The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1924, Page 6

=~ = Se ay Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00... By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months, $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year 3 months $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL \ EB WILLIAM F. DU: MORITZ J. LOE Chicago, Illinois soreseee Editors, Business Manager fntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application <a 200 I. W. W. Convention Unity The sound judgment ®shown thus far by the delegates to the 16th general convention of’ the I. W. W. is to be applauded. They have apparently gotten together independently of the two groups of quarreling officials who were clearly more in- terested in maintaining their personal dignity by a formal approbation granted their actions by a section of the delegates with others excluded, than in complete -unity of the fighting membership. There are some good signs of leadership being shown in this struggle for unity. If reports are true there are, however, some delegates yet outside, refusing to participate un- less their demands are granted. What these de- mands are is unknown. These delegates are known, of course, to be bitterly opposed to the administra- tion of Doyle and Fisher. They may feel justified in continuing the split, in fact others now partic- ipating may feel with them that if complaints against Doyle and Fisher are going to be forgot- ten amid the justified condemnation of those who applied for an injunction, they may as well stay out. That Rowan does not anticipate with pleasure any facing of a united convention, is a matter of course. But the delegates have no part in his guilt. Tf the majority does not get chesty and arrogant, if the wise leadership shown thus far makes clear that the grievances against Doyle and Fisher, as well as those against Rowan and the rest, will find revolutionary justice, then these sincere worker delegates will understand that further resistance to unity is not fighting Doyle and Fisher, but fight- ing the I. W. W. A few elements try to cast suspicion upon the interest shown by the Communists in the I. W. W., by raising the cry of “outsiders.” Such a view is sectarian. However distinct an entity any labor organization, economic or political, may feel itself to be, it is—because its members are workers, an indivisible part of the whole working class. As such the Communists, who represent in the class struggle the revolutionary interests of no partic- ular section but of the whole proletariat, are in- tensely concerned in any vital struggle within any labor organization. This is the sole basis for the interest Commun- ists feel in the struggle now going on in the I. W. W. That some exciteable and perhaps mendacious elements in the I. W. W. confuse the issue by chat- ter about “outside” influences, does not disprove this fact. It only proves that the role of the revo- lutionary party is not understood. Exposed! We breathe a long sigh of relief. The first installment of the Daily News exposure of us has appeared. We were a little afraid that Jacob Spolansky, the author, whose name shows him to be of the purest American stock, would spoil the effect of his articles by immediately telling such thrilling secrets as the publication of the DATLY WORKER right here in Chicago and the candidacy of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow for the presidency and yice-presidency on a Communist program.. On the contrary, it is all too intrigueing for words. We are especially interested in the remark- able knowledge of Communist activities displayed by Spolansky when he writes of Dennis Batt as “a member of the executive committee of the Com- munist Party who is now lecturing on Communism thrnout the country.” This will puz somewhat the republican party machine in Detroit, Michigan, because Batt is run- ning for congress on the regular republican party ticket. He is not a member of the Communist Par- ty, but of the republican party. This slight but obvious inaccuracy has shaken our confidence in the veracity of the author of the articles. We may be unduly carping in our desire for truth, but we must confess that the ex- posure has been spoiled for us. We hope Spolansky will be more careful in the future and we warn him that if he tries to link the Communists up with Charley Bryan we will sue him for libel provided we can get permission from the Com- munist International to use the capitalist courts. There are a few things that even we long-suffer- ing Commynists will not stand for. The New Orleans chamber of commerce claims that a white worker can live for $153 per year and a Negro worker for, $119. After all the efforts made by the capitalists to°foment race prejudice and create division between white and black work- ers, it appears that they figure the difference is only $34. This ought to make it easy for both races to get together in the fight for higher wages and bettter working conditions. Sea ce TON Sah: Britain’s Troubles Troubles crowd thick and fast upon the British Empire: Mass discontent in India, uprisings in the Sudan, chaos in China and now comes what amounts to an open threat of war by the Turks for Mosul with its rich deposits of oil for which the British imperialists long and to secure which they have bombed and killed Turkish troops. Mosul belongs to Turkey. The forays of the British troops are in violation of international law and in direct contravention of the treaty with Tur- key. It is imperialistic brigandage of the most brazen kind. Premier MacDonald