The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1924, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER NEW ATTACK IS = ‘DAILY WORKER | MADE ON NEGRO An Appeal for Coolidge : and Notice of New Wage SELLS WELL IN “ eo gh Reduction—Side by Side} GARY'S EMPIRE: By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Much Talked About fa the Steel Mills ; Page Two FILM FRIGHTENS | PHILADELPHIA MOVIE CENSOR Pales at “The Beauty BLACK AND BLUE PREDOMINATE IN PARTY COLORS AS LIQUORED LADIES AND LEGISLATORS LIVEN UP COURT The way of the politician is hard, so near election time. If a’ poor democrat worried, by his chances at the polls goes out with a worried republican, and gets drunk and beats up a copper or two he may even be arrested. Republican state senator John T. Joyce representing the 29th senatorial district and state representative Lawrence O’Brien, a democrat from the same district, went out on a “little party” Sunday night and ended* Klan Backs Attack on 14th Amendment (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLBANS, Oct. 6.—The “lily » ing, October 25. and the Bolshevik” (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 6.| —The film, “The Beauty and} the Bolshevik,” the Red Army| romance which was shown with | tremendous success in New) York City, was held up by the Pennsylvania board of censors on the ground that it was “Sov- iet propaganda and tended to incite class conflict.” The censors declared that the picture put the landowner and property owner in a most un- favorable light and promoted the idea of confiscation. Board Has No Authority. These were the flat-footed state- ments of the board upon which they refused to grant a license, despite the fact that the board has no authority whatsoever to hold up a film on grounds of differences of political or social theories. The’ Committee for International Workers’ Aid, which is running this up in the Austin police station charged with disorderly con- duct, driving an auto while drunk, and assault and battery. The solons didn’t know what to say or what to do. In their efforts to for- get the cares of politics they had suc- ceeded in inducing a state where they didn’t remember anything. The story the police tell is something like this: One of the two worthy ornaments of the state house at Springfield was driving a car up Washington boule- vard. Now, the car was going as if it didn’t like either side of the street. Police officer Tom O'Connell of the traffic squad stopped the car and the two legislators jumped out and start- ed to beat him up. Two ladies also jumped out of the car but instead of stopping to see the fight, they went and the police believe they are still going. No trace has been found of them up till now. Police officer Vic- tor Larson of the Austin station, pass- ing on his way home thought that the fight was a public one and in a spirit of sportsmanship, joined in on the side of his brother officer. The ef- FRENCH HOLD FASCIST ACCUSED OF AIDING MATTEOTT! MURDER MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 6.— Acting on the request of the Italian consul, the police have arrested Au- gust Malaoria on a charge of com- plicity in the murder of the Italian deputy, Matteotti, the kidnapping and slaying of whom aroused furor in Rome. The consul asked the pol- ice to watch for another member of the fascisti, Fillippo Panzeri, but he is believed to have gone to Paris. Malaoria is being held until the Italian government’s demand for his extradition can be passed upon by the French judicial authorities. ————— toric ancestors had had brains. “Yeh, judge, yeh, it’s O. K. with us,” they said in chorus. In the meantime, neither of the solons had come near the bar or with- in range of the cameras of the news hite” attitude of Harding and Cool- idge, conveyed in public speeches and by private communication to the enemies of Negroes in the south is held responsible here for the latest attack on the citizenship rights of the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States, A suit attacking the validity of the fourteenth amendment from a new angle was filed here today in federal district court in the form of a peti- tion seeking to enjoin Walter A. Cohen, Negro, controller of customs of the port of New Orleans from ex- ecuting the duties of that office. The action, if successful, would dis- franchise every Negro in the United States. The petition, as published by the newspapers, charges that Cohen “false- ly alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States” when he took the oath to office. “Not Citizen.” It asserts that the defendant is not a citizen of this country but is “a per- "TODAY, the coal