The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1924, Page 5

Monday, October 6, 1924 , THE DAILY WORKER Page Five a !MARINE TRANSPORT WORKERS, / 1. W. W., URGED TO AFFILIATE ‘DAILY WORKER’ LIKED BY GARY STEEL TOILERS BIG BIZ SHEET GIVES ALIBI FOR DAWES’ CRIMES GITLOW WARS oo | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. —_——" for Communism in the election cam- paign. We are engaged »n iaying the laying, a veteran rebel from Boston|foundation for a movement that will comes to my mind. He laid bricks for{/sweep capitalism into the rubbish the capitalist class for a living but/heap of history and build on its ruins had always a spare brick for the revo-|/the structure of a new socialist or- lutionary movement. He did not hurl|der. This is the attitude to take to- (Continued from page 1) To the CONVENTION, MARINE TRANSPORT WORKERS— INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. 510, I. W. W., cio John Aron, Secy.-Treas., New York City, N. Y. Fellow Workers:— IN HOME STATE But Bosses Don't Like It a Wee Bit re, it in Donnybrook Fair’ fa®hion, but every week he would bring in a sub- soription for a socialist paper. THis was before the socialist party became (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) | the executioner of socialism.. GARY, Ind. Oct. 5—The DAILY WORKER has come to Gary to stay. Steel mill workers are enthusiastic about the paper, the remark of one work- er to the DAILY WORKER re- porter being typical of the atti- tude of the employes of the United States Steel corporation towards “the workers’ daily.” “That’s. the kind of a paper we've needed in Gary for a long time. That’s the boy, keep on selling them.” A worker in the blacksmith depart- ment of the mills told the DAILY WORKER reporter that the paper has been barred in the steel mills. “TI was reading the DAILY WORKER,” he declared, “and my foreman came up and told me, ‘You came in here to work and not to read. That paper ign’'t allowed in the steel mills.’ Building Up Circulation. The DAILY WORKER has been Placed in on the news stands in Gary and is already working up a good trade. The steel mill workers are get- ting their money ready and buying it every night as they go home from work. One worker saw John Hein- richson, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER, reading the paper in the New York Central railroad sta- tion. He walked over and asked Hein- richson, “Can I get that paper deliver- ed to me every day by mail?” He took out a subscription on the spot. Salvation Army Howled. The police chief did his best to prove the assertion that the city offt- sials are controlled by the steel trust when he refused the DILY WORKER permission to distribute sample copies UT to get back to the business end of this story. The plan of cam- paign to increase the circulation of The DAILY WORKER calls for a spurt of activity from now until No- vember 7. The DAILY WORKER is organising a bricklayers’ union—not a dual union. In joining this union you are laying bricks in a great work- ing class institution, our Communist Daily. You don’t pay dues. You simply get a new subscriber. Thousands of bricks are going out to all the Work- ers Party branches. Every member of the party is required to take a, brick along—at least one—and get it signed. When you send it back with the money to pay for the sub, you become @ member in good standing of the DAILY WORKER Bricklayers’ Union, and your name will appear in the roll of honor in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. eee ae week starts the greatest brick- throwing contest in the history of the American working class move- ment. The capitalist candidates are engaged in “bull’-throwing contests. Fostér and Gitlow are holding the fort ward this circulation drive. When the next electibn campaign comes around let us see to it that The DAILY WORKER has a circulation of one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand. It all depends on ourselves. And between election times, as unem- ployment increases and the workers are compelled to strike and the master class brings down the iron heel with greater force on the necks of the ex- ploited, The DAILY WORKER must be there to bring aid and comfort to the toilers. 