The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 2

Page Two ANALGANATE LOCAL HOLDS BIG MEETING Anniversary of Union Is Celebrated The tenth anniversary of the organization of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America was celebrated by Local 39 of the Amalgamated at Douglas Park Auditorium Tuesday night. Several hund- red members of the local heard their officers and those who took part in the formation of the Amalgamated tell of the militant spirit with which the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers was formed. But just as there were two elements in the United Garment Workers of America, the old organization of the A. F. of L. which refused to organize the unorganized garment workers, Tuesday night’s meeting de- monstrated that there is the same element of reaction with- in the Amalgamated which caused the split in 1914, Schneid Rang the Bell. Hyman-Schneid, who woke the au- dience up after the LaFoleltte fol- lowers had put them to sleep, spoke as one of the original members of the Amalgamated who has retained his militant spirit. “Woe still face a great task,” Schneid told the garment work- ers. “The war is now over and the manufacturers want to take back what we have gained by our sweat and blood. Let the elements that started the fight—the militants—continue to lead the fight against the entire cap- italist class.” Judge Jacob Panken was the man who engineered the legal end of the split from the corrupt U. G. W. of A., Schneid declared. As Schneid spoke of the former aggressive spirit of Pan- ken, militants in the audience reeall- ed how at the present time Panken, now a judge, has formed an alliance with the Gompers’ crowd in support- ing the middle class representative, LaFollette, for president. Panken has fallen by the wayside and is now in the same political canip with those very corrupt elements within the A. F. of L. which he fought in 1914. The Young Militants. “The real force ™ founding the Amalgamated Clothing Workers was the younger bn We did not care to give any more of that blood to the master class because of the neglect of a few of our officials,” Schneid con- tinued. . “The old officials of the U. G. W. of A. belonged to a school that be- trayed the workers and sold them out to the capitalist class. We youngsters in spfrit, with the same spirit as that Manifested in the revolution of 1905 fn Russia, in which some of us took part, are the ones who formed the Amalgamated.” Samuel Levine, general manager of the Amalgamated for Chicago, who “has been charged with not fighting aggressively to keep up the standard of wages and hours established by the Amalagmated, spoke of the Nashville convention. Levine has also declared for LaFollette, as have Gompers and) the corrupt officials of the United Gar- ment Workers against whose tyranny Levine fought ten years ago. Levine + told how the tailors of Chicago were organized by the Chicago Amalgamat- ed. Good and Bad. Speakers told of the great days of the Amalgamated, when meetings at- » tended by thousands of garment work- ers were held, when the labor bank ‘was established, and when the agree- ment was signed with the manufaé turers. But they also spoke of enter- Ing the political field with LaFollette, ‘who has drawn into his camp the cor- rupt labor fakers as well as several millionaires who are paying the ex- penses of his campaign. Poison Secret Service Agent. ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 15.—Police here today were investigating the poisoning of J. EH. Shepard, 34, said to be an United Staets secret service agent, to determine whether or not the poison was administered by per- sons he is supposed to have been en- gaged in trailing. Shepard collapsed on @ street car and was critically {ll for ‘hours, but it is believed now he ‘will recover. He is said to have been investigating a case in Indiana and Ohio. ; : PHILADELPHIA PLANS CELEBRATION FOR 7TH SOVIET ANNIVERSARY Workers Party In Philadelphia has made arrangements for a huge celebration of the seventh anniver sary of the Russian revolution for Friday, Nov. 7, at the Labor Lycq um, 6th and Brown Sts. C. E. Ruthenberg will be the main speak- er with several. speakers in. other languages. A classic musical pro- gram Ie being prepared for the oo- ah i il aoc wht rile RUTHENBERG SHOWS WHAT THE POLICE SPY, SPOLANSKY, DOES ABOUT COMMUNISM NOT KNOW (Continued from page 1) could make profits out of them, that they must accept the conditions that the-czars of industry found possible to impose. That when the capitalist czars could make no profits they could go out on the streets and starve. These Russian workers “know that the .dictatorship of the proletariat which rules there regards and re- spects the rights of the workers and uses its power to suppress the exploit- ers. They know that in the Russian factories the workers stand erect, free men, participating in the management and direction of the factory, molding a new industrial*order which is end- ing forever their status of wage slav- ery and creating a new social order of free men And the best answer to Spy Spolan- sky’s stteam of Russian agitators flowing into the United States is that they are not needed. American in- dustry is producing Communist agita- tors so fast that it would be unneces- sary to import them even if there were agitators who could be imported. It is the experience of the workers in the steel mills, on the railroads, in the