The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1924, Page 2

H q e { rs i 4 ; 4 a: ig Page Two GITLOW SPEAKS TO BiG MEET iN MUSKEGON, MICH. Flays Silent Cal; Crowd Roars Approval By JOSEPH MANLEY Campaign Manager, Workers Party. Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presi- dential candidate of the Work- ers Party, addressed a large and enthusiastic campaign meeting at Muskegon, Michigan. A big audience at a Communist oam- paign meeting in a city. of the size and type of Muskegon is truly remarkable, and indicates the drift of the workers in the large industries towards revolu- tionary and Communist ideas. Outlying centers like Muske- 2 were formerly bulwarks of the xtion. Muskegon is one of is ye typical Main Street towns, Acch the trusts have converted te? 2 modern capitalist hell. ge factories were built in skegon in order to escape militant and discontented Vor of the big cities. linday the workers of Muskegon are B33 foly proletarianized, and reduced to & Gndition of unspeakable misery. One third of them are unemployed; a ma- jority of those employed are working part time. Forty cents per hour is considered high wages. Ten hours constitutes a minimum days work. Well Organized Meeting. In this Michigan outpost of manu- facturing capital Comrade Gitlow made @ memorable communist address. His meeting was well organized and ar- ranged, for which the comrades: in Muskegon deserve credit. The chair- man of the meeting was Comrade C. Thorson. Foster and Gitlow campaign posters were posted up all over town, alongside of posters advertising the Ku Klux Klan. Hundreds of tickets, charg- ing twenty-five cents admission to the Gitlow meeting, were sold. The large audience which assembled to hear Gitlow listened in rapt atten- tion to his onslaught on the capitalist candidates. Gitlow said: “A severe un- employment crisis faces the working class of America already, even before the approach of winter. Thousands are unemployed, in the large cities and the textile and mining industries of the ‘country. \These un¢mployment crises | are but the normal manifestation of capitalist society. Their only remedy is the abolition of capitalism. “The Workers Party advocates im- mediate unemployment rélief. Unem- ployed wages to be paid by industry and the government.” Gitlow aroused great enthusiasm by his denunciation of Coolidge and Davis. His exposure of the LaFollette movement, as a menace to the working class was ap- plauded eagerly. “LaFollette is a re- publican lawyer for forty-five years and now he stands for the capitalist system—and its product, Wall street. For Cheap Labor. “The same capitalists and their sys- tem that’came to Muskegon ‘looking for cheap labor are now going to Ger- many to further enslave the German working class, with the Dawes plan. This pina and its consequent opera- tion with American capitalist gold will in conjunction with the slavish condi- tions to which the German working class has been reduced will produce commodities at a much cheaper rate than they can be produced in Ameri- ea. This will lead to still greater American unemployment. Eventually, 4s a result, the operation of the Dawes plan and the struggle of American capitalists for supremacy in world markets, will lead to war. Fight For Workers. “The Communist parties of Germany and of Europe are the only parties that fight for the working class against un- employment, against capitalist’ wars, and against the misery and exploita- tion of the workers. “The solution of the many problems confronting the workers of the United States lies in the election of the can- didates of the Workers Party, the of- ficial American branch of the Third Communist International, on a plat- ‘form pt abolition of the capitalist sys- tem and reorganization of the United States government into a Soviet Re- public, modeled after that of Russia.” Count With Fancy Name Takes Count In Francisco Court SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.—“Count” Alexander Dudley de Beaufort, as- serted Belgian nobleman, today began serving a sentence of four months in the county jail imposed in federal court for impersonating an American army officer. De Beaufort, who is said to be a former husband of Irma Kilgallen, Chicago actress, pleaded guilty to the charge following, it is said, receipt of information that the department of justire was prepared to produie a record of his activities for the past seven years. . Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, (Special to The AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 2-—Two hundred Negro women incarcerated in the Auburn State Prison here, where many Communists have been incarcerated, were permitted as a special dispensation to celebrate Emancipation Day, Permission has also been granted to eat a regular meal on that day, and discard the prison fare for one day, if the Negro women which occurs on Nov. 1. buy the food themselves. cipation Committee.” CANNON EXPOSES TAMMANY SMITH AS LABOR FOE Helped to Put Over Morgan’s Man Davis (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Oct. 2— James P. Cannon, Workers’ Party candidate for governor, in an inter- view today characterizes Al Smith, the democratic candidate for gov jernor, as “enemy of the workers of New York State.” Cannon is to be the principal speaker at mass meet- ings to be held on Friday, Oct. 3 at Queens County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave., Brooklyn and on Satur- day, Oct. 4, at Oddfellows’ Hall, 72 North Broadway, Yonkers. The Workers’ Enemy. “Alfred E. Smith, my democratic | oppenent for governor is not now and | never has been a real friend of labor. By his acts and utterances, he has proven himself to be an enemy of the workers of New York state. It was Al Smith who withdrew his name as a candidate for the presidency in favor of John W. Davis, the attorney of J. P. Morgan and the Standard Oil Co. “It is only thru Smith’s powerful support that Davis was finally nomi- nated by the democratic convention. Smith is therefore responsible to the workers of this state for the selection of a man for the presidential nomina- tion who has been engaged repeatedly by the powerful interests to fight the workers in the courts es he did in the Coronado case against the United Mine Workers of. America. Smith a Militarist. “Smith is the man who indorsed and carried out Coolidge’s order for a mili- tarist demonstration on Mobilization Day. Smith is the’governor of one of the states which still retains on its statute books—a criminal syndicalist law. | He must shouldet the responsi- bility for the scrapping of the welfare program which he pledged himself to carry. “What does this ‘friend of labor’ say about unemployment, which is be- coming more and more of a pressing problem? What does he say about cut- ting down the state constabulary which is used against the workers in strikes? Nothing. By juggling a few progressive phrases, Smith. has ob- tained for himself a reputation of be- ing a friend of labor, but actually he is for business, as are all the demo- cratic candidates and he is for the same reason opposed to the workers.” *e * The young folks of New York City are preparing to hear Oliver Carlson on Monday evening, Oct. 6 at Stuyve- sant Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St. Carlson who has been traveling thru Europe and Soviet Russia for the last 20 months will tell of conditions in the countries he visited. Labor Candidate Who Licked His Boss Barred from Office VANCOUVER, B. C.—In, order to deny Labor representation in the British Columbia lower house at the coming session, the Burnaby munici- pal- council refuses to grant Frank Browne, Labor member-elect fron, Burnaby riding, a suburb of Vancou- ver, leave of absence from his work as municipal accountant. Browne, running as the candidate of the Can- adian Labor party, delegate Alexander K. McLean, reeve of the municipality, runing on the old line-ticket. As reeve of the municipality, McLean is Browne's boss and he is row attempt- ing to prevent Browne from attending the autumn session of the provincial house. 5 The Vancouver Trades Council in- tends to take legal action to compel leave of absence. Meetings are being held and the people told the reasons for the council's action. “Every phase of labor is affected by the action of the Burnaby council, and unless labor makes a determined stand at the present time, we might just as Well quit as a political organ- ization,” said Harry R. Neelands, La- bor member for South Vancouver. White Collars Affiliate. BRISBANE, Queensland.