The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 2

Page Two SENATOR WALSH OF MONTANA IS PUT ON GRILL Oil Prober Asked What About Mitch. Palmer? (Special to The Daily Worker) GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 29,—A circular was distributed at Senator Thomas J. Walsh's meeting here by the Farmer- Labor Party of wiontana, ask- ing Senator Walsh to explain his unsavory anti-labor record if he could. Senator Walsh en- deavored to answer some of these questions but others he ignored entirely. Walsh was asked, “Why did you not investigate A. Mitchell Palmer’s connection with the Bosch Magneto scandal, in which Mr. Palmer got away with $1,000,000 where Fall got only $100,000?” Palmer is a democrat, and Walsh seems to have confined his investigating to the republican party. Another pointed question Senator Walsh was unable to answer was, “Will the evidence brot out by your committee in the investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal sustain the ver- dict of criminal conspiracy?” Easy On Wheeler. The Farmer-Labor Advocate, organ of the farmer-labor party, which sup- poris the candidacy of Senator Robert LaFoilette for president, regrets the fact that Senator Walsh in his cam- paign for re-election has received the endorsement of Senator Wheeler, who ignored the farmer-labor candidate against the reactionary Wait, State Senator J. W. Anderson of Sidney. “DP. C. Dorman, of C. P. P. A. fame,” says the farmer-labor paper, “the hired man of Senator Walsh, came in- to the state to pick the delegates to the Baldwin conference assembled in Helena purporting to represent the La- Follette sentiment in Montana, and then, being afraid to attend any more conventions since he pulled the C. P. P, A. endorsement trickery, which was repudiated by the organized labor movement of the state, and what is left of the non-partisan league, pulled out for points in the east two days before the date of the convention, leaving Jimmie Baldwin in charge of the gath- ering.” —.. “The ‘LaFollette manager seems to be a willing dupe of the old party in- triguers.” Treachery in Montana. The paper declares that because of this treachury of men inside the La- Follette movement, “as things now stand, Dixon and Walsh and Coolidge seem to have won in Montana.” “Con- fusion becomes more confounded. The farmer-labor party filed its electors pledged to LaFollette in March, they were regularly nominated in the pres- idential primaries in May as provided by law; they cannot be withdrawn be- cause of the law the farmer-labor patty does not ask LaFollette to sup- port the state ticket—there is no rea- son why he should not support An- derson and Taylor, and every reason why he should oppose Walsh. To sign a petition to place indepedent LaFol- lette electors on the ballot in Mon- tana is to assist these intriguers.” There is no mention in the article of Senator Wheeler’s indorsement of Walsh, but it is well understood that Wheeler has dealt the farmer-labor party of Montana, a heavy blow in desérting in favor of the champion of the copper trust—Waish, and his statement intimating he will with- draw all support from the party which lid so much to elect him to the senate. Framer Claims Frameup. REDDING, Cal.—Behold the latest “victim” of a California “frame-up”! He is no other than John H. Vail, professional anti-. W. W. witness, who shot -a game warden in an unuu- thorized liquor_raid and claims he is being framed by being indicted for murder. Vote Communist This Time! INVESTIGATE DAUGHERTY’S STENCH r THE DAILY WORKER NOBODY WANTS TO STIR BROOKHART COMMITTEE DURING CAMPAIGN TO ‘The Federated Press) (8 WASHINGTON, Sept, do—Harry Daugherty and Gaston B. Means will not be called to the witness chair before the Brookhart investigating com- mittee in the midst of the political campaign. Senator Ashurst, democrat, to whom the other members of the committee passed the responsibility for holding a special session on thie Daugherty-Means repudiation incident, thinks any reopening of the case in the absence of Whi the rest of the committee would be impracticable. ler, Brookhart and ands pat on Candi- He date Davis’ last letter to Daugherty, in which the point was made that “a painful impression” was created by the Daugherty brothers’ efforts to hide when their testimony was wanted, and that the hiring of Means by Daugh- erty was enough to have warranted Daugherty’s summary dismissal by the president. “International” Rank and File Rebels (Continued from page 1) during which the workers make about $50 a week. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ officialdom claims that the “strike” of the Ladies’ Tailor#*is the preliminary in a big organization drive in the miscellaneous trades. At present, according to Lefkovits, there are 43,000 unorganized workers in these trades. Local 6, Swiss em- broiderers, claims 41 shops, 800 work- ers; and there are five non-union shops with 25 workers. Local 20, rain- coat makers, claims 53 union shops with 700 workers; and there are 10 unorganized shops with 100 workers. Local 25, waistmakers, claims 28 un- ion shops, 400 workers; and there are 250 non-union shops and 7,000 work- ers unorganized. Local 41, tuckers. pleaters and hemstitchers, claims 180 shops unionized with 1,200 workers; and there are 130 open shops with 2,000 workers. Local 62, white goods workers, claims 79 shops with 2,500 workers; and there are 350 non-union shops with 5,000 workers. Local 66, bonnaz embroiderers, claims 128 shops union- ized and 1,000 workers; and in 125 non-union shops there are 500 work- ers. Local 90, private dressmakers, claims 129 union shops with 1,000 workers; and there are 115 non-union shops with 10,000 unorganized work- ers. Local 91, children’s dress and bathrobe makers, claims 78 union shops, 2,000 worker; and there are 550 non-union shops with 15,000 un- organized workers. Local 182, button workers, claims practically the entire trade of New York is organized, tho little out of town. Membership for Real Fight. The rank and file of the Ladies’ Tailors’ union is looking forward to bettering their working conditions by a real fight and when the executive report comes back will revolt on the floor of the meeting. The Internation- al officialdom, however, has the power to quash interference and will steam- roller its program over the Ladies’ Tailors just as it did in spring over the cloakmakers who express great dissatisfaction with the agreement the International made with the bosses. : T. U. B. L. members point to the growing rebellion among the I. L. G. W. U. rank and file and expect that more than 4 little hell will be raised with the yellow socialist officialdom in a not distant future. CLAIM SWEENEY IS RE-ELECTED (Continued from Page 1.) ing of the locals in the official organ of the union, before election. This Sweeney refused to do when challeng- ed by Sillinsky. The Providence Myth. The latter took a chance shot and challenged the vote of the Providence local, which cast 29 votes for Swee- ney. Investigation showed that the Providence local did not exist except in the lively imagination of Mr. Sween- ey. In retaliation for the exposure of the fraud in Providence, the Sween- ey crowd challenged the Milwaukee local which cast 47 votes for Sillinsky, and threw out the entire vote on the grounds that this local was not in good standing, tho the members paid their dues. The dues however were not recorded in the International office so that Sweeney could throw out their votes. A Thomas Sweeney has proven that one charge made against him by the progressives is false, and that is the charge of stupidity and incompetency. Sweeney is thoroly capable of holding his job against the wishes of the rank and file. Sweeney has cultivated the “official mind,” which means that to a reactionary trade union official the rank and file does not exist except as per capita fodder, in other words, to pay dues and keep the officials eating tenderloin steaks and roast duck. Sweeny Has Vision! Now, tliat Sweeney is over this little unpleasantness, he does not intend to be bothered with elections or conven: tions for many years to come, so in a letter to the membership the general executive board, “after full and care- ful deliberation,” came to the conclu- sion that the convention scheduled for August, 1925, could be dispensed with “without detriment to the organiza- tion,” and to save the “ten thousand dollars the convention would cost,” leaving the calling of a convention in 1929 to the option of the general ex- ecutive board. The present constitution reads: “The convention of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union of America shall be held on the first Monday in August, 1921, and every four years thereafter PLAN TO FLOAT DAWES LOAN T is now only a matter of days before the government, the press and the bankers will rally to float the first hundred million dollar Dawes loan for the enslavement of the German and finally all the European working masses. Tomorrow we will begin the first of the Lovestone on this gigantic war plan. will carry the Introductory article. the series 1, From Pershing to Dawes. of articles by Jay DAILY WORKER The subjects to be dealt with In 2. The Dawes Plan—Made in America. 