has approved of the methods used by his government in Mosub,.and is offended because the Angora government has written a sharp note concerning the murder of Turkish citizens. His pacifistic policies apply only, to bourgeois Christians. The Angora government, according to late dis- patches, is about to issue a general mobilization order as a result of the advance of British troops} and once more the Near East threatens ‘to break into flames. France, of course, is jubilant and is supporting the Turks because she is for anything that weakens England, her ancient and most dangerous enemy. Peace and imperialism are incompatible. The Bootlicking Bourgeoisie The visit of the sub-normal heir to the British throne has served to give the workers of Chicago some insight into the sickening sycophancy of the upper strata of its capitalist class. The Chicago Tribune staged the most disgusting exhibition. of. belly-crawling to royalty that has ever been seen in these parts. It devoted almost two pages to the exploits of the prince and the manner in which the females of the pork packing aris- tocracy. displayed their charms to the critical eye of a debauched royal youth. ‘ It inevitably calls to mind the parade of prosti- tutes that takes place during a convention of the Elks when the town is “thrown wide open.” We understand that the 400 has been split. wide open by the favoritism shown in choosing guests for the royal function and this shows that there was complete unanmity in the matter of boot- licking. The only protest comes from those whose drooling mouths were prevented from caressing the prince’s footwear. This is the element that denounces the Amer- ican workers because “they have forgotten what a day’s work is,” to quote the favorite expression of these gentry. “Back to 1776” in Wisconsin The names of Communist electors go on the Wis- consin ballot in spite of the opposition of the La- Follette forces and their open attempts to dis- franchise Communists in the homeland of La- Follette democracy. This incident occurs shortly after the courts had ruled LaFollette electors off the ballot in Calif- ornia and the injured champion of democracy for every place but Wisconsin emitted loud wails. LaFollette and his clique are for democracy and constitutional provisions as long as these pro- visions work for their interests. When the issue of the class struggle is clearly raised by the appearance of a revolutionary work- ing class party in the field the LaFolletteites con- yeniently forget the democratic principles whose sole defendérs they claim to be. “Back to 1776,” the LaFollette slogan; has a new sighificance if we only remember that in those an- cient days the whole working class of the thirteen colonies was deprived of the franchise. ° Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. Communist Journalism _ One of the important tasks of a Communist daily: paper is the development of Communist journalists. We have made some progress in this field »but not enough. In this connection we wish to call the attention of our correspondents .to what. we con- sider as fine an example of Communist reporting as we have ever published—a story of a Berger meeting in Kansas City, carried on page four of the DAILY WORKER for Tuesday, October 14. No name is signed to the article but in sporting parlance “it has everything else.” It -gives. the facts, it analyses them, it contrasts the reformist and the Communist viewpoint, it has punch and color and—it contains less than 500 words. It is good writing and can be atatied: with profit by most of our contributors. It is not un-Communistie to wit latals and in an interesting style. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER, Aid Paterson! A call for aid has been sent by the Paterson silk strikers to 1,200 working class unions and fraternal societies. In these bodies there are many Communists and wherever the call is read it must be made an issue. It is in this manner that the fighting front of the Paterson strike can be extended and thousands of workers {n other districts brought into the struggle. This is real Communist activity and the kind that counts. 16: RRB SALADS ANNI MERRIE EAR THE DAILY WORKER (Contindea trom from page 1) Michigan, that: his career as a detect- ive began in July, 1919, when he be- came a special agent of the depart- ment of justice, going from the army directly ‘into the secret service. ' “I have been a special agent since July, 1919,” he repeated. Q: “You have only been a special agent since the war?” A: “I have been a special agent since July, 1919.” Q: “How long were you in the army?” A: “I believe from April 1918 to July 1919,” “Chapter I,” of Spolansky’s Daily chapter of a ten-cent thriller. “Strangers embraced each other in wild abandon and pased on, singing and shouting. No time, this, gloom or proprieties.” It was Armis- tice day! No doubt in the world about the date. \Chicago—in no |ground” organization. News narrative starts off like the first | for | Armistice Day, No- ca.” learn about it. It.was in no sense a secret meeting; nor was the American Communist movement founded there —because the movement had already been founded, in the shape of an or- ganized left wing inside the socialist party. Some of the socialist party of- fices were located in the building, and the meeting .was a get-together of so- | cialists opposed to the reactionary Hillquit-Berger leadership. While a number of those present never be- came a part of the regular Commun- ist movement in this country, the meeting resulted in the formation of the Communist Propaganda League of sense an “under- Spolansky’s fairy tale is absurd |from start to finish, He speaks con- ‘fidingly of Alexander Stoklitsky, as a man who “had been sent here by Trotzky for the express purpose of spreading propaganda and furthering the Communist idea thruout Ameri- Stoklitsky. had been living in vember 11, 1918. Spolansky repeats it |New York for eleven years before the a number of times to make sure.