The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 1

* ‘THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 178. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. HE Rey. Norman Thomas, orphan socialist candidate for governor of New York state, and Morris Hill- quit, the Moses of the American s0- cialists (he is leading them out of Egypt) sent messages of greeting to Ramsay MacDonald and expressed the hope that the British labor party would be allowed to run His Majes- ty’s Empire after the coming general elections. Thomas likened MacDonald to LaFollette, which is just about what we have been saying right along. The fact that a yellow socialist hap- pens to agree with us for once does not necessarily mean that we should change our opinions, that it makes one feel uncomfortable. **# * OTH messages are worthy of a place in the record. Thomas said: “American labor and American progressive movement sends best wishes for triumphant return to power of the British labor party in the com- ing election. We hope to duplicate 3ritish, labor's wonderful achievement, by the election of LaFollette to the presidency and the creation of a pow- erful American labor party.” “ee ILLQUIT .is a little more to the “left” than the preacher. Morris mentions “socialism.” This is what he cabled; “Socialists of the United States send congratulations upon the determined and dignified stand of the British labor government against the petty attack of its combined reac- tionary opponents. The forces of la- bor, socialism and progress on both sides of the Atlantic are now en- gaged in a simultaneous campaign for the rights of the people—social jus- tice and world peace. May both be equally triumphant.” *O the aims of American socialism .) are whittled down to “social jus- tiée and world peace.” Unless we are mistaken, this is the progranf of the League of Nations! Who is not for world peace? Why, even Calvin Cool- idge swears by it. But in view of the conduct of the British socialist government during its term of office, toward the subject peoples of His Majesty, in India, Egypt and now in ‘Turkey, the' subject peoples of Mor- gan and Rockefeller in the Philip- pines, Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and other American colonies, cannot get much comfort out of the prospect of «xchanging Calvin Coolidge for LaFol- lette, provided there is such a strik- ing similarity between the LaFollette movement and the British labor party. , abet tibee 4 ORMAN Thomas is a nauseating hypocrite. He is not such an , ignoramus that he is not aware of the crimes committed by Ramsay Mac- Donald against the people of India, for whom Thomas and his paymaster of the open shop mine, Villard, profess to have so much admiration. Only yesterday we read in the papers that J. H. Thomas, colonial secretary in MacDonald’s cabinet, delivered a jingo speech against the Turks, that evén Curzon would hesitate to make. ‘Thomas warned the “foreigner,” who happened in this instance to be the ‘Turk, that the labor party would fight for thé preservation of the empire's prestige, against all comers. **#* E warned the Turks to quit their tomfoolery. Yet the only crime committed by the Turks is that they insist the ofl lands Britain holds with her armed forces is Turkish territory und suggest that the matfer be left to arbitration. Thomas waves his sword like a regular defender of the “predatory interests” that Norman Thomas, Hillquit and LaFollette are fighting against here. Of course, it is needless to say that the LaFollette leaders are not fighting the “preda- tory interests.” What they really after is an opportunity to serve cap- italism, and they feel they can do a better job of it and give the system better service than the capitalist ks now on the job inthe legis- tures. It is refreshing to learn from uch excellent authorities as Hillquit and Thomas, that His Majesty's “la- “por” governorment and the LaFollette American government are as two peas, (Continued on page 2) Join the Workers Party! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SHOW “RED” On a Labor Faki POLICE SPY SHOWS WHAT In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. FARRINGTON | CAUGHT SELLING VOTES 10 “DEM” Charges Union With Expenses of Deal By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Article Four.) Frank Farrington is very me- ticulous about the observance of the union rules by radical members of the rank and file. But he is not so particular about violating the union law when it Suits his own plans and his own pocket. A strong light was thrown on Farrington’s mental attitude at the last convention gf the min- ers’ union held in Indianapolis. Nick Perkovitz, a coal miner from Dowel, Illinois, was elected by the rank