miners-around Moundsville, West V4., are carrying another political desson‘around in their heads. It grew out of a comparison of posters put up on the bulletin board of the Glendale Mine, where they work. “Vote for Coolidge and Dawes!” said the first poster. It had been up only a few days when the mine owners posted another bulletin announcing a 20 per cent wage re- duction. The second notice read: ° “Wages will revert to 1917 scale effective forthwith.” Both notices were put up by the mine owners. It wasn’t difficult for the coal miners to put two and two together. The same source that urges “Coolidge and Dawes,” in the presidential elections, is demanding that wages be reduced. * * * * Contributions by a corporation to churches are an “ordinary and necessary” expense in “carrying on its busi- ness.” That is a contention we have always set forth. This position has now been endorsed by the board of tax appeals at Washington. It is part of good business for corporations to promote religious activity among their employes, and so the tax board has ruled that proper deductions may be made in the income tax returns. The commissioner of internal revenue didn’t think the deduction ought to be made in the case of the Poinsett mills, of Greenville, S. C., manufacturing cotton By JACOB RUSAK (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Oct. 6—Now that the DAILY WORKER has reached hundreds of Gary's slaves, it is beginning to be the principal topic of discussion in the steel mills. Hundreds of copies are being sold every ke and the workers are certainly anxious to get the paper. While I was selling the DAILY WORKER Friday morn- ing, I yelled to the workers as they came out of the mills: “Get the DAILY WORKER, the only Communist Daily paper. Read all about William Z. Foster, the only presidential candidate that carries a union card in his pocket.” ; “Sup” Has Decided Views. About a hundred workers ‘ flocked around and bought the paper, saying, ‘ i ‘ 4 “Foster is the mah for us.” Sudden: picture, was compelled to resort to | fects of old RG Pecgcaeng ay lee photogs. “Case continued till Novem: son of African blood and descent and| goods. It was shown that this corporation, in 1920, contri- a superintendent: came. raising ae Tegal counsel and only upon the threat | 800% began to tell on the senator and | por 10,” barked the judge. “Call the|{s inherently incapable of being a clt!-| buted $1,006.49 to a Baptist church in the mill village. and said, “Let’s see what the ted has that the matter will be taken up to | 8 Partner, however. The police sub- | next case.” zen of the United States.” court did the censors grant a new hearing and finally allowed. the pic- ture to be shown. William Weinstone secretary of the International Work- ers’ Aid, and David Wallenstein, Phil- adelphia attorney, pointed out to the censors that the picture records events in Russia and that matters pertaining to division of the land among the poor peasants and the fight against. the land owners and the fac- tory owners were historical facts which the picture accurately presents. ‘The New York State Board as well as the National Board of Review, have both passed the picture without any dued the pair and took them to the station. Their condition was such that they didn’t even remember who they were so they were booked on the three charges. Possibly if- they had re- membered, they wouldn’t have been booked. Pictures not Judge’s Cause Worry. That is the story the police tell. The legislators don’t want to tell any story till after election, they say. Yester- day morning when they were brought before Judge Joseph W. Schulman in speeders’ court, they were chiefly wor- ried about the attempts of the news More Trouble. But, and, woe betide. The troubles of Joyce and O’Brien were not over. The news photogs, smelling a rat while the conferences were going on, divid- ed their forces. One man stood be- hind the judge, one took up his stand in the main part of the court and the third waited on the stairs for depart- ure of the gentlemen from the 29th senatorial district. The man in the court room manag- ed to make a flashlight of representa- tive O’Brien. O’Brien’s bodyguard of about 12 tough eggs, which until then had been quiet and unnoticed, began The suit is to be brought in the name of H. Edwin Bolte, an attorney of Washington, D, C., and declares that the grounds upon which it is based never have been the subject of decision by the courts. The petition sets forth that three-fourths of the states did not ratify the fourteenth amendment nor was it adopted by the required two-thirds vote of both houses of congress. Sult From New Angle. Mr. Bolte