1 a. BAT, J UR job is not finished when the ballots are counted in November. Our work goes on always and will go on until the banner of Communisnf flies over the headquarters of the Workers’ and Farmers’ government of the United States. The circulation drive is revolutionary work. Let us make it a success. Look for the ad- vertisement in this issue. You will notice the rates on the “brick” at the bottom of the page. $6.00 for one year; $3.50 for six months; $2.00 for three months. In Chicago, because of postoffice regulations, the rates are: $8.00 for one year; $4.50 for six months; $2.50 for three months. * eo OW come on with the subscrip- tions, let the brieks fall where they may! : - Dever Dumb to Teachers’ Demands (Continued from page 1) merely “waring on McAndrew” but that real issues were involved affect- ing nearly half-million public school children. In spite of the fact that a box was reserved for his honor, the mayor did not appear, nor did he make any reply, to the teachers. A committee sent directly from the the- atre to the city hall reported back of the DAILY WORKER to the steel] that they were unable to see the mill workers. The chief also declared {mayor, but his secretary had declared that no street meetings of'any kind are|ne would make ‘sure the mayor re- permitted in Gary, altho the same|cefyed a statement unanimously night the Salvation Army was keep-/adopted by the mass meeting. ing the people awake late into the; ‘The sentiment of the teachers was night on the corner of Bighth Ave./yndoubtedly hostile to mayor Dever. and Broadway. They realize, beyond a doubt, that the Saturday a squad of workers in a|/mayor has ignored them and listened few minutes at one gate sold 127|to the chamber of commerce crowd. copies of the DAILY WORKER, and/They have seen statements in the pletely sold out their supply before|press that Dever will appoint whom the day ended. he pleases to the four vacancies in the OUR DAILY PATTERNS A STYLISH AFTERNOON DRESS ; A SIMPLE DRESS 4901. This model is closed at the center front under the plait fold. The sleeve may be in wrist length, or short as shown in the small view. The front is finished with inserted pockets. This Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 14, 16, 18 hy 20 years: A 16 year size requires yards.of.one material 40 inches ae If made as illustrated in the view it will require 3 yards of figured, and % yard of plain matérial. The width at the foot is 1% yard. : Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. ington Bide Chicago Tie’ '*"° NOTICE Tosa 4893, Figured silk and crepe could be combined in this style, or, roshan- ara crepe and satin. The model is also good for charmeen and kasha, The Pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38; 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- a 38 inch size. with plaits extended is 2% receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. — Send 12c in silver or. stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. ~~ PITTSBURGH, PA. board of education, and will ignore recommendations of the teachers’ or- ganizations. The teachers showed ‘by their aplause that they deeply resent- ed the mayor's attitude, Olander Gets in Bad. It was therefore no surprise when Victor Olander’s glowing tribute to Dever fell on dead ears. Olander’s praise of the mayor as a friend of la- bor and an honest man provoked no applause. Every reference to the fact that the mayor has dodged his duty to the teachers and the school chil- dren, and deserves condemnation however aroused a storm of applause. “We appeal to you at once, Mr. May- or,” the official statement presented | by the mass meeting to the mayor stated, “as the official representative of the children and citizens of Chica- Bo, to appoint at once wn the board of education four citizens who are able, free.and willing to co-operate with the teachers and city council in securing thoro enforcement of the tax laws, adequate schdol-revenues instead of limiting the school opportunities of the children and crippling the schools because of insufficient revenue.” The teachers insist that the responsibility which the mayor pointed out as rest- ing with the city council, in this mat- ter, rests equally with the board of education. Corporations Dodge Taxes. The statement indorsed by the mass meeting emphasized that large cor- Porations are dodging the tax laws. “The Chicago public schools are fac- ing an alarming short&ge of funds due to the failure to enforce the tax laws. This shortage is at the bottom of most, if not all, the trouble in the schools,” declared the statement. “A deficit is piling up at the rate of two and a half million dollars a year, It is now close to nineteen million dol- lars. The board has almost reached the limit of its borrowing powers. “The teachers demand the issue be faced squarely. The board of educa- tion evades the issue, Stifles the voice of the teachers, and thwarts their ef- forts. Platoon schools, double schools and double sessions, larger classes, larger schools and all other shifts and makeshifts are shortsighted attempts to evade the real issue. “Every child of school age is en- titled to attend a middle of the day school, to occupy d seat in a quiet, uncrowded school room, and to have individual attention from adequately trained teachers who are free from betty tyranny and the indignities of bureaucratic domination.” Bosses Seek Good Robots. Ald. Oscar Nelson declared to the teachers that while their statement that 36 billion dollars worth of taxable property is illegally escaping taxation is important, they must not forget that much of the trouble arises from the fact that the Illinois Manufactur- ers’ Association, and