The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1924, Page 1

‘ f al THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 163. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. N A Sylvia Pearson was found dead in bed in London under circumstances which warranted the holding of an in- quest. The testimony before the coroner’s jury brot out the informa- tion that the old lady was a Russian princess, but very poor. Her husband had not been out of the house for twelve years and the princess had not had her clothes off for ten years. Knowing something about Russian aristocrats the coroner accepted this circumstantial .evidence as sufficient proof that the lady was a princess. 20 OVERNOR AL SMITH was _nomi- nated to make the run for re- election on the democratic ticket at that party’s convention in Syracuse. His most formidable opponent will be Theodore Roosevelt. The candidacy of Dr, Norman Thomas on the social- ist ticket does not differ fundamen- tally from that of his avowedly capi- talist opponents. Thomas does not believe in the class struggle which leaves him clearly in the left wing of the capitalist camp, with his list of petty reforms to clip the claws of the capitalist tiger. The only candidate for governer in New York state to stand on a revolutionary platform that calls for the overthrow of the capitalist system is that of James P. Cannon, who is running on the Work- ers Party ticket. * * ks as if William Hale Thomp- former mayor of Chicago, who has’ been sulking in the Len Small tent ever since that worthy gave the cream of the patronage in Cook County to Fred Lundin, former hench- man of “Big Bill’s” but now his hated rival, has made peace with the gov- ernor or vice versa. Anyhow one of Small’s lieutenants, Harry Klatzco, was handed an elegant plum in the form of the superintendency of Lin- coln Park at a salary of $6,000 a year. It is reported that Small pulled the strings that deposed Fred Lundin’s man. The next scehe in the political move may find Thompson stumping for Small and telling the world what - @ pure-souled statesman: the financial ‘wizard of the invisible Grant Park bank is. 'HE much touted progressive Gov- ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, has come out in support of Brigadier- General Smedley Butler, the Fascist marine officer who undertook the task of cleaning up Philadelphia with the approval of president Coolidge. But- Jer is of the Ku Klux Klan type and has made himself as unwelcome in the Quaker City as did Glenn Young in Williamson County. * 8 * EWSPAPER dispatches from. To- kio carry the information that Japan may intervene in China should the war spread and jeopardize Japan- ese interésts. Perhaps the Chinese situation had something to do with Japan's refusal to sign the so-called erbitration scheme of the League of Nations. This arbitration proposition is a huge joke. machinery of the league in the hollow of her hand and Japan has no inten- tion of going into the web on the in- vitation of the spider. se ae 'HESE clashes between the great powers emphasize what the Com- munists are always pointing out, that there can be no peace on this earth while capitalism exists. The- inter- ests of the various capitalist nations are always clashing and they cannot be reconciled. Capitalist governments represent organized national banditry. They exist for the purpose of pre- venting the workers who are robbed at home and in their other possessions from revolting against their exploit- ers and also to protect the loot of the national bandits against the highway- men of other nations. {ntil wealth is produced for use and not for profit, ; there can be no peace and harmony. Only the international Communist movement is taking the proper steps to bring that condition about. *- *¢ «@ HE republican party chiefs are re- ported to be out for the political scalp of Senator Brookhart of Iowa, chairman of the committee that probed into the @oings of the depart- ment of justice under Harry M. Daugh- ‘erty. While the Iowa senator stays in the G. O. P. fold he is looked upon as a dangerous borer from with- in, like his brother LaFollette, and oolidge cannot forgive him from heiying to lift the lid of the republi- can wesspool, ARRY SINCLAIR, oil magnate and heavy contributor to the campaign funds of the republican party will not have to show cause why he should not disgorge the Teapot Dome, until after the first of the year. By that time it will be known whether Coolidge shall have romped (Continued on page 2) SUBSCRIPTION RATLS: old lady known by the name of C ' S L in Chicago, by mail, Qutside Chisago, by mail. $6.00 per year , $8.00 per year, AMERICAN MONEY LORDS DECIDE FOREIGN COUNTRIES OFFER VERY TEMPTING FIELDS FOR PLUNDER (By The Fede CLEVELAND, Sept. 28.