The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1924, Page 1

as AR i RGSS ERO asec A oman RRM T THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT ©) Vol. Il. No. 173. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chisago, by mail, $6.00 per year. SUBSE ‘NEW BRIT Stay o -— KING GEORGE ASSENTS T0 PREMIER'S ANNOUNCENENT, | PARLIAMENT 1S DISSOLVED (@pecial to The Daily Worker) | LONDON, Oct. 9.—Premier Ramsay MacDonald, head of the ] Labor government, officially announced this afternoon in the House of Commons that the present parliament is to be dissolved. King George has assented to the formality of agreeing to the labor premier’s request for dissolution. The only bill this session will consider is the Irish boundary dispute. Very likely the next order of business will be to pro- rogue parliament. In that event, nominations are scheduled to be made on Oct. 29. ‘The cabinet decided to resign upon the adoption of the tory motion of censure by a vote of 364 to 196. This motion was based on the government’s withdrawal of a criminal prosecution 5 ‘against James Campbell, the editor of the Workers’ Weekly, § p WER | official organ of the Communist s Us |Party of Great Britain. IS AT COMMAND * MacDonald Voices Regrets. it is not of our seeking. It has been forced on us. I would have been glac OF MR MORGAN if we had been able to carry on our . policy, which I believe was for the promotion of the common weal.” The labor leader, Mr. Clynes, gave Reviewing the situation at this Dawes Plan Has Back- another angle to the critical political Communists juncture, premier MacDonald declar- ed: “I regret the turn of events, but i drive from the commons last night, but we are getting it from the throne today in authority for the dissolution of par- liament.” It is interesting to note that there was considerable opposi- tion to the Mac! it for solution on the at the king should deny “the right of a minority to force the dissolution of _parlia- ment.” This defeat is the eleventh suffer- By JAY LOVESTONE. (Seventh Article.) From the very moment that the Best Minds of the American employing class saw that con- ditions were ripening for their open, large-scale participation in and domination of the Euro- nett nd Here we have a group of Cheki- ang troops resting up after being Geo RIPTION RATES: 7 the Chinese Lose Faith in Imperialist-Paid Generals = soldiers were in the The only rest they had | the main, are bought and paid for | it rained, as it is the | by American and British interests. General Wu Pei Fu is especially a notorious American n back by a flerce assault’ of 44 ‘custom not to fight when henchman, 7d ; situation when he told the annual la-} the Manchurian forces. The picture The Chekiang forces are | Many American business men have ing of Washington bor conference now in session: “We| was taken five miles behind the emoralized. They are los- | labelled him the Chinese George | were unable to get fair treatment] |ines of the Peking army. For ten In their generals, who, In Washington, rgia Lynch Law in Chicago : RUSSIAN TRADE UNIONS FIGHT eee Published Daily except Sunday by THH DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., isconsin Ballot + Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. | Price 3 Cents 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL LAFOLLETTE AGENTS, EXERN ANTHWORKERS PARTY PLOT | By JOSEPH MANLEY | (Campaign Manager, Workers Party) | The Workers Party has successfully called the bluff of La- Follette’s Wisconsin officials in their own bailiwick. | In spite of the last minute joint attempt of H. L. Ekern, attorney general, supported by secretary of state Fred. R. Zim- | merman, both of Wisconsin, to rule off the official ballot the names of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Zimmerman now rules that the Communist candidates will go on the ballot. Ekern’s discriminatory and last minute ruling insisted upon a petition of one thousand signatures for the names of the pre- sidential and vice-presidential candidates to be placed at the head of the independent column. The regular petition applying to the party already been filed and the date+— for the filing of all petitions was| CHARGE WHITE MEN, but a few days off when Ekern} payor || HOT NEGRO, APPROACHED ed at this last minute attempt to| keep its candidates off the ballot,| That white men and not a Negro approached Betty Goldblatt and while at the same time LaFollette’s supporters had been tipped off and all Bertha Deutsch, Wednesday night, has just been disclosed by eye-wit- |such fake rulings as those made by| Ekern provided for. LaFollette and nesses to the lynching of William Bell, a Negro, whom police admit | Wheeler were to be on the ballot in Wisconsin but not Foster and Gitlow,| jaccording to the plans of the Wis-| had nothing to do with the affair. Harry Crawford, Negro, who runs a pool hall at 1339 Miller Street, a jconsin “progressives Immediately | |upon learning the facts, the Workers few feet from the spot where Bell was murdered at eleven o'clock electors