mines, that is making them the en- emies of the capitalist system. Spy Spolansky and the higher-ups of the governmental machine which exists to]. protect cApitalism might deport every Communist in the United States, na- tive or foreign born, and six months later Spy Spolansky could write an: other romance about the “Red Men- ace” because American industry would create more Communists and they would organize themselves for the struggle against the capitalist sys- tem. In the Open. There is one little slip which Spy Spolansky made in the second install- ment of his romance which we are very much surprised at. After drawing a lurid picture of se- eret conspiracy for the purpose of overthrowing the government by force and violence our crusader against the “reds” is forced to admit in describing the organization and work of the Com- munist Party in 1919, “they worked in the open.” “They worked in the open!” That one little phrase by Spy ‘Spolansky is like a bright shaft of sunlight cut- ting thru all the murky clouds of half-truths, misrepresentations, distor- tions and untruths of which Spolan- sky's efforts to manufacture the “great conspiracy” for the delectation of the gullible capitalist newspaper readers consists. “They worked in the open!” Yes, the Communists held a public conven- tion at which they organized their party. They established their head- quarters openly. They published their newspapers and sent them broadcast thru the mails. They had branches organized all over the country holding their meetings in public halls inviting the workers to visit them. They held hundreds, yes, thousands of mass | meetings to which all workers were linvited to come and hear what Com- |munism stood for and what it was fighting for. Yes, Spy Spolansky, ¥. vocated publicly that the workers should end the rule of their class ‘en- emy in control of the government They advocated publicly the end of the profit system of industry, they ad- vocated publicly the Communist prin- ciples that the capitalist system must give way to a new and better social and that the dynamic force which must and would bring this change is the working class struggling as a class against their exploiters and oD pressors, “They worked in the open!” Yes, they are working in the open in spite of the black hundred. terroristic me- thods of Spy Spolansky and his. kind. The Communist movement in the United States is today fighting in the open. The Workers Party is a Com- munist Party—the Communist Party in the United States. It advocates and fights for its principles openly before the eyes of the whole working class of the United States. a conspiracy, not secret ma- chinations are‘the methods of Commu- nism, The Communists are proud to stand before the whole working class advocating and upholding their prin- ciples and fighting for the support of those principles by the working mass- es who thru their power will give them life and reality. It is not a conspiracy which is thundering at the doors of capitalism, but an invincible social force. ADVANCE DATE OF RUTHENBERG CASE HEARING May Come Up Today at Lansing, Mich. (Special to The Daily Worker) LANSING, Mich., Oct. 15.— The date of the hearing in the case of the state of Michigan against C. E. Ruthenberg, exec- utive secretary of the Workers Party, whose appeal aganist HARPER SCHOOL “PARENTS REPORT BOARD'S MOVE To strike or not to strike will te determined tonight by the West Engle- wood parents of pupils in the Harp- er school district at a meeting at the Auburn Methodist Hpiscopal church, Sixty-fourth and Paulina Sts. at 8 p. m. The parents will report to the meeting whether the portables put up by the school board meet the nec- essary requirements. This morning the 400 children in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades, who were ousted last week to make room for the new junior high classes, will re- port at the Harper school and the re- ception they receive will determine future developments in the parents’ fight. Frank McGarr, one of the parents and an active participant in the fight, told the DAILY WORKER that from all appeafances the school board is making an attempt to meet the situ- ation. Whether these portables will take care of all the children remains to be seen today. “We are giving the mayor an opportunity to make good on his promise to get the board to take care of our children in the Harp- er school. Under no conditions will we accept their old proposal’ to send children to the distant school.” William K. Peak, prosident of the West Englewood Lions’ Club,-who has been negotiating with President Moderwell and Superintendent Mc- Andrew of the board of education, when asked about the latest develop- ments in the strike said the meet- ing tonight would decide. To the DAILY WORKER reporter's question whether he thought the portables would be sufficient to care for all the children he replied: “Well, they can put up more, can’t they? And we'll see to it that they do.” ‘ School officials have been watching the parents’ progr in their threat to go thru with the strike. It is ex- pected the results of tonight's meet- ing will definitely decide future ac- was immediately sentenci conviction of the charge of “as- sembling with” the Communist Party at Bridgeman comes be- fore the supreme court, has been advanced and the hearing will now take place either to- morrow afternoon or Friday morning. Keep Up the Attack, A_ news item appearing here de- clares “It is