—The real state department has just adjourned fidentially between themselves, the co the next year by Secretary Hughes. This unofficial advisory board is rated Press) executive committee of the American in Cleveland after laying down, con- urse of action to be followed during the Investment Bankers of America. After surveying the field for the investment of profits contributed the past POLICE CLOSE STRIKE HALL ~ IN PATERSON England holds the} Notorious Tracy Tries to Break Labor Ranks (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 28. —Armed guards are blocking the entrance to every labor hall as a meeting place by the striking silk-workers, John M. Tracy, chief of po- lice, has closed Turn Hall, a building located in the “Latin quarter” of Paterson, into which thousands of strikers in the city which might be used —¢+year by American labor, the bankers recided that foreign countries offer the most tempting market. As Charles H. Sabin of the Asia Banking Corp. and the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York put it: “The only way in which this coun~ try can take its rightful place in the world economic structure is by mak- ing available our surplus capital for use in foreign countries.” (China and Honduras papers please copy). The domestic campaign of the in- vestment lords will centralize on tax reduction. A quarter of a million dol- lars has been appropriated for this purpose to be spent on the press and the movies. “We hope to reach 11, 000,000 people of the taxpaying class with our message,” the propaganda committee reported. GARY IS GLAD TO GIVE BOOST crowd every morning to hear their leaders tell of the con- tinued success of the workers. Stop Open Air Meeting. Harry M. Wicks, member of the Workers Party, who has been one of ‘the most militant figures of the strike, was the object of a furious denuncia- tion on the part of Tracy, who has de- nounced his intention of preventing city. A detachment of police yesterday barred a meeting of strikers in a va- eant lot. The police ignored the plea of workers that the lot was owned by one of the strikers. An attempt literally to starve the workers into submission is being en- gineered by police who are preventing ‘strikers from getting benefit cards, thus depriving them of the food which the strike committee provides. In spite of the fact that many mill owners are now negotiating with the workers preparatory to granting the demands of the | strikers, no further settlement will be made until police terrorism ceases, the strike committee declares. ‘ This is a direct blow at Tracy, who had boasted to city officials and to members of the bosses’ association that he himself was going to break the strike. Strikers Keep Up Fight. That the actions of Tracy can do nothing except to prolong™~the time TO WAR; IT PAYS Wartime Profits Treble Peacetime Plunder (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘Is eee rculated explain- ing the aims and methods of the Army Ordnance Associa- tion, which “welcomes into its membership every __ patriotic American citizen who is inter- ested in furthering the cause of national industrial prepared- ness.” On the cover of a leaflet is a photograph of a 16-inch gun fired before the American Iron and Steel institute and Army Ordnance Association. Gary Talks on War. Those two organizations held a joint meeting and demonstration at the Aberdeen Proving ground, in Maryland. The big gun spoke and so did Elbet H. Gary, big gun of the iron and steel institute, of which he is president. Referring to the war, Gary said: “I am proud to say on behalf of the great industry with which I am asgo- i which is to pass before every silk worker in Paterson is back at work under the new conditions demanded by the strikers is the sentiment ex- pressed by members of the commit- tee. THe strikers are meeting Tracy’s latest move with plans for immense mass meetings on Monday, to be held in vacant lots outside the city limits. The fight will continue until Wicks is allowed to speak, members of the committee assure the strikers. ciated that ityresponded immediately, cheerfully and wholeheartedly to that call of the nation.” Ignore Nationalization Threat. There was no mention of the threat of nationalization of the steel industry that the Wilson administration had to make in order to bring the steel trust to time on prices for war work. The war profits of the corporation were three times, the swollen peacetime rates. TWO SOCIALISTS, HILLQUIT AND THOMAS, BALK AT DEBATE WITH SCOTT NEARING ON LaFOLLETTE (By The Fed dP NEW YORK, Sept. 28—Should