was quoted as saying that altho he and his associates had examined all of the more than 200 Workers baptized in religion make very good mill hands. Especially the children must be taught that they are destined to work in the mills, and that they ought to like it. Trade unions are not encouraged in South Carolina, Expenses for strike-breaking, and maintaining the open shop, will no doubt also be classed, by the revenue collectors, with reli- gious donations as “ordinary and necessary in carrying on business.” * * * . & The Von Steuben Society, in its publication, “The Pro- ve,” joins hands with Rudolph Spreckles, the sugar millionaire of San Francisco, in pointing out why they are in favor of LaFollette. The confession appears under the head- ing, “Why Capitalists Support ‘LaFollette,”” and should be made an important document of this year’s presidential to say.” He gave me three cents and said, “This guy Foster ought to be in Russia, or have a rope around his neck.” : As the superintendent stopped talk- ing, about 507 workers mobbed him and cursed him. Some said, “You dirty scab,” Some called him a K. K. K. That frightened him and he was forced to run into the New York Cen- tral station across the street for pro- tection. While he was fleeing he call- ed back over his shoulder, “I'll get some of you dirty Bolsheviks.” Cop Violates Own Ruling. @iiininations. photographers to get their pictures.|to fume. When on the stairs they |decisions of the supreme court of the} Campaign. We publish it in full as follows. ee eae eh obeyed Show Film Oct. 11. Before their case was called there|met M. Kostie, the third picture| United States which had to do do with peel re ATL! rs ORKER The film will be shown Oct. 11, in-|WeT@ @ half dozen conferences be-} man; they took their revenge. They|the amendment, in not one of them “I am supporting LaFollette and legislation looking to the conserva- cago. and I were walking along stead of Oct. 4, as previously an-| ‘Ween the, interested parties in the} kicked his camera out of his hand and nounced, at Lulu Temple, Broad and | Spring streets. All workers should | see this new feature film which pre- sents the struggles of the Russian workers. All tickets bought ‘for Oct. 4 will be good for Oct. 11, eee Buffalo Books Beatuy and Bolshevik. The latest fiction picture produced in Soviet Russia, adapted in this coun- try under the name of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” will be shown at Buffalo, N. Y., in the Broadway thea- ter, on Saturday afternoon and even- Working class organizations in any part of the country that desire to run this famous and successful picture should apply to the Motion Picture Department, International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lincoln street, Chicago, Ill. judge’s chambers. When their case was finally called only their lawyer appeared at the bar. The senator and representative were alike absent. The judge turned to the police officers. “Till After Election.” “Are you officers willing that I grant a postponement in this case? Till after, ah, ah, you know. Are you?” asked the judge. The two coppers looked at each other dumbly and said nothing. Again the judge. “It’s all right with you if I give these gentle- men time to prepare their case, isn’t itt Again nothing but a look of dumb- ness was to be seen on the faces of the officers of the law. Finally the judge said it right out in open court. “Are you willing to grant a postpone- ment till after election?” And the look he gave the cops said more plain- ly than words, “You thick witted began assaulting him. He gave as good as he got, but by this time the police knowing who their prisoners were, no longér remained neutral. Officer Freeman of the Desplaines street station thinking to distinguish himself in the eyes of two mighty politicians, took a healthy sock at the eye of the photographer. Yelling to the gentlemen who were trying to avoid publicity to “beat it,” Freeman dragged Kostie off to a cell. | Frank Gondeck, a reporter, remon- strated with Freeman and was also taken off to a cell. He was later re- leased, but Kostie was booked for dis- orderly conduct, Later Judge Schul- man no doubt thinking that the fa- vors he had shown to the two legis- lators had contributed to the trouble, ordered that Kostie be released on his own bond. were the points raised in his action passed upon nor were they made an issue. The petition charges conspiracy to the authors of the amendment in con- gress and various sections are cited in effort to show that’ they put the amendment into effect unlawfully. As to Cohen; the’ petition charges that when he took the oath of office in Washington