The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 27, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, September 27, 1924 TEACHERS WILL | CARRY BATTLE TO SPRINGFIELD WonA gainst Jake Loeb, To Beat M’ Andrew, Too The organized teachers of Chicago will carry to Spring- field their fight against Super- intendent William * McAndrew, and the board which is backing him in his effort to crush the teachers’ organizations. This action was decided on at a mass meeting called by the Teachers’ Federation to discuss means of bringing the superin- tendent to terms, in spite of the support given him by the vote of the board to discontinue the holding of teachers councils in school hours. Two thousand teachers crowded in- to the Studebaker theatre, and a thou- sand more overflowed into the Play- house theatre next door, Committees will be appointed by the teachers to put their case before can- didates for the state legislature and find out on whom the teachers can rely for fair teratment. Class McAndrew with Jake Loeb. Applause greeted the statement of Alderman Wiley F. Mills, former mem- ber of the board of education, that the actions of Superintendent McAndrew rival those of “Cooley at his worst, and Jake Loeb at his darnedest.” The names of both former superin- tendent Cooley and of Jacob Loeb are hated among Chicago teachers who have fought for their organization and for decent standards in the schools. As superintendent of schools, Cooley established a fake salary schedule— that is, he had a system whereby one schedule was placed on paper and an- other was actually paid. Another me- thod put into operation by Superin- tendent Cooley was to require exam- inations for admission to the higher salaries, and then pass but very few, and burn the papers in a hurry. Jacob Loeb, as president of the board, was powerful enough to force thru the board a rule forbidding the teachers to belong to labor unions, and put on the streets thirty-eight members of the Teachers’ Federation. “We fought Jacob Loeb and won! Now we’re going to fight William Mc- Andrew and his business board, and win this fight, too!” was the comment “heard on all sides during the meeting. Board Tool of Business Men. ® Margaret, Haley, business agent of the Teachers’ Federation, denounced the attempts of the board to crowd children into platoon and junior high schools as efforts to save money at the expense of the children for the sake of business interests of the city. “The real-reason for ,‘shortage’ of funds is the habit of well known cor- porations of dodging tax assess- ments,” said Miss Haley. “There are coal businesses in this city that are living at the expense of the school children. The same thing is true of insurance men.” The capitalist papers of Chicago again received a severe drubbing at the hands of the teachers. The Chi- cago Daily News especially was de- nounced from th: platform for pub- lishing a false statement concerning E. F. Downey, president of the high school teachers’ councils. Mr. Dow- ney, the Daily News said, had pubtic- ly announced that he would not join with the union in fighting McAndrew ' THE WORLD'S GREATEST TONIC for lowered vitality makes your blood tingle with joy the minute you taste it, Takea wine glass full of DAWES! EGINNING Wednesday, Oct. 1, the DAILY WORKER will run a series of articles on “America, and the Dawes Plan.” ‘The Dawes diagnosis will be pub- lished in six installments. Jay Lovestone, director of the research- department and member of the Central Executive Committee . of the WORKERS PARTY, will an- alyze the plan and all its implica- tions for the DAILY WORKER readers. The Dawes Plan is the most com- plete and dangerous one yet put forward by a national or interna- tional group of capitalists for a new imperialist conflict. The scheme as fostered by the American and the leading European financi- ers involves the fate of the work- ers of every country. Don’t fail to follow this series regularly. Get your friends in the shops and on the farms to do the same. We promise to make the series interesting and informing. BRYAN IS LOOSE AGAIN; MAKES AN ASS OF HIMSELF Science League is After Anti-Monkey Artist (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—Bryan is on the loose again against evolution. While in San Francisco to speak for candidate Davis he. stated to an inter- viewer: “I am in favor of legislation to prevent any teacher who is paid by Christian taxpayers teaching Christian children that man is descended from any lower form of life. The modern- ist would bring Christ down to the level of man, and the evolutionists bring man down to the level of the brute.” League After Him. The Science League of America, re- cently formed to fight the anti-evolu- tion legislation which William Jen- nings is advocating, has elected May- nard Shipley president and general or- ganizer and Conrad J. Biron secretary- treasurer. It is planning a large mass meeting in San Francisco immediately after the presidential election, and will