a class-conse lette? Two authorities, one for each side, will engage in this subject in New York October 5. with a vehement’ No! labor attorney, rly says Y Norman Thom: ress) lous worker vote for LaFol- public debate on Scott Nearing answers the question Meyer London, former socialist congressman and a socialist candidate for governor of New York, and Morris Hillquit, socialist attorney, were first invited to uphold the LaFollette side. The chairman of the meeting will be Norman Hapgood, formerly editor of Collier’s Weekly and now writing for Hearst publications. The Jimmie Hig- git’s Book Shop, 127 University Pl., and other shops are selling tickets. DECISION has been made by the general headquarters of our army of party members. Like a regiment in battle, we are to move for- ward,to the attack. With a broadside of three million pieces of literature we'are to undermine the fastnesses of the bourgeoisie and win converts to our ranks. The command has been issued. Her the plan. Carry it out to the letter. 1, Every jbranch is to call a special meeting of its members for Sun- day, October 12. Call it any time of the day, in a hall or at home, but call it every branch must. The entire party membership will meet for one definite purpose on October 12. A single aim, that of carrying out THE DAILY WORKER. | Entered as Gecond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924 IKE P MORRIS ROSEN LEADS FIGHT ON HUTCHENSON Progressive Delegate) uns for President _ (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 28.— The manner in which General Président William L. Hutchen- son is running the carpenter’s convention would make a Mon- golian dictator turn green with envy. The reactionary leaders of the American Federation of Labor are careful not to allow the rank and file the privilege of participating in the affairs of their unions beyond paying dues, unless the pressure from below cannot be resisted, but most of them make some pre- tense of allowing delegates to conyentions go thru the forms of passing on questions brot up for discussion. In the eyes of Hutchenson all issues not approved by him.are dangerous to the organization, which translated into the language of the labor faker, means dangerous to his job. Thus a resolution from Local 181 of Chicago calling for the amalgama- tion of all craft unions into industrial unions until the aim of one union for each industry was achieved, was de- claved out of order by Mahatma Hutcheson. A similar fate was meted out to a resolution introduced by some LaFol- lette agent, which called for the en- dorsement of the new political policy of the American Federation of Labor. This meant the endorsement of LaFol- lette. Hutchenson, more loyal to the political policy of the A. F. of L. than Gompers declared this partisan poli- tics and did not give the delegates a chance to decide whether they should agree with Gompers or Hutchenson. It should be noted here that Frank Duffy, the general secretary of the Carpenters’ Union is a vice-president of the A. F. of L. and was one of the five on the executive council “who voted against the endorsement of Robert M. LaFollette. The most interesting feature of the convention will be the vote on the election of general officers. The fol- lowing were nominated for the office of general president: William L, Hutchenson, present incumbent; Willis K. Brown. of Peoria, president of the Illinois State Council of Carpenters, and Morris Rosen, rank and file dele- gate from New York. Progressive Candidate. Of the three candidates the qualifi- cations of Delegate Rosen stand out strongly as eminently fitting him for the office of general president. | Of Hutchenson it can be said that he is first and foremost among the re- actionaries in the most reactionary leadership in the world labor move- ment, that of the American Federa- tion of Labor. So backward is this |leadership that it withdrew from the Amsterdam International because that body, while supporting capitalism as vigorously as Gompers himself, was compelled by the pressure from below to give lip service to the social rev- olution and to the movement against war. The general president of the car- penters finds even the reactionary policy of the A. F. of L. dangerously progressive, so much so that he spurns a resolution to endorse the capitalist supporter, LaFollette, so that his hands may be free to sell his of Flood in Leningrad NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 28.—The heavy flood which hit Leningrad, Sept. 23, is over and life in the city is rapidly assum- ing its normal course, according to a special cable received from the Leningrad Gostorg by the Amtorg Trading Corporation which represents the Gostorg in this country. Following is the text of the cable: % * * * LENINGRAD, Sept. 24.