and file of his local to represent them at the con- vention. But the credentials committee seated his opponent, a lackey of Farrington’s, who was not elected and who came to Indianapolis, confident that the Farrington-Lewis machine would ditch Perkovitz. Radical Won for Once. Nick took the issue to the floor of the convention however and he’ was seated by an almost unanimous vote. It developed that Perkovitz is a radi- cal with a holy hatred of the booses. This attitude towards his mastets did not make his association with the coal operators’ mine managers any too pleasant for him. His insistence on working strictly in accord with the wage contracts between the . bosses and the miners got him into hot water on more than one occasion, and thru collaboration with Farrington’s ma- chine the bosses had Perkovitz fired twice and practically blacklisted. Nick Given Clean Bill. Because Perkovitz was not working “in or around a mine” when he was elected to the Indianapolis convention, the Farrington machine sought to have him barred as a delegate. But the delegates were not as much in (Continued on page 6) MORGAN'S BIG BLIMP ARRIVES FROM DAWESLAND (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The flying time of the ZR-3 from its hangar in Friedrichshafen, Germany, to the coast of North America, was approxi- mately 75 hours. The dirigible hopped off at 6:36 a. m., at Friedrichshafen which would be 12:36 Eastern standard time in the United States. It was 3:50 a. m. today when she soared over North Turo, a little town tucked on Cape Cod. \ It took the ZR-3, forty-two minut to make a landing after she was sight- ed at 9:17. After repeatedly circling the field, she finally turned her nose south and went over a dense grove of trees to a distance of about half a mile from the field. Then she turned back and headed slowly for the cen- ter of the field, and suddenly all her motors ceased humming. She ap- peared to stand poised in the air. Then she slowly descended, touching the ground at exactly 9:55. Year-Old Baby Drowns. CLINTON, Ind., Oct. 15.—Mrs. Sam- uel Vorak was near prostration today as the result of the death of her year- old-son, Thomas Robert, whose body was found hanging over the edge of a large bucket of water in which the baby’s head was submerged. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second<class matter September 21, 1923, at the Pout Office at Chicago, [limols under the Act of March 8, 1979. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924 BAI cep 790 HE DOES NOT KNOW ABOUT COMMUNISM By C. E. RUTHENBERG ey Executive Secretary, Workers Party ae above would have been the best title for thi series of anti-Red articles which are being published in ih« capitalist press by the former government spy, Jacob Spolansky If Spolansky learned so little about the Communist move- ment, as is indicated in this article, during his six years of spy- ing for the federal government wasted its money. then indeed the government Spolansky tells us that the Communist movement gained its impetus in the formation of the left wing of the St. Louis conven- tion of the socialist party in 1917 and Debs and Berger were the leaders of this left wing! At least the spy Spolansky will make Victor Berger snort. He, the leader of thé left wing at St. Louis! Victor Berger, who was bitterly op- posed to the anti-war resolution fore- ed thru the St. Louis convention by the left wing, and only accepted. the resolution when he saw there was no hope of beating it, has been raised to the position of the leadership of a movement he opposed. What Happened at St. Louis. In view of the putting over of the Dawes’ plan by the American capital ists, thus preparing the ground for a new imperialist war into which this country will inevitably be drawn, it is worth while to recall what happen- ed at the St. Louis convention of the socialist party about which spy Spol- ansky makes such a ridiculous blun- der. z The left wing socialists in the St. Louis convention stood upon the Com- munist principle that the workers should refuse to fight in the imperial. ist war of the capitalists. The Am- the world war in order to protect their ‘profits and investments. The left wing socialists at St. Louis said: “We will carry on a consistent and persist- ent opposition to this war. We will oppose with all our strength conscrip- tion laws which make us fight for the capitalists’ profits. If we can mobilize enough power, if we can draw into the struggle with us great masses of workers, we will turn the fight against the war into a struggle against the government of the capitalists which _|forces us into the war and drive it from power and establish a workers’ government.” That was the left wing socialist pos- ition adopted at St. Louis. That is the Communist position today in re- gard to imperialist wars. When the next imperialist war for which the Dawes’ plan has prepared the ground, develops, it will be the Communist task to rally the working masses of this country against such a war. They will urge the workers to answer the new demand that they give their lives to help Morgan get his profits by end- ing the system of government and in- dustry which creates imperialist wars: But Victor Berger, as the leader, why, by that time Victor Berger will have joined his comrade, Noske, of the German social democratic party, as one of*the chief defenders of cap- italism! 