The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1924, Page 2

ea is EE Page Two ‘BOB'S’ CIRCUS PUTS ON MORE - WILD ANIMALS But Best Specimens Are Out of Town It’s too bad Tim Murphy is not in town! There are many things he could do besides ex- laining why he was detained in Leavenworth over a trifling matter of being misunderstood when a couple of hundred thousand Wollars were found in _ his trunk. For instance he couia ‘introduce a resolution, some- where, endorsing Robert Marion LaFollette for president. What is Fred Mader doing these days? The ubiquitous Fred was very much in evidence not so very long ago, and be- ing a “bona fide labor leader” and a good hustler for the un- dertakers, he pulled quite a atring in political circles. We cannot imagine anybody better fitted to introduce a motion in the Building Trades Council than Fred unless it be Michael Artery, business agent of Local 136, of the Meta) and Machinery Workers’ Union, affiliated with the Structural Iron Workers. In the absence of more qualified mouthpieces for Robert M. LaFollette, ,Michael Artery did the necessary. In- deed in the words of the learned editor ‘of the Federation News, he introduced “a well conceived resolution” before the Chicago Building Trades Council, endorsing LaFollette and Wheeler, which was unanimously adopted. The Politiclan’s Beverage. Being a public character, brother ‘Artery, it is safe to assume, will not take umbrage at the shedding of a little light on his past career. In fact publicity is the favorite drink of public men and if they don’t find the con- eoction to their taste on occasion the bartender who mixes the beverage may not be entirely to blame. Rather they who furnish the ingredients. There was a time here in Chicago when the Landis award caused con- siderable commotion in labor circles. ‘There is no necessity to explain its provisions except that it was a move to establish the “open shop” in the building trades. It was fought vigor- , ously by that section of organized la- bor which holds that the unions are Jabor’s first line of defense against the bosses and that the unions must be Preserved as fighting organizations under the control of the workers and accepting neither advice nor dictation from the employers. Carpenters’ Leaders Surrender. This position was held by the ad- anced section of organized labor. In the Bulding Trades Council the car- penters and painters and other unions fought it, but today the painters are Ieading the fight. The carpenters thru faker Jensen threw in the sponge. ‘What did Michael Artery have to do with the Landis award? This much: At a meeting of the Building Trades Council which considered the Landis award, Artery made a long and clever speech, denouncing Landis with all his works and pomps and winding up e by making a motion to accept the Landis award. ‘We are not concerned here with the motives animating Artery’s later move im organizing a dual Building Trades Council in opposition to Edward Ryan and his group who headed the regular council. It is obvious that a man with Artery’s experience and intelligence knew as much about the Landis award when he made the motion to accept it as he knew afterwards when he made his fake fight against it. As it stands now the only union In the Chicago Building Trades Coun- sil to fight the scab Landis award plan \s the Painters’ Union. The carpen- Jers, thru the machinations of Jensen, pave signed an agreement which is ly a surrender to the “open shop” dis award. Some Pertinent Remarks. The Artery resolution endorsing La- Follette and Wheeler calls for a few observations on the political bedlam which .is synonymous with the LaFol- BIG MASS MEETING OF TEACHERS CARRIES FIGHT TO MC ANDREW The public school teachers of Chicago assembled yesterday at a mass meeting to protest against the order of Superintendent Wiiliam (Continued from page 1) to be the only party which truly rep- resents the interests of the working class. He described how Woodrow Wilson and the democratic party had betrayed the peace of the country by dragging us into a world war which brot, not democracy, but degradation to the workers of the country. “In 1919, over 450,000 steel workers struck for the eight-hour day instead of the twelve-hour day, for the aboli- tion of the seven-day week and for the right to belong to their own labor or- ganization,” Gitlow stated. “The democratic party was then in control, and altho they declared them- selves sympathetic, to labor, Woodrow | Wilson declared the strike was inter- fering with the war, and this one-and- a-half years after the signing of the armistice. Hits Reign of Terror. reign of terror against the strikers. Every elementary right was taken away from you steel workers by the