The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1924, Page 1

a A NS ‘\Yegs and Libau who hata ahah ed ant =) cp smuemaiiss — —- cp exam — _—— soccer — a [ —— (— [3 ad inal — (= =) cated ep i 2 i a a | =< cp —— 4 Lo | tf =~) J = ssi — (= =] i—] = = fo} yawn | = (=) birrsse | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 176 SUBSCRIPTION Vol. H. No. 176 SUBSCRIPTION RATES; oursiae'Gticto,by m EW LAFOLLETTE. CRI AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O’FLAHERTY. 'HE Federation News, organ of the Chicago Federationof Labor, has unkind things to say of the editor of the Mid West News because of his desertion of LaFollette for Coolidge. The DAILY WORKER was the first to wield the hammer over editor Loch- ray. We flayed him when he de- serted the Farmer Labor party move- ment. It was then Lochray's foot slipped, not when he dropped one capi- talist candidate and picked up an- other—for a consideration. The Fed- eration News is also one of the be- trayers of the working class* move- ment. There was a time when it— under its old name—defended the principle of Working class political ac- tion, but Gompers closed the feed bag end the directors of the Federation News, nee The New Majority; dropped their principles like so many hot coals end became regular again. The ealy legitimate charge the Federation News could ‘make against Lochray is that the Omaha editor was a little bit late in selling himself. oo * ‘N. Utica, New York, Cathélies and i Masons have joined in g-local or- ganization known as the Hamilton- Jefferson Association. Promintent members of the Knights of Columbus are leading the Catholic wing.. The members of the new organization are profesisonal and business men. As far as we know there are no priests in- volved in the movement. It is not likely that there will be. The Catholic hierarchy in America is not very well pleased with the attitude of a section of the Knights of Columbus, As this organization has groyn in power and influence 2 tendency has developed to act independently of the clergy. This kind of thing has reached the point where the Bishop of Detroit, Michael Gallagher, hinted that the pope might Vo obligated to place the Knights un- cér the ban as he did a similar or- fanization in France. Pa ee 'HE so-called “atheist” element is now in contro! of the organiza- It is an open secret that many (Continued on Page 6.) ———_—_ EMIGRANTS ARE: FLEEGED BY THE STEAM AGENCIES (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—Be sure your friends and relatives who are, trying to get to the United States from Rus- sia are still in the ports to which you) yere sending money before you send iy more, is the warning of the So- viet gonsulates in Riga and Libau, \ hich the Central Bureau of the So- « ety for Technical Aid to Russia is L:oadcasting thruout America, Thousands of Rusians who were yaiting in these ports for the Ameri- «mm consuls to vise their passports hove -siven up trying to emigrate to t o United States under the new im- 1° gration restrictions which cut the i 4ssian quota-from about 26,000 last }orr'to cbout 2,000 this year. These } ussians have returned to.their homes ©* gene to other places in Russia and s.oney from relatives and friends in fanerica is going to the steams! ticket offices and to petty sharks in tion. Lys prospective emigrants their «9 and visaes, Thousands of atone i.e being lost to these hole-in-the- | wall offices which ‘are ti@ money nor info! taat their friends and Jeft the port, protected by troops, The train crew syeneathileed with their fell con ee ee ee In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per ae oceanic Wai THE DAILY WORKE Entared 2s Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post OMce at Chicago, [linols under the Act of March 3, 1979. TUESDAY, Gey BER 14, 1924 Publish SB On a Labor Faker’s Trail FARRINGTON WAS' FOR INJUNCTION JUDGE HADLEY His First Start in Trad- ing With Enemy By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Article Two.) a “All the coal Frank Farring- ton ever dug would not keep a gas heater from freezing to death.” This was the comment made on Farrington’s coal dig- ging. activities by a miner who once held an important position in District 12. But in order to be eligible for election as an of- ficial. of the United Mine Work- ers of America a candidate must at least show that he has some acquaiantance with the subter- ranean depths where a black diamonds grow. Farrington did not like coal digging worth a cént and shortly after his father introduced him tothe work at Streator, Frank bac Bde al ae tion as | after he had risen to position of night yardmaster in his business his relations with John Barley- corn got him into difficulties, with the result that-he had to WHEN— owever,} Communist voters of Chicago! XNA ARRR RRA A ANNA RRR NEUTER TT Nt NNTB NAST T NST BOLSHEVIKS | CHICAGO IS THEIR “CENTER” Read Their “Exposure” by