—The flood occured between the 16th and 20th hour (from 4 to 8 p. m.) on September 23. The water has risen 12 feet above level interrupting telegraph, freight and passenger communication. At present the water receded to its normal level. Owing to steps taken life in Leningrad is rapidly resuming its normal course. |Interruption in the work will be but of short duration. SUICIDE OF YOUNG SILK STRIKER IS RESULT OF BEATING BY BOSS (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 28—The body of Louis Alton, a 25-year-old Syrian silk worker out on striké, and the supporter of a family of nine, was found in the East River of New York City today. He had been beaten up by two bosses a few months ago because“he had decided to quit the job, and the result was that his whole left side was paralyzed.. The boss wanted to settle the whole matter for $500, but + because of the misery and pain, Alton committed suicide om*Monday. The funeral will be held tomorrow ’ ‘TH. =| and the Paterson silk strikers are pre- paring an impréssive funeral demon- Push Infamous Scheme Thru Machinists’ Meet stration with well-known speakers and (Special to The Daily Worker) appropriate music. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 28.— BIG DRIVE ON TO BOOST DAILY WORKER The infamous “Baltimore & CIRCULATION IN GARY A drive to increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER in Gary, In- diana, is well under way, with good results already materializing. The DAILY WORKER will be sold. this lis of the poration. The DAILY WORKER can also probably be bought on all the newsstands of Gary within the next few days. Comrade Heinrichson, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER for Chicago and vicinity, is spending some time in Gary organizing a subscription | 9f Machinists. drive and taking subscriptions from Johnston, in a feeble defense house to house. Several local comrades | of the plan which has already will spend much of their time during | further weakened the union, bygone Pa ae gia vise and which promises to make it In connection with this drive, Kari]#Kin to an open shop society Reeve, reporter for the DAILY WorK- | for the promotion of the speed- ER, is writing a series of articles on} UP System, raised the cry of conditions among the workers in Gary, | “red’’ hysteria. exposing the platoon school system in- Attacks the DAILY WORKER. stituted by Elbert Gary, and revealing the domination of the town of Gary millionaire railroad bosses, was pushed over on the remnants of a tired and worn machinists’ convention here late at night by William H. Johnston, president of the International Association small left wing, he pushed thru the by the United States Steel corporation, | plan. The final vote was 126 to 33. where 90 per cent of Gary’s workers| Johnston attacked the DAILY are employed. | WORKER and the Labor Herald for lits opposition to the “B. & O.” class collaboration scheme. He admitted the Communist conten- tion that a class struggle exists, but said, “It isn’t very nice, and there oughtn’t to be a class struggle, even if there is one.” The opposition to plan was led by Delegates GOMPERS LIVES LONG THO HIS JOBS ARE MANY (Special to The Datly Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Hard la- bor does not necessarily shoten hu-|o9” plan. man life, all-other things being equal,| «The ‘B. & O.’ plan is unsound in which means in plain English, that a} principle,” MacNamara told the dele- game of golf after furrowing the brow | gates who still remained in the con- puzzling out the problems confront-|yention. “The officials of the union ing the Society for the Protection of|sponsoring the plan told us that a Senile Labor Fakers, helps to elim-|large influx of new members would inate the toxic poisons produced in| result from the plan. But the ‘B. & (Continued from Page 3.) (Continued on page 6) RAISE FUND IN NAME OF CHARITY TO FEED THE WAR AGAINST LABOR (By The Federated Press) MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28—Labor in Milwaukee is shutting its purse to the three quarter million dollar campaign of the community fund, the cen- The reason is that the directors of the fund are permitting $20,000 of the charity collection to go to an organization the “B. & 0.” Andrew burgh. MacNamara supported a mi- nority report of the committee on ril roads, declining to indorse the “B. & tralized chest for local chariti influence to the highest bidder in the | known as the citizens’ bureau of municipal efficiency, which lobbies before (Continued on page 6) an unprecedented distribution of three million pieces of literature, will mark*the proceedings in every branch meeting. 