had Party proceeded to call the bluff of attorney general Ekern. Morris Fromkin, legal representa- tive.of the party in Wisconsin, went to Madison and interviewed the various officials, both the secretary of state jand the attorney general. Their ex- |cuses. and explanations for their hasty jaction was not accepted by the Work- Wednesday night, passed the corner of 14th and Miller St. while the two girls were talking to two white men who thad tried to “pick them up” in a Ford car which had stopped near pean politico-economic affairs, the United States government put all of its phe and re- sources at the disposal of these rulers of finance and industry to help them establish and make secure their receivership of Ger- many. Within two weeks after the “unofficial” American members of the experts’ committee, the Banker-Generals Dawes, Young and Robinson signed their | names to the reparations report, President Coolidge spoke of the ‘proposed German loan before the Associated Press in New in these words: “Sound business reasons exist why we should participate in the financing of ‘works of peace in Europe.” Shortly afterward the Federal Re- serve Board advisory council declar- ed: “The council recommends tha‘ when the new German note-issuing bank, provided in the Dawes plan, is wrganized, the federal reserve banks take the steps necessary in order to facilitate the rediscounting in this country of properly protected German gold bills. . . .” On August 14, 1924, Coolidge reat- ‘firmed his indorsement when he stated fm his speech of acceptance: “I shall do what I can to encourage Ameri- can citizens and resources to assist (Continued on Page 6.) ( } Executive Committee. The first task confronting the Chicago league is to reorganize upon a This means abolition of all the present territorial completely new basis, branches and a reorganization into: area branches upon the basis of dis- tricts of work, This is a direct transi- step to the complete reorganiza- tion of the league upon the basis of nuclet, 4 has been accepted by the Chi- cago executive committee ang will be presented to the membership at a gen- eral membership meeting of all mem- pers of the Young Workers League to bo held tonight at Greek Workers’ 3 ), 722 Blue Island Ave. (one lock from Halsted St.) at 8 p. m. Comrade Max Shachtman will pre- pent the new plan of organization and E CHICAGO Y. W. L. MEMBERS MEET , TONIGHT AT GREEK HALL; TAKE bs UP REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS The Chicago Young Workers League is beginning immediately to carry out the work assigned to it in the Program of Action adopted by the Natlonal ed by the labor cabinet. The reaction- aries are planning to unite all their forces and score heavily on election day, which will probably be Novem- ber 8. They are counting on the wav- ering attitude of MacDonald and his followers as well as on the acute eco- nomic crisis now confronting the country in mounting unemployment. Expect Interesting Developments. Many interesting developments are expected in the impending election campaign. The liberals are planning to spread the notion that Premier Mac- Donald had special personal reasons for dropping the indictment against J. R. Campbell, the Communist editor, against whom sedition charges were brough. There is no denial of the fact that unless MacDonald meets this challenge squarely on the basis of all workers fighting against the em- ployers along national class ljnes, he will be in a most unfavorable position. It is the plan of the torfes and Uberals to turn their every gun against the Russian treaty also. They point out that on the very day on which the Soviet treaty was signed, the Communist indictment was drop- ped. In the ranks of the Labor Party following there is much stir over the siftation. The extreme right group does not welcome the election at this time and regrets that it was unable to avoid the untoward current events have taken. activity as a result of the new form of organization. This meeting is a historic one in the annals of the American league since it means the first direct step to com: pletely reorganize a large city unit upon a basis that will make the final reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei, a fact instead of a mere theory. Admission will be by card. All members must attend or they will not be in good standing, Announcement will be made of the meeting places of all new area branches. Building Bolsheviks—the D. Ww. B. UL IMPERIALIST ATTACK ON CHINA TO THE WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES! eee is again approaching a world war as a result of the preda- tory attack of the English, American, Japanese and French govern- ments upon the peacable inhabitants of China. What are all these gov- ernments after in China? Why do they send an ultimatum to the revo- lutionary democratic government of Sun-Yiat-Sen? Why are they meddling in the inner affairs of the Chinese people? They are coming forward to protect the Chinese counter-revolution against the workers and peas- ants of