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t pee i H Page Two PREPARE FOR WEEK OF RED __DENUNCIATION To Have Seven Days of “Education” Soon By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.— Call up the Elysian fields and let the ghosts of old Patrick Henry, Tom Paine, Samuel Adams, Tom Jefferson and Ben Franklin listen in on the‘official program for American Educa- tion Week, announced by the U. S. bureau of education! Constitution day, Nov. 17, be- gins the week. The topics listed by commissioner Tigert, whom President Harding picked from entucky post of the Ameri- can Legion and jammed into the job of running the bureau, are these: “Down With the Reds.” “1. Life, liberty, justice, security and opportunity. “2, How our constitution guaran- tees these rights. “3. Revolutionists, Communists, and extreme pacifists are a menace to these guarantees. “4. One constitution, one union, one flag, one history. “Slogans—Ballots, not bullets; mas- ter the English language; visit the schools today.” Hardened revolutionists such as Adams and Jefferson must blush for their crimes, and pacifists such as Robert Morris, the Quaker, must hang their heads before the bull-necked in- telligence here disclosed. Patriotism day is next. gram reads: “1. The red flag means death, de- struction, poverty, starvation, disease, anarchy and dictatorship. “2. Help the immigrants and aliens to become American citizens. “3..Take an active interest in gov- ernmental affairs. “4, Stamp out revolutionary radical- ism. “5. To vote is the primary duty of the patriot. It’s pro- “Slogans—America first. The red flag—danger. Visit the schools to- day.” All Kinds of Days. ,. There ig a school and teacher day, and an illiteracy day, whose program includes the stirring announcement: “An illiterate who obtains only sec- ond-handed information is the tool of the radical.” Then comes physical education day, in which the radicals seem to have no attention, and a community day ‘with a mocking suggestion of “equali- ty of opportunity in education for ev- ery American boy and girl”; finally a God and country day in which the communities are urged to go to the American Legion to secure speakers for the theme of godliness, or on any pther appropriate subject. Why this moronic display? It’s simple. Harding handed the Bu- reau of Education over to the Legion, and Tigert, who eats ‘em alive if they are tinged with working class sym- pathies or other “revolutionary radi- calism,” discovered that in the previ- ous year an Education Week had been established, to make the American people better acquainted with their Schools and more concerned in im- proving the school system. Tigert and 2 fellow named Powell, head of the Americanization section of the Le- gion, grabbed this Education Week, and apparently recalling that touch- ing line from the song of the Craa- bao Society— “And beneath the starry flag, edu- gate ‘em with a Krag -” they de- cided to educate ‘em with Mitchell Palmer and Harry Daugherty and Big Bill Burns, plus Hardboiled Smith. From that day on, Powell and Tigert have prepared the programs for Edu- cation Week, and the Bureau of Edu- cation ‘has acted as loud-speaker for these weird mental messes. And the National Educational Association, which had the courage to protest the nomination of Tigert as commission- ‘er, has bent the pregnant hinges of its knee and joined in giving sanction to these programs before the intelli- gent public. The secretary of the National Edu- eational Association says this pro- gram was drafted last May, so he is ‘sure it is not aimed at LaPollette. The Policy of the N. BE. A. ts to “co-oper- ate with the bureau.” PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST CHICAGO SCHOOL OF Author, Campalon, etc. CITY CLUB, 315 Plymouth Ct. 3286 Cortex Sreet dmission 76c Mc, WINOKUR, EIGHT NEGRO EDITORS SUBSCRIBE é TO DAILY WORKER IN ONE BATCH PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 26.