3 From or to Russia. Spy Spolansky draws a vivid pic- ture of the flow of Russian propagan- dists into the United States. If he were really up in the spying business he would know that in place of Rus- sian Communists coming to the Unit- ed States, that the flow is in the other direction. Russian workers, many of them Communists, are shaking the dust of the United States from their heels. _ These workers have had their ex- perience with glorious American in- stitutions, They have found that Am- erican democracy is a fraud and a sham. They found that under this boasted democracy there was a spy system and police terrorism which could outdo ever? czarist Russia. Spy Spolansky and his like have taught them what a sham and a fraud Am- erican democracy is when workers at- tempted to express their ideas on, the assumption that there was such a thing as freedom of speech, freedom of press or freedom of assembly. The capitalist czars who run American in- dustry taught them that they could only work when the capitalist czars (Continued on Page 2.) FOSTER SPEAKS IN NEW YORK AT TWO MEETINGS Put More Speed Into Aggressive Campaign (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The two mass meet to be ad- dressed by Will Z. Foster, Communist candidate for presi- dent, in New York and Brook- lyn, on Sunday, 19, will be the biggest events in the agres- sive Communist campaign be- ‘ing conducted here by the Workers Party. . Foster ba oak the New 5 . and Park Ave., at 2 p. m., and the New York comrades are expecting a large overtiow meeting. Invades New York State. Foster has just commetced a tour of the principal citiés of the East. The Communist presidential candi- date held an enormous meeting in Detroit, Tuesday night, in the House of the Masses, and was to speak in Toledo last night. After conducting campaign meetings in Cleveland and Rochester, Foster will come to New York for his two Sunday meetings. Sunday night, at 8 p. m., Foster speaks at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn. The famous Freiheit chorus, under the leadership of Lazar Wiener, will sing, as will the Lithuanian Aido chorus. The branch that has secured the most subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER will receive a special red banner. Foster will make the presen- tation. Big Musical Program. At the Sunday afternoon meeting in the New Star Casino Comrades Juliet Stuart Poyntz, William EB. Weinstone and Charles Krumbein will speak in addition to Foster. A splendid musical program has also been arranged. M’ANDREWS RUNS FROM FIGHT ON SCHOOL TEACHERS William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago's schools, failed to appear at a joint meeting of the committee on rules: and of the committee on ad- ministration yesterday, at which a dis- cussionwas to take place on the ques- tion of abolishing the system of secretly marking the examination pa- pers of teachers, Demand McAndrew Appear. Margaret Haley, business agent of the Teachers’ Federation, which has been leading the fight against the secret marking system, had been granted permission by the board to present her case and to question the superintendent about statements and reports which he has made and whcih are unfavorable to the rank and file teachers. Miss Haley told the committee that she refused to take the matter up until Superintendent McAndrew, who (Continued on Page 2.) r’s Trail t SRITISH BLACK SHIRTS REAGH 100,000 FIGURE Armed Reactionaries to Crash Labor (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, Oct. 15.