April 16, 1924, he swore falsely to his alleged citizenship, claim- ing to be a citizen under “the provi- sion of the alleged fourteenth amend- ment to the constfitution of the United States.” The petition alleges that article XIV. never was legally proposed by two-thirds of both houses of congress, that it never was ratified by three- fourths of the states, that eleven states of the Union at the time of the tion of the water power of the State for the benefit of the public, but not because I am @ Socialist or a radical. I have a good portion of capital and I desire to hand it down to my children. When men of the stamp of Requa—Requa is the manager of the Coolidge campaign in California and also vice-president of the Sinclair Oil Company, frequently mentioned in connection with the Senate investigation of the Teapot Dome leases— continue to ignore the wishes and the welfare of the masses on whom the security of property depends, these masses may some day rise in their indignation and begin to destroy. I am a better friend of the people of my class, the capitalist class, than those who permit graft, corruption and exploitation to go unchecked. The day will come when they will say that I am right.” Spreckels says he is a better friend of his class, the capitalist class, than are the Teapot Dome Oil capitalists. He wants to hand down his wealth to his children. : But it is the biggest capitalists, with the most unscrupu- lous methods, who rule in industry and dominate capitalist politics. Spreckels may give a liberal fringe to the capitalist class, thru supporting the small business class candidate, LaFollette. But that will not hurt the capitalists. It will only Broadway, we met a city cop. We asked him if we were allowed to dis- tribute sample copies of the DAILY WORKER, and as soon as he heard the words, “DAILY WORKER,” he answered in a harsh voice, “NO,” Then Heinrichson gave him a sam- ple copy of the paper and the cop said “thank you” very politely, thus violating the ruling he had just made. Chicago Young Workers Facing New Problems (Continued from page 1) ganization of young workers—the shop nuclei. All the business of the city central that preceeded or followed the presen- “ : ry . tation of this plan was in one way or i Kostie intends going before Judge |@doption of the resolution “culminat-| fool some workers and farmers into believing they are going Russian-Japanese turkeys." Schulman this morning and demand-|ing in the alleged article XIV.” were} to get something under capitalism. nina Treaty Still Open, Intelligence Dawns. po Pleyscae http Mencegit Moe Pau putty Pr sph ¥ tyes * Spreckels is the catspaw of his class. And LaFollette |"\fanbersnip books were called in * A look that in a way resembled in-| battery against Mr. O'Brien. Free- suffrage in the senate, that six is the mouse that the catspaw is playing with. If the workers Says M. Melnikov | telligence, dawned on the face of one | man has already been suspended from | States were by coercion forced to rat- P P ying and all members ordered to pay up (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, Russia, Oct. 6—The Rus- so-Japanese treaty is still unsettled! and will continue to be so until Japan Makes up her mind to retire from northern Sakhalin, just as she enter- | cop. To the other one he whispered for a moment. A look crept over the face of the second copper that might have indicated to an anthropologist, had one been there, that his prehis- the police force as the result of a complaint lodged with Chief Collins by Kostie’s paper. The troubles of a politician are nu- merous before election time. ify it, and that congress “did without power or authority unlawfully declaré said amendment. to the constitution adopted and a part of the constitu- tion.” 5 The petition then requests the issu- want to be lured into this trap of their enemy class, then all they have to do is follow LaFollette. If they want to fight for their own class interests, they must join with the Com- munists. * * * * In this connection it should be mentioned that the ter- their dues:and become in good stand- ing. Transfers are no more to be “|given out indiscriminately, but must all be OK'd by city to prevent con- fusion during the reorganization. All literature, dues stamps and tick- CE AG FOIE . . ance of an injunction restraining| ‘itorial grand jury, in Hawaii, has just indicted 76 of the 133 [et bills are to be immediately cleared ed, free of spoils, was the gist of a Churches Line Up i Frank Farrington ‘ Cohen from serving further as con- [gee wid strikers arrested following the struggle here, Sept. | off so that with a clean slate we can statement made by M. Melnikov, chief} With Reactionaries; Halts Another Strike | toler ana trom drawing the salary| 9, between the sugar workers and the police called out to | Proceed with the reorganization. of the fareastern department of the Closid ae Ga rd Of the Coal Mi for that office. break their strike. Nearly all of those killed were strikers. Membership Meeting Friday. Pea, fein PAN 08 7 viets le a. ers Twice Rejected. But not a single plantation owner has been indicted, A membership meeting to give the - at for over i @ year the Russo-Japanese negotia-| (Special to The DAILY WORKER.)