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

(® \ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT f Vol. Il. No. 167. Vol. I. No. 167. SUBSCRIPTION HATES: outsiae ciinaeo, by mau THE Outside Chisago, by NEW ELECTION Batered as Second-class matter September 21, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1924 mail. $6,00 per year. WORKER. | at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHING C@., OOMS IN Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1113 'W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL RITAIN POPPI ak UNM ths RAMA arate te sesnlot Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents Bankers Forget Fear of Communism in Revel “Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die”---Judge Thayer AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. : H. THOMAS, minister for the Col- onies, in His Majesty's British socialist. government, recently visited South Africa, At a gathering of the Basuto nation, which was attended by the Earl of Athlone, Princess Alice, Lady. May Cambridge and General Hertzog, the prime minister of South frica, J. H. Thomas, informed the atives how anxious the king was for their welfare. elired the British “labor” “will pay you a visit next year,” ©d not say that at that particular mo- ment he was keeping United States bootleggers busy as they had never been before. oe F the prince is not too drunk, no doubt he will pay a visit to South Africa next year, provided a Volstead law. is not passed there in the -mean- time. J. H. Thomas told the Basutos that he would convey their expres- sions of loyalty to His Majesty, and assured them that he himself would never forget their interests and wel- fare. “The Basutos were advised by Thomas to take the advice of the High “Commissioner and they would not go wrong. Faithful servant of royalty! And the “republican” Hert- zog took it ali in. | OW many of our readers ever heard of King Feisul of Iraq? Yet he has a history. the days that self-determination stalk- e-abroad in the land and the prophet Woodrow stirred the multitudes ex- ceedingly with strange words about the rights of small nations and the perfidy. of divers autocrats, chief among them being Kaiser Wilhelm— it_was, in those days.that the star of Vetsul be to dawn, gnats “a that iy ‘aq is short on vowel pee it .is long on not so the British govern- ment which exudes humanitarianism wherever the oil gushes, sent a gen- ‘leman by the name of Sir Percy Cox, {Continued on page 6) STILL BUSY AT UNSNARLING OF WAR'S TANGLE Dawes Proposal Based on Versailles Treaty. By JAY LOVESTONE (Third Article) The findings of the Dawes and McKenna Expert Commit- tees of the Reparation Commis- sion open a new stage in the @.tempts of the Allied capital- its to untangle the baneful ‘ economic snarl growing out of their victorious war. Of these two committees, the one headed by Brigadier Gen- eral Charles G. Dawes and charged .with the task of learn- ing Germany's capacity to pay is of the greatest importance. Putting Germany on its Feet. These committees ‘were asked on “The King’s son,” de-| minister, | da: He It was during | ‘DANCER, NEARLY’ NAKED, STAR ON NIGHT PROGRAM | High Jinks in Largest Masonic Temple | _ Denouncing Communism. by y. Hold high revel at night. That is the business of the American Bankers’ Association meeting in Chicago. eee C. H. Markham, president of the la- bor-hating Illinois Central railroad, got rid of the following at the Auditorium Theater meeting of the bankers: “The broad principle to be consider- ed is whether the people desire more government in business, and eventually all government in business, which is Communism.” Cheer Barelegged Dancer, But a couple of hours later the thou- sands of bankers, jamming the Medi- nah Temple on the North Side, were | lustily cheering a bare-legged dancer, | and bare nearly everywhere else. Nero had to do his own fiddling. But the bankers, at their Medinah Temple “smoker,” that lasted into the wee sma’ hours of the dawn, and considered | the biggest event of the gathering here, had several jazz orchestras, the huge pipe organ, and their own voices; They sang, accompanied by the pipe organ; “How dry I am! How dry I am! Lord only knows, how dry I am! A-a-a-men.” But this was quickly followed by, “Hail! Hail The Gang’s -what thevhell-do we cate? ® hell do we care? What the hell do we care, NOW?” And They Don’t Care. And why should they care? Here was the pick of the bankers of the country. Thousands of them! They fill the auditorium of Medinah Temple, hailed as the largest structure under the jurisication of the Masonic Order. They left their wives at the hotels in “The Loop.” They rode to the Medi- nah Temple on the North Side in scab Yellow Taxicabs, on free passes fur- nished by the “local committee.” Many of them got their early, around seven o'clock. They. wanted the front seats, because they knew there was some- thing special on the program. Many protested when they learned that a huge block of seats, directly in front of the big stage, had been reserved for the officials and select members of the American Bankers’ Association. When Farmers Go to Bed: It was about the time that the farmers out in the grain belt were turning in for the night, to recuper- ate for the next day’s labor, that the bankers got under way wit their high jinks. In the words of the announcer, “It is to be a memorable event.” And it was. If the Machinists’ Union, or some other union, had tried to put (Continued on page 5) BOOZE! BOOZE! EVERYWHERE AT. THE AMERICAN BANKERS’ MEETING HERE By CARL HAESSLER (For The Federated Press) Booze is inseparable from the bankers’ big meet in the Congress hotel. Nov. 30, 1923, by the reparation com-| Some of the speakers performed as tho they had just had a smell of some mission to “consider the means of| of the good stuff. Listen to president John B. Edgerton, National Association balancing the budget and the meas-7of Manufacturers, who told this 50th annual convention of the money lend- ures to be taken to stabilize the cur-| ers .that: rency of Germany,” On January 14, 1924, the experts went to work. On April 9, 1924, their findings were! compel uneconomic advances in wags —— On Sept. 1, 1924, thel ana to expand the powers of the fed- made public, reparation commission officially’ de- “The so-called child labor amendment is dangerous because it presents a rose that unfolds a tafantula. It is eral government as to require the clared the Dawes’ plan in operation, | creation of more public offices and a after it wa approved officially by /rurther excuse of raising the cost of Great Britain, France, and Germany | government.” end unofficially for the United States by ers_on “vacation” in Europe, Four Salient Principles, re going into an exposition of ery st the leading Wall Street. bankers | cutive dffices of the convention janked by the.two principal cabinet! were offered a drink of “the réal If you walked into the inner ex- thing” before you could tell the mis- sion on which you entered. In the rooms devoted to publicity borate administrative machin. | every other fellow was offering a flask up by the Dawes’ plan to turn|of “port with a punch” or talking Germany into a colony of the interna-|about the one he had just helped to tional capitalists, dominated by the empty. American imperialists, it would be} Doctors’ offices were kept busy well. to state briefly the salient politi-| writing out prescriptions. “Yah see,” co-economic principles underly! whole program. These are: First and foremost: e}said a high-up secretary uncertainly to his convivial assistant, “yah just The Dawes'|shay Three Slips and give the ad- proposal is based on the Versailles} dress—not Congress hotel, but Con- [Breas street and—well make it Wa (Continued on page 5) banking record in the Lorimer bank (Special to The Daily Wi BOSTON, Oct. 2.—Nicola Sacco FRérthniomeo Van- zetti, two labor orgahizers of Italian birth, who were con- victed on the charge of murdering the paymaster of a big shoe manufacturing company, at Bridgewater, Mass., were ‘refused a new trial by Judge Webster hayer. The conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti aroused national and international anger on the part of the workingclass, Not since Tom Mooney was railroaded within an inch of the-electric chair was the prosecution of a labor case sur- ————--_--. aaa rounded with so much perjury and manufactured evidence as was the case of the two Italian radicals. Since the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti defense law- yers have been active securi ng affidavits from those who testified at the trial in which their former testimony was re- pudiated. But in the prejud iced heart of Judge Webster Thayer those workingclass leaders were guilty because they served their class. But the workers must see that Sacco and Vanzetti will not die at the hands of the Massachusetts ruling class. TEACHERS MEET \"irci TODAY 10 FIGHT A INCE A é 7 7 Mine strike it a wage-cut. The strike miners and their wives and families. Mayor Dever Ignores Appeal for Aid A call to action against the exploitation of teachers and the the commencement tt demanded of the see ae oe e betweer operators and the militarization and standardiza-| viners’ 4 in the so-called tion of the schools by big busi-| central _etitive