then invade southern and central California with educational lectures and leaflets.and a general challenge to all fundamentalists, including Bryn, to debte the issues involved. Celebrate Emancipation Document THE DAILY WORKER THOUSANDS JAM HALL AT_OLGIN “NEWYORK MEET; Raise $590 for Foster- Gitlow Campaign (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—One of the finest” demonstrations ever seen in New York was held here on the return of M. J. Olgin from Soviet Russia, bring- ing the pl of the Work- ers of Soviet Russia to the workers of America. Three thousand people had jammed the hall when the police closed the doors. Hundreds were turned away. Comrade Olgin himself was almost turned away by the policemen,stationed at the doors. It was with diffi- culty that he made his business known, and was admitted. Every Inch Packed, The great audience packed every inch of space in the hall so closely that the committees found themselves unable to move freely thru the throng. Harry Winitzky, campaign manager of District Two, charged with the duty of making the collection appeal, could not reach Comrade Fralkin, who was in the rear, organizing the collection committee, so he organized his own committee in the front of the hall. Be- fore it was discovered that there were two committees working on the floor the collection was taken up. This amounted to $440.91, and would have reached six hundred or more if the committees had been able to cover every part of the hall. The members of the Freiheit Sing- ing Society, which had just rendered several musical numbers, ‘raised the sun of $50.05 from among themselves and handed it up to the platform amid deafening applause. Enthusiasm was unbounded as the dollar bills kept travelling over the heads of the pack- ed audience in one unbroken stream toward the platform. Total is $589.91. Twenty-five hundred Foster-Gitlow buttons were sold at the door, ‘the SEVEN ARRESTED IN OPEN AIR MEET OF N.Y. WORKERS PARTY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Seven members of a large outdoor gather- ing assembled to hear Workers Party speakers were arrested at the corner of Fifth avepue and 110th street, New York, at the end of Central Park, but their cases were. dismissed in court. The Young Workers League was in charge of the meeting and had too much suc- cess with their audience to please the police. Several officers entered the crowd at 10:30 in the evening and demand- ed the speaker’s permit. The pol- ice said that the crowd “became threatening” and drew their pistols. A young man who had no papers of identification was held over night CANNON CALLS ON THOMAS 10 APPEAR OCT. 2 Socialist Candidate Is Challenged to Debate dames P. Cannon, candidate for Governor of New York State on the Workers Party ticket, to- day issued a challenge to Nor- man ‘Thomas, socialist candi- date, to appear in jcint debate with him at the mass meeting to be held on Thursdry ever.ing, at the jail for “interfering with an Oct. 2nd, at Hunt's Point Pa- Officer,” and the other six were. re- ‘ leased after being charged with hea —" Boulevard and “disorderly conduct.” The police ir reet. seized the literature which was be- | ing sold and took the ladder away from the speaker. TUCHUNS RIVAL AMBITIONS SPLIT PEI FU FORCES Demands Use of Japan Railway Wu SHANGHAI, Sept. 26.—A three-c6r- nered struggle for the control of Che- kiang loomed today to further com- Plicate' the civil strife centering around Shanghai. His letter to the Rev. Norman Thomas. reads as follows: New York City, Sept. 23, 1924. Deay Dr. Thomas: I have read with a great deal of interest your recent letter to Dr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler, in which you challenge him to public debaté on the subject of the limitation of the powers of the Supreme Court. The power which the Supreme Court exercises is no doubt of interest to the work- ers of this country. But has it not occurred to you, Dr, Thomas, that Mr. Robert M, La- Follette and the middle class whom he repersents, if in power, would not take the militant steps néces- sary to deprive the Supreme Court of the power which jt today exer- cises? In its 1920 ‘platform, the socialist’ party which you represent, described the middle class as Sun Shuang Fang, of Fukien prov- ince, arrived today at Hangchow and is proceeding to Kashing where it is: believed he will open an attack on Lu Young Hsiang from the south. Despite Sun’s appointment to Pek- ing to succeed Lu in Chekiang, the two main Kiangsu leaders who have carried the brunt of the warfare against Lu are expected to dispute his claims to leadership thus recipitating a three-handed battle for supremacy. The expected Kiangsu attack which flesultory firing had indicated was about to begin failed to materialize. Little fighting was reported on the net return being $149.00. This, to- gether with the collection, brought the total income for the benefit of the Campaign Fund up to $589.91. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Freiheit and the Jew- ish Federation, the collection being donated by these organizations to the campaign fund. NEW YORK, Sept. 26,—The 61st an-| Long Island Members niversary of Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was cele- brated by the Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs with the colored de- tachment of the 15th infantry, N. Y. national guard, but the Natl. Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple was too busy “trying to get some of the emancipation of the proclama- tion,” according to Walter F. White, secretary, that it did not have time to participate in the laying of the wreath on the Lincoln statue in Pros- pect Park, Brooklyn, Baltimore Comrades Attention! BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 26—A mass meeting under the joint auspices of the Young Workers League and the Workers Party of Baltimore will be held Tuesday, Sept. 30, eight p. m., at 1110 E. Baltimore. Oliver Carlson, one of the American delegates to the Fourth Congress of the Young Com- munist International, will speak on the subject of “Labor Government vs. Workers’ Government.” of Party in General Meeting on Tuesday NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—A General Membership Meeting of all branches in Astoria and Corona, Long Island, will be held on Tuesday, September 30, 8 p. m., at 365 Woolsy avenue, cor- ner 8th Avenue, Astoria. . For some time our membership in Long Island has not directly parti- cipated in party activity. The form- ation of several new branches there makes it necessary to, device ways and means of stimulating such activ- ity, and drawing more closely into the life of the party those comrades who live in Astoria and Corona. The membership meeting has been called for this purpose, and all party members in Astoria’ and Corona should attend without fail. Pennsylvania State Is Klondyke for Federal Grafters WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Attorney General Stone and the department of justice are making a “thoro investiga- tion” of the political corruption which William R. Nicholson, Jr., alleges ex- ists among federal officeholders in Pennsylvania, it was announced here today. Stone has invited officials of the Philadelphia law enforcement league to come to Washington and present their charges. The Tale of a Black Cat. Once upon a time there was a Black Cat. Not an ordinary feline, he be- came famous, His renown spread thruout America and across the seas. The bosses hated him. His talons were long and keen. The old S. P. laid a curse upon him, But the har- vest stiff, the muckers and skinners, the swampers and even the top load- ers swore by him. But the war came, Everything changed. The Black Cat was outlawed. He was the first cas- uality. He went into retirement. Now he is only a legend. But rumor has it that he stalks about nights. Hés Huang Tu-Liuho battle line. 6: we Wu Demands Railway Use. PEKIN, Sept. 26.— Because of the insistence of Generalissimo Wu Pei Fu “that his expeditionary troops against Chang Tso Lin be permitted to use the south Manchurian railway, the Japanese minister today wired the Japanese government,at Tokio for in- structions. Wu Pei Fu promised to pay half! fare for the soldiers carried but firm- ly demanded the use of the Japanese railway thereby preventing Chang Tso “st@unch upholders of the existing order of social inequalities. Their social psychology is that of retain- ers of the wealthy and they live in hopes of being lifted into the charm- ed spheres of the ruling class.” Now, Dr. Thomas, can you expect a middle class representative like LaFollette to conduct a fight which will succeed in liberating the work- ers from the oppressive powers of the capitalist institutions? It ap- pears to me that the socialist party of which you are the standard bear- er, is in duty bound to explain to the working class whom it pretends to represent why it is supporting Robert M. LaFollette for pesident. Such a discussion would be infinite- ly more valuable to the workers than the one you propose to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. As a candidate for governor on the Workers Party ticket, I will pro- pose to you to debate the subject of: “RESOLVED, THAT ROBERT RESENT THE INTEREST OF THE WORKERS,” Such a subject would in my opinion serve admirably to Lin from advancing the claim that the railroad was under Japanese protec- tion. New Traffic Rates on Adriatic. VENICE, Sept. 26.