the Chicago Chamber of Commerce is attempting to control the school system so as to supply the industrial system with bots” who do not fight for their The emphasis, however, was placed upon the tax situation instead of up- Bankers’ Journal Calls Them “Unintentional” By CARL HAESSLER (For, The Federated Press) Charlies Dawes is guilty of ir- regular banking all right, but a good friend of Charlie has a high character and he says Charlies didn't mean any real wrong so everything is as it should be. (It happens that this friend is Charlie’s paid attor- ney, or was at the time of the conviction.) This is the latest defense, put up by the Chicago Journal of Commerce, against the Illinois state supreme court’s convic- tion of Dawes and hts bank for shady work in the Lorimer bank scandal a decade ago. Court Hits Dawes. The bank of which Dawes is presi- dent recognized that the deal could not stand the light of day and tried to wriggle out of it by saying that Dawes had done the illegal thing on his own responsibility. The court said it was an offense not only of Dawes but of the bank for which he acted as agent. And the court or- dered the payment to the receiver of the bankrupt Lorimer bank of over $100,000 by the Dawes bank. What Dawes’ attorney says now is unimportant even tho he is chairman of that big business auxiliary, the American Red Cross. But the Chicago Journal of Commerce, wiich is always very severe on mountebanks and shady characters when they are on the other side of the fence, can find only this to say for Dawes: Putting on the White-Wash. “The high character of Mr. Payne (the Dawes’ lawyer) emphasizes his assurance that Gen. Dawes’ violation of the state banking laws was uninten- tional and of a purely technical char- acter and that theré—was not the slightest intention to aid in a fraud when he made the temporary loan which enabled William Lorimer to or- ganize the LaSalle Street Trust & Savings Bank.” The business journal ‘passes th whitewash swiftly over to the at- torney, admitting en route the guilt and that the “loan” was temporary. The bank examiners had thought it was not a loan at all and the state supreme court has decided that the supposed loan was the property of the Lorimer bank and that the Dawes bank “must account for the money so wrongfully taken by it.” Dawes Was Lorimer Man. Dawes was a 100 per cent Lorimer man in the scandalous election to the U. S. senate from which Lorimer was ejected for campaign bribery. Hence his friendship for Lorimer in the banking deal. That Dawes was not an innocent in the banking laws is evi- dent from his severe action against the Globe Bank of Boston taken while he was U. S. controller of the cur- rency 25 years ago. Dawes’ Globe bank transaction enabled Standard Oii, a Dawes backer, to get control of Montana copper: Standard Oil then deposited the money with which Dawes started his Central Trust Co. of Chicago. And now he is the Cool- idge partner. ——— Readmit Building Council. ST. LOUIS.—The St. Louis Build- ing Trades council has ironed out its differences with the building trades department, A. F. of L. and its char- ter has been restored following a vis- it by president Donlin of the depart- ment. The local council was sus- pended by the Portland convention when the council refused to unseat delegates of structural iron workers’ Local 18, which had been suspended by its international union. The lo- cal trades have been somewhat de- moralized since the revocation of the council Charter, A campaign for reaffilation is under way and most of the local unions will join the re- organized council, it is believed. In no industry more than in calamitous for the workers. masses of marine workers into |take advantage, and the disas- trous conflicts of 1921 left the organizations weakened. | Nor is there hope of permanent bet- |terment in industry. In spite of all |technical advance and the normal in- jcrease of population, production thru- out the world is only about eighty per cent of the pre-war total. The finan- cial system of capitalist exchange is disturbed everywhere and in Europe is wholly collapsed. Attempts thru| the Dawes Plan to give it life and to} give Europe over to American imper- ialist control, promises only to lead to new and worse bankruptcy. In this situation the marine transport work-| ers play an extremely important role. They are quickly and seriously af- fected by conditions, but at the same time their situation, which makes them easily affected, also enables them —with proper organization and revo- lutionary direction—to exert great power for their own interests and those of the whole world proletariat. But the marine workers are in a chaotic state organizationally. True, they have unions, too many unions. The multitude of unions is a handicap, a tragedy, a crime. Not only are the workers kept discouraged by unions built upon craft distinctions, but they are kept blind and ignorant by a lead- ership which is so