The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. IH. No. 174. OF LABOR PARTY GOING TO POLLS British Parties Prepare for Election Clash (Special to Tne Dally Worker) LONDON, Oct. 10.—While the labor party headquarters an- nounced this afternoon that on- ly 370 laborite candidates were in the field working for election to Commons, it is believed this number will have been in- creased to 500 by election day, Oct. 29. Premier MacDonald will make ® tour of the country, but will not campaign in London. Labor Cabinet Still Holds Power. The laborite cabinet, headed by MacDonald, will remain in power temporarily. Malcolm MacDonald, son of the premier, who is now in the United States, will stand for parliament in the Basseltaw district, He will be w able to return in time for the ci Daign. The labor premier leading one of the shortest and speediest exits of a cabinet in England’s history, was win- ner of the first strategic move in the setting of the election day at the ex- piration of the twenty-day period re- quired by statute. 500 Tory Candidates. Liberal leaders were caught unpre- fared. Tories are not in as good a shape to go to the polls as the labor- ites. The tories expect to put up 500 candidates ahd the liberals 200. Malcolm MacDongld’s sister, Ichbel _ MacDonald, ‘will conduct his ‘campaign’ for him. Oliver Baldwin, son of former pre- mier Stanley Baldwin, will run for commons on the laborite ticket de- spite the fact that his father is a tory. A son of John Robert Clynes and two sons of Arthur Henderson will be can- | didates also. GARY, STEEL TRUSTHEAD, IS COOLIDGE AID By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Oct. 10.—Elbert financiers that is backing Cool- ‘idge for president of the United | .,eech—for Comunists, as against the « States. At latest accounts, Coolidge owned 50 shares of common stock in the United States Steel ‘corporation, altho there is no record of how Coolidge came into possession of this valuable interest in the steel trust. Gary Out For Coolidge. According to numerous statements of Gary, Coolidge is admittedly the candidate of the big business inter- ests. These interests include J. P. Morgan, who together with Gary, aid- ed in establishing not only the steel trust, but also the International Har- vester company, which holds an air- tight monopoly on all agricultural ma- (Continued on page 3) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: BIG COMMUNIS 500 CNT Start Party Entered as Second-class,matter September 21, 1928, at t Outside Chicago, MAKE THREATS OF DEPORTATION IN SILK STRIKE Plan to Force Workers _ to Kiss Flag (By The Federated Press) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 10.— Thfeats to order the deporta- tion of all non-citizen strikers arrested is the latest develop- ment in the Paterson silk strike situation. Mayor Colin’ McLean and president George Christie of the police and fire commission have given full support to chief of police John M, Tracey in his fight against the striking silk workers. They have instructed Tracey to pre- pare a list of all those non-citizens arrested in the strike and to present it to the department of justice to start proceedings leading to the de- portation of these people. Chief Tracey insists that “out-of- town agitators from now on may be dragged to the plaza of the city hall and made to kiss the American flag and swear an oath of allegiance to the constitution of the United States.” Roger N. Baldwin, director of the Am- erican Civil Liberties Union, answer- |ed when the chief arrested him that. \the fight for free speech would go on inspite of threats. Unemployment in Cuba Due to the release of a large amount ‘of labor by the sugar industry, and the ‘large influx of southern Europeans, \the supply of labor in Cuba continues ito exceed the demand, according to the official statements of the depart- | ment of labor at Washington. Daytona Under Water. DAYTONA, Fla., Oct. 10.—With the entire city already under several inch- es of water, a veritable cloudburst continued to inundate Daytona and lowlands near here today. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by matl, $6.00 per year. Drive in East INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, MEETING IN LONDON, ARRANGE D ILS OF $200,000,000 LOAN TO. GERMANY (Special to The LONDON, Oct. 10.—An agreement under the Dawes reparation plan was here today. Daily Worker)» for a $200,000,000 loan for Germany signed by the Ingernational bankers A The ceremony took place at the Bank of England. » The agreement calls for the floatation of the loanon” indition the terms are approved by the inter-allled reparation commission @t Paris. Such ap- proval is expected at once. UNITY ISCALLOF R.1.L.U, — TO I. W. W. ON THE EVE OF THEIR SPECIAL CONVENTION To the Delegates Assembled at the Sixteenth General Convention of the |. W. W. (Statement by the Red International Affiliation Committee.) When, on Aug. 13, the Red International Affillation Commtt- tee, knowing the necessity of su’ ch action,.issued ffs call, “Stop the Split in the I. W. W.,” we said: BE “We urge that the rank and file everywhere demand a special convention, and that every shred of red tape’ be brushed aside and delegates representative of the entire membership be called into convention at once to give the I. W. W. a set of officers that cannot be the subject of dispute.” It was exactly one month before the Doyle-Fisher group gave | way to pressure and issued to