| DANVILLE, Ill., Oct. 6.—Sixty-five| Cohen, a leading republican politi- We are reliably informed that Spreckles is heavily inter- | members a chance to, discuss the re- tions have been going on and Russia has been holding out and is still hold- ing out for a treaty free from plun- der. Japan insists upon ofl and coal Tights and other concessions from northern Sakhalin. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Oct. 6.—Charging that the recent insurrec- tion in Georgia was instigated by the priests who are in alliance with the nobles for the re-establishment of the old order the Soviet Russia govern- miners, all the employes of the Chica- go Colleries Co. at the present time, returned to work today on@rders from the district president of their union, ending a strike which started Septem- ber 22. They struck because a bridge cian of Louisiana, has been a storm center ever since his nomination to the post by the late President Harding. The senate refused confirmation on the ground that he was personally obnox- fous to the Louisiana members of the ested in the Hawaiian plantations. Out of the exploitation of helpless Japs, Filipinos, Chinese and Hindus, Spreckels wins profits to keep his children in idleness and luxury. aa els got his start as a sugar millionaire as head of the awaiian Commercial and Sugar Company. And the United States is on the job, on behalf of the plantation owners. This organization plan in all its detailg has been called for Friday, October 10, at 722 Blue Island Ave. Conscientious and intelligent support of every mem- ber of the League is required to per- form the reorganization and to begin 5 ment has ordered 1400 churches clos-| engineer employed by the coal com-| body. ig shown by the terse statement that “there have been no | "i/o" and more Productive work a They're Not All So Lucky. ed here, pany in structural work at the mines| President Harding then issued aj disturbances” in the islands since the struggle that resulted League and Party forgotten at ghis i LOGANSPORT, Ind., Oct. 6.—Loss did not give idle coal miners prefer-|Tecess nomination and he served sev- i (3 of a set of store teeth, knocked from his mouth by the force of the impact was the only damage suffered today by Daniel Hostettler, farmer, from the collision of a passenger train and his automobile at a grade crossing here. The machine was wrecked and Hos- tettler was hurled more than 20 feet but escaped unhurt. Have you heaved your brick? Notice to All Party Units, Spacious hall for rent most central- ly and conveniently located at 722 Blue Island Ave, Chicago, Ill, for meetings, conventions, dances, etc. Apply Greeck Branch W. P., 722 Blue Island Ave., 2nd floor, or phone Mon- roe 1628. Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U. MEXICAN CHARGES INVESTORS FROM FOREIGN LANDS SEEK TO ence in work as laborers and team- sters. : Union Not Liable for Pickets, HAMILTON, Ont.— Ontario courts have upheld an injunction against picketing here but refused to hold the union liable for damages for the ac- tions of the pickets. The case grew out of a dispute in the moving picture industry in Hamilton. The court held that there was no allegation that the union was possessed of a trust fund, or that such circumstances existed as would entitle the plaintiffs to resort to such a fund in satisfaction of their | W. eral months without pay, President Coolidge later sent his nomination back to the senate and again confirma- tion was denied on the same grounds as before. Upon reconsideration, how- ever, the nomination finally was con- firmed. Opinion here is to the effect that the suit is the first step in a legal battle financed by the Ku Klux Klan whose object is the repeal of all pro- visions of the bill of rights as it now applies to Negroes. Building Bolsheviks—the D. in the death of 20 participants. * * * * Dr. W A. Evans, the health expert of the Chicago Tribune, tells us that, “During the centuries of safe exist- ence the luxury of the slow awakening habit has been in- dulged until it has become instinctiv For fear that all the readers