The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1924, Page 2

' i f y ‘THE DAILY WORKER MAYOR DODGES | PARENTS’ WAR ~ ON MANDREW Dever Says He Has No Influence on Board Two hundred mothers and fathers accompanied by their little children waited on Mayor Dever yesterday morning to lay before him their side of the fight between 700 parents of Englewood and the Chicago board of education. And in answer to their plea thru Alderman Byrnes, “Mr. Mayor will you help us,” the mayor replied, “I have no club over the school board. In fact I have not a particle of in- fluence.” He'll Speak to Moderwell. However, he offered to speak to president Charles Moderwell, who, he aid, is “friendly” and always willing Ho “listen.” But tho Mr. Moderwell is outwardly “friendly” and a good listener, ‘the fparents of Englewood are getting a waste of his greatest accomplish- “ments. They now feel his autocratic lub which he lets descent upon his victims. The parents of the Englewood have been negotiating with the board of education, in the persons of Moder- well and McAndrew, for the last six ‘weeks over the changing of the (Harper school, at 6520 S. Woéd St., dnto a Junior high school. Children Promised: Portables. The board of education promised them that portables would be put in ‘the school yards to take care of the surplus room needed and that the children would not have to be trans- ferred to other schools at long dis- tances from their home which was the objection raised by the parents. After six weeks of waiting a notice ‘Was sent to the parents by the board that the portables are now compléted. On Monday of this week the children returned to school they receied their new books and homework and were about to leave school at 3 o'clock when the teachers were called out of the room. When they returned they eollected the childrn’s books and told them that they must never come into that school. “Stay away from this school and go to the school you were transferred to.” With these words they dismissed the class. Calls It “Not Political.” Alderman Byrne was the first speaker for the committee and opened his’ remarks with, “This is not a po- Iitical movement, Mr. Mayor, but a movement started by the parents of Englewood in the vicinity of the Harper school.:The parents have been meeting with Mr. Moderwell and Mr. McAndrews. But they broke their ‘word to them and as you're the only man who has any power in the city of | Chicago we come to you to ask you to find a way to rectify this matter.” Delving into the cause of the trouble with the board of education, Mr. McCarr, president of the West Englewood Business Men’s Associa- tion said the school accommodated 1200 children and they were small children in the elementary grades. “For six years we have waited for the board. of education to put in the 8 portable buildings which would do away with the necessity of transfer- wing the children to schools one mile ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES | FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN , 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE CHICAGO Telephone Diversey 5129 TTT TTT TT LLL LLL Cleveland, Ohio. CHIROPRACTIC AND As intelligent and revolutionary of the trammels of capitalistic relig' with knife and powerful drugs. NATURAL METHODS of treatment. For a speedy recovery and you Phone Li Mandolin Orchestra, an adhere to the greatest ant most harmful superstition, cloaked as a science—-MEDICINE. People who know refuse to be practiced upon When ill they resort to (drugless) DR. J. J. SCHOLTES 2838 West Twenty-fifth St., Cor. Wade League Orchestra ——_————+ Auspices: Workers Party, Local Chicago ADMISSION 25 CENTS (Continued from page 1) of the entire membership,” slap the membership in the face so far as rep- resentation {s concerned. The R. I. A. C, asserts that their later quallfi- cation of a representative convention by insisting that ‘delegations must comply with Article Five, Section Four, Paragraph “A,” is flat contra- diction of their nice words about the rank and file taking charge, and con- stitutes not only a piece of “constitu- tional” evasion and hypocrisy, but,is an ominous danger to unity as it af- fords the Rowan-Bowerman group, searching high and low for an excuse to split or seceed, with a color, how- ever false, of justification. It is,time the I. W. W. did away with “constitutional safeguards” as a substitute for sincere, revolutionary and experienced leadership. The R. I. A. C. urges all dele- gates to meet in a pre-convention meeting and overcome the resist- ance of Doyle and Fisher or any other elements which bar delegates really representative of member ship from full voice and vote. At the same time, it will denounce any delegates as disrupters of the I. W. W. if they withdraw in any split or secession should the ma- jority of the delegates uphold the contentions of Doyle and Fisher. There must be unity whoever is sustained. The Red International Affiliation Committee endorses 100 per cent the sentiment expressed by J. A. Griffith, speaking for the five ejected G. E. B. members, when he says (Industrial Worker, Sept 27, 1924), that “One and all must admit that the membership should have full representation in the coming general convention.” But the R.L A. C. points out that this comes from those who themselves flouted the membership by rushing into the