The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 172. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SEEK CENSURE OF MD Outside Chixago, Communists BIG OVERFLOW AT FOSTER MEET IN-LOS ANGELES Communist Candidate Is Given Big Reception (Special to The Daily Worker) _ LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 8. —A mass of over four hundred people were turned away from the Gamut Club Auditorium, and every inch of seating and standing room was filled to overflowing; to hear the Com- munist candidate for president, William Z. Foster, here. The auditorium was filled be- fore 7:45 p. m. and with the opening of the’ meeting the stage and every other possible Place where it was possible to either sit or stand was taken. Foster Dissects Capitalism. *s appearance brought the an- cence to its feet with cheers, enthu- r’asm reigned for over ten minutes. | ven Foster’s motions commanding tre ovation to be shortened was of no avail. For an hour and three-quarters, Fos- ter held his audience spellbound with his keen and Incid analysis of the sys- tem under which the working class suffers, what it entails, and the prob- lems confronting the proletariat and the real remedy that will forever sweep off the face of the earth the nisery, unemployment and war. He analyzed the present political campafgn and the parties participating | in it He showed the distincion be-| t veer the two old parties as being the | difference between twin brothers fed | put of one and the same dish—WALL | RELIEF COMMITTEE OF WORKERS PARTY ISSUE IN PATERSON STRIKE (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 8—The Workers Party Relief Committee for the Paterson silk strikers has issued an appeal for funds. Declar- ing that, “The silk manufacturers of Paterson with the aid of police and the Paterson courts, are doing their best to starve the Paterson silk strikers into submission. “The silk workers of Paterson are conducting a militant struggle to win the eight-hour day, recognition of the right to organize and to es- tablish the two-loom system,” states the Workers Party committee. | “Show your solidarity with the ten thousand silk strikers. Help them to win their just demands; help to defeat the injunction brot against them by the bosses; give at once as much as you can to keep up the splendid spirit and solicarity of the Paterson silk strikers in this struggle.” Workers Party Candidates Draw Open Air Crowds Greater crowds than ever before are attending the Communist open air meetings, at which Workers Party speakers and candidates are listened to with great interest as the campaign draws toward the home stretch. J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and candidate for United States senator from Illinois, spoke last night at Wilton and Belmont to a great audience which eagerly bought DAILY WORKERS, the Young Workers Party, and tiekets to the Foster-Gitlow mass meeting, to be held in the Carmen’s Auditorium, Oct. Other Workers Party candidates speaking in the local outdoor cam- paign, “Bob” Minor, Communist candi- date for congressman-at-large, first dis- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year, W. P. TICKET. ON BALLOT IN WASHINGTON Coast State Makes the ‘ Twelfth A wire from N. H. Tallentire, district organizer of the Work- ers Party at Seattle, Washing- ton, advises that the secretary of state of the State of Wash- ington has certified the nomina- tion of Workers Party presiden- tial electors and the workers and farmers of that state will have the opportunity of castin their ballot for Foster an Gitlow. There are now eleven states in which the Workers Party has placed its candidates on the bal- lot. These states are: Massa- chusetts, New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wis consin, Minnesota, North Da- kota, Iowa, Colorado, Montana and Washington. May Get Four More. There are still four states where the time limit for filing of presidential electors has not expired and in which the Workers Party ticket may be filed. These states are Rhode Island, Con- necticut, Indiana and Missouri. In the-state of Michigan, altho the legal requirements were complied with by the Workers Party, the secre- | arty ticket from the ballot on a trumped up technicality. CHICAGO SCHOOL HEAD IS OLD TIME LACKEY on Ball THE DAILY WORK Entered as Second-<clazs matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1924 <=> Published Daily except Sunday b. PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Was! DONALD ot in State of Washington Scene in Moscow, the Red Capital of the Soviet Republic At left, Leo Kamenev; at right, Gregory Zinoviev; prominent Russian Communists and leaders in the Communist International. Also scene of Moscow of the Seventh Anniversary of Russian Soviet Rule. SIX RED NIGHTS FEATURE PARTY. Open Air Meetings (Special to The Dalty Worker) - | NEW YORK, Oct. 8. the Workers Say 4 ce pega electors on the ballot in New) as it appears today on the eve SPRINGFIELD COAL MINERS DEMAND SPECIAL DISTRICT CONVENTION IN “i (Special to The dyke FIGHT ON EXPULSION OF McDONALD Dally Worker) “GMIELD, IIL, Oct. 8—At a meeting of Local Union No. 448 (Klon- held last night it was decided to demand a special district con- vention to combat the high handed method of Frank Farrington in his ef- fort to have Duncan McDonald expelled from membership. ficialdom who act in concert with the bosses and carry out their desires. When interviewed McDonald stated | some two years and arose over a mis- take in the secretary of the local of| This effort on the part of the fakirs at the head of the United Mine ding with, their. general, policy of trying.to get.gid,of every ‘| progressive member who is not ine————_———_—__—_—____ |hramony with the policy of the of-|the action taken and also appeal for a special district convention to take up this question. A mass meeting in Springfield to pass on this matter is .