The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 177. WILD TALES OF U. S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE TRUTH AB §. SLEUTH IN CHICAGO DAILY NEWS WILL BE “XPOSED BY THE DAILY WORKER |: By MANUEL GOMEZ The Chicago Daily News, publisher of “The Black Joker,” “The Stained Dagger” and other equally blood-curdling “mystery stories” in serial ‘orm, has a new thriller for its’ readers. It is all about “Reds” and “Red Plots,” and what makes its sensational success almost certain is that the “Reds” portrayed in it are as unlike real “Reds” as it is possible to conceive. The story is called “Secrets of the Reds Told by an Insider,” and, strangely enough, purports to be true. It is written by Jacob Spolansky, notorious anti-labor fink and frame-up man who, “in a series of amazing revelations” pretends to show “how Russian Communism, setting out to over- throw the governmént of the United States by violence, chose Mi i oA RA Sal HER Aes PK AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. USSOLINI finds his footing get- ting slippier every day. He is now forced to request the assistance of D’Annunzio, the crazy playwright, who would feel as happy under the Jeadership of Mussolini as a hungry cannibal,. hogtied within sight of a fat bishop. The Fascist movement is nearing the end in Europe. In Spain the black shirt dictatorship under De Rivera hangs on the Morocco, ex- pedition, which means that it hangs on a hair with the Riffian sabre in dangerous proximity. The capital- ists have found it more advantageous to work thru» the social democratic, than thru the more crude It wears better camouflage. "© NOTHER feature of’ the. present of anti-clericalism, which is chi manifested in the Latin countries of France, Spain and Italy. While the Vatigan made considerable temporary gains by allying itself with the Fas- cisti, the fall of’ that dictatorship will certainly bring down upon the head of the Catholic church. the wrath of the masses who suffered under the black- shirt regime. The republican ele- ments in the Latin countries are anti- clerical and the fall of Fascism in Italy and Spain will undoubtedly Dring about a stafé of affairs as far as the church’ is concerned, as took place in France in 1905. eee CLASS war prisoner in San Quentin sends in a clipping con- taining tle drivel that oozed from the now dried-up brain of one Joseph Wise, in regard to William Z. Foster end the Workers Party. Our im- prisoned comrade is extremely angry over the Wise attack, but he would not be if he only knew something a the contemptible nonentity who was used by the big labor fakers to attack a man’ whose ability as a parties, Faseisti. trade union organizer they envy andj; who-they hate because of his sincerity end the esteem in which he is held ly the masses of the workers, even ulose who cannot yet see eye to eye with him politically. Wise Bas been already handled in The DAILY WORKER and if he is at all worthy of his name he will keep his fool mouth padlocked, except for the per- fermance of the only purpose nature intended it for—in the case of Wise— to eat his slops with. Ve we: AKE Spolansky, until recently a stoolpigeon of the department of justice, and very likely a stoolpigeon now for some’ detective agency, is trying to make a name for himself and incidentally make some cash, by competing with Nick Carter, the famous dime novelist. Jake is now a writer, of course—like tLe Prince of Wales, he gets somebody else to do the literary work for him. But there are so many unemployed stoolpigeons avound nowadays that Jakey will have no trouble, we presume, in securing a co-worker to fix up his yarns so that the copy readers will not be un- jer the impression that some moron jit the literary warpath. (Continued on Page 2.) ‘Subsoribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Join the Workers Party! Chicago as the center of all | radical activities in the western world, manufactured bombs, and carried out systematic as- sassinations.” The series began publication in the Daily News yesterday. Lurid beyond anyhing yet offered to>the readers of detective stories, this latest addition to the Desperate Desmond School of Fiction wiil, to give the exact language of the Daily News advertising man, “bristle with vivid’ and terrible details.” In other words, it will be the old familiar hoakum, the regular bull, conventional admixture of wild yarns about fake plots, which are manufactured out of the whole cloth by private detecive agencies and out-of-work operatives whenever they think they can scare a rich old repro- bate into paying for some heavy sleuthing. Burns Controls the “D. of J.” For yeart th whole detective ay in Bole and order to make good with a client, framing up some poor sucker and rail- roading him to jail before he rey’ ‘izes what has happened to him. A professional dick once told the writer that two-thirds of his work con- sisted of executing frame-ups. Es- pecially prominent in this line of en- deavor is the Burns Detective agency (a million-dollar corporation, with ramifications extending to all parts of the world); and for a long, long time the Burns agency has controlled ‘the federal department of justice, body and soul. The DAILY WORKER knows “The Reds” at first hand; it is a Commun- ist.organ. It also knows Mr. Jacob Spolansky at first hand, a number of Communists having been victims of his frame-ups. Side by side with the fake revelations in the Chicago Daily News, the DAILY WORKER will pub- lish a series of articles prepared with the assistance of the Labor Defense Council, exposing the would-be expos- ers. This is the first of the series. Read what the DAILY WORKER has to say and compare it with Spolan- sky’s daily nonsense in the Daily News. According to advertisements, Spol- ansky’s principal articles will deal with: The “Group of Avengers” in Gary. Plots to kill prominent Americans. The secret of the Wall Street bomb explosion of 1919, Getting at the Truth. The DAILY WORKER can tell you something about these topics, even before reading the articles in the Daily News. The “Group of Aveng- ers,” otherwise spoken of as the “Knights of the Red Star,” is an en- tirely fictitious organization, con- ceived in the minds of a group of private detectives, headed by Mike Flanagan, now president of the Thiel Detective Service Co,, who used it to frighten Chicago bankers. All sorts of wild deeds were attributed to this mysterious organization, including the alleged attempt to assassinate state's attorney Hoyne in the summer of 1920, but not a shred of evidence was ever produced to show that it actually existed, except a collection of silly “blackhand” letters, whose very geries. ‘The so-called plots to kill prominent Americans began to be talked about in detective gircles early in 1919, in connection with a document purport- ing to come trom Russia, giving de- tailed instructions for the systematic In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WEDNESDAY, OC COMMUNIST TICKET GOES BALLOT IN STATE With the filing of one thousand petitions with the Indiana in behalf of the presidential candidates of tl Party, the workers of Indiana will have an opportunity of state for (Communist) le for William vice-president, in the coming elections. ‘ Arne Swabeck, district organizer, yesterday filed Ly and petitions for electors pledged to Foster and Gitlow in“Indiana, kes the four- of his branch. ¥as not active, lenlar capability is talents lay Twentyseven men of prominence in all parts of the United States were said to be marked for slaughter. The story gained considerable credence among worried plutocrats, and as a result the Thiel, Burns and Smith agencies reaped a happy harvest, un- til it gradually became discredited, ceased to call forth revenue, and was finally discarded altogether—notto bob up again. until Spolansky decided to write his “revelations” for the Chi- cago Daily News. » Burns’ Brazen Hoax. As for the famous Wall Street bomb explosion, this forms part of one of jthe most brazen hoaxes ever perpe- | trated by unscrupulous detectives, The bomb was planted by an employe of a certain detective agency, and ex- ploded on September 4, 1918, killing four persons and injuring nearly thirty. If there had not been $500,000 lying around loose which the detect- ives believed could be diverted into their coffers for anti-Red investiga- tions, the bomb never would have been manufactured. Despite the fact that for several years the dicks ande farme-up men strove to implicate Communists, they have been entirely unsuccessful, and the Wall Street bomb explosion still remains a mys: tery, which the police say they cannot solve. The DAILY WORKER intends ions. it he is oppos- in the labor The did not be- movement and_ ‘the secret. serv- come connected ice until after he ha nections with However that that his negotia bcialist party. ay is quite clear His uncle, 25 or 30 years squad” of the ient—and it that Spolan- the depart- ean be no sold out, be- head of the “an Chicago police was thru Mills’ j sky landed thi doubt that § came a turn rather narrow radical moven tance with the use he was nce to pick up easy money, moral fibre of ing class fighters The high spot ii as a detective under the di William J. B staunch work- yolansky’s career s organization, of super-dick he brutal raid he Communist ichigan, in the resulted in the fense Council has in its | mony, og it wit make 5 were the DAILY WORKER, that the whole | ‘oned in the cotinity” jail at St. Joseph, thing was cooked up by the Burns| Spolansky openly declared that the and Thiel agencies, operating with the real purpose of the raid was to terror- connivance of the federal department