capitalist courts for an injunction to give them complete control, without other than “consitutional” justifica- tion for their original demands, and flatly opposed to every interest of the organization. Any man or men who, however “constitutional” the pretext, drags his fellow workers and a work- ing class organization before the cap- italist courts forfeit every confidence and should be instantly removed as leaders whose incompetence or worse is proven by such an act. More, it is clear from the tone and tendency shown in such articles as Wm. Buchwald’s in the General Con- struction Workers’ Bulletin No. 17, and the “report” of Adolph Vangsness and Tom Moore in Lumber Workers’ Bulletin No. 43, on July 1, that a dis- ruptive secession movement was be- ing agitated before any ejection from headquarters took place. Granted that Tom Doyle was protecting the unspeakable mental prostitute or worse, John Leheney; granted that Joe Fisher was arbitrary and incom- petent, those who point the way to- ward secession from the I. W. W. upon such grounds are enemies of working class solidarity unfitted for office. And still more. Just prior to this convention the Rowan-Bowerman con- trolled paper, the Industrial Worker, sets out, upon the basis that “90 per cent of the enrollment of the I. W. W. is not informed” as to the issues of the convention, not to inform but to alarm them with fantastic yarns of Communist bogey-men, upon the thin foundation of the fact that there are members of the I. W. W., some Com- munists and some not Communists, who believe as they have a right to Unity Call of R. I. L. U. to I. W. W. believe, and agitate, as they have a right to agitate, for affiliation of the I. W. W. to the Red International of Labor Unions, In an exceptional burst of nonsense the Industrial Worker parades a name- less terror before the same 90 per cent of uninformed members, and then threatens that if these same voice- less and uninformed rank and file, al- ready admitted to be counted out of the convention, are “still possessed of complete ownership of the I. W. W., all will be well.” But, “If an outside agency gains any of its ends, then the cause of proletarian progress has been halted.” What does this mean, if not that the Industrial Worker, organ of the Rowan-GrifithBowerman group, propagandizes in adance of the con- vention their intention to split or secede if their contentions are not sustained by the convention? Such in- citement is downright treachery and this and all other manifestations of splits and secession must be vigilantly fought. Whoever wins, there must be unity. It is silly as well as criminal to agitate against Doyle and Fisher, as the five G. E. B. members have done upon the ridiculous claim that they are “followers of the Communists.” We suppose such anti-Communists as George Williams supports Doyle and Fisher for that reason. And on the other hand, we recall that one of the same five which signs this allegation, Harry Trotter, on December 5, 1921, was removed from control of the Rail- road Workers’ I. U. 520, by the then as now anti-Communist G. E. B., be cause Trotter was supposed to be a Communist. The silly rot of raising a Communist bugaboo should stop, particularly as it has never been Proven by fact or document that the purpose of the Communists is at all unfriendly to revolutionary industrial unionism and its goal as set forth in the preamble of thé I. W. W. Fellow workers! There must be unity.. While the M. T. W. may greatly need the $1.00 dues, the talk of seces- sion we hear, if it does not get this demand, should be met with vigorous condemnation, Similarly, if the Lum- ber Workers see their demands de- feated by this convention, there must be no talk of secession or of splits. Unity of the whole I. W. W. comes first. Fellow workers! The fact admitted by both sides that 90 per cent of the membership is uninformed is a symp- tom of disease. There must be better contact between the membership and headquarters than is afforded by the General Office Bulletins and those of the 1. Us. However plausible the argument which led to the 1921 con- vention barring controversies from the papers of general circulation, it is a remedy worse than the disease. Every member needs to and expects to find all vital news and discussions in the paper he subscribes to under that un- derstanding. Stop treating the mem- bership or even the unorganized as children unable or unfit to read and discuss every policy, principle and tactic. The press must be free and open. Personal censorship, as now practiced, must be ended. Both sides in this dispute have covertly used the papers under their control. Whoever wins, unity must be had, and a healthy unity comes only with freedom of the press for the workers. Stand for full representation, against splits, against secession, and for affilia- tion with the R. I. L. U. t For unity and revolution, Red Internat’! Affiliation Committee ———— and a half away from their home and with many dangerous boulevard and car Crossings. Monday we sent the children to school and they ‘were turned out.” Keep Children at Home. Mrs. Edna Seaborg spoke next. She said she is compelled to keep her nine year old boy at home because she couldn’t think of sending him a mile and a half to school. She in- formed the mayor that all the other UUUATN UN SOOETOSEOOEEUUANEOUUASEUUNUOEGAaenUNg