The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1924, Page 1

- ‘wornalggetridonanstios:-pithinestighe past, From now on, declared the com. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. I. No. 166. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: in Chicago, by ma: Outside Chisago, by mail. $6.00 per year, il, $8.00 per year, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1924 aye <> THE DAILY WORKER. | Entered as Second<class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, UL FS Comenstiee Cantidales a Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents JAPS SOON TO RECOGNIZE RUSSIA AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ERE is good news for LaFollette from California. Much better than the supreme court decision which forced him to fall back on the electors of the socialist party. A fif- teen cent raise in the hundred pounds of sugar went into effect in the Golden State a few days ago. This means that the sugar Mahatma, Spreckles, can afford to drop a few more thous- and dollars into the campaign coffers of the. Wisconsin senator. A con- tributor, with fine sarcasm, suggests that we call this fact to the attention of LaFollete, so that he might have his freind Spreckles “go back to the prices prevailing in 1776.” ~ * ** HE booby prize which we consid- ered handing to E. B. Ault of the Seattle Union Record for the most asinine defense of MacDonald’s “en- dowed automobile” is held in cold storage pending delivery to the edi- tor of the Milwaukee Leader, unless we receive in the meantime the con- sidered opinion of Albert B. Fall in the matter. Here is Berger's apology: oe ““[HE fellows who got stung with the Teapot Dome think they have a comeback against Labor Premier Mac- Donald for accepting a car from aman whom he knighted. It was rather daring of MacDonald to do such a thing, but everybogy who knows him understands that there is nothing dis- honorable about that matter. Any- way the Teapot Domeers have no right to throw stones.” Almost like saying: | “Ramsay took a big chance and got caught -but he is no worse than other crooks.” i Rise OLICE COMMISSIONER EN- RIGHT of New York, declared that the “third degree” method for misioner, humane interrogation of prisoners .will take the place of the “gold fish” room, the rubber hose, and | other variations of the third degree. Which is as the Indians would say: | “heap big hokum.” The police will) not use intelligence instead of brute force because the latter is more in evidence than the former on the. po- lice force. The third degree weapons may be changed but if these is any change it will be toward a refinement of cruelty. 8 8 'HE use of the police third degree MAYOR DEVER TURNS BACK ON TEACHERS Refuses to Talk to the “Committee of Three” Three Chicago teachers’ or-| ganizations, the Chicago Teach- ers’ Federation, the Men's Fed- eration of Teachers and the Women's Federation -of High School Teachers, have joined forces to combat the suppres- sion of opinion among teach- ers, injected into the Chicago school system since William McAndrew has_ become the superintendent of the board of education. F On Friday, Oct. 3, the three teachers’ organizations will hold a mass meeting at the Audi- torium Theatre at 4 p. m. The teachers will make their reply to the members of the board of edu- cation, who voted to gag them at their teachers’ councils by placing the prin- cipals in control of their meetings. Mayor Turns Them Down. Mayor Dever was invited to speak. He answered in his usual style when confronted with a conflict between boss and employe, “I don’t know any- thing about it.” With these few words Mayor Dever turned his back on the teachers’ committee, that called at his office to ask his assistance in their fight. The teachers will learn more than one lesson about the system of gov- ernment that belongs to the bosses before they are thru in this-fight. And}. among them is the fundamental les- son that the antiquated policy of la- bor leaders offering the support of their organization before election to the tools of big business is the bunk. Last year Margaret Haley, business agent of the Teachers’ Federation, electioneered for Mayor Dever. She gave her office and her time to putting Dever’s candidacy over. Today mayor Dever shows her committee the door. Meanwhile, McAndrew is pushing the fight against the teachers. Back- ing him all the way is Charles M. Moderwell, president of the Board of Education, and owner of scab mines in West Virginia, and his little office in securing confession is illegal,| boy, Edgar Greenebaum, of Greene- but only on rare occasions do judges | baum Sons Bank and Trust company. dismiss the charge against a victim | Edgar is a nice boy who obeys orders forced to testify against himself on, With minute precision. He typifies pain of death. We had some splendid} the Success Magazine