treacherous that it betrays the interests of its own |The ship owners were quick to* membership to class collaboration and “patriotic” acceptance of any condi- tions under the American flag. We need only mention the tactics of Andy Furesuth and .T. V. O'Connor to make class conscious, and in spite of the long with disgust. It is to the everlasting credit of the M. T. W. No. 510 that it has held up the banner of revolu- tionary industrial unionism above all. this mess. But every worker is not | Class conscious, an in spite of the long |and noble fight put up by the M. T. W., which has made it the leading or- anization among the seamen, the reat bulk of marine transport work- Jers are practically unorganize. With the inustry at low ebb, gen- \eral unemployment sweeping the coun- |try and, above all, the competition |from underpaid European seamen, |continued craft separation and disor- ganization plays into the hands of the American Steamship Owners’ Associa- tion, which has announced an attack on wages. Already on the Pacific, the |balcklist has had an effect. Unques- |tionably the government Shipping | Board with Fingey O'Connor will col: laborate to force down wages to coolie |standard and Furesuth will try to |force his members to accept in the name of patriotism. The craft union officials will not fight, and if they would they could not win with such antiquated instruments. But together with the unorganized they constitute |an obstacle to the M. T. W. putting up la successful fight even to protect it- self. Unity of action against attack of the bosses by all existing unions is a necessity whose urgency will more and more grow in the minds of the backward workers still clinging to the craft union. The time is ad- vantageous and the M, T. W. is in a position where its own interests should cause it to invite all unions in- to a Council of Action to formulate common offensive and defensive opera- tions against the bosses upon specific grievances. True, the reactionary officials may ignore your call, but the membership of their unions will not. The M. T. W. has everything to gain. The trend toward industrial union- ism in other industries is greatly stim- ulated by the establishment of shop committees, and the advantage of establishing shop committees to act | as organs of job control seems ob- vious. Conditions exist in hours, wages, unsafe ships, overloading, rot- Marine Transport has the post- war dislocation of capitalist economy been so evident and so The end of all war “prosperity” in the transport of the means of death and destruction throw great the ranks of the unemployed. ten food, insanitary quarters, etc., upon which a whole crew may be ral- lied and a committee chosen—in which all workers, organized and unorgan- ized, have a vote—to settle the griev- ance. Such comfittees should have permanency, distribute literature, col- lect union dues and nourish unionism by bringing the unorganized into ac- tivity. They become the job unit of the industrial union and are organs of combat—but are useful alike in normal times as in hours of revolu- tion. The M. T. W. is in a better situation |to appreciate the need of international connection than are some other sec- tions of the I. W. W. The very nature of the work compels the marine worker to be an internationalist. But |in seeking international organization |there is, however, a choice as to method. The logcal method is, of course, to affiliate with existing unions in other lands. The “Open Letter” sent by eleven members of the M. T. W. protesting the authority and sup- port given Otto Rieger and his myth- ical Stettin Branch, is an illustration of the results of what is politely called “absorbtion,”"—the destruction of European unions to build up fhe I. W. W. with the wreckage. This should teach the lesson that affiliation is the way to international solidarity. Affiliation for the M. T. W. No. 510, must, of course, come about threugh the affiliatiog, of the I. W. W. as a whole. It should be the purpose of the M. T. W. No, 510, to bring the question of affiliation to the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions before the general organization of the I. W. W. and do its part to bring about its con- sumation. But pending such result, the M. T. W. will greatly profit by establishing and maintaining friendly connection with the International Pro- paganda Committee of the Revolution- ary Transport Workers affiliated with the R. I, L. U. -It should be clearly understood, in view of much misre- presentation, that affiliation to the R. I. L. U. involves no affiliation to poli- tical organizations, since the organic connection between the Communist International and the R. I. L. U. was dissolved at the Second Congress of the R. I. L. U. The R. I. L. U. does, of course, believe that a revolutionary political party, such as are the sections of the Comintern, is necessary to a successful struggle for overthrowal of capitalist dictator- ship