a “Retired” Secret Agent You Can Read How They Act and What They Believe EVERY DAY. IN THE OFFICIAL “RED” NEWSPAPER THE DAILY WORKER “The National Labor Daily” ON NEWS STANDS 3c or get it .at home by mail Y $4.50 six months OMMUNIST VOTERS OF CHICAG BE SURE TO REGISTER TODAY! f $2.50 three months Today, Tuesday, October 14, is the ldst day on which you can make good sever connections with this line | your signature on the petition which has helped to put William Z. Foster of work. He went back to the mines only to be followed by Mr. Barleycorn. John ‘and Frank were close friends those days. On! Road to Wealth. Bringing ‘liquor into the mines was considered by the union as cause for discharge. Farrington was discharg- ed on this count. Having secured (Continued on Page 5.) PPS Es TOBIN RE Bice Boss Printers Here. Representatives from all parts of the world, augmenting the ranks of 5,000 odd from the United States, Alaska and Canada, began arriving here yesterday to attend the annual convention of the United Typothetae of America which will open formal sessions here Wednesday. | and Benjamin Gitlow on the ballot. Today is the last day on which you can qualify to vote for the candidates of the working class on Nov. 4. Today is the last registration day. The polls will be open from eight o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night. Remember—if you placed your ‘signature on a petition nominat- ing the candidates of the Workers Party and fail to register, your sig- nature will not count. The republican and democratic par- ties, and the LaFollette “party” are dragging obedient, the blind and de- luded voters to the polls today by the thousands. They know that 1924 is a significant year. We do not expect-a large vote! We know that hundreds of party mem- bers and hundreds of sympathizers are disqualified for some reason which the ruling class has made to keep the revolutionary elements from ‘Subscribe for “Your ’ ' Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. RUSSIANS ASK LABOR IN ENGLAND 10. FIGHT FOR “HANDS OFF CHINA” (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—In view of the intervention of the great powers in the Far Hast, the All-Russian Cen- tral Council of Trade Unions has pro- posed to the British Trade, Union Congress to jointly found a labor society—“Hands Off China,” in order “to avert by the joint forces of the worl of both countries a new war ‘end the national independence ot Chinese toilers.” 2 On its part, the All-Russian Central Committee, of Trade Unions has set “and Santa Fe railroad ‘the striking shopmen, who were nit couD! ‘by the Daugherty injunction, The railroad brotherhood leaders however, | federal Be es ree mae of pleas. the polls. Many of our foreign-born comrades are disqualified because they have not taken an oath of al- legiance to the red, white and blue dollar protector. Many more‘ ‘have lost their vote thru having served sentence in jail for their militant ac- tivities among the working classes. Hundreds more have been disfran- chised on some technicality, We do not expect a large vote! But we expect every Communist who is a voter to register his sympathy with the working class cause this fall, Especially do we expect those who signed the’ Workers Party petitions to make good their signatures by registering today. A vote for Coolidge is a vote for Wall Street and oe capitalist govern- ment. A vote for Davis is a vote for Wall Street and its capitalist government. A vote tor LaFollette is a vote for a capitalist government by small ex- ploiters, rather than by large ex "| ploiters. A vote for LaFollette is a vote for a bit of padding to the toe of the capitalist boot that kicks the ing class, A vote for Foster and Gitlow is a vote for the overthrow of capitalism, and for the establishment of the rule of the working class. . Forbes Trial Starts. BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 13—The| case of Col. Charles R, Forbes, for mer director of the veterans’ bureau, under ent here on charges of conpiring to defraud the government, today before Judge Soper in court on a motion for a \ aca | WORKERS PARTY CANDIDATES GO EAST AND-WEST Fresh from a_ triumphant meeting where they gave the Communist message to four thousand people in the Ashlahd Auditorium, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, Workers Party candidates for president ‘and vice-president of the United pmo departed on their speak- tours yesterday. ‘oster, who has just. com- pleted:a whirlwind tour of the Pacific Coast, will speak in De- troit tonight at the House of the Masses, while Gitlow is speak- ing in Seymour Hall, Omaha, Nebraska. , Paths Cross in Chicago. Gitlow has completed a speaking tour of the east and his path crossed that of Foster, who was traveling east, at the monster Chicago meeting, where both candidates spoke. Close to one thousand dollars was collected for the Communist cam- paign