3. Machinery and Organization of the American Re ivership. » 4 Economic Issues and Contradictions of the Dawes Plan. 5. The Dawes Plan and the American Working Masses. 6. What the Dawes Plan Means to Germany. 7. What Will the Dawes Plan Bring to the International Working Class? 8. The Bridge to 9. Howto Fight New World War, ick the Imperialist Menace—A Program of Action. Make sure to read this thorogoing analysis of the most insidious sohome yet prepared to destroy the rig! and organization of the work- ore of the United States, Germany, France, Great Britain and the other countries. shi AP TG, \ ————— at such place as the delegates, in con- vention assembled may designate,” Sweeney would substitute 1929 for 1921 which would mean no convention until 1933 except at the discretion of the magnanimous Mr. Sweeney. What Funk Thinks. Robert Funk, a members of the gen- eral executive board, voted against this proposition and stated his reasons as follows: Fakers Fear Conventions. “The amendment proposed- above is an outrageous attack on the democrat- ic expression of the membership. The members of the G. BH. B. and those who inspired this autocratic proposal should be required to give their rea- sons for voting for such tyrannical measure, rather than that I should ex- plain why I voted against it. “It is a disgrace that we do not have conventions more often. It is sus- Picious that after the last convention, when a big body of delegates was in favor of a convention every two years, that a Sweeney man starts this pro- posal and the rest of the board mem- bers are consciously or unconsciously solid for it, for a measure which prac- tically abolishes conventions alto- gether, “And when I raise the principle of the right of thé membership to ex- press their ideas on policies and prob- lems, the right of democratic expres- sion, those who belong to the Sweeney machine sneer at the idea of the mem- bership having any rights to’ demand an accounting from these autocrati¢ incompetents. Cover Up Trickery, “The excuse of “economizing” is only a catchword to cover up trickery. “The Sweeney machine is afraid to face the membership at a convention and have its inefficiency exposed and discredited. If we do not have a con- vention next year, we may have little or no organization to have one with later. The excuse that “there are no problems” is preposterous. always serious problems. “What about the new ‘Open Shop Drive?’ We all know that when we thought we had the week work sys- tem ‘settled’ in 1919, along came the first ‘Open Shop Drive’ and almost completely wiped out all we had gain- ed. Now, with big unemployment sweeping over the trade, the bosses are beginning a new ‘Open Shop Drive,’ to finish the job of destroying the J. T. U. of A. completely. Is this no problem? Mes “Fraternally yours, “ROBERT FUNK.” ‘The Journeymen Tailors’ Union now finds itself with an “Old Man of the Sea,” on its back, and it will take a strong fight to pry Sweeney loose from his moorings. DEVIL MUST HAVE DECLARED OPEN WAR ON GOD'S SERVANTS FORT WORTH, Tex., Sept. 29.— Rev. Joseph E, Y pastor of Nowata, Oklahoma, id to have eloped with a 14-year old girl mem ber of his Sunday school, arrest at linger, charges of abduction, according to word recelved here teday. VIE IN MYSTERY WITH DOME STEAL “Big Tim” May Soon Visit the Loop The government's two chief wit- nesses against “Big Tim” Murphy in the Pullman, Ill, mail robbery case, have repudiated their confessions in- volving the labor leader thus paving the way for his parole, it became known here today, Two other witnesses against Murphy, John Minch and Sergeant Thomas Costello, have died since Murphy was indicted and the! fifth, William Fahy, postal inspector, is un- der indictment in connection with the Rondout robbery. Were it not for the Pullman indictments against him, Murphy now would be’ eligible for parole. ~ Witnesses Recant. i The two who have repudiated their confessions are William Muszyski and John Crawford. In ‘their repudiation they claim they identified three pic- fures from the detective bureau rogues’ gallary as the men they be- lieved took part in the robbery. Fahy, they claim, told them those men could not have been there and showed them a picture of Murphy, trying to get them to identify him as one of the robbers. This they later did. MAIL ROBBERIES There are | - It is expected that action looking toward a parole will be taken im- mediately, Big Cannon Meeting in New York City Thursday, Oct. 2nd (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 29.