—Comrade Bill Scarville, of Pittsburgh, has just sent the business office of the DAILY WORKER eight subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER accompanied by a money order for $16.00 to cover them, Worthy as Comrade Scarville’s industry in securing eight four- months’ subscriptions is, the type of subscriptions he has secured makes them doubly valuable. the editor of a Negro newspaper. Comrade Scarville has secured sub- scriptions from the Afro-American of Baltimore, one of the most influential of Negro newspapers, from the At- lanta, Ga. Independent, from the Jacksonville Florida Sentinel, and from the Washington Tribune. Even the Virgin Islands, the latest posses- sion of the United States in the far off Carribean Sea, will have its DAIL¥ WORKER supporters hereaf- ter for the editor of the Emancipator has given ‘comrade Scarville a sub- scription to the DAILY WORKER. The complete list of the subscribers turned in by Comrade Scarville fol- AS WE (Continued from page 1) unbeliever in Jesus Christ and God, and I was sent here that he might be redeemed and that I might redeem him.” . * * “UT I saved him,” declared Rev. Hight as he finished his prayer. Tears welled into the eyes of the mourners and they remarked: “What a holy man is our preacher! The Lord was good to us when he sent him here.” When the preacher saw his victim safely tucked in his clay jack- et, he trotted along and bought an- other dose of arsenic to send his own wife to the Lord so that his dear brother Sweetin would have company. Hight is an inhuman monster, but be- tween himself and the clergymen of all denominations who prayed for the souls of the boys who went to war for Morgan a few years ago, Hight de- serves the benefit of the doubt. * eae AHATMI GHANDI, the Hindu pa- cifist leader is on a twenty-one day fast as a penance for the Hindu- Moslem riots over religion. That re- ligion is enough to make people fight even when left alone, our readers will agree. The bible and the sword usual- ly go together. It is hard to see any- thing in a sword that would induce a person to carry a bible, but there is plenty in the bible that would send @ man running around with a sword. Ghandi does not believe in the sword, as a weapon to achieve liberty. It is true he used it during thy war fight- ing in behalf of the British Empire, but he changed his mind since then. BOS Oe HANDI was once a powerful fac- tor in India. He had the ear of the masses. They believed in him. But when the crisis came, he failed. Instead of leading the oppressed peo- ple against the British forces, he ex-' coriated them for meeting force with force. He dealt deadly blows to the movement and is now discredited in the eyes of millions that formerly worshipped his name. Ghandi no doubt, takes his methods seriously. But fasting and prayer will not free India. The old saying that “those who would be free, must. themselves strike the blow” is forever true. The British - imperialists will not worry over Indians so long as the Hindoos pray. They did not worry over Ire- land until the Irish stopped singing “God Save Ireland” and did a little shooting. It would be delightful if freedom could be achieved by a short fast. An occasional fast is not in- jurious to the health; in fact, it is beneficial, but it is no substitute for fight against the enemies of the work- ing class and the oppressed peoples of the world. ae ee, RPHUR Brisbane notes that a prisoner on parole got six months for stealing six cruyllers, one month for each cruller. How many million years he would receive were he to steal as many crullers as could be purchased for the value, in dollars, of the oil turned over to Doheny and Sin- clair by the members of Harding's cabinet? “This is a country in which it is not safe to steal crullers” was Brisbane's comment. Any more would be superfluous. “4 . . . REMIER MacDonald and Zaghoul Pasha, premier of Egypt, are dis- cussing the Egyptian demands for the evacuation of the Sudan by the Brit- ish. Under no condition will the Brit- ish clear out of the Sudan declares MacDonald, socialist leader of the sec- ond international. He claims Egypt has no more right to it than Britain, which is rather frank, and further- more, British capitalists have invest- ed millions of pounds there and the socialist MacDonald must defend the interests of His Majesty's millionaire {Rendering Expert Dental Service subjects. Ramsay, however, being a 7 wid are. man of peace is willing to refer the Ee Avi cae arta $e matter to arbitration, perhaps the 7 ae TTI LL LLL LLL LLL LLLLLLLL LPL cLLC CCL SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY School Opens October 6th.—Registration October ist and 2nd. “LAW AND SACRED RIGHTS OF PRO! Opening Lecture by DONALD R, RICHBERG prominent labor attorney, and legal advisor of LaFollette-Wheeler RTY"" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 8 P. M } Members 600 ecretary. Phone: Spaulding 1341 Hach on6 18 f0m irr rere J, A. Afro-American, ; Baltimore, Murphy, 628 N. Entow St., editor, Preston News Service, Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Emancipator, Virgin Islands, U. 8. A., Francis R. Rothschild, editor, Washington Tribune, Wm.