|appearance of even a trace of the The entire scene is depicted with a/organized left wing movement. vividness that fixes it definitely in the memory. Lloyd Doesn't Smoke Cigars. Even. the minutest details of the Only one man took no joy in the|story are out of harmony with sober celebration. With a squr look on his}reality. For instance, Lloyd’s cigar. surly face he alighted from his auto-| Lloyd never had a cigar in his mouth. mobile, “dismissed the chauffeur with]}He smoked cigarettes, one after an- a nod, and, after pausing to light ajother—and when Spolansky declares cigar, picked his way carefully across}he had been following Lloyd for the sidewalk to the building entrance. | weeks, he certainly does not do credit Here he paused again and looked|to his own powers of observation. about, then opened the door and went quickly inside.” Those who read the present series of articles in the DAILY WORKER This was William Bross Lloyd, the} will agree that its capitalist contem- villain in the piece, “to whom,” Says | porary, the Daily News, deserves the erudite, Spolansky, “may be at-|scant praise for hooking up with such tributed in large part the founding of}|a discredited sneak as Jacob Spolan- the Communist movement in the Unit-)sky. The News refers to Spolansky ed States,” The Truth About the Meeting. as a former agent of the department of justice. It does not say that he As a matter of fact, there was a|has been kicked out of the depart- meeting in ‘the Mid-City Bank build-}ment as an undesirable character. ing that day, but it was not the sort|Spolansky was one of a group of 60 of meeting written up so luridly for] finks and gunmen, holdovers from the the Chicago Daily News. Farrington Caught Selling (Continued trom from page 1) love with the bosses as the officials of the union and they gave the mili- tant Nick a clean bill of health. Farrington's explanation of how Perkovitz violated the union rules was nauseating, and disgusted many who until then had some respect for him. The way he lit into the coal digger and defended the boss robbed him of every shred of working class decency in the eyes of his audience. Now it is our turn to prove that Farrington holds the laws of the union sacred only when ‘he can use them against a political enemy who is anxious to fight the boss. When the laws stand in the way of his own material inter- ess, they go by the board. Violated Constitution. There is a provision in the miners’ constitution which reads as follows: “Local unions, individual members and all other persons are hereby pro- hibited from using the name of our or- ganization for the purpose of further- ing the interests of any political party or aspirant for political office, except for such legislative offices as are pro- vided for in the International consti- tution.” This is quite explicit. No doubt the paragraph was originally inserted to prohibit union officials from trading their influence over the rank and file of the miners to the capitalist par- ties. But Farrington honored this law in the breach and not in the ob- servance, 3 Sold Out to Democrats. In the year 1916, Col. Frank L. Smith of Dwight, Illinois, was‘a candi- date for governor on the democratic ticket. Farrington’ saw here an op- portunity to make some real money by selling the miners’ votes. He sent out a letter endorsing Smith and con- demning Lowden, Smith's republican opponent. The letter was written on the offi- cial stationery of the United Mine Workers of America, District 12, with Frank Farrington’s ie and address at the top. It was dated July 26, 1916 and reads in part as follows: “COLONEL FRANK L, SMITH, “Dwight, Illinois. “Dear Colonel: I employ this means of endorsing your candidacy for governor. I trust you will be nominated in the primary that will be held Sept, 13. There are many rea- sons why I do so. “Having lived the greater part of my life in the county adjoining the one in which you have lived the greater part of your life, I know of your struggles from a common worker with your hands to a position in life that makes you a worthy can didate for governor of our great state. “Born without a patrimony, com- pelled from your earliest youth to depend upon your own brawn and brain, with no but an abun- dance of courage, an honest heart and Spolansky | vicious did not, have to do any shadowing to’ the secret service, who were fired re- Burns-Daugherty regime in cept your own pluck, integrity and Splendid ability. With the qualities that have enabled you to do this, with your broadness of vision, liberality of action, strength of character and your penchant for justice and square dealing, surely you would make an ideal governor. “Now, I am going to tell you of somé material reasons why you should be nominated and elected. “First of all, let me say our pri- mary law was designed expressly for the purpose of freeing the people of boss rule and machine tactics, and to place the nomination and election of public officials directly in the hands of the people. So far as I know, you are the only candidate for governor who has approached the people solely on your own responsibility and merits and who is not dominated by or sub- ject to