— At the annual conference of the Queensland civil servants’ union, a motion was carried by a large majority indorsing the. executive’s action in affiliating with the Trades and Lahor council. This is the first time that government employes in Australia have affiliated with a labor council. Hitherto,’ civil servants have considered themselves too classy to mix with workers. NEGRO WOMEN IN INFAMOUS PRISON | GET EMANCIPATION DAY PRIVILEGES These women are destitute, however, and they have communicated with the DAILY WORKER, asking aid in the raising of funds, be sent to Warden El. S. Jennings, 135 State Street, Auburn, for the “Eman- Daily Worker) All funds must CAL WAVES FLAG THAT STANDS FOR THE TEAPOT DOME Good Judges Put Oil in Burglars’ Lamps WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Connection between the scandal of government by oil companies and the defense of the federal court oligarchy in the Cool- idge campaign has become so nakedly evident that the bosses are sending out an alarm to all the states. From now until election day the flag must be grabbed and waved an exclusive possession of the Coolidge administra- tion. The Constitution must be asso- ciated in the moron mind with the Coolidge campaign textbook. Nothing short of hysterical noise, and persecu- tion of those who want to know why the laws are violated will save the day. History a Nuisance! Somebody has dug up a set of clip- pings from the New York papers of January 3, 1928, devoted to President Harding’s statement to the press that Secretary Fall had decided to retire to his ranch. This was nearly nine months aftgr the senate had adopted @ resolution for the investigation of Fall's illegal giving away of the naval oil lands. It was at the time that Fall was reported to be retiring from the cabinet in order to become counsel for the Sinclair Oil Co. Fall “Got” His Man. Fall did not dare go on the supreme court; he knew that somebody was bound to discover his crookedness, and that this would be a blow to the prestige of the whole judicial crowd, from Bill Taft down to the last district federal judge. Besides, he knew that someone might discover that he had once been a democratic federal judge in New Mexico, and had been kicked out by President’ Cleveland after he shot a lawyer dead at his courtroom door, e How much Sinclair and Doheny and Standard Oil had to do with Harding’s offer of a place on the supreme court bench to the notorious Fall may never be disclosed. The significant thing is that, but for the oil investigation resolution, he .prob- ably would have taken a life job as a “bulwark of the Constitution” against the demands of the people and the acts of the elected congress. When he failed to take the place, a hardshelled railroad attorney from St. Paul, denounced by organized labor as one of its bitterest foes, was selected. And today the country is waiting to learn which one of the oil lobbyists and lame duck reactionaries at Cool- idge headquarters is next to be given the black robe as an associate of Bill Taft in the nullifying of national laws. Mondell Had Taking Ways. Will jt be Phil Campbell of Kansas, now lobbying for Standard Oil, or Secretary Wilbur, who repudiated the navy’s fuel conservation policy in his recent speech to the Petroleum Club at Taft, California? Or will it be Frank Mondell of Wyoming, the man T. R. said he would’not trust “with a branded steer in daylight?” Mitchell Palmer, when bullying his way toward a hoped-for nomination for the presidency from the office of attorney general, secured the appoint- ment of a long list of corporation law- yers—each a fanatical enemy of the workers—to federal judgeships. Harry THE DAILY WORKER TREACHERY OF LEADERS FEARED INI. LG. U. STRIKE Reactionary Officials Play with Al Smith (By Fed id Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—A strike which is termed by officials of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union as the beginning of an inten- sive organization drive in the ladies’ tailors’ shops is to be declared within a few days. uae workers in this sec- tion of the needle trades are highly skilled and work on the most ex- pensive fine-tailored custom costumes which retail at $150 to $1,000 or more. Theatrical costume makers and alter- ation hands are also in the purisdic- tion of the union, local 38 in New York City. Demand 40-Hour Week. The union demands are for the 40- hour week and'for 44 weeks’ yearly work guaranteed and a 10 per cent in- crease in wages. The greatest problem of the industry is the overwhelming number of unorganized workers. In a tailor shop employing 25 skilled ladies’ tailors, there will be 200 girls working on custom dresses, private dressmakers who are not organized. Local 90 of the International has juris- diction over these non-union workers but report only 129 shops with 1,000 workers organized out of 249 shops and about 10,000 workers in all. 43,000 Unorganized. Samuel Lefkovits, vice-president of the International, is in charge of the miscellaneous trades section in