government. The government, thru its brutal suppression, called in the troops and crushed your strike, break- ing up your meetings, driving you off the strets and charging into your Pickets. Why did the democratic gov- ernment do this? Because it was sav- ing Gary and J. P. Morgan and the trust the millions of dollars they had extracted from your toil. Gary Is Dictator. “The democratic party told you the war would bring democracy. But you have no democracy in the steel busi- ness. The dictator is Judge Gary. how you shall live. The only dem- ocracy the American workers got out of the world war was 3,000 political prisoners, and raids against the work- ers by attorney-general Palmer. “How much better is Gary since the “Wilson instituted the most brutal | |lette. other millionaires who own the steel | He dictates what you shall say and/ read and what you shall think and) war profiteers told you they were making the world a better place to live in? How much did the steel workers get out of the war with their 44 cents an hour wage and their hos- pital always full of injured? How much did the millions of unemployed workers in England, the Italian work- ers being stabbed in the back by the Fascisti, the workers in Hungary, killed by the thousands py the white reign of terror, get out of the ‘war for democracy?” How much did the Ne- groes in Haiti and Santo, Domingo get out of the war? They have been suppressed and shot down by the hun- dreds to protect the American sugar trust intefests there. ,The world war }made the world a worse place to live in and instead of bringing peace it in- |creased and aggravated militarism. Hits at LaFollette. Gitlow declared that Elbert Gary said four weeks ago in the New York Times that he has nothing against La- Follette because Gary knows the steel trust has nothing to fear from LaFol- Gitlow said that LaFollette is backed by Vanderlip, millionaire Wall Street banker, and. by Rudolph Spreckles, the anti-labor union sugar king of California. Gitlow stated the platform of the Workers Party and de- clared the workers of America must form a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment in this country along the lines of the Soviet government of Russia. Steel Trust Owns Gary. Karl Reeve, reporter for the DAILY WORKER, spoke, denouncing the Gary chamber of commerce and .de- claring the city administration and the Gary Post Tribune were in league with the steel trust against the steel workers. Reeve described the activi- ties of the DAILY WORKER, and ap- pealed for subscriptions. Paul Glaser, who acted as chairman, briefly described the three capitalistic candidates, and told why Foster and Gitlow are the only candidates worthy of working class support. lette movement. To picture it nation- ally would no doubt be interesting and amusing except to those who see the tragedy of it—to the working class movement. It is safe to say thgt no political fisher ever gathered into his net a queerer assortment of fish from shark to gudgeon, that what the dryland sailor of Wisconsin has managed to get together. The Illinois Crazy House. In Illinois alone there are enough freaks to make a Mack Sennet comedy look like a pictorial lecture on biology. The united front is there from Dawes to—John Fitzpatrick. Open shop, ‘closed shop, empty shop and empty heads are all tossed in the same (blanket. The republican candidate for gov- ‘ernor, Len Small, is supported by state’s attorney Robert E. Crowe, the pet “bad man” of the labor fakers of Cook County. Crowe is for Coolidge and Dawes. He is for Small and the state ticket. Small is for LaFollette, thus linking up with Crowe and thru Crowe mak- ing the connection with Dawes and Coolidge. The Hodge-Podge. . Crowe is for the Landis award. Crowe supports Small. Fitzpatrick, Michael Artery, Quesse and the rest of the labor fakers are for Small. Here we have the spectacle of these crooked labor fakers pretending to fight the “open shop” and relieving themselves of excess wind by making faces at Hell an’ Maria Dawes, yet lining up with Dawes, Crowe and Small and the other supporters of the open shop. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the present situation is that the majority of the labor leaders have surrendered to the Landis award. The carpenters agreement is proof sufficient. We are not surprised that the labor leaders have surrendered to the Lan- dis award. But less hypocrisy might be expected even from labor fakers. ‘They know they are on the defensive and like the cuttle fish who muddies the water in order to catch his prey unawares, the labor officials hide their surrender to the employers by making ‘attacks on the radicals and getting their mentally bankrupt journalistic backs to make stupid attacks on Wil- liam Z, Foster and picture him as be- ing in league with Hell an’ Maria Dawes. Circus Manager. If the labor jackals, whose business it is to sell the workers, had a sense of the ridiculous they would burst their blood vessels laughing at themselves. But worse luck, they humor LaFollette the United States. CHINA MAY QUIT LEAGUE-IN ROW ~ OVER ELECTION Japan Delays Signing Peace Pact GENEVA, Oct. 8+- The Chinese delegation to the League of Nations, which withdrew from the assembly yesterday, because China was not elected a non-permanent member of the council, received orders from the Peking government today to*leave Geneva forthwith. Members of the delegation said that, while they considered fhe non- election of China a grave injustice, they did not know whether China would formally withdraw from the league. Appoint Commission. The council has appointed a com- mission of ten to organize committees. to:meet in Geneva in, November to prepare for an international disarm- ament conference. The council will meet again at Rome, December 9. are not even endowed with a sense of must sometimes imagine that he is general manager for the Barnum and Bailey circus in- ,stead of a candidate for president of ,Japan is undecided about signing the league “peace pact.” Altho pleas- ed with the league’s acquiescence to its protest on the immigration, Tok- yo is no hurry to affix its signature to a protocol which means nothing else but a war move in a pacifist camouflage. Johnstone Opens . Drive for Congress * A on i in Ninth District Jack Johnstone, Communist candi- date for congress in the ninth con- gressional district, on the North Side, spoke at a mass meeting held in Im- perial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted street, on the issues facing the workers in the present election campaign. “I will not waste much time talking about the strikebreaker, Cal Cool- idge,” Johnstone told the enthusias- tic audience. “You workers know by this time that the Teapot Domers do not represent the working class.” Hits Davis’ Anti-Lator Record. Johnstone exposed the anti-labor record of John W. Davis, who used his influence as a lawyer to take out injunctions against striking West Virginia miners in the interests of the non-union coal barons, is as much an upholder of the capitalist system as are the two old party candidates “For forty-five years LaFollette has upheld the republican party. Now he charges it with corruption, but he was a long time in withdrawing. If La- Follette is really interested in the working class why doesn’t he come THE DAILY | GITLOW SPEAKS TO STEEL WORKERS | |BROOKHART SORE WORKER BECAUSE 6, 0, P SNUBBED HIM “My Whole Soul’ in Party, Says Senator EMMETSBURG, Ia., Oct. 3—The charge of the republican organization that his recent demand for the resig- nation of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, vice- presidential candidate, was “traitor- ous to the party,” was answered here today by senator Smith W. Brookhart, lowa. He charged Coolidge with desertion of the basic principles of republican- ism as laid down by Lincoln, and de- clared he would “reform the lines for @ finish fight to out Wall Street from the republican party.” He declared the “Coolidge machine” had snubbed the party in Iowa and had insulted him, ignoring the re- quests of the 200,000 voters who nom- inated him, When Crooks Fall Out. “Issue has now arisen in Iowa,” he declared, “as to whether the principles of the republican party shall be de- termined by the voter or by a small group of crooked and irresponsible dictators set up by the non-partisan league of Wall Street. i ‘ “I have never thought of leaving the the party. My whole soul is wrapped up in the principles of Lincoln, Roose- velt and Kenyon. On the other hand, I will fight with all my strength against that false and corrupt concep- tion that crept into the party under the leadership of Hanna, Penrose and Newberry. Cal Failed Him. “I have said I would do as much for Coolidge as he would do for me and the voters are entitled to know what we have done for each other and to each other.” It appears that Brookhart was willing to support. strikebreaker Cool- idge, but the latter did not come across. . Speaker for Bankers Sees American Youth Leads in Radicalism Denial was made at the closing ses- sion fo the convention of the American Bankers’ Association that the foreign- born citizens are the most radical by Justice James C. Cropsey, of New York, who declared that, “The bulk of the radical vote comes from the young men born in this country, not from foreign-born citizens.” Cropsey asserted that “Bighty per| cent of crime is committed by young men under 25 years of age and 95 per cent of these are mere boys. The need is