The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT y Vol. Il. No. 169. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SLATE PERSHIN in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chisago, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY Entered as Secondclass matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Ofice at Chicago, limois under the Aot of March 8, 1879. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1924 KER. | aoe ‘ies Published Daily except Sunday by THB DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, } WAR CHIEF | Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. u Price 3 Cents Make Ex-Kaiserites Work, Urge Communists AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ‘HIS column travels around the world in quest of something to fill it up, or rather fill it down. It starts at the top, you will notice. There are plenty of juicy news morsels in the papers this morning that would war- Tant comment, but why go far afield when something just as interesting is happening at our very doors, yea, right in the office. ee NEWSPAPER office always had as much mystery for me—when in my teens—as tife recesses of a clergy- man’s conscience seems to have for the female portion of his flock. What happens in a newspaper office is gob- Jed up’ mentally with great relish. So today instead of following the gyra- tions of Hing Hussein of Hedjaz or his son Feisal of Iraq, the tuchuns of China and their capitalist paymasters, the whirling derishes who are raising much anti-British dust in the deserts ce? Arabia, or the latest political mis- carriage brought forth from the in- tollectual womb of Calvin Coolidge, the veil curtain will be lifted so that Cuz readers may take a peep into the the offices of The DAILY WORKER. sb VERY paper of any consequence has. a circulation manager. His job is to think up new schemes for getting more people to read the paper he is employed by. Capitalist papers pay their circulation managers large salaries besides placing at their dis- posal big funds to pay prizes for cross word puzzles and other stunts, There is no mystery about that. The capi- talist circulation managers don’t care who buys their paper. When their Circulation. 26.0 mene ay be ab gai retin Chat oS tata Three thousand teachers by their |’ fat. So does the owner. see YEN a Communist Daily must have a circulation manager, besides a ness manager. But the salary of i. Capitalist circulation manager is just i bout what it took to Btart the DAILY \YTORKER. And Communist managers co’ care who read the papers. They \ent workers to read the papers. To co them justice the editors see to it that The DAILY WORKER is not a palatable literary dish for the capi- lalist class. E e: oe f HILE The DAILY WORKER does WV rot spurn advertising revenue, the cbject of a circulation drive with us is not to secure more and better pay- ing advertising, but to get more work- ers reading the Communist Daily, to get them thinking about their class, their power and the ease with which (icy could free themselves from the ndage of capitalism if they only vould organize. “ee HEREFORE the business manager and the circulation manager put their heads together and hatched a scheme for’ bringing in new subscrip- tions, It has the virtue of novelty, Sounds rather rough at\first, It is a brick-laying and a brick-throwing con- est. And when I think about, brick- (Continued on page 5,) WORKERS PARTY WINS RIGHT TO HOLD ITS OPEN AIR MEETINGS The Workers Party came out vio torious in a free speech fight con- ducted Saturday night at the cor- ner of Lawrence and Sawyer Aves., where Peter Herd wi rested and ordered not to speak again, upon request of the military Intelligence department. Peter Herd was the principal speaker Saturday night, and he again jained to the crowd the Japanese situation, showing how American capitalists are trying to trump up another war in order to accure control of Chinese and other Pacific markets, Other speakers were Sam Ham- _ mersmark, advertising manager of the DAILY WORKER, and Paul Cline, of the Young Workers League. Remember ‘1F YOU WANT TO | Those who signed petitions to on Tuesday, Oct. 14—Last Registration Day PRUSSIAN DIET ASKED TD TAKE ALL PROPERTY Demand Castles Become. Kindergartens DEVER DUMB 10 | BERLIN, Oct. 5—The scions| TEACHERS BUT NOT TO TRIBUNE |of the dethroned Hohenzollern Refuses to Attend Big family, living in Prussia will re-| ceive the doles—the small sum! Aaditorium Meeting The Chicago Teachers’ Fed- which the government hands) eration is still awaiting word out to workers out of a job— instead of huge allowances run- from Mayor Dever, following their request at a mass meeting ning into many millions, which the social-democratic govern- {ment has been presenting to the Friday night, that he appoint to the board of education four members who will enforce the ex-princes and princesses every month, provided that the Prus- tax laws now being dodged by large corporations. sian diet passes a bill intro- duced by the Communists. Other provisions of the bill call for the confiscation of all Hohenzollern property and the conversion of castles The mayor has so far com- pletely ignored the teachers, no answers having been received to their letters, altho Dever has given copious interviews to the law. Foster and Gitlow were nomi and villas into kindergartens and homes for disabled soldiers. OCTOBER 14 IS LAST DAY FOR REGISTRATION enthusiasm and applause, gathered at a mass meeting in