which both the ladies’ tailors’ and dressmak- ers’ locals are listed. According to Lefkovits’ statement there are about 43,000 unorganized workers in the 13 trades of this section and only 8,000 organized. The greatest perecntage of non-union workers are in the waist- making, white goods, and children’s dressmaking trades. Local 25, waist- makers, has 28 union shops with 400 workers; and there are 250 open shops with 7,000 workers. Local 62, white goods workers, has 79 union shops with 2,500 workers; and there are 350 non-union shops with 5,000 workers. Local 91, children's dress- makers, has 78 union shops with 2,000 workers; and there are 550 non-union shops with 15,000 workers. Em- broidery, raincoat, button workers, and tuckers, pleaters and hemstitchers are proportionately better organized. Left Wingers Active. Trade Union Educational League members are predicting that the strike in the Jadies’ «shops will be the same sort of stoppage as the cloak workers experienced last spring. The left-wing unionists say that the International officials have already settled with teh bosses and that the workers will get the wage increase (with a deduction of 2 weeks’ work to nullify it) and will not get the shorter week nor the guaranteed minimum of weeks. The T. U. B. L. members of the union declare that the special mediation commission ap- pointed by Gov. Al Smith with the consent of the International will be called into this strike and that the workers will be the losers again. They expect considerable rebellion to develop among the rank and file of the workers when the actions of the International officials are an- nounced. i “* @ & £ Wool Trust Boosts Price. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—American Woolen Co., which recently ommitted its dividend and ordered wage cuts for its workers, has now declared an increase of from one to 32 cents a yard on wholesale woolen fabrics for spring materials. Republican cam- paign backers are interested in this concern, particularly William Morgan Butler, and are using strategy to con- vince the people that the present ex- orbitant tariff must be retained to protect them. President William M. Wood of the company said that there is a shortage of wool in the world Daugherty made that his most import-| Which justified higher prices, Clothing ant personal task. When he wanted a| Manufacturers predict increased costs railroad strike injunction, he made a|to retailers and a consequent boosting judge, and then called on that judge|of prices to the consumers. With for the violent injunction he used|diminshing returns from their work against the shopmen.* Palmer and/4nd increasing prices of living neces- Daugherty were the creators of a/| sities, workers do not see themselves large section of the sacred federal} buying new spring suit court dictatorship that Collidge is now clamoring to save. for Standard Oil; Daugherty served the oil crowd without discrimination, so long as his Jess Smiths and How- ard Manningtons and Bill Burnses were satisfied, Palmer worked “Gallant” Hell an’ Maria Dawes Dodges Brookhart Challenge Sinclair and Doheny and Standard| MUSCATINE, Iowa, Oct, 2.—“I am Oil have not given up hope of holding |"°t 80ing to descend to personalities. on to the naval oil reserves. ‘Their |! have fired into a flock of political hand-picked federal judges are on the| /ee-Wits’ and some of the wounded job, and they have Coolidge and per- haps the next attorney-general, if Coolidge wins, Harry Daugherty may again be attorney-general, or he may @ go to the supreme court, giving Camp- a bell or Mondell the department of justice, f a Many Want Air Races, DAYTON, Ohio, Ovt. 2 birds are fluttering. Perhaps you can identity them. I don’t know.” This was the answer of Gen, Charles . Dawes, republican vice-presidential andidate today to a request for an nswer to the demand of senator Smith W. Brookhart that he resign as “Cal” Coolidge’s running mate. The answer was given to a crowd which gathered about his special train here enroute to ‘wo cities|Kansas City where he made the first want to entertain the international airof a series of 10-minute rear-platform races in 1925, They are: St. Paul, |addresses which are to be a part of his Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlantic City and | invasion of Iowa, Missouri and Indiana Denyer, The National Aeronautic As-| today and tomorrow. t soci ion which opened informally to- Never once in his formal address did day at the Miami Hotel, is consider-|the general refer to Brookhart or his