for the men who will give personal service to lead the boys to grow up right.” Cropsey deplored the wave of rad- ical sentiment that is manifested in New York City by Americans, and pleaded for the boy scout movement as a cure for radicalism. Admission that the League of Na- tions, which exploits the small na- tions, is dead as an issue in the elec- tion campaign was made by Col. Thomas B. McAdams, of Richmond, Va., who said: “Fortunately the league is not an issue in the present election campaign.” Bootleggers Arm Their Ships to Fight for Spiritual Cheer NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—A police boat capture in New York harbor today revealed that rum runners have ac- cepted the government’s challenge to fight it out by smuggling their contra- band into New York in miniature battleshis. The boat overhauled was painted battleship gray and encrusted with steel from eyes to entail. On the fore- castle was a steel turret for machine gun, as yet not armed. The forehold where the liquor was ‘stored, was coated with double plates of armor. The wheel house was armored, too, and fitted with bullet proof glass. The craft had Diesel engines of the finest type. Anatole France Said to be Near Death Anatole France, famous French es- sayist and novelist, who has been ill a long time, suffered a relapse today, His physicians are at his bedside, Big Tank Fire. SPARTANBBURG, N. C., Oct. 3.— Flames today swept Spartanburg’s tank district, three blocks from the heart of the business district, where CONSPIRACY TO BURN SHANGHAI et Us Make America “A Land of Horrors” for Mr. “Willy” Hearst By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ Toay, the crooked mind, that dictates the editorial policies of the numerous Hearst publications, has gone on an- other intellectual jag, this time turning its twisted reasoning against Soviet Russia. _ \ The editorial, “The Land of Horrors,” in the Chicago Herald-Examiner, and no doubt repeated in all of the other Hearst sheets, is merely testimony to the many vile diseases that scourge the body of capitalism’s kept press. * * * * Perhaps the fact that Japan has decided to recognize Soviet Rule in Russia has affected Hearst's brain. Hearst hates the Japanese, altho he is glad to use their labor in his vast estates in California and Mexico. But the Japanese government is going ahead and actual- ly doing, what Hearts and his pen ecribblors, even including U. S. Senator LaFollette himself, have in the past been urging,—recognition by the United States of the rule of the Russian workers and peasants. Perhaps Hearst expected the Russian to pay him for his editorial support. The Diaz regime in Mexico bought Hearst with a million-acre ranch, many years ago, and ever since Mr. Hearst has been very much interested in Mexican affairs; just as intensely concerned as the oil corporations. But the Russians do not buy the support of cepitalet newspapers. So the very much chagrined Hearst changes his editorial policies. Russia suddenly becomes “the land of horrors,” compared to which, says Hearst, “We who walk along Chica- go’s streets, no matter what our troubles may be, can find plenty to be thankful for.” * e e * It is doubtful if “Willy” Hearst ever took a walk along Chicago's streets. He probably rides in the scab yellow taxis when in town. He would find Chicago’s streets pretty unsafe, if he used them. At this writing, 501 persons have been killed by automobiles this year, men, women and children. Guns have claimed the lives of 262 Chicagoans since New Year's Day. Moonshine has sent 164 more to early graves in the past nine months. Hardly a day passes without its murder. No hour flits by without its burglary. Payroll bandits and bank robbers do a thriving business, night and day. If this is what “Willy” Hearst calls a civilized community, then let him stick around a little more and get better acquainted with it. Strikes are broken regularly in this Chicago. It was here that Judge Wilkerson outlawed the railroad strike. The big business interests, thru their board of education, are in open war on the public school teachers, seeking to protect the in- terests of the school children. The tramp of a hundred thou- sand jobless is heard upon the city’s pavements, But that is what Hearst thrives on—human misery and misfortune. His sheets would have to go out of business without their daily scandals. * . . * It just happens that Bishop Blake, of the, Methodist- Episcopal Church, has just returned from his second visit to Soviet Russia. He writes in the Pacific Christian Advocate, giving the lie to every malicious thought in the Hearst edi- torial. The surest indication of prosperity in a nation is the value of its money. If Russia were a “land of