understood that, if the Ruthenberg conviction is affirmed by the Supreme Court, the other Com- munists, including William Z. Foster, will be brought to trial.” The defense contends in the brief filed with the Supreme Court that there can be no such crime as “as- sembling with.” The prosecution evi- dently was unable to meet the legal arguments of the appeal brief and sub- “they worked in the open.” They ad-) stituted for this a denunciation of the defense declaring of Ruthenberg’s attorney's argument that the criminal syndicalist law is unconstitutional that “he (Ruthenberg) should spurn any assistance that document might afford him." In the light of the long and earnest arguments by President Coolidge and candidate Davis about the protection afforded every citizen by the constitu- tion it is rather a new departure for an attorney for the state to argue that a defendant should not raise a constitutional question in his defense and protest against illegal action by officers of the law. McAndrew Rufis From Fight on School Teachers (Continued from page 1) has been instrumental in preventing the proposal from coming up before, consented to meet her on the floor of the board. Make Request in McAndrew. A motion that McAndrew be re- quested to appear at the next meeting of the committee on administration and fight the matter out was introduc- ed by James Mullenbach, and carried by the committees, This means that McAndrew will be forced etiher to present evidence that he has some backing for the ite- ments which he has made, alleging that teachers are backing him in his fight, or else gdmit that his claims to support among»the teachers are pre- tenses, ‘Teachers are Present. Large numbers of teachers crowded into the rooms of the committee dur- ing yesterday's session. They are anxious to have a show-down on this question by the board which has up to the present time been following a policy of evasion and of trickery, Sentenced to’ “The Chair.” CROWN POINT, Ind., Oct. 15-—A criminal court jury which deliberated less than two hours today found Peter Vergolini guilty of first degree mur- der for the slaying of Anna Tomacich after an attack at Gary, Ind., and he eae + tion, thus d HE DAILY WORKER CONSTABULARY MUST FIND AN EXCUSE TO LIVE Private Organization Is Shown Superfluous By KARL’ REEVE The “Department of Con- [coves of Illinois,” which is a private organization, expends most of its energies, when not taking part in militaristic de- monstrations or aiding the Ku Klux Klan in its lawlessness, giving out propaganda for the distribution of guns to private citizens, The department of constab- ulary has but one legal right under the criminal code, per- mission to arrest violators of the law. No Exouse to Exist. But every private citizen having that right, the constabulary is hard put to it for finding an excuse for ex- istence. ' “The deparment of constabulary was started with the one intention of preventing crime,” said Judge John J. Dreher, of Brookfield, in trying to give the members something to think about. But lieutenant Doehne, mem- ber of the constabulary, gave a very different reason for the existence of the constabulary, when he favored the glorification of war on Defense Day, Sept. 12." Doehne said it would be “good advertisement” to take part, but everyone who had the “inside dope,” knew the constabulary was performing its real purpose in drum- ming up war spirit. “Nothing can advertise the constab- ulary more than a five-hundred-piece band marching in a parade,” said lieutenant Doehne, just before the De- fense Day program was put over with the aid of the constabulary. In spite of the fact that the constab- ulary declares its sole purpose is to prevent crime, the entire organization was thrown into the militaristic De- fense Day activities. In fact, had it not been for the 2,500 taking part in Defense Day proceedings, the affair in Chicago would have been a sorry failure indeed. The “inspectors” of the Chicago “division” and “divisions” from sur- rounding towns were called together on. August 22, at the executive offi- ces, 104 W. Monroe St., “To decide the best plan for getting out their men for the assemblages of the con- stabulary on Sept. 12.” Talk for Defense Day. The president, James R. Howe, and Mr. Laventhal, whom the state con- stabulary is running as their candi- date for associate judge of the muni- cipal court on the democratic ticket, made speeches at this meeting. Howe spoke on “The! birth of defense day and its meaning,” denouncing the “Reds and pacifists,” as if they were in the same camp. “The Defense day test is defined to be @ mobilization test of patriotism and is not covered with 4 f mask,” sayé the Constabulary News, official organ of the department of constabu- lary. “The largest active band inthe world, the department of constabi- lary band will play patriotic music to nearly ten thousand volunteers who will feast at a huge barbecue, prepared by members of the Women’s Overseas Service League. One of the Bands, the DAILY WORKER learns from an official of the constabulary, which took part in the Mobilization day parade under the name of the department of constabu- lary was in reality the Ku Klux Klan band which wanted to participate but did not want to come out openly as the klan band. The constabulary is always willing, the DAILY WORKER learns, to serve as a convenience for the Ku Klux Klan. Another example of sith co-opera- tion with the klan by the constabulary is instanced in the activities of S. Glegn Young, liquor raider. “Any member who is guilty of imprudent use of stars issued by the authorized officers of this corporation, or during the lifé of his membership shall be convicted in any court of law of any ¢rime may at the discretion of the board of commissioners be deemed to have forfeited his membership, and all evidence of his authority as a member of this corporation,” says the law of the constabulary. Young Has Lawless Record. §. Glenn Young the klan raider in Southern Illinois, has not only been convicted in a court of law for crime, but has taken part in sevéral brutal murders of Southern Tllinois officers of the law. Young has carried on much unlawful activity, raiding the homes of peaceful miners, throwing them out on the street, and wrecking their furniture, his solé authority be- ing the constabulary star. Young is now under charges in the Herrin court house, He has evaded his bond and is a fugitive from justice, / Yet the department of constabulary takes pride in advertising Glenn Young as an officer of their organiza- their partiality Klan as Victor Lawson who the articles, } of U.S. Capitalism Today; But What of the Morrow? By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "TODAY: the Trans-Atlantic Air Liner ZR-3 rides at anchor in its hangar in the United States. It made history when it spanned the distance from Friedrichshafen, in Ger- dae to Lakehurst, U. S. A., in less than four days. t sailed more than 5,000 miles in 80 hours. At this rate it could girdle the globe in twq weeks, compared to the months required tn the recent airplane flight. The ZR-3 establishes a new world's record for a continuous flight. But the most interesting fact about the ZR-3 is that it was “Made in Germany,” and that among the 32 men who brought the ship to this country 28 were Germans. There were only four Americans aboard. * * * ° We hear no protests from the super-jingoes of the American Legion that the ZR-3 was made and manned by . Germans. The anti-Hun propaganda is stilled. Instead the super-patriotic press cheers. In the tumult it is forgotten that the United States is buying the product of the brains of the enemy of 1917-18. ‘ Representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy and Bel- gium, in “the Council of Ambassadors,” at first objected to the Germans being allowed to build the air dreadnaught. France especially is frightened at every new German achieve- ment. But all these nations are pretty much under the thumb of Dollar Rule in Europe, and U.S. Ambassador Herrick finally secured their consent, on the promise that this would be the first and the last. ° The ZR-3 is an instrument of war. It becomes part of the armor of American capitalism. It will be used to defend things as they are. This is not the first time that reaction in this country has used Germans in war. It will be remembered that the British king, with his tory allies, trying to maintain his rule over the American colonists, in 1776, hired Hessian soldiers, in Germany, to cross the Atlantic and do his fighting for him in this country. They were professional soldiers, hired to slaughter their fellow human beings at a stated priced. They were paid mercenaries hired to do the bidding of re- action. * * * * ‘ Enslaved under the Morgan-Dawes plan, the Germans today become the mercenaries, once more, of whatever nation has the price to buy them. The United States has riches. With a nation fifty per cent stunted in mind, and children rushed onto the treadmill of industry before their time, America must turn to the genius of Germany, not only for the products of peace, but for the instruments of war. But it is possible for other nations to do the same. Japan has just purchased a huge air monster from the Ger- ans. Under the Versailles Treaty, it was impossible for the ermans to manufacture this killer for the Japs on German - territory. So the wily Germans moved their factory over the border into Denmark. But this condition will change. Slaves rebel. A nation cannot long be held in chains. The workers in hereipint are merely recuperating for an- other blow, not, only against their gwn masters, but against all oppressors. The victory of the German workers will bring Germany under the banners of the world social revolution. That will mean no more air dreadnaughts to bolster Japanese militarism, from Germany. It will mean that the whole genius of the German work- ing class will be enlisted for the workers’ world struggle for power. In that struggle the toilets of Germany in the work- shops and in the field, will not be the paid Hessians of ruth- . less masters. They will not work and fight for a price. : Instead they will be the willing, anxious, eager Soldiers of the Red Soviet Star. German workers do not willingly turn out instruments of death for the United States, Japan and other capitalist nations. Hessian soldiers never fight because they like it. Mercenaries must always be driven into battle. Nations that have been compelled to use mercenaries found themselves on the brink of decay. The Romans found that out. The ZR-3, in the United States, is a bo of crumb- ling American capitalism. It is a promise of the greater achievements the whole German working class will be ca- pable of once it is really released under Soviet Rule for creative labor. : : The rich fields of the Russian Soviet iy beats solve the food problem of the growing World Social Revolution. he mechanical.genius of the German nation will be won for the World Social Revolution, under the German Soviet Republic. Thus will begin the first real massing of the forces of industry for the benefit of mankind. The Communist social order is forging the weapons with which it will build, out of capitalist chaos, the new civilization. Capitalism will po down under the. blows of German industry linked with Russian agriculture under Soviet Rule. That is the message the ZR-3 brings to America, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, Pei Fu must be in a pretty bad fix when he is obliged to send several hundred monkeys to the front in order to encourage’ his demoralized troops. It is reported that the mon- keys instead of fighting like the human monkeys, took to the trees and chased squirrels while the poor Chin- ese workers'on both sides were kill- ‘ing each other, one side for the honor and profit of the American dollar, the other side for the Japanese yen. *e AKBY Spolansky says we have so. many members now that they cannot be counted. He says revolu- tion is the “extreme” of democracy. He says Victor Berger is mainly responsible for the spread of Com- munism in America, He says—but —_ ‘HAT husbands can be dispensed with, without any serious impair- ment of comfort, is advanced in an insurance ,company advertisement, running in the current issue of a New York socialist magazine that makes @ special appeal to colored people. “My husband died from pneumonia,” runs the ad, “but he left me a policy in the company, ——-———, 80 today I’m sitting pretty.” see ‘ BE must be as versatile as progres- the war. He is now running on the LaFollette ticket, supports Small, hates Dawes, is for prohibition in Podunk and for heavy wines and dark beer in Milwankee. He is the man wanted in the following advertis ment: ‘ “WANTED—To complete band, | then he is not nearly as an idiot | clarinet solo, cornet.and French horn, him for]men who understand rallroad freight] t pales bad tehcerr lin? oi Res ined Rh ot SALE NS NN A IL ORRMALR ROED HE AREA SNS EE sive republican who supported | p: Thursday, October 16, 1924 Germans Are Hessians KILLING OF NEGRO MAY BE INVESTIGATED Crowe Aid Promised te Look Into Case First assistant State’s Attor- ney Gorman has promised a thoro investigation into the lynching of the Negro, William Bell, and a speedy sitting of the Grand Jury, George C. Adams, attorney for the family of the murdered man, told the DAILY WORKER yesterday. Two mass meetings are be- ing held by the Negroes tonight, one on the South Side at the corner of 48th and Wabash and the other on the West Side, at 1221 Blue Island Ave. Protests will be made against conditions now prevailing among the Ne- groes living in Chicago. Thomas Clark, one of the witnesses who identified Otto Epstein, night watchman in a sacramental wine shop on 14th street, who has been held to the grand jury on charges of murder. ing Bell, has been intimidated and threatened at his home, it is reported to the DAILY WORKER, Threatened With Violence. Clark declares several auto loads of white thugs have driven up and down in front of his house every night, have disturbed his sleep and have threatened him with violence if Epstein is indicted by the grand jury. Upon request of attorneys for Bell's family, an extra squad of po- lice have been detailed by chief Col- lins to cover the 16th district. An organization has been formed among the Negroes, called the Peo- ple's Protective Circle, to protect the lives of the Negroes against future outrages. Robert 8S. Ephriam is presi- dent of this organization. A meeting was held last Sunday at 1221 Blue Island avenue, at which George ‘Adams and his law partner, J. N Baker, told of the coroner’s inquest over Bell. x Bell Was Innocent. Bell was brutally killed with a base ball bat by.a crowd of rowdies after two girls on the corner of Maxwell and Miller streets had reported to the sacramental wine shop that they were accosted by a Negro: It was admitted by the police that Bell was an in- nocent bystander who had nothing to do with the accosting of the girls. Harry Crawford, Negro keeper of a nearby pool hall who witnessed the killing, and who declared he was slugged by some of the men from the wine shop, testified at the inquest that two white men in a Ford car ac- costed the two girls and not a Negro. The two girls, Betty Goldblatt and Bertha Deutsch, admitted at the in- quest that they had been approached by two men in the Ford car, and claimed they had been later approach- ed by a Negro. Negroes Incensed. The Negro population of Chicago is especially incensed because of the long continued police intimidation ac- corded the Negroes on the south side. Many instances have been reported where Negroes have been held up and searched by policemen for no ap- ° parent cause. It is considered a crime, according to Negroes, for a Negro to be seen walking with a white girl. On the other hand, many Negroes report that they have been Slugged and beaten by white men, without seouring the slightest police protection. Negroes declare they are forced to live on the south side in hovels at exhorbitant rents, that it is diMoult for them to secure even the most menial work, that the capitalist sys- tem is destroying their home life, and that they are in danger of lynch- ing whenever they appear on the streets. - ‘ Seeks Pardon for Husband. 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