the Auditorium Theatre, shouted open rebellion against the board of education, against the. treachery of mayor Dever, and the control of the school system by the large employers of labor. The teachers showed, in fact, that they are ahead of their leaders in their grasp of the situation now con- fronting the Chicago teachers. Victor Olander, secretary of the Il- linois Federation of Labor, told the audience that the chamber of com- merce has gone to such lengths to control the minds of the children, that it is even organizing junior com- merce clubs in the schools and spread- ing a magazine of that name broad- cast thruout the school system. Why Not? Leaders of the Workers Party are urging party branches and individual members to do everything in their power to get the party members and sympathizers to the polls to register between now and October 14. Vote the Ticket Straight. Communists voters registering in Cook county will vote for all of the presidential electors pledged to Will- iam Z, Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, candidates for president and vice- president, for William F. Dunne, for governor, for J. Louis Engddhl for United States senator, and Moritz J: Loeb for secretary of state, and for the ‘congressional candidates in each of five of the districts in Cook county. Gordon Owens, in the first congres- sional district, Joseph Podkulski in the fourth; Sam Hammersmark in the seventh; George Maurer in the eigthth| “Just suppose I organized junior ‘and Jack Johnstone in the ninth. jfederations of labor in the public ischools,” Olander asserted. He seem- Workers Disfranchised. | jed horror striken at the thought. But Even 4 heavy registration of party|the audience thought it seemed to members will not indicate the full|think it a good idea, for they loudly strength of Communist sentiment in| applauded the suggestion. ‘ the country, beca a@ large number! Mayor Dever has at last placed him- of party members and sympathizers |self in a position where he is throw- have been disfranchised for one’ rea-|ing off the mask and coming out flat- son or another. footedly against labor, and against the teachers and children in the pub- lic school system. Margaret Haley read to the mass meeting letters which the Chicago Federation of Teachers, of high school teachers, and of men teachers had sent to the mayor asking him to be present at the meet- ing. Carpenters Picket State Fair. DALLAS, Tex.—Local No. 198, car; penters will lay a fine of $10 against any member each time he attends the Texas state fair here. Pickets will be stationed to watch the crowds. Similar action has been taken by oth- er unions in Dallas and elsewhere fol- lowing the placing of the fair on the unfair list. The fair association re- fuses to employ union building me- chanios, Big Issues are Involved. Miss Haley declared she had point- ed out to the mayor that he is wrong in thinking that the teachers were (Continued on page 5) Fire Fighters’ Ranks Grow. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Its most successful convention has been com- pleted at Kansas City, Mo,, by the In- ternational Association of Fire Fight- ers, Secretary Richardson reported on his return to headquarters here, More towns have’ been organized in the past year than in the preceding three years, and hours and conditions have steadily improved. paisicithnitansgsitence An Important Branch Meeting. ‘There will be an important meeting of the North Side Branch of the Work- ers Party at Imperial Hall, 2409 North Halsted street, at 8 p. m. tonight. HARD TIME GONVINGING PEOPLE WORLD HAS ANY RESPECT FOR GOOLIDGE (By The Federated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.—When the round-the-world-flyers arrived in in. Francisco, the republicans took advantage of the assembled crowds to do a little gecrevngy 0 Regular soldiers were ordered to put on civilian clothes and distribute hand- bills supposed to be greetings from President Coolidge to the flyers. As a matter of fact they were repub- lican campaign leaflets, which de- clared among other thin, world respects the American fi the American people, the American president, Calvin Coolidge.’ to Register VOTE FOR FOSTER most people throwing them away or a Workers didates pen hi ne using them to sit on while they PARTY ON BALL‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 5—A Workers Party convention was held here on Oct. 2, to comply with the Montina election Four candidates for presidential electors pledged to «handbills were very coolly received, nated and the nomnation cer- | | | T IN MONTANA tified to the secretary of the state. Under the election law holding of a state convention and filing of the candidates nominated entitled a political party to a place on the ballot and this action insures the voters of Montana the oppor- tunity to vote for Communist candidates. | PURPOSE 0° DAWES i plan, its primary war costs and The underly economic con i vated by the lastWorld War. Create Violent Struggles. These contradictiongin the system of capitalist productig¢’and exchange have been made so adte by the indus: trial and economic ‘angements re |sulting from the imfefialist war tha‘ they have had theialmost incessant repercussions in iplent politica struggles between two principa classes in society. The sharp revolut! the various European flections of the ini inherent contradictio which have multiplied and have taker on many violent forms as a conse- quence of the world carnage. “NAVY DAY” IS NEXT DRIVE CF IMPERIALISTS Oct. 27th Is Date Set to Glorify War (Special to The Daily Worker) conflicts ir juntries are re Gfication of the of capitalism work the workers ot the coun- try up into a war hysteria will take place on “Navy Day,” Oct. 27, when navy leagues thruout the country will try to glorify war by conducting parades, at which workers will be asked to march or else lose their jobs. The American Legion, Cham- ber of Commerce, Kiwanis clubs, Navy Leagues, and other institutions of capitalism will assist in beating the drums of war. Strikereaker Coolidge has ‘indorsed \Navy Day. It is undestood the large capitalists backing Coolidge have eyes on the markets now owned by Japan in the Pacific. Take Slam at Klan. SACRAMENTO, Cal. Oct. 5.