dictation from a clique 6f po- litical bosses. “Colonel Lowden has the Thomp- son-Lundin crowd of Cook county poli- ticians behind him, while Mr. Hull is dominated by the Deneen-West-crowd, each of which factions is fighting des- perately to control the political destin- ies of the state, and each of which is interposing its political power be- tween the people and the people’s right fo nominate and elect as the primary law was intended they should nominate and elect. “He who is supported by the bosses shall be held accountable by the bosses, but he who goes directly to the people shall be accountable to the people only, and he will, therefore, be more careful of the people’s in- eee ee eae a carrer cently in the” attempt ‘to institute something liké a pretense of decency in the affairs of the department of justice, Thrown out of a job, the resourceful Spolansky bethought himself of the numerous Red scares and bomb plots which he and his Burns associates had used so profitably in the days gone by. He decided to be a great feature writer, an expert on “the Red men- ace.” With the help of someone more literate than he, he quickly worked over the mess of junk. And so the series of articles on the Chicago plots of the reds was born. He peddiled trash from newspaper office to news: paper office, but his stories had long since been thoroly discredited. No- body accepted him, nobody would trust him, Read the DAILY WORKER. It remained for the Chicago Daily. News to purchase and publish these silly “mystery stories,” ‘which had been rejected everywhere else and which were known to be as notorious a collection of fakes as has yet. been conjured up. That the News could do this proves to, what lengths a cap- italist newspaper will go to confuse the workers. ‘Workers will never find their interests reflected in the cap- italist press. They should read the DAILY WORKER, a labor newspaper, pledged to the interests .of labor. In my previous articlé I pointed out that fakery is no new thing with Spolansky, nor with the school of sleuthing to whith he belongs. In January, 1919, he tried to establish himself as an anti-Red hero by pull- ing off a flashy raid on the Technical School maintained by the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia, an organization of Russians which has done praiseworthy work in sending tractor units and other technical help to the Workers’ Republic. The school was then located on Robey street, near Division. Spolansky had 100 members of the school arrested and over 600 Russians thruout. Chicago, terest. » If ng had no:other reason for supporting your candidacy, your inde- pendefice ‘of boss dictation would be sufficient to induce me to do May but I do havevother reasons. . . .” Admires Rich Men, Col. Smith was a real estate owner and banker. Note how Farrington congratulates: the banker on his rise in the world!: This proves that to Farington the acquisition of wealth is the greatest cneerement. that any- body can claim. Not also what Suchingion says about the “Thompson-Lundin crowd” and the “Deneen-West crowd,” who were then as now “fighting desper- ately to cogtrol the political destinies of the state.” In 1916 Farrington op: posed those people—for a considera- tion. Today he is lined up with them, also for a consideration. Caught with Goods. The Illinois miners caught Farring- ton with the goods in the 1916 deal with the democrats. But it is reason- able to ass that the price of his support of the “Lundin-Thompson- Small crowd’ and the “Deneen-West crowd” is mone considerable than even the privilege of appointing the members of . the IMinois industrial relations commission, thus creating jobs for his relatives, and his hench- men who aid him in keeping a stranglehold on the Mlinois Miners’ Union. But it appears that Colonel Frank L. Smith did not come across with the long green to suit Frank. He sent a telegram to Smith demanding that he come across with the rest of the Thursday, October 16, 1924 Stuff by Spolansky Is Worthless Trash the Communist Party. After a thoro investigation, involving repeated visits to the school and examination of wit- nesses, every .one of the prisoners taken in Spolansky’s “personally con- ducted” raid was discharged. Sam H. Holland, who was called by »the gov- ernment as a special witness during the investigation, declares that the Technical School affair was a plain” attempt at frame-up. Labor Must Fight Frame-up. Frame-ups such as the ones spe cialized in by ex-fink Jacob Spolansky are among the most dangerous ob stacles which the workers haye to face in their struggle against the bosses. There is a whole tradition of frame-ups, by secret service men and private stoolpigeons, for the purpose of getting militant working class leaders out of the way. The well- Imown case. of Jacob Dolla is one of the most recent. The Labor Defense Council is at present collecting funds for the defense of six steel workers, five of them members of the Workers Party, who were framed at Farrell, Pa., by government agents working un- der the orders of the steel trust. With the assistance of fake witnesses, an attempt is being made to railroad them to jail on a trumped-up charge of “sedition against the state of Pennsylvania.” As always, the work- ers are at disadvantage. The prosecu- tion has behind it the power of the steel trust, while the defendants must rely on the small sums’ sent in by their self-sacrificing fellow workers. Nevertheless, the Labor Defense Council intends to fight the Farrell case thru. With the continued help of Spolansky and the Chicago Daily News, the whole