of The Tribune might not be able to enjoy this luxury, and might resent mention of it, he adds, “Whether a person awakens slowly or quickly is pees matter of training. One is about as instinctive as e But the worker doesn’t need this superfluous health advice. He must awaken at the call of the alarm clock, not by instinct, but by necessity. This will be so until the social revolution acts as an alarm clock to call all the people in- cluding the parasite rich, to do meeting. A resolution was passed commending the N. E. C. on the strict méasures taken against com- rades failing to perform anti-militarist work assigned them. Minnie Lurye was elected to direct the work of the League in the election campaign League branches were instruced to meet together with Party on the 12th . of October at 10 a, m., to mobilize for the literature bombardment during the last week of the campaign, Octo- ber 26 to November 2. Branches were instructed to assist in every way the Party in organizing and advertjsing the Foster-Gitlow election meeting on Oc ? clam, —| workers who rise before dawn ‘at the: atom pig eh. 4 10 9 hy May ov S enapyoeedi gel 4 i 's , mM U TILATE. REVOLU TION Ss P ROGRAM Plans Long Trip. New York, Attention! begin the long workday, may have a chance to sleep a little Ain Wacalas tuhert' evianies (By The Federated Press) MEXICO CITY, Oct. 6.—"We need foreign capital, we invite foreign investments in Mexico, but we do not want capital from large trusts run by ten interested only in coupon-elipping and who look upon the workers only 48 @ source of piling up wealth,” was the statement of President Obregon to ROME, Oct, 6~The Duke of Pistoia has prepared for a globe circling trip of research that will carry him 83,000 miles in three years, and include search for sunken ships, experiments with Don’t Forget the Workers Party Campaign Fund! longer. WILLIAM E. BROWDER LAUDS THREE: and Emma Blechschmidt as assistants and a call was issued for more leaders for junior groups. ch branch was instructed to elec’ a YOUNG WORKER sub agent “ MILLION DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN —_—_—. Dear Comrades!—Your general letter calling for a series of general mem- bership meetings on Oct. 12 to Prepare for the distribution of three million Carry a Subscription List Collections should be made In shops, at all socials.and meetings, among friends, and wherever else workers congregate, pleces of lite: @ group of American employers in banquet assembled in Mexico City, He asked financial interests to co-operate in carrying out the revolu- tionary program of the last 10 years: to help the workers to a better econ. omic existence. motion pictures 13,000 feet under fhe sea and long motor trips inland at little visited points in Asia. the issuing of a leaflet adverti: e YOUNG WORKER was recommended to increase the circulation of our pa- per in the Chicago shops. be in danger if they conceded a living wage. Don’t Like Alien Miners. ion ‘prive tho capitalists of their gains, be- _ |@ause thoy feared their fortunes would The majority of foreign investors, especially Americans, he said, have ‘tried to mutiliate the program of the Fevolution and to present it to the ‘world as an anarchist attempt to de- Obregon ended his speech by calling upon foreign capital to make invest- ments in Mexico, but in a spirit of co- operation, to help the government to contribute to the economic and eul- tural well-being of the masses, and if they could not come in such a spirit, they need not come at.all. oer SYDNEY, N. 8. W.—Miners are ob- Jecting to the employment of aliens in the coal and metal mines in Aus- tralia, They contend that as the aliens do not know English or have at most only a slight knowledge of it, it is in- convenient and dangerous to work with them, nd contributions to Workers ty Campaign Committee, 210 East 12th St., New York City. Tel, Stuyvesant 6647, M checks payable to Charles Krumbein, Treasurer, In with the Dollars! co-operation of the membership to make it a big success and to have strong effect. This will do as much as any other one thing to hammer the party into a unit. ure has been received, and wish to report that we had already set our meeting day for Oct. 10, as we expect to do some work on Sunday, Oct. 12, It appeals to me that the plan is a first class one and only needs the very tomer | Fraternally yours, as Wm. E. Browder, Secy,, City Central Committee, Members were asked to send in ar- \ ticles on shop conditions to THE YOUNG REBEL, League's local bulle- tin and the meeting adjourned to meet the last Monday of October when the League will be already organized on the working area basis, Wel eet vin 4