—The California highway commission has ordered the Ku Klux Klan to remove all painted inscriptions from the high- way between San Francisco and Los Angi » Protests have been pouring in that the roads are painted with K. K. K. and K. [. G, Y, (\lansman, I greet you). The law is that no signe except highway directions may be painted on stone on state rouis Spies in Industry. NEW YORK, Oct. §.—ho Spy in Government and Industry js the sub- Ject of the Sept. 1 Social Service Bul- letin, distributed by the Methodist Federation for Social Seryico, 150 5th Ave., New York City. It presents the origin, development, extent, «i work- ings of the political and jobor spy and names the books ayailabic on the matter, Open Air Meetings Tonight, Madison and Grven sireets, auspices of Mid-City Branci: Ba REMOVE iCONOMIC COMPLICATIONS CHICAGO LABOR AGGRV ATED BY THE WORLD WAR By JAY LOVESTONE (Fourth Article) : Tho the Dawe plan is most often spoken of as a reparations | ojective is much greater than the payment of mges by the vanquished to the victors. purpose of the Dawes plan is to remove the tions and complications which were aggra- + z WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—; The next step of the American employers in attempting to }Many of the workers refused to do- | shop into giving him the money he de- @ for "Your Daily," re PLAN IS TO FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI FIGHT Left Wing Delegates for Mass Meeting The Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday again went on record in demanding a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti and at- MANY MEMBERS | “BLACK JACK” TO LEAD WALL STREET'S ARMY Now On European Trip “to See His Son” (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5— General John Pershing Is slated for the job of secretary of war in the next republican adminte- tration provided lots of funny things don’t happen. This information was secured by the DAILY WORKER cor- respondent from a quarter that never suspected it would leak out. But oil is not the only thing that leaks in Washington. Today's papers carried a short news item, stating that Pershing, now a civilian, left for Europe on the Levia- than, to visit his son, who is attend- testing its belief in the inno- cence of the two:ltalian work- ers who were given what amounts to a death sentence by the refusal of Judge Thayer to grant them a ne trial. NANALEAMATED FIGHT HOLDUP Refuse to Contribute to LaF ollette Campaign The officialdom of the Amal- fat “nard to force the endorsement of La- Follette and Wheeler by the Locals of the union in this city, ire now engaged in the harder task of collecting funds from the membership for the support of the middle-class presidential and vice- presidential candi- dates. During the past week many Federation. It calls for a re affirmation d provide: stand of that body, an Leekes “ aarutine authorized to fense of Sacco and Vanzetti urer. The resolutions committee brot in he clothing shops here to prove | tion, with the exception of that part hat the officialdom is using} calling for a mass protest meeting. hold-up methods to force the Jack Johnstone spoke for the un- e ion, but the recom- workers to @idals the La-| amended resolution, but Follette cuter beak ‘4-) mendation of the committee was ac- Putting Over The Hold-up pent. seikad nton Johannsen suggested that Last Friday Sal Kramer, business < - telegrams telling of the action taken agent, appeared at the Colin and Riss-|)y the Chicago Federation of Labor man shop to collect from each of the |} sent to several other organizations, workers, for the LaFolietté campaign. especially those concerned with the Sacco and Vanzetti case. The resolutions committee brought in a statement condemning the Chi- cago Tribune for publishing an inter- view with Peter Cuniff, one of the managers of the Labor News, a sheet which was once the unofficial organ of Samuel Gompers in Chicago. That was during the days when Fitzpatrick and Nockels were in a state of sub- dued hostility towards Gompers. Not so very long ago, Gompers’ man, Em- met Flood, had a letter in the Labor News, suggesting that business men might will patronize a paper that spoke for bonfide organized labor and left! Soviet Russia to shift for itself. This was a slam at the New Majority, then edited by Robert Buck, which suppported Soviet Russia, and pink radicalism in the United States. But times have changed. There is no longer room for two red-baiting al- leged labor sheets, and the Federated News wants the advertising that its companion in reaction also covets. Hence the hostilities. Cuniff is a notorious labor pan- handler and confidence man who is willing to offer himself to the highest bidder any time. The neediest