horrors,” as Hearst claims, then its money wouldn't be worth the trouble of carrying it around. But what has Bishop Blake got to say: “The financial situation in Russia is quite different from what it was when we were there a year ago. The government has abolished the paper currency that was then in vogue and now-issues only the gold rouble notes, a few of which were in circulation when we were there in 1923. These notes, as you will remember, are backed by a gold reserve in the State Bank. THEY ARE NOW ABOVE PAR WITH THE AMER- ICAN DOLLAR; THE DOLLAR IS WORTH ONE ROUBLE AND 92 KOPEKS. } “It is rather interesting and significant that the Bolsheviks are the only government in Europe to get on a sound money basis and to bring their money back to par, as they. have done already without any outside aid It speaks well for their financial ability and sagacity, especially when we see the allied countries pledged to go to the assistanze of Germany, Austria and Hungary, to save them from bankruptcy.” * * * * And here is another extract: “The Field of Mars, the big military parade-ground in Petrograd, which was formerly surrownded with great barracks for the soldiers and officers of the czar’s guards, has been converted by the Bolsheviks into @ playground for children, The Field has been covered with lawns for flowerbeds, and instead of the click of armor and the display of force, there is the innocent play and laughter of little children. It is a pretty fair indication that if war were left to the working people it would be very quickly outlawed.” > * * ° ° There are a large number of other equally impressive extracts from Bishop Blake's article. But these will suffice to show that the Russians are successfully and energetically on the job building their new Communist social order. The Russian workers and peasants are driving out the horrors of the czarist regime. : One thing that prevents the Russians from going ahead faster is the backwardness of the American workers, fed on Hearst's poison these many years. Only thru the co-opera- tion of labor-in all nations can the world social revolution succeed. Before American labor can emancipate itself from capitalism, it must free itself from all contact with the reptile. Hearst press, and all its capitalist allies, If America’s workers would fall more quickly into stép with their Russian brothers, ea for Mr. Hearst, America also, would become “A Land of orrors.' POLES ARRANGE BIG UNIST CAMPAIGN MEETING FOR SUNDAY Saturday, October 4, 1924 BUNK IN NAME OF SCIENCE IS COOLIDGE AID Wall Streets Secretary of Agriculture Reports By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.— When you have no other ma- terial from which to produce a political thrill in the breast of the common man for whose vote you are playing, get hold of the machinery of something scientific, ke the U. S, depart- ment of agriculture, and edit a crop report so that it redds like the prospectus for a new bath- ing beach. That’s the idea which seems to actuate Secretary Wallace, in a press handout which he cap- tions—‘“‘Agriculture Shows Con- tinued Prosperity.” x The Campaign Year Swing. Notice that. word “continued,” and read the first sentence of this official scientific declaration: “Not in five years has the United States presented so nearly a picture of gbalanced pros- perity as it does now” declares A. B. Genung, agricultural economist of the U. S. department of agriculture, who has just completed a tour of the lead- ing agricultural sections of the coun- try. “It may be that for a considerable period agriculture will stand at some disparity with the urban industry, but for the moment agriculture is swing- ing toward par, and the readjustment is a healthy one for the country,” Mr. Genung says. In short, there is no continued pros- perity because there is no prosperity; all he claims is that things are less bad then they have been for five black years, Summing up conditions in the Hast, he says it is “going into the winter on about the same basis as the last two years, The prevailing frame of mind among farmers is rather static. Men find little tobe enthusiastic about.” Corn Outlook Is Bad. In the corn belt he finds the farm- ers “in better spirits than for four years—not so much from any great increase in income as from a feeling that the stage is being set for better times. . The corn outlook is bad enough, Frosts have hit the North. A heavy percentage of corn will cer- tainly be soft and one of the corn belt’s real farm management prob- lems this Fall is how best to dispose of the soft corn.” The wheat belt, he says, is “in in- finitely better shape than for four years. . In the Western spring wheat territory, where no one has had a pair of new shoes since the