convention call, and the Rowan-| Bowerman group came shortly afterward with their call for the same date, as issued in the “In- dustrial Worker” of Sept. 27, 1924. You are met in response to the necessity of unity, what- ever side you may take in the dispute. But the Red International Affilia- tion Committee, seriously concerned _™ in: yy arns y¢ ements on both sides are opposed to unity and will force a split or a secession move- ment if their side is not upheld and their personal control is not assured. While Doyle and Fisher in their letter issuing the call for convention say that “The time has come for the rank‘and file to take charge, to ex- press its decision without delay and to save the I. W. W. from the disas- ter which threatens it,” yet their ac- tions, in the face of the crisis and the point the R. I. A. C. has insisted upon from the beginning in behalf of a brushing aside of red tape and ad- mission of delegates “representative (Continued on Page 2.) SHACHTMAN RILES BUSINESS MEN OF ENGLEWOOD AND LANDS IN COURT e e Max Shachtman was haled into Judge,Joseph La Buy’s court yesterday H. Gary, chairman of the United morning after having been arrested for speaking under the nose of the States Steel corporation, is in| mngiewood Business Men’s Association at 62nd and Halsted Streets. The the very center of the ring Of} case nas been laid over for a jury trial. The Workers Party will fight for a clear decision on the right of free confusion introduced by the authori- ties in charging our speakers with “obstructing the traffic and disorderly conduct.” These two latter charges are of course ridiculous. Paul Cline, chairman, did not dis- continue the meeting when ordered to do so by the police. Schachtman made a statement on constitutional rights supposed to be guaranteed to the workers, and spoke half an hour be- fore his arrest. Copies of the spécial campaign edition of the Daily Worker were distributed to a crowd of over 200. bs Sam Hammersmark and George Maurer, communist candidates for congress, spoke at North Ave. and Orchard, where 200 DAILY WORK- TORIES SUDDENLY DISCOVER THAT AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION LACK BACKING OF SUPREME COURT (By The iderated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 10—“Fantastic,” is the comment of James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National ie, on the suit brought Association for the Advancement of against Walter Cohen, colored U, 8.| \gomptrolier of customs in New Orleans, which would annul the 14th amend- ment and declare Negroes ineligible to American citizenship. “Those bringing this suit,” said thié War Amendments have never been Johnson “make the statements that ularly adopted and passed upon by the Supreme Court and by this case hope to have those amendments annulled. The fact is, the Supreme Court in Innummerable decisions has recognized the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as part of the constitution and furthermore, these amendments have been recognized by congress, by the executive branch and all other departments of government, as part of the organic law of the country, Congress by statute In 1870 enlarged the right to naturalization so as to embrace not only an alien being a free white per- son but also Africans descendants of Africans.” ERS announcing the Foster-Gitlow mass meeting were given out. Keen interest was shown in the revelations regarding the Dawes’ plan, Wall Street plans for world domination and exploitation in Europe and Asia, and the unemployment problem. Indica- tions were that many bamboozled La- Folletteites are tufning to Foster be- cause of the Communists’ exposure of LaFollette as responsible for the anti-labor administration in Wisconsin as a politically ambitious bourgeois, republican lawyer and candidate of “class conscious apitalists” who want Wall Street power curbed so that the smaller and independent profit-seeking fry can have a greatei share in the gain from exploitation of the workers. Communist Open Air Meetings in Chicago Saturday, Oct. 11. North Ave, and Orchard—Auspices of Hungarian W. P. and Liebknecht_ Y. » I. Speakers: W. F. Kruse and Nat Kaplan. » Roosevelt and St. Louis—Auspices of West Side Y. W, L. Branch. Speakers: George Maurer and Harrison George. 30th and State Sts.—Auspices South Side Branch. Speakers: “Bob' Minor and Gordon Owens. Milwaukee and Paulina—Auspices # ish Branch. comenere w. Milsot and Polish comrade. Division. | Washtenaw—Auspicos of North Side Jewish Branch. Speakers: J. Louis Engdaht others, 118th and Lanj —Auspices of Pull- 2 ley, Polish, man section, Spenie : D, Greek and Italian comrades, Monday, Oct. 13, m and Green—Auspi: of Mid- Joly Branch Speakers: George Maurer od Detroit. | Much indignation and resentment has been aroused in Michigan and es- rh (Special to The Daily Worker) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 10.