ing all five. Friday or Saturday. pm . Decision will be made | attack, ns Wisconsin’s Campaign Issue Shows the Daily Worker’s Possibllities By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: the DAILY WORKER issues its special “Wisconsin Presidential Campaign Edition.” It is only one of the many “Special Editions” being put out during the campaign. But it has many characteristics all its own. According to original plans these “Campaign Specials” were to make over the first page only. But not so for Wis- consin. The comrades of this state spread themselves over three special pages. And they are making it pay. . * * * Wisconsin had a first page. On it the comrades carried their message to the tens of thousands of workers they will reach with this special issue. There was an “Open Letter” ‘to the membership of the Wisconsin Socialist Party, since it is in this state where the socialist misleaders maintain their last stronghold. This is also the state of LaFollette. His position is analyzed from the Communist viewpoint. * * * * Superior, Wisc., up at the head of the Great Lakes, in- sisted on having a page for itself. It made good by getting enough advertisements to pay for it. This is a tribute to the way that our Finnish comrades do things. It is an explana- tion of how they manage to maintain three dailies’in the United States, in addition to other weekly and monthly pu- blications. One of these dailies, Tyomies, is published at Superior. It is a veteran of the class struggle. It was published form- erly’at Hancock, Mich., but following the great copper strike, of 1913, which was lost after a long and heroic struggle, it was moved to Superior, where the Finnish comrades also have a large publishing plant. * * _ Our advertising manager, Comrade Sam Hammersmark, went to Milwaukee, and got the advertisements that appear on page five. They help pay for more Communist propa- anda. nf What Comrade Hammersmark achieved in Milwaukee shows what can be accomplished in a large number of big industrial centers thruout the country. The big department stores in Chicago will not advertise in the DAIL ORKER. Neither will other big advertisers come in. They give their advertising to support the big capitalist dailies. But in every city there are advertisers, in working class districts, who depend exclusively upon workers’ trade. They need the workers. The workers do not need them. They can be forced to give their advertising to the DAILY WORKER. A score of cities, with the advertising solicitation for the DAILY WORKER well organized, would relieve Our rh of its financial burden. It could be made to pay for issuing Our Daily. * * * ° Not only that, but the basis would be laid for regular Special Editions of the DAILY WORKER, for every day in the year. Kedty f the Wisconsin comrades could duplicate, every day, what they have done in this Special Edition, they would have a Special Wisconsin Edition delivered in their state every morning. It could carry more news, more articles dealing exclusively with the class struggle in that state. It could carry the fight eyery day, into Wisconsin, more effectively against the sinister forces of socialism, under Berger, and “progressive” republicanism, under LaFollette. We could wage a real campaign for the organization of the unorganized in this notoriously “open ag state. We could raise, and carry to victory, the slogan of the “Class Party” against the collaboration of labor politicians with professional old party office holders. Then, when the foundation has been well laid; when the Communist moyement is firmly rooted in the working class masses of Wisconsin, it would be possible to establish another DAILY WORKER, in some Wisconsin city, like Milwaukee. * * * * These are the,‘future possibilities that all comrades should have in mind as the ae their Special Campaign Edi- tions of the DAILY WORKER. We do not build alone for this campaign, We plan and preparé for the seizure of power, and the building of the Communist Society. The best time to start building, and building effectively, is TODAY. The distribution of a Special Campaign Edition of the DAILY WORKER is a first task in this year's presidential struggle. J Friday, October 3, 1924 RO WORKERS SEE ONLY HOPE INCOMMUNISM Capitalist Chicanery No Longer Misleads Them By GORDON W. OWENS. (Communist Candidate for Congress in the First Congressional District.) The current issue of the Negro Bolshevik-baiting news- paper, the Chicago Defender, reproduces an editorial from the Paris edition of the ‘New York