ize the militant workers thruout the possession -|fith group were -| who have so far declined unity, told While “tupris- to consider the reply of the large con- of justice. These paragraphs indicate the de- gree of reliability of the material which Spolansky is weaving into sen- sations for the readers of the Daily News. Anyone who reads Spolan- sky’s intrepid fiction 1s assured of all the thrills attendant upon the perusal of a hectic dime novel, but he will learn nothing whatever about the rey- olutionary working class’ movement, which does not consist of fantastic “groups of avengers” engaged in plan- | ning isolated murders’ and evolving | bomb plots, but it a mighty concerted | struggle to free the working class from wage slavery. The Workers Party, which is the Communist or- ganization in this country, scorns to conceal its real purpose; it does not wait for a slimy sleuth like Jacob Spolansky to “expose” it; but it ex- poses itself day after day in the DAILY WORKER, which can be bought freely from the newstands. Spolansky Knows He Lies. Spolansky knows all this. He knows he is peddling spurious stuff. He is not a young innocent whoée dis- torted ideas of socialism and Commu- nism took shape naturally as a result of seculsion from revolutionary in- fluences. But Spolansky needs money. And his whole career indi- cates that he could not allow mere principle to stand in the way of ma- terial gain. Perhaps he would préfer to write the truth for the Daily News, but the editor would call it “propa- ganda,” and refuse to print it. The | Daily News does not want the truth, It does not believe in giving publicity to the Communists, except to discred- jit them as crack-brained or secret medieval conspirators, and at the same to furnish a few cheap thrills to its readers. x Who is this Jacob Spolansky? Born in Russian Poland, he came to this country, and for a number of years had a bitter struggle to make both ends meet. Before the outbreak of the world war, while still a youth of 19 or 20, he became a member of the socialist party, joining Russian branch No. 1, in Chicago. At that time he was wretchedly poor. He dropped out of the party in 1916, g0- ing directly into the employ of the federal department of justice. During his membership in the so- cialist party, Spolansky was, for a z= Get The Truth About “The Reds” ‘country and thus aid in smashing the to convict Foster (now Workers Party big railroad and coal srikes which were then in progress. The attempt candidate for président) failed. In the case of Ruthenberg, however, the prosecution accomplished it purpose, by playing skillfully upon the pre- judices of a handpicked jury. Ruthen- berg’s appeal comes up before the Michigan supreme court this week. It is being financed by the Labor De- fense Council, 166 W. Washington St. Chicago. Shows Sleuths in Real Life. In the movies, and in popular mag- azine serials, secret service men are invariably clean-cut, upright, courage- ous youths, who give their lives un- selfishly to protecting the honor and interests of their country. But in real life they are sneaks and turncoats like Spolansky, ever willing to accept a bribe, and without the slightest con- ‘ception of what honor means. More often than not, detectives are a com- bination of stool-pigeon and gunman usually with a shady past. They take! part habitually in unlawful and vio- lent raids, searches and seizures, cause fraudulent arrests, and use the third degree to force men to accuse themselves or others falsely. In one way or another they have become practiced in the black arts of inquisi- tion. They utilize this training to fasten themselves like leeches on the men who possess wealth, striving to convince them that only by employ- ing “protection” of the type they of- fer, can wealth be preserved in cap- italist hands and continued opportun- ity afforded to plunder industry and exploit wage workers. If you wish to read the full truth about Spolamsky and his associates, read the DAILY WORKER. In the succeeding articles of this series, we shall relate some of the notorious frame-ups engineered by Spolansky against labor. We shall expose the connection between the government and the Burns Detective Agency. We shall tell the complete truth about the Wall Street bomb explosion, the ‘Gary Avengers,” the plots to kill prominent Americans, various other interesting matters-—which are advertised for exposure by the Daily News, but which, nevertheless, wil! not be actually exposed + ia in the DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter Saptomber 21, 1938, at the Baw Office at Chicago, Ulinols under the Act of March 3, 1879. een neem ‘OBER 15, 1924. <>» PUBLIS Published Daily except Sunday by THE Shington Blvd., HING CO., 1113 W. W DAIL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Y RKER Zo, ll. Price 3 