The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 3

4 j Monday, October 13, 1924 Great Thron TH g Hears Communist pe \GITLOW SHOWS LaFOLLETTE WORKERS PARTY TO TAKE STAND ON VITAL ISSUES RAISES SLOGAN -OF CLASS FIGHT Show Daily Worker Is Powerful Weapon (Continued from page 1) of the working class and its strug- in part: full of hungry men looking for jobs. will be unemployed. ing the workers. CONFRONTING NATION’S WORKERS Benjamin Gitlow,, Communist candidate for vice-president on thé Workers Party ticket, was received with cheers. He said Ks U. S. Going Thru Crisis. Clee the United States is going thru'a crisis. 1925 will see factory after factory shut down. The winter of The streéts will be About seven to eight million workers “As a result of all this situation poverty and untold misery is confront- The campaign to reduce wages will be pressed with re- newed vigor by the capitalist class.» a prin E DAILY WORKER s Outline Workers’ CAPITAL SEES GROWING VALUE OF LAFOLLETTE Situation Parallel to European Development by a bold and courageous struggle. history, is am event of greatest sii But the LaFollettes, the Eberts, fye nificance, not only for the party | | | | Page Thred’ DUNNE SHOWS SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNIST PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL POLITICAL STRUGGLE |- William F. Dunne, Communist candidate for governor of Illinois, who acted as chairman of the great Communist election campaign gathering, told of the significance of the participation of the Workers Party in the present national political struggle. Dunne said in part: -_—----—___—_———- “The entrance of the Workers (Communist) Party into a national campaign for the first time, the plac- ing of Communist candidates on the talism are represented by the repub- lican, democrat and LaFollette par- ties: All wish to preserve American capitalism, some to maintain the ballot for the first time in American | status quo, others agitate for some slight changes that will serve to t-iturther fool the workers, but all are AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) tion of “capitalism.” My fears wer¢ well founded, ee he ‘© him Wall Street was a horrible monster, and Calvin Coolidge the Knight of the Terrible Silence, who simply acared the monster back inta his lair with a sniff of the nose and a biblical qgotation, “thot that Mr, Coolidge hayi no connection whatever with Wall Street,” he declared. Busi- ness of proving the connection, “Fur- thermore,” I remarked as my quarry gles.” LaFollette Accepts Capitalism. The LaFollette program, Foster pointed out, accepts capitalism as its starting point. It completely ig- nores the fact that all the ills of the working class spring from the capi- talist system and gan only be abol- ished with the system that causes them. LaFollette wants to tinker around the capitalist machine and repair it. He wants to soften some of its more glaring evils and make it more beautiful and palatable to the masses. He wants to extend the dem- ocratic forms, and lead the workers to look to their reforms for relief, in- stead of struggling to establish their own power to control society, Never, however, does LaFollette or his program touch the vital question of power—which class is to rule. He throws a mask over the brutal and obvious fact that the present system is a dictatorship of the capitalist class. He does not propose a single measure that so much as hints at overthrow- Ing that dictatorship. Foster drove home this point with great emphi and clarity to a crowd that was at- tentive and which greeted his sallies with appreciation. No Blows at Capital. “LaFolette’s backers boast that 15 out of 18 measures formerly advocated by him have been enacted into law. They were all of the same sort that he advocates now. One would think, trom the boasts of his boosters, that these measures had been a blow at the rule of capital. Nothing of the sort. Capitalism is stronger today by a hundred times than it was when La- Follette began his work, and his measures, so far from weakening the capitalist dictatorship have strength- ened it. “Take, for exmaple, the direct elec- tion of senators,” said Foster.” “For- merly senators were elected by the legislatures, and the corruption, the open purchase and sale of votes by means of which the capitalists deter- mined who should fill the offices, con- stituted a festering sore and an in- citement to revolt to the masses. La- Folletteism “cured” this sore, but did the capitalists lose their control of the offices? Not a bit of it. With their control of party machinery, of the press, of the schools, of the ideas and the means of spreading ideas to the masses, with their com- plete and undisputed control of in- dustry—the capitalist class continues Its. dictatorship undisturbed, while the masses are fooled into thinking that something has been fundament- ally changed. But it is the same old capitalist system, fitted out with a new dress by LaFolletteism. “It is a great mistake to suppose because the big capitalists