The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, October 1, 1924 FOSTER AND GITLOW HOLD BiG MEETINGS LaFollette Exposed as Boss Politician By JOSEPH MANLEY Campaign Manager, Workers Party. While William Z. Foster is making a triumphant tour of the Pacific Coast, securing new members to the Workers Party, and addressing thousands of ' workers, Benjamin Gitlow, can- didate for vice-president and Foster's running mate on the Communist platform, is holding enthusiastic meetings in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Michigan. Several hundred workers turned out to listen to Foster’s able-enunciation of the class struggle in the Tacoma, Wash- ington, meeting. A collection of $67.20 was taken up and literature sales totaled $18.80. A Scandinavian branch of the party is expected as a result of the Foster meeting. Big Spokane Meeting. A splendid meeting was addressed by Foster in Spokane, Norman H. Tallentire, district organizer of the Seattle district reports, One new member was taken into the Workers Party on the spot, and others are ex- pected to join at the next party branch meeting. A larger hall had to be se- cured because the crowd could not be accomodated in the*hall which had been rented by the Workers Party. Hundreds of workers listened to Foster's attacks on the capitalistic Position of LaFollette. $14.00 worth of literature was sold, including the September “Liberators,” “DAILY WORKERS”, “Russia in 1924” by William Z, Foster, and “The World’s Trade Union Movement,” by Los- ovsky, “Every one voted the meeting a huge success and every one was par- ticularly pleased with Comrade Foster's statement of the Communist position”, Tallentire writes the DAILY WORKER. Attacks LaFollette At Comrade Gitlow’s Youngstown meeting a number of LaFollette fol- lowers attended, and declared after- wards that they Will vote for Foster and Gitlow. Gitlow devoted the major ‘part of his speech to an attack on the LaFollette movement, and.showed how the development of American capitalism necessitates a movement for wage reductions in order that American capitalists can keep control of the foreign markets for the disposal of the products of American industry, Gitlow dectared that the ‘Workers Party is.the only party that is fight- ing the wage cutting policy of the capitalists. He declared that the atti- tude of the Workers Party on organ- ization of unorganized and unemploy- ed workers calls for the workers to engage in a revolutionary movement to abolish capitalism. Our Candidsies FOSTER’S DATES LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Gamut Club Theatre, 1044 South Hope St.. Fri- day, October 3, 8 p. m. ‘SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.— Unity Hall, 138 So. 2 East, Sunday, October 5th, 8:00 p. m. DENVER, Colo.—Auditorium, Curtis and 14th St., Tuesday, October 7th, 8:00 p. m. GITLOW’S DATES, Gary, Ind., Turner Hall, 14th and Washington St. Thursday, October 2,8 p.m. i Milwaukee, Wis., Sunday, October 5. Duluth, Minn., Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave., W. Ist St., Monday, October 6,8 p. m. Superior, Wis., Tuesday, October 7. , St. Paul, Minn., enieey Octo- ber 8° Minneapolis, Minn., Thursday, Octo- ber 9. ‘ Chicago, Ill., Sunday, October 12, Omaha, Neb., Monday, October 14. Kaasas City, Mo., Tuesday, October 4, St. Louis, Mo., Wednesday, October 15. y * é Zeigler, Ill., Thursday, October 16, Springfield, Ill, Friday, October 17. New York, N. Y., Sunday, October NEW YORK ATTENTION N'T FORGET THE WORKERS -) PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND RY, A SUBSCRIPTION LIST lections should be made in ps, at all socials and meetings, among friends, and wherever else workers congregate, Send contributions to Workers Party Campaign Committee, 210 East 12th St., New York City, Tel, “Stuyvesant 6647, Krumbein, Treasurer. IN. WITH THE DOLLARS! THE DAILY WORKER HEARST SHEET PAYS $2,000 FOR CANARD ABOUT “SOVIET” AGENT BUT RECOGNITION FRIENDS LIE LOW By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—If you had suddenly, while walk- ing down the street of the national capital, become convinced that you were the medium thru which the Nazarene was speak- ing, and you presently discovered that a Hearst newspaper had announced that you were a secret agent of Moscow, wouldn’t you sue for damages? Mrs, Gladys Murray, Canadian citizen and former actress, became convinced, when she lost the power of speech and was taken to Emergency hospital here in August, 1922, that not only Christ, but Abraham Lin- coln, ‘and other historical cha- racters were using her as a medium to address the world. “The Liar” Gets Busy. But the doctor in the hospital tipped off the Washington Times that the state department files “might” connect her with the Soviet government. The city editor wrote a lurid lead, and the headline said she was “Linked With) Soviet,” while the ‘state department was refusing to admit that it had ever heard of her. It still says it knows | nothing of her. Mrs. Murray apparently knew noth- ing about the Soviet government ex- ¢ept what she had read in the kept press. She sued for damages, and her lawyers convinced a jury in the