caboodle of profes- sional finks and frame-up men will soon be so diseredited that every in- telligent worker will see the need of springing to the aid of his comrades when they are attacked. Chapter II of Spolansky’s lying “expose” will be treated in @ sub- whom he swore were members of ; sequent. article, Miners’ Votes money. This telegram is dated July 10, shortly before he issued the en- dorsement, Farrington -would not de- liver the goods until the coin was paid over. The telegram reads as follows: * July 10, 1916, “Colonel Frank L. Smith, “LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Il. “Ames has not yet returned report of committee on industrial relations. ‘Need it for letter I am to write you. Nor have you fulfilled your promise made me while in Chicago week be- fore last. It is necessary that I have remainder of amount agreed to at once so that I may go on with the work of organization. “Frank Farrington.” Took Precautions. Realizing that this action would produce a storm in the miners’ union, he sends another telegram tosfriends in Seattle urging them to invite him out there, The telegram is addressed to Robt. H. Harlan, care Grand Union Hotel, Seattle, Washington, under date of July 29, 1916, and reads as follows; “Would like to get wire trom you urging me to attend your joint conference. “Frank Farrington.” -All these telegrams are charged to the Mine Workers. Even when Far- rington is transacting private busi- ness of a particularly delicate na- ture he insists on making the coal diggers pay the incidental expenses. The next article will follow the trail of this notorious labor faker a bit further. As the comic strip artist Says “the worst is yet to come.” VIEWS OF OUR READERS An Enlightened Worker. To the DAILY WORKER:—Travel- ing thru the Berkshire Hills, the train stopped right in the heart of a factory. The workers filled the coaches, and I questioned one of them, who took a at beside me. The factory was the General Electric Co. of Pittsfield, Mass,, where 8 to 10 thousand workers are employed. This. week they will be reduced four work days a week. “Yes, it is an open shop. To get a job there you have to give up your union. There isn’t any organization of workers in this shop and they are too strict about it; they are discharg- ing and cutting down the wages right along. Oh, that new shop under con- struction? That is for radio. No, they don’t suggest or tell us whom to vote for.” The General Electric company of Pittsfield, Mass,, like others in other parts of the country, are playing the same old game specially during elec- tions campaign, that is, discharging and cutting down the wages, a wise maneuver to elect Coolidge. ' The following day (Sunday) in Pittsfield, M: I overheard an old man, what a picture of health, wrinkles and bones?—age over 80, working in General Blectrie Co. You can see, by his dress he is a working man, He says he has a good wife. They have no house of their own. Is an eager admirer of Coolidge. He says “Coolidge is the only man.” Good many workers don’t know how their facet make the workers pro- Pagate and vote against their own cl which, will reward the workers with planty of»everything such as more pleasure, .more birth, more scabs, more profits, plenty of work ‘hours, plenty of. weeks days, plenty of overproduction, «plenty of free bread (in bread lines), plenty of “charity” such as, commercialized hospitals, schools and churches, Plen- ty of jobs in navy.and army, plenty of eats (beans), plenty of sporting, boxing. The present administration of Coolidge recently threw gloves in the face of Japan and now they are looking for boss offices to direct the Wall. street machinery (Legion) by radio, » Once upon a time I was a soldier without ammunition in that above mentioned train, I was wounded thru my heart. Kindly send me Communist cam- paign literature so I can have some on me all the time for free distribu- tion, please don't forget to send a bill too. . A. Worker. » Trips Up Kate O'Hare, To the DAILY WORKER:—A good example pf the bankruptcy of the La- Follette movement insofar as ideas are concerned is to be found in the experience I ‘had today in listening to a LaFollette ‘meeting at Columbus Circle addressed by Kate Richards O'Hare. claimed that Wisconsin has given the workers of that state ideal conditions which placed it as an example for the rest of the country, also that LaFol- Jette had always supported all labor bills that had ever came before him. I questioned her at the end of the meeting during which she made a patriotic flag waving speech about La- Follette as the only man who will save the constitution and bring de- mocracy back for the people of this country, I asked her what about the low wages of Wisconsin workers, also the fact that there are more childworkers in that state than in the state of New York in spite of the fact that the lat ter has a much larger population, I also called her attention to the fact that LaFollette had opposed bills sup- ported by the Wisconsin State Federa- tion of Labor which had as their pur- pose the abolishment of the national guard and private detective agencies: which are used to break strikes, She did not answer my questions to the point but evaded them all by say; ing I was misinformed or she ne’ heard of what I said before, And ' @ little ‘earlier ‘in her speech ‘s boasted of the fact that LaFoll had been a personal friend of hers for In the course of her’ speech shel many years, LaFolletteism has not a leg to stand on! Spread the message of Commun ism!—Sylvan A, Pollack. y 4 Vote Commnufist This Time: