that the! purchasing power of the peasant thruout the Union having consider-} ably increased, as the cereal prices! have also gone up as compared withi last year’s abnormally low ones—the, ity of the market has grown! capa rdingly, and industrial production s to be augmented. 4 Fy Minimizes Crop Failure, 9" Referring to this year’s partial cron | failure, Rykoff explains that it is in na way comparable th the famine of 1921. In fact--declares the president’ of the Council of People’s Commissar- ies—there is no need of charity re! lief. ' The Soviet government is directing its chief attention to extending eco- nomic support to the affected area and to the work of preventing the danger of droughts in future, | The stocks of seed material sups plied by the government to tha stricken district are sufficient to ene sure even a larger sown area a pared with last year’s. Fight Future Droughts, While the government has also ape proved a plan, extending over, fiva Even the Bulgarian newspapers were taken in, said the despatch. They | printed full accounts of the alleged | crime, claiming that a servant stab-| bed the king to the heart dnd shot | three ministers who were conferring | with him. { very issue which Coolidge and his capitalist backers were anxious to avoid and completely discard as pol- itical ammunition the demand for the constitutional rights of the southern Negroes. ““Only last June I heard a south- erner, a fine, type of man, at the head of a great business, spending millions of dollars in the South, say in public that the southerners were determined to have white domination if they had to fight for it,” Secretary Wilbur was to have said in his Denver speech. But Wilbur did not realize that the republican party, to suit its political convenience and the capitalists back- ing the republican party, have given in to the southern white prejudice jagainst the Negroes, and now sub- scribe under Coolidge, as fully as the democrats to the policy of “down with Negro equality” and “up with white domination of the South.” So Wilbur's Denver speech never came off, and he was recalled by Coolidge “to aid in making out the naval bud- get.” Expect Postal Rate Increase. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 24.—) Speaking before the annual conven- tion of the National Association of Postmasters here today, Postmaster | General Harry S. New predicted an) increase in postal rates. | “New obligations of major impor-}| tance are placed upon the service, considerations of just ordinary pru-| dence suggest an upward readjust- ment of certain rates to at least ap-| proximately meet them,” the post- | master general said. Rebels Get Obstreperous. TANGIER, Sept. 24.—A new note} of excitement entered discussion of the Riff tribes’ rebellion with the en- try of armed rebels in a village in the Tangier zone with the intention of preventing reprisals against the vil lage, which recently joined the rebels. The Meaning of Slemp. The appointment of Bascom Slemp of Virginia by Coolidge as the presi- dent’s private secretary was proof that Coolidge was following out the capitalists’ program of falling in line with the white capitalists of the south to keep the Negroes in subjection. Slemp, called in Virginia “Lily white Slemp,” had been one of the chief advocates of the capitalists’ policy of breaking the solid south. Slemp, Coolidge and Harding, and the capitalist class behind them want- ed to establish the two old parties for just such emergencies as the pres- ent presidential year, when there are three large political parties in the north and only one in the south. Harding succeeded in withdrawing some of the border states, notably Oklahoma, away from the democratic column, and Coolidge by appointing Slemp demonstrated it as his inten- tion of attempting to realize Harding's ambition of breaking the solid south. The recation of the south to Hard- ing's policy announced at Birming- ham was: “Well, the republican party from now on will be just as much an upholier of the white capitalist class of the south, represented heretofore solely by the democratic party, as the democratic party has been.” No longer can the southern whites inter-change the terms “Negro” and “republican.” Henceforth the republican party will throw off the pretense of champion- ing Negroes’ rights, which for so many years has been nothing but hol- low tradition, and come out openly, equally with the democrats, for white capitalist domination of the south. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, \ AS WE By T. J. O'F (Continued from Page 1.) that, its imaginary Cheka will have slaughtered more, men, women and children—emphasis on the children— than have existed in Georgia for the past three hundred years. The Trib learned its lesson trom the Allies dur- ing the war. In the first three months of the war the British had disposed of the population of Germany several times over, but in order to make news and continue the war, they had to kill them all over again. a 8 HERE is another big guessing con- test on in Washington. All agree that Gaston B. Means is in a class by himself as a suave and artistic liar. But what about the other celebrities who figured in the several investiga- tions that rocked the nation a few months ago? Means has repudiated his testimony on the witness stand. But it would appear that he only did that to keep trom getting rusty and only asa rehearsal for another en- gagement at the capitol. It is rumor- ed that he will now smoke out Silent Cal and it would be rather interest- ing to see Calvin grit his teeth and say nothing while the millions clamor for a word, We have patience. Per- haps we might definitely know this time who ‘the “principal” is! . *. . 'HE capitalist powers are hiding their aims in the present Chinese civil war, One thing is certain, they years, of ‘agro-technical works in drought-menaced areas, it has apportioned 260 million roubles, for the execution of this program. | PROFESSOR, KIGKED OUT BY CZAR, COMES BACK UNDER SOVIETS (ROSTA.) MOSCOW.—It is reported from Leningrad that Prof. Ehrenfoest, a prominent’ Dutch scientist of phys- ics of European fame, has arcivad | there. Prof. Ehrenfoest had had to leave Russia before the revolution { as the Tzarist government could not | suffer the presence of a learned man whose progressive and anti-religi- ous opinions were common knowl edge. Then during the notorious block- ade of the Soviet Republic, Prof. Ehrenfoest had done his best to | frnish Soviet professors with scien- | | { tific literature, which he purchased with his own modest means. { SEE IT | LAHERTY. | are all united to get rid of Sun Yat Sen, radical-leader of Southern China, if possible. But fortunately for Sun, the robber powers cannot agree among themselves with the result that they are backing rival Chinese gener- als. At this moment it appears that the United States and England are be+ hind Wu Pei Fu, who commands the armies supporting the Peking govern- ment while Japan supports Chang Tso-Lin, war lord of Manchuria, These alignments are subject to change with- out notice, as the Chinese reactionary generals are “on the make” and will always fight on the side with ‘the heaviest array of bullion. * 8 * HE situation in China is very men+ acing and may prove the hopping- off ground for another world war. But ~ the capitalist powers are not yet ready for another test of strength. They fear it but yet are driven to- ward it by fate which decrees that they cannot*have peace, but must wreck the system in a mad scramble for the spoils, Behind the scenes and — not very much in the news is the mighty power of Soviet Russia, the only power in the world that : es out the hand of friendship to the exploited people of China. The tal people see in Russia their and it is the reawakening of the lions of the Orient, under the ade ship of the Workers’ Republic that th capitalists fear most, Bi i = mensration \2>~ :