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

Friday, October 3, 1924 NOVA SCOTIA MINERS BUSY ON CONVENTION O. B. U. Busy Trying to Split Union (Special to the DAILY WORKER) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, Oct. 2.—The miners’ locals here are busy electing delegates to attend the special convention called by the Lewis henchmen after the return of Houston from Indianapolis. In calling the special convention for the purpose of electing a temporar district committee which will take charge of the district until regular elections are held Lewis is running away from the fight which is bound to come next January when the present con- tract with the British Empire Steel Corporation expires. Prior to his visit to Indiana- | polis, Houston had an interview with McLurg, superintendent of the corporation, who informed him that the corporation was going to put a wage cut into effect-at the expiration of the contract and demanded that the Lewis gang see to it that there was no opposition from the min- ers. Immediately Houston rushed to Indianapolis to con- sult Lewis. The result is that Lewis has decided to restore the charter, of the district rather than have his administration. re- sponsible for the fight that is coming. Lewis: Unwilling to Fight. In this action Lewis has run true to form. He withdrew the district charter to crush the fight of the miners against the troops sent against them by the Canadian government in July last year. charter rather than show that he is unwilling to fight the corporation to defend the wages of the miners. Once he has got rid of the respon- sibility for the conduct of the district he can simply stand by and see the miners beaten by the corporation and not raise a finger to help them. O. B. U. Defeated in Cape Breton. The One Big Union apostles have abandoned Cape Breton and have concentrated their efforts on Pictou County. The determined stana of the militants among the miners against splitting the union finally convinced them that it was useless to gontinue working in Cape Breton. Therefore they transferred their activities to Pictou where the miners are much less militant and where patriotism is rampant resulting in the miners listening more eagerly to the plea for a purely “made in Canada” union. Legere had got himself in bad with the miners owing to his vicious at: tacks on the Communists. He slaver- ed at the mouth when he spoke of them and denounced them as “Besco stoolpigeons.” This feeble-minded conduct finished him with the miners here since they know the Communists and have the greatest confidence in their integrity as fighters against cap- ‘talism, Boasts of “Victory.” The O. B. U. Bulletin is making a great noise about the great victory the O. B. U. has won in Pictou county. Stellerton local union endorsed the O, B. U. and this is claimed as a great victory. But the fact of the matter is that Stellerton local consists of a large number of foreign workers who never attend the local meetings. The ones who attend are notorious for their overwhelming desire to crawl in- to an office no matter by what means. Since they have always been defeated in the U. M. W, district elections be- cause the miners of Cape Breton, who compose the majority of the member- ship, would have nothing to do with their reactionary, patriotic ideas, they think that by going with the O. B. U. crowd they will be able to gratify their ambitions and become officers, a last. It is possible for the O..B. U. to awing the miners of Pictou county for a split simply because in Pictou the miners have lagged greatly behind the miners of Cape Breton in class con- sciousness. It is a well known fact that when the militants held the dis- trict offices before Lewis deposed them the miners of Pictou were used by Lewis against the “reds.” Now the so-called revolutionary O. B. U. is making progress only among the most backward of the miners. This only proves that the O. B. U. is seen in its true light by the miners of Pictou—as a “made in Canada” product. Communists Will Lead Fight. But it is unlikely that the miners of Pictou will go along with the O. B. U. XE that,the districtharter en restored, Much as these miners dis- like the “reds” they know that the only ones who are able or willing to lead them in the struggle against Bes- co are the Communists. For this rea- son it is expected that the Pictou county miners will abandon the O. B. U. and get themselves in good stand- ing with the U. M. W. and join with the rest of the miners in the district in fighting in ahs the wage slashing wees A ‘ fle \ GREAT GRIME WAVE SWEEPS SO, CAROLINA; MUCH POLITICAL UNREST By JACK METTE. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHARLESTON, S. C., Oct. 2.— Suth Carolina is being run over with a crime wave that grows larger as the year nears its end. Already noted for its killings and general lawlessness the state is expected to reach the highest peak in years «for killings. Some of the most brutal crimes in the history of the Ynited States have taken place in the Pal- metto state’ within the last year. Crime continues but the gov- ernor spends his time in praying for the welfare of the people. There is no action by the authori- ties. The state’s police force isthe gang of strike-breaking boys who comprise the National Guard. The majority of all crimes com- mitted within the state are by boys or young men of the cotton mills who have never had the chance of an education and have been forced to work in the cotton mills from the time they were®able to work, The governor, Thomas G. McLeod, is the one that made South Caro- lina thedlaughing stock of the world when he set aside a day for the people to pray for the extermina- tion of the boll-weavel. Some of the people of the state are doing their best to improve the conditons that now exist. The po- litical unkest can be noted by the failure of Senator Dial, child labor advocate, for re-election. EMME REVIEWS Today he restores the| VICTORIES WON AT CONVENTION Machinists Are Against Heresy-H unting J. F. Emme, member of the Workers Party, candidate for congress in the fourth congres- sional district of St. Paul, Minn., on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket, who was a delegate to the convention of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists just ended in Detroit, declared to the DAILY WORKER that the “B. & O.” plan put over on the convention by President William H. Johnston is an aid to the employers. “The ‘B. & Q.’ plan, which must now be submitted to a referendum vote of the ma- chinists, overlooks the fact that the interests of the employers and the workers are directly opposed,” Emme told the DAILY WORKER as_he passed thru Chicago Proposed Expulsion Hit. “Altho the left wing moves for amalgamation were defeated and La- Follette was indorsed,” Emme de- clared, “The machinists’ convention overwhelmingly voted to table a mo- tion aiming to expel Workers’ Party and Trade Union Educational League members. I vigorously opposed this resolution pointing out that Johnston wished to autocratically expel men for political beliefs without even inquiring into the individual merits of their cases.” Emme declared the “B and O” plan to be nothing short of a sell-out of the membership of the union by the re- actionary leadership to the employers of the machinists. Emme in Congresional Race. Emme, who is running against Os- car Kellar, Coolidge republican, and Dan W. Lawlor, corporation lawyer running on the democratic ticket, de- clared that the Thompson-O’Connor machine, which controls both republi- can and democratic candidates, has sent out the word to unite on Kellar against the Farmer-Labot party. President Johnston and secretary: treasurer Davison, have returned to Washington, where they have issued a statement, declaring themselves “pleased that the plan of co-operation with the management of the railroad companies” passed the convention. : Many Australians Unemployed, SYDNEY, New South Wale: Australian federal bureau of statistics reports 90,000 workers unemployed. This does not include persons of work thru strikes and lockouts. Unemployment was greatest in the anti-labor state of New South Wales, LAGUARDIA IS TRYING ON NEW PACIFIST COAT Puts Aside Uniform for C ampaign Purposes By BEATRICE CARLIN (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 2,— Captain Fiorello H. LaGuardia, spruce young officer in the American Flying Corps, 100% booster of the war aims and programs of our late-lamented democracy-faker, will have a hard time living ‘down his re- cord of war patrioteering and convincing his constituency of the sincerity of his right-about- face pacifism. It is permissible, of course, jaccording to capitalist political ethics, for an aspirant to public office to have a complete or partial change of heart in ac- cordance with the direction in which the political wind hap- pens to be blowing. Has Ear to the Ground. LaGuardia has evidently been keep- ing his ear to the ground, and has not been slow to capitalize popular Tumblings of anti-war and anti-De- fense day sentiment. The workers of America who were trained so nicely to eat “democratic” pap out of the hands of the war-mak- ers, seem to be developing a little revolutionary pep, and so they must be soft-soaped for a while until they get over it. * But they may not get over it. They may have learned a few things since those early war days in 1917, when the representative from “New York marched in full war regalia in the monster parade of drafted men inthe District of Columbia, That parade of {fourteen thousand drafted workers was led by the pious peace president himself, who sent them off to the Bu- ropean shambles to make the world safe for the profiteering imperialists at home, ; He Didn't Fight Much. Not that LaGuardia did much ac- tual fighting according to all accounts. He seems to have spent a good deal of time flying his gallant Caproni from one Italian city to another boosting the Italian war loan, dining with King Victor Emmanuel and his bediz- |ened generals and assuring the Italian imperialists that President Wilson’s bunk about democracy and self-detr- mination need not be taken too ser- iously, It was good stuff for keeping up the fighting morale of the workers, but the Italian brethren who had a covetous .eye on Trent, Trieste and Istria, need not worry; the great de- mocracy-faker had their “aims and aspirations” well in mind. * At a demonstration staged in Rome in January, 1918, LaGuardia eulogized “our unselfish motives” for entering the war and grandiloquently pro- claimed that “our determination to bring about justice to all concerned while asking nothing for ourselves was established forever.” If the mayor of Rome, the princes of the blood, the Jingo senators, and the goose-step em- bassies listened to this patriotic drib- ble with tongue in cheek, still they knew it was good stuff with which to feed the workers they were deluding with hopes of peace and democracy. For Trent! Trieste! Istria! At any rate this glib compatriot from America knew how to speed up the “nationalismus,” of the Italian dupes in the factories and the trenches, At a mass meeting in Milan under the aus- ices of the Italian Parliamentary Un- ion, speaking of the lagging war loan, he said, “The slogan of your minister of the treasury will be Give! Give! Give! Then your General Diaz can cry ‘Forward! Forward! Forward!’ And foreign minister Sonnio’s cry will be: ‘Trent! Trieste! Istria!’” The pacifist LaGuardia must. look back somewhat ruefully on those days of vociferous patrioteering, but he need not despair—the day may not be far distant when his record will stand him in good stead, and if he does not commit himself too rashly in his pres- jent bid for workers’ support, he may yet be ealled to serve his real mas- ters, the ¢apitalists and imperialists of America, and once more be Rath. ered to the bosom of the National Se- curity League, who endorsed him in July, 1918 when he ran on a fusion eral veniremen from jury duty when father of the slain army officer, and) now a resident of Baltimore, Md. forced »the inquiry into his son's death | after an army board declared the fa- time socialist candidate in his (14th) district. Wanted Nearing to Join. “I have never seen Scott Nearing,” with 12 per cent. In the five labor-|h@ Said, when he landed in America governed states of Australia, the un- covered with glory and an Italian war employment figures ranged from 4,4 | TOSS, ‘but if he is a young man, I per cent to 6.3 per cent. Sheetmetal Workers Knit Up. HUNTINGTON, W. Va—A tristate| 49 not kno: council of organized sheetmetal work- ers in Ohio, Kenthcky, and West Vir- ginia is meeting regularly in Hunting: ton and other towns to knit up the) common problems of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association in those e states, C. R. Pyles, Local 323, outh, O., is secretary of the % shall ask him what regiment he comes from.” And in this campaign LaGuardia is 4 pacifist, Dues he think the workers w that soft ‘words butter no parsnips? estan * EARN YOUR COMMUNIST MER IT STAMP BY GETTING A NEW MEMBER FOR THE PARTY ANC ANOTHER READER AND SUB SCRIBER TO THE DAILY ‘WORKER,’ ] y ‘ uy . 4 My ticket against Scott Nearing, at that| THE DAILY WORKER PHILADELPHIA TURNS QUT SATURDAY FOR THE “BEAUTY AND BOLSHEVIK” The new Russian film, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” which has created such a furore in Moscow ‘and New York City, is coming to Philadelphia at LULU TEMPLE, Broad and Spring Streets, this Sat- urday, Oct. 4, beginning at 6:30 p. m,, and continuing until 11:00 p. m. This story is based on the events in Soviet Russia toward the end of the civil war. A Red Army Brigade settles down after four years of fighting, in a little village—there it became the center of the village life. It brings joy to the poor and rouses the resentment of the rich landowner: The Red Army sol- diers are sequestered in the homes of the villagers. Kumbrig Ivanor, the Red Army commander finds himself housed in the home of a rich, priest, Kulak, There isa young daughter—the Beauty. ... As inevitably happens they find much in common and are seen mak- ing love together. She wants a high | church ceremony with full ritual. | He has thrown off the superstitions of the past and insists on a civil marriage. The eVentual outcome of this story must be seen to be fully appreciated. It is replete with ac- tion, humor, with the intimate touches of their daily life. The peo- | ple of Philadelphia are very fortu- nate to see the first story of Russia | after the revolution. Tickets are already on sale at | 621 York Avenue. Admission is 50 | cents, This picture is given under the auspices of the Committee for International Workers’ Aid, STATE AND ARMY FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO HANG BUGLER Fear County Officials May Drop Charges (Special to The Daily Worker) | TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 2.—) With the selection of a jury completed early today, counsel for the defense of Roland R. Pothier, accused of murdering Major Alexander P. Cronkhite at Gamp Lewis, October 25, 1918, was expected to raise the uestion of jurisdiction today in| district judge Edward E. got is man’s court where Pothier on trial for his life. If defense attorneys are suc- cessful in their contention that Major Cronkhite died on state | land and therefore the case be- | longs in the state superior court, Pothier may never come | to trial. | Held for Two Years. j Pierce County officials once before | have refused to file a charge against | Pothier and should udge Cushman re- | mand the case it is thot probable | that the charge may be dropped. Dis- | trict attorney Thomas P. Revelle, however, contends that since the army | was using the ground at the time, it was therefore under federal jurisdic- tion, tho the formal transter from tue state to the federal government was not recorded until a year later. Pothier, former sergeant-bugler of | the 3188th engineers, has been in cus-| tody for two years. Albert Rosen* bluth, former army captain, jointly charged with Pothier, Will go on trial October 22. He is now at liberty on $22,000 bail. Indicationts that the government would demand the death penalty were not wanting yesterday when the trial opened. James H. Osborne, special as+ sistant attorney general, excused sey- they admitted they had conscientious | scruples against capital punishment. Call Many Witnesses. , More than 80 witnesses from all parts of the United States are here today, including major general Adel- bert Cronkhite, U. 8S. 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