ETN ELECTRO-THERAPY workers you have freed yourselves ion and politics. But you probably r health’s sake see nc. 5340 oN Nis 00st itiivv tens stsntaissncnnnegcscunetnvcoetsevt tsi uses neces SSS EERE a Skee SS SSS Sec e eee ee. cee MONSTER ELECTION Pxcellent Music by the Freiheit Singing Society and d the Young Workers parents were keeping their children at home for the same reason: “One day I stood on the corner of the 69th street crossing and counted as many as 700 automobiles passing in one hour. The portables promised were put up but will be used only for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. The 4th, 5th and 6th grades, children 9 to 11 years of age, have been thrown out.” Warns Against Strike. The mayor did not offer much hope to the committee in his promise to do “the best he can” and adding that he did not know whether there was much he could do. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. . LEARN ESPERANTO The International Language The following ngeiiets are received ree: Esperanto for All, grammar and vocabulary. Esperanto and its Critles, by Prof, Collinson. SCAND. ESPERANTO INSTITUTE ROCKFORD, ILL. HOLD EPSTEIN FOR LYNCHING vaatan LaFollette Here Today But Labor Will Hear WILLIAM BELL| Its Fighters on Sunday Two Men Identify Him as Slayer Otto Epstein, 1011 14th St., was held to the grand jury for killing of William Bell, the Negro who was brutally mur- dered with a baseball bat on the corner of Maxwell and 14th St., Wednesday night, and Irving Rockowitz, 1045 Newberry Ave., was held as an accessory to the murder, by the coroner's jury, sitting in the county morgue yesterday. Both men will go before the grand jury in the:criminal court building. Two men, Albert Harper, 1045 13th St., and Thomas Clark, 1043 13th St., positively identified Epstein as the man who struck down Bell with a baseball bat Wednesday night. Harry Crawford, owner of a pool hall at 1339 Miller St., repeated to coroner Samuel Davis. the testimony printed exclusively in yesterday's DAILY WORKER that it was two white men in a Ford car who accosted Betty Goldblatt and Bertha Deutsch, who gave the alarm that led to the lynch- ing of Bell, and not a Negro. Bertha Deutsch, in her testimony, withheld the incident of the Ford car stopping to chat with her until George C. Adams, attorney for George Bell, brother of the murdered man, brot out the facts in His cross examination. “I forgot to mention that,” said Bertha Deutsch, who was the first witness. “A man in an auto was driving by and he called out, ‘Going our way girls?’ But we paid no at tention.” Miss Deutsch, who is de- cidedly the “flapper” type, with cheap artificial flowers decorating her hat, and paint on her face, admitted to Mr. Adams that her mother had open- ed the door for her and asked her what had happened, after she and Betty Goldblatt ran upstairs, but said she “didn’t remember” whether, or not she told her mother what had oc- curred. Bell Never Before in* Trouble. Ernest Bell, brother of the Negro ‘who was lynched, testified that his brother neve? spent his time in ‘pool- rooms of the neighborhood, that he was a laborer in a starch factory, that he roomed with his brother, and that he last saw him alive at eight thirty that night. He declared that his brother had never before been in any trouble, and “never had a cross word in him,” that he never drank and was perfectly sober when he left the house. : Betty. Goldblatt declared she could not identify Bell as the man who had accosted her. “We couldn’t imagine that anyone had been killed over that” she declared. Miss Goldblatt said she did not visit the mine shop until after Bell had been killed. She testified that “Jack, Bo and Epstein and a whole bunch came hack from Bell’s body while we were there, and that Epstein went to call the police. Albert Harper declared, “I was with William Bell when he was killed. Ep- stein came up to us as we were walk- ing south on Miller St. near 14th, followed by two men. Epstein had a baseball bat in his left hand. He ask- ed us, “What are you looking for,’ and before we had time to answer he hit me_on the nose, making it bleed. Ep- stein then transferred the bat to his right hand and hit Bell a death blow on the head. I turned and fied.” All efforts of Epstein’s lawyer to shake Harper's identification failed. ein is the man,” Harper repeated, I am positive of it” Bell Killed by First Blow. Thomas Clark declared while he was standing on the corner of Miller and 14th Sts. he saw the two girls talking to a white man. “Then the man walked away from them and they ran direcly across the street to the wine shop. I saw a white man strike Bell with a bat. I think the first blow killed Bell. As he started to run he was struck down, “I came back and walked over and found him dead, and then went and summoned his brother. I believe Ep- stein was the man who killed him.” steel strike. WILL SPEAK October 12, 1924, 2:30 P. M. “Ep-, Benjamin Gitlow Candidate for: Vice-President of the United States on the Workers Party ticket ° By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, LaFollette comes to Chicago. The big cry of the Wisconsin senator, as he comes west, is that Coolidge’s “Pennsylvania gang” is raising a huge slush fund to defeat him. LaFollette wants this. investigated. But LaFollette will not demand an investigation of the “black jack” efforts