Cents T “THE REL Ss” BATTLE GROUND SHIFTS SCENE IN 1. W.W. MEET Thrash Out Problems at| Emmet Memoriai Hall The battle ground of the con- tending elements in the Indus- trial Workers of the World shifted yesterday from the Phoenix Hall, 405 W. Division Street, to Emmet Memorial Hall, where all but six members of the Rowan-Bowerman-Grif- reported to have agreed to meet and trash out their differences. These six members of the Rowan group who have already declared themselves the “official I. W. W. convention,” are com- posed of one delegate from the metal workers’ union and five delegates from the lumber workers’ union. Delegate Johnson, of the lumber workers has been made chairman of the Rowan-Bowerman convention. Frame Series of Demands. The “convention” of the six mem- bers of the Rowan group adjourned early yesterday afternoon after draw- ing up a series of “demands” upon the convention of delegates meeting} in Emmet Memorial Hall. This convention is composed of all the delegates who decided to meet in one convention in the interests of unity. Delegates in the Rowan group, the DAILY WORKER that they will t again at-180 W.-Washington St, vention at Emmet Memorial Hall to their “demands.” ‘They declare un- less their demands are met they will remain outside the regular conven- tion, but refused to disclose what these demands are. Claim Complete Unity. Reports emanating from the closed session of the I. W. W. convention at Emmet Memorial Hall were to the ef- fect that almost complete unity has been obtained by the.I. W. W. dele- gates. The report of the credentials committee was acted upon yesterday afternoon by the executive session. The delegates honored the creden- tials of adherents to both the Row- an-Bowerman-Griffith faetion and the Doyle-Fisher group. Only those dele- gates were seated, however, the DAILY WORKER was informed, who were regularly elected by groups of the rank and file I+ W. W. All but two of those followers of the Rowan group who had been meet- ing at 180 W. Washington St., are now present at the Emmet Memorial Hall unity convention, acording to the | LW. W. delegates. The one delegate j Who has been holding out against junity, the DAILY WORKER is in- formed, is delegate Wilson of the lumber workers. Keep Control on Dispute. “One of the chief actions to be taken by this convention will be to see that such factional disputes never again get out of control of the organ- izaion and go into the capitalist courts,” one of the western delegates told the DAILY WORKER. “The big fight will come over the report of the executive board.” A dick from the department of jus- tice demanded admittance to the hall and the I. W. W. were forced to ad- mit him. They declared perhaps he was looking for more material tp write another series of capitalist newspaper articles. LAFOLLETTE'S VOTES IN U. S. SENATE ON IMMIGRATION EXPOSED Startling revelations of the part LaFollette played in the senate in the recent immigration legislation is made in Alexander Trachten- be article appearing on the edi- torial page today. Read this article, it contains valuable information, BORAH GLORIES IN HIS ATTACK ON THE POST OFFIGE GLERKS (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Senator Borah, replying to an inquiry as to whether the Associated Press told the truth when it quoted him as calling, President Coolidge “the greatest man in the political his- tory of the United States,” denies that he made that statement. How- ever, he says he did pay tribute to Coolidge for vetoing the post of- fice employes’ wage bill and other “extravagances.” Borah called this matter of reducing public expendi- tures one of the supreme issues of the age, and Coolidge heroic for his action. He has not yet replied to the challenge of the National Federa- tion of Postoffice Clerks as to why he does not censure Coolidge for signing the bill raising the salary of his political chiefs in the postoffice department from $5,000 to $7,5000 a year. BRITISH ARMS HOLD TURKISH OIL FROM TURKS John Bull Will Not Trust His Own League CONSTANTINOPLE, October 13.— Wars are so common nowadays that only a real whopper excites more than ordinary attention. In other days the Turko-British imbroglio would be front page news. But with hundreds of thousands lined up in battle array in China, the skirmishes between Turkey. and. Wngland over the Mosul. oil fields receives only slight atten- tion. Big War Threatens. But it would not surprise seasoned political observers here if a big strug- gle develops out of the present ten- sion. Actual fighting is taking place right now between Turkish and Brit- ish troops. Before MacDonald was de- feated in the commons, his troops were shedding blood in defense of the oil wells stolen from the péople of Mesopotamia hy the Lloyd George government, for the British capital-| ists. He is still in