fund, after a collection appeal by Bob Minor, eighty dollars worth of campaign literature was sold and one hundred people subscribed to the DAILY. WORKER. Thousands of copies of the special campaign issue of the DAILY WORKER were distrib- uted, — The future thine of the Communist presidential candidates are as follows: Po Soa Dates et aoa Oct, sy 1 ‘Auat- i setforson, Weds Ba ay St hue: Get 10D m. a fang, Qotett, Ams LW.W. DELEGATES ONE CONVENTION Delegates to the two conven- tions of the Industrial Workers of the World, scheduled to open yesterday, topk matters into their own hands and served notice on the officials represent- ing both factions that there would be one convention on what they termed “neutral ground” and invited them to come to the Phoenix Hall, 405 W. Division Street, at 2 p. m. Within the last few months a controversy has arisen in the national office of the I. W. W. over leadership which resulted in one faction, the Griffith- Rowan-Bowerman group, Yé- iil SUGifii?, =P SS Se oe | M\sorting to capitalist court in- junctions te restrict the other faction, in the persons of Tom ~ Doyle’ and Joe Fisher, from conducting the work of the or- ganization. The’ membership all over the coun- try Was aroused over this method of procedure, of taking an I. W. W. or- ganizational matter into the capital- ist courts, and both sides were com- pelled to issue a call for a conven- tion to ‘convene Oct. 13. As the time approached for the convention the line between the two factions, repre- sented by the different groups of lead- ers, became more tightly drawn and it developed that not one but two conventions might be held. The halls rented for the two conventions were the Emmet Memorial, at Ogden and Taylor Sts., and another at 180 W. Washington St. Halls Rented and Deposit Paid. But yesterday when members of the I. W. W. came to both these halls, they found no convention and no sign of one to be held. At both these halls the janitors told the DAILY WORK- ER reporter that the halls were rent- ed and a deposit paid. It developed Aater in the day that the whole matter had taken an en- tirely new turn. The delegates had taken the matter into their own hands and served notice on the bickering officers that there would be! one con- vention. Rank and File Meets. “On Sunday night,” a delegate in- formed the DAILY WORKER, “the delegates held a metting by them- selves without any officers and de- cided to call off the two conventions and take charge of this matter in their way. They rented the Phoenix Hall St Ree er a ee a ee and served notice on their officers that they were invited to attend the convention called by the delegates (Continued on Page 2.) CONTRIBUTE TO FUND 10 CARRY ON COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN Money has been coming in regu- larly into the local. office of *the Workers , Party from the various Amalganidted shops since the LaFol- lette officials in the Amalgamated began prosecuting those who refus- ed to give dollar donations to the LaFollette campaign fund, and are ini id purchasing Workers Party campaign fund stamps which are be- ing circulated by our comrades in the shops. In spite of the drastic measures which the LaFollette representa- tives are taking to pull the dollars from pockets of the workers for the LaFollette campaign, in many of the shops with very little effort our comrad ‘e able to collect more money for the Communist Campaign ye than goes to the LaFollette campaign with all their big guns. — PUBLISHING MEET HERE IN Rank and File Opposes | Idea of Two Gatherings| PRR eer ete RTA ESS Es Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. ed Daily Sunday by THE Vashington Blvd., | ST. PAUL, Minn., wing. |by these men. Oscar Keller, the republicany candidate for congress in the fourth congressional district. Show Endorsement Stolen. At @ meeting of the executive com- mittee: held October 4, it was clearly shown that the endorsement had been stolen with the result that the execu- tive committee ordered another con- vention for last night. The executive committee came into the convention prepared to make a complete report on the manner in which the campaign was being conducted. Fred Tillquist called the convention to order. It immediately became apparent that he and Starkey were going to try to prevent the transaction of any busi- ness, when Starkey took the floor and claimed that non-delegates were pres- ent and that the convention could not go ahead. Delegate Carlgren, of the carpen- ters, then proposed that visitors take seats in the galleries, that all dele- gates retire to the rear of the hall, that the roll be called and as each name was called the delegate go up and take his seat. This carried. The roll call showed 206 legal dele- gates‘ present. Starkey again objected to the pro- ceeding on the grounds that the con- vention was.not organized in conform- ity with the ‘state constitution. Dele- gate