oppose La- Follette now, that this proves LaFol- eltte represents the workers. Capi- talism is still arrogant, and thinks it can rule thru a Coolidge. German capitalism also used to oppose the social-democrats of Germany; they hounded and outlawed the socialists; Workers in every line of industry will|and to so save the capitalist dictator. have their wages greatly reduced. gaia” mae apitalists Use Progressives. No Rellet for Agriculture, “In the past the capitalist dictators “Every attempt on the part of the Hendersons, the Vanderveldes, were self but for the world revolutionary controlling the workers’ organizations, movement. It marks the entry of the Instead of leading the workers to the Communists into the national strug- battle against capitalism, they took |gle as a potential force with which was retreating toward the window— we are on the sixth floor of a loog office building—‘“mpt alone ig he a for American capitalism first, last and all the time. “The LaFollette movement repre- workers will be brutally suppressed by the capitalists. The crisis in agri- culture will not be ended because of the slight increase in the price of wheat because it is based on the economic demoralization of Europe. “The crisis in industry in America coupled with the crisis in agriculture will greatly intensify the class con- flicts going on in capitalist society. The producers, that is, the workers and farmers, in desperation and revolt against the intolerable conditions that the ‘crisis will produce, will become factors in big mass struggles against the capitaists who dominate the econ- omic and political life of the country. “The! workers in this campaign must know what the attitude of all the political. parties will be to the struggles of the workers that will en- sue as a result of the conditions. What will be the attitude of the re- publican party? Republicans Use Mailed Fist. “The republican party will use the mailed fist against the workers. That is all the workers can expect from that party, a party that has for its presidential candidate ‘the presidential candidate, ‘Hell and Maria,’ Dawes, the agent of J. P. Mor- gan and company, the arch-Fascist in the United States. “The republican party in power means wage cuts, Daugherty injunc- tions and the most brutal suppression of all strikes. The republican party in powers means that the open shop crowd that is out to smash the un- ions will dominate the government 100 per cent. Democrats No Better. “The democratic party will be no different in power because the demo- cratic candidate is also owned and dominated by Morgan and his Wall Street gang. The candidate of the democratic party is John W. Davis the chief counsel of J. P. Morgan and Co. Morgan does not care which way the workers vote because it they vote republican, his good man Friday, Dawes, will be elected; if they vote democratic then his legal counsel, Davis, will be elected. “The capitalist dictatorship, with its unemployment, wage cuts and brutal sappression of the workers, is safe with either the republican or democratic parties in power. “If the workers in the United States want to continue in power their en- emies, the open shoppers, the million. aires and billionaires, they can do nothing better than vote and support the two old parties. LaFollette Silent on Big Issue. “But then the workers will ask me, ‘How about LaFollette? Won't he serve the interests of the workers?’ In the face of the crisis developing in the United States what has LaFol- lette to say on the question of unem- ployment and wage reductions? Not but. when their hour of crisis came, a single word, He is as silent as a and capitalism could have been over- thrown in Germany, the ruling class LaFollette turned to the social-democracy, which deliberately saved capitalism, which shot down revolting workers by the thousands, and turned to patching up the shattered system. The capitalist class of America will similarly turn to LaFollette, and LaFollette will per- form the same service for them in America that Ebert and Scheidemann performed for the German capitalist class.” “War Referendum” Is Joke, LaFollette says he is against war,| volt, to turn it into reformist channels declared Foster, but his program leads directly to war, just the same as that of Coolidge or of Davis. He proposes a referendum on war, remove the cause Such a prctowegch ghastly joke; instrument of war itself, for it will become merely a means of more ef- fectively mobilizing the masses the coming world imperialist war, fooling them into thinking that ve something to say about the cigfon is more than a Ata 3 war, capitalism, | Collaboration clam in this respect. Why? Because represents that section of the capitalist class that has not yet succeeded in reaching the pinnacles of wealth that the Wall Street kings have reached. “He represents the small business men, the small exploiters of labor. But he will be used, he has for 45 years been used, as an upholder of the capitalist order of society. In the face of the rising tide of revolt against the capitalist system, LaFollette will be used to stave off the workers’ re- of social-democracy with the German but | Workers in 1918, not the slightest move to control and|, “Again all this reformism and class the Workers Party,” Foster, “raises the slogan of it is designed as an|the class struggle. We know from his- tory that ruling classes cannot be riven from power by a slow process reform, In every case that a ruling has been disposed in the past it 8 been thru the open struggle by rising class. same into being thru a series of revo- a4 Byen now, Foster pointed out, so}lutions, that made one world revo- early in the game, the capitalists are|lution against the prevailing feudal quite widely beginning 3 how valuable LaFollette is to their system. American, German, French, Italian and English capitalism were class interests, and their antagonism|@ll born in civil war. to him is being softened a great deal, “We live under the most ruthless, L while a few big ones, like Spreckles|/the best organized, the richest, the|that is thru suMfcient organization, and Vanderlip, actually go along and|most intelligent and militant ruling|intelligence and militancy, to take receive decisive voices in LaFollet-|class that world history has ever}power from the capitalist class in te's councils, But the workers are| recorded, stein, by gup-|pended upon that our ruling class turn andj will not yield its power without alcapitalism. The working class could it the workers should|have won its, freedom at that time Just as did the monster struggle. Even vs nor ie Strike Breaker,’ Coolidge, and for its vice have made excellent use of the pro- gressives. A progressive, Woodrow Wilson, a peace president, engineered the country into the war in the serv- ice of Wall Street. A progressive, Herriot, is at the head of the French government, loyally saving the face of the French militarists, reaction- aries and imperialists. MacDonald, a progressive, in power in England keeps the workers from developing a revolutionary movement against cap- italism and so becomes the biggest de- fender of British capitalism and im- perialism. LaFollette Not For Workers. “LaFollette in power will not serve the workers. He will not oppose wage cuts. He will do nothing to remedy unemployment. He will use his power to betray the workers, He will do with them what he has always done, fool them by fake reform issues and false promises, “For forty-five years LaFollette has served the Wall Street gang inside of the republican party as a progressive. He will continue under the cloak of progressivism to do the same thing. y so many bankers, manu- and multi-millionaires sup- It Power to Workers! party that is organized to interests of the workers the Wofkers Party. It is the only arty in the United States in the face of the crisis developing in the United States that has the courage to come out flatfootedly for the working class. “The Workers Party proposes to lead the workers in a struggle against unemployment, wage reductions and the attempt of thd capitalists to smash workers’ organizations. “The slogan of the Workers Party is work or relief for the unemployed at the union rate of wages. No wage cuts under any price. The solidifica- tion of the union thru the organization of the unorganized and the amalgama- tion of the existing unions as a meas- ure against the open shop war. Against the capitefist dictatorship, a workers’ and farmers’ government with all power in the hands of the workers and poor farmers. “The Workers Party is also part of the international Communist move- ment. The Workers Party, the Com- munist Party, is proud to adhere to the Communist International because the Communist International is more than an expression of international working class solidarity. Organize World’s Workers. “The Communist International is a militant, revolutionary, international organization of the working class. It is preparing and organizing the work- ers of the world for the final strug- gle to wrest control of the earth from the capitalist exploiters and butchers of the workers, “The Communist International is that world organization of the prole- tariat that points out to the workers of the world the lessons of the last world, war. “It shows the workers that war is the final culmination of capitalist glory, that it results in the butchery of the workers, and in the creation of untold misery of them. The Commu- nist International shows the workers of the world how capitalism is lead- ing the workers of the world into an- other imperialist world slaughter. For the World Revolution. “And the Communist International is the organization that will turn such a world war into a war against the capitalists. It will help the workers turn the war into a world revoli mask of democracy and resort to force to maintain its rule. We saw this happen in Italy, where, when the workers threatened the capitalist sys- tem, the murderous tascisti, agents of capitalism, restroyed even the pretense of democratic government and drowned the workers’ movement in blood. The