— The Italian- German conference has decided to in- stitute new rates in the German traf fic in the Adridtic Sea with the idea of developing trade. bring out the views of the socialist party and of the Workers Party_in the present election. It would be a debate on a vital topic of interest |. to the working class audience. We could certainly agree on variations, if you should desire them. I shall be glad to hear from you on this matter at the earliest pos- sible date. E are not asking out of idle| + curiosity or in order to make statistical calculations. We inquire in order to find out how many readers of the DAILY WORKER are going to be present at the first Communist cabaret of these last ten years. As you have already undoubtedly guessed, it will be held Saturday night, September 27, at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, and is being given by the North Side branch of the Young Workers League for the benefit of The Ypung Worker. And if you have two bits, which is American for twenty-five cents, there is no question about the fact that you will be present at this unusual affair. Considerable interest has already developed in their affair ever since the Prince of Wales denied that he would be there, and since Coolidge—or was it Hillquit?—denounced it as insidious Communist propaganda. It is expected that the elite of the Communist move- ment of Chicago, beaus and belles, will be there in full force with bells on. Already rumors are being spread aw to the quality of entertainment that will be afforded by the’ social, and it is stated on good authority by a man in close touch with the situation, who refused to have this name used, that such ‘prominent revolutionaries as Franklin R. Buckley, John Victor Ed- wards and others will participate. It is also rumored that Max Shachtman PARDON US, BUT HAVE YOU TWO BITS? if you've got two bits, spend them tonight on the Commonist social. Full particulars about time and place are given above for those who are not yet in on the ground. floor. Great Foremost Radical Spokesman. Russian Scientists Attend Education Congress of Canada (By Rosta) MOSCOW, Sept. 19.—The group of |Russian scientists who left for the in- |ternational congress of mathematics, |held at Toronto, Canada, consists of Professors Stekloff, Guenther and Us- pensky (Leningrad), Kryloff (Kiev) and Kostitzyn (Moscow), all of whom are members of the Russian Academy of Science. It is the first time since jthe revolution that an official invita- jtion was extended to the above-men- tioned congress to Russian men of sci- ence. Pulchritude Beats Bank. MADISON, Wis.—Police here are attempting to obtain clues to the iden- | tity of a pretty young woman who} registered at the university of Wis- consin under the name of Dorothy Brehm, of Racine, and, using her regis- tration cards as identification, swin- died a local bank with a worthless dollars worth of clothes on credit at local stores. Murder and Suicide. OWOSSO, Mich.—Murder and sui- cide was the police verdict today on the finding of the bodies of George S Kemp, Middlebury farmer, and his wife, Rose, at their, home yesterday. Police believe Kemp cut his wife's throat and then went to the barn and hanged himself. The family had been having domestic difficulties, neighbors told police. Teddy Quits Navy Job. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Colonel| Theodore Roosevelt, who has received | the republican nomination for the gov-| ernorship of New York, resigned to- day as assistant secretary of the navy, and his resignation was accepted by President Coolidge. It is effective immediately. Will They Be Lynched? READING, Pa., Sept. 26.—Posses surrounded a deep woods near Robe- sonia today where the three Negro bandits who shot end killed Jonathan | Klopp. while his bride of two weeks look on, and seriously wounded his father, Adolphus Klopp, last night, are believed to be hiding. Vatican Denies Deal. ROME, Sept. 26.—The Osservatore Romano has issued an emphatic de- nial of reports that the vatican offer- ed France its aid in suppression of anti-French agitation in Alsace in re- turn for continuance of the French embassy to the Holy See. REO PRG EER Husbands Worth Money. MINEOLA, N. Y., Sept. 26.— Mrs, Charles Conrad Frey, formerly Miss Katherine MelIntyre of Louiseville, Kentucky, filed suit today for $100,- M. LAFOLLETTE DOES NOT REP- 7000 against Wilda Bennett, an actress charging alienation of her husband's aections. Fatal Airplane Crash. MOLINE, Ohio.—Inability to mani- pulate- the plane, was given-as the cause of the crash near here in which killed and Art Bartlebaugh, injured. Kahl had just bought the plane. Professor Is Elected. URBANA, Ill., Sept. 26.—Prof. Goe- bel, head of the department of Ger- man, university of Illinois, was noti- fied of his election to the Berlin Aca- demy of Sciences. He is the first American professor to be so honored. Three bandits held up the West City Trust and Savings bank shortly before noon today and escaped with an undetermined amount of money which officials said they feared might run high into the thousands, eee ee EEE eee DEBATE ' SHOULD A SOCIALIST VOTE FOR LA FOLLETTEP SCOTT NEARING sis NO! versus MEYER LONDON sus YES! Ex-Socialist Congressman and Labor Lawyer CHAIRMAN: NORMAN HAPGOOD _ Sunday Afternoon, October 5, at 3 p. m. check and obtained several hundred Harry Kahl, Toledo, student pilot, was | Page Three LOCAL SPECIAL ‘DAILY’ EDITION PLAN GROWING, Live Wire Branches Are Doing Their Stuff This week the special local editions of the DAILY WORK- ER are getting up steam. The fourth edition of the week, two thousand in size, left the presses last night for Los Angeles, the land of movies, sunshine and the open shop. This completes a total of 19,- 000 copies outside of the re- gular circulation of the “Na- tional Labor Daily.” On Mon- day night 2,000 went to Toledo; on Wednesday, 5,000 to Detroit, and on Thursday, 10,000 to New York. More Coming, Next week will see even greater speed on special editions that are go- ing so well in all the live locals in the country. Monday night a special of 3,000 is going to Denver. Wednes- day night the presses of the DAILY WORKER will turn out the first State Edition for Wisconsin of 20,000, Ten thousand of this is going to Milwau- kee to raise cain in general with Vic Berger and his near-beer revolution- ists. Superior will receive 4,000 (a lively bunch of Finns here to keep the party in the swim!); 2,000 goes to Racine and 2,000 to Kenosha. Red Granite (who send their remittance in advance to be sure they get it!) and other small towns in LaFollette’s pasture will receive the balance. The success of these Red Specials, giving the complete front page with the headline to the local where it is sent, has proven such a success that wherever it has been used plans are already being made to order further editions of this mental dynamite for local explosion during the campaign. Get Yours. The special edition of the DAILY WORKER is a splendid gauge to size up the extent of the activities of any local in the first Communist election campaign in this country. The mem- bership of the party can well judge the exetent of your activity, for them- selves “when they get your number” of the DAILY WORKER Specials, Sunday, Sept. 28, is Platform Distribus tion Day. Help bring the party message to. the masses! Help the party to spread Communism! Help the party grow! Re- port at one of the following stations Sun- day morning for COMMUNIST SUNDAY: 105 Eldridge Street, 208 East 12th Street, 143 East 103rd Street, 1347 Boston Road, Louis Baum, 443 Ann's Ave., 61 Gra- ham Aye., Brooklyn, 1844 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. Foster Ratification Conference. From reliable sources it has been learned that the Foster ratification con- ference, to be held Sunday, September 28, at 2 p m. sharp, at the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th Street, is to take up among other important topics, the following: Report of campaign manager Harry Winitzky; report on finance, Benjamin Lifschitz; report on organization, Charles Krumbein; resolutions on political prison« ers, Soviet Russia, local and national can- didates. Permanent officers will be elect- ed, including the chairman, secretary and the campaign committee, Returns from trade unions, fraternal organizations, Workers Party branches, Young Workers League branches and other left wing or- ganizations, evidence a deep interest in the coming meeting Carlson at Stuyvesant Casino, | Oliver Carlson, prominent in the Amer- jican Communist. movement and in the | Young Workers League, has just returned fgom a twenty months’ stay in France, Germany and Soviet Russia. He will give |a talk on his experiences Monday eve: y Oct. 6, at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave., near 9th Street. of the Campaign! | New York Notes. |< will have general charge of the propa- ganda department, altho this could not be confirmed as the paper went to press. It is definitely stated, tho, that a red orchestra has been secured to aid in the terpsichorean awakening of the assembled mass. Anyhow, we started out to say, FOR_ SALE: Dogs! Real Dogs! Airdale puppies; cheap. Call Republic 5752 or The Daily Worker, harsh meows have become the soft wails of violins. He is expected to be at the dance on Sunday night, Sept, 28, at 1534 .Clybourn avenye, All workers are invited, particularly those who know the music of Joe Hill and end of the Black Cat, BITTERS | js and note the improvement of your few ‘days. Order a bottle by coupon CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE, 67th Street and Third Avenue Tickets $1.10 (Including War Tax) ON SALE AT: Jimmie Higgins’ Bookshop, 127 University Place; Gothic Art Bookstore, 176 Second Ave.; « Katz's Music Store, 181 East Broadway; Hauser’s Book Store, 1285 Fifth Ave., corner of 110th St.; Stern’s Jewelry Stote, 1337 Wilkins Ave.; Neidort’s Bookstore, 1817\Pitkin’s Ave., Brooklyn; Katz’s Drug Store, 74 Graham Ave., Brooklyn; or at the offices of and by mail from a health in a below. — eee LIPSEY PRODUCTS Co, 1133 Foster Ave., Chicago Enclosed is $1 Please send one bottle of LIPSEY'S BITTERS at once. Big Italian Flood. ROME, Sept. 26,—-Fourteen persons were reported dead today from floods at Lake Maggiore. Bridges were | The League for Public Discussion 500 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Phone Longacre 10434-10438 N. B.—Tickets Are Going Fast. Get Yours Now! washed away. The church at Conno- bie was destroyed. ‘ ~ eh ( Pe re Pe ‘ Mi