China. They are dispatching their war ships to China because the broad masses of the Chinese people wish to liberate themselves from foreign domination. It is in this manner that the labor government of England and the block of the left in France testify their love of peace and their efforts of disarmament. We, the workers of the Soviet Union, who have suffered from the attacks of the world bourgeoisie, know who is directing this predatory attack upon the broad masses of the Chinese people. We call upon the workers of all countries to stand up determinedly against this shameful interference In the affairs of the Chinese people. It must not be per- mitted, that the bourgeoisie of England, America, France and Japan place a noose round the neck of a people numbering 400 million. We, the trade unionists of the Soviet Union, have formed a “Hands off China BASEBALL BAT Police from the Maxwell St. pote station were washing the lood of William Bell, 29-year- old victim of a mob of rowdies, from the sidewalk near the cor- ner of Miller and 14th Streets, yesterday, but they could not wipe away the stain of the transportation of Georgia lynch law to the city of Chicago. It has been disclosed that William Bell, 1057 Frank St., a Negro lynched by a mob, many of whom were declared by by- standers to be drunk, was League.” Organize similar leagues! Set the broad masses in motion standing on the corner of 14th against this attack! Do not let world-imperialism strangle the Chinese and Maxwell Streets, talking to people! s friends when the alleged assault on two stenographers occurred. Killed With Bat. The two Negro friends of the mur- dered man, Thomas Clark, of 1040 West 14th street, and Walter Harper, 1045 W. 13th street, and the brother of the murdered Bell, George Bell, 1243 Miller street, have identified Otto Ep- stein, as the man who struck William Bell over the head with a baseball bat, almost instantly killing him. In the sacramental wine shop of George Shapiro, 1014 W. 14th street, a tew feet from the scene of the brut- al lynching, Shapiro and his assist- ants denied all knowledge of the af- fair, when interviewed by the DAILY WORKER. “Epstein is only a common labor- er,” Shapiro told the DAILY WORK- ©R. “He was employed by me as 1 night watchman,” Shapiro's assistant, who was in charge of the wine shop yesterday, made several contradictory state- ments to the DAILY WORKER. “Ep- stein generally sits outside the door,” the assistant said, “He probably saw the affair and ran for the police A little later, however, the assistant con- tradicted himself. “Epstein generally locked himself in the wine shop,” he| stein ran out of the wine shop with declared, closing the door and demon. | 4 baseball bat, followed by a bunch strating to the DAILY WORKER re-| of his drunken customers. Harper porter exactly how Epstein closed the | “ud Clark ran, and Bell was immedi. door and locked it from tne tnside,| ately beaten to death by the crowd.” “He never went out unless some ex- Epstein Held Without Bail. citement occurred, This place is sup-! The desk sergeant at the Maxwell posed to close up at ten o'clock every | street police station declared that Kp- night, you know.” stein will be held without bail until Picks First Victim. after the coroner's inquest, to take The Negroes of the “Valley Dis-| place this morning at the county trict," which is populated by both | morgua, Down with the predatory attack upon China! Down with intervention! Down with the world war! Hands off China! The Trade Union Council of the Soviet Union. O'FLAKEATY TO BARE FARRINGTON ANTI-LABOR RECORD IN NEW SERIES Compiled from documents and data furnished by the rank and file of the Illinois district of the United Mine Workers of America, ‘which Farrington exploits, the series of articles which the DAILY WORK. ER begins to publish Monday, con- tains what is probably the most extraordinary story of corruption and betrayal in the history of the American labor movement. Written by T. J. O'Flaherty in the pungent style that has made his “As We See It” column the subject of favorable comment wherever the DAILY WORKER is read, these articles will throw t rohlight into many dark holes and corners of the Illinois labor movement and become part of the evidence on which the American working class is building its indictment of the tools of capitalism in the American labor movement, If you want to be certain of get- ting all th articles subscribe to the DAILY WORKER now. Jews and Negroes, have a different story to tell. of Wpstein’s activities. Harper and Clark both claim Epstein van out of his shop trailing a base- ball bat, and crashed in the skull of the first Negro he saw, which happen- od to be Bell. The girls, meanwhile, had run into Bertha Deutch’s house, 1047 Miller street. “They killed Bell for nothing at all,” 2 Negro in the pool hall at 1041 Mil- ler street, across the street ftom the murder, who saw the affair, told the DAILY WORKER. “Epstein was sell- ‘ng booze to a gang of young rellows, and they were all standing in and around the wine