Herald-Tribune. The editorial states that Ne- groes cannot be made converts to Bolshevik anarchy. This edi- torial was written as a result of the Negro problem coming up before the Fifth Congress of the Communist International. “Defender” Capitalist Lackey. This capitalist newspaper, in stat- ing tht Negro, exploited and op- pressed workers, will not join hands with the Communists, the only people who fight the battles of both Negro and white workers, makes itself more than ridiculous. It is like a frightened boy passing a graveyard, whistling to keep up courage. The world capitalists and‘their edi- torial hirelings already see the hand- writing on the wall. They know that the Communists are already digging the grave for dying capitalism. “If we can only keep the Negro workers from becoming imbued with Commun. ist ideology we can live a little longer,” frantieally say the world exploiters. And the exploiters in their efforts to prolong their lives, bribe the Negro editors to misrepresent Communism to the Negro masses. Dark Ra Are Awakening. But today, awakened Negroes, the world over, see in Communism their only hope of delivery from the yoke of capitalist oppression and exploita- tion. They see in the ‘workers’ gov- ernment of Soviet Russia their true and only friend. The Communist International, the general staff of world revolution is training Negro, Chinese, Hindu, Jap- anese and other workers from the darker races, to stir their fellow work- ers to revolt against all capitalists, native and foreign, black and white. Communism Their Hope. Gradually and surely the barrie walls of race, color, nationality and religion, erected by the capitalists, to keep: the workers separate and di- vided, are being battered down and are crumbling before the sledge hammer blows of the Communist In- ternational. The awakened Negro workers, the world over, are lining up behind the scythe and hammer, and will follow the workers’ emblem to emancipation. The Negro workers of America were the shock troops who crushed chattel slavery in America, and dealt a deatir blow to the slave owning aristocracy. The Negro workers of the world will be the shock troops to crush capitalist wage slavery, and deal a death blow to the capitalist class. Plans to Hop Pacific. y SHANGHAI, Oct. 2.—Undaunted by the prospect of the severest weather of his round the world flight, Major Zanni, who arrived here today at 11:52 a. m., from Chefoo today, announced his determination to cross the North- ern Pacific in spite of warnings that the Pacific hop at this time of the year would be well nigh impossible. Good Intentions Will Not Stop War Under Capitalism HALYCON, B. C.—Gen. F. B, Burn- ham, president, Canadian White Cross society, names B, D, Morel, British pa- cifist member of parliament, as the nominee of the organization for the Nobel peace prize. Morel was jailed by the British government during the war, following his exposure of pre- war diplomacy. Gen, Burnham was for over eight years in charge of medical work in the Balkan states and saw first hand the suffering left in the wake of the world war. What he say convinced him that another war would mean the collapse of civilization. “After the severest ordeal in human ken, the central idea of soldier and R zation. humanitarian M the anton ot}| unit, i Hisham “phe ocnsibaoes co alta. UPON THIS DAY WE PREPARE! demnities and the restitution of all teritory wrenched away from enemy states by the late world war would be the greatest move of all time toward universal] peace. week, é State Extends Insurance Field. MELBOURNE, Australia.—The Vic- toria Labor government will extend the state insurance office to include general fire insurance. It will issue personal accident policies to employes and others, undertake fidelity guaran- tees for workers, and accept fire risks on government buildings and property, and other public government, or municipal _buildi including town alls and offices, — Complete Membership Mobilization ED DAY, October 12th, has been decided upon for a complete membership mobili- Upon this day every one of the 1,297 party branches will meet. : Upon this day every member will go to the meeting of his branch. He will there de- posit fifty cents for his 137-piece literature RED WEEK, October 26th to November 2nd, has been decided upon as distribution Twenty-two thousand members forth to’shops, mines and mills, and street corners during this week and dis- tribute three million leaflets, phlets and DAILY WORKER DURING THIS WEEK WE ACT! © will ot to. homes ee pam >.