Carlgren again took the floor pointing out that for five years the county organization had been consti- tuted in the same manner and that no objections had been raised but that the left wing stood for constitutional procedure and, therefore moved that the convention adjourn and recon- vene Monday night in conformity with the state“ constitution. While Carlgren was talking, Starkey and Torgerson rushed up to confer with chairman Tillquist. The confer- ence resulted in Tillquist ruling the motion out of order, adjourning con- vention and telling the delegates to go home. The delegates refused to leave and called up executive board member Gipple to take the chair which he did. The reactionaries then turned out the lights but upon being informed of the state fire laws turned one light on again. Secretary Wangerin was then called upon to read the report of the executive committee, but as soon as he started to read the report the one light was again turned out. A flashlight was secured and the re- port read. This report showed clearly why the reactionaries desired to break up the convention. It showed clearly how the previous convention had been packed and it further showed that the ©’Connor political gang that for years controlled the democratic party was now firmly in the saddle of the farmer- labor party. \ Show Sinister Alliances. The headquarters being used jointly by the farmer-labor party and the La- Follette forces, which normally rents for $375 a month was being donated by the Hamm Brewing cOmpany; the office furniture was donated by the Louis F. Dow company, a scab office supply house whose printers have been on strike for two years; the heat and be ad was donated by the North (Continued on Page 2.) HELP! HELP! We Want Volunteers. Work is piling up in our office on the campaign to “Build the ‘DAILY WORKER” and the new “WORKERS MONTHLY.” Address- ing, Inserting, folding and stamping needs many hands and plenty of — if you are unemployed, or have time to spare—days or eves nings—and wish to give us a helping hand, come on up. c time. ee ( iy me y a DAILY ] ee WORKER Chicago, Il. Price 3 Cents BARED RANK AND FILE BALKS PLOT T0 DELIVER FARMER-LABOR PARTY IN MINNESOTA TO DEMOCRATS By C. H. HATHAWAY f (Special to The Daily. Worker) Oct. 13.—The corrupt,-eactionary leader- ship of the group in the Ramsey County Farmer-Labor Federa- tion lead by Frank T. Starkey and Fred E. Tillquist was smashed last night by the rank and file under the leadership of the left For weeks resentment, has been growing against the corrup- |tion and alliances with old party bosses that have been foste@ed The matter came to a head two weeks ago when at a con- vention packed by non- -delegates an endorsement was given to SOVIET GEORGIA TELLS OF FIGHT WITH REACTION Reply to Lies of Kept Press in U. S. EDITOR’S NOTH.—Only recently the American kept press was filled to the brim with reports of the counter-revolutignary movement ia Soviet Georgia. Some of these sub- sidized sheets saw in the alleged in- surrections against Workers’ Rule in Soviet Georgia a moyement that would threaten Soviet Rule in Rus- sia itself. The DAILY WORKER has just secured a Manifesto issued by the enlarged Plenum of the Tif- lis, Georgia, Soviet, and addressed to the workers and farmers of all countries. It reviews the situation in this part of the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics, and gives the lie to the malicious and misleading accounts that have appeared in America’s daily newspapers. The manifesto in full is as follows: “8 # The enlarged plenum of the Tif- lis Soviet has unanimously ad- dressed the following manifesto to the proletariat and to the peasantry of the whole world. FoR three and a half years Georgia has lived under a Soviet regime. In these three years the country has made enormous strides forward on the road to economic and na- tionai-cultural restoration. In the atmosphere of assured in« ternational peace which was set up along with the Soviet rule, both internally and ir the for- eign relations with the neigh- boring republics, the workers and peasants of our republic have revealed a zest for work and a heroism unexampled in history. The productive forces, which were fettered by,the czarist re- gime and the imperialist war as much as by the chronic state of war in the years when the coun- try was under the administra- tion of the social-democratic menshevist party, are now rap- idly developing both in industry and agriculture. The economic and cultural interests of labor are under the sure protection of the effective social legislation of the Soviet power. Education Is Fostered. Never in the history, of our country has there been such an eager work of construction carried on in all the spheres of the cultural life’ of the people. \ Under the Soviet power Georgia has realizegyfor the first time the complete nationalizing of all organs of (Continued on page 6) abhi Site