—James P. Cannon, Workers Party candidate for governor, who will be the prin- cipal speaker at the big mass meeting to be held on Thursday, October 2, at Hunt’s Point Palace, 168rd St. and Southern Boulevard, has issued a statement on the republican state convention at Rochester, He says in part: “The republican party of New York state, of which the millionaire Senator Wadsworth is boss, has just nominat- ed Theodore Roosevelt for governor. I am happy to have as my opponent a scion of one of the royal families of the American aristocracy. Just as England has its Prince of Wales, so New York has its Roosevelt, Jr. The heir to the Roosevelt glory adds to his father's Big Stick reputatfon, ‘the flavor of the oil scandal, in which he is deeply immersed. In his anxiety to emulate his father’s military repu- tation, he ordered the U. S. marines to Teapot Dome in the interests of Sinclair and Doheny, the oil grafters. I am proud to be the opponent of so reactionary a candidate. “The platform of the republican party of New York state similarly holds out little hope for the workers. Not a word does it say about the use of the injunction in industrial disputes an issue which is becoming of in- creasing importance thruout the state. While it prates of ‘civil liber- ties,” New York state still maintains one of the most drastic syndicalist laws on the statute books. New York is one of the few states which still retains this legislation, While posing as ‘a friend of labor,’ the‘republican party says not a word about the relief of unemployment, the protection of women in industry or the minimum wage legislation. The republican par- ty of this state is but a cog in the reactionary national republican strike- breaking machine.” | Cannon is expected to go into. the issues of the campaign in his usual vigorous style, His talks are in such’ great demand that he has been asked to speak on Friday, October 3, at tit Queens County Labor Lyceum, 78 Forest Ave., Brooklyn, and on Satur- day, October 4, in Yonkers at the Odd Fellows Hall, 72 Broadway. ing observed today in synagogues and temples thruout the United States, It began Sunday night at sundown. The reform Jews ended their observ- ance last night, but the orthodox will continue their celebration thruout to- day. Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, will begin on Oct. 7. WORKERS PARTY AND YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE STREET MEETINGS IN CHICAGO, Tuesday, September, 30, 16th and Kedzie—Auspices of Doug- las Park Bnglish Branch, Workers Al Shaap and Party. others. l4th and 49th Ct,—Auspices of Cicero Lithuanian Branch, Speakers: Pete Herd and others. " Division and Washtenaw—Auspices Maplewood and Hersch-Lekert Young Worker: ague. Speakers: Maurer and others, ! Wilton and Belmont—Auspices of North Side English Branch. Speak- ers; Ella Reeve Bloor and others. 26th and Homan—Auspices of = Speakers: hemian Branch. Speakers: D, Earley and Mrs. Kalousek, ‘Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. by i Jews Celebrate New Years. : The Jewish New Year, 5635, was be- Straw Ballot Results Reveal Drift of Labor Into Communist Ranks By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. : $$. "TOP Ay: one fact stands out clearly, in the presidential struggle. HH has been revealed by the straw ballot taken by the DAILY WORKER, in the shops, mills and factories of the city. This big fact, that cannot be pushed aside by the sub- sidized press of the capitalist éaniligates, is that there is a strong drift to Communism among the great masses‘of labor. “Bolshevism!” is more than a word to large numbers of workers on the job. It symbolizes an ideal toward which they are struggling. * * * * “I'm going to vote for LaFollette this time,” say some of the workers. “But if | don’t get what | want, I'll turn Bolshevist.” And while the worker makes that statement, he clearly shows, in the tones of his voice and his general demeanor, that he has no hope of getting what he wants from La- Follette, But that is the American Voting King—the Henry Dubb worker, who votes for something he doesn’t want, in the hope of getting something now, in place of voting for what he does want, and sticking with what he wants until he gets it, , ° * * * But it is very evident that this growing undercurrent, flowing toward revolutionary working class political action, . has startled the Wall Street campaign managers, who have ways of their own, of learning what is going on. It isn’t because they want an issue that both