field in the ness has gone out to the mili-| tnitea Scie tant teachers of Chicago in the| ‘The operators refused to do this; form of a circular announcing | on the coni they demanded a cut a mass meeting to be held at/in wages ai ting to $1.17 a day. 4:30 today at the Auditorium) This would a the loss of the war theatre. The notice has been signed by Mary Abbe, president of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, E. B. Colletto, president of the Chicago Federation of Men} son, president of the Chicago Federation of Women High School Teachers. The circular reads in part: “The last meeting of all public school teachers in Chicago will be held this week on Friday, after school at 4:30 p.m. A statement to the pub- lic of the critical situation confront- ing the schools will be presented for approval as directed by the Stude- baker mass meeting last week.” Obedient Robots. At this meeting, the teachers of the city will make final decisions’ on the action taken against the continued ag- gression of such men as William Mc- Andrew, superintendent of schools, and the representatives of big busi- ness on the school board who have been backing him in every move he has made fo reduce the teachers to the position of serfs to an official oligarchy and the schools of the city to huge factories for the turning out} obedient servants of the industrial machine, i Unlike William McAndrew, who has seen fit to present his case only to such organizations as the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and the prin- cipal’s association, the teachers are appealing to representatives of the organized labor movement for help. (Continued on page 4) bonus gained by the miners in 1919. Six Months. struck, and they for the past six receive a cent from the Lewis ad- ministration of the United Mine Work- ers. The only support they received during this period came from the rank and file of the labor unions of Can- ada owing to the campaign waged by the Canadian Communist Party for assistance to the miners. The officialdom of the Canadian labor unions and Trades Congress did not raise a finger to aid the miners in theier struggle. Get Small Pittance. Since July the miners have been receiving only a few dollars each week to keep. them and their families. The 11,000 miners and their families are determined to stick with the battle to the last, but the operators have the |deadly enemy, HUNGER, on their side. The stores have long since stopped all credit. their families are being evicted from their shacks because they are unable to pay rent. Naturally the operators are using this situation to attempt to break the ranks of the miners. The capitalist press has been flooded with propa- ganda against them. Agents of the mine owners have atempted to set up company unions, as happened in Fernie, British Columbia. But this atempt did not last long, because of the bitter opposition of the miners. The rank and file even fought the policy of signing agreements with in- dividual operators when that was proposed by the district officialdom. Strikers Decide to Fight to Finish. At the special district’ convention held this month, there was no sug- gestion from the rank and file dele- *|gates that the fight should be aban- doned. They demanded from the dis- trict officials that more relief should be gotten from the Lewis administra- tion of the International Union to help them win the struggle. As an answer, they were told that the In- ternational could not do more than it was doing because of the great un- meant to restrict production and to bash. Doc—he knows, Call him up shay Three Slips.” employment existing among the Pres. Arthur Reynolds of the Con:|™iners in the rest of the districts of the tinental and Commercial banks of | ¥nion. In spite of all this: evictions, scab- herding, foolish leadership, and HUN- GER, the miners of District 18 have stood as one man in opposition to the Chicago was not thinking of Charlie Dawes when he told the convention you/that the country must be rid of “mountebanks and their fallacies, half truths, malice and ambition: was pointing his big business, banke: finger at LaFollette. In fact Dawes seemed ace high at the convention despite, if not because"of, his shady He scandal, for which the Illinois supreme court held the Dawes bank to account for the “money so wrongfully taken.” The convention opened with all the bankers repeating the Lord's Prayer in unison: “Forgive us our debts as we’ forgive our tors.” After this (Continued on page 4) today to be preparing to buy Catalina Island, property of William ‘The gale price of the island was In many camps miners and/ UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE $ HELP BE SENT TO COAL MINERS OF DISTRICT 18, WESTERN CANADA ist, this year, the miners of District No. 18, United ‘kers of America, (Alberta, Canada), have been on involves about 11,000 The ranks of the miners in face of all the pressure brought to bear on them ators and the capitalist press and government of of the strike in April the officials coal operators’ association that ‘age scale be extended for three yedrs on the basis mene SEteetiene pt Help! Help! A campaign for increasing the cir- culation of the DAILY WORKER has heaped loads of work on our force. We need Help—NOW— QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to assist report at the DAILY WORK- ER office any day this week during the day or evening. We have work to spare. We want volunteers quickly —HELP!, HELP! wage-cutting schemes of the bosses. — The Trade League appeals to all militant and revolutionary workers to aid the striking miners of District 18 in their struggle against the operators. It musi be apparent to all militant workers that the defeat of the miners of District 18 will be the entering wedge in the ranks of the miners for the operators to cut |the wages of miners in other districts. | Already we have séen the operators in the I[inois fiqd organizing their forces to fight for a wage cut. If the miners @f District 18 are defeated and forced to accept a wage cut the oper- ators will have a better chance of forcing wage cuts elsewhere. To all the adherents of the Trade Union Educational League we say: Help the miners of District 18 fight against a wage cut by sending them financial help! Organize collections for the miners in your local union, in the work shop, wherever there are work- ers who understand that only by solidarity in the fight against the bosses can the workers hope to even defend their interests Send all money to Robert Peacock, Secretary-Treasurer, District 18, United Mine Workers of America, Burns Building, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. National Committee of the TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. William Z. Foster, Secretary. Kolchak’s Colonel Again Defeated in Another Con Game DETROIT.—The Detroit police are investigating a “love lottery” operated by the Perpetual Endowment society for financing weddings, the president of which is Nicolai Sokolowski, former colonel with the Kolchak counter-revo- lutionary forces in. Russia. Several brides and bridegrooms have com- plained the former anti-Soviet adven- turer defrauded them. Sokolowski has ben stopping at the Waldorf-As- toria in New York City, after leaving his wife and two babies with $12 to live on in the Detroit industrial sub- urb of Hamtrmack. OIL KING DOHENY PLANS TO BUY ISLAND IN PACIFIC OCEAN WHICH IS WORTH 2,000,000 FALL DOLLARS (Special to The Daily Worker) SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 2—E. L. Doheny, oil magnate, was said inta Cruz Island, 30 miles off the California coast near here with the intention of developing it as a resort similar to Wrigley, Chicago gum magnate. said to be more than $2,000,000, i - FOSTER CALLS ONU.S. 10 STOP WAR ON CHINA Challenges Candidates On Big Issue William Z. Foster, candidate for president of the United States on the Workers (Com- |munist) Party ticket, has issued la challenge to the three capital- list candidates, Calvin Coolidge, \John W. Davis avd Robert M. | LaFollette, to join him in a pub-| |lic demand that this country! | withdraw its armed forces from | China and cease its interference | with the internal affairs of that, country. The statement reads as fol- lows: *T¢ Cutvin. ¢ooliage; John W. ‘Davis | ¥ Sonton Educational | #24 Robert LaFollette: The imperialist interferences of our bankers, government officials and na- val forces in the affairs of China have already produced a move of retalia-| tion by the capitalists of Japan which threatens us with a new war between the two countries. This bloody war between this country and Japan, which our party has been constantly warning against, is apparently coming upon us much sooner than expected. The statement by the Japanese dele- gation in Geneva is already being made use of by the capitalist press for mobilizing public sentiment in fa- vor of war against Japan. As can- didate for president on the ticket of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, and in the name of my par- ty, I condemn this attempt to embroil the masses of this country in a new war and demand that the American government immediately withdraw al! its armed forces from China and pub- licly instruct our government officials to cease interfering in the internal affairs