‘ Walker, editor, 920 You street, Washington, D. c,. Geo. Taylor, editor Florida Sentinel, Jacksonville, Fla, Atlanta Independent, Ben J. Davis, Oddfellow building, Atlanta, Ga., editor. R. H. Brevard, 206 Stewart street, D. H. I. K, Wells, 56 Linden s By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. qoin, Duquoeane, Pa, SEE IT League of Nations, which is another name for the British government. Me ik Me OW that the Dawes plan is ac- cepted by Germany and endorsed by the British cabinet, the next step in England’s policy is to make a com- mercial agreement with Germany that will relieve England from the effects of the Dawes plan on British indus- try. This is going to be difficult. Un- less Germany can sell her commodi- ties she cannot pay the reparations and if she does, England will’ have no market for her own commodities. This capitalist system of ours is working fine, is it not? * * *. 'HE latest on the Georgian revo- lution, according to the ,Chicago Tribune, is that the Soviet govern- ment staged it. They felt there: was going to be a revolution so they got ahead of it by starting one themselves and then suppressing it. Just to keep themselves in trim, we suppose! at eee. ORIS Savinkoff, Russian social-re- volutionary, walked into Russia and into the arms of the Cheka. He didn’t walk out again. He told his story to the judge, the gist of which appeared in yesterday’s DAILY WORKER. Don’t miss ‘it. Further de- tails will follow. Anybody who will raise a cry demanding the release of the social revolutionaries now impris- oned in Soviet Russia, after reading Savinkoff’s story, is not fig company for.even John Spargo. Yet the Soviet government let the terrorist keep his head on his shoulders, which shows they are not so bloodthirsty and don’t chop off heads in order to develop their muscles. MILWAUKEE COPS TRY TO BREAK UP COMMUNIST MEET (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MILWAUKEB, Wis., Sept. 26— Open air meetings held by Ella Reeve Bloor at Allis Chalmers’ shops on September 23 and 24 were very suc- cessful and well attended. Open air meetings are stirring much interest among the workers of Milwaukee. On Tuesday evening a specially large crowd of nearly four hundred men who had been listening attentively for over an hour was rudely broken up by| police. Mother Bloor was ordered to stop.and was threatened with the “wagon” if she persisted in talking. She announced that she would speak at the same corner on Wednesday ev- ening with the permit, or without it, from the socialist mayor. Coolidges’ crowd hold meetings in the same dis- trict, so the Workers Party will make a free speech fight in this district. Mother Bloor is spending’ a busy time in Wisconsin. ‘ Thusday noon she will speak at the International Harvester shop. Thurs- day evening she speaks at Racine, Wis. Friday noon she will speak in Mjl- waukee again at Harley-Davidson Company, 38th and Chestnut Sts. For Friday evening a large meeting has been organized in Kenosha, Wis. Saturday night Mother Bloor will speak at the corner of Third and Prairie at 8 o’clock in Milwaukee, Wis. To wind up the tour of open air meetings a large indoor meeting will be held in Miller Hall, 802 State street, Sunday, September 28, at two o'clock sharp, At that meeting Mother Bloor will speak on the “Par- ties and issues in the present presi- dential campaign.” W. P. Fund $2,645 in N. Y. NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The New York-New Jersey campaign fund of the Workers Party has now reached over $2,645 of the $10,000 quota. The campaign committee has just pub- lished the accounting of the funds col- lected from the Gitlow meeting, street meetings, branch, union and personal contributions, The Trade Union Edu: cational League is making a particu. lar effort to secure aid from union members, 569 Fifth STEEL TRUST IN GARY MEET Militants Must Stay in Unions, He Says (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 26.—In no other city in the world is there as much wealth produced in proportion to its population, by modern labor saving machinery, with so little production cost, in the Gary steel mills, Wil- iam F. Dunne told an audience -|of steel workers in Turner Hall here Thursday night at a meet- ing held under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor to organize the steel workers. Labor Has Big Task, “The struggle of the labor move- ment for power has become more bit- ter,” Dunne declared, “and today the labor movement faces more severe problems than ever before. The con- trol by the steel tnust of the steel in- dustry has developed much faster than the labor movement itseif has developed. Out of 25 million workers only about four and one half million are organized, and this four