same thing is being prepared by the capitalist class of America, behind the ‘ive mask of “progressivism,” and the American working class must prepare itself to meet it. Workers Must Take Power. “There is but one way in which the workers will ever gain power, and It can be absolutely de-jopen struggle. ¥ “The world war was a crisis for up the battle for capitalism. They be- trayed the working class, just as La- Follette will betray the working class. “But since that time a new power has arisen in the world. In all coun- tries Communist parties have been organized, and have been crystallized in the Communist International. This is the greatest fact in history. For it means that when the next great war, now definitely in preparation, is daunched upon the world by capitalist imperialism, the Communist Interna- tional will raise the slogan of world- wide proletarian revolt,” will lead the working masses against their oppres- sors, and smash once for all the capital- ist dictatorship and the capitalist sys- tem, and will establish thruout the world the rule of the workers.” HARPER SCHOOL STRIKE SHIFTED TO THURSDAY Give Moderwell, Dever 2 Days to Make Good The strike at the Harper school at Englewood has been shifted two days, from Tuesday to Thursday, Oct. 16, to give the board of education one more chance, this time to make good on its latest promise to install new facilities capable of handling the over- flow caused by crowding the junior high school classes into the school. The children in the 4th, 6th and 6th grades, ages trom 9 to 11, have ‘been ousted to make room for the new junior high school. The parents are fighting the autocratic decision of the board. They charge that this move was made without any regard for their wishes. As parents and ta> Payers, they have something to say Andethey are saying it straight from the shoulder. They say they will not subject their little children to the dan- gers of one mile and a half of trav- el with its precarious crossings and the resulting evils to health from cold lunches put up in the morning and kept for several hours. Mass Meeting For Strike. Mayor Dever’s advice not to strike against the autocratic rule of Charles M. Moderwell, who he sald was a friendly gentleman, but to try to set- tle this trouble thru negotiating with the board of education brought a loud voice of protest from the entire com- mittee of 200 hundred who waited on him. This indignation was further shown at the parents’ mass meeting held immediately after the conference with the mayor when the meeting voted to go on with the strike. Clothing Workers Meet in New York Flays Sigman Rule strike of the garment workers—and tied up the entire union in such a way that attempts to introduce any progressive measure could be choked off. Expelled Active Workers. The anger of the membership at tiis ruthless expulsion of some of the riost active workers Sigman tried to soothe by a pretense of putting up a fight for the ten demands formulated by the left wingers, led by the Trade Union Educational League. That the posed fight against the bosses was nothing more than a “pretense was ved by the subsequent surrender ‘Sigman and his aids to the demand ofAl Smith, governor of New York, that the entire problem be submitted to a mediator, to whom the union of- ficials proceeded to sell out. The holding of mass meetings in this city against the dues increase markes the beginning of the mass struggle against the autocratic meth- ods of the union bureautrats, both in New York, and in Chicago. DAILY WORKER GIRLS ‘SELL MANY PAPERS AT LA FOLLETTE MEETING Gertrude Walsh; Bessie and Kitty Harrie hundreds of copies of the DAILY WORKER at the LaFollette meeting last Satur- day night. They | right on” the job and t sale of the DAILY WOR' after the: | | ann ne esr nr tierce rere iobaereineetinenoneceessppaipnnnaataieenipstntsrimceslbhresniateaen i a taperaptigiaiomiieitapeaspaieniieinits ae aseahesiaeeigsesiomenne onion A a American capitalism will have to reckon, The program of the Com- munist International for the organ- ization of the working class for the conquest of power is heard for the first time by thousands of workers whom we could have reached by no other method at a time when they are agitated by the problems arising out of the decay of world capitalism. “Never has there been a time when so many American workers were questioning the more manifest evils of capitalism. Never has there been such a disgust with and distrust of the parties of capitalism. Never be- fore have millions of workers and farmers shown to the American capi- talists the solid front of a revolt that with all its confusion and floundering represents the first stirring of broad masses of the American working class aroused to action by oppressions which they feel, but whose causes they do not yet understand. “Neither do they visualize the cure and to give them knowledge of the inderlying causes of their misery, to convince them of the necessity for clear thinking and clean cut and militant action, to harden their reso- lution