Coolidge and Davis, the republican and democratic puppets, are shout- ing in defense of the sanctity of the United States Supreme Court. They stand in this campaign fighting for every ca- pitaligt institution. And there is nothing more dear to Wall Street than the Supreme Court, presided over by “Bill the Fat” Taft, with its veto power of all legislation passed by congress, and all other law-making bodies. Poor LaFollette wants to safeguard capitalism, against the Communists, but he also wants to take this veto power ° away from Taft and his judicial, black-cloaked pals. Just to give LaFollette a taste of what happens to those who meddle with the capitalist system of government, We find the “Cal” Coolidge henchmen, in the courts, especially in California, But this will not convince LaFollette that revolutionary struggles today and in the future are needed in place of fondling with the historic memories of the revolution of 1776. * * * * The DAILY WORKER'S straw ballot has revealed the strength the Communists would have if political representa- tion were based on Shop Councils in industrial instead of geo- graphical represetantion. In a Shop Council at the Hart, Schaffner and Marx plant, visited by our straw ballot squad, the results showed that the cepruniate would have 15 representatives in a “Council of . ‘The same plant, while at t ruling the LaFollette electors off the ballot. Leyenieg | held true. at the Kuppenheimer e plant of the Royal Tailors, the percentage rose giving the Communists 20 delegates in any “Council of. 100” that might be formed. * * * * Out in the great plant of the Western Electric Company, the percentage of Communist strength was almost as great as that among the clothing workers at Kuppenheimers, If the 45,000 workers at the Western Electric chose a Shop Council of 500, at least 100 of these would be Com- munists, according to the showing of our straw ballot. * * * * The percentage falls slightly in the unorganized stock- ards’ plants of the packers. Here only ten percent registered ommunist. But ten Communists in a “Shop Council of 100,” in “The Yards” district, would be somewhat of a revolution . Over.the present form of geographical representation that sends some lawyer tool of Armour, Swift and the other big packers to Washington. * * * * The percentage of Communist strength in “The Yards” is duplicated in the plant of the Pullman Palace Car Com- pany, also unorganized, It drops a little among the clerks and other help of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the world’s largest mail order house, but mounted higher at the big car shops of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. The percentage held at a little below 10 per cent among the street carmen. It shot up to neat d 15 per cent at the great plant of the Crane ehataoker ng Company. It registered about 12 per cent among the printers at the Cuneo-Henneberry Company. * Thus in the great producing establishments of the Amer- ican capitalist system, there is a strong Communist senti- ment. If political representation were based on Shop we the Communists would have a goodly representa- jon. But the “Fathers of 1776,” whom LaFollette lauds so highly, ordered differently. On the basis of the constitution, that they adopted, capitalism in this country has built up a system of representation that practically disfranchises the workers, \ Millions lose their vote thru residence qualifications, In the South other millions are disfranchised because of poll taxes and other subterfuges. This does not take into account the millions of disfranchised Negroes. Then there is the naturalization fraud that says a worker coming here from some other country must go thru a ge of probation, to be ended at the whim of some judicial mountebank. The more intelligent and militant a worker may be, the less his chances are of becoming a citizen. If the prospective citizen proclaims himself a Communist, he is black-balled forever. In order to keep the workers in submission, under the American form of government, one prerequisite is that, they be disfranchised as far as possible. If those worke@® for- tunate enough to enjoy the franchise get radical, not to men- tion revolutionary, and send representatives to congress who make laws threatening to the capitalist social structure, then the supreme court is right on the job, And the supreme court is backed by the mailed fist o army and navy, American capitalism, the ° ‘ ° * | If the workers would win power in the United States they must begin now building their organizations in the. shops, the