and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. But ‘it is organically separate. Fellow Workers! You meet a critic- al hour. The struggle of imperialist forces acting through Chinese pup- pets threatens to flame across the world in another war. The conse- quences of a naval conflict between America and Japan at least, means tragedy to all workers, but first of all to seamen. The R. I. L. U. in May 1923 at Berlin, agreed with the Am- sterdam Transport Workers upon establishment of Control Committees to fight both Fascism and War. The Amsterdam International, however, sabotaged the united front. It is pos- sible that the M. T. W. No. 510 may disagree with the R. I. L. U. on some points. But if the M. T. W. under- stands that, as a force of revolution- ary workers, it should fight imperial-| ist war, upon that issue alone, and putting aside all points of dispute, the R. |. L. U. invites you to immediate conference to plan economic action against the War Danger. Fellow work- ers! You are either for or against imperialist wars, There is no neutral ground. We can fight against war only when the transport workers join the fight! What do you say? With Revolutionary Greetings, Red International Affiliatio; Committee, 1514 W. Madison St., Chica, Takes Commanist Fight Into Wisconsin (Special to The Dalty Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 5.— Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate for vice-president, de- nounced the anti-labor record of LaFoilette as proven by the record of the Wisconsin senator in his home state, in a speech at a mass meeting at the Frele Gemeinde Hall here today. “LaFollette is an upholder of the capitalist system,” Gitlow declared. “The masses must be satisfied to wear cheap cloth- ing, to go hungry, to face the militia and the police court, the bayonet and prison in times of strike, they must be shot down like dogs when they try to establish decent living condi- tions. And this is the system upheld by LaFollette. Shows Up Gompers’ Ald. “But you tell us Gompers and the socialists are supporting LaFollette. What about it? Gompers supported the democrats and that did not make the democratic party any more the representative of labor. This year the reactionary officials of the raftroad brotherhoods were prepared to in- dorse the ofly democrat, MacAdoo. Did their indorsement prevent Mac Adoo from representing the corrupt oil interests? “If the labor leaders of the country were actually interested in buflding up the workers politically, they would use their influence to organize the workers into & mighty political labor party for the purpose of taking over the government in the interests of the working class. Instead of doing that, LaFollette knifed the labor party Movement and opposed the St. Paul farmer-labor party on June 17. “The socialist party has formerly told you to engage only with @ separ- ate working class party. But now they are leading their party into a movement which serves business and profits and demonstrates that it will use its political power to crush the workers.” Gary Likes LaFollette, Gitlow told the enthusiastic andt- ence that even Elbert Gary, of the United States Steel corporation de- clared in New York recently that he had nothing against LeFollette, “Be- cause Gary knows that LaFollette rep- resents the capitalist class.” Many large Wall Street bankers are supporting LaFollette, Gitlow declar- ed. He told how much of LaFollette’s campaign money is wrung by Rudolph Spreckles, sugar king, out of the op- pressed Negroes in his sugar planta- tions. Gitlow stated Frank Vanderlip, head of the National City bank, is also supporting LaFollette. “The Workers Party is the only party in the cam- paign that truly represents the inter- ests of the workers,” Gitlow declared. Coming Gitlow Meetings. Gitlow's future dates are: DULUTH, Minn.—Monday, October 6, 8 p. m., Shrine Auditorium, 2nd Ave. W. and Ist St. SUPERIOR, Wis.—Tuesday, Octo- | ber 7, 8 p. m., Tower Hall, 13th St..and | Tower Ave. | ST. PAUL, Minn.—Wednesday, Oc- |tober 8, 8 p. m., Labor Temple, 416 No. |Franklin Ave. | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Thursday, |October 9, 8 p. m., Coliseum, 27th |Ave. South and Lake St. CHICAGO, Ill—Sunday, October 12, |2:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van |Buren and Ashland. To Organize Printers. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 5—The ex- jecutive committee Mexican Federa- jtion of Labor is sending out special |organizers to unionize all the printing |trades and newspaper men in Mexico This is in preparation for the sixth convention of the federation to be held next month. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TR IcKS A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN “Usethis! | Tts quicker! * DENTIST on the issue of teachers’ control o: | Rendering Expert Dental the school system, Olander declaring, “I do not want sabe,date the matter of teachers’ coune