2. At this special October 12 meeting the only order of business shall be: the three million literature distribution full participation, 3, At this special branch mobilization meeting every party member shall give fifty cents to the branch the member will receive 100 campaign leaflets, 25 campaign stickers, 2 of the DAILY WORKER, 4, On Monday, October 13, every branch secretary will send the total amount of money subscribed to the national office of the Workers Party, campaign pampiilets and 10 Copi the city council and the state legislature against measures urged by labor. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvyd., Chicago, IL OSE Quickly Repair Damage _|GARY WORKERS Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents UNDER YOKE OF STEEL TRUST Little Children Feel the Tron Grip By KARL REEVE, (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., September 28.——, Founded by the company of} which Elbert H. Gary is chair~ man and built by one of the biggest trusts in the world, which thru the firm of J. P. Morgan, fiscal agents for the corporation, is connected with all the other large American trusts, the town of Gary is a! prison house for the steel trust slaves. The steel workers of Gary, forming over 90 per cent of the population, are held in the vice of the most complete and vici- After a gallant opposition from the |! MacNamara and John Otis of Pitts-| ; ous paternalism and of the low- est of low standard non-union living conditions, to be found anywhere in America. The United States Steel corpora- tion owns the city of Gary, in all its branches. “In 1906, the United States Steel corporation decided to build a big steel plant in the middle-west and selected the sand waste on the shore of Lake Michigan—and thus was the city of Gary born,” says Arundel Cot- ter, in “The Authentic History of the United States Steel Corporation.” Trust Owns Buildings. Every institution in the town is + 0f class. collabora; | owned or controlled hx the steel trust. tion of the machinists with the| Even the public library was donated by the steel barons, Andrew Carnegie donating $65,000 for the erection of the building and the Gary Land com- pany, owned by the U. 8. Steel cor- poration, supplying the site for the library. The Y. M. C. A., another in- stitution which is always at the beck and call of the steel trust, has good reason to back up Elbert Gary in his oppression of the workers. Gary don- ated the large Gary Y. M. C, A. build- ing to that organization at a Cost of $260,000. The Gary hospital, we learn from Cotter’s book, was built and is maintained by the United States Steel | corporation. The United States Steel |corporation incorporated the town, aid out the streets, laid the sewers, sold what real estate it wanted to dis- pose of, built the homes of the work- lers, besides supplying the only place where the residents of the town had a chance to earn a living. Morgan's Gold. From its very inception, the town of Gary was owned in every way by the United States Steel corporation, and at the present day a worker can- }not live in Gary without taking upon himself the oppressive yoke of. one of the most despotic monopolies in ex- istence. The Gary Land eompany owned by the steel trust, fh. its first subdivision erected 1,200 residences, many modern apartments, and 150 business blocks. The Gary Land com- pany now owns at least 13 subdivis- ions. A few years ago the city limits of Gary comprised 26 square miles, only eight square miles of which belonged to private owners, most of these eight square miles being bought from the U. S. Steel trust on agreements where- by to a large extent the purchaser had to obey the wishes of the steel cor- partion, Children Also Enslaved. The Gary public schools were placed by Elbert Gary in the hands of W. Wirth, who developed for his master the Gary or platoon school system. Two school buildings, the Emerson and Froebel, were erected with steel trust money, and Gary’s wishes were (Continued on page 3) tribution week. campaign and every member's literature shall be called for. retary. For the fifty cents given, ~ using the special order blank sent him for this purpose. 5. October 26 to November 2, inclusive, will be our nation-wide dis- 6. Every party member will call for his unit of literature on October 26, and every branch will decide at the special October 12 meeting where * * Action Easy to Carry Out. There is nothing that is complicated about the call for a complete mobilization of all party branches and all party members. Every phase (Continued on page 6)