mills and the factories. A beginning can be made by starting a Shop Nucleus of the Workers (Communist) Party. When this organization, built within the very structure of the capitalist industrial system, becomes powerful enough for the workers to seize power, then the capitalist structure will fall away like a rotten shell, and Soviet Rule will rise in its ‘prepare for the Communist Society that follows eels of departing Capitalism. stead to close on the ncn FN “Tuesday, September 30, 1924 POLICE ARREST YOWL SPEAKERS; CROWD PROTESTS Cheers, for Y. W. L. As Speakers Are Taken By HERBERT ZAM. (Spécial to. The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, 'N: Y., Sept. 29—Four members of the Young Workers’ League, Clarence Miller, Arnold Shaw, Julius Malpern and Harry Sukhetsky were arrested on the evening of Sept. 23, while holding an open-air meeting at 110th St. and 5th Ave. Three work- ers who were listening to the speak- ers were also arrested. Clarence Miller, who had been ar- rested several times in Chicago for speaking, had been in New York City only two days, and his arrest was evi- dently the method employed by the police to welcome him to New York, LaFollette Cause of Arrest. Dozens of meetings had previously been held on the same corner, with- ‘out any interference. In the past few weeks, however, there had been acute competition between the Young Work- ers’ League and the LaFollette forc- es for the corner. The Young Work- ers’ League, being more energetic, ‘had managed to capture the corner every time. This must have riled the LaFolletteites, and it is suspected ‘that they instigated the arrests. It was about 9 o'clock in the even- ing. Comrade Miller was speaking. The crowd nunthered well over 500. A policeman approached and demand- ved @ permit. He was informed that no permit was necessary for open- air meetings. The cop left, mutter- ‘ing “We'll see.” About a half hour later, the cop returned witn reinforce- ments, A Jewish comrade was speak- ing. The policeman asked him wheth- er he was a citizen and upon learn. ing that he was not, ordered him off the platform. Comrade Miller imme- diately got up in his place. Upon ‘giving the police the information that he was a citizen, he was placed un- der arrest. The other comrades were arrestéd when they came to see what the row was about, One spectator was arrested for handing a comrade a cigarette. Crowd With Yowls. The charge at first was: Holding a meeting without a permit, but it was later changed to obstructing the traf fic. The judge dismissed the charge without much ado. There were at least 1000--workers listening when the arrests were made, and the crowd was very sympathetic ‘to the Young Workers. A patrol wag- on was called. As the yowls enter- ed they shouted, “Three cheers; for the Young Workers’ League” and the crowd responded with a roar, ‘ Another Victim of Herrin Klan Fight Dies in Hospital HERRIN, Ill, Sept.-29.—Another in- quest into the death of a victim of the shooting at John Smith’s garage here Aug. 30, when Sheriff George Galli- gan’s party and a number of Ku Klux Klansmen “shet it out” with the re- sulting outright killing of six men and the wounding of several others, was scheduled for today, following the death of Herman Phemeister. Phemeister died at the city hospital last night of wounds received in the fight. Oliver Carlson to Speak for Yowls in New York City NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Oliver Carl- son, well-known member of the Young Workers League, will speak on condi- tions in Europe and Soviet Russia on Monday, October 6, at Stuyvesant ‘Casino, Second Ave. and 9th Street. Carlson is an excellent speaker. He will tell of his experiences during his twenty months’ stay on the other side. Against’ Bonus System, MELBOURNE, Australia.—The Vic- torian State Railways union is de- manding the abolition of the bonus system in the railway shops near Mel- bourne, © © Much W: in Tokio, TOKIO, Sept, —For tho third time in thirty days the Honjo district of Tokio was under water today fol- lowing torrential rains of the past 24 hours. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, Join the Workers Party! CHEF OF BIG OPM JOINT GIVES AMERICAN FILM STAR SILVER MED ROME, Sept, 29.—Jackie Coogan, the world's foremost child moving picture actor, was received in au- dience. by Pope Plus’ XI, today. Jackie was accompanied by his parents, | The pontiff presented Jackie with a silver medal of himself. He was requested of Bishop Walsh, of Trenton, to give a special bless! to Jackie's parents, cr f \\ 1 } a l. \