feder- a} court here that she was entitled to 32,000 to mend the injury to her repu- tation. As she phrased it in her com- plaint, the Hearst story had the effect of holding her up. to “public ‘hatred, contempt, ridicule and disgrace, and to cause the public to believe that she was an anarchist and spy, con- vineing against the government of the United States, and of improper and dangerous action.” After two years, the lady has just collected her $2,000 from Mr. Hearst, thanks to a decision by Justice Bar- her_of-the appellate court of the Dis- trict of Columbia, who finds that “The” nature of the Soviet government . of Russia, its proclaimed purposes and declared activities, beliefs and teach- ing, as commonly understood in this country, are such that the article is clearly capable of being understood in a defamatory sense by the readers thereof.” Sees Nothing Defamatory. Jn the argument before Justice Bar- ber, the counsel for Hearst made the plea that there was nothing defama- tory in the statement that one was a secret agent of a foreign govern- ment, The United States itself,. they pointed out, has secret agents abroad AMALGAMATED IN CLEVELAND FOR COMRADE FOSTER Joint Board | Repudiates “Bob” Endorsement (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 30.—The Communist campaign here has reach- ed the red hot stage, with street meet- ings, Foster and Gitlow mass meet- ings, and special campaign editions of the DAILY WORKER getting the |Communist message to thusands of Cleveland's workers. The Joint Board of the Amalgama- ted Clothing Workers of Cleveland has repudiated the indorsement of La- Follette by the General Executive Board of the Amalgamated because of the tremendous sentiment expres- sed in the Amalgamated of the Cleve- land district for William Z. Foster, candidate for president on the Work- ers Party platform. The largest local of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers in Cleveland has already indorsed the repudiation of LaFollette by their Joint Board, many of the clothing workers declaring for Foster. Special Edition Three thousand special “CLEVE- LAND CAMPAIGN EDITIONS” of the DAILY WORKER have been ordered for distribution at the Foster Mass meeting to be held in the Engineers’ Auditorium - on October 16. Other campaign editions will be ordered later.” ' In conjunction with the Communist campaign here, three open air mass meetings, will be held starting next Saturday. Thursday night the cam- paign committee will meet in the Labor Temple to take up preparation for the Foster meeting. Another large mass meeting will be held Saturday night, at which the principal speaker will be Robert {UNEMPLOYMENT HITS CAR SHOPS IN JOLIET, ILL, But Railroads Show Large Profits By PATRICK SARSFREED. JOLIET, Il.—The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry. was one of the few im- portant roads in the country where the great shopmen’s strike of 1922 re- sulted in a drawn battle. The wages of the men remained at the same level as previous to the La- bor Board decision that precipitated the great national struggle. The economic crisis of 1924 has however not failed to affect these mén severely. In the great shops at East Joliet, the main terminus of this railroad, 400 men have been laid off since Jan. 1, 1924 and those who were fortunate enough ‘to retain their work have been working but four days per ‘week since May, 1924. The hourly rate for skilled car buld- ers is 73 cents per hour dnd eight times 73 is $5984 per day. $5.84 times four days is $23.36 to support a wife and a growing family. This is the top wage and hundreds of mien make only 40 cents, 53 cents and 63 cents per hour. The E. J. & E, railroad, in the fis- cal year ending June 1, 1924, listed excess earnings of $2,500,000.00, The capital stock of this road is| owned ‘entirely by the Lilinois Steel Co., a large subsidiary company of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Local conditions in other industries are even worse. The following figures will give some small idea of the ter- rible unemployment now prevailing with no signs of improvement. 3. S. Heggil, boilermakers, two plants, 400 men employed in 1923; 100 men in 1924. Phoenix H. S. Co., one plant, full time in 1923; half time in 1924. Steel Company corporation, working at fifty per cent. Gen. Ref. Co, two plants, working only half time, Trying to Make Len Small Disgorge State Funds Kills Mortimer SPRINGFIELD, IIL, Sept. 30.—Fun- eral arrangements for C. F. Mortimer, state’s attorney of Sangamon County, were to be made this afternoon, Mor- timer died suddenly Sunday after two Cannon for Governor a JAMES P. CANNON Communist Candidate for Governor of New York QUAKER CITY TO SEE ‘BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIK’ Dramatic Russian Film Very Entertaining PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 30.— The Beauty and the Bolshevik will be shown in Philadelphia, Saturday, Oct. 4. This is the first feature film from Soviet Russia and was produced by Proletkino in Moscow with the co-op- eration of a Red Army brigade. The comedy is a real slice of Rus- sian life especially is this true of the. smaller towns. The role of the Red Army units in the life of these little communities is graphically pictured. The film shows a Red Army com- mander—“Kombrig his Red Army units into a little Rus- sian town. Then follows the station- ing of the troaps in the houses of the rich. Krombrig Ivanov is stationed in the house of a rich czarist priest. Ivanov’—leading | There is a beautiful daughter and of course the inevitable occurs. This situation is handled with a fine touch of humor which delight the audience to the very end of the film. It is worthy of note that Kombrig and at home, “watching popular move-| Minor, who is making a tour for. the ments,” and its consuls and dipomatic} Workers Party presidential-campaign. officers are continually engaged in the} Minor will also address the general Make! checks payable to Charles | same line of activities, even tho they are publicly recognized, Besides, the Soviet government of Russia was simply a government of a radical so- cialist type, founded on, “representa- tion by communities thru councils or soviets.” Surely, connection with a government of that special type could not in itself constitute anything of which to be ashamed. In reply, the claimants read from the only precedent in this new field of damages—the decision of Secretary of Labor Wilson, in 1920, to send Lud- wig C. A. K. Martens, Soviet com- missioner, back to Russia, In that de cision, Wilson held that the Soviet government is committed to a policy of destruction of the government of the United States by stirring up violent insurrection in this country. Since Martens was an official of that hostile government, he must be de- ported. Now, they said, Mrs. Murray is an allen; she is defamed when she is accused of this new deportable of- fense! Justice Barber, agreed, and Hearst paid. “Recognition” Not Popular. Altho they may not have read. this decision of the learned court, friends of recognition of the Soviet Union are keeping mum these days, when For- eign Minister Chicherin, in Moscow, issues @ statement suggesting that only the Wall Street affiliations of Mr. Hughes stand in the way of an understanding between the two big- gest republics. As sure as anybody who is running for office this year whispers a word of hope for a Russo-American trade politician will be branded as a Soviet by the valiant Dawes and his cam- paign staff. Judges Lenient With Dawes, It’s all very well to reflect that damages may be awarded, after elec- tion day, for the use of that awful epithet; the trouble ts that Dawes wriggles out of financial obliga- tions too easily, was illustrated in the Lorimer bank fraud case. Too many judges were too lenient with Dawes. Most of them are still on the bench, and Harry rey has ad- ded a few more. ‘On the whole, it 18 safer for the cpl: talist politicians to avold all danger of being branded as one who would ‘in any way co-operate with any of the national activities of these 150,000,000 ‘Russian outcasts. » EARN YOUR COMMUNIST MER. IT STAMP BY GETTING A NEW ME FOR THE PARTY ANDO ANOTHER READER AND SUB TO THE DAILY treaty, or diplomatic recognition, that | 4°@*!y- membership and T.U.B.L. meeting in the South Slavic Hall, 5607 St. Clair, Sunday morning at 10 A. M, Street meetings will be held as fol- lows:— Saturday night—46 and Woodland. Speakers, Severino and Lerner. Sunday night—79 and St. Clair, Speakers Benjamin and Severino. Tuesday night—125 and St. Clair. Speakers Severino and Lerner. years of failing health. He attained|!vanov is a bald headed hero, some- considerable promimence as chief of| thing unheard of in American filmdom the prosecution in the trials of Goy.|but to Russia even film traditions are Len Small. Britannica Editor Dies. LONDON, Sept. 30.—Hugh Chis- holm, editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, died today. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. AS WE (Continued from page 1) time when socialists thot the Menace stood for radicalism, but those of them who had ideas of that kind are now in the Ku Klux Klan or with the capitalists. The Menace is no nearer to the ideals of the revolutionary working class movement than the of- ficial organ of the Vatican. se ‘HE “little fellows” who hope against hope that they will get rich someday at no matter who's ex- pense again failed to take the advice of Arthur Brisbane and keep away from the Wall Street whirlpool. Deal- ers in German war bonds announced that several fortunes were made ‘on the rise in these bonds on the specu- lative market after the Dawes plan was accepted in Berlin, The suckers waded in and the sharks cleaned up. The suckers are now sucking their thumbs and imbibing considerable knowledge that was bot rather L JOLSON, the famous black- face comedian announced that he has decided to support Coolidge for re-election. Al was not modest in stating that he materially helped the late Harding in getting into the White House; via the tomb. Al does not realize that Silent Cal's prospects are dark enough without the injection of another black shadow into the picture. p. th BIA N anxious public still waits for Warren 8, Stone’s rejoinder to the rather caustic statement made by