win- ter of 1919-20, there is particular re- joicing. All thru the wheat country growers have hustled grain to market and new money is circulating rapidly in the process of paying debts” Cattle Raisers Suffer. Sheep men and growers of grain and irrigated crops in the range coun- try are in “very bad shape,” says this optimist, but “cattle men are just the reverse It has been a four-year story of liquidation, which still continues.” This cattle situation seems to be the only kind of prosperity that “con- tinued” as announced by Wallace in the headline. i . Pacific Coast conditions for feed are “certainly no more favorable than last year. . It may not be wide of the mark to Say that the coast country is in just fair condition this Fall, but on the whole it does not seem in quite as good shape as one year ago, An Unfair Report. Buropean governments send agri cultural scientists to this country at frequent intervals to study our meth- ods of production, marketing, fact-find- ing and general advancement of the interests of agriculture. Probably none of them would credit, unless he saw it, the statement that our govern- ment could issue a report so unfairly edited. i Chicago Bandits Hold Open Season While Cops Nab Speakers Three bandits yesterday held up the Pals loan bank within a block of the Chicago Avenue police station, held the three proprietors at bay in a rear room while they looted safes and showcases of jewelry valued at $10,000 | x NOW REPORTED TeAndrew abolishing the long ro ia P. M ir Gee a strongly organized ee here ti million gallons of gaso- Sunday, Oct. 6, at 3 o'clock in the Lea er ereiaed amount of cash standing teachers’ councils and to (4 ie Fug May Explal Hp and oll axe stored) eae Saar Vocal uti wey ely oe ‘A short time before, thr refute statements of six members Not be Deported; Only xplains the Class Strug _ |undetermined origin, broke out about} sHANGHAI, Oct. 3. — Chekiang|. mi ting will be held in Schoenhofen re ms so , “ah holdup of the board of education who vot Johnstone explained the class strug-}7:80 a. m., among the gasoline tanks | forces retreated two miles today, fol-| hall, ‘Ashland and Milwaukee ave. |™em in an automobile, robbed W. A Beat abctish the councils, Overthrows Other Pugs} cic ana descrived tho sufferings of [of the Blackburn Ol Co. Other com-|iowing heavy fighting at Sung Kiang,| nueo. Bongo, of @ $1,000 payroll atter for The meeting was held too late to the workers in the present industrial |Panies possessing tanks in the vicin-|the Kiangsu forces halting their ad-| Max Shachtman, well-known |! the machine in which he was give the results in this issue of | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Acting|and unemployment crisis and gave|ity of the fire are the Standard, Na-|vanco at nightfall. sp in the. Communist youth |*¥iné it, to the curb, i) secretary of labor Robert Carl White today took under consideration the recommendation of immigration com- missioner Curran at New York that no further efforts be made to deport Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine prize fighter. White's decision, which will be final, is not expected before tomor- Tow, the program of the Workers Party for solving the problems of the work- ers. Max Shachtman made the col- YOUNG Workane eenee lection appeal and ‘the audience re- . ACTIVITIES, 4 sponded with a large donation to the Branch M Workers Party campaign fund. acura Shop. mani ne Ave,, P, Aronberg, 81 Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, a the DAILY WORKER. A full re: port will appear in the next issue. Superintendent McAndrew was brot here from New York by the jutocratic board of education for express purpose of doing the dirty work of the capitalists of the ‘elty who have long been out to _ wreck the, teachers’ organizations. tional, Texas and Gulf companies. © All other fronts were comparative- 4 ly quiet. It is now believed that the Kiangsu general attack will be re- newed Saturday. etings Chekiang headquarters claim the 1 ad Ridgeway discovery of a widespread plot of in- ¥ - ” |eendiaries to fire Shanghai and have School, warned representatives of foreign ; governments, — . ad movement of America, will speak at this meeting, together with oth- er English and Polish speakers, The speakers will deal from a Milk Wagon’ Drivers Sign. ST. LOUIS.—Slight increases of wages, 10 days annual vacation with » working class viewpoint with all the |Day, one day off in every week for issues coming up during the elec- | two-year are features of a 3-year tions. There will be questions and |agreement’ signed ‘between 900 union General discussion. Admission is |milk wagon drivers and their St free. ‘ f }Pouls employers. Russian Performance at Soviet 1902 W. Division St