charge of the/| bloody work. Turkey Prepares. The Turkish government at An- gora is in extraordinary session. The British are threatening to attack Mo- sul. Turkey has all the appearance of a country getting ready for war. Yet war with the British empire is a serious proposition. Turkey will not undertake it lightly, at least not with- out learning the attitude of France and other big powers. Won't Trust League. The British are occupying Turkish territory, declaring they have a man- date from the league of nations to govern it. The natives would be just as well pleased if England dropped the “white man’s burden” them alone, but there is oil on their native land, which compels them to sleep with strange bedfellows. The Turks are willing to let the/| league of nations define the boundary | but England will not éven trust the | league. France is a member of the league and France's vassal states have votes. The capitalists are in a pretty fix. Daugherty Contempt Case Goes Over Until Election Has Passed) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. — The! supreme court of the United States | today set for argument December 1, the contempt case against Mal §8. Daugherty, brother of former attorney general Harry M. Daugherty, for re- fusal to comply with orders of a senate investigating committee to produce his bank books and certain memorandums. The lower federal court sustained the banker and the government appealed to test the powers of a congressisonal inVestiga- tion committee. Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U. Day in the Daily Worker <2 and left |, ARGUE ISSUES IN RUTHENBERG CASE ONOCT. 18 Decision up iptoM ichigan Supreme Court (Special to The Dailvy Worker) LANSING, Mich., Oct. 14— The issue, whether “assembling with” can be made a crime in the United States, is to be set- tled so far as the state of Michi- gan is concerned by decision of the supreme court here. The issue comes up in the charge against C. E. Ruthen- berg, convicted at St. Joseph, Mich., last. year for “assembling with” the Communist party con- vention at Bridgeman the year before. Hearing Set for Oct. 18, The date of the hearing before the Michigan supreme court of the Ruth- enberg case has been set for Oct. 18. The defendant's brief was filed some ten days ago and today the attorney- general, Daugherty, of the state of Michigan, filed the brief of the state The argument of the defendant is that the Michigan criminal syndical ist law is unconstitutional being in violation of the constitution of the state of Michigan, and that of the United States. The defendant's ar. gument is based upon legal grounds. The answer of attorney-general Daug herty for the state of Michigan is that the Michigan syndicalist law “stands on guard against the destruction of @ state atid the United States con stitutions.” Besides the issue of the constitu tionality of the Michigan law, on gen- eral principles the defendant's argu ment is that the application made ot this law in the Ruthenberg case is un- constitutional even tho the state has the power to enact such a law. He Only Assembled. The basis of this argument is the fact that the only charge made against Ruthenberg was “assembling with” an organization and no evidence was sub- mitted that either Ruthenberg or this organization had committed any act in the state of Michigan which creat ed a clear and present danger for any overt act of any kind. The state of Michigan will be rep resented in the hearing by the attor nuey-general of the state, Daugherty and O. L. Smith, assistant attorney- general, while the defendants will be represented by Frank P. Walsh and I. E. Ferguson, PORTO RICO, LIVING GRAVEYARD, SUFFERS WITH STARVING INDIA (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—In an election broadside, Santiago Igles!- as, labor leader in Porto Rico, re- cites the report made ky a commit- tee of members of the American Federation of Labor, that “We find Porto Rico to be a living grave- yard,” and asks the Unionist-Repub- lican ‘alliance to tell the voters just what measures they have planned, or would propose, to alleviate the terrible poverty of the m: of the people henceforth, He challenges the alliance to say whether it will favor a small-hold- ings law which would break up the big sugar and coffee plantatiéns to the extent required to give gardens or small farms to agricultural la- borers. He further challenges them to say whether they would vote for legislation retaining in Potto Rico sufficient of its products, or the re- turn thereof, to afford a living’ to! the people of the island who ate . employed in creating them. Porto Rico is declared to export a greater share of her production, for the benefit of non-residents, than » any other rich agricultural region on eafth. Her people are among the worst-nourishec outside of In- dia,