John L, Lewis, in behalf of the repub- ican campaign cammittee, on Stone's action in closing down his mining properties rather than sign an agree- ment with the Miners’ Union. Stone is a big gun in the LaFollette crowd, in fact he was one of “Fightin’ Bob's” original admirers. But he feels more at home with Spreckles, the sugar millionaire than with those who dig coal, m yo Oe. ARREN 8. STONE'S coal com‘ ; pany had a cofitract to supply the Poson and Maine railroad with lost that contract thru his By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, SEE IT refusal to sign up with the miners’ union. Perhaps, also, because the railroads are very much in poljtics and yery much in the camp of the republican party. It is rather amus- ing in one sense to see notorious la- bor fakers expose each other, but on the other hand it is regrettable that the working class should tolerate two such labor lieutenants of capitalism. se 8 AYOR HYLAN of New York patched up @ temporary truce with the Tammany Hall machine and announced that he would support the democratic state ticket. that he does not appear extremely enthusiastic, but his political fortunes are in the hands of the machine, and where Hylan's pocket book is there also is his heart. The New York Times, which once upon a time would not accept an advertisement from Tammany, is boosting Al for governor. Which speaks for Al to all who know what the New York Times stands for. ee @ AMSAY MACDONALD wrote a Preface to the latest edition of his book on socialism which is getting him into hot water. He might per- vert the teachings of Marx and repu- diate Marxism to his heart's content and the labor leaders would not feel | #4 any more offended than they did over his acceptance of the bribe from Sir Alexander Grant, but when he hit strikes, he was striking pretty near home. Just now Ramsay is the storm center of a hot discussion, The trade union leaders are hopping on him rather boldly, but so far they have not suggested that he take a ride to the Orkney Islands in Sir Alexander's car, General Smedley Butler. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.—Follow- ing a conference at his office today, Mayor Kendrick announced he will adhere to his original plan and take no action in his dispute with Gen- eral Smedley Butler until the bs I return to city hall. General Butler is confined to his home because of illness. os a It is true] not holy. The Beauty and the Bolshevik has had a spectacular eight day run in New York and the unanimous verdict of the audience was that the film is the most spfnaia yet to come from Russia and may be favorably com- pared with any American production as far as technique and acting are concerned. With the Beauty and the Bolshevik will also be shown the three reel film “Russia in Overalls” which deals with the most recent industrial develop- ments in the Soviet Union. The films will be shown at the Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden Sts. jon Saturday evening, Oct. 4. There will be. two shows, hours 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Admission 50c. Party Activities Of Tacal Chicago | Branch Meetings Wednesday, October 1. E. L. Local General Group, Ex- Room 303, T. U. ecutive Committee meeting, 166 W. Washington St. Thursday, October 2. 11th Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oakley Blvd. + ecremgaiarat Karl Marx, 2733 Hirsch y Exetutive Committee, Room 303, 166 W. Washington St. South Slavic No. 1, 1806 S. Pactes St. Finnish, Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted Street. 2ist Ward Italian, 611 _N. Sangamon St. South Side English, 3201 W. Division St. Russian No. 1, 1902 W. Division St. Friday, October 3. ‘ainian, No. 2, 10701 Stephenson Ave. Pollsh North Side, 1902 W. Division St, Jithuanian No, 41, 4138 Archer Ave. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra rehearsal, North Wood 8t., near Division. Italian, Cicero, Circolo eee Hall, Mth between 5ist Ave. and 50th C ae orn SF Club ont 3420 W. aecceveit * P. Jewish. be sed Cotta Italian, 2475 Clybourn Ave., floor Mid-¢ rity pe je aes Memorial Hall, Ogden ani Taylor St. Englewood, 6414 8. Halstea Bt. Cz.-Slovak No. 3, 2648 8S. Homan Ave.’ Fretheit Singing ‘Soctety, 3420 W Roose- velt Road, rehearsal tonight. Greek Branch, 722 hue Island Ave. YOUNG WORKERS aeneue ACTIVITIE: Wednesday, peel 1 Marshfield Branch, Hebrew Institute, Lytle and Taylor Sts. Thursday, October 2. North Side Branch, 2409 N, Halsted St. Bridgeport Branch, 2056 Bmerald Av. bescumuaalig Branch, 2733 riseeok Blvd, riday, October 3, West sie “Hreneh. 3322, Douglas Blvd. John Reed Branch, 1224 8, Albany Ave. wens Lekert Branch, | 2613 Hirsch Rosa Luxemburg Branch, 1910 West Division St, Russian Branch “Tiyitch,” 1902 West Sinonaes one ebknecht Branch, 1600 irtiahtand October ‘ Page Three Te Chicago Tribune is a fighting, aggressive newspaper. It is frankly for the interests of the Capitalist class. But in a burst of fairness (?) it devotes very often a part of its editorial page to ‘The Other Side.” % * * %. aha it presents the viewpoint of in- terests opposed to theirs. 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