and one- half million exerts more power than the great mass of unorganized work- ers, because organization increases power in geometric proportion. “Unfortunately this is understood far better by the bosses than by the workers. “The workers of Gary are at least 90 per cent of the population of Gary. But who speaks for Gary when the town breaks into the capitalist press? The ten per cent of the people who live on your labor, are the ones who speak for Gary to the outside world— the Chamber of Commerce, the Steel Corporation officials—they are the ones who speak for Gary.” Comrade Dunne said that the trusts spend millions of dollars to prevent the minds of the workers from being owned by the workers. “If you steel workers owned your own heads,” he added, “there would have been a pow- erful steel workers’ union in Gary long ago.” He mentioned the Chamber of Commerce literature which boasts. to outside business interests that there are no unions in Gary. “The Chamber of Commerce says to other business concerns, ‘C' to Gary and be welcomed by us. The workers have nothing to say here. Lots of money can be made on the unorganized labor that floods Gary. The wage here is only 44 cents an hour and there is lots of profit to be had.’ Bosses Like Kings. “Today all the wealth of the country has been secured by a little handful of individuals who are more powerful than any king and who rule over the 110 million people in the United States, the majority of whom are workers. It is the same in every in- dustry, and it is the same in Gary. Dunne declared the trade and in- dustrial unions to be the basic in- struments of the struggle of the work- ers for emancipation. “So far as the existing trade unions are concerned, we have many criticisms to make, nevertheless our policy and the policy of the Third International continues to be the same, ‘back into the unions.’ We see clearly there must be built a powerful trade union movement. There are no other-unions at the pres- ent time except the American Feder- ation of Labor. Feeble, no doubt, they are in many instances, nevertheless they are the basic instruments of our struggle. Upon the members of the Workers Party rests a great responsi- bility. There will never be a great amount of organization in Gary until the revolutionists step in and lead the organization, looking upon the organ- ization and strengthening of the unions as their greatest task. “There never was a time in the his- tory of the country when the whole system of political tyranny and in- dustrial despotism has been chal- lenged as it is at the present time by the masses of the workers and farmers. The grip of the powerful bosses of the nation and the owners of the great newspapers has been broken. The capitalists have lost their grip upon the American masses. There is much confusion in this un- rest of the masses who are breaking away from the instruments of capital- ism but thru it all runs the red thread of skeptism and revolution against the capitalists. Asks Support For Foster. “There is one good way of showing your desire to organize in Gary, and that is casting a tremendous vote for William Z. Foster for president, the man who organized the workers against the steel trust. This would be a tremendous inspiration to the work- ers thruout the entire country.” , George Carbine told of the early struggles of the United Mine Workers of America to organize in Illinois. Fred Dietrich, of the Gary Painters’ Local Union and chairman of the Gary Central Labor body, also spoke, Many copies of the DAILY WORKER were bought by the steel workers. Another meeting to organize the steel workers was announced for Oc- tober 9 : HIT BY DUNNE |} Workers and ee SS Tee TFTe —rn—-—?“OSOO0O—— ———— THE DAILY WORKER * An Anniversary for the ‘armers of U.S. to Think About By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toray, we _celebrate-the founding of “The First™nter- national.” Millions more of workers, the world over, will realize, with surprise, for the first time, that it was little + more than half a century ago that the first effort to band together world labor met with any degree of success. These millions, awakened this year to the need of international organization, will wonder why it is not possible of immediate achievement. i ° e ° e It was just 60 years ago this day, Sept. 28, 1864, that “The First International’—the International Workingmen’s Association—was organized in London under the leadership of Karl Marx, labor’s greatest philosopher. The United States gave the world International May Day. But it also saw the end of “The First International,” dissolved after a