—Putting | iat this matter had been pending for| Under consideration. Farrington Inconsistent. It was pointed out that Farrington THB DAILY WORKER gton Blvd.,. Chicago, UL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents RULE BRITISH TORY LEADS IN FIGHT ON LABOR PARTY Dropping of Attack on Communist Editor Hit (Special to ‘The Datty Workers o* LONDON, October Britain is now face to fi squarely with the question o whether the MacDonald c: is to continue In office, Sir Robert 8 tory, placed before the House Commons a motion to the Labor cabinet on ground that it quashed 9 1 minal indictment against the editor of the official ot the Communist Party of Great Britain, the “Workers’ Weekly,” MacDonald In Weak Defense, Sir Horne declared that this action by the laborites was due to pressure from the extremists. The atterney- general who handled the case is being charged with ineffictency, So far MacDonald has not made a vigorous defense. The labog premier said: “If administration of law be- comes the subject of political expedi- ency, then justice will disappear.” Whether he will demand the dissolu- tion of parliament upon being defeat- ed on the issue, is still a question. MacDonald is not very anxious to go before the country on an issue that would bring out the c! alignments 80 aud in Whith thé Commu ists fare so prominently. Situation Is Complicated. The situation is further complicated by a new factor. Usually it is only a matter of formality for the king to as- sent to a dissolution request. The king, as the ruber stamp of the biggest industrial and financial interests, is i of) has of OF EMPLOYING CLASS Leta j trict, Sam Hammersmark, Workers York State with many more|which McDonald is a member. As|had himself denounced Lewis for the Stakes on Coolidge. | Party, candidate for congress in the He pointed out that the only reason | seventh district; Jack Johnstone, can- Wall Street does not support the La-|didate for congress in the ninth dis- Follette movement is because big cap-| trict, and George Maurer, Workers tal and its parties .can still befuddle| Party candidate for congress. he m‘rés of the workers, and make} Thursday, Oct. 9. thent yote for Coolidge. “Capitalists! 47th and Ashland—Auspices of. Po- alweys bet on the Winning. horse,” | igh branch. Speakers, W. F. Kruse said Foster, “and in this campaign | and Polish comrade. Coo'dre is the horse their stakes are! North Ave. and Orchard—Auspices #*" on.’ But when capitalism finds it-|German branch. Speakers Paul Cline, #7) in this country in the same posi- | George Maurer. con thet German capital found itself; 62nd and Halsted—Auspices Engle- tthe end of the world war, it will) wood branch. Speakers M. Shachtman then turn to the LaFollette movement |and Sam Hammersmark. to savo it for them, just as the Ger- Friday, Oct. 10. — re ou turned to the ‘social: Roosevelt and Homan—Auspices D. {mobrate: to-nave then. P. Jewish branch. Speakers George Urge Workers’ Rule. Maurer and others. After analyzing the capitalist sys- Wilton and Belmont— suspices tem and its institutions, Foster show-|North’Side Y. W.L. branch. Speakers e’ what the system means to the/|Karl Reeve and others. workers, how the government and all| North Ave. and Fairfield—Auspices * stitutions under capitalism are own-| Northwest English branch. Speakers *, controlled and directed by the cap-| Arne Swabeck and others. ifvl sts, end the only way that the| Lawrence and Sawyer— Auspices working class can emancipate itself is | Irving Park Workers Party and Young ‘by abolishing the system and substi-| Workers’ League branches. Speakers tuting for the capitalists’ dictatorship, | Pete Herd and others. the rule of the working class. Fruits of the War. SAN FRANCISCO.—Set down an- other triumph of the war to end war. Joseph Betz, 24, came out of France totally disabled and with an acquired drug habit. A girl took pity on his plight, loved him and cared for him, tho she had a husband who would not divorce her. The zealous police, urged on by a rejected admirer of the girl, arrested the pair, They paroled Helen and she threw herself from a speeding train. happens to me now,” says Betz. “All I want is to see Helen once more.” They let him see Helen—in the morgue. BIG MINE OWNERS DECLARE FOR | WORKING CHILDREN IN THE MINES (Special to The Daily Worker) Have you heaved your brick? Shoe Strike in Massachusetts WAKEFIELD, Mass., Oct. 8.—The pian tina Protective Union is conducting a strike against the L. B. Evans Shoe company which declared open shop recently after 15 years with the union. The company had asked for the Haverhill price list and then would not accept it. More than 300 workers are picketing the shop. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. “T don’t care what* Proof that superintendent of Chi- cago schools, William McAndrew, is an old time educational lackey of big business, is contained in a deli- cate appeal to the owners of the public schools—the employing class —which appeared in the bulletin of the Brooklyn chamber of commerce on March 9, 1923, when McAndrew was associate superintendent of public schools. McAndrew asks the capitalists how he can best serve them, what they think of the prod- uct he is turning out and how he can make “it” more valuable to the employers, McAndrew’s statement, which ap- peared at the time when big busi- ness wanted to know whether he would serve them well if they gave him a good job, follows: “An appeal to employers—What’s the use of night schools? If you were elected superintendent of them and were determined to use your highest endeavor to make them the best you know how, what would YOU do? As a citizen or as an employer, what do you find most needed that the high schools can supply? If you have had experience with the output of night schools, what do you think of it? Please particularize. We are engaged in a periodic survey of the service and need advice.” (Signed) William Me- Andrew. McAndrew is now engaged in making a sneaking assault upon the teachers’ counci and upon the teachers’ salaries. Negro Hits Coolidge Candidacy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. — Bishop John Hurst of the African Methodist Episcopal church, once a missionary to Haiti and now chancellor of a col- lege in Florida and trustee of several universities in the south, has issued a denunciation of Coolidge as the Klan candidate for the presidency, than the required 20, for the New York City party) members. Six RED NIGHTS have been | arranged, Charles Krumbein, district organizer, reports to the DAILY WORKER, with eleven large open air meetings every night, at which 30,000 pieces of Communist literature will be distributed, and 58 speakers will be rushed into the campaign every night. Five thousand people are expected to march to the main meetings with banners and red lights. | Each of the six RED NIGHTS will cover a different section of New York City. Tomorrow night the Williams- burg section will be covered, with the main speeches on Grand St. The Grand St. meetings will followed by meetings in ‘Harlem Saturday night, with the main speeches at 110th St. and Fifth Ave. he other sections. are to be an- nounce later. , The marchers will parade to the main speaking corners. RAISE QUESTION OF FIRING WOMEN WHEN THEY DECIDE TO MARRY The United States railroad labor board today took under advisement the question of whether or not a railroad has a right to discharge a woman employe when she marries The question a in a dispute be- tween the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express and Station Employes and the Kansas City Southern railroad. The decision on the cai women employes of railroa out the country. be "|to show case why their charter should wrote the secretary asking how much} he owed for dues and assessments and the amount due. Some months later | some of the gum shoe sleuths of Far-| |ring ton checked up the books of the} loca! and found the secretary had! failed to charge McDonald with some} two dollars for the alleged Herrin as-| sessment. This money was supposed} to be used for the Herrin miners, but} in reality was used to buy votes for) Farrington in the miners’ election. | j History of €ase. | When the secretary discovered he| had made a mistake he notified Mc- Donald and received the amount due for this alleged Herrin assessment. Some seven months later Farrington notified the members of this local to drop McDonald from membership be- cause of the mistake of the secretary which the local as promptly refused to do. The matter rested until eleven months later when again Farrington notified the local to have representa- tives appear before the district board not be revoked for failure to expel McDonald. Notwithstanding the fact that the miners’ constitution does not give either Farrington or his board the power to revoke charters he holds this over their heads at every oppor- tunity and especially when they go out on strike against the wishes of the bosses who Farrington serves. The local then sent representatives to Indianapolis at the invitation of vice-president Murray, who promised them a hearing before the charter would be revoked. When they reach- ed there they were told they must Obey the mandate of Farrington and expel McDonald before their case could be heard. At first he promised Signa-| McDonald found it impossible to at-| expulsion of Alex Howat, for expelling tures secured, was just a start|tend the meeting at that time he|him from membership without even the formality of a trial and thus far no charges have been preferred jon being informed sent a check for| against McDonald who is a charter members of the United Mine Workers. Farrington reserves the right to set aside the constitution at his will and not long ago was found giving the list of secretaries to a republican candi- date for governor. He also furnished a letter of en- dorsement for the same party on the official stationery both of which of- fenses are in violation of the miners’ constitution and subjects the guilty party to loss of membership. But Far- rington got away with it. Accused of Crookedness. It was also pointed out in the meet- ing where he had stolen elections, kept his entire family from