—The Utah State Federa- tion of Labor has gone on re- cord as unqualifiedly opposed to the operation of the Dawes plan, and also to the holding of such militarlet demonstrations as Defense Day. The resolution condemning the Dawes plan, which was in- troduced by Barbers’ Union Local 377, reads as follows: “WHERBAS, the valiant General Dawes, commander of the anti- union Minute Men of the Constitu- tion, is credited with the authorship of the so-called Dawes plan for the enslavement of the workers of Ger- many and of Europe, and “WHEREAS, this is obviously the plan of Morgan and American finance capitalists to extend Amer- ican imperialism and to subjugate the workerg of other countaies as well as tho8e of the United States, therefore be it “RESOLVED, that the Utah State Federation of Labor condemn the Dawes plan.” Vote Communist This Time: O'FLAHERTY 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 ityle that has made his It” column the subject of favorable comment wherever the DAILY WORKER is read, these articles will throw the ‘chlight into many dark holes and corners of the Iilinois labor movement and become part of the evidence on which the American working elass is building its indictment of the tools of capitalism in the American labor movement. i it you want to be certain of get- ting all these articles subscribe to the. DAILY WORKER now. victory for the workers 6f Wisconsin | W! Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 38, 1879. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924 GEER 290 Published Dafly except Sunday by PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Ill. RALLY SU THE DAILY WORKER CENTS | Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents —+ FOSTER ON THE HOME STRETCH OF HIS TOUR Opens Eastern Swing at Detroit, Mich. By JOSEPH MANLEY Campaign Manager, Workers Party. William Z. Foster, presidenti- al candidate of the Workers Party will start out on the last stretch of his seventeen thous- and-mile campaign itinerary. Foster, in the home stretch of the Communist election cam- paign will cover the large and most thickly populated states of the east, A series of meet- ings in the principal cities and large industrial centers have been arranged. Speaks in Detroit Tuesday. The opening meeting of this east- ern swing will be at Detroit, Mich‘, on the night of Oct. 14. Great prepara- tions are being made for this Foster meeting, at the House of Masses in pecially in Detroit, because of the ac- tion of the Michigan attorney general in ruling off the Foster-Gitlow electors and leaving those of LaFollette and ‘Wheeler on. . se. of this typical janized state can be gauged by the masses of workers who turned out to hear Foster’s running mate, Benjamin Gitlow, at a meeting recently held in Detroit. Judging by all these indica- tions the Foster meeting will be the biggest and most enthusiastic Com- munist rally ever held in Detroit. Returns From Pacific Coast. Foster has just completed a speak: ing trip to the Pacific coast and back. Addressing large audiences of work- | ers in the various western and Pacific coast states. Foster met with a par- ticularly enthusiastic reception from militant workers in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Salt Lake City and Denver. He reports that in spite of the La- Follette movement with its glib pro- gressive and vote-catching phrase ology, there is a tremendous under- current of discontent and resentment against capitalism which cannot be sidetracked by LaFollette or his move- ment. It is from this thoroly working class undercurrent that the Workers Party is drawing its support in the present election campaign. In this historic period of the Ameri- can working class movement, the Work- ersParty and its candidates arecrystal- lizing what will be one of the world’s great Communist movements. De- spite the confusion created by LaFol- lette’s “progressivism” the Workers Party and its candidates are rallying the support of masses of workers. The Communist program is being car- ried into sections hitherto inaccess- ible, and the general result of the present campaign will be the build- ing of a greater and more powerful Workers (Communist) Party Final Meeting in Chicago Foster in this closing stretch of his presidential campaign itinerary will have completed a series of tours cov- ering the entire country froy gpast to coast. He will wind up at Chicago on November 3., the day before elec- tion, f ‘Widely as Foster has been known in the past to the masses of American workers for his leadership in indus- trial struggles, he will be known in the future to even greater masses as a result of this political struggle. The Workers Party has established itself in the minds of milifons of Am- erican workers both for its industrial GIANT THRONG OF WORKERS TO FILL LABOR’S BIGGEST HALL TO HEAR FOSTER AND GITLOW A giant hall filled to overflowing with eager working men and working women; orchestras of the revolutionists of the worl crashing out the rallying songs d; railroad workers, steel work- ers, workers in the packing industries and in the mines, listening for the message of Communism which the best fighters in the labor movement of the United States will bring. In the Carmen’s (Ashland) hall Auditorium—the largest labor in Chicago, at Ashland Boulevard and W. Van Buren Street, the first great Communist rally of this city is to be held Sunday. afternoon. The workers of Chicago have heard of this gathering thru messages given them from a hundred open air gatherings, thru the tens of thousands of copies buted to the men and women who pour from the gates of factories every noon and eve- ning. Foster and Gitlow Here. William Z. Foster, who, as candi: date for president, is leading the Com- munist forces in the election fight this fall, has come from a long trip thru the west to attend this rally, Benjamin Gitlow, fighting side by side with Foster as candidate for vice- president, has come from the north- west. William F. Dunne, who heads the state ticket of the Workers