—British Fascisti numbering 100,000 un- der the presiaency of Brigadier General Blakeny, appeared to- day as a new factor in the Brit- | ish elections. Tho the .Fascisti claim their part in the election will be non-} partisan, a claim substantiated by the fact that they are not getting up any candidates, it is known the organization is anta- gonistic to labor. | The Fascisti say their part in the 2lection will be confined to putting lown election disorders. They deny | uny affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. Black Shirts Fail. In their role as peace maker, the | black shirted followers of General | Blakeny failed to stop disorders at Whitechapel last night which forced Sir John Simon, liberal leader to cur- | tail his address. | The laborites claim the Fascisti are | a “eomic opera organization. ” | Former Premier Baldwin was to | open his campaign at Queens hall this | afternoon. A combination of liberals | and tories is seeking to avoid w tri-| hesitation is saying, however, that we ahgular contest with labor in doubt- ful districts and if their object of placing only one candidate to oppose labor nominees in such districts is | carried out, their leaders predict, la- bor will lose thirty seats in the next parliament. Communists Active. The Communists are carrying on a vigorous, campaign in the elections and while supporting the labor party against the tories and liberals, point out the treacherous character of the so-called labor government and its open alliance with the capitalist class. The actions of such men as J. H. Thomas, Ramsay MacDonald, and Philip Snowden, the Communists de- clare, show them to be just as loyal to the British empire as the Fascisti and much more servicable to the aapi- talists in their present dilemma. Thomas’ Speech. .The speech of the colonial secretary in which he threatened war upon the Turkish Republic, has aroused a great wave of anger thruout England. Since MacDonald came into office it has been amply demonstrated that chang- es of government mean nothing to the foreign policy of the British govern- ment. It pursues the even tenor of its way under tory, liberal or “la- bor” governments. Political observers, see in Thomas’ speech a bid for office under whatever administration comes into power after the next general elections. Referring to Turkey, Thomas said: “I want to make it clear to the for- eigner and to the world that, in the defense, maintenance, and preserva- tion of its rights, privileges, and ob- ligations of this empire, no genera! election, no party difference will al- low those who are charged with re- sponsibility for this government to be unmindful of their obligations. “Events have occurred which are very disturbing to his majesty’s gov- ernment, I don’t know whether the political/situation itself is responsible for the incidents, but if they were I only hope that the reference I have now made, not only on behalf of the people of the government but on be- half of the people of this country, will not be misunderstood.” . Astounding Growth. While the labor party officials make little of the Fascisti, the announce- ment that the membership of this or- ganization has reached one hundred thousand, caused consternation among the rank and file of the workers. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. | government operative, had been shad- | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, RIS PLAIN LIAR Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents STUFF BY SPOLANSKY IN THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS SHOWN UP AS “WORTHLESS TRASH” By MANUEL GOMEZ Jacob Spolansky now stands convicted out of his own mouth. The very first of the anti-red articles written by this discharged federal fink for the Chicago Daily News, proves con- clusively that he is either a perjurer or at least an ambitious liar. And the Daily News stand the antedeluvian era of ne tion and its blind hatred of the Ss exposed as a survival from paperdom, its eagerness for sensa- Communists having led it into paying out thousands of dollars for worthless trash. Spolansky’s much-advertised initial article, which the News played up with an eight-column the story of a secret meeting > on Nov. 7; 1918, at which the American Communist move- ment was founded. Ahead of His Time. Spolansky declares that he as a owing the participants for weeks pre-| ceding the meeting. He relates real- istically how he followed one of them to the meeting place in the Mid-City Bank building and overheard all that} took place thru a crack in the door} of the room, But according to Spol-| ansky’s sworn testimony in the Ruth-| enberg case, he did not become a member of the department of justice until nearly six months after the date when he says he listened in on this little conference. If he did not com- mit perjury in the Berrien county | court, he was in the army on the date | mentioned, and could not possibly | have seen’ and heard what he says he| did. | The DAILY WORKER now chal-| lenges the Chicago Daily News to| print the truth about Spolansky’s ini- tial story. Below are given citations | from the court record which the News | is at liberty to verify. We have no expect the News to ignore us. It will continue to publish Spolan- sky’s lies, and perhaps. even to syn- dicate