with the doctrine of the class struggle, to organize them for the conquest of power, to mass them be- hind the slogan of the dictatorship of the working class, is the revolu- tionary task of the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. Aids Europe’s Ruling Class. “The American capitalist class is furnishing the depleted commissariats of European capitalism with the munitions of counge¥revolution. The American capitalist class has given the ruling class of Europe new hope that it may be able to prevail against the forces of social revolution. ‘The American capitalist class has exacted its price for this and most of that price it expects and plans to have re- funded thru the sweat and blood of the workers of Europe and America that it hopes to coin into dollars. “The Dawes plan makes America the center of world counter-revolution and it holds over the heads of the world’s workers the constant threat of imperialistic war. “The American ruling class chal- lenges Japan in the Orient and it challenges Great Britain for world supremacy. “But first of all it strives to crush the world revolution. Opposition for Capitalism. “No party in America except the Workers (Communist) Party under- stands or cares for the interests of the working class in this great his- toric period. A right wing, a center and a left wing of American capi- sents in America the soctal pacifist movements that have arisen in Europe, MacDonald in Great Britain, the left bloc government in France, the petty bourgeois social-democratic governments of Germany, Sweden and big capitalism, the politically back- ward American working class see in it the expression of all their indict- ments of big business, their hope and their. salvation. “The working class is doomed to disappointment. The LaFollette move | ment cannot and will not, because of its middle-class character and leader- ship, fight for the interests of the working class. Future Belongs to Communism. “The Workers (Communist) Party | has this revolutionary field all to itself. Ours is the opportunity, ours is the duty and ours is the responsibility In the hands of the Communist Party of America is the future of the Amer-) ican revolution. | You remember, comrades, when the | election campaigns were on in Eng- land, Germany and France. You re- member how anxiously we waited for news of the struggles of our com- rades abroad and you remember how jubilant we were when the news of their splendid achievements reached us. “They watch us just as anxiously today. The Communist International and every party of it, is watching to- day our conduct on the field of strug- gle. They want to know how far we have travelled on the path of Lenin- ism, they want to see by our actual achievements in the struggle, how much of the teachings of the great master we have absorbed and trans- lated into action, The Russian work- ers and peasants, holding the first line Denmark. Because it ostensibly fights | ‘ faithful tool of capitalism, an enemy of ,the workers—with brain and brawn,” glancing phrenologically at the counter jumper, “but his mind makes a vacuum congested in com- ” This was almost too much, y,” he moaned, “I would not be lieve that of him even if I knew it t¢ be true.” He was now near the wine dow and I had my glasses, so I took a parting shot. “My favorite candi date for the presidency is William Z, Foster, the Communist——.” As 1 shut the door after me, I heard the noise of an opening window I waited for the tell-tale thud, but perhaps he only needed more air. . * * F Messers. Fitzpatrick and Nocklef I are not whiling away the hours which they are obliged to spend in their chairs at Federation headquart- ers, solving cross word puzzles, they might try their brains on the latest mind twister, turned loose in the pol- tical bedlam of Illinois. Nockles and Fitznatrick are experts in the art of proving a united front between Will- iam Z. Foster and Dawes because Dawes, who is playing “Tarzan of the Apes,” in the G. O. P. jungles, took occasion to swat Fitzpatrick and Co, because in the sulphurous mind of Hell an’ Maria, the labor fakers seem- ed to be “agents of Lenin and Trots- ky,” as the forimula goes. Foster slammed them becxuse they were, in- directly of course, agents of Dawes and the capitalist class of which Dawes is a very vocal and class con- scious member. “** HAT Dawes hates Foster more than an Irish devil is alleged to hate “holy water,” goes without say- ing. Even an ordinary moron knows that. But a moron would feel insulted trenches in the world revolution, while| ®t being placed on the same intellect- ing as some of the labor fak- they build a Communist society, are | ¥! foot! also watching us. They know what| TS that draw big salaries in the Am- role the American capitalist class|©Tican labor movement. Yet, we dare mire and they want to know how!S@y that it would not tax the intelli. gence of the most mentally bankrupt beget pina 8p aTA on AION to prove a united front between John Fitzpatrick and Hell an’ Maria Dawes, LaFolletté is the image around