dozen years of giant struggles, in July, 1876, at a conference held in Philadelphia. But altho “The First International” lived but 12 years, failing to survive Bakuninism within, and the effects upon it of the Franco-Prussian war and the defeat of the Paris Com- mune without, the class conscious masses of labor grew in numbers, in various lands, and made it possible to build working class parties in many countries. All these drew their inspiration from the teachings of Marx, and it was in- evitable that the struggle for international action should again soon re-assert itself; Thus in 1889, “The Second International”—the Inter- national Socialist and Trade Union Congress—came into being. It was a loose federation. “The Bureau” that func- tioned between the World Congresses did not come into existence until 1900. Each national organization developed its own peculiarities and deviations. There was no effort at building a centralized world party. Discipline by “The Second International” over its national units was an un- heard of thing. The crash of “The Second International” came with the opening of the world war, its first great test- ing. bd o ° ° e It is “The Third International"—the Communist Inter- national—that has fallen heir to the heroic struggle of Karl Marx and his co-workers in seeking to build the first inter- national organization of the world’s dispossessed, It is the Communists of today who are the Marxists in theory, and the Leninists in practice. It is the Communist International, organized in March, 1919, that leads the world struggle for the liberation of the last slave class, the wage slaves of this 20th Century. 7 * * * Socialists and capitalists alike, on this 60th Anniversary of the First International, hold up the terror of Moscow- inspired Communists. Thus they hope to frighten the work- ers and farmers from accepting the leadership of the Com- munist International, the international of the final victory. _ But there are more powerful forces at work than the united strength of the Second International socialists and the big business pirates of capitalism’sBlack I*fernational,” the League of Nations, creature of the Versailles Peace. For the first time in history the farmers of the United States are discovering that the price of wheat is not fixed at the little country elevator at his neighboring railroad sta- tion; but that it is fixed in the world market, centralized at Liverpool, England. For the first time since land began to be fenced in, on this continent, the American farmer is look- ing beyond his own horizon, in studying the problems that concern him. If the millions of bankrupt farmers, who have been compelled to leave their farms and drift into the cities, these ast few years, would read a little about the theories of Karl Marx, on this 60th Anniversary of “The International” that he organized, they would discover the root of some of their padhe g And if they studied some of the teachings of Nikolai Lenin, they would find the solution of their pro- blems; how to put an end to their woes. * * * * Similarly the industrial workers. American capitalism as taken international action, for its own preservation, thru the Dawes Plan. American workers will be compelled by the Dawes plan to think internationally. They will accept their internationalism under the leadership of the liberated masses of the Russian Soviet Republic. They will do this in spite of frantic shrieks of disapproval coming from the socialists of the Second International and the capitalists of the League of Nations. America’s industrial workers, in the fight to preserve their own standard of living, will be compelled to recognize that Wall Street's international bankers are attempting, under the Dawes Plan, to enslave the workers of Europe, and make of this continent a colony of serfs. * It was Abraham Lincoln that said of the“United States in the days when chattel ene | was about to go, “No nation can exist half slave and half free.” The world is a much smaller place in this year, 1924, than the United States was when the Civil War began in 1861. : The cable, the radio, the airplane, the steamship, have ut Paris, Rome, Berlin and London, just as close to New ork as is San Francisco. It is under these conditions bt ypc everywhere re- alizes, more and more, that this world cannot exist, “Half slave and half free.” The enslavement of the workers of Western Europe by the House of Morgan, if it cannot be overcome, means the enslavement of labor the world over. If the workers of Germany are compelled to bend their necks ta, the Dawes plan, then the yoke will fall in time equally heavy