them thruout the country, be- cause it is more interested in protect- ing its investment in the matter than in doing justice to the revolutionary working class movement. To print the truth about Spolansky’s first ar- ticle would be to make a laughing stock of itself and discredit all the other “articles to come, articles for which the News has paid good money. Cite Spolansky’s Testimony. It wi] be remembered that Spolan- ‘sky, #ltho a federal operative, paid by the federal government and sup- posed to keep his hands off state af- fairs, was so anxious to “get” Williem Z. Foster, C. E. Ruthenbe;g and others | that, under the direction wf Berns, he arranged all {he details for the assgult | upon the Csmmunist Party conven- tion at Bridgeman, practically forcing! the local sheriff to. make the raid.| When called to the Witness stand in the Ruthenberg case, he gave a lengthy account of his career. The Labor Defense Council, which is con- ducting the Michigan defense, and which is collaborating with the DAILY WORKER in the present series of ar- ticles, has in its possession a comnt- plete copy of the record. Page 232 of the transcript of evi- dence shows that on Monday, April 23, 1923, Spolansky said under oath, in the cireuit court of Berrien county, (Continued on page 6) DAILY WORKER VERY POPULAR AT ST. LOUIS LA FOLLETTE MEETING , By ELLA REEVE BLOOR. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 15.— Six hundred special St. Louis campaign editions of the DAILY WORKER were sold here at the LaFollette meeting Tuesday night. Comrade jon, chairman of the publicity committee for the Gitlow meeting and Comrades Mrakis, Fogel, and Levin, of the Young Workers’ League, picketed the main doors of the LaFollette meeting with signs reading: “You read capitalist news- Now read the, only work- jaily paper in America.” Each paper contained the program of the Workers Party, and the work prob- ably gained numerous sympathizers ~ away from the LaFollette camp. streamer head, purports to be WOBBLIES ARE SEEKING UNITY IN CONVENTION Lone Liber Worker Is Sulking in Tent The convention of the Indus- trial Workers of the World was still busied yesterday with the report of the credentials com- mittee, after having absorbed practically all the delegates who first were inclined to adhere to the split convention called by Rowan and the other G. E. B, members who had applied to the capitalist courts for an in- junction, No one was at the hall at 180 W. Washingtan St., where J. A. Griffith had asked all delegates to gather, altho the hall had been paid for. At Emmet Memorial Hall it was stated that all delegates but one, from the lumber workers, had come into the convention. The whereabouts of this “Lonesome Lumberjack” is un- known. Similarly, the leaders of the Rowan group, Rowan, Bowerman, Griffith and the rest, are not present at the Emmet Memorial Hall. I. W. W. membérs, when asked if they were expected, declared that it was unlikely as the membership were very bitter against them. Fighting Doyle-Fisher. However, altho this group has failed in getting a split convention to start with, the delegates from the gnions controlled by them—altho not’ them- selves involved in the controversy, are fighting inside the convention to wipe out some of the stigma attached to their representatives on the G. E. B. by allegations of the Doyle-Fisher group, and to attack Doyle and Fisher for their conduct which, it is asserted led to the split. The demands, sixteen in number, which were made upon the convention as a price of continued unity, are quite lengthy and varied. Among them are the demand that delegates from both factions in the metal workers fe seated and that the report of the auditing committee, which found Rad- dock and Bowerman short some $800 in accounts, and upon which as par- tial evidence they were expelled from their, industrial union, be declared void and their books subject to a new auditing. Will Elect New Delegate. The opposition to Doyle and Fisher won a point, or so it was considered by Doyle and Fisher, in the unseating of Mike Gapper as delegate from the small indystrial unions, on the grounds that he was involved in the controversy. These unions are plan- ning to.elect a new delegate. Tom Doyle, the general secretary: treasurer, told the DAILY WORKER reporter that the whole convention, from first to last, may be closed to all but I. W. W. members. This is an- unprecedented procedure in the I. W. W. In the days of its early strug- gles, it made no effort to conceal its procedure from the whole working class which is asked to support it. Doyle declared that the delegates which had come’ up from the Wash- ington street hall, were there only “to filibuster, make trouble and delay proceedings.”