funds of the Illinois miners’ treasury, used the funds for his honeymoon trip, made trips to New York, Seattle, California and many other places at the expense of the organization. That he loaded down the miners’ treasury with pie- counter paytriots, and packed every convention with pay-rollers to keep him in office. McDonald told of Far- rington burglarizing his office and stealing the carbon copies of letters and how later the attempt to burglar- ize the safe in his office was made, but it was such a crude job the per- petrators were well known to be ama- teurs at this sort of thing. That not even a lock was broken to get in and the party who did it had keys to the office and he knew who had the keys. Farrington’s Election Trickery. McDonald is known to be in opposi- tion to Farrington in the coming min- ers’ election and Farrington apparent- ly thought this was the time to push the case. John J, Watt, candidate for lieutenant-governor on the Workers Party ticket is a member of the same to give them a hearing later, but re- versed himself at Farrington’s ‘sug: gestion and stated that the time for appeal had passed. When the com- local and is a candidate for re-election |to the position he now holds as sub- district secretary-treasurer. Several other members of the same local are SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 8—The American Mining Congress, composed of mine owners, meeting here, has gone on record in favor of child labor in the mines by opposing the proposed twentieth amendment to the constitu- e DAWES PLAN WAS LOGICAL STEP IN DEVELOPMENT OF U.S. IMPERIALISM mittee reported the results of their|candidates for office in the coming conference with Murray a motion was | election amd the effort to get McDon- made and passed refusing to expel jald may have been made to prevent McDonald at the bequest of Farring-|these other members from running tion of the United States which proposes to regulate labor of children under the age of 18. Altho the reason given for being against the child labor amendment, was that the mine owners believe the separate states should govern child labor, it Is believed here that the mine owners do not want By JAY LOVESTONE \ (Sixth Article) ton, save their charter so that they could McDonald was present and sug- | for office. gested to the members that in order to | McDonald Popular. A committee was selected to prepare their boys who do various jobs in the mines prevented from working. The great Mining Congress also condemned the corporation Income tax laws, which Londo: take some of their huge profits away from them, and declared against gov- ernment ownership of ines. E. L. Doheney, of Los Angeles, was elected first vice-president, and. also one of the 13 national directors, No event since the close of the world war has been of as importance to the American. capitalist class as the recent n Conference. Here the Dawes Plan was put over. Here the world supre- macy of American capital was given international recognition. (Continued on page 5) 4 - vote in the coming election they reverse jand send out the appeal to all other themselves and drop him from /mem- locals in the state and a merry row bership under protest. This was final-|is looked for. McDonald has already ly done and then the fireworks start. | received invitations to go to different ed, It was finally agreed to send out | parts of the state and explain this mat: @ message to the members in all other ter and will probably tour the entire locals in the state informing them of | state in defense of his position, | now intimating that he will reject such @ request if it comes from the cabinet, , These capitalist groups would rath- er see Stanley Baldwin, the prominent steel manufacturer, again take his place at the head of « conservative cabinet than throw the country inte a sharp election struggle. Expect Bitter Debate. The debate is expected te be a very bitter one. Communism will be the central issue. The liberals and tories will make it so, tho MeDengiad will vulnerable from such sharp elass cism and disapproval by the parties, Mr. McDonald is even ning to outfight the Lloyd Baldwin alliance in their fight the Communists, The premier is pro posing to expel every Communist who is a member of the labor party. There is much bitterness in the de- hate because of the amendment of the liberals to appoint a special commit- tee to investigate the entire matter of the Workers’ Weekly indictment. McDonald has branded the Mberal pro- posal as a “piece of medieval crooked- ness.” Building Bolsheviksthe D. Hunt Cure for Cancer. MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 8— The Australian federal government is appropriating $25,000 for research into the cause of cancer. A commission will be appointed to consider health legislation and administration. CARLSON TO SPEAK IN WORCESTER ON EUROPEAN SITUATION WORCESTER, 'Mass., Oct. 8.— Oliver Carlson, back in the United States after twenty months in Eu- rope, will speak here in A. O. H. Hall, Trumbull street, Saturday evening, Oct. 18, on the subject, “What is | happening in Europe.’ Carlson will also talk on the labor government of England, radicals in power in France, socialist govern- ment in Sweden and Denmark, fas- cisti in power in Italy, Hungary and © Spain, proietarian dictatorship in , and the LaFollette move- ment in the United States,