upon the necks of workers everywhere. It means that the international bandits of high finance will make a new effort to crush the First Workers’ Republic in Russia. ” Hundreds of millions of workers in a hundred lands ‘must be taught their international ia, ramsey on this 60th Anniversary of the First International. More than ever, the workers and farmers of the United States must learn that their greatest strength is in international action, the world poss under the leadership of the Communist Inter- national. It is the Communist International that leads the way to ‘the International Soviet Republic. It is the Communist International that sounds the call ad st Marx and the First International to the world’s down- rodden: bk : “Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! You have a world to gain!” ‘ na a RELIEF FUND CHECK IS ON WAY TO MINES First Contribution Is Forwarded The first contribution received by the DAILY WORKER for re- lief of the southern Illinois coal miners, many of whom have been out of employment for seven months, was forwarded jto Ross White at Sesser, Ill. The DAILY WORKER re- porter found Ross White going from house to house soliciting relief for a destitute miner jwhen he arrived in Sesser a few weeks ago. The check for $5.00, which was forwarded to Sesser, will no doubt be much appreciated by the miners of that territory. Send Funds to Daily Worker, The DAILY WORKER also suggests that those who wish to contribute to the southern Illinois miners allow their contributions to go to southern Illinois as subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER. The business office of the DAILY WORKER has received sev- eral applications from southern. Illi- nois asking that the paper be sent em, altho they cannot pay for their subscription during the unemployment crisis. Such letters will be published at an early date, and anyone wishing to contribute may advise the business office. The miners of West Virginia, who have put up such a gallant battle against not only unemployment, but a vicious attempt of the coal operators to force them to accept a wage reduc- tion, have not been forgotten by the DAILY WORKER readers. Anyone able to answer the following letter to the DAILY WORKER will please communicate with us at once, The letter is from a reader at Brie, Pa. “To The DAILY WORKER: “A large number of sympathizers and readers of the DAILY WORKER would appreciate very much your giv- ing us the information of how best to send funds to the suffering and starv- ing miners of West Virginia, of which news is spreading all over the coun- try or would the DAILY WORKER have time to take care of the same We can give a little now and then. A DAILY, WORKER READER.” CARLSON MEETING WITH SUCCESS IN TOUR THRU LAND Oliver Carlson, who is on a nationai tour for the N, HB. C. of the Young Workers League, reporting on the de cisions of the Fourth Congress of the Young Communist International and the plans of the N. E. C. of the Y. W. L. for carying these decisions into immediate effect in America, to the membership, is having very success- ful membership meetings in every city. Speaks In Philadelphia. Carlson will address a general mem bership meeting in Philadelphia on Oct. 3 at 521 York Ave. The Y. W. L. members in Philadelphia are anx- iously awaiting the report of Carlson It is expected that every member in the Quaker City will attend. In New York City" big preparations are being maée for a general member- ship. meeting to be held on Oct. 9 at Stuyvesant Cascino, 142 Second Ave. This membership meeting is to in- clude every Y. W. L. member in New York City and the ertire membership from the surrounding cities in Jersey and Connecticut. AH Y, W. L. branches in those surrounding towns haye been given instructions to pre- pare immediately for the general membership meeting in New York City and it is expected that the big- gest meeting of League members ever held will be the result. Comrade Carlson was a member oj the Executive Committee of the Y. C. L for the past two years and one. of the American League delegates to the recent congress of the Y. C. I. Carlson is presenting in detail a re view of the congress and outlining the immediate tasks before the Y. W. L, membership. Latest Dish of Dirt. ROME, Sept. 26.—The Princess An drea Boncompagni, an American wo- man, and her husband, have been di- vorced, it was learned this afternoon. \ “Saturday, September 27, 1924 | ‘ ‘The princess, it is reported, will mar. } ry Count Rasponi. Telephone Monroe 2284 Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. 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