which these political medicine men do their dance. the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. “We will not disappoint these com- rades. “Under the crimson banner of the world social revolution, led and in- spired by the words and deeds of Lenin, bound in unbreakable ranks by the discipline of the Communist International, we go forward in this struggle with the battle cry of fight- ing Communists the world over: Forward to Workers’ Rule. “Down with world imperialism! “Forward to the dictatorship of the working class and the Communist society!” WORKERS PARTY CLAIMS NEW ADDITION TO ITS OWN LOCAL COMMUNIST A new branch of the Workers Party has been organized in Chicago, this week, this time among the Spanish-s| of them Mexican labore: leus around which a lar; empleyed in the stockyards, have formed the nuc- Spanish branch will be bullt. LEAGUE OF NATIONS aking workers. Elght members, seven . * 7 i 'HE labor fakers from Farrington to Fitzpatrick are supporting Ler Small in Illinois. Small is so crooked that he could sleep comfortably on a corkscrew. A skunk would suffer from paralysis of the olfactory nerves in the vicinty of Len Small. Yet this is the gentleman behind whose ban- ner the labor fakers are marching— the same colection of skates who sup: port Robert Marian LaFollette. 4 * ee .) ALKER, Olander and Farrington, plus the holp-up men who were refused admittance to Joliet by Small, made a political deal with the gover- nor. At this time Len was on the/ outs with the Dawes-Brundage- Crowe -Deneen-Tribune-News sec-! tions of the republican party. This! gang represents the open and above board open shop element in the re publican party. But Small Meked, them in state politics and now in or- Members of the Greek branch of the party co-operated wholeheartedly |der to save this state for Coolidge in arranging the meeting at which the Comrade Manuel Gomez, who is of the new branch, spoke to the wo nearly all of them asked to join the Workers Party. J. Espinosa w: yeted secretary Borunda delegate to the city central committee. Williamson Gives Third Lecture for Industrial Class The third lecture in the Young Workers’ League industrial class of eight lectures conducted every Mon- day at 2613 Hirsch boulevard, by John Williamson, takes up, “Chicago—Its Immediate Problems of Reorganiza- tion,” covering (a) Survey of Past Activities; (b) Industries to be con- centrated upon, and (c) Tasks of city organization, its separate units and members, Inasmuch as the league is now be- ing reorganized, ry active comrade will have to do a bit more than his share during the reorganization peri- od, He is expected to attend this meet- ing and become better fit to carry out the task set before us. The first meeting of area branches takes place this Friday. Meeting plac- 8 are listed elsewhere in this paper, League members who are working in industries and have not yet enrolled in the class should do so at this meet- iby RaRaiage new branch was organized. taking the initiative in the formation | rkers. At the conclusion of his talk, of the newly-formed branch and Cruz i Gannes Speaks on Dawes Plan Before German Party Branch Harry Gannes, member of the na- | tional. executive committee of the Young Workers’ League is speaking today on “The Dawes’ Plan and its Effect Upon the Workers of Europe.” Comrade Gannes has made a spe- cial study of this subject and will give a very interesting talk on this timely subject. The German branch of the Work- ers Party, at which this lecture will be delivered, meets at 1665 Bissell street. —_—— Request Funds for Library. Request for a bond issue of $200,- 000 to be used for the construction of a combination community nouse and branch library in Holden park, Lake street and Central Park avenue, was made on the: mayor today by repre- sentatives of the Austin library asso- elation. Join the Workers Party! they buried the hatchet, which they formerly aimed at Small’s neck, and |took Small to their respectable bos ;oms, i their political homes when Len is It is true they still di visitor and after the first week November, they may again try {quarantine him. But for the moment he is in the Dawes’ camp and picking his teeth with the tail of the LaFol- lette lamb after having eaten the fat ed calf. ee ee OW, what is the situation? Ag the editorial in the DAILY WORKER pointed out, the deal be- tween the labor fakers and Small pre- vented the LaFollette crowd from placing a candidate for governor in the fleld against Len. Thus the La Follette movement in Illinois is be hind Small. Fitzpatrick and Nockles are supporting Small. The Chicago Federation of Labor endorsed his can- didacy. Small is supporting the na- tional republican ticket. He is sup- porting Silent Cal and Noisy Charlie, A vote for Small is a vote for Dawes. How about it Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Nockles? But for the labor fakers this kind of political company is pref- erable to that of “Bill” Foster, the Communist candidate for president, Building Bolsheviks—the D, It's your pape aha!