prosti- tutes among the labor fakers are turn- (Continued on Page 2.) nate the required dollar. Kramer threatened one worker that it would cost him much more than a dollar if he refused to come across, Another worker was told that a better man than he could be found to fill his job unless he donated. To intimidate the workers of this manded he took five workers off their jobs and sent them to the office of the joint board. These workers are: A. Fox, M. Zuzzman, J. Klechs, A. Schaef- fer, J. Osuesky. Titese workers were forced to wait around the office for half a day wait- ing to see Sam Levin, manager of the joint board. When they did final- ly seé him in the evening, they de- manded to know if he had authorized their removal from work. Levin dodg- ed the issue and gave no satisfactory answer to the question. Get Poor Crowd. At the shop meeting of the mem- bers of the union working on the ninth floor of the M. Born company, called by business agent Oscar Elet to listen to a plea for the LaFollette candidacy, 15 out of 200 workers at- tended the meeting. Because of the small attendanze the (Continued on Page 2.) FOSTER-GITLOW CONFERENCE TO GIVE $500 AT BIG MASS MEETING The left wing Foster-Gitlow Conference, made up of Jewish Workmen's Circles and members of trade unions in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, International La Garment Workers’ Union, bakers, capmakers and butchers, are out to raise $1,000. The left wing conference is now well organized and functioning efficiently. it has laid out a campaign of getting the literature distributed and other cam- paign activities. By Oct. 12, the comrades say that at least $500.00 of that amount will be raised of which a good part has already been collected. The confergnoe Proposes to present the first $500.00 raised at the Foster-Gitiow meeting on Oct. 12, at Ashland Auditorium. This shows a very good spirit manifesting itself among non-party ele- ments who refuse to fall for the LaFollette bunk. Webster w | T.’s- The resolution was introduced by the left wing section of the call a mass pro- ‘neidents have taken place in|a report which endorsed the resolu- ing school in Switzerland. A son is a very convenient excuee if good for nothing else. Even Harry Daugherty’s son finds a placé in the movies tak- ing the part of a rich man in his D. But your reporter is reliably in- formed that “Black Jack” is not going to Europe merely to see his son. He will see other people besides. tor a probability, White House. Then— Head Too Fleshy. John W. Weeks, the “stout” headed Edward Nockels, secretary of| Secretary of war, is a toyal supporter, the federation, will act as treas- of the capitalist system, but as a mili- tary man he is a darned good bank- er. Moreover, he has blundered: on Mobilization Day. Canny Calvin had to step in and allay the public anxiety by callihg it “Defense Day.” But it; is not well to make explanations. Mis- takes are easily made, but hard to mend. “Black Jack” Pershing is another myth like Silent Cal. He is almost as silent and as stupid. A new idea would feel so ill at ease in his head that it would cause a revolution. And “Black Jack” hates revolutions. He is a favorite son of Wall street. His first bid for fame was the chase after the Mexican bandit Villa. Like an- other famous general, he led his army up one hill and down another and finally returned home while Villa had to take body massages to take the soreness out of his ribs. They were sore from laughing at the great mill- tary genius Pershing. But the capi- talist papers made up in publicity for what Pershing lacked in military genius. Another Myth. Pershing is a republican in polities, but when the world war broke out, Morgan picked him to lead the expedt- tionary forces to France. Tho he stayed away from the front as all good respectable generals do, he won quite a reputation. It was the “Si- lent Cal” myth over again, He won the war in much the same fashion that Calvin Coolidge broke the Bos- ton police strike—after the Germans were licked by the Russian revolution. Will Be Silent Clam. However, as secretary of war, his job will be to take Wall street's or- ders and keep his mouth shut. He knows how to do tbat. It is Calvin's ambition to have a cabinet that will make a deaf mute school sound like a boiler factory. He is on the road to success, unless the expected happens and the voters give Silent Cal a kidk in the jeans next November. No doubt, there will be denials that Pershing is slated for the war depart- ment job. But sophisticated people will pay no attention to those denials. All For the “Jack.” When Pershing retired a few weeks ago, from the active list, every capi- talist paper in the country sung his praises. Even the comedians were called on to drop their caps and bells for the moment and make patriotic cracks, to Black Jack's advantage. “Mobilization Day” was the work of his brain. The capitalists need him to turn the United States into a mili- tary robot factory. They have a big job in front of them. They need men like Pershing. It is an open secret in Washington of the previous|tnat war between the United States $\and Japan is no longer a possibility, It is a certainty. Heavy war preparations are on foot. test meeting against thé action| Of course, the. public will net, bt. of Judge Thayer. It urges that| frightened before election time. St letters be sent to all the locals|!et Cal must be returned to the affiliated with the central body, requesting funds for the de-