of his “labor lieutenants” to pick the pockets of the workers in the shops in order to boost his own campaign fund. The Borah committee, soon to meet in Chicago, to in- vestigate campaign expenditures will not trouble itself about the information already published in the DAILY WORKER, telling of the threats against members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, by the officials of this union championing the LaFollette candidacy, The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America, repeatedly, in conventions, has voted for the class party of labor. This is one of the most militant organ- jzations of America’s workers. Large masses of its member- ship repudiate the idea that LaFollette has anything to offer the working class. They refuse to contribute to his campaign. But they must do it in the face of threatened discrimination and perhaps the loss of their jobs. The “black list” methods Me me worst bosses are used to raised LaFollettes’ campaign und. : e ° * ° r} LaFollette says he does not believe in the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as it exists in Soviet Russia, to protect the Workers’ Republic and build for a Communist Society, where all class distinctions will gradually fall by the wayside. But he does not raise a finger against the dictatorship of petty of- ficials in the labor unions, created to advance his own candi- dacy for the White House. LaFollette will complain that he has been ruled off the ballot in California. The Coolidge dictatorship, at Washing- ton, wants to win on November 4, and it is using every conceivable, political trick to put the victory over. * * * * LaFollette is doing exactly the same thing. It is his “Wisconsin gang” that rules at Madison, in the Badger state. H. L. Ekern is LaFollette’s attorney general in Wiscon- sin. Ekern has been spending his time, during the last few months, planning to get the LaFollette electors on the ballot in every state in the nation. : But he has also been trying to keep the Communist electors off the Wisconsin ballot. He discovered the custom- ary “technicality.” The last minute ruling was invoked against the Workers Party. But the wave of protest that began to rise proved too overwhelming. Latest advices are that Ekern has changed his mind. LaFollette’s attorney general was afraid of the fight that the DAILY WORKER would stir up over the nation, on this issue. He got cold feet, displaying the customary timidity of his class. * . * . The Wisconsin socialists, especially Victor L. Berger, like the LaFollittes, are-opposed to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. But the Milwaukee Leader, democracy-loving, apostle of “honesty in government,” did not raise its voice against the threat of LaFollette’s “Wisconsin gang” to deny the workers and poor farmers of the state the right to vote Communist on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The i against LaFol- lette’s “Little Business” dictatorship in Wisconsin had to be made without socialist aid. In this respect the class struggle in Wisconsin, the “model commonwealth” of LaFollette, merely duplicates, on avery small scale to be sure, the revolutionary class struggle - 4 Y ge! of the workers in Germany. In the hour of its death agonies, not only the social- democratic Bergers, but also the middle class LaFollettes, rallied to the aid of German capitalism and helped bring it back to life, and to sustain its precarious existence. In the revolutionary battles of labor in std the whole social- democratic and middle class veneer has been stripped away, and the Communist stand forth alone as the champions of labor's class interests, ° ° ar 8 In Michigan the capitalist p ans rule the Com- munist candidates off the ballot on a “technicality,” but the same politicians are stone blind to the same “technicality” as it applies to the LaFolfette candidates, The capitalists need LaFollette to fool the workers and poor farmers, a little longer; to prevent the workers and poor farmers, a little longer, from going over to the Com- munist ranks. Thousands of workers in Chicago, trying to find a way to free themselves from the capitalist chains that bind them, will attend the LaFollette meeting in Chicago today. They will listen. Thousands of them will not be convinced. La- Follette cannot convince them, that he stands for their in- terests, because he offers no solution for their problems, * ° Let every worker who attends the LaFollette meeting today, also join the multitudes who will make their way tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, to the great demonstration of the Communist Campaign, at the Carmen’s (Ashland) Auditorium. ¥ ’ Only from the od of the Communist speakers, Sun- day, from the lips of Foster, Gitlow, Dunne, and others, will bend be aibaat the message of deliverance from capitalist misrule. . Against the enslaving pe mage of Wall Street, with its middle-class LaFollette allies, the liberating Dictatorship of the Workers, Against Wall Street's government the Soviet Republic. Thru capitalism's defeat the Workers’ Victory. Wm. Z. Foster ij Candidate for President of the United States on the Workers Party ticket, leader of the great Wm. F. Dunne Candidate for Governor of Illinois on the Workers Party ticket, editor of the DAILY WORKER t ASHLAND. 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