Party as candidate for governor of Illinois, and has just returned from the sessions of the Communist International at Mos- cow, will direct the rally. All three of these men will lay be- fore the workers the Communist mes- |sage and program of the Workers Party. Masses Hear Communist. Workers who have been following ‘the course of the tour of Comrade and “Comrade “Gitlow -know. with what enthusiasm thése two rev- olutionists were received thruout the country. They have heard how in every city which Comrade Foster visited—Seat- tle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Port- land, Denver, Salt Lake City, and dozens of others, the workers poured out by the thousands to hear the rhan with one of the best fighting records in the country—the man who organ- ized the Carmen’s Union, the man who organized and fought for the workers in the packing industries, the man who led the great steel strike of 1919. Winning Farmers, Too. And not only the workers, but the farmers—hundreds of them—knowing that the program of the Workers Party offers the only solution to the problems of the farmers—came into the cities to hear what Foster had to say. Comrade Gitlow, too, met with en- thusiastic groups wherever he travel- led in the east. Even the decree of the police in Washington, D. C., that he must not speak in the city was ignored by the workers who had come the textile mills, in the steel mills and in the coal fields, where the grow- ing unemployment has laid a heavy hand on the workers there was tre- mendous.enthusiasm for the Commu- nist candidate. Besides Foster, Gitlow and Dunne, Gordon Owens, a colored comrade who has been placed on the ballot for congressman from the first congres- sional district, will address the gath- ering. Ashland Auditorium holds over 6,000 people. Arrangements are now being made to take care of the overflow, for it is believed that every seat will be ocupied and more. Tito Schipa Here on 19, Tito Schipa, will give his first and only concert of the season, Sunday night, October 19, at the Auditor- jum theatre. He will appear under the auspices of the Chicago Civic Opera company, of which-he is one of the most famous artists Lay-Off in Montana. MILES CITY, Mont., Oct. 10—The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road has posted a bulletin in the local shops announcing a lay-off of approxi- id political leadership. In spite of {Continued on page 3) mately 18 per cent of the force of ma- chinists, boilermakers, and helpers. | ANATOLE FRANCE IS UNCONSCIOUS (Special to The Daily Worker) TOURS, France, Oct. 10.—Anatole France, famous writer, sinking today. A bulletin issued at noon said: rance is extremaly waak and is unconscious.” to hear him. And among the men in| of the DAILY WORKER distri- CLEVELAND HAS FULL TICKET IN ELECTION FIGHT Rathenberg, Severino, Brahtin for Congress (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) CLEVELAND, Ohio., Oct. 10. —The Workers Party has a full ticket on the ballot this year in Cleveland and in Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland forms the biggest section. Both county and congres- sional. candidates have been nominated a the ballot, the full quota of re- quired signatures having been gotten for each. The candidates for state senators and representatives from the county have also been nominated and will appear on the ballot. The three candidates for congress in Cleveland are C. E. Ruthenberg, in the 20th district, John Brahtin, in the 21st District, A. V. Severino in the 22nd District. Ruthenberg, national executive secretary of the Workers Party does not need to be introduced to Cleve |landers. There are few who do not |know of his activity in the working this city. And there are few that are more hated by the powers that be. Brahtin in Roofers’ Union, John Brantin running in the 2ist |district is a member of the Slate and |'Tile Roofers’ Union, formerly its |president. Brahtin’s record in the | working class movement runs many | years back thru membership in the socialist party, the left wing which grew out of the bankruptcy of the socialist party, and the Workers Party from its inception. A. V. Severino, running in the 22nd district against one of the worst re- actionaries in congress, T. Burton (who in a recent speech spoke in fa- |vor of the leasing of the Teapot Dome oil area) is an active member of the | Bricklayers’ Union, and known by most active trade unionists in Cleve- land for his activities as a Commun- ist. Severino’s activity has aroused the ire of the powers that be. For (Continued on page 3) It's your paper—Build on it! Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U. 15,000 CIGAR MAKERS MAINTAIN SOLID FRONT AFTER MONTH'S STRIKE | TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 10.—For four weeks the 15,000 cigarmakers that walked out of Tampa factories hi maintained a solid front and they are prepared to fight a long time for their demands. These include the company checkoff on wages to pay for the time lost by worker representatives serving on the joint equalization committee, 25 per cent wage increase and re-introduction of readers at employe expense in in the factories. The strike, altho not authorized by the Cigarmakers’ International Union, pulled out almost every worker, union and non-union. Or- ders for the Christmas trade are piling up. |class movement for many years in: ” DAY ~ acne prs eee Seecuneenaaeas tataeacace eae aenteometeatieeeeamate tana eee