of that country. Since you, as a candidate for presi- dent, claim to stand for the well-be- ing of the masses of this country and are appealing to the masses for sup- port, I challenge you to join me in the public demand that this country immediately withdraw all armed fore- es from China and that our govern- ment cease interference with thein- ternal affairs of that country. Your action on this question will show where you stand on the imminent dan- ger of war between America and Jap- an. WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, Candidate for President on ticket of the Workers (Communist) Party of America. Hardworking Bosses Setting Bad Example to Their Wage Slaves Laziness and loafing by the boss in the printing business is attacked in the September Bulletin of the Frank- lin Assn., an organization of Chicago master printers. “During the easy money days of 1919 and 1920,” writes one of their num- ber, “we all acquired habits of indo- lent luxury which we are loath to give up.. Records from the beginning of business prove that. as income goes up, productivity goes down. It’s a hu- man trait. “The boss gets down at nine, takes two hours for lunch and goes home at four, Then he takes a day off on Wednesday or Thursday because the links are not so crowded as on Satur- day when”he plays at his own club. = “What has somebody said about pre- cept-and example?” Join the Workers Party! aia ‘COMMONS SCENE OF TUMULT OVER :* SOVIET TREATS: Tories and Liberals J Laborites (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 2.—TIiie were disorderly scenes on ™ ¢ floor of the House of Comm is this afternoon when questi 4s relating to Soviet Russia were put to the government. The tories shouted taunts and the laborites replied in kind. It is now accepted as almost a certainty that a general elec- tion will be held before Christ- mas. John Robert Clynes, on behalf of the government, announced that the mo- , tion censuring the government for quashing the court cases against the editor of a Communist newspaper, would be taken up on Wednesday. It was reported persistently in semi- official circles that premier MacDonald fis prepared to resign if a vote of censure is passed by Commons next week or the Anglo-Russian Treaty is rejected. In the event of resignation a general election will follow automatic- ally. The general impartial opinion is that the laborites will hold their ground in | the election. Conservatives United. ae tories and the liberals evident- have decidedyto bring; about the: downfall of the labor ministry at an early date. The liberals over the sig- nature of former prime minister As- quith put down a motion of censure of the government over the Russian | treaty. The conservatives hopped on the labor government over the with- drawal of the indictment agatst the acting editor of the Workers’ Weekly, { Communist organ. While the labor party is determin- ed to make a strenuous campaign in the general election, there is a strong sentiment for deposing Ramsay Mac- Donald as leader of the labor party. Since his assumption of office he has completely lost touch with the trade inion movement which placed him in office and has angered large sections of labor by his open espousal of the italist side in labor disputes. His ‘efusal to meet a delegation from the sowerful miners’ federation while he ad plenty of time to hobnob with vankers and capitalists made a very bad impression on the British work- ing class. MacDonald does not want to quit office if he can possibly avoid it, but the trade union movement is willing to fight for the Russian treaty and a rousing campaign is expected. French Government Suplies Chang with The Sinews of War PEKING, Oct. 2.—Formal protests have been handed the French legation here by the Peking goternment over the shipment of 18 airplanes on the steamer Chantilly, enroute from Hong- kong to Mukden for Chang Tso Lin’s forces there. General Chang's armies captured Chenping City on the morning of Sep- tember 29. The Chihlian forces are retreating before the forces of the Manchurian war lord. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. GOOLIDGE’S SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TRIES TO CHEER UP FARMERS WASHINGTON, Oct. 2— Ameri- ca’s 1924 wheat crop will put $1-— 000,000,000 In the hands of farmers, secretary of the treasury Mellon, an- nounced today, following an investi- gation of the situation at Chicago, by Eugene Meyer, Jr. aging di- rector of the war finance corpora- tion. “It is a matter of great satisfac. tion that this year’s great wheat crop was grown on a ten per cent smaller acreage than last yeare,” Mellon sald. wala, ih