ideal of “the examples of brutal third degreeing of’| boy who will rise to be president of AGRICULTURAL WORKERS OF°"” I. W. W. URGED TO AFFILIATE WITH RED INTERNATIONAL (The convention of the Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union of the Industrial Workers of the World is of more than passing interest to the revolutionary movement of the world. To the Workers (Communist) Party, American section of the Third International, whose Drogram has rallied millions of exploited farmers and farm workers to the Social revolution; it represents the-expression of the only organized and therefore the most mili- tant elements of these oppressed: American workers. Th@ DAILY WORKER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party, in publishing the following communication to-the convention from the International Affiliation Com- mittee of the Red International of Labor Unions, expr@sses its solidarity with the Agricultural Workers’. Industrial Union in their job struggles and urges upon them the necessity of-viewing these struggles a8 part of the world conflict between the. world’s workers and every Dhase of capitalism..which can bé Conducted-in a revolutionary-manner_only-by~becoming part of the organization of the one revolutionary trade sand, industrial body in the world —the_Red International of Labor Unions.” | With” the-the revolutionary land and forest workers of the rest of the world the- Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union No. 110 will then hasten | its march towards its goal—the conquest for the workers of the power now held -by..the capitalists, which is based on the ownership of the land, ma- chinery and other*necessities of life.)—Ed. note. * * * * To.the Convention— The AGRICULTURAL WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL UNION, No. 110, INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, Tenmare, North Dakota. Fellow Workers: In lack of organization, and all its consequent condi- | tions of extreme oppression, unlimited hours of labor, mat inadequate | (Continued on page 6) | Cuban Sugar Strike Ma y Lead to General Walkout (Special to The Daily Worker) | HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 1.—A general strike of sugar mill) workers, which threatens to become sympathetic and halt the! machinery of all Cuban industries, loomed today as labor leaders of the Sugar Mill Workers’ Union started a movement to keep all laborers from reporting to work when the mills. open, unless. “radical increases in pay and shorter hours,” are granted by, employers. a] Midwest Is Hit by Killing Frost; See Big Damage to Crops A killing frost, over virtually the en- tire midwest from the upper lakes re- gion southward across the Ohio river valley, was reported today by the United States weather bureau here. The frost was accompanied by a min- |imum temperature in the affected re- gion of 41 degrees, registered at 6 in the morning. No detailed report of the extent of the damage to crops had been recived ef be Seer the bareu, STRIKING COAL TONIGHT IN BIG STEEL CENTER Our Vice-Presidential Candidate at Gary (Special to The Dally Worker) GARY, Ind., Oct. 1.—Ben- jamin Gitlow, Communist can- didate for vice-president of the ‘Huatchenson’s Rulings | September 30, much after the ‘roll call. “| der on the ground that it was partisan prisoners here in Chicago not very long ago. A schoo} teacher was ar- rested and charged with the death of the Franks boy. He was taken up to the top of a skyscraper hotel and (Continued on page 3) JOHNSTONE SPEAKS AT CAMPAIGN MEETING THIS THURSDAY NIGHT J. W. Johnstone, Workers Party candidate for congress in the 9th congressional district, will explain the problems confronting the work- ers as they prepare to vote in the coming ction, at a mass meeting Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted » Near Fullérton, Thursday, Oct. 2, at & p. m Johnstone, who is assistant secre- tary of the Trade Union Educational ie, is a member of the Paint- union, end has had many years of experience in the interests of the working class. The Workers Party has secured enough signatures to place Johnstone’s name on the bal- lot. been collected, Oct. 3. MOBILIZE FOR SHOP DRIVE 'W YORK CITY, Oct. 1.—The shop collection drive is in its final stage. 80 far reaching the office, indicate that large sums of money have The final drive has been set for the noon hour of At that hour comrades holding subscription requested to circulate them among their fellow workers in the shops. Com- join in the work and see how easy it is to fill up your list. Remember Friday, Oct. 3 at noon! the corporation.” of how he works: McAndrew submits a recommenda- tion. Edgar immediately moves it’ to be accepted and then Moderwell sec- onds the motion. Moderwell Cannot Vote. Mrs. W. S. Heffren threw a monkey wrench into their machine at the last meeting of the Administration Com- mittee of the Board of Education, when she challenged the right of President Modefwell to vote. Mrs. Heffren held that the president of the board sat with the Administration Committee in an advisory capacity and had no right to vote. She was upheld by James Mullenbach and at- torney Frank S. Righeimer, attorney for the board who replied that, tho a member ex-officio of all committees, the president was not entitled to a vote. And it was this ruling that succeed- ed in putting off the recommendation ot Superintendent McAndrew that the principals be authorized to call the counoils together after school hours and be invited to sit in the meetings. The matter was not dropped but will come up again at the meeting of the Board of Education which meets next Wednesday afternoon. ° Here is an example lists are All subscription lists must be filled and the funds of the shop collections drive should be in at the office of the campaign headquarters not later than Saturday evening. turning over campaign funds collected ing in itself. We must pay large bills for printi Send all funds to the Workers Promptness in is almost as important as the collect- and signs early next week. Party Campaign Committee, Charles Krumbein, Treasurer, 210 East 12th Street, New York City. United States, and running mate of William Z. Foster, in- vades this steel trust town dominated by the United States Steel Corporation, in a speech here tonight in Turner Hall, 14th and Washington Sts. Gitlow, who is expected to attract a large crowd of work- ers in the steel trust mills, will tell the workers of Gary why they have nothing to gain by supporting LaFollette, and will state the platform of the Work- ers Party—the only political party in the campaign which has a remedy for the problems of unemployment and capitalist domination now scourging Gary. Has Successful Tour. Gitlow has just completed a success- ful tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania where he spoke to rousing meetings in all the large industrial cities. The steel trust slaves are again attempting to organize in Gary in their fight for livable conditions, and Gitlow is ex: pected to have an important message on the amalgamation as opposed to craft union organization drives, MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Sunday, Octo- ber 5, 2:30 p. m., Freie Gemeinde Hall, corner of 8th and Walnut. DULUTH, Minn.—Monday, October 6, 8 p. m., Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave. W. and ist St. SUPERIOR, Wis.—Tyesday, ber 7, 8 p. m., Workers’ 1. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wednesday, Oc- tober 8, 8 p, m., Labor Temple, 416 No. Franklin Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Thursday October 9, 8 p. m., Coliseum, 27th Ave. South and Lake St. CHICAGO, Ill—Sunday, October 12, 2:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren and Ashland, Octo- ‘Subscribe for “Your Daily,” Paperen shops were fotced to take | the bituminous mines’ rate of 3.77 deaths per million tons. The eight months’ the DAILY WORKER. DIGGERS STARVE; LEWIS AIDS CAL Miners lgnoeed by the Union President CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. 1.— Shoes are needed for /children in the Kanawha valley of West Virginia so |that the little ones can go to school |this winter, Clothing is also required. The fathers of the children are un- ion miners thrown out of their jobs when the operators declined to accept the Jacksonville national agreement and decided to cut wages to the star- vation point. The families have been evicted from the company houses and expect to spend the winter in canvas tents, Hit From All Sides. Now truant officers of the district who ate under company influence, threaten to arrest the fathers if their children do not attend school, The families have no money -for school books and none for the shoes and clothes needed to equip the children for the daily trip to the country schoolhouse, Mrs. C. LL. Jarrett, president Woman's Union Label league, wil) acknowledge any gifts of money, shoes or children’s garments that are sent in for the miners’ boys and girls. Woman's clothing will also be wel- come since many of the miners’ wives are theradbare. Mrs, Jarrett’e ad- dress is care of The West Virginia Federationist, 18 Alderson St., Charles- ton, W. Va, Must Row to Work, SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Oct. 1— The Mohawk river, swollen four fee: by the hard rains of the last 48 hours, ‘was a raging torrent today. Em- ployes in some of the General Eectric to rowboats to reach their work. CARPENTERS’ MEET ENDS IN BIG UPROAR Anger Delegates INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1.— The twenty-first General Con- vention of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners adjourned, on the afternoon of fashion of the famous adjourn- ment of the last convention of |the United Mine Workers in | Indianapolis, while the delegates | were on their feet demanding a W. L. Hutchenson, who ruled the carpenter’s convention with jan iron gavel raised such a ‘storm of opposition against his autocratic decisions that, to- ward the closing hours of the ‘convention there was a possi- bility that the delegates would |go out of hand. One Man Rule. Cries of “czar” came from all parts of the hall and the delegates furious with anger asked loudly why they had wasted their time coming to a conven- tion where only the opinions of one man carried any weight. From the opening day until the close of the conventon, the general president, W. L. Hutchenson, set his face sternly gaint the slightest con- cession to progressive policies in thg union. So extremely reactionary is the policy of this bureaucrat that even the resolution endorsing the new pol- itical departure of the American Fed- ‘eration of Labor was ruled out of or politics. Even Gompers is a "progres- sive” to Czar Hutchenson. Against Workers Education. Another ‘resolution which felt the heavy hand of the machine was one urging the Brotherhood to affiliate with the Workers’ Educational Bureau, a harmless institution wet-nursed by Gompers and his pet poodle, Matthew Woll and directed by a collection of “intellectuals” who are perfectly safe and sane so long as the Gompersian check book smiles on them. Yet education of any kind is con- sidered dangerous by the ultra-reac- tionary labor fakers so the Workers’ Education Bureau will not have the affiliation of the Brotherhood and the financial stimulus that such affiliation would bring. During the discussion the red spec- tre of Communism, thru its leading exponent in the trade union movement William Z. Foster, hovered over the convention hall. So fearful are the re- actionaries of the work of the Trade Union Educational League, that they | feared the word “education” in both organizations might “confuse the membership.” One delegate, a reactionary, asked Hutchenson: “Is it not true that this Workers’ Education Bureau is fostey- ed and backed up by the Communists of North America, and that it is back- ed up by the Communist movement in Russia?” Hutchenson replied that there was a difference between the Workers’ Ed- ucation Bureau backed by the A. F, of | L. and the Trade Union Educational League backed by Foster Duffy's Effort. Several delegates spoke in favor of the resolutiog and then Frank Duffy secretary of the Brotherhood, made a speech against it which deserves to be quoted extensively. He said in part: “The United Brotherhood has al- ways been in favor of education, but education of the right sort. Now, if you will carefully consider the names ef these’ two bureaus or leagues you | blishment of the hegemony of Amer- Increase in United States Export Trade While Work Slackens| Washington, Oct. 1.—Exports front the United States to Europe increased | more than $100,000,000 during the} eight months ended September 1. com- pared to the same period last year,| the Department of Commerce an-| nounced today. | Of total exports of $2,607,000,000 in| these months, Europe took $1 ,000,- | 000. Asia and South American trade increased heavily. Great Britain continued as Ameri-| ca’s chief customer, having taken| goods valued at $900,000,000. German| purchases increased from $191,000,000 | to $237,000,000 in the period ended! September 1. U.S. INVOLVED IN EUROPEAN ENTANGLEMENTS Financial “Ambassadors Are on the Job By JAY LOVESTONE (Second Article) The United States is now in- volved up to the belt in Europe- an political and financial affairs. American ambassadors of fin- ance are today the highly honored and still more feared figures of the political centers of Europe. House of Morgan Rules. After four years of war and six.years of acute economic dis- organization the Bank of Lon- don, once the world’s money centre, has been forced ihto an alliance with the House of Morgan. This alliance makes out of the British bank an annex of the “House At The Corner,” the firm of J. P. Mor- gan and Company, the kingpin of American high-finance. Not a single event in international | politics and industry since the Versa- illes Treaty transcends in importance the London Conference which prepared the immediate ground for the adoption of the Dawes Plan by France and Germany. This conference brot into bold relief the supremacy of American imperialism. To the masses of Europe American capitalism appears today in the single robe of a money-lender, the international Shylock. Nor let any one have the notion that this policy of aggression on the part of the Yankee imperialists is the result of eleventh-hour despair. The Dawes plan is the product of the most care- ful observation, the most deliberate planning, and consummate manipula- tion on the part of the Best Minds.of | our ruling class. The Dawes plan does not have a scintilla of idealism in its intents or purposes, despite all the inspired humanitarian talk in which it is ensphered, It is put forward, at a time judged most appropriate by the guiding spirits of our employing class, as the plan best suited to the condi- tions at hand for the perpetuation of international capitalism thru the esta- | ican capital. Towards An European Receivership. In October 1919 the special corres- pondent of the New York Wall Street Journal cabled from Germany to the effect that there was but one solution of the European crisis and that was “a straightforward receivership for Germany.” The same journal had then also suggested that Brigadier General | Charles G. Dawes be chosen to un-| tangle the reparations knot, On April, 1924 the Wall Street Journal proudly will find it is confusing. As a repre- sentative of the American Federation (Continued on page 3) 166 MINERS KILLED IN AUGUST; MAKES TOTAL IN YEAR OF 1,628 _—————__ (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Coal mined in the United States during August of this year cost in accidents 166 men first eight months of this The Bureau of Mines it hi eraged 4.17 killed for ea The anthracite mines showed, for fatality rate this year was 4.58 for all } ar 1,628 men. es that this means, for August, a rate of 3.97 tj men killed for each® million tons of coal mined. August of last year had a death rate of 5.46 men per million tons. oasted that “The essence of the Dawes Report, the one possible means by (Continued on Page 2.) killed, making the total killed in the For the ten-year period just past, ch million tons. this August, a rate of 4.94 as against | coal, as against 4.12 in 1923, 4 a _ NEGOTIATIONS NOW ON MAKING GOOD HEADWAY Five of Eight Articles Are Agreed On (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Oct. 1— Early recognition of Soviet Rus- sia by the Japanese government |is at last promised as the result of the progress made in nego~ tiations between L. M. Karak- han, Soviet ambassador to China, and Kenkichi Yosjizawa, representing the Japanese gov- ernment. Karakhan has already induced the Japanese ‘representative to accept five out of eight articles of a draft upon which the two countries have been working as the basis for a Russo-Japanese agreement. Sakhalin Island Issue Up. One of the main points of conten- tention between the two countries has been settled, it is announced, the Sov- iet government agreeing to waive de- mand for immediate evacuation of northern Sakhalin island by the Jap- anese, which is said to be impossible at present due to the cold weather. The Japanese have agreed to evacuate next spring. The looked for recognition of Sov- jet Russia by the Nipponese will crown with success a fight for an agreement waged for over two years by the Soviet government, Many Conferences Held. In the summer of 1922, conferenc- ‘es held-at’ Changchun, China, broke down, and another meeting between representatives of the two govern- ments held in Tokyo, in 1923, also failed to bring about an agreement. Yoshizawa, before his appointment as minister at Pekin for the Japanese government, was chief of the far east- ern department of ~ foreign office in Tokyo. CHANG OPENS BIG DRIVE ON PEI FU'S ARMY Chekiang “Peeeis Still Holding Out MUKDEN, Oct. 1.—Gen. Chang Tso Lin’s Fengtien troops today launched a general attack on all fronts against Marshal Wu Pei Fu’s central govern: ment forces. Especially heavy fighting was ze ported around Shanghai-Kuan, impor: tant railroad town and seaport. ef @ SHANGHAI, Oct. 1—The combined Kiangsu and Fukan forces opened an attack on Sungkiang today, thereby completing the circle around the Che kiang forces near here. Fighting continued on all fronts with no gains reported for either side. WIIl Fingerprint Suspects. SYDNEY, New South Wales —The New South Wales anti-Labor govern- ment has given the police power to take the fingerprints of persons ar- rested on suspicion. Labor members opposed the proposal contending that the police would be able to rope in anybody on suspicion and secure the fingerprints. Labor members claimed that no fingerprints should be taken junless a person was convicted of a crime. They charged the government with instituting this law against the radicals, Fear Girls Kidnapped. Dorothy Dowden, 16, of 1224 Brook side Avenue, Waukegan, Ill, was one of two girls being sought by police here today following reports that the girls probably were being held by male kidnapers. Dorothy had been in Chicago only a short time. She dis. appeared from her room Saturday and was gone until Monday evening. Get the Difference, The board of directors of the New York Central railroad lines arrived here in a special train and dined aboard their private dining car yester- day. The train crew “dined” in a five and ten cent hash house, as usual,