shop. Most of them were drunk, Bell was standing on the corner of Miller and 14th streets, talking to friends, when the two girls screamed and ran in the house. There was an auto across the street, but 1 saw no one lay hands on the two girls. ‘At any rate it was not Bell.” As soon as the girls screamed, Ep- WITH BLOW OF . jers Party. The party announced its intention to fight this kind of gang po- litics and expose the methods of those | who run the “model commonwealth” | generally thruout the country. Now we learn that the secretary of state, Fred R. Zimmerman, will disregard the ruling of the attorney general and will permit the name of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gifiow to be placed on the official ballot in Wis- consin. Workers! Draw the Lesson! The foregoing incident should serve as an object lesson to all those suffer- ing from the LaFollette illusion. La- Follette recently has again assumed his favorite role of martyr, caused by the ruling of the California supreme court, the judges of which voted four against three to rule LaFollette’s electors off the ballot in California on some such legal technical and flimsy excuse as his own man Ekern now tried to avail himself of against the Communist candidates in LaFollette’s Wisconsin utopia. Attorney general Ekern is the same one to whom LaFollette, from his At- lantic retreat, addressed the infamous letter denouncing the Communists and the St. Paul convention. In this letter he says, speaking of the Communists: “Their real purpose is to establish, by revolutionary action, a dictatorship of the proletariat which is absolutely repugnant to democratic ideals and to all American aspirations.” Both attorney general Ekern and secretary of state Zimmerman are LaFollette Wisconsin leutenants. Surely no one will claim that their|their bare faced discrimination is a attempt to keep off the ballot all in-|victory for the workers of Wisconsin dependent candidates and reserve the/and the country generally. space for LaFollette and Wheeler is} The Workers Party exposure of La- democratic. It is just as unfair and|Follette’s latest autocratic methods outrageous an attempt as could be|/has aroused tremendous sentiment made by the lieutenants of Cal Cool-|among the workers of Wisconsin and idge himself. It is a general indica-|ig causing much uneasiness in the tion of the precinct politics played by|ranks of LaFollette’s official family. LaFollette and his gang in Wiscon-/The sincere socialists of Wisconsin sin. Should LaFollette, by a miracle,|cannot stomach such LaFollette tac- be elected, the same gangster and|tics and are going over, boots and bag- Precinct politics would be a part of the | gage to the Communist candidates. national LaFollette regime. LaFollette again, as he did in the Realize LaFollette Menace. case of the St. Paul convention, has ‘The Workers Party trom the outset | Called to the attention of the workers has been conscious of the LaFollette| the rising Communist movement, The menace to the American working class,| Workers with a few more such ex- Should it get the opportunity it will|Periences as these will be willing to go further in its frantic support of|Swap LaFollette’s brand of “demo- capitalism than Noske, Scheidemann|cratic ideals and American aspira- or MacDonald, whom it likes to hail|tions,” for working class political as its English prototype. solidarity and a workers’ and farmers’ The victory of the Workers Party |sovernment. in Wisconsin in compelling, thru its militant and aggressive fight and its state-wide publicity the LaFollette Meutenants, attorney general and sec- retary of state, to back away from the corner. Crawford declares he heard one of the girls say as he passed by, ‘you'd better go about your business or something will hap- pen to you. Crawford says he stopped near the corner, and after a few minutes the Ford car drove away. The two girls then walked to the wine shop of George Shapiro, at 1011 W. 14th, and told the crowd of men standing around there that a Negro had at tempted to assault her. Epstein, according to Crawford, came up with a bat, and some of the other men also came up and threat ened the Negroes who were chatting on the corner. “One of the men struck me twice and | ran,” Craw ford declared. “As | fled, | saw Ep steln hit Bell on the head with a bat and the others started to kick him as he crumpled to the sidewalk.” When asked about this version of the story by a reporter of the Ne gro press, Miss Goldblatt admitted she had been approached by two men in a Ford car, and the two girls sent them on their way. Miss Gold blatt claimed the Negro, whom she declares she cannot identify be cause it was dark, approached her after the two white men had made advances from their car, Then she declared, she went to the wine shop and told